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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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I can't say I'd complain! Good company makes for a better venture.
[ And she isn't perturbed in the least bit about him taking the lead. If anything, she'll be turning her ears down the tunnel again, straining for a moment for the sound of distant commotion. ]
There was a split in the tunnel ahead. That path wasn't taken. There could be something there.
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If my experience down here is any judge, there WILL be something down there. You ready for it?
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[ She follows closely enough not to give any of the monsters room to go for his back while allowing him enough to breathe. Her hand instinctively moves for the dagger sheathed at her side with that question and draws it cleanly. There's a glint for what little ichor didn't come cleanly off, suggesting it's been put to use in the tunnels. ]
Born and bred. [ And then, after a beat: ] I think I'll keep the traps to a minimum this time.
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If I see the traps or know to expect them, I'm less likely to step in them...
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[ She blinks, unable to quite shake the feeling that she might have and that certainly wasn't her intention. At his mention of the traps, though -- ]
I can set some along the walls. Some of the creatures seem fond of scaling them. I can also provide a bit of light that might give us something of an advantage.
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I'll set some, then. They can travel far on their lonesome and they're easy enough to direct from a distance.
[ That question of his sees her pause even as she looks past him down the tunnel at the walls, listening to the echo of their footsteps to judge her casting. ]
How much? If I can sing, I can cast. Well, that's only partially true. I'd wager I've about... mm, maybe six hours left? I won't be running out of stamina any time soon and I've a good focus.
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[Roy shakes himself out of these thoughts before he can stumble too deep into them.] All right, it sounds like we have a plan. You just let me know if you're close enough to your limit that we ought to make a withdrawal.
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[ She's been down there an hour or thereabouts, though. Fresh blood for the tunnels figuratively speaking. Pausing, she'll take a step forward and to the side so she can get a better look at the tunnel. ]
Very well. It really shouldn't be any time soon, though. I've some potions should you need them as well.
[ As he seems intent on taking the lead, she'll wait for him to move forward. There's already a melody brewing in her mind for those traps. ]
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[Not just because of the resources, magical or otherwise, but because she's halfway towards speaking his language anyway. It isn't perfect, but what is?]
[Roy takes point, sword lifted and at the ready. His footsteps are not subtle, being a man not meant for stealth, and already faint noises sound in the distance as the creatures prepare to receive them.]
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[ And he may very well hear the wordless 'ah' sung behind him. It starts high and airy and flows to a lower pitch so that the water within the tunnels pools from the top of the walls and flows down, at which point there's a sharp whistle near 'shot,' in a sense so that water begins to freeze and the snakes are themselves are frozen in formation upon the walls. That whistle doesn't quite terminate just yet, the spell woven with due care and skill as she moves to follow him so that they are traps more than decoration designed to freeze and encase any who trigger them. That dagger is unsheathed and kept close.
Now this is looking to be a good and exciting story! ]
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[And timely, too. No sooner does she complete her spellwork than a host of the reptilian creatures surges forward from the shadows. Roy has barely enough time to shout a warning before the monsters are on them -- though the first wave is blunted somewhat when he sweeps his sword with enough power and force that it chops through three of them.]
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It's a wordless hail, a vocal swell that sees the ice move rapidly to wholly encase those trapped. Roy's back isn't left unguarded and she's of a mind to see to that armor once the lizards are fully encased. Quick eyes spy a more immediate threat, however, and a hop and a twirl will see her release her dagger so that it flies ahead and past Roy to lodge itself in between the lurker's eyes.
Plus five lizard pops and another down. What's next? ]
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Nice throw!
[But Roy isn't going to stand around admiring. He charges forward, his sword raised, like he's prepared to meet the charge of the next wave on all his own. He isn't, of course; he hasn't forgotten his assistance. But he's in armor and a frontline fighter, and her work from the back is excellent.]