riverview: test drive meme

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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.

prompt i: a call to arms

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.

prompt ii: into the depths

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.

prompt iii: trapped in a...

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...

prompt iv: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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Many thanks to mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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[signifies]

See you in an hour?

[ He texts her with the address of a small coffee shop, with private booths, and stands up to take the chair out for her when she arrives and asks for him at the door. ]

[greyjane]

I'll see you then.

[And so she goes. She wears her uniform - a dark charcoal grey, with a high collar and blue diamond insignia on the left side. She moves very much like someone who is utterly confident that she's the most powerful thing in the room, leonine. But she takes the offered chair with a bright smile and gestures for him to sit down across from her.]

Hullo in person, Mr. Kent.

[signifies]

Commander.

[ He shook her hand; her grip was modulated. Someone spending time around their peers doesn't need to. A quick scan for weapons, and he sees a higher bone density. She's not only powerful; she's alien.

A small part of him wishes he were Kal-El as openly as this. ]

Thank you for meeting me. Would you like to order?

[greyjane]

[She lounges in the chair, leaning on one of the arms as she peruses the menu. Finally, she settles on a dark, aromatic tea and taps a finger down against it.]

I'm happy with tea for now.

[So she flags a server down to order, and then passes the server's attention to him once she's ordered.]

[signifies]

[ Clark gets an espresso. Morning coffee is routine at the Planet. He doesn't want to fall out of the habit. ]

Anything to go with it?

[greyjane]

Not for the moment, thank you. Hard to talk and eat at the same time, you know?

[She settles back, shoulders flush against the chair, fingers resting against her jawline.]

[signifies]

[ Clark nods, taking out a small recorder. ]

I'd like to start with what kind of world you come from, Commander. You mentioned you're an electrokinetic?

[greyjane]

[Kveth, but she hates reporters. Her smile stays on, and as the server brings the tea she takes a moment to test it with a sip.]

Yes.

[signifies]

Is this normal? Having abilities?

[greyjane]

Culgenic capabilities are present in about forty percent of the population of my world. They manifest in a variety of ways. Electrokinesis, teleportation, invisibility, invincibility, et cetera.

[She turns the cup to her left hand, and rubs her thumb against the rim. This is the easy part, of course. And she has the benefit of being able to dictate exactly what information she releases.]

[signifies]

[ holy moley ]

Only one, or a combination?

[greyjane]

Depends on how you define combination.

[Electrokinesis is sort of a broad spectrum of abilities, after all. She can even manipulate magnetism on a very minor scale.]

[signifies]

Let's say a combination of teleportation and flight.

[greyjane]

[Awfully specific question. She lifts the tea for another drink, savouring it. It tastes a little like something from home.]

Not unheard of.

[signifies]

[ That's not at all cagey.

Clark smiles, however. ]

You don't like reporters very much, do you?

[greyjane]

[One corner of her mouth turns up.]

I appreciate the function they serve.

[signifies]

[ It's an answer, just not to his question. Clark reaches for the recorder to turn it off. This wasn't a formal article. He was just curious about her. ]

You wouldn't happen to know of Earth?

[greyjane]

[She kind of intended to fry the recorder anyway, tbh, though she's subtle enough to wait until she's far enough away from him to try it. She watches his hand as he reaches for it, and there's a very faint shift to her expression as he clicks it off.]

Only through the folks here.

[signifies]

[ Someone will be irked. ]

That's the first I've heard. Where do you come from?

[ He adds: ]

Off the record.

[greyjane]

If I cared about whether or not I was on the record, we wouldn't be talking now.

[She says it casually enough, and she shrugs her long braid over one shoulder. There's a very, very slight warning in the statement: no one can make her do something against her will, ever.]

The planet I'm from is called Janirak.

[signifies]

[ He likes her already.

She must frustrate plenty of people back home, though. ]

Is space travel common? Or to other realities like this one?

[greyjane]

Space travel, yes. There are ['Thirty'] twenty-nine planets along the interstitial Lattice, which is a series of jump ports between solar systems, all inhabited. Other realities-- mm. I reckon it's possible, but this is certainly my first endeavour.

[But her life's been weird enough she can roll with the punches. Her heart always yearns for the Ephemera, her clean lines and high flight, for her crew, for Liranya and Orpheo, but she has no especial need of them. Perhaps that's something that Astal Port took from her, when he destroyed Janirak. Home becomes a concept you can remember but never touch. You learn to live with the pain.]

[signifies]

[ The idea of it is incredible. All he had was what Jor-El had showed him of Krypton's venture into the stars. That was one civilisation. Twenty-nine of them, with different peoples, powers, and countries. Humans might do it someday, but Clark knows that progress isn't coming anytime soon.

Meanwhile, he's a little starstruck. ]

Been a long time since you went home?

[ He nods to the diamond insignia. ]

[greyjane]

A few years. Goodness, but the military eats up your free time.

[If 'a few years' meant 'sixteen' then sure, why not. She's a practiced hand at this whole media blitz nonsense, and dodging questions she doesn't quite care to answer is an artform.]

[signifies]

[ It'd frustrate him if he genuinely wanted the details. As it stands Clark is more curious about what most people tend to consider innocuous details: what it would be like to live in a world like that. ]

Interplanetary, or solely from your own world?