riverview: october 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 31 Character Slots available.
● Applications are open but the application and reserve cycle will resume with apps closing on November 7th.
● 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: high voltage!

Over the course of the past couple months, something has been changing in the Abandoned City, the part of the Quarantine that was abandoned over a decade ago after the great Epidemic that decimated the population of the sprawling city. It hasn't been independent or spontaneous either - Quarantine resident Ava Orlova has been practicing with her energy production powers outside the city in a way that has had some interesting side effects.

With burst after burst of glowing blue energy surging through a spur of one of the abandoned and neglected transit train lines, something has started stirring. The line was connected to a long-dormant hydro-electric power relay station located near on the river just before it connects to the waterfalls (see the crudely-drawn map here), and with all that power being pumped through the train line and ending up in the station, the backup generators have wheezed to life.

What does this mean for Quarantine residents?

Providing the station can be secured and brought back to full power, it means that the overall electrical grid in the city will be much more reliable, the fences will be more secure, and new methods to try to direct the portal to send mistaken arrivals home can be explored. Most importantly, the part of the Abandoned City surrounding the newly-activated power station will be much easier to tame and inhabit. The possibility of expansion is very important for the Quarantine - with new arrivals coming through the portal almost constantly, overpopulation has been a bit of a concern of late.

With all of this at stake, the Perimeter Guard and the Government of Riverview are teaming up to make sure that this new area gets explored, secured, and made useful in as short a time as possible. Anyone with even an inkling of desire to explore will see ads, fliers, or Perimeter Guard Cadets talking up the exploration mission out to the new power relay station. Head over to the Perimeter Guard Headquarters to receive a free package of exploration equipment courtesy of the Government of Riverview (complete with comfortable camouflage jumpsuit, tactical belts, and a lightweight pack with a survival kit including food, water, first aid, flares, and other similar supplies) and be issued a weapon to follow the train line out to the power station and ensure the route is safe.

prompt ii: standing ground

It isn't just the route to the power station that needs to be cleared - with all the activity and the thrum of energy and light at the station, a swarm of interested monsters and creatures has come toward the area. The exploration team and any techs interested in helping to get the station fully operational will need protection, and the station itself will need to be cleared of all threats and secured so the engineers, electricians, and technical geniuses can safely work on establishing a power grid in the area.

Join in the fray, and back up your fellow explorers to get the area safe, secure, and able to be used!

Almost any type of monster is possible, including monsters featured in previous Test Drives, monsters that players make up on the fly, and even monsters from individual character canons that could have conceivably come through the portal. The fight, however, is totally worth it. Once this area is cleared out, there's going to be a lot more space to move around and a few interesting new locations...

prompt iii: ghosts of october

During the 10th month of every year on the moon, due to a complex series of chemical, electromagnetic, and magical forces that no one has ever exactly distinguished or completely understands, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead are weakened almost to the point of nonexistence. During this time, residents of the moon are able to see and interact with the dead - ghosts, manifesting in ways that run the gamut from being a strange sense of being watched or being visible or audible all the way to more corporeal spirits that can affect the world around them. The barriers are weaker in some parts of the city than they are in others, with some areas experiencing little to no ghost activity, while others are so populated with these ghosts that residents can barely go a few feet without running into one. The ghosts are generally the unsettled dead, people who died violently, or who were lost, seeking a place to call home, and their behavior is as varied as it was while they were alive. Some ghosts are angry and vengeful, some are simply lonely and lost.

While some people tend to interact with the ghosts only a little and as necessary, others avoid them as completely as possible, and yet others actively seek out souls who are suffering and try to ease that so they can stop coming back year after year. There are other people who have found that ghosts from their home worlds have come through with them, following them through the portal when they arrived, even if they did not die on the moon...

Whether facing death or making peace with those who have died, this is a time to reflect.

A Few OOC Guidelines:
● Characters may see or interact with ghosts from the Quarantine's past. These people will be as varied as the NPCs, from a multitude of different worlds, and characters are welcome to either engage or avoid, as players wish.
● Most Quarantine-based ghosts will have died in either the Great War with the neighboring reality or in the Pandemic that wiped out the population of the Abandoned City years ago.
● Characters may also see or interact with ghosts from their own or other characters' canons, providing the character in question is dead in canon and is not currently being played in the game.
● Canon-based ghosts should not be simply transplanted into the game as they were in canon - they are ghosts, and therefore 'not quite right,' and should not be used as an excuse to NPC a canonmate for a month. These ghosts are there to be used as plot devices to open up new avenues of CR, to create angst, to help a character make peace with their past, or other similar reasons.
● Ghosts should not be complete corporeal physical presences indistinguishable from living people, but barring this, how strongly the ghosts manifest and how much they can interact with the world around them is up to player discretion. Ghosts shouldn't be present the whole month straight, but can disappear and reappear at random times.

prompt iv: making memories

Since October 9th, the residents of the Quarantine have been having a stranger-than-usual experience that's been drawing them closer together (or pushing them apart). The machinery in control of the process that's used for canon updates has gone haywire and is releasing nanites that usually function to restructure characters' bodies to match the updated information. The nanites are doing something different, though - they're sharing memories between characters.

Memories can be shared in several forms:

● First Person: This is experiencing another person's memory as if it's your own, seeing through that person's eyes in all its detail. This option wouldn't clearly expose the identity of the person whose memory is being viewed unless the memory includes that information specifically.
● Dreamscape: Mostly happening during dreams or with shared flashes during the day, this is watching the memory as if it were a three-dimensional movie, during which you can meet and talk with the person whose memory is being viewed.
● Network: These are memories shared through the network by accident, either as audio/video uploads or text-based descriptions transcribed to the network. These would be posted with the ID of the person whose memory is being shared.

● It is up to individual player preference how much feelings can be used in the memory, but knowing the other character's thoughts is not permitted.
● All memories must be from your character's canonpoint or earlier.

prompt v: friendr/network

Whether your character is accidentally sharing a memory, 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.

<br><center><table style="width:300px;"><tr style="border-bottom:1px dashed #528887;"><td></td> <td style="padding:20px; padding-bottom:0; width:300px; font:38px Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; text-transform:uppercase; color:#c4c4c4; text-align:center; letter-spacing:2px; background-color:#2a2a2a; border-top-right-radius:50px; border-top-left-radius:50px;"><b>Friendr</b></td> <td></td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size:70px; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right; padding:0; color:#528887;">«</td> <td style="background-color:#2a2a2a; padding:20px; padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:0; width:308px;"><img src="IMAGE URL - 300px WIDE OR LESS" style="border-radius:20px;"><br> </td> <td style="font-size:70px; vertical-align:middle; padding:0; color:#528887;">»</td></tr> <tr><td></td> <td style="background-color:#2a2a2a; font:12px arial; text-align:left; padding:10px;"><span style="color:#c4c4c4;"><b>» Age:</b> your character's age</span> <span style="color:#c4c4c4;"><b>» Seeking:</b> friendship/romantic/anything</span> <span style="color:#c4c4c4;"><b>» Preferences:</b> sexual preference or n/a</span> <span style="color:#c4c4c4;"><b>» Interests:</b> three interests</span> <span style="color:#c4c4c4;"><b>» Bio:</b> 30 words or less</span> </td></tr> <tr><td></td> <td style="text-align:right; font-size:10px; background-color:#2a2a2a;"><font color="#528887">base code by</font> <a href="http://photosynthesis.dreamwidth.org/" style="color:#528887;">photosynthesis</td></tr> <raw-code><tr style="border-bottom:1px dashed #528887;"><td></td> <td style="background-color:#2a2a2a;font:20px Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; color:#c4c4c4; text-align:center;">Character Name</td> <td><td></tr><tr><td></td> <td style="border-bottom-right-radius:50px; border-bottom-left-radius:50px; background-color:#2a2a2a; text-align:center;"><table style="width:100%; font:30px Verdana;"><tr><td style="text-align:left;"> <span style="text-decoration:none; color:#528887;">« ✘</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:none; color:#528887;">✔ »</span></td></tr> </table></td> <td></td></table></raw-code></center>
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

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

navigation
[jungle relay tower by Robin Bouwmeester]

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Poe Dameron | Stah Wahs

[volitaunt]

prompt iv: making memories

First person, network, dreamscape--no matter what the situation, Poe is not thrilled by even the prospect of mental space invaders. So to speak. He's been keeping to himself, trying to avoid the risk of exposing his memories to anyone. He doesn't want anyone in his head. Not again.

Too bad for him, life rarely goes according to plan.

[ a. I CAN FLY ANYTHING. REALLY.
Poe "this is totally fine" Dameron

b. NOBODY LIKES YOU, KYLE
In which Poe gets himself captured like an awesome person and mouths off to his captor like a genius.

c. "Did you ever get scared?"
Nine-year-old Poe asks his father about the Rebellion and gets an answer he'll never stop thinking about. ((cw family death))

d. The best pilot in the Resistance
A reckless flyboy dives through a burning hole to blow shit up.

e. Just getting started
Poe finds out he's lost a pilot, and hands an enemy over to the First Order.

f. I could literally clip bits of the comic and BEFORE THE AWAKENING for ten years okok I am happy to roulette or have you pick something from his available canons. ]


prompt v: friendr

	Friendr
«		»
	» Age: 32 » Seeking: friendship » Preferences: EH » Interests: Starships, droid maintenance, blowing things up. » Bio: Former Navy man from a moon kinda like this one. Wingjockey. Is this how you use this thing. How are you supposed to put enough about yourself for it to
	base code by photosynthesis
	Character Name
	« ✘ ✔ »

prompt vi: wildcard

[ Poe needs clothes. It figures he would be wearing his officer's uniform when this happened. He only put it on to see Rey off, and that only because Black Squadron insisted. He does not like it. It itches. It's uncomfortable. It's boring.

He is a grown adult man, ok.

So yeah. Poe is clothes shopping. Grimly. In his uniform. ]

prompt vi: wildcard 2.0

[HMU with something different!]

wildcard aka emma does what she wants

[defenestratings]

[ idk poe wanders into an arcade just in time to see a small blonde woman shoot a bolt of electricity at the space version of hungry hungry hippos, making it short circuit and spit out tickets like a frat boy throwing dolla dolla bills at a strip club.

elle stoops to collect them as they spill onto the floor like so many piles of streamers. ]

[volitaunt]

[ Elle. Elle no. Poe stares for a few seconds after that little burst of electricity. It's not the weirdest thing he's ever seen, but it's not average, either.

Regardless, she broke the thing. ]

Not sure that's how you play. Just a guess.

[defenestratings]

I got the tickets. [ therefore, successful attempt at hungry hungry hippos. it's not her fault everyone else sucks and can't play like she can. she got the tickets, therefore she won. now she is going to get a prize. ]

[volitaunt]

[ A moment of consideration, then: ] You did get the tickets.

[ He stuffs his hands into his pockets and trails after her, amused by the whole concept of physical tickets to trade for prizes and also kind of thinking that he should keep an eye on the person who freely throws around damaging zappy powers. ]

Friendr

[11calls]

So, did you meant to let the description run on like that? I considered it but my work ethic wouldn't let me get away with it.

i'm sorry for poe dameron dot jpeg

[volitaunt]

I have absolutely no idea what you mean.

it's okay. I play the epitome of the person: no Alex: YES meme

[11calls]

Fair enough. It was just clever enough to earn bonus points. Now I'm attempting to decide if you get mysterious ones too.

[volitaunt]

[ Pls excuse Poe literally laughing out lout at the idea of being mysterious. ]

Definitely not. Why, are you looking for a mystery?

[bastardofipswich]

for it to what?????

THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!!!

[volitaunt]

The galaxy may never know.

[ He just kept saying words until he ran out of space tbqh \8D/ ]

[bastardofipswich]

well you truly are an enigma

[volitaunt]

[ There's a riddle/mystery/etc opportunity here, or perhaps an opportunity to quote Edgar Allen's An Enigma, but unfortunately Poe has never heard of either Winston Churchill or Edgar Allen Poe. Weep, universe, for what we have lost. ]

Intergalactic man of mystery.

I can't even take myself remotely seriously when I say that.

friend

[fatedcontract]

[You have received a reply from user: mementomori.]

Blowing things up, that seems like it could get a little problematic. And contradictory to the whole maintenance thing. At least you'll have a job either way.

[volitaunt]

Well, I don't tend to blow up the things I'm trying to fix. So it works out.

[fatedcontract]

I certainly hope not. As long as it's not on purpose.

[Makoto will have to be careful if his music player ever needs fixed.]

[volitaunt]

Oh, I only ever blow things up on purpose.

[ That is a lie. If you look at his childhood, that is a lie. ]

friendr.

[bythehand]

[ Coming to you live from the username finn, it's Finn. He wasn't made to be a username creator, okay. ]

I know three more things about you than I did a minute ago, so you might be on the right track.

That unfinished question is a little sloppy, though.

un: wingingit

[volitaunt]

[ finn. oh finn. you wonderful human. ]

You knew about the blowing stuff up part.

[ He had to know that part I mean come on. ]

The unfinished question is intentional. It makes me seem MYSTERIOUS.

[ He amuses himself, that's the important thing. ]

[bythehand]

I meant that I never actually thought about your age or where you're from, but you're still right. If I hadn't seen it for myself, I'd still know you're a pilot.

[ Pilots blow shit up. It's their destiny. It's the destiny of most military assignments. But especially pilots. ]

What's your definition of mysterious?

[volitaunt]

Good old Yavin 4.

[ Which he is trying very hard not to miss.

He's also tempted to ask about Finn's age, but would Finn even know? Filed under "things that are potentially upsetting" for later consideration. ]

Filled... with mystery.

[ .....Look he hadn't thought that far ok. ]

Friendr

[talentedscavenger]

'EH'? That's all you're going to put down?

pls excuse lack of formatting on phone

[volitaunt]

Seems rude to have preferences about people. Besides, you didn’t put anything!

no worries, really hoping your app gets accepted. :D

[talentedscavenger]

Seems rude to have simply put 'eh' like you don't care.

I didn't know what to put! Besides, why should it matter?

ME TOO ....obviously kjsdfd. I may or may not have been doing the creep on SW threads

[volitaunt]

Ok, ok. I'll put something. Even if it's nothing. Better?

Don't ask me. People get funny about that kind of thing around here, I guess.