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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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If it felt right, then it's still part of who you are. It doesn't matter where you end up or what you do here.
[Isn't that how it should be? He still thinks that part of him belongs to the shield. After all, he could have taken up anything else at this point.]
And some things are bigger than just their names.
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Some things are.
[ some people are, but she's not necessarily talking about herself at the moment. there is no helping it, it'll have to be done quickly and efficiently, pulling a band-aid from a wound. ]
Agent Peggy Carter, then.
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Agent Carter.
[Maybe it was a mistake to contact her. She might have wanted to avoid these awkward interactions, talking to a stranger with a name she cares about. If he had been more aware, would Steve had avoided her?
No. No, probably not.]
I guess I don't need to introduce myself. [Oh, yeah, real smooth.]
Did you want any help getting settled in?
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all at once, out of instinct, perhaps, she tries to make it easier. ]
A bit full of ourselves, aren't we?
[ judging by the little grin, she's teasing. ]
And being a gentleman at the same time.
[ what a contrast! ]
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No, he can't imagine a world like that. Nevertheless, Steve clears his throat and looks aside when she teases him about his manners.]
Well, I just figured I wasn't all that original. Or hard to miss.
[That doesn't make great strides in disputing her point about his ego, unfortunately. Steve seems to realize that belatedly.]
I'm not trying to brag. I know what it's like getting used to a new place and just thought I'd offer whatever support I could.
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I know.
[ that's almost too personal, isn't it? how could she know? ]
I am only just getting used to this manner of communicator. It'll take a few days to understand everything else, I fear.
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He defaults to what he does know, if only to avoid the awkwardness.]
I could help you. With some of the rest, if you wanted help.
[He knows his way around a smart phone, but saying that still feels weird. And Steve knows there are those far better qualified to explain technology than him around.]
Although somehow I think you'll manage just fine.
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[ at once, quick and easy, before he could move on to suggest other candidates or reaffirm her ability to pick up these things by herself.
he's not wrong about that, she could do well by herself. nevertheless. ]
I'd like that, when you have the time.
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I have nothing but time here. To be honest, it'd be something to do. I can only find so many reasons to run patrols before people start wondering if something is really wrong.
Don't have the heart to tell them I just need a run. At least with company I won't draw so much attention.
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[ it's a tease and an evident one, it shows in the hints of a smile and in the way her voice seems to curve around the name. He hadn't introcuded himself, after all and it seems that she's rather insistent on using his choice of a username until he sees fit to correct her. ]
Running?
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You can call me Steve.
[So of course he dives right in.]
I don't mind walking, actually. We can start with that. Have you been around town yet?
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[ she says with a little grin. she knows he must have been there too, fighting the lizard-like creatures. she may not have run into him but she would wager a pretty penny that she's right. ]
Fascinating trip, that was.
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[He didn't see her in the tunnels, but he clearly missed something impressive. Steve wishes he had run into Peggy there, as awkward as that could have been, because he can imagine her facing the strange creatures with the same cool attitude she's using with him now.]
Just couldn't say away from the excitement, huh? It sounds like you're making yourself at home.
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[ as innocently as she can and not without a little grin. ]
It was terribly dull. Horrible evening. Could have gone for a play or a concert, instead. Lots of vermin, very unclean.
[ and indeed, he is right, that's where she felt mostly at home. odd creatures aside, it was nice to do some good, to go out there and feel productive. ]
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But you got your exercise and saw a side of the city a lot of people miss. Maybe because they don't bother looking for it.
[And they shouldn't. Not really.]
Maybe we could go for a run. If you were interested, that is.
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[ she arches an eyebrow and after a moment, nods. ]
Alright. Where will this run take place?
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[Of course, Steve tends to take his walks down lesser traveled routes, but surely an agent can keep up with him. It's just a few back roads and cutting through properties. Harmless, really.]
Unless you had something else in mind?
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[ that's already a feat. ]
Time and place.
[ what a precarious thing to do. for a moment, unseen, her hand shakes. the last time she set a time and a place with her steve, well. ]
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Are you free in an hour? I can meet you at the entrance of the housing building.
[Because that seems to be the place he meets the most people.]
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[ she's flirting with the very same idea. ]
No chances of lizard-like creatures so I suppose weaponry isn't a necessary concept. Maybe those funny to-go coffee cups?
[ Coffee! in cups you can carry. Odder and odder. ]
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[And he'll probably bring his shield because the new one is easy to carry. It's Steve.]
Travel cups. Maybe napkins if we're going to get food along the way.
[At this rate, he might as well suggest a picnic.]
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Travel cups, that would be it. Two of them. Tea in mine, coffee in yours, I trust? Do you go for those awful lattes everyone seem to favour?
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Actually, some of them aren't so bad. Maybe I'm just getting used to the taste.
Not crazy about the sweet ones, though.
[He wonders if he's too used to modern things. And maybe that means he is more exposed to this life than she is. Is he more exposed than the other Steve? Is he suddenly the more modern one?]
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[ but then, she never thought there would be a day when they'll talk again. not her steve, not - any other, as odd as this is. ]
Now I've seen it all.
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[Apparently he's also gotten comfortable with teasing humor.]
I'm sure there are still some ways we can surprise each other, Agent Carter. I bet you've got some good stories.
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