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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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it's not impossible, from what lois has learned about this place so far. it's not impossible, but it still feels like a punch to the stomach, her heart beating too fast all of the sudden, hope and loss and a myriad of other emotions warring for dominance inside her chest. ]
Will do.
[ seeing is believing, isn't that how it goes? so instead of asking if this is a joke or if he knows her, she just makes her way to the coffee shop. she doesn't bother asking for clark kent. if he is who he says he is, she knows what he looks like.
it's still a shock, though, to find him sitting there, alive and well. it takes lois far longer than she'd like to find her voice, a little disbelieving, hopeful, scared to hope and have those hopes crushed. ]
Clark?
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[ It's not good that she's here, but like Dick told him having something and someone familiar helps. This, very selfishly, does. He doesn't have to pretend anything around her.
He's smiling brightly the moment she comes through the door. It fades the second he realises she's in distress. Lois Lane isn't easily at a loss for words.
Clark's never heard her heart hammer like this. He leads her to the bench, for her privacy. ]
What's wrong?
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she lets him lead her to the bench, sitting down, never once taking her eyes off him the entire time. ]
There's no good way to say this -
[ there isn't. even just the thought of saying it aloud makes her feel dead inside, which is a little ironic, considering. ]
You're dead. [ she laughs, a short-lived thing that can't seem to decide whether to be joyful or bitter. he's here, and that's wonderful. she wants to bury her face in his neck and wrap her arms around him and never let go. at the same time, the pain of losing him is still all too real, too fresh. ] I'm guessing you don't remember that.
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[ There's not anything on Earth he knows of that could hurt him that badly, or affect her so much. That laugh chills him.
Clark sits next to her, noticing that she won't leave his personal space. She's welcome to it.
He speaks gently. ]
Lois, I've just joined the Planet.
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That was over a year ago for me. [ eighteen months. she had eighteen months with clark.
he sits next to her and lois forces herself to stay upright instead of leaning into him, against his shoulder. she does reach out, after a moment, settling her hand on his and intertwining her fingers with his. even just that feels monumental, when she hadn't thought she'd get to do it ever again. ]
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He turns his palm up, squeezing her hand warmly. A lot can happen in a year. ]
Should we go somewhere else?
[ Somewhere private. ]
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[ he won't mind if she just continues to hold on to his hand, will he? because she has no intention of letting go. she still feels shaken, but she forces it away long enough to say: ] I think I may need that scotch after all.
[ it's only half a joke. ]
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[ It's a cosy place. He squeezes her hand again, offering the waiter a small apology for leaving so quickly. They can come back anytime.
Outside, he looks around. ]
Your apartment?
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[ she gestures vaguely in the direction of it, still unwilling to take her eyes off clark. to say that she's missed him doesn't even begin to cover it. ] Have you been here for long? [ she asks instead. ]
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[ Lois gestured towards the higher floors: the private rooms. That'll work. He'll know anyone coming in the corridor. If not, he has his place in the abandoned city. ]
Did they give you any trouble when you arrived?
[ It's probably the other way around. ]
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[ this is steadier terrain, at least. they told her some story about repopulation and about building a home here and about feeling displaced and yeah, lois might have questioned her place in the world in a moment of weakness because someone she loved recently died (not to point fingers at anyone), but temporary feelings of being out of place don't mean she doesn't know she has a place.
she has her job, and there's no less violence or crime or misinformation in the world without clark. if anything, it's more. ]
They were polite.
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[ What's the old saying? Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear. Clark'll believe them when someone can go back. ]
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[ they're both still here, aren't they? though right now, lois isn't as angry about it anymore as she had been, as intent on uncovering what has been going on and how to get back with or without their help. clark is here, and love is no reason to give up anything, but—just for a moment, she wants to have this.
soon enough they're at her door, and lois opens it, pulling him inside by the hand she's still holding. as soon as the door's closed, she turns to look at him (again). ]
You're really here.
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[ She sounds a lot more settled now. Clark pulls her in slowly to hug her. ]
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it's a position they've been in countless times before as she's concerned, but if the last thing he remembers is joining the planet, they've only ever kissed once. ]
I'm glad you're here.
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(A future, judging by how she's folded into his space. Clark's not there yet.) ]
What happened?
[ he adds quickly: ]
You don't have to talk about it.
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lois is determined and she's pushy, but it doesn't quite extend to this. ]
Do you want the long or the short version?
[ she's managed to write it all up in an article. she knows how to tell this story even if it hurts.
and they've only just sat down on the couch, but lois gets up again almost immediately. ] Do you want a drink? [ there's not much in her fridge, but there's a bottle of red wine next to it that she's going for now. ]
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Whatever you want to tell me.
[ She's the one in pain. ]
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The short version is Lex Luthor manipulated a lot of people and got access to the Kryptonian ship. Somehow, he used it to create or awaken a creature that got stronger the more it was attacked. Like you, it was vulnerable to Kryptonite.
[ this is the cliffnotes version, really, and she presses her lips together, pouring wine first and taking one of the two glasses. she doesn't drink yet, and she doesn't sit down on the couch again. instead, she paces up and down her small kitchen area. ]
You drove a Kryptonite spear that made both of you vulnerable into it while it had you impaled.
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The cliff-notes version is still a lot. Clark breaks it down. ]
What's kryptonite?
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Material from Krypton. Remember how weak you were aboard Zod's ship? It has that effect on you.
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He'd seen his own blood for the first time. And weakened enough to fall to his knees. The thought of pain isn't what's terrifying: it's that someone has this and will use it. ]
Why is Lex Luthor involved? What does he want?
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To become God. To kill you. Power. [ any and all of the above. ]
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This is intentional. Lex Luthor hates him. It's hard to face down when it feels so personal. ]
We stopped him?
[ That's the most important. ]
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we, he says, like it's the most natural thing. for a while, it used to be. ]
He's behind bars.
[ and clark is six feet under ground. ]
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