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quaranmeme2017-08-20 08:59 pm
riverview: august 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 17 Character Slots available.
● Applications are open 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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After a significant chunk of intense research, both magical and scientific, hindered pretty badly by the fact that scientific and magical researchers are not, in fact, immune to bouts of amnesia themselves, the verdict is in. A cure for the pollen-induced epidemic of amnesia effects has been found in a very unlikely place. Rather than something high-tech or a complex magical spell, the cure is simple herbology - a red leaf on a particular species of tree, ground up with a mortar and pestle, and brewed into tea will completely reverse the effects of the amnesia within 4 hours of ingestion. Of course, the side effects of the tea are a little uncomfortable, and depending on the person they can span a wide range from nausea to fever and chills to a serious 24-hour flu. Some people are lucky enough to get off completely without side effects.
Still, someone's gotta go out into the jungle and gather those leaves, and those people will need a protection detail. The teams of foraging explorers and their protectors are assembled quickly and sent out with the instructions - follow the birds. There are several species of a parrot-like bird that are native to the moon that make their homes in the trees the leaves come from and feed there, and these birds will quickly lead the teams to where they can find the supplies for the necessary cure.
While the intrepid teams head out into the jungle to gather up the cure, there's plenty of work to be done inside the city. After identifying the particular flower that's been sprouting up around the city and spreading its amnesia-inducing pollen, volunteers from the Perimeter Guard, Fire Department, and Police Department are handing out pictures of the flowers and equipment to destroy them to anyone who's willing to lend a hand.
That equipment? Small, portable flamethrowers capable of incinerating the plants with a single pull of the trigger.
Volunteers are welcome to wander around the city with the flamethrowers and destroy every plant they set their sights on, and while there will be ample supervision and regular patrols by various types of authorities, there might be room for a little foul play if the wrong person gets hold of the gear.
As the day wears on, the first batches of antidote tea will start being handed out, with volunteers carrying around containers of it on their backs and handing out cups to anyone willing to take them. The tea tastes...pretty good, actually! A little sweet with a distinct citrus aftertaste. Nice!
Characters are welcome to volunteer for either of these efforts. For any affected character who did not or could not take the antidote tea, the effects of the pollen will wear off within 12 hours of the flowers being destroyed, which will be in the late evening of August 21st.
A day or two after the amnesia ordeal is over, some members of the Perimeter Guard Orientation Support team start putting up flyers and sending out ads over the network and screens around the city for a Stuff Swap at the Perimeter Guard headquarters on August 22nd. Anyone in the city is welcome to bring books, clothes, household goods, jewelry, or any other items that they don't want and to trade them for other items that other characters are willing to give up.
One man's scrap is another man's treasure, after all, and the Orientation team thinks that maybe the act of sharing, give and take, will help new arrivals to integrate more easily with the people who are already in the city. And maybe it will give them a chance to stock up on useful items they didn't arrive with!
Throughout the last half of August and the first half of September, advertisements are also being spread for an event called Plays by the Plage, featuring both professional and amateur performances of famous plays from all over the multiverse. The performances are free, and anyone who wishes to attend can just bring a blanket and picnic basket and watch the plays. The quality of the performances ranges from intense, beautiful, and moving to horrific and so-bad-it's-good.
Anyone who wants to put on a performance of their own is also more than welcome to set that up, cast it, and act their little hearts out on the big or small stage!
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.
Use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!
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Well, sure, but with the empire suppressing and destroying so much information about it, people just don't really talk about it anymore. They didn't, anyway. And growing up on Tatooine, honestly, I was nineteen before I even heard about it.
[ private video ]
Who are you?
[ private video ]
he hesitates for several long moments, and just when it looks as if maybe he's abandoned the conversation, he switches to video on his end as well.
there's probably no denying the resemblance, much as luke himself has no idea other than what other people have told him. he's never seen images of either of his parents, still has no idea who his mother even is, and it's not as if there'd been much physically left of anakin beneath vader's mask. ]
My name is Luke. Luke Skywalker. [ a little cautiously, then: ] My father was Anakin Skywalker, the-- the Jedi. .. And you are?
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But even with those few words, Obi-Wan can already paint a picture of what Anakin has done. His secrets, after all, were not so secret to him, though this . . . this hurts. It speaks of a fractured trust, of a chasm so deep that Obi-Wan could not fill. That the Jedi could not give Anakin. Did his padawan really think Obi-Wan would not understand? Perhaps he did.
Perhaps Obi-Wan failed too many times.
How would you feel if I was a major disappointment?
It would never happen, Obi-Wan says, his voice faint in the firelight. It could not happen. Not Anakin. ]
Obi-Wan Kenobi.
[ His tone is dry, to mask his own stormy feelings. ]
No doubt you are familiar with my name.
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Yes, [ he says at last, a bare breath of sound, helpless and fond. ] Yes, of course I know you. If not for you, I wouldn't even be alive right now.
[ he doesn't mean it to have the echoes it probably has to obi-wan. with the proof of anakin's secrets right here in front of him, he must have doubts. what if? there's nothing but concern and affection in luke's features, though, a small line between his brows as he searches obi-wan's face. ]
I'm sorry, I.. should've considered this possibility. [ given what they know now about alternate universes, he should've realized that it could mean.. something like this, too. ] This must be a shock. [ obi-wan and yoda had never really spoken of his father, but he knows this much, at least. luke (and leia) would have never been born at all, if anakin had been the jedi he'd been expected to be. ]
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It is, but I've known your father for almost the entirety of his life. I knew where his feelings were. He was never fully satisfied with the Order.
[ And who could blame him? After Ahsoka, the war . . . even as the war brought Anakin to greater heights, it put everything he loved along the tension of a knife. He must have left, Obi-Wan surmises. Taken his family to Tatooine, to keep them safe. Surely . . . Surely that is what took place.
But Yoda's words still haunt him. And Mortis looms. ]
I won't deny it is a shock. But you are . . . You have nothing to fear from me.
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[ he shifts slightly, glance flicking down to his hands. he adjusts the glove on his prosthetic as he gives himself a moment to collect his thoughts. this is just.. so unexpected, and he's not sure how much he should say-- how much obi-wan should know, or would want to know. ]
There are.. things.. that you should know, I think. The future is always changing, isn't that right? [ his glance lifts. ] And maybe when you get home, there are things you can fix before they go wrong.
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Such as this . . . Empire, I presume.
[ Had Obi-Wan followed Anakin to Tatooine? He knew that when Anakin was younger, that was a decision Obi-Wan had come to. Obi-Wan had never told him though, letting Anakin decide for himself if he wished to remain a Jedi or not. But Anakin was older now. His own person. And Obi-Wan could not picture leaving the Jedi Order, not when he sat on the Council while the galaxy burned.
He should ask what happened to Anakin. What made him run to Tatooine instead of Naboo. What happened to Padme. Something akin to fear grips his heart and for the first time, Obi-Wan balks at it. ]
I cannot fix it all, Luke.
[ He can barely fix anything as it is. ]
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had the original republic fallen for good reason, though? he doesn't have the information to make that judgment-- he has to trust obi-wan to know what's best. ]
I know that you can't, and I'm sorry that I-- I'm so sorry that I don't have kinder news for you.
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[ He has a feeling that this failure rests on him. Sometimes, Obi-Wan wonders if he'll ever shake the weight of it. Not being fast enough, quick enough to prevent the worst. All he seems to do is dig his feet in and stem the tide of the Dark. And even then . . .
He should ask what happened to Anakin. He should find out the truth.
He can't. ]
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he pauses for several moments, glance flicking over the other man's face, expression softening in concern. ]
We don't have to do this now. We don't have to do this at all. Under normal circumstances, we never would have met like this. [ but this is a chance, maybe, to make things better. ]
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The answer was simple after that. ]
No. We will do this. Face to face. I won't turn away from the future.
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Okay, then. Just let me know when and where you'd like to meet and I'll figure out how to get there.
[ he shifts, then more gently: ] The news isn't all bad, for the record. [ not anymore, anyway. ]
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[ Obi-Wan is hardly going to let Anakin's son out of his sight. He's long stopped fussing over Anakin for the most part but old habits die hard. His lips twitch slightly at Luke's reply. ]
Aren't you good news to begin with?
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I.. don't know. Am I? [ to his understanding, his father wasn't supposed to have children. he wouldn't blame a younger obi-wan for being dismayed by luke's existence. ]
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[ And he is a little hurt that Anakin kept this much from him. That Anakin thought he couldn't trust Obi-Wan in all things. ]
But you still are important. At least to me.
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after a few moments, his lips quirk up faintly. ] .. I suppose I should tell you now then that I'm one half of a set. I have a twin sister.
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Your father could never do anything by halves.
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Of that, I have no doubt.