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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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I was keeping the rain out of my face. [It could have been worse if he hadn't, even if his hands itch something fierce, to the point that they burn a little.]
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[Mostly. Even if he had absently scratched a few times already. It is tempting though, if only to offer some relief to the burning itch and keep him from forcing any more of his skin to peel from it.
It was gross.] I suppose putting something on them couldn't hurt though.
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There you are. Don't know how much it will help you right off, but it's meant to speed the healing process. Interesting what they've done with medical advancements since our time.
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It doesn't seem like it would hurt. Thank you. [He's said that a lot so far and it might not be the last time, considering he's the only familiar face he has here.]
A shame we can't just take some of this back. [He unscrews the cap and puts a bit on, focusing on that for the moment before finishing and setting it down between them.]
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[It wasn't something he would need for himself, but he'd taken the time to read the directions on each of the items in the shop's first aid kit just in case. Safety first and all.]
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[It feels at least a bit better, having some way to treat his hands, and the urge to scratch has greatly diminished.]
I ought to invest in a few more things while we're stuck here. I hadn't given much thought to the little things like injury or illness.
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[Of course Vincent had. His position and wealth could have afforded him almost anything he wanted. That was just the way of it and really no business of his.]
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Madam Red always made herself available if we needed her. M-mother and I always had help if we were too ill for father or Tanaka to handle.
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We are developing healthcare and technology steadily though. [Too fast, in some places, Othello had let on.]
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You and I find ourselves in agreement. Who knows just what they do and claim it better, we have no method of judging it until after the fact.
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[If he meant in regards to his delicate health, Ciel ignored that.] Perhaps in another life, Madam Red's work might have caught my eye.
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Is that really so surprising? [He's actually curious, he can't even school his expression to hide that curiosity. Was it because of his own health that it was surprising? His mothers?]
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[He just slowly shakes his head.] That's never stopped you before. Why now?
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It's just idle conversation. Truth be told, I don't really care why you do or what you do, but conditions outside aren't improving much, and it's better than sitting in silence and waiting for the next thing to happen, and you're humoring me.
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Haven't the Phantomhive's always been good for a laugh, though? [He doesn't take a glance outside. There's no way he's escaping without at least a cold. And Undertaker has been generous with his time...]
Why do cemeteries have fences around them? [He pauses for a moment, eye slowly moving to Undertaker.] Everyone is dying to get in.
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[At first, he'd thought the question was honest... until he heard the punchline. It's not clear to him which stuns him more, the fact that Ciel is trying to tell him jokes or that he's looking to get him to laugh without asking for something. That, in turn, makes him wonder if the Earl really is after something. They always are. The grin hasn't changed, but he's now looking at the boy, and he'll allow a giggle at the humor.] So they are. [And so they're on to terrible jokes. Alright, he can play this game. It won't get good information, but he can appreciate it.] Why doesn't a skeleton dance when he go to parties? [Wait for it.] Because he's got no body to dance with.
[He can't help it. He breaks out a wide grin and cackles. It's not really that funny, but the situation is.]
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[All of his predecessors had a better sense of humor, he's sure, but they were willing. And that says enough. Ciel's no good with humor, he hasn't been for a long time, but he tries.
Undertaker's joke in return takes him a moment but he can't help his lips quivering, wanting to laugh. It's a bad joke, he shouldn't want to laugh.] I think that was my best one, actually.
[He'll try again though.] How do you make holy water?
[Just a little pause, again.] You boil the hell out of it.
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[So they really are trading silly jokes. He can't help a wide grin. It's not going to burst his sides, but there's genuine humor in it. And the subject? He lives for this sort of thing.] Ah, that milord even remembers jokes like these. I don't know which is more the amusing.
[He turns to the boy, leaning into his elbows on the table as he does.] A man on a walk with his friend happens to pass by a graveyard on their way home. He looks to the graveyard and says, "I can't be buried here." His friend looks at him, confused, and asks why. The man replies, "Because I'm not yet dead." [He doesn't even wait for Ciel to get it. He's already in a light fit of giggles.]
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[Just one he hasn't been particularly skilled in. He wonders if his father had practiced that skill or if it was something that had come to him naturally.] I'm trying to do better. Even if it doesn't do anything for either of us here.
[His ears burns a little at the comment, they probably even look a little red, but he lets it go, smiling at the joke and trying not to laugh. One does escape a little though.]
A doctor recently opened a firm that doubles as both a morgue and an optometry practice. How long do you think that place will stay in business?
Remains to be seen.
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