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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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For a second, he's torn between asking about that and fussing over Yurio's injuries. The concern wins out in the end.] I just meant... I didn't know you could fight. [With an exhale, Yuuri pushes his glasses up his nose.] Look, you're heading back up to the exit, right? I'll help you redo your bandages.
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If I agree will you get the hell out of here? [ It wasn't like he was concerned, or anything- it was just... ] If you can'take defend yourself then you're just being a nuisance. Getting in the way.
[ He scowled, dirty fingers shifting to subconsciously touch the edge of his still healing wounds, his other hand tightening around the spear. ]
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[There's something a little wry about his smile this time, even as he doesn't deny anything Yuri says.] I wasn't thinking. I heard they needed extra hands for first aid and... [Yuuri shrugs, self consciousness bleeding into his actions this time.]
Let's go. [He says finally, turning on his heels so they can join the rest of the soldiers heading out.] How long have you been training with weapons?
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A few weeks, at least. Maybe a month. [ He waved his spear a little, the closest he could come to wafting a hand when it was full. His lips pursed, and he added a punctuating shrug, and a gruff- ] Long enough to defend myself down here.
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That's not very long, yet you're confident enough to join the soldiers. [He smiles slightly, just a tinge of fondness and pride in his eyes if Yurio looks close enough.] Ah, well, I shouldn't be surprised. You always did pick up things really quickly.
[He's adapting much more quickly than Yuuri has when it comes to combat. Yuuri's glad for it--at least one of them will be able to properly defend themselves if they're in trouble.]
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Now wasn't really the time for that sort of internal crisis, though. So Yuri swallowed his feelings down, let the feelings of discomfort squirm, and focused on moving on. ]
How long have you been here? [ He demanded instead, changing the subject and pulling the other along, notably not taking his hand off of Yuuri. As if he thought that, by letting the other go he would somehow slip through his fingers, maybe even disappear. ]
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Viktor and I have been trying to get used to the city since we got through the portal. [Yuuri chews on his bottom lip in thought.] It looks like we came at a bad time.
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I'm not sure there really is a "good time" to get sucked through a portal and dumped on a moon. [ Yuri grumbled, trying to pick up his pace, and catch back up with the other soldiers that had been heading back above ground. They seemed safe enough for now, but- Yuri knew how easily that could change down here. ]
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There really isn't a good time to be taken by any portal, no matter where you end up. [His voice lowers, filled with worry.] I just... worry about everyone back home.
[Though he isn't new to the whole experience, thinking of home still doesn't get any easier.]
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You've been here, what, a few days? Little bit early to be getting so sentimental. [ Yuri scoffed, waving his hand at the other, as if in disgust or disregard. As if he hadn't been just as homesick- maybe even more so, given he thought he had been missing for so much longer than the other. ]