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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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[ She'd argue that her butt is cute and of the perfect measurements for her body type, but she doesn't have his confidence. ]
I don't really like kids that much, anyway.
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What? Then the marriage is OFF! [He slashes his hand in a sweeping gesture, as if severing all ties between them forever.]
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You shouldn't make rash decisions while in stressful situations.
[ That said, she kicks the still closed doors of the elevator, although her heard isn't into it. ]
Any time now, right?
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[He glances at the doors, wondering idly if he could pry them open.. but really, he's not in a hurry.]
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[ She could try and wreck the thing apart, if she wanted. But She doesn't want to expose herself, not to mention that sort of thing always gets out of hand. ]
What do we do now? I'm Mia, by the way.
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[ Would it be too much to ask for an engineer or an escape artist? ]
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Well, before I came here anyway, I ran a comic book company. [This is glossing over a lot of things...] And martial arts. You?
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[ And an eldritch abomination, but that's kind of a TMI at the moment. ]
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Martial arts is the calling, business is the family legacy, and fortunately there's absolutely no conflict between the two. [Bright and cheerful, very much a man quite comfortable, even happy, with what he does.]
I hope you'll take it all the right ways when I say I wouldn't have guessed that. What got you into the field?
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[ Although the definition of nerd is an ever evolving label these days. ]
Oh, don't worry. People expect to see something... different when they enter my studio. Sometimes it even works in my favor. [ Oh how she loves being underestimated. Not.
As per his question... ]
It's usually said that people get into the business of understanding other people's minds because they either want to understand their own minds better or understand the mind of someone close to them. Personally I think it's a bit of both.
[ She has her own demons, which have only gotten stranger (and stronger) after her little metamorphosis. ] Sometimes I wish I had just became something simpler, like a fiery knife juggler or a public speaker.
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Public speaking isn't so bad, though. But I think it must be nice to be able to do some good for other people.
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[ Show off with many layers, even. ]
Don't we all? Well, not all, but I'd like to believe that a good portion of "us" is at least trying.
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Not as many people want to help others as I'd like. And a lot fewer chased down an actual medical degree in doing so. So don't undersell yourself!
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[ The other half think she's a miracle worker though, so it sorta evens out. ]
So do you actually throw those knives or you only juggle them around?
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[He catches the three knives, spins them in his palm, and then like a magician splays out his fingers fast that the eyes can see -- knives balanced on their points on the middle finger, the pinky, and the thumb.]
I can, but I'm nowhere as good as I'd like.
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[ Nobody goes and sits on the couch to have a fun time. ]
Practice makes perfect, right? Just not in here, this is stressing enough as it is.
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Ha, no worries there. I think that might slow us getting out of here even more, huh? Besides, I think they did their job. [He winks quite shamelessly at her as he snaps the knives up in his palm, then tucks them back away into his coat.]
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[ Even if in theory it wouldn't hurt her anyway. ]
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