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quaranmeme2017-07-20 08:17 am
riverview: july test drive meme
riverview test drive memeWelcome 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!
● There are currently 5 Character Slots available.
● Applications open on August 1st and will remain open until such time as there are 30 or more character slots available at one time. Applications will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis. Any applications in excess of available spots will be placed in a queue and processed as drops or activity sweeps happen.
● 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, and may continue while applicants are waiting on the queue (including spanning multiple TDMs).
● 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.
● Threading on the TDM is intended for prospective new characters, so top-levels should only be posted by players of these characters. Since the events in the TDM are considered game canon, characters currently in the game are free to use the TDM prompts for logs and posts on the regular communities.
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.
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So you thought that the impending summer and the great weather meant the end of the stormy spring season? Not so much. Just like the storm back in February, though, this one isn't exactly natural.
Early in the morning on July 20th, the portal switches to a different reality, and almost immediately, an ominous greenish mist starts to seep through. Though the Perimeter Guard tries to contain the spread, it's next to impossible to stop an intangible foggy mist, and as it rises, it contaminates the clouds. By the early afternoon, a storm is brewing. As the rain falls, it's the same musty, unnatural green as the mist, and it quickly becomes obvious that the rain burns any living creature like acid. Thankfully, it's very mild acid - a few minutes of exposure will only result in non-living biological matter disintegrating, like hair, fingernails, and the outer layer of horns. But stay out in it much longer than that, and any exposed skin will start to itch and peel and then burn and sting like a bad sunburn. Feel safe with your umbrella or raincoat? Good luck, because stay out in the rain for more than 15 minutes and it will start to erode even synthetic fabric and plastic, though it seems completely ineffective against metal, stone, glass, and plant matter like leaves and wood.
Unless you're really creative, the only safe places are indoors, under the eaves of buildings, inside vehicles with solid tops, and anywhere else with a solid roof - hope you're sharing the closest hidey-hole with someone you really like!
Unfortunately, while most of the electricity in the city runs through metal wires, a few key components of the power grid involve synthetics like plastic and other materials. About 25 minutes into the storm, right when these materials start to be eroded away by the acid rain, rolling power outages start to occur at random in the city. While the whole city isn't affected and the fences remain at full power, many places will suffer a complete drop in power. As the storm intensifies, the temperature starts dropping until it goes from a nice warm summer day to something distinctly chillier.
Here's hoping your characters can keep themselves warm and entertained until all the digital comforts of the modern world return - time to break out the candles, board games and cards, or swap some stories. And maybe swap some body heat.
Bonus: there is a ton of free ice cream being handed out before it melts? Not helpful?
Thankfully, with all the genius minds in the city, someone was quick to come up with a solution after a couple hours of examining an acid rain sample. It's pretty rushed, but as the storm clouds coalesce into a sickly green-and-charcoal swirl in the sky, an experimental machine is put together that will blast a compound into the sky that will nullify the acid storm. It only takes a short time to put several more units together, and then the Perimeter Guard is recruiting heavily through every channel available for teams to take the devices out into the woods so they can be aimed properly to shoot their payload into the clouds.
Teams can consist of anywhere from two to six people, one of which should be a driver, and the rest of which will be needed to help clear any fallen trees. These teams will be fitted with coveralls and helmets that will (hopefully) protect them from the rain while they're outside of the vehicle.
Two canisters full of the compound straight into the eye of the storm clouds are expected to clear up the ever-building thunderhead clouds and stop the rain, but more definitely won't hurt.
Isn't going out into the woods dangerous? Oh. Right. It definitely is. Each team of explorers trekking out into the forest is going to need some protection. A call is also going out to the general population requesting that anyone who is a strong, experienced fighter please accompany the teams out into the forest to protect them from monsters that are willing to risk the rain in search of a lightly acid-tenderized exploration team shaped meal.
The protection teams should expect most of the danger to come in the form of giant, ravenous monsters that look like either massive elk or boars, and seem completely immune to the rain - probably because their backs are protected by thick layers of grass, moss, tiny saplings, and thick slabs of bark. With their backs all coated in moss and grass, they're also well-camouflaged in the murky green fog and rain, so they seem to appear out of nowhere, bellowing and trying to either spear the teams with their horns and tusks, or eat them whole.
Armed with super stylish full-body suits that should (theoretically) protect them from the ravages of the acid rain, these fighters are exactly the muscle the exploration teams need.
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 free app is popping up on new arrivals' 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.
Friendr base code is by photosynthesis.
The code in the textbox is for the default color scheme, but the Friendr app has a wide variety of themes, so feel free to customize with colors and patterns as you see fit, but do not remove the credit line out of respect for the creator of the code.
Whether or not this month's mission solution is actually threaded out on the Test Drive Meme, the acid rain will let up in the late evening of the 20th. Blackouts will continue for a few days afterward, and there will need to be considerable time spent cleaning up the city in preparation for this month's celebration. Feel free to thread out any of that, or use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!
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[ where the fuck is max? right the fuck behind you, that's where.
his snorted laugh can be heard over the rain outside, and tris can probably already feel the amped warmth of his body as he leans over tristan's head, one finger hooking in the blanket to tug it back from tris' face, peering down to make sure the voice he heard is actually the voice he thinks he heard. he looks just as tristan likely remembers him, albeit a little more ruffled and humid, given the weather and current lack of AC. gradually, the corners of his lips pull into a smirk, before he starts to lower down, to settle himself behind tris, legs flopping to either side of him. ]
You pulled a Marco.
[ that fucking joke. ]
MOUTHBREATHES IT'S BEEN 86 YEARS
No one can pull a Marco.
[ he makes a face, something between wrinkling his nose and trying to blink back the disbelief that it's really max. it's A Face for sure. not an attractive one. but you love him for it anyways, probably. maybe. who knows. he sure as hell doesn't. tristan isn't going to complain though, not while max situates himself behind him like a human space heater he can lean back against. there's a relief that floods him, unbarred, makes him feel goddamn jelly-like. ]
And you love my personality? It's great. Award-winning--I...
[ he turns his face into the heat there. Laughs. ] 'Bout time.
HHNNNGGGG IM FLYING, JACK
for tris' sake, he drops it, focusing instead on tugging tris into his coat, trying to wrap the sides around him, like he could smuggle the boy bodily from the room (not so much boy anymore, but tris will always seem like a small, cute, delicate thing to max). his chin perches on top of tristan's curls, a familiar locking of limbs to the both of them. ]
Got lost. Lost some skin to acid rain. Fucking end times, right?
[ at least, he's assuming this portal bullshit has to do with the crawl making magic go all fucking bonkers. the rain? who even knows. ]
Started researching yet?
shoves off into the cold ocean bye
[ tris takes max's hand in his own, pulling an arm close over his shoulder and leaning against him as much as he can. it helps that max is literally trying to shove him all the way into his coat, suffusing his sense with the smell of him, the heat radiating off of him smothering while simultaneously comforting. he closes his eyes.
maybe if they weren't... stuck in some other world... maybe it would be a lot easier to laugh about it? he smiles all the same, the lines of his mouth straining just a bit. ]
Just a little. Getting to know some of our neighbors. They're cute.
[ he reaches his hand up gently and finds the back of max's neck, giving it a very soft squeeze before pulling his hand back down again to tuck into the warmth max provides. ]
fdjlkgsa how dare!!!
[ tris can probably hear him more through his chest at this point, all bundled up against him and ducked down. his thumb pets at his friend's jawline, at least, as much as he can reach him, the arm tugging him close in a short squeeze, as he ponders on the apocalypse - a regular activity these days. ]
Was that one of the Horsemen? Space/time shenanigans?
[ probably not. max has never been good at religion and doctrine, though, so best to ask the legitimate priest. who is apparently already checking out the crop around here. ]
Oh. We taking any home?
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[ tris glances up, feeling the pad of max's thumb against his jaw and closing his eyes a moment, basking in the feel of it. his voice trails off for a bit and he meditates on the latter question briefly, humming a little bit and lazily opening one eye. ]
I mean, if we're allowed and they want to. [ he pats his chest roughly and laughs. ] This isn't the damn grocery store, Max.
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[ they're going to make sock puppets and act out the apocalypse with them later, watch it happen. but for now, snuggles and basking, because they've had a difficult day, and at some point, they're going to have to actually get up and take this predicament seriously. an unspoken truth. but another unspoken truth - they're getting some chill in before facing that whole bundle of fuckedness.
max scoffs, as if deeply offended at the prospect he would ever do anything criminal to anyone. ]
Did I say 'are we kidnapping any?' Please. I only kidnap people I don't like. [ a beat. ] And then dump them in rivers.
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[ tris knows that later they're going to have to dive into the thick of things. figure out just where they are. they already know why they're here, even if the answer itself isn't very satisfying, at least in tristan's honest opinion. ]
I mean, I know that's murder so it makes it a thousand times worse than just plain kidnapping, but you can't just let them run off.
[ ah yes. talking the logistics of kidnapping. perfect. ]
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[ triscuit, please, do you even know who he is? he does, however, deeply appreciate that the bae will talk murder theory with him, it's an important aspect of solid friendship, tbh.
hopefully no one is overhearing any of this. ]
If it's somewhere like Prague in Winter, I don't even have to make them dead first. Two birds, one river.
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I take it all back then.
[ he reaches up and gives what he can of max's stubble an affectionate pinch-tug with his fingertips. ]
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[ max grumbles a forgiving hum, and wraps his coat closer around tristan's sides, feeling that shiver go through him. he doesn't need to worry about that kind of cold.
dipping his head, max clamps teeth lightly at tris' fingertips tugging at his jaw, affectionately worrying at them. ]
Maybe get some sleep. I'll wake you when the storm's over.
end scene /blows kiss
[ the teeth on his fingertips get a slight laugh out of him, half strained as he tucks himself as far into max's chest as physically possible without actually melting and squeezing in between his ribs. once settled comfortably, he lets his head lean on max's arm, and it's very obvious that maybe he is just a little tired, the floating little lights around them flickering a bit, dimming, some dissolving out of existence as tris finds himself indulging in a light doze. ]