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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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[ John's not exactly 'up' on technology. It takes him some button pushing to find the settings on his device and adjust the brightness to maximum.
John squints into the light, then holds it up between them. Bounced off the ceiling, it's bright enough to illuminate both men and add some much needed dimension to the space around them. ]
Better than nothing.
[ The Dog is a grinning, floppy-eared head floating at knee-level. He yawns. In Dog, that means stressed or bored. Maybe both. John can sympathize. ]
But I think we're between floors.
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When there's a will, I reckon there's a way.
[ but with the light on the dog catches his attention in full. there's a very distinct ! moment, and then jesse is hunkering down slightly. even though he's not the exuberant or fawning type, it's clear his affect towards animals is warm. ]
But you're escapin' for two, ain't ya.
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His fingers flex towards the knife in his sock. He sees the violence before it happens. First he'll bring the blade up and under the man's jaw, into the soft spot, then he'll pull it out, and go for the aorta-
Then, the man is kind. Softens around the edges. John releases his breath, his fingers curling back in towards the leash wrapped around his palm.
The Dog likes him, and more often than not, The Dog has better judgement than John does. The Dog bumps his broad snout against the man's hand, shamelessly seeking affection.
John allows it. He's been a good boy. ]
Yeah. Where I go, he goes.
Lucky it caught us on our way back from a walk, or we'd be in trouble.
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but then the moment passes, and the dog is just butting its head into jesse's hand. it's his metal hand too, and it's always charming when an animal doesn't see a difference. that goes for regular folks too, in places where synthetic limbs run a little rare. ]
Lucky indeed.
[ he scritches the dog behind the ears, smiles. ]
Got caught in a blackout earlier too. That one was a good hour or so, so unless yer friend's feelin' limber, we might have to give the waiting game a try.
[ his voice by now is very distinctly a heavy texan drawl. ]
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[ The hand catches John's attention, but he's polite enough not to stare.
In his line of work, everyone is missing some integral part of themselves. You couldn't kill people for a living and stay whole.
You either start off broken, end up broken, or die. For some people it happens all at once, in a violent snap. For others it's a process, multiple fractures occurring over time. Either way, whatever tenuous, invisible, cement that holds a person's soul to their body gives way, and they become someone else. More than, or less than, the person they were before.
John looks up at the ceiling. There's a maintenance hatch. Always is. ]
If we're between floors, might be there's a door right above us. We could try climbing up and jacking it open. I could put The Dog on my shoulders. He'd stay.