![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riverviewmod) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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!
information resources
premise ● arrival ● setting ● ask a question ● calendar ● navigation
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!
no subject
Ain't nothin' deserved about bein' soaked to the bone and stuck in a dark box.
[ grump grump grump. but it's dryly good-humored grumping as he cranes his head up to look at the ceiling. it really is dark in here without the backup lights. ]
How's your night vision, partner?
no subject
[ it's not a boast. most of his work is done by cover of darkness, and it's always been necessary for him to have keen perception. he's never found himself in need of cybernetic enhancements, so it must be good enough.
Hanzo checks the sash on his kyudo-gi, both sleeves pulled on, tightens the straps that hold his bow and quiver on his back, and then he steps closer to the center of the elevator to look up at whatever the stranger is searching for. in the tone of a person who is used to taking orders: ]
What do you need me to do?
no subject
[ it's taking emergency services awhile to get anywhere thanks to the infestation, and the last building blackout that jesse was privy to had lasted well over an hour.
he glances sideways, registers the man's outfit, the bow strapped to his back, the lax strength sitting in his shoulders. you don't see that every day, jesse thinks--but today it'll be handy. it's always nice to meet somebody ready to take action.
he passes a hand over his cybernetic arm. the blue lights gleam on, close to helpful but still not enough to make out hanzo's face in detail. he points up at the ceiling anyway. ]
Any sign of a hatch up there? [ that'd make it almost too easy, but it's always worth a shot. ]
no subject
he tilts his head, searching the panelling over their heads for any shadow cast by the man's prosthetic, any sign of seams. surely there must be a maintenance hatch, something for use in emergencies— ]
I believe so. [ and then, begrudgingly: ] ... However, I would not be able to reach it.
[ because he's fucking short. ]
i have many talents inc commenting in the right place!!!
If I give you a lift, can you see if it's bolted down?
[ what has two thumbs (one real, one not) and has maybe climbed out of many elevators. shhhh. SHHHHH ]
no subject
[ he's climbed into elevators himself once or twice to assassinate a target, and while many modern elevators have their emergency hatches locked from the outside, he wouldn't be surprised to find that isn't the case here. these people likely weren't concerned about fools looking to entertain themselves by standing on their elevator rooftops.
he adds, in a much lighter tone: ] Although I feel I should apologise for the... solidity of my feet.
[ giving metal feet the flexibility to bend when needed does not in any way detract from the fact that they're made out of solid metal, with no give like there would be from leather shoes or flesh and blood. ]
no subject
[ he says it before he sets his hat back and hunkers down to make a brace out of his hands. then his eyes catch the metal prosthetics, and he makes a slight curious sound in his throat, a mild-mannered huh. ]
Just makes us two of a kind.
no subject
[ there's no hesitation before he steps onto the brace; the man has proven himself to be practical, and so Hanzo trusts him implicitly to bear his weight. he doesn't need to use hold onto anything for balance; he simply pushes himself up to his full height and presses a hand against the emergency hatch. ]
—Ah. It would seem we are in luck.
[ the hatch doesn't open from a shove, but he can feel it give a little, enough to know that it can be opened. Hanzo braces his other foot against the man's shoulder — pauses a moment, just to provide warning before he puts any weight on it, in case there are any protests to be heard — and then, most of his weight on the joined hands, only using his leverage from the shoulder to allow him to put his arm's full strength behind his push, he slams the length of his arm against the hatch.
it pops out, and Hanzo steps down to give the stranger a moment to shake out his hands before they move on to climbing out. he's not quite smiling, but he does look pleased, and perhaps more than a little relieved. ]
no subject
not that he's got a lot of time to waste thinking about the sum of so very few parts. gallantly, a gentleman, jesse lets him climb up first before he follows suit, bracing a foot on the side rail and then clutching the open hatch to heave himself up.
once he's on top of the elevator with his new companion he huffs. he's pretty entertained, wet clothes and all. ]
You do this kinda thing a lot?
no subject
Climb out of elevators? [ he asks it with false indignation, and in one of the thin highlights cast across him by the slits in the shaft, there's the upturned corner of a smirk. ] What sort of lifestyle do you think I have?
[ even without the details, Hanzo can tell enough of the stranger by the jailbar patterns of light and the cold blue glow his arm gives off to make out the shape of him: tall, broad, imposing if he wanted to be. his American accent is thick and he speaks in a slow, lazy drawl. most of all, he's something rough-edged despite his friendly demeanour, and it makes him somehow — safe.
not safe in that Hanzo would put it past the man to shoot him, in the right situation. but that Hanzo feels no need to make himself lesser; pale and smaller, the way he often has to be around others, like a salaryman instead of a warrior. it lets him be good-humoured, for the first time in... a while. ]
You seem to be quite familiar with such things yourself.
no subject
[ audible teeth in his voice, a grin to mirror that smirk. he's running a hand through his wet hair, then turning his head to survey the interior of the elevator shaft, still barely visible. it's a dull relief to know that elevators don't seem to change much from universe to universe--he spots the control panel at the top of the elevator and hunkers down over it. ]
We're between floors ... we could climb up, but I like to do things the easy way.
[ he flicks open the panel and uses his arm to illuminate the text under the toggles. ]
Where's your stop, partner? [ what floor, he means. ]