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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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How long should we wait until we start devising alternative methods of escape? [ Because Laurent was already considering it, lifting his head away from his hand and gazing around the little metal box, a critical, considering expression on his features. There had to be some way out; it was ridiculous to think that those who could engineer such a feat of a machine that could lever people up and down electrically without stairs, and not think of how that box might turn into an oversized coffin if it happened to get stuck. ]
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Shaking his head, gestures towards the door and finally just carefully slides his rifle down onto the floor. No reason to hold onto it as long as they're stuck here.]
Should be able to force the doors open, and if we're close enough to a floor, there'll hopefully be a gap big enough for us to use. [A quick little glance over at the other man with him - a few years older than he is, maybe? - and Cloud twitches his shoulders in a shrug.] Neither of us would need that big of a gap.
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I haven't been working on clearing out monsters all day just to enjoy wallowing in a stuffy lift in their muck. [ At least it was clear Laurent's frustrations weren't born from his company, his demeanor simply naturally cold. No doubt Cloud had had a similarly long day, from the look of him, and Laurent sighed, closing his eyes and bringing his fingers up to pinch the bridge of his nose for a moment. Thinking. Glancing up, he eyed the lighting panel, wondering if there were anything worth exploring, or considering beneath it that they could consider for an escape. ]
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[Not entirely sure why he offered that up, Cloud glanced away, and then followed Laurent's look up at the ceiling, pretty sure what he was thinking about. It was a little funny, maybe - the cold, tightly-reined in personality reminded him of Sephiroth, so it didn't feel all that strange (too short, though, but with similar colouring). Sephiroth, who they couldn't get out of the mansion's basement. Sephiroth, who'd been acting very weird---
Pushing that train of thought away, Cloud threw another frown up at the ceiling.]
... Would only try looking for a maintenance hatch in an emergency. If these lifts look like the ones back home, it'll be an open shaft, and if we're still in it when the power comes back and the lift starts to move...
[Not a good idea.]
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Though I suppose we ought to try the more obvious method first. The doors. I do so prefer to find the path of least resistance, when I can.
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... Unless it went down because someone else got it.
[Down, and further away from them. But either way, doubtful that would happen. But the idea that it could, well... Cloud might be a bit too pessimistic, but it seemed like his typical sort of luck. Shaking his head, he planted himself by the doors, wedging his fingertips into the seam between them as well as he could and pulled.]
... Ugh. Um. [Glaring at the door and then throwing a hesitant glance over his shoulder and wishing Zack was here, wishing he was SOLDIER and could do better than get the doors open about a finger's length.] Could, you pull the other way?
[He didn't like asking - mostly because he wanted to be strong enough to do it himself, but asking for help seldom got him good results, too.]
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For a moment, the other just watched as the other made an effort to open the doors on his own. It was amusing, to some extent. Cloud reminded him a little of Damen in that moment, and he was tempted to continue to watch the other struggle for a moment or two longer- but... seeing as Cloud had asked... ]
And yet you were doing such a fine job on your own. [ Laurent teased, his lips curling up wryly, before moving to the opposite side of the door, finding a place to wedge his own slim fingers in against, and pull. ]
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Sighing, he frowned at it and peered dubiously through the crack and wished he wasn't covered in mud and dried blood, because this didn't look like they'd be going anywhere.]
Don't think the gap to the next floor is big enough...
[Stepping aside so Laurent could have a look himself, Cloud wasn't too proud not to wish it hadn't been. He wanted to be out of here and have a shower, but that gap looked only large enough to squeeze a toddler through. And bending open the doors were one thing; they could hardly move the whole elevator carriage.]
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The only issue was...]
... One of us is gonna have to lift the other.
[Rubbing the back of his neck, Cloud frowned again and bit his lip. It probably didn't matter, or rather, he had no idea who should lift the other because Laurent's clothing covered him from neck to feet and it was basically impossible to see anything but the fact that he was pretty slim. Which... honestly, said nothing.
Cloud also wondered, with a quick, confused frown to all the laces, how he had the patience to wear all of that.]
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Besides, he knew Cloud's face, now. And if he crossed him, Laurent would see to it that this was repaid in kind. ]
I would be able to give you a boost, if you'd prefer. [ It was a good thing Laurent was a master of his own emotions, his voice. He sounded much more confident and trusting in this offer than he felt. ]
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That, as Laurent offered to lift him up, and Cloud certainly had less control of his expressions. Not that the small flattening of his face as he frowned and shifted on his feet were exactly yelling his misgivings, but it was probably obvious enough.]
... I, don't care. [Of course he did, though. He didn't like this idea - it'd be so very easy to just let go of him and let him fall to the ground. Not that that'd hurt, but he was used to being made fun of. Shaking his head, Cloud looked up towards the ceiling again.] But we can try that, unless you'd rather..?
[He still patted himself down as he spoke, and found the small switchblade he carried. Not sure it was sturdy enough to take care of whatever screws or however else the hatch was fastened, but it'd be somewhere to start.]