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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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"Chats over coffee are much more pleasant," he says, agreeing with the ultimate stated goal. Conversations on the universe they were in before they were here can wait. He's no more pleased being stuck in another situation due to black outs than she is; grateful, because this time it's not bordering on catastrophic failure leaving them to potential freeze or asphyxiate in the vacuum of space.
Little victories, really. It's all in the little victories.
"Though it might not be so easy as simply deciding that on our own. This building didn't look like it was experiencing brownouts earlier..." He sighs, watching her work on the ceiling panel. "I would have avoided the elevator if the lights were on reduced wattage."
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"That is true. However at least here in this elevator we're at more risk of it dropping than drifting to the ceiling or, you know, a slow suffocation." Always so pleasant to think about or touch on when she gets the chance. either way she's not happy to be trapped, but if there were any bright sides to see, she's apparently trying to gt up to just that right now. The roof hatch is jiggling a bit more now that she's loosened the bolts, but still no dice to getting it open.
She muses to herself about how to open it lowly, purely talking herself through the problem rather than speaking conversationally - "So it appears as though there may be an official 'key' to this thing after all... loosened to a point but now it's at a stop..." She pauses, chewing on her lip as she hops back down on to the floor, nodding to what he'd noticed about the brown out. She hadn't considered that, but, then again, when an electrical grid was struggling in general nothing really surprised her.
"Me too. But if the electrical is already stressed anything can happen... Honestly I'm debating how much force it would take for me to just.. break the roof hatch." There's a stretch of a pause before she's reaching down in to the tight neck of her shirt, pulling out a necklace and observing the end, eyes narrowed as she calculates her options.
"I wonder if this might be close enough to the bit this needs to come loose, though.." Vincent wouldn't mind, right?
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Victor blinks at the necklace, eye flitting between it and the keyhole. "Is it thin enough to work for what you want? Like a... what is it called, the key that works for all locks in a place? Master key?" Skeleton key was closer to what he meant, though a master key serves the same function. He's not sure how good her angle will be like this for forcing through the roof, but he's also presently content to simply wait.
Not to mention wondering idly if they'll get fined for property damage.
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"I'm assuming it's the area around us that's air tight - in the city sense - not this area in particular." She's always far too literal Victor, sorry about that. Either way she's already spotted the vent and is thankful for the fact they've got air circulating if they end up trapped in here for a little while. Which was seeming more and more likely as she considers the thin end of her jewelry of choice.
After a moment's thought she passes Victor his dog tags back, wanting nothing more than to just get away from those lest it suck her back to that place. Highly unlikely, but having any identification on her was also not something she was about at the moment, considering she didn't know how they ended up here. This could be a fancily dressed penal colony for all they knew just yet.
"It's not, and I doubt Vincent would be pleased to get this back mangled." With that decided she puts it back in her shirt, hidden away again as she debates her next move.
Even so - "I threw those dog tags away the second I had a chance to."
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He accepts his tags, tucking them away in his coat pocket. "Sometimes it's worth keeping souvenirs," he says, offering nothing more than a shrug to accompany his observation. For example, he wouldn't have accidentally linked the two of them together in a way she would have recognised otherwise. It's not that he wants to be back on the Eluvio, but... it's one of the few things that came with him.
And it's a testimony that makes it all still real outside of their heads.
He offers up one hand, in case Re-L wants to climb back down. "Conversation or ghost stories are still viable options for passing the time. I don't think any of these blackouts last more than a few hours."
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"Unless the souvenirs can possibly come back to bite you, considering they're laden with devices that can more than likely track you." Nothing in Riverview indicated that they would be tracked via those dog tags, but then again, nothing had said anything to oppose that, either. She wasn't yet convinced that this wasn't some other odd fold in the story of that place, if she's being honest with herself. The place had only served to deepen an already fairly vacuous distrust in new places, and governing bodies.
"You act like a few hours in an elevator isn't just maddening on the concept alone." She's a busy-body, Victor, sorry about your luck.
Whether it's maddening or not she'll swing herself down on her own, as always a little averse to touching. At least she's learned there's not really a need to dismiss attempts at assistance when she can do things herself.. Now to get better at accepting when she does actually need it.
"Besides, I don't know if I know enough subject matter to discuss for a few hours."
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"... Really?! Not even on one thing? There's nothing you follow, find interesting, no stories you have to share?"
He's outright surprised at the idea of not knowing enough to talk for hours. Not having the desire makes sense. Not having the material feels improbable. He takes a stance leaning back against one side of the elevator, leaving Re-l free to roam the rest of the limited space. He's still surprised at what she has said.
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"Stories to share? Not necessarily." Most of her stories were things she kept close - mainly out of habit than anything else, keeping her cards to her chest, so to speak. In Romdeau nothing was sacred, and every little bit of information other people had could be used as weapons, or like an endless game of chess - upping the anti until someone cried king me. Regardless of all of that it's pretty safe to assume she won't be telling many stories that required giving up vital information about herself, right at the moment. Being in a small elevator was more than enough reason, for one, and for the other - well, maybe this entire rollercoaster has made her, somehow, even worse when it came to trusting other people.
Unfortunately for Victor, it meant very few interesting stories shared.
"And not very many people, here or on the Eluvio, were necessarily prepared to discuss the ins and outs of Voltaire." She situates herself in the opposite corner, hands on the support rails to either side, one foot crossing primly over the other before she chooses to continue. "I suppose I should've expected that, with Daedalus out of reach to talk to."
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Just as easily it could be about some system relevant to her world, but he figured it was worth asking. Especially if that was the extent of offered conversation on her end. "And I'm guessing Daedalus is a friend of some kind rather than the mythological Greek inventor."
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"Yes, that Voltaire. Though before the dome fell I was actually reading more Tolstoy than anything else. At least, what I could get my hands on. Apparently not too many of his books survived." Themonuclear apocalypse was a little too familiar for her - she had lived in the effects of that for a few months, after all, after leaving Romdeau. Maybe that was why it had struck her harder than most things to do with the Oros mission, even if she'd dealt with it more privately than publicly. Other than jumping on Allura with both feet, when it had to be done, that is. She may not have liked very many of Alpha and Beta teams, but there was no way she'd allow misinformation.
"Daedalus was my doctor and a confidant when I needed it. I'm sure my grandfather regretted allowing him to handle my care, but his literature choices were very good." There's a moment where she pauses, and then seems to have a bit of an epiphany. "His name was actually very apropos in the end.."