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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!
Friendr
pls excuse lack of formatting on phone
no worries, really hoping your app gets accepted. :D
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
Don't ask me. People get funny about that kind of thing around here, I guess.
xD They will need all the catch up times
What do you mean by 'funny'? Like...I'm actually looking for a specific type of person or? [Cause that sounds weird....just weird.]
gently places face on desk, resists apologizing for this idiot
[ Shaking his head bc okay sure he gets being attracted to certain things but people seem to get real specific about genders. Then again he's used to being surrounded by like five genders at minimum?? Maybe this place is just weird. He'll go with that. ]
I don't understand how anyone can turn down my sparkling wit.
[ No. ]
LMAO
[Unless they are talking about genders in which case Rey would shrug her shoulders. She hasn't really explored that side of herself because she's had to survive for so long that finding romance or anything like it took a backseat.
And that's completely forgotten about in favor of chuckling at the text on her screen.]
I thought you were more grounded than that. But, you didn't start off with your looks, so maybe you are a bit humble.
[Bantering is fun, something she's missed greatly. Also, enjoying her un? scavenger.rey, really unique.]
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Pilot. "Grounded" is the boogeyman.
[ That isn't what she meant you-- ]
Rey! Are you calling me pretty?
[ N o . ]
...I'm dying. Just dying.
You knew what I meant! Grounded, humble, almost the same thing!
[But being grounded to a pilot wasn't fun. She does miss flying so, so much.
Wait...what?
not!flirting cause wat?]No? But some people start off by stating they're cute or they're handsome, or just discussing their looks.
Do you want me to tell you you're pretty? I could, but I didn't think you want your ego stroked.
i'm sorry i'm so sorry dot gif
And definitely not thinking about how much he already misses being in the air!!!]
No, please don't, my delicate heart couldn't take it.
Love this...love this so much.
Oh? Don't tell me you're going to faint. I thought one of the best pilots in the Resistance was better than that.
But fine, you are pretty.
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[ This is what Poe would answer with if he had any idea it existed, but since he doesn't: ]
It's the helmet hair.
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Helmet hair? Is that the secret to how pretty you are?
[Oh she's having a wonderful laugh at this, it's been so long since they talked. She's missed him so much.]
Here I thought it was your smile. [Don't read into that, she's really giving him a compliment.]
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[ Don't worry, Rey, he won't read into it--even if she weren't too young for him, he's married to the Resistance. ]
Sweat is the best hairstylist.
[ Slightly more seriously: ] The smile is my dad's.
Maybe you can meet him when this is all over. He'd like you.
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[Who can really think of marriage in a time like this? Or dating..or anything really.]
Uh-huh. I think there would be a few people here that would disagree with you on that.
[She pauses for a moment, reading his words...] It would be an honor to meet him. I don't know if he'd like me, he hasn't met me yet.
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But if we're talking about being right, I know him, and I like you. I think it's a good guess.
[ Kes gets along with like everyone. In the nature/nurture equation, Poe's friendliness is as much learned as inherited. ]
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If you say so. It’ll still be an honor to meet him.
[ She thinks for a moment, wondering if it’s okay to ask...]
Your parents...did they meet prior to the Rebellion?
headcanon wheeee
Before, yeah. Knew each other since they were kids.
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That’s impressive. I can’t imagine many people finding their spouse so early in life.
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[ Which is part of why Poe doesn't want a significant other. The fear of losing them and the fear of being lost to them is a distraction he doesn't need. Losing his mother, seeing the effect it had on his dad--no. Maybe someday, but not now. ]
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[ It was a nice thought, but a scary one too. To imagine your life without that person. To have found them only to lose them because of one bad call or misstep. His parents were brave in that respect. Risking everything, including each other...she wasn’t sure if she would be able to do that. ]
I don’t know if I would’ve been able to do that.
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[ He has his pilots. He has the General. The Resistance is his family, his place to come home to. And he has his dad, safe on Yavin 4. (Safe now that Starkiller is gone, at least. Safe unless the First Order has another system-killer secreted away somewhere like Empire, but that's something to be dealt with if and when it happens.) ]
It's good to have people, though. Wars don't get won alone.
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[Or a special someone? She wasn't trying to pry, she was just curious. He had his friends, Finn and her included, but was that enough? Or maybe..he'd find someone here. She'd want the best for him, and would want him to be happy.]
No, they don't. It's hard to think about the war ending though. I'm sure the General thought that with the end of the Empire, there wouldn't be another war for decades...
[And look where they are now.]
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[ Not the same thing, exactly, but it's the truth.
The second part takes longer for him to reply to, because it brings back that memory so clearly. The ranch, his father, That it was all for nothing; standing across the desk from Deso and trying to make the Major understand. It's going to happen again. Suddenly, he wishes this conversation was happening in person. ]
We'll end it.
[ There's no room in his mind for doubt. ]
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[Because they have to. They have to bring an end to this once and for all. The First Order will be brought down...And part of her, through no fault of her own, feels guilty that she's here. She isn't there searching for Luke, training with him...and doing more.
Maybe they should have this conversation in person..]
I'm almost done here...did you want to meet up? Talk in person?
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