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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 don't mind. How could I hold anything against you? Besides, it gave me a chance to try this.
[Lifting his hand, he shows her the fruit with a bite out of it, and then slides his arm around her waist.]
We should get a bag of them, and then go home. What do you think?
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And he's very good. She leans in against his arm as his hand finds its way to her back, taking advantage of his height to hide the way she too looks around them. Trusting him to get a look at the person following her, to catch sight of anything odd, she instead looks down to the fruit. It looks delicious, and she leans in to take a nibble, half to sell the show they're giving and half out of actual curiosity.]
I think you'll have to get your own bag because I'm not going to share mine no matter how you try to sweet talk me. [Looking up, she gives him a grin, winks, and then uses his hold on her to guide them back under the awning. Pulling out her wallet, she asks the vendor to give them a couple bags of the fruit, plus a prepackaged pouch of roasted, sugared almonds. Her voice drops low as the vendor bustles away to do exactly that, expression not even slipping a bit.] How far away is he?
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[It's said with a little smile, his brows raising as she leans in against him, and he allows the movement with a companionability that is too well-practiced to be entirely genuine. It's enough so that it passes, though, and when she leans in to nibble the fruit, he allows it, one corner of his mouth perking up just a little further.
While she orders the fruit and nuts, he lets his gaze idly slide over the crowd, picking out the guy who was following her, double-checking if there are any others that he missed in his first visual sweep. While the girl pulls her wallet out, and asks him her question, he shrugs a bit.]
Really? You won't share it even if I...
[Leaning in, he whispers against her ear - the implication is that it's something dirty. In reality, however...]
Not as far as I'd like, but he's the only one. We need to go as soon as possible.
[Leaning back, he puts on a smug sort of smile and raises his dark brows.]
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At the very least she'd like to get to know the man who's breath is warm at her ear while he makes it seem to all others around them that he's saying something truly filthy to her. Her smile spreads wider, giving every impression that she's hearing something surprising but more than welcome. Her expression makes her seem more than game, but the look in her eyes is hard. Intent.]
Well, I can't say no to that, bhesher... [Tucking her wallet away, she takes the nuts and some of the fruit, leaving him to get the other bag as she tries to lead him away. Her body language is playful, flirty, and her pace is quick as if she can't wait to get alone with him. Toward that end, she heads for the nearest residential building she knows. They can slip in one side, and out another.]
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Cassian isn't sure if it makes him feel more suspicious of her and how smoothly she can mislead, or curious, interested. Either way, he suspects he would like to get to know her better. Wonders if it would be good or bad for him. He's always been a lonely man, but whether or not getting close to people is more risk than reward is something he's only stopped to consider recently.
So he follows her into the building, and the moment they're out of eyeline, he drops the fake smile, and ducks his head forward.]
Out the back, then? Quick, you know the way, don't you?
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When they head into the building Bryn waits until they're out of the line of sight before also dropping her smile. Her body language shifts, feet solidly shoulder width apart as she scans their exits, hallways, and nearby windows.]
I know a way. We'll see if they know it too or not. [Still holding the purchases in hand, knowing it will be more suspicious to get caught without them, Bryn heads down a hallway, expecting the man will follow her. After a moment, she looks over her shoulder, and flashes him a genuine smile. Quick, tight.]
I'm Bryn by the way. Thanks for jumping in.
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When she smiles at him, a tight, contained smile that is more real than all the broad happy smiles from earlier, he smiles back. Small and faint, but genuine.]
Cassian. You're welcome.
[Without further questioning, he follows her, moving along the hallway, tactical, back to the wall and glancing behind them as he keeps close to her. His hand hovers close to his blaster, and he asks, voice quiet.]
Are you armed?
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[Bryn takes then down a hallway, to a door at the end. The stairwell leads up--and also down into a space for maintenance and some of the building's support systems. Gas. Water. Electricity.
Rather than heading in deeper, she stands to the side of the small window in the door, checking him and his hovering hands before she drags her bracelet out from beneath her sleeve. If he looks carefully enough he'll notice the faint bulge of her firearm stashed beneath her coat.]
We can head through here into a parking garage to lose him, but I'd rather keep out of sight long enough for him to give up, and then follow him back wherever he goes. Are you game?
[Cassian doesn't have to come with her. He helped her lose the guy, he doesn't have to get involved any deeper when neither of them know what's going on yet. She'd understand.]
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[He gestures to his thigh holster, where his blaster is securely strapped. Following her down the hallway, he moves sideways, back to the wall, dark eyes flicking behind them to make sure they're a few turns ahead of the people following them. Glancing back up at the woman, he offers a tight little smile.]
To both questions.
[Flicking a glance over his shoulder again, he lowers his hand and unclasps the top of his holster, making sure the blaster is loose and ready to be drawn at the first sign of trouble. As she moves toward the parking garage, he ducks forward, moving a little quicker and then pausing as she turns another corner. Behind them, there's the sound of someone's heavy breathing, and he shoots a quick glance around it, then gestures violently forward, indicating they need to speed up.]
Whoever's on our tail, they're catching up quick. Let's hurry.
[And he immediately does so, moving as quickly and silently as possible toward the parking area.]
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They're nearly to the parking garage, but Bryn can hear the footsteps behind them as well. Heart beating quicker, she gives him a nod. If they're going to lose this guy, they need to get out now.
She heads toward the final door down the hallway, and when she opens it she's never been more pleased to find the winding layout full of vehicles of varying heights.]
Run or hide and hope he runs past us?
[They could head up instead of down and out, slip behind a car, let the man pass and then sneak down an opposite stairwell.]