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quaranmeme2017-10-20 08:26 pm
riverview: october 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 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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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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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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[ His dramatic flourish comes to a halt once Chibita speaks again. Was he really not imagining this? The Quarantine brought him too? A lengthy pause is exchanged as he merely stares at Chibita with his mouth slightly open.
And then, tears begin to prick the corners of his eyes as he makes a loud proclamation: ]
Ah! You do not understand! I have missed........ your oden so much!
[ And you too. ]
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Of course ya have! My oden's the best there is, ain't it? [he huffs, standing straight again, folding his arms, frowning briefly in contemplation] Up until now, you've probably had to put up with sub-par oden 'r somethin', huh? Keh! [Chibita glances up at Karamatsu again, a confident grin working its way back onto his face] Don'cha worry, Karaboy--[and so saying, he's grabbing a skewer and twirling it with a bit of practiced flourish]--we'll fix ya right up! [with that, he'll start skewering a couple choice pieces of konjak and radish and fishcake and popping them into the broth to heat]
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[ Karamatsu plops down and takes a seat, not realizing how hungry he looks. Can you blame him, though? He's so used to eating this stuff, anything else is lackluster.. and that's what he has been eating-- lackluster oden from people who aren't as passionate about it as Chibita is. It was kind of ridiculous, but at least it paid off.
And, well-- he's pretty happy to see Chibita too. Their friendship started off really weird, but Karamatsu has come to realize that Chibita is actually pretty nice-- he let him live with him for awhile! ]
Heh. It has been entirely too long.. I am certain you have missed seeing me sit across from you here!
[ there he goes.. assuming things.. ]
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Eh? [he blinks at him, unable to help the slightly confused tilt of his head.] Ya mean in the past eight hours or what? [lol the last time he can remember seeing you is when you left the apartment for a job interview this morning before this whole 'new place quarantine' thing]
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Ah.. I'd say about eight months instead. I am nearly dead from not eating your oden in so long! You have got to fix this before I perish from this world!
[ Draaaamatic. ]
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So though Chibita can't help but wince a little with embarrassment, there's also something inexplicably fond in the way he simply says:] Gross.
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Speaking of, though, he apparently has a dying NEET to feed. So, right, he'll just turn his attention back to Karamatsu as he reaches to pluck a couple of skewers out of the dashi with some choice bits of oden that Chibita's aware he's is particularly fond of]
You'll "perish," eh? [the corner of his mouth quirks into a smirk as he leans forward, placing the plate with three skewers down in front of his significantly more solid visitor.] Can't have that! Eat up, ya idjit.
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Chibita, though.. somehow through time he had looked past all of those awful childhood times when his brothers would bully him, past all the times they didn't pay their tab, and accepted him into his apartment when he needed it the most. Chibita was one of the few people Karamatsu could call an honest friend.
His eyes brighten when the oden is presented to him and he takes no hesitation into chowing down, speaking through his full mouth. ]
Oi, Chibita. It is good to see you, but did I disrupt your date?
[ GESTURING TO THE FAIRY GHOST. Does he realize it's a ghost!? Probably not. ]
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[there's a pang in his chest when he says it, and his expression falters into something sadder. People come and people go and that's life but...somehow that doesn't make it hurt any less.]
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Ah, do not give up hope. You have to cast your line-- cast your line of love towards the desperate hearts of thousand of ladies! Reel them in with the strength of your charm and good looks!
BE A FISHERMAN OF LOVE!
[ Time for him to pep talk you he guesses. ]
Heh, I could teach you how if you ask!
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A fisherman of love? Definitely not.
[However, at that offer of tutelage, he can't help but arch an eyebrow, though] You sayin' you've had a lotta dates 'r somethin'? 'Cause last I checked, that wasn't the case.
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[ By now, he has stood up, speaking loudly with his encouragement. There's a silence that passes before Karamatsu sits back down, raking a hand through his hair with a smirk on his face. ]
Heh. I have. In the total amount of my absence I have had.. a total of..
[ wait for it.. ]
Two dates! There are many more, but Fate-- Fate is teaching me patience, you see. These people.. who admire me. They must all be too shy to ask me out, haha!
[ what people... ]
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The second.. I had a date here! An app set us up and I left the scene with only a black eye. Only a black eye! The best news: we have spoken sense then!
[ He's so.. optimistic. ]
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'N did she give ya another black eye?
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A-hem, well, no. I got out of there.. with just one black eye! I would say that is a success, non? I believe.. there shall be no more black eyes between us anymore!
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Eh? I guess that's kinda a success...[for a Matsuno. Chibita folds his arms over his chest and tilts his head slightly, studying Karamatsu across the oden.] ....did somethin' else happen? I mean, s'good that she won't give ya any more black eyes, but...s'that because she asked ya not t'see her again? Or somethin' else?
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Please, do not keep begging! I am not gay!
[ he is not.. begging..? and WOW DEFENSIVE?? What the heck? ]
Chibita, you know I would not hide anything from you! Ah, I am hurt that you would assume such a thing!
[ ???? ]
However.. perhaps in private company.. I can explain a few things.. minor things, nothing-important-things you may need to know.
[ and then muttered: That have nothing to do with my sexuality whatsoever. ]
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There's part of him that's still a bit
hurtticked off that Karamatsu would think to hide something from him. They've known each other long enough; it shouldn't be a matter of trust, should it?]no subject
[the request gets a nod in reply but before she does leave...Karamatsu will find a ghostly hand patting his arm as she smiles up at him, comfortingly, before turning and hopping down off the bench, wandering off to give them some space. It's then that Chibita lets out a sigh, leaning in to select a couple more skewers from the broth and put them on a new plate, stepping down from his box behind the counter and coming around to the front. He leans in to place the new plate in front of Karamatsu before inviting himself up onto the bench, settling in next to him. Once settled, he turns towards Karamatsu, propping his chin up on his hand and arching an eyebrow.] Alright, Karaboy. What's eatin' ya?
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He gestures in her direction, finally surprised by her presence (and now absence?) ]
EEEH!? What!? Ehh!?
2.3, i lied
He's been through a lot. He arrived in space without much explanation or reasoning— he discovered the dismantled body of a passenger-- her organs and insides spewed and stretched out over the atrium branches and trees like a birthday party streamer. There was a power outage-- there was something aboard the ship who was eating passengers and killing them. He went to an alien planet that altered his behavior-- one place made him even more lustful, another place made him more aggressive.
He killed someone to survive.
And when things got bad back on the Eluvio, he found himself here with some company he knew, but now they're gone. Honestly, Karamatsu is still confused about mostly everything and there's a myriad of lingering emotions he has pent up within himself that he refuses to display.. except when he becomes really vulnerable.
Chibita probably notices the silence, the way his lips curve downward in a frown-- there is possibly some mist in his eyes because he doesn't want to disappoint Chibita by hiding all of this information, but all of this information is pretty traumatizing for a NEET who hasn't any kind of true combat experience.
Though now, he is beginning to notice his face is losing it's mask, and so-- ]
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[ He's telling the truth at least! Sort of. ]
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i'm sorry this is gross he should never talk
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100% SURE I'M DYING 1/2
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2/3 i lied oops
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gdu tagging me right as i'm going to bed ONE MORE TAG