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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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I used the Force. It seemed easier than chasing it down on foot.
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The... Force? What is that, like qi?
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[ He loosens his grip, folding his arms together. ]
You could say it is energy. It surrounds us all. I am fortunate enough to be able to tap into it at will.
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[She thinks it over for a moment. That sounds... kind of cool, honestly. In a spiritual sense.]
It's a uh... spiritual thing, I guess? Energy in the air, and trees, and people... that you can tap into for fighting or... meditation.... sorry- I don't know much about it, I think I'm paraphrasing a Wikipedia article I skimmed through back in high school.
[Her dad would probably know more about this, but... even if he was here, that would be awkward.]
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Yes. It does not merely move nature, but the way events unfold. The way we move forward. All of that is under the guidance of the Force.
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So, you can... control that? I mean, control events using the Force? Or is that just a thing that it does, and you can control a different aspect of it?
[Why is she asking... she can just tell she's going to ask something that offends this... monk? Is that what she should call him?]
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No. We cannot control events. But we can sense their coming and avoid potential pitfalls.
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That's still pretty useful... it sounds like something my dad would like learning about.
[That's probably not being cool.]
I'm guessing it's... um.. not as simple as teaching me that trick so I can grab my shadow, right? It probably takes lots of... practice?
[So very not cool.]
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[ And with a wry twist to his mouth. ]
Besides, I think I've hit my limit with teaching others. My two students were a full time job.
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I bet. That it's difficult. But... y'know, lucky for you I'm not Force-sensitive, just... have a weird shadow.
[Her shadow is imitating martial arts she's seen on TV. Why can't it just behave.]
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[ He can't help the slight bit of sass. ]
I've never seen anything quite like it before. Perhaps there are ways of calming it down, but I cannot say for sure.
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[At least it's sticking close to her this time. Mostly because it expects to get grabbed if it tries to run off again.]
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[ It's strange, Obi-Wan muses to himself, as he studies the shadowy creature. He cannot feel much from it. Not light, not the Dark . . . something that lingered in the between. His experience in that is limited. ]
So is this inherited?
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[The shadow moves out of the ground now - its head and hands peak out, silvery and ethereal with glowing red eyes. No longer quite shaped like AJ, either.]
...Go back into the ground. Please? You're the worst.
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Please behave. I'm trying to hold a conversation.
[ Turning his attention back to her, thoughtful. ]
So we carry our own scions of death? How fitting.
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I guess so... the story goes that supposedly once our time runs out, our shadows take our souls back to be reborn. Which sounds pretty poetic, y'know?
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[ It's certainly not what Obi-Wan believes. Reincarnation sounds awful, in his honest opinion. He's not that keen on repeating a cycle. ]
For the Jedi, we believe that we return to the Force. Like all living creatures.