riverview: test drive meme

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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.

prompt i: a call to arms

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.

prompt ii: into the depths

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.

prompt iii: trapped in a...

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...

prompt iv: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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Many thanks to mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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Comments

[goldcuffed]

[It's natural for Damen to try to take charge. Honestly, he'd rather be out here alone and working off his loneliness and frustration, hacking away at monsters to try and make a dent in the community service apparently required to send him back to his fiance. But alas, he isn't alone, and so he slips automatically into the role of a commander, one who has led armies since the tender age of 17.

He gives his companion a sideways glance, and then looks back toward the nest of creatures, juvenile reptilian beasts that pile over each other in a swampy, crawling mess for warmth.]

I'll rush them and take them by surprise. Pick off the ones on the sides.

[backwatertrooper]

Okay. [A sharp nod, and Cloud accepts that with no argument - at least he knows where to fire, now, so he won't accidentally shoot the guy with him. Not a single look or thought it given to Damen's sword, aside from the slightly jealous thought that maybe he should've asked for one from the Perimeter Guard. But he also knows he should probably get more training experience before he attempts to use a sword in actual combat... hence why he'd taken his rifle.

And being with someone wielding a sword feels natural (familiar, almost, even if the sword is far too small and Zack not quite this tall), so Cloud honestly has no thought to the fact that he might be wielding a weapon which is unfamiliar to the other. Eyeing the monsters and lowering his voice some more out of reflex, Cloud frowns.]

Doesn't look like too many... and I didn't hear anyone say anything about venom, either...

[goldcuffed]

[Damen had gotten a brief talk about what a 'rifle' is capable of when the Perimeter Guard had tried to offer him one; he had refused, not trusting his aim with a brand new weapon in his hands, and then they had dug out an old sword for him. He wields the two-handed thing with ease from one hand, lowered at his side for the moment.]

Be ready. I'm going in. [Comes his quiet order, and without another thought, he's rushing into the midst of the mess, swinging his sword in a wide arc that must irritate the still-healing stab wound. The pain is grounding, even if it reminds him of Kastor. That only makes him hack harder at the reptilian bodies swarming him, thinking about his brother's too-recent death.]

[backwatertrooper]

[He doesn't really need more warning than that - has fired on less, as necessary - and just makes sure to fire well-away from Damen, picking off the creatures trying to scrabble over each other, or around the back at the tall man hacking through them with ease. Not, of course, with the same speed and strength a SOLDIER would, but how many actually are capable of that?

It doesn't take long since the nest wasn't large and there's hardly any problem covering the short dead-end tunnel between the two of them. A paw floats past him, neatly severed, by the time he throws his rifle over his shoulder again and draws the knife, wandering over to check the creatures over. He's a good shot, but the light down here isn't the best. In the end, there's only one, which feels... pretty good.

Shaking his head, he looks up and over, and can't spot anything, but... he remembers catching a pulled swing here and there, a bit of stiffness in the movements...]

They didn't get you, did they?

[Earnest and concerned. Cloud might not be well over six feet tall and broad-shouldered, but he'll do whatever he can, during or after a fight.]