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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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[Morgan makes a mental note to heal him, since relying on anyone else to do so is no guarantee. But that's later. For now, Morgan is focused entirely on the tunnel ahead of them, now filled with snapping and hungry creatures heading their way.]
No saves. Gotcha.
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[Pretty cocky of him, but he can back it up for the most part. A fireball forms in each of his hands as the creatures grow closer, and as soon as they're in range he teleports into the middle of them to grab some sort of furry beast and set its fur ablaze.
While completely unarmed and completely outnumbered, Dodger seems to just be having fun with dodging attacks from all sides and teleporting around to pick the monsters off in a seemingly random order. His fighting style is gruesome, breaking necks and ripping skin off with his bare hands and occasionally just breaking their legs or setting them on fire and leaving them to panic while he moves on to the next target. At least he's keeping his distance from Morgan, since he doesn't know him well enough to avoid getting in his way.]
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That's quite a fighting style you have.
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It works, doesn't it? What, d'j'you go to school for this shit?
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Actually, yes. Very literally. Grew up training.
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That explains the stick-up-your-ass fighting style, huh. [He's getting bored of the monsters, and unleashes a large flash of flame that fills up the tunnel in one direction for a few moments and scares a large portion of the hoard back.] Never went to school, but I figure if I'm still alive I don't need it.
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There are a million more efficient ways to kill something than kicking it or punching it or stabbing it, and so very few situations where violence is the proper response in the first place, so training is really pointless if you're just doing it to get better at killing things.
[He lets his sword drop just a bit, now that the bulk of the monsters have been pushed back.]
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[One of the creatures tries to scramble past him, and he stomps down on its skull.]
In my line o' work the best response tends to be punching shit before it becomes a problem. But I'm guessing you don't get to share your philosophy with a lot of hitmen, huh.
[Honestly, sarcastic as he is, he's enjoying the conversation. Enough that he teleports to the edge of the battle so he can just keep chatting with the occasional kill.]
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More than you'd expect, but that's still very few indeed.
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Now there's an interesting story, when'd you get in contact with the underworld?
[He doesn't meet many people who are disciplined and still happy to admit spending time on the black market, so it catches his interest pretty easily.]
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I know a couple of people who call themselves -- well, let's just say, 'ethical assassins'. Pruning the 'dead wood' of the world before it can rot any more and do it any more harm.