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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!
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[And 'Commander' is a fairly common rank, she doesn't really plan on admitting just how high up she is unless she has to.]
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[ He adds: ]
Other than reporters.
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The sort that need handling. Generally. Not everyone with extranormal abilities has the best intentions of humanity at heart. Not every government on every planet is keen on the idea of peace. We have a unique responsibility to keep people in line.
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Can you give me an example?
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[The best one she has is Astal Port, but she does her level best to keep that man's name out of her mouth unless she's speaking it as a curse. Ergo.]
I'm almost certain the adage 'those with power use that power' is universal. Sometimes, other people like me need to be contained for the safety and benefit of the greater good. Some of them can kill worlds. I'm not sure what justification there could possibly ever be in wanting to accomplish something like that, so I hope you can understand when I say that's the sort of thing we stop.
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I understand.
[ Empathy flashes in his eyes. He drinks his coffee quickly. Clark knows his own power is incredibly dangerous if misused. He keeps himself away from people as often as he can, especially when it becomes too much.
He isn't about to underestimate someone who's confident about their power, likely because of years of training. ]
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[It's not posed as a legitimate question, more one that's curiously rhetorical. She doesn't actually care one way or another.]
So. We've covered my powers, my planet, my military service. No questions about my sordid past? I'm almost insulted.
[She wouldn't answer them directly anyway, but golly what terrible reporting.]
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Clark isn't interested in the bait. ]
I'm only doing an informal survey on the different worlds people come from. I'd ask you the year, but I think you use a system I won't recognise.
[ If he genuinely was prying into her past, this would be a different conversation. ]
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And what other interesting tidbits have you uncovered so far?
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[ He sips his coffee. ]
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Cagey little sort, aren't you?
[That's not quite the world's most hypocritical statement, but. You know.]
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Not what you were expecting?
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[Does she mean reporters, interrogators, jealous exes? who knows.]
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Clark sees a kindred spirit. ]
Does that only apply to reporters?
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Nope. Universal treatise. Any question, boom. Complete expectational lack.
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[ He Friends almost everyone. It's his unofficial superpower. ]
If there's anything you'd like to ask me, don't hesitate. We should try to help each other while we're here.
[ Although she doesn't know it, it'll be a promise from Kal too. ]
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I do have one question. How is it that you can take all this so calmly in stride? Don't tell me it's a reporter thing, I've known far too many of them to swallow that lie. This is something unique and specific to you.
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I've had time to adjust.
[ His unique life experience remains under wraps. Sorry Shai. ]
If you're referring to the idea of alien worlds, Earth has made first contact with them.
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Oof, that's bound to be a cultural doozy. Peaceable or otherwise?
[Look, when there are twenty-nine planets that started out in varying stages of development that had to get along and play nice, every sort of scenario you can really think of for 'first contact' has probably happened or been theorized. Most of that nonsense is hundreds of years in her past and she is, certainly, no historian, but she understands the probabilities.
Truth is, sentient races just don't seem to like peace all that much.]
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[ He doesn't know enough about Krypton to say if their journey through the stars was always peaceful.
Zod was once a good man, according to Clark's father. ]
It was a group of extremists looking to colonise a new world.
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[A moment's silence, then. These things are never pretty. Janirak spearheaded her share of colonization efforts before the Lattice was established and certain conventions established.]
I think I will order something to eat after all. Being defensive and mistrusting makes me terribly hungry. You?
[Is she poking fun at herself? Probably.]
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I recommend their chicken wraps.
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She scans the menu idly, comes across the word and is able to parse from context that it's a sort of meat. She shakes her head.]
Mm. I'm more a leafy greens sort of person myself.
[She doesn't hail from a staunchly vegetarian culture, but she never was much for meat.]
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[ He points to the picture. It's colourfully marked 'POPULAR'. ]
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[She beckons the server over, points out her order and then gives him an expectant look, one eyebrow raised.]