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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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My condolences.
I don't blame you. I guess so long as everything that should happen will, there's no harm in getting comfortable here. It doesn't really seem too bad either, a little getting used to but not too bad.
[And the he remembers his manners.] I'm Yūki Makoto- ah, Makoto is my given name.
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My brother brings me back, so I guess it doesn't matter in the long run.
It's nice here, I've been to worse places. It's easy to get comfortable.
[Which he was sort of regretting. He missed Purg more than his own home and that was always a complicated mess of feelings he'd rather not have. At the introduction Ed nods.]
Edward Elric, or just Ed's fine. Nice to meet you, Makoto.
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[And he means that, genuinely.]
Nice to meet you too, Edward.
Any recommendations for a new arrival? I could finish high school but it'd be a big adjustment from school in Japan. And I was almost finished anyway.
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School's not really something I'm too familiar with, but Orientation should be able to help place you in an appropriate job, you just need to let them know what your skills are. We've got everything here from cafe workers to fighters and pilots.
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They gave me a few options, hard to choose though. They suggested a music store on one, and I can fight. I would just need a sword, if anywhere sells some here.
[He doesn't have the advantage of a police officer working with SEES and selling teens weapons here.]
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[He's practical, okay.]
I guess it depends on if you want to go for action, or take a break from that sort of thing. There's no reason you can't do both, I think. I do a few things with the Perimeter Guard and we're opening a repair shop soon.
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Waaaaait. Something way more interesting was just said.] You can make weapons? Doesn't it take a long time to learn a skill like that?
[He's thinking forge work, of course.]
The Perimeter Guard sounds good though, I prefer being active.
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[Years of research went into learning the skill. Making the weapons? Not so much. Have a quick demonstration since it was easier than explaining over and over again.]
There's a lot of opportunity to be active on the Guard. My brother and I do mostly repair work with the Surveyors unless they need us for something else.
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Beats learning how to make swords the old fashioned way! I guess you don't have to worry about accidentally setting yourself on fire or whatever.
[He's definitely interested in what Ed just did and the Perimeter Guard.]
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You can say that again, fire’s not really my thing anyway. This is way more convenient.
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Can anyone learn that? It'd make staying armed a lot easier than it was back home. Kind of hard for a teen to get weapons around during the day.
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[When he hears 'alchemy' and sees something like that, it reminds him of one of his teachers. And the whole 'turning lead to gold' concept.]
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[Al might, he'd never thought about it.]
Why would it do that? The economy doesn't suffer where I'm from originally, and alchemy's all over the place there.
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Really? Even though you can make stuff like that? Or... like, turning lead to gold?
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[He'd teach friends, but they would need to be patient and he doubted that from the crowd he knew.]
Creating gold is illegal, trust me.
[Didn't stop him from doing it, but that was only temporary to take advantage of a scammer. He'd never heard of anyone doing it for real.]
Even the city that tried to use alchemy to get their glory back couldn't. There's a balance, equivalent exchange means what someone would have to pay to disrupt the entire economy wouldn't even be worth it.
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Is there's a way to keep track of that?
Wow. Sorry, I'm probably way more curious than most people are used to.
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Yeah, against the law. Not allowed.
I'm not sure how they keep track of it, I wasn't exactly with law enforcement back home.
[He didn't mind questions though, so he just shrugs off the apology.]
All I know is that they were doing something shady in order to make it work, at the cost of the city's health. It's not something that would have continued to work out long term, no matter how they tried to pull it off.
[At least that's all he's going to share about it.]
Maybe it's better people don't learn alchemy here, that kind of power really shouldn't be available to just anyone.
[And everyone's first question was almost always about making gold. Maybe The Quarantine's economy was at a greater risk than Amestris would ever need to worry about, if it did get out.]