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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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It feels both larger than expected, and surprisingly stifling. The latter won't really set in until he's spent more time here. He's always believed one day he'd settle down. More recent turns in his life had led to the gentle hope of settling down with Yuuri; settling down to what has always been more nebulous. Still, confining as the ship had been, there had been movement; here is a different sort of confinement. Five years, in theory, and then able to... he's not sure. There are details he doesn't understand, but it's a single city, smaller within its second wall, and another wall pushing into the verdant forests and jungle around (is it even a jungle, he asks himself, he has no idea what a jungle really looks like face to face).
The pensive expression relaxes when he turns his face toward Yuuri. )
Our dreams have been less wild than our lives lately. Did you sleep at all last night?
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It's just a lot to take in... again. There's a whole new set of rules to learn, people to meet... [Yuuri falters, biting his lip.] Do you think anyone else ended up here, too?
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I don't know. Short of asking everyone we think we recognise directly, I don't know how we'll learn that.
( The mechanism of the portal doesn't make full sense to Viktor. He's not sure it needs to; it's real, regardless. )
It's a bit like being thrown into a whole new culture. ... Again. Only with more nature involved, and less of a chance of being thrown out an airlock or left without gravity.
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[Seeing the serious expression on Viktor's face, Yuuri wordlessly reaches out, his hand palm up in invitation if he wants to take it.]
At least we didn't get separated when we were pulled here. [It's a horrible possibility that's crossed his mind several times during the night. It's selfish, maybe, to simply be relieved about this when they've been displaced yet again.]
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( He takes Yuuri's hand when it's offered, linking his finger's with his fiancé's. He rests their conjoined hands between their laps where they sit, thigh to thigh. )
We might have used up our lifetime of luck in that. Even if...
( He frowns, shaking his head. There are no even if's. None of this had been in their choosing or their control. Like the last time. It's frustrating. )
I'm thankful you're here with me.
( He doesn't have anything to say for the people he worries about; he doesn't even know if he'll spend much time worrying about what he cannot change. This separation from the universe which had separated them from their own universe is a whole big headache. )
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His hand squeezes Viktor's before he turns slightly to face him.]
Do you want to have a look around the city today?
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I think that'd be a good idea. We can think of it as sight-seeing! Even if that's more my thing.
( Viktor smiles for a beat, letting his features relax into that amusement before they steady out once more. )
Now's not a great time to ask about the various functions of the Perimeter Guard, but I'm hoping to talk with someone in their offices once the current crisis has been handled.
( He breathes out in a sigh; part of it is because he wonders who it is that qualifies to be the welcoming faces meeting people at the portal. And what it takes to get there. )
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They're having blackouts, right? [He can't help the soft, exasperated sigh that escapes him just then.] I think I've had my share of blackouts to last a while.
[Yuuri shifts so that he can rest his head against Viktor's shoulder.] What do you need to ask the Perimeter Guard?
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( His arm moves to better tuck Yuuri up against him, appreciating the steadiness of his warmth at his side. )
At least these blackouts are normal. No worries about using candlelight or torches if we need.
( Talking about torches like they own any. One of those things to see if they can find in the stores in the city, once they have the funds. He turns his face toward Yuuri, burying his nose in Yuuri's hair for a moment. It's nice to breathe in his scent, letting his eyes half close. )
Could be kind of fun. Like really nice indoor camping.
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[And he'll make a face just then.] No worries about moving around in zero-g either. Not that you had a lot of trouble with that one.
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( there are reasons and reasons he considers it; but in the meantime, he has this other program coordinator thing to try and figure out. he's confident he can try. not sure how he's going to make it work, but he has to give it a shot to know. )
I trained to handle that one. It was supposed to be an untested skill.
( he adds, leaving his nose buried in Yuuri's hair. he hasn't been shrugged off yet, and this is nice. even as Makkachin stamps his foot by the door. )
Mm, looks like we're being called to duty.
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[Reluctant as he is to move, Yuuri lingers until Makkachin barks and wags his tail eagerly. Then, he slips out of Viktor's grip and offers him a hand up.] Looks like we are. We might as well head out now.
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Moreso because he shifts his grip on Yuuri's hand so that they're holding hands afterward, lips quirked into something self-amused. If he can get away with it, he's walking them both toward the door and the leash hanging off to the side. )
Do we even own any bags to bring along? This is as bad as catching up after two continents worth of jetlag.
( He lets go of Yuuri's hand (if he's kept it this long), reluctant but efficient as he unhooks the leash and attached collar, buckling both around Makkachin's neck. His dog squirms at the delay, licking at Viktor's arm before whirling around to nose the door. Out? He laughs, obliging his canine by opening the door and letting the poodle take the lead. Stepping out into the hall, he waits for Yuuri to close the door — holding out his hand to him once again, just in case. )
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We can pick up bags at the market, if you're that worried. [Makkachin startles a laugh out of him when he circles around him, almost getting his legs tangled up in the leash.] And treats for Makkachin while we're at it.
[His thoughts turn to the tribble sitting harmlessly on the bed in their new shared apartment.] You know, we never did figure out what Kon actually eats.
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( doggie doody bags being what they... are...
Viktor thinks this problem of Kon over while Makkachin straightens himself out, glad now that they're on the move. He smiles at his dog's simple enthusiasm, giving Yuuri's hand a light squeeze. There's enough he can appreciate in his oldest friend's outlook on life even after the insanity of months in space to... well, the relative normalcy of this new insanity.
Plus the dustbunny problem. )
Or how Kon does anything. It moves, it purrs, it... exists. Somehow.
( It baffles Viktor to this day. )
Did I ever tell you the veterinarians I took him too on the fleet couldn't figure any of it out either? One wanted to suggest Kon converted light, something like a plant. Want to take the stairs?
( Not a question without merit. Seventh floor or not, the elevators were still prone to going dark if the blackouts hit their building unexpectedly. Stairs got dark, but they didn't prevent movement. )