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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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It's cool, don't worry about it. Ru... that's nice. [ tris slides his hands carefully over ru's knuckles, sending another trickle of warmth crawling up his skin. his brows lift slyly: ] Not short for anything embarrassing is it?
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The answer is, of course, yes but that isn't information Ru shares lightly. Mostly because it really is ridiculously embarrassing and terrible. ] Wouldn't you like to know?
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Can't be as bad as my middle name. Could be just as bad, but not worse.
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[ Ru doesn't quite wink, but the impression is there. His first name is The Worst, and it gives him a good idea of the type of humor his parents had. That in itself is a bad thing, but he'll keep the secret with him for now. Rudolph is just not a good name to have when you've got a glowing facial feature. ]
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[ embarrassing names are always The Worst, so he won't press, letting his warmth seep into the other a little more deeply, putting his magic in at a steady flow now, one that won't absolutely drain him in the moment. ]
Got any magic yourself? [ he gives a bit of a nod upwards. ] The star on your face. Just a really cute birth mark or...?
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Uh... [ There's a pause, because secret identities are a very real thing for some heroes but he's also well aware that the rules are totally changed here. Not nearly as much to protect and no reputation or marketing to uphold. ] Uh, yes. Some magic. Not a mage, but there's... power?
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What kind of magic? Do you guys have planes? I know we're all from... different places so the rules aren't exactly the same, I bet, but. Could you explain a little? Are you born with it or is it given to you or do you get it from someone else? Or an object maybe? Or--
[ a beat. oh god he's rambling and he knows he is bc he has to pause and take a breath. ]
Sorry. Studying and researching magic... It's kind of my favorite thing. You don't have to tell if it's like some big hidden family secret or anything, though, I get that too.
[ still rambling. you shit. ]
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I'm not the best person to ask... I'm more of a martial, uh, magic... user...? Mostly we're just heroes with different classifications. [ He shakes his head. ] Not all of them are magic, some of them are just powers. Almost all cases are people born with it, but some are inherited...
Oh, but me, I was born with my powers. [ He assumes, anyway. It's how knight classes traditionally get them. ] Mine specifically specializes in shields, defensive type of things. Protection.
[ He shakes his head. ] Somehow the secrets don't seem as important here? Without the structure I usually deal with.
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It's not so secret where I'm from... nearly everyone has magic. They go to special schools just for magic, have jobs. All kinds of things...
[ he lets his hands pull ru's hands forward softly, resting them in his lap now. ] Is there a reason you had to keep your magic on the down low?
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[ He shuffles a little closer with the placement of his hands, totally content with staying where he is. It's warm and comfortable and Tris doesn't seem to mind letting him stay there. ]
Most people with powers tend to hide their identities since it makes their friends and family targets, and means they won't get any rest if they could just be found at any time. Especially when we use our powers to make a difference and get the attention of people who would use theirs for their own gain.
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[ tris' eyes widen excitedly, voice tipping upwards in interest. there's nothing like this at home. magic is just... it's magic and while some people like it and other's don't no one's really out there to make a big impact with it. nothing that needs some kind of secret identity.
unless you're literally a criminal-slash-guy-who-just-wants-to-make-shit-better-by-doing-illegal-things. like marco. tris sighs internally.]Just with the whole secret identities and everything, it sounds pretty intense.
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[ Maybe different in how they operate but it sounds like they might have the same idea in general... Definitely interesting to Ru. How does that work if there are people with magic but don't end up as heroes or villains? ]
It really can be. Some people don't bother as much, but that does make it more difficult for them in the long run. Villains are less likely to have those issues.
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[ he gives a light shrug. ]
I just work in a divination shop.
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Now that's pretty fantastic. You say you don't have superheroes, but you've got all that? You probably could have them.
What kind of divinations do you do?
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[ he looks down at ru's hands, passing his thumbs over his palms gently. ]
Scrying through liquids and tarot mostly, sometimes some crystal ball work? But that part never really took, my mom's great at it though. That's more on the business end of things? Most of my magic specializes in spirit work... talking with the dead. I'm still sorting it out since it's been a while since I spoke with anything not on the material plane.