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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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[2B shifted her weight from one leg to the other, appearing calm in the darkness.]
The maintenance crews must be aware of a malfunction by now. I'm sure we'll receive relief as soon as someone is available.
[Her head lowers as she considers something.]
If the situation changes, we may need to break out by force...
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I did hear they've had these blackouts for a while. They must be used to fixing these problems by now. [Yuuri turns toward her.] If that situation changes...how?
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[Judging by the tone of her voice, 2B realizes how unlikely what she's saying must sound.]
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I don't think the job they assigned me is that urgent, but I guess we could try to find a way out of here if that actually happened. Um, not that I'd really know how to.
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[The atmosphere doesn't seem to get any less awkward despite the assurance.]
What is it that you do, then?
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What about you? Sounds like you're pretty used to dealing with stressful situations.
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[2B sounds genuinely surprised now, and a little intrigued. Humans are such strange creatures indeed.]
I'm participating in combat operations, such as against these monsters. I was just returning from one, actually...
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[Yuuri winces now, looking her over for injuries with some concern.]
Ah, I went down there to help with first aid, but someone else had to help me when one of those monsters got too close.
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You went to a dangerous area, even though it wasn't your job?
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I know, it was... stupid. I've already gotten an earful from some of the soldiers down there.
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However, protecting others from harm was those soldiers' job. Make sure to be careful.
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I guess I just didn't want to sit around doing nothing. I got a little antsy after I arrived here.
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Understood.
[She nods slightly but says nothing more for now.]
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Ah, I'm Yuuri, by the way. According to the orientation video, we're all going to be stuck here in Riverview for some time. We'll probably run into each other again, if we're both staying in this building.
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[She nods again. For a moment it seems like 2B has relaxed her cool and distant act just a little. But once again, it could just be the darkness playing tricks.]
Yuuri it is, then. YoRHa unit 2 type B. "2B" is fine.
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That sounds sort of... [A pause, as he struggles to find a politer way to say "like a machine model number".] ..Um, well it's a unique name.
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[She repeats herself, sounding more quiet than usual.]
It's my designation as a battle-type android.
[Yes, that totally explains everything instead of raising more questions than it answered.]
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You're an android? You don't really look like one.
[She could easily pass as human, for one.]
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[Yes, that explains everything - part two.]
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So there's... a lot of androids back where you're from?
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Yes. It's humans who are very rare. I never saw one in person.
But there are so many of them here...
[She sounds like she still has trouble accepting it as reality.]
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It's the opposite where I'm from, too. We have robots, but they're still developing androids as advanced as you. Earth's mostly filled with humans.
[Tilting his head, Yuuri studies her.] Does it bother you that there are so many here?
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[2b shakes her head. When she speaks up again, she sounds pensive.]
It's not just bodies. Humans and androids are not that different... for the most part.
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So it's... a good thing, then? That there are a lot of humans here.
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[She nods empathically. It was just one word, but it carried a lot of weight, at least to 2B.]
Humans exhibit many strange behaviours, but that's not bad.
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