riverview: july test drive meme

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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!

● 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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prompt i: tropical thunder

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!

prompt ii: lights out!

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?

prompt iii: basic problem solving

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.

prompt iv: basic bouncers

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.

prompt v: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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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.

prompt vi: wildcard/recovery

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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peter parker (spider-man) | mcu

[starkwebs]

a. [ tropical thunder ]

( The last thing Peter had expected when he'd come out of a nearby sandwich shop and into the rain was for his skin to start burning. And when it kept burning his skin, he knew something wasn't right. He'd taken just enough time to shove his sandwich into his backpack before he flipped up the hood of his sweater and started a jog towards his housing area. He was careful to keep himself under whatever cover he could, eyes scanning the area for anyone who might have needed help as he went.

Most of the other residents he's passed had gotten wise and taken shelter in the nearest building, and the others he saw were on the way to do the same. After a couple more minutes, he noticed someone across the street who was running had dropped something. He paused, looking at the person and then the dropped object. ) Hey buddy!! ( Peter called, stretching one hand out and pressing on the device on his wrist to send some of his webbing out to snatch the item up and bring it back towards him as he started running in the same direction as its owner. )

You dropped something!!

b. [ network | un: parker ]

Have you ever wondered what it's like to fly around in a nickel-titanium alloy suit while stopping bad guys while being guided by a nice AI suit lady?

Or what it's like to stop an armed robbery at a bank when you have super powers?

Not that I'm going to do any of those things or anything.
Just curious.
You know, normal curiosity of nerdy teenage boys.

c. [ friendr ]

	Friendr
«		»
	» Age: 16 » Seeking: Friends? Mentors? Science? » Preferences: N/A » Interests: Stark Enterprise, Superheroes, and um, building lego death stars? » Bio: Stark Intern part-time. Okay, more like most of the time. Formerly, anyway. Retro grade treasure hunter. Sees the glass completely full, half in the liquid state and half in the vapor state.
	base code by photosynthesis
	Peter Parker
	« ✘ ✔ »

d. [ wildcard / random ]

( You can find Spider-man swinging around if you want. Or maybe catch Peter digging around in a dumpster here or there.

If none of those strike your fancy, hit me with whatever! I'm easy. PM me or hit me up at batbrain. )

a

[advanced]

[Bucky is running towards his nearest bolt hole, hoping that the corrugated iron he has salvaged for a roof will be enough to keep this out, and he hasn't even realised that he's dropped anything.

He stops and turns, eyes zeroing in on the little brown notebook that Peter has in his hands.]

Thanks.

[He holds out one gloved hand for it.]

Hand it over and get inside, it's not safe to be out.

[starkwebs]

( It doesn't take Peter long to catch up, and as soon as he's within reach, he tried to pass the small notebook over to its proper owner.

He was about to warm them of the danger of this literal acid rain before he received a warning instead. )

Yeah-- I know, I'm heading home, but you dropped this and I don't know if it'd survive this weather. ( His words were faster, faster than normal, and he was gesturing to the notebook and then towards where it had fallen in the rain.

When he turned back to the stranger, there was a moment of recognition and he paused for a couple of seconds. )

Are you the dude with the metal arm?

[advanced]

[He's about to just snatch the notebook and go, let the kid get back to wherever he has to go to protect him from the rain, but then that question comes. His expression hardens, wariness tensing his body up completely.]

How did you know that?

[He's really careful to keep it under cover and out of sight.]

wildcard bc i'm wild baby

[wingedman]

[So Sam flies around pretty much daily to stretch his wings, as it were. He's had a definite upgrade since the last time Peter saw him, and now his wings appear to be attached to his back, poking through neatly-tailored holes in his t-shirt (thanks, Wanda).

Oh, yeah, and they're solar-powered hard-light holograms being emitted by a telescoping metal frame and...look, let's not get into the totally handwaved science here. (Sorry, Peter.) The important part is, they're new and pretty goddamn sweet.

Somewhere in a nice, quiet part of the city, Sam catches a flash of red out of the corner of one eye and swoops onto a rooftop to investigate - which brings him face to face with Spider-Man.]

Oh, goddamnit, are you serious?

#cantbetamed

[starkwebs]

( Peter was trying to get a feel for the city. It definitely wasn't Queens, and that meant learning new ins and outs and familiarizing himself with the height of and spacing between buildings.

He had just landed on a rooftop, running across the rather long stretch of it in preparation to run and jump into another swing.

Hand extended, fingers prepared to fire a quick string of webbing, he barely managed to stop himself from crashing full force into Sam Wilson. One of the guys he remembered fighting during the whole encounter with the avengers. While he didn't crash into Sam, he wasn't quite able to stop himself from firing off a bit of webbing.

Webbing that was currently on the edge of one of Sam's wings. )

Hey! ( He managed, heard turning between the man's face and the webbing. ) Hey, uh Falcon. What brings you here, I'm just-- ( He reached out, a bit awkwardly, as if to start picking off the webbing. ) I'll get that.

[wingedman]

[Look at how unimpressed his face is. Look at it.]

Do you always shoot off too soon? 'Cause if so, you must be a real treat on dates.

[Should he be making these jokes to a kid still going through puberty? Sam remembers what he did when he was a teenager, but obviously he was much cooler and didn't go running around rooftops in a onesie.

He's not sure he really wants to touch the webbing, so he just flexes the wing and brings it closer to Peter. Yeah, you get it off this time, spider-child.]

b. network | un: iron.man

[buildsomething]

Luckily, I don't need to wonder.

Parker?

[starkwebs]

( Maybe his spider-senses are tingling or something, because he definitely feels like he knows who this is. )

WOAH really??

Mr. Stark is that you?
If not, my bad.
You just have a really familiar username and not many people have actually done either of those things.
And you don't really need to all that, sorry.

[buildsomething]

[Around here? You'd be surprised just how many people have.]

Well I've never stopped a bank robbery and I don't have superpowers. But yeah, it's me.

[There's a short pause, like Tony's trying to figure out what to say, and then:] When did you get here?

network / un: redwidow

[krasnaya_vdova]

So did the nickel-titanium suit come with you? Or is that a show-don't-tell sort of thing?

[Sorry Peter, you totally sound guilty there. And those are some awfully specific questions.]

You ever wondered what it would be like to save someone by stopping a subway train? Speaking of the totally normal curiosity of teenagers who haven't done any weird things like that at all.

[starkwebs]

I mean, if I had one it would be a show-don't-tell sort of thing. But I don't have one. It'd be pretty cool though, right?

( In hindsight, yeah, he gets that. But he doesn't have that kind of suit, honest! )

Yeah yeah, of course I have! I think about all kinds of different ways you can save people pretty often.

Have you ever done it?

( He's saved people before. In a few different ways. )

[krasnaya_vdova]

It would be totally cool. I mean, don't most people think about what it'd be like to be Iron Man?

[Hey, around here it seems like it could totally be possible.]

Well, if we're not pretending these questions are rhetorical--

Then yeah. A couple times.

[Which she means pretty literally -- twice of note. One had gone much better than the other.]

It was pretty awesome.

Until I got yelled at, anyway.
That was way less awesome.

network; un: stranger.things

[potentialed]

Have you ever wondered what it's like to travel to multiple dimensions? Or have your astral form pushed out of your physical form?

[ He's just curious, too. Totally. ]

[starkwebs]

DUDE OF COURSE I HAVE
Who hasn't?
I mean, there are all these theories about different dimensions and alternate realities, why wouldn't you think about it?

And no, not that I know of?
I feel like that's definitely something I'd remember.
Would that hurt?

Network (un:lolococo416) - Voice

[threatenwithcuteness]

Is this just a teen boy thing? Wouldn't it be easier to, like, find more practical ways to help people.

There are plenty of things that need work that don't involve punching bank robbers.

Anyway, flying seems super fun so I'd totally do that.

voice!

[starkwebs]

Well, yeah. I'm sure there are a lot of different ways you can save someone.

I feel like punching bank robbers might be a better option than some of the more violent ways? I'm not really a guns a-blazin' kind of guy.

Dude, me too!

[threatenwithcuteness]

I just mean, not all bank robbers are doing it because they're greedy. Some of them have to be in a bad place right?

Wouldn't making the world better be a better way to stop bank robberies than super powers?

Then again, if I could fly, I'd mostly be doing that for fun. And to reach the high shelves without a ladder.

un: eggsy

[tailorable]

don't need superpowers to stop shit like that, bruv

[starkwebs]

I know, I know
I'm just used to that where I'm from.
Lots of guys in tights jumping or flying around, punching the bad guys.

It's usually the first thing I think of when I think about fighting crime.

b. network ( un: s.rogers ).

[stevegrogers]

You mean like wondering about what it'd be like to step forward in time? And not have any idea where you are?

Are you being careful, Peter?

[ private ]

[starkwebs]

( That's oddly specific.

Okay, extremely specific, Mr. s.rogers. )

I haven't wondered about that specifically, but it sounds pretty intense.
Kind of lonely.

Yeah, real careful! I'm always careful.
Or mostly careful.
No one's perfect.

Is uh, that you Captain?

4. i do what i want

[ikols]

[ Spotting a very familiar suit swooping between the buildings, Loki runs up the side of a glass-windowed skyscraper after the figure. His seven-league boots spark up green magic that propels him skyward while the same glow of his bubble-like shield surrounds him.

The downpour seems to be getting worse; is that why the fella is picking up speed? ]

Hey, Spider-Legs! Oi, slow down!

b; un: youradhere

[buildingcastles]

Wow. That's a suspiciously specific hypothetical question to throw out as an ice breaker for people you've never met.

I should try that some time.

[starkwebs]

Okay yeah, they're really specific. I might have thought about them more than once.

Try what?
Doing those things?