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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!
Callisto | Xena, Warrior Princess
Is this it?
[Callisto reaches one hand out in front of her and casually sends a ball of flame into a crowd of rampaging lizards. Collateral damage, including the lives of any other fighters who might be nearby, is of absolutely no importance to her. Frankly, this task is just a way to spend her time until she has a better idea of what's going on. There's no better way then to be right in the middle of things.]
Is this what I got dragged back for? Lizard monsters?
[She flicks her hand to the left and sends out another burst of flame.]
Please tell me this is a joke. I won't laugh, but at least you won't be wasting my time anymore.
iii.
[If you're unfortunate enough to be in the tram car with Callisto when it comes to a stop, then you'll be treated to a short little cackle as she sits up and looks toward the front of the vehicle.]
Oh this is just perfect. [Whatever amusement had been in her voice quickly leaves it.] None of their fancy machines even work properly. Well! Everybody out!
[She raises both hands in a quick gesture, and then stands still as though waiting for some effect to follow. Nothing happens. Her arms are lowered quickly to her sides and she scowls at the surrounding area, muttering.]
Of course. I haven't been to this part of town.
[Teleportation is far less useful when your fancy god powers are limited.]
v.
[Callisto goes through the gate and out past the perimeter fence without so much as a greeting to anyone who might be on watch. There are no monsters out there that could scare her. And really, she would welcome anything that might finish her off.
She has some exploring to do.]
((ooc: Callisto has obtained godhood at this point in Xena's timeline, so I'm preemptively nerfing her. Being able to travel easily through space and time is overpowered on its own.))
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[He doesn't move from his lazy sprawl in a seat, but he does grin her way.] Not sure what you were trying to do, but looks like if you want to enchant me you'll have to settle for coy smiles instead of raw magical might.
iii
Things might go better if we got the tram moving again.