riverview: september test drive meme

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riverview test drive meme

Welcome 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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prompt i: fungal safari

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.

prompt ii: what a fun-gi

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.

prompt iii: tavernfest!

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+.

prompt iv: under my umbrella

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!

prompt v: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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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.

prompt vi: wildcard/recovery

Use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!

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Comments

[ikols]

[ Wow, that's not an answer!! Way to make him work with what he gets. ]

Would you like to hold it? Gram's very light.

[myraptors]

[Loki, you need to just let people be baffled by you sometimes.]

Its name is Gram? [He eyes it somewhat distrustfully, never having actually used a sword before.] Aren't swords usually called things like Foekiller or Dragonslayer or something?

[ikols]

Well, it weighs the truth in your heart and obliterates you if you lie to yourself. So, 'gram of truth'? I guess.

[ Itching the back of his neck, because he never really thought about it. Huh. ]

[myraptors]

[Fuck's sake!] That is horrifying, and also doesn't make much more sense. I'm good, thanks.

[ikols]

There's also Laevateinn, my ancestral blade. Cuts through anything! No horror.

[ Hey now, don't knock his swords. ]

[myraptors]

So, when you said there are people around here with weapons who want to rob me, were you talking about yourself?

[ikols]

No! I would never use a weapon to rob you.

[ So sincere. So many loopholes. ]

You were the one who mentioned conscripting a knight ... or somesuch.

[myraptors]

[Don't think he doesn't hear that loophole, buddy. He peers at Loki critically while chomping off another bite of his churro.]

Do you have any qualifications besides two magic swords? [Not that those aren't swell.]

[ikols]

I'm actually a god, so, yes. Several, at least.

[ Man, fuck u, he is going to spear that apple pie with his fork. Perhaps the sugar will turn to salt when it touches Loki's mouth. ]

[myraptors]

[....this place, honestly.]

Okay, okay, sorry. [Both eyebrows go up.] Easy on the dessert.

[ikols]

What's your name, Mister Unimpressed-Rude-Barfly?

[ No, it's his pie and he gets to pick it apart. ]

[myraptors]

[Owen stares at him. Who's rude??? This is what he gets for making conversation with gods, apparently!]

Owen Grady. Which god are you?

[ikols]

Odin, All-Father of the Norse pantheon.

[ Now he has Owen Grady's name and Owen doesn't have his, what a petty success. ]

[myraptors]

[All-Father, eh? Must've gotten started young, from what he can tell. But who knows with gods? This one seems a bit sensitive to perceived criticism, so he decides against mentioning it, however casually.]

Odin, how's that apple pie working out for you?

[ikols]

It's a little small, I like them bigger.

[ The most casual of comments as he waves his hand and his pie increases twofold. Munching away, Loki steals a glance at Grady. ]

What is it you do in the city when you're not hunting down helpless mushrooms?

[myraptors]

[This time he manages to take that with just a raised eyebrow, mostly because okay, greedy.]

Still acclimating. I'm working with the different exploration divisions around here to study the local fauna, which has been a wild ride so far, I can tell you that much.

[ikols]

Can't be that wild, you don't have any chunks taken out of you.

[ With a once-over as if to confirm it. ]

[myraptors]

I'm good at my job.

[You're getting cold, hard facts here, 'Odin'.]

[ikols]

Your job must involve a lot of running, jumping, climbing trees.

[ Haha, he's funny. That reference is probably a lost cause, alas. ]

[myraptors]

[Unfortunately Owen has never seen an Eddie Izzard routine in his lifetime, and more's the pity for him.]

Not if I'm doing it right -- although it never hurts to have a low-hanging branch around, I guess.

[ikols]

[ Sweet Norns. ]

What did you do back home before coming here?

[myraptors]

[Owen looks him over for a second. He's a deity that... uh, exists back on Earth, but.]

Ever heard of Jurassic World?

[ikols]

[ wHAT watch the way he forgets the pie exists. ]

Jurassic Park, yeah.

[myraptors]

[He gets a wry and rather humorless smile for that.]

Jurassic World was the... successful second chance. InGen was bought out and assimilated by Masrani Corp, who had a lot more resources to throw at the island in the twenty-first century. They brought in a bunch of people who were as close to experts as they could get, and managed to put together the research facility-slash-amusement park that John Hammond wanted so badly.

[ikols]

[ holy shit is this guy from another sequel and how does Loki not know about it/failed to travel the Multiverse enough to have been there??? ]

The dinosaurs totally got free, didn't they?

[ Is that even a question, though. ]