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quaranmeme2017-09-21 08:26 pm
riverview: september 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 40 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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With the fall months starting to set in, the leaves changing color, and the pumpkin spice lattés freshly unleashed into the Quarantine, many minds in the city (or at least the ones who've been around for over a year) are turning to the fall mushroom harvest.
Every year, several of the Quarantine's fanciest boutique restaurants are competing to make the most original new recipes with classic favorite mushroom varieties harvested fresh from the jungle. These glowing little shrooms are a rare once-a-year delicacy that half the Quarantine is totally bonkers for, and a restaurant can turn a really serious profit from capitalizing on those cravings. Of course, that means that they need to source the mushrooms from the jungle, which is much easier said than done, considering the fact that the monsters out there like the delicate fungal flavor just as much as the people in the city. So, restauranteurs around the Quarantine are putting up signs and advertisements everywhere from billboards to just after the credits of your favorite trashy reality TV show.
The monetary rewards for returning with a fruitful fungal harvest are extremely high, so if you're looking to feather your nest egg a bit and are willing to do a bit of exploring and brave some beasties, head out into the jungle in search of bounty.
The restaurant business isn't the only business that's interested in providing a chunk of change for some mushrooms from the jungle - there's also a less reputable trade in the type of mushrooms that don't end up in risotto. While the advertising is more covert, it's not much less obvious, particularly since the glowing mushrooms aren't exactly contraband and occupy a grey area, legally. In fact, if you're curious, you can pick them up at most of the outdoor markets around the city.
And what is it the mushrooms do? Well, in a way that's quite common when mushrooms are involved, things get a little trippy. Depending on the type of mushroom a character tries, there could be a wide variety of effects, most of which center around size changes and hallucinations or weird dreams. Whether it's all in a character's head, or they're actually changing size depends on the type of mushroom they ingest. Welcome to Wonderland!
NOTE: The mushrooms can have physical effects to change a character's size from however tiny you would like to go, up to a maximum of 15 feet tall, or they can have whatever sort of hallucinogenic or dream effects you choose, including dream sharing between characters who eat the mushrooms together. Be sure to warn in the subject line if you use this prompt in a way that resembles drug use. All effects wear off in a maximum of 24 hours.
Every year on the last full weekend of September (the 22nd until the 24th this year) there is a special event called Tavernfest. A mash-up of Oktoberfest and a renaissance faire, Tavernfest is a tradition celebrating and promoting various local breweries in the Quarantine, along with food that pairs well with their beers, in a setting that hearkens back to historical periods. Costumes are encouraged, and everything about the fair is rustic and simple, from the cooking methods to how the brews are served to the various fair games and attractions.
Considering the nature of the Quarantine, though, 'historical' can mean a lot of different things, so expect to see people dressed in a wide variety of historical costumes from their own worlds and planets. The sharing of culture is encouraged at Tavernfest just as much as it is everywhere else in the Quarantine, so attendees are highly encouraged to wear the historical garb of their own worlds and talk about what it means to them!
NOTE: Riverview's legal drinking age is 14+.
This one's pretty simple - this is the month where autumn is really starting to kick in, and autumn on this moon means lots of rain showers. In fact, the rain can be so prevalent that there's a long-standing trend of people in the Quarantine using umbrellas like fashion accessories. They can get quite fancy, matching them to their outfits or carrying umbrellas that are adorned with decorations ranging from cute to high-fashion to bedazzled.
The one difference between umbrellas and regular fashion accessories? Umbrellas are meant to be shared! Riverview Quarantine has a culture of sharing, and that's never more apparent than in the chilly autumn and winter months when the rain is falling and everything's damp and miserable. So whether your character is out and about sporting a fancy umbrella with room for one more, or if they forgot theirs and are looking for a generous stranger willing to spare some shelter, hopefully the culture of caring will prevail!
Whether your character is posting up a silly word game, 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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Anyway, he shakes himself out of that line of thought, because it's really not great to judge by appearance.]
Same here, really.
[But he'd be lying to himself if he didn't think he'd be a bit more useful in an actual fight.
There's enough of them in the group that they've basically cleared out this area, instead of just tromping forward with no idea in mind he lets his feet lift off the ground and drifts upward some five feet or so to get a better look around, turning in a slow circle midair.]
Looks like there's a good amount of these things over there.
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Wonderful! If we just get a few more, we can--
[she stops when the area around them begins to vibrate, thanks to a loud rumble. she's ready in an instant, in a fighting stance, drawing her trident from the gem on her forehead]
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Trunks, being airborne, can't feel the ground shake, but he sees the motion of the trees and plants and sees her ready herself, drawing a weapon.
He has his sword on his back, but the blade's been broken ever since Zamasu--he could make a blade with his energy if he needed, but instead he just clenches his fists and gets into a ready stance while still floating.]
Sounds like we tempted reality a bit too much...
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or not, because fighting off monsters sounds a lot more... beneficial than picking mushrooms. she's not going to say it's more fun, but... maybe it is?
the beast bursts through the foliage with a loud roar. it appears to be a giant cat-like animal, with large paws, but it has a strange head. its eyes are hidden by a dreadlock mane. it swipes, and Pearl leaps up to get close to its face. they need to find its weak point, since it's very large. still, she's sure a group of this size of fighters can manage a single monster]
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Trunks darts around in midair to get behind it, scanning--he could take it out in one hit, he knows, but there's too many people around to use one of his regular ki blasts. Too much risk of people getting caught in the crossfire.
So, hitting it really hard it is.
It doesn't help that he's not used to working in a team, so he does hesitate a bit before offering a suggestion.]
I can pin it down! Can you get it from there?
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Sounds good! [she jumps out of the way, but the beast is still focused on her. it isn't paying attention to Trunks behind it]
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'Sorry,' he thinks at it--because really, it was just defending its territory and he can definitely sympathize with that. But there's too many people in the group to get everyone to safety without injuries.]
Go for it!
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so she launches herself to the ground, landing gracefully as she seeks out its chest. the heart should be around here, right?]
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While Pearl's looking for the heart, Trunks is drawing his sword from its scabbard as he flips midair--it's jagged and broken about five inches down from the crossguard, so you could be pardoned thinking it was absolutely useless.
And it would be, if he couldn't channel energy.
With a thought, the blade is filled out with shimmering yellow light--and he sweeps in from the side to block a paw full of dagger sharp claws from hitting his impromptu fight partner. Bonus, now it can't go completely back down to four paws.]
Just left of center, try there!
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I'm on it! [she says as she swoops forward. she stabs the trident into the chest, then uses the center blade to slice the beast down to its gut. it makes one more strangled cry before dropping forward, unable to fight any longer. fortunately, Pearl moves out of the way before it hits the ground.
yick, all that blood]
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It's definitely dead.
That's sort of unfortunate.
But that means the fight is over, he sheathes his sword and lets himself relax a bit.]
Well, that went pretty well. Thanks.
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I must say, I'm impressed! We took care of that... thing... like it was no trouble at all. You're very strong!
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It hadn't been that way for a while now.]
You're not bad, yourself. I haven't seen many people able to summon weapons like that.
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That's because I am not a people at all. I'm a gem. I have many abilities that humans don't have.
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Humans are full of surprises. But I more meant the sentient, individualistic, personality-having definition of 'people'. If we're going by strictly human as the metric, I only half-count myself.
[He has a little smile on his face as he says that.]
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Really? What is your other half?
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Saiyan.
[If you've heard of them, he's officially sorry for whatever they did. But he's not ashamed of that origin, so...]
No one I've spoken with have been familiar with them as of yet.
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[He shrugs. Most Saiyans aren't known for being particularly nice.]
Planet Vegeta--it was destroyed, 60 or so years ago. There weren't many survivors, my father was one of them.
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So your father traveled to another planet, then? Earth?
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['Somehow took his head out of his ass long enough to have a kid,' he might have said before his latest trip to the past. His father was still definitely an intense man, but had become less sharp and bitter.
He shrugs.]
Saiyans are adapted for higher gravity conditions, so we're naturally stronger than humans. But humans can make up some of the difference with training.
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[Trunks kinda hopes he doesn't run into any other Saiyans, unless they're his father, Goku, or Gohan.
He goes back to pick up his half-full bag, he'd dropped it in the fight.]
Hopefully nothing else decides to come investigate what all the noise was.