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riverviewooc2017-03-20 10:20 am
riverview: test drive meme
Welcome to Riverview's test drive meme! Feel free to dip your toes in on the test drive meme to try out your character in the setting, play out a mission, and get samples for your application at the same time!
● Reserves are currently OPEN.
● Applications open on April 1st.
● Providing all parties are amenable, threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon, as the plot in the prompts presented is game canon.
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points, so long as all characters involved are accepted into the game.
● Since this particular TDM is plot-heavy, current players are welcome to do their own top-levels to interact with the plot. However, since it is still a TDM intended to help potential new players get involved, there will be a special additional +25 Activity Point bonus for any thread submitted by a current player that involves a potential new character rather than focusing on existing CR, for this TDM post.
Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own scenario. The setting is built to be flexible, so feel free to make things up as you go. Thanks to player-created plots, this month's Test Drive is set to effect the game setting for the next few months, so please enjoy!
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plot overview
After just over a week of increasingly serious blackouts and brownouts around the city, the team in charge of the structural integrity and defense of the wall has found the source of the problem, and posted a network entry explaining that the issue is caused by a large quantity of lizard-like monsters that have compromised the underground infrastructure of the city, and requesting volunteers to help do a full-scale manual extermination of monsters and assess the damage and do urgent repairs.
The most urgent request presented is for people to help clear out the monsters in the underground tunnels - and there are a lot of them! With estimated monster numbers in the area of 500-1000, ranging from adult to juvenile, there's a lot of work to be done to clear out the underground infrastructure of the city. The Perimeter Guard will have a steady stream of transport trucks going to escort any fight-capable residents who want to volunteer out to the tunnels. They will also provide weapons of various varieties as well as short training sessions on how to use them safely in a confined space for anyone who doesn't have their own.
Whether you fight with a weapon, your fists, magic, or poison darts, your help is more than welcome down in the tunnels. The only real request is to keep seismic or explosive abilities or attacks on the mild side, and to be careful not to poison the city's water supply! Other than that, go wild.
Clearing out monsters is all well and good, but they have definitely done some damage to the city's infrastructure. So it isn't just the brawn that needs to step up to help the city, it's the brains. There's a call for anyone with any kind of special ability that would help with emergency repairs. Whether it's engineers, chemists, anyone with first aid, runners to distribute supplies, or any other special ability that would help out in the underground tunnels and fix some of the damage that's been done, anyone is welcome to help. And if you think it's just scientists who are needed, think again - magic is a well-known if not-well-understood facet of life in Riverview Quarantine, and some of this stuff works on a more arcane level than a mundane one.
And, of course, all of these brainiacs are going to need a little backup, so any bruisers to act as escort and protection are also welcome.
Not everyone has the skills or desire to head out into the jungle and fight for the city, and that's perfectly fine. Inside the Quarantine walls, life is carrying on as normally as it can. That is, aside from the ongoing blackouts.
Wherever you might be in the city, you run a pretty decent risk of getting trapped somewhere for a short period of time. Whether it's trapped in an elevator, a tram car, a store, the housing you share with someone you barely know, or anywhere else in the city, it could happen to you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship or a meet-cute to tell your grandkids about...at least, that is, if you get along with the person you're stuck with...
Whether your character is posting up a silly word game to distract people from the dangerous mission going on, trying to get hold of a friend, or putting out feelers for people to go out into the fray with, the network is going strong.
Alternately, an offer for a new, free app is popping up on people's devices - Friendr is a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app.
Many thanks to
mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!
a call to arms
He ends up pushing something in her way for her to shoot at it, hovering next to it, scanning it for any healing factor at work. ]
No problem.
[ He smiles politely as he lands. ]
After you.
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He's flying. Well, he was flying, if one wants to be picky about the details. She eyes the cape, the colours. It all seems to symbolize something, a uniform of a sort. She tries not to compare it to the only other one she knows, the red and white and blue. ]
He walks, too.
[ said with a little grin. he's flying! and so casual about it, too. ]
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He can't juggle.
[ Clark holds out his hand. ]
Kal-El.
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[ men who can fly and are civilized. If only the same can be said about those who could only work. It was refreshing, finding manners in a place like this. ]
Well, I can certainly see why they wanted to enlist you to this little effort.
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[ His handshake is firm, but not crushing. Clark is very careful of his strength.
What she says sounds like a compliment, which Clark fumbles with. He decides not to draw attention to it, but it says a lot that he keeps his small smile. ]
Shall we?
[ Clark's happy to let her walk ahead, though he keeps pace in case he has to step in front to shield her. ]
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[ some experiences justify the use of a first name. fighting swarms of lizard-like creatures is one of them, she reckons. ]
We shall, not a very good spot to stand and chat.
[ though a part of her would have wanted to, if only because she's so very curious about him. ]
no subject
[ It's very new to him that no one knows enough about him to call him Superman. Clark never minded when the soldiers did. They need to believe in him, and so did the rest of the world. He won't be angry about that hope.
Yet he prefers being Kal the alien. ]
A few of them have regenerative capabilities. Bullets might not be enough.
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[ she stretches the vowel and then nods at his words. The moment of comfortable conversation passes and at once, she slips back into her military persona, decisive and cool-headed. ]
I'm familiar with those.
[ she had seen them only once in her lifetime; those were some of project rebirth's most prominent promises. ]
What will it take?
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[ Healing from a bullet is a lot easier than having to deal with a chest collapsing from a punch. He's stronger than he looks, from the size of the monster he pushed into her path. Clark would use heat vision as a last resort. ]
How much ammunition do you have left?
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[ she appreciates her skills and her value and always has but she knows when to admit when others are stronger, somehow.
at his question, her smile turns a little sharp. ]
Enough.
[ where does she keep it? well. she leaves that question unanswered. ]
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[ Clark isn't going to scan her with his X-ray vision. He thinks it's better to let her surprise him. ]
There's more headed our way from there.
[ He points to the left wall. Several hundred metres down, the tunnel curves. The squelching should be audible to her soon enough. ]
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[ there's a shadow of a smile there. these sort of operations are where she's most comfortable, where she can do right without her gender getting in the way. it's easier here, the very atmosphere is far less stifling. ]
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Better not.
[ He follows her. Peggy knows what she's doing; he can learn something from her. ]