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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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Sam Wilson. [ He offers her a hand to shake and a friendly smile. ] I'm usually in the office, but the perimeter guard, as you know, pulled out everyone they could get to fight this little infestation. [ And he can't complain; sitting behind a desk all day, even when you enjoy your job, can be deadly dull. ]
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[ it's not the technology so much as his skill that makes her think of military, of someone trained for something else than fetching files and desk-work. ]
Peggy Carter. A pleasure, I'm sure, especially as you've saved my life.
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[ And then you can almost hear the sudden scratch of a record player coming to a stop. There might not be much light in the tunnels, but from what he can see of her, she sure looks like the handful of black and white pictures he's seen.
(Awkward, because trying to remember that brings up the memory of her funeral, and it's pretty obvious that she's still a good six decades away from that.)
But Sam regains his verbal footing soon enough. ]
Steve said you were pretty, but he didn't say you were that good at fighting, too. Just Sam, please.
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she hasn't anyone call him that, steve, in a long time. ]
You've known him.
[ personally, if they got to talking about her. It's not a surprise, steve knew many soldiers but this one, this one sounds as if he knew him, the man rather than the legend. ]
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[ There's an awkward pause. Sam's not really sure of the best way to explain things - hell, he's pretty new to all this himself. ]
So I'm gonna assume that you know that people here are from different universes and sh- stuff. [ Maybe she's spent plenty of time around soldiers, but it just seems rude to swear around her, for some reason. It must be the Britishness. ] Turns out, there's a couple of universes that are real similar, but with slightly different timelines.
[ And the Steves from both universes happen to be here. But he doesn't know what role Peggy played in the other universe - if she even exists, if the other Steve knows her - so he wants to make sure she's the right one. ]
So, uh. What happened to Steve where you're from?
[ Not the greatest question to ask Peggy Carter, of all people, but it's the easiest way he knows to distinguish between them. ]
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[ she affirms. for all that he is kind, Peggy will not reveal the painful sentiment that will always be connected to captain steve rogers. it is her most precious of secrets, one that has become a weapon at the hands of others more than once.
so when she speaks again, she sounds a bit too professional, forcefully detached, maybe. ]
Steve Rogers changed my world and only for the better, but he is gone, has been since before the War ended, I'm afraid.
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He didn't die, Peggy. In my world - and I'm pretty sure we're from the same one, just different places in the timeline - he was frozen in the Arctic after he brought the Valkyrie down, thawed out decades later to face a new world with a new set of problems.
And now he's here. Two of him, actually, but the other one is a little different. Still Steve, but not quite the same.
[ He pauses for a moment, then adds: ] And Bucky- well, that's a real long story.
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could they have missed him? could they have left him there? something falters and steels again. ]
Seems like many of our missing war-heroes are found in your timeline, Mr. Wilson.
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And Bucky...well, I'm not sure I would say he was found. [ But what would be more accurate? Sam doesn't really know. ]
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And?
[ as if the next question is obvious ]
How much trouble has he been getting himself into?
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But he's managed to keep his head down here. So far.
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[ she doesn't sound the least bit surprised. indeed, it may actually appear as if she's fighting off a smile. ]
Thank goodness for small favors, yes?