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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 then, of course, because Fate loved him so, the damned elevator stops.
Groaning, the genius lets his head fall back against the wall, then repeats the action one more time for good measure, before giving his companion a Look.]
Unless this is some kind of romcom and we are now meant to make out since we are serendipitously star-crossed lovers, no no it isn't.
[ And his toolkit is in the office. Of fucking course. Tony pushes off the wall and motions for Damen to move over a little. Well, as much as he can.]
Shove over there, I will see what I can do. [ He starts to work on prying the panelling off the wires which is... harder than he expected actually.] You wouldn't happen to be Asgardian, would you? Totally look the type, also would you happen to have a philips on you? I mean probably not but man that would make my life so much easier right now. That and like, six gallons of coffee. That would be nice too, but I am guessing no to that as well.
[ Sorry, tired Tony is a rambling Tony.]
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He looks over at Tony and raises both eyebrows, wondering what a romcom is and if that's supposed to be some kind of come-on.] My star-crossed lover isn't here at the moment, but he'll be terribly angry if we do anything untoward.
[Essentially, 'sorry pal, I'm taken'. Also? He has none of those things. He's wearing gym shorts still.]
I'm Akielon. And I don't know what a phillips is.
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Uh huh, you're not my type anyway darling, I really don't like being the little spoon.
[ Yes he does, but he really doesn't need you thinking that he was actually hitting on you because, despite what some people might say, Tony Stark took fidelity very seriously. Also, seriously, hitting on a guy in an elevator? His life is not quite that bad yet thanks.]
Wait, is that your name or your place or origin? Whatever, doesn't matter, sounds like a type of battery if I am being honest. Names Tony by the way, and a philips is something that would make getting out of here a whole hell of a lot better.
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There is so much coming out of this man's mouth that Damen does not understand. For all the ribbing he gets, he's not dumb - but he sure feels like he is right now.] Akielos is my kingdom. My name is Damen. I still don't have whatever a phillips is. Can you get the doors open, or do I need to pry them?
[When in doubt, just make a way out, honestly.]
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Blonds, huh? That makes two of us then. Though redheads are nice too. And-- ah ha!
[ Through sheer persistence, the damn cover comes off of the panelling (really, Tony should thank the fact that it was loose in the first place otherwise there was no way that he was going to get that thing off sans tools. Also, he will never leave his damned room without tools again. Tony hums, half listening to the guy as he starts to dig into the wires, making absent noises as he does.]
Uh huh, Damen. Okay. And you can totally try to pry 'em open there, Hercules, but we are between floors so it won't get you very far. Unless you really want to stare are concrete? Motherfucking, this damned thing isn't going to be easy, why don't they have override panels in here that is just-- note to self, separate generators for elevators, that is a must later yes.
[ Don't worry, Damen, most people feel dumb around Tony. It's a thing.]
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The news about being between floors is irritating, though.] People tell me, since I arrived here, that all this... technology, is a wonderful thing. I am not certain it is, really.
Who builds a tiny lift box that becomes useless the moment all the elecktrics are gone?