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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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[But this, at least, confirms that Davenport is from after they took off on the Starblaster.]
What's the last thing you remember?
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[This should be a lot to take in, but honestly? Compared to everything else? Hell, compared to the shit Lucretia pulled? It's pretty easy to wrap his head around.]
We did it, Taako. We won. That's the last thing I remember.
The Hunger's dead - I thought we'd maybe gotten pulled into one of the planes it had swallowed or something.
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[But that sounds not to dissimilar, and it's such a weird relief to have someone who's on the same kinda timeframe as he is, especially with Magnus not knowing anything.
He makes an executive decision not to attempt explaining the canisters and all that bullshit, at least not yet.]
This is gonna sound even wilder, but I've been here six months.
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Not any more wild than Magnus being here, what? Negative ten years?
[Even as he lets out a small sigh of relief that at least one crew member is here and on the same page as him, he can't help but crack a small smile.]
Gods. Y'know Taako, I always hoped that we'd get some sort of break after we beat the Hunger. I feel like we deserve a vacation from all this weird shit.
[The smile doesn't last long, though. It quickly fades when he realizes he's going to have to deal with Lucretia again at some point. He sighs again.]
...you said Lucretia's here too? No Merle or Barry?
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Out of all the crew, he and Davenport were hit the hardest. Barry was alone, for a long time, but at least he still had himself.]
No Merle or Barry, it's just us.
[That's okay, for now.]
Hey, you wanna head back to my place? I have pretty great coffee and more food than I even know what to do with.
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Sure. That sounds better than anything I had planned.
[Mostly because he didn't know that Taako had apparently been here for six goddamn months without him. Also because Taako has food - and food made by Taako is guaranteed to be better than whatever canned goods he was going to get at the swap.]
I don't suppose you have any wine? After the last, well... decade, I could use a drink.
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My dude, I have enough alcohol to down a herd of elephants.
[And then he grins, and gestures in the air, casting teleport to bring them straight to the kitchen. Usually he'd just walk, but he thinks Davenport's arrival is a special enough circumstance to warrant burning a spell slot.
Taako immediately starts busying himself by putting together an antipasto platter, because he wants to say some things but he doesn't want to have to actually look at Davenport while doing it.]
I dunno if like-- I dunno if you want this, but I wanna apologize. For the way we treated you.
[It wasn't right. The shitty jokes and stupid comments. They didn't know, but it still wasn't right.
Taako's never held much respect for authority, but he respected Davenport as their captain and friend and family, it feels cruel to have spent a year looking down on him, because of what Lucretia did.]
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Taako isn't always one for apologies. And while he tends to be serious marginally more than Magnus or Merle, he's still one of the crew's goofballs. He's known Taako long enough to know that an apology like this one isn't something that comes easily to him.]
Taako, I...
[He trails off, trying to figure out what it is that he wants to say.]
I won't lie to you, Taako. I'm angry about everything that happened. I'm hurt, and I'm sad and I'm absolutely livid about just about so much of what happened in the last decade. I don't think I have the... capacity to forgive the things that were done.
I just don't. And I don't know that I ever will.
[His voice softens, though. He takes a few steps forward to Taako, and reaches up and places a small, gnomish hand on the elf's arm.]
...but I want you to know that none of those feelings are directed at you. Or at Magnus or Merle, for that matter. You boys didn't do that to me - you didn't turn me into that shell of a man.
Whatever you said when we didn't know each other... I forgive you. Thank you for the apology.
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He was never kind, not really, but it was so much worse without Lup.
And now he has Lup back, in every single meaning of the word, and it makes it easier to do things like this, to apologize, to actually let himself express even a little bit of emotion.]
So like, I know that neither of us are really huggers, but on a scale of one to ten how much would you be feeling a hug right now?
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It shouldn't be so surprising, really. He got the thing he'd wanted for a century today: to finally defeat the Hunger. He was reunited with his memories and his family once more - and that came with the pain of Lucretia's betrayal, of course, but it also came with a lot of good feelings too. A feeling of relief that he hadn't even known he was missing.
So it goes without saying that he almost laughs out loud when Taako asks that question.]
Taako. I know it's been a while from your perspective, but from mine... We just beat the fucking Hunger.
[He opens his arms and faces the elf.]
I'd say that's worth a hug.
[Go on, boy. He won't tell anyone if you won't.]
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Davenport isn't someone he was as close to, as some of the others, but he was still family, and not only is he here, but there's finally someone who's been through all the exact same shit that Taako has. So as soon as he has an okay, Taako kneels down (heights, man) to wrap his arms around Davenport. He's gonna hold on for a little while.]
You think Lup and Barry are gonna be okay?
[Because they won, sure, but the last thing Taako remembers is something that felt kind of like dying, and he's not sure if he'll ever wake up.]
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It's a good question that Taako asks, though.]
They've... both been separated from us before. And they still got each other this time.
[It's not that much of a reassurance, but it's better than nothing.]
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The answer is... well, it's something.
Taako makes a sad little sound that he won't acknowledge ever again, then gently pulls back, staying on his knees mostly because he doesn't have the energy to get back up, just yet.]
You should've seen Barry's scary lich bullshit, it was pretty great. I hope Lup finds out all about it.
[He's done Emotions enough for now, time to make a joke.]
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...god, I know he's undead and everything, but it's honestly hard to imagine that man being scary.
[Don't get him wrong, Barry is amazing in so many different ways. He was the chief science officer for a reason - he's extremely dependable, and without a doubt one of the greatest scientific minds Davenport has ever known.
But at the end of the day, he's still a Tom Arnold looking motherfucker named after his preferred choice of pants. He's not especially intimidating.]
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This is where I have to admit that he did actually scare the shit outta us, but in our defense we saw him possess and poison a dude.
[Also they were pretty new to the whole scary lich thing, back then, since most of their experience was... Magic Brian and Jenkins, neither of whom were particularly threatening.]
And then Magnus tried to punch him, so, you know.
[He's not sure why he's telling Davenport this, it's just that he wasn't there, for so much of what they went through in the last eighteen months. Even Lup, who was stuck in a fucking umbrella, apparently had enough awareness of what was going on to realise Taako went on a date with Kravtiz, so he feels like Davenport missed the most.]
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He smiles when Taako talks about Magnus trying to punch a ghost.]
That sounds like our Magnus all right.
[It's strange, because he remembers a lot from when was in butler mode. But Taako's right - he most certainly wasn't cognitive enough to grasp a lot of what was going on with his long-time companions.
God, he needs a drink just thinking about it.]
And what about Merle, has he been doing Okay? I mean, I know he's missing a lot of pieces now, but other than that.
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Taako reaches out to give Davenport's shoulder a squeeze, then stands back up to quickly finish off the food he was preparing, along with grabbing two glasses and whatever bottle of rosé was in the fridge.]
Living room or outside?
[It's kind of unspoken that he'll answer that question once they're settled.]
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[He grabs what he can to give Taako a hand - although, admittedly Taako's kitchen wasn't made for someone of his height, so what he can reach is limited to what Taako will hand him.
Then he'll gladly follow the elf into the living room.]
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That's a problem for later, though, right now he's just settling in the living room, setting the plate of food down on the coffee table and reclaiming the bottle of wine so he can pour them a glass each.
Taako's glass is half empty by the time he sits down.]
So - Merle's gots kids.
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Mostly because he needed it after today. Partially because Merle fucking Highchurch has children.]
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I'll be honest, that's not what I expected to hear.
[A pause.]
Are they... okay?
[They're not dying of neglect, are they? Shit, he hopes they didn't get hurt, or worse, by the Hunger either.]
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Uh, I dunno. We don't really like... talk to each other?
[It'd been strange to realise that in retrospect, how far apart they'd drifted when they couldn't remember their century together. Taako still trusted Magnus and Merle more than he could remember trusting anyone else (except for Sazed, and look how that turned out), but they barely knew anything about each other.]
We only found out cause the liches in Wonderland wanted him to sacrifice some of his memories of 'em, and he refused.
[So there's that, at least.]
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[Those three had been the three that had found each other, even without all of their memories. It's strange to hear that they weren't closer to each other.
Then again, the Voidfish really did a number on all of them. This was just another example of that.]
Well... that's something, I guess. Shit, you guys really had whole lives without the rest of us, huh?
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[It's hard not to be bitter, about the fact that Lucretia left Merle with family and Magnus with the opportunity to build one, but all Taako got was a stage coach and his loneliness. Even if all their respective lives still went to shit, at least Magnus and Merle had a home, for a while.]
Magnus got married, but I'm pretty sure she was murdered by some asshole called Kalen. Sounds like she was fucking amazing though.
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