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quaranmeme2017-11-20 06:55 pm
riverview: november 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 22 Character Slots available.
● Reserves are Open. Applications will be open from December 1st until December 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.
● 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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After the reawakening of a hydroelectric power relay station in the Abandoned City last month, due to the power surges sent through it by a resident, there have been multiple scouting parties out to the station to try to get it permanently up and running. Getting this set up would really help with making the power grid more stable and would be a solid first step toward expanding the size of the livable city. The only problem? The path along the transit spur is still not properly secured, and any trip out to the station is liable to draw animal attacks from the surrounding overgrown buildings.
Each team that has headed out to help get the station up and running has had ample bodyguards and fighters to protect the techs, but those kinds of expeditions aren't exactly sustainable. This month's focus is on setting a temporary but solid perimeter fence around the length of the spur line to allow for regular transit trips out to the power station. Anyone who volunteers will join one of the small teams that will clear the area around the track, or will follow a clearing team with a small hover-sled that carries 10 posts. Once the each post is set up (through being driven into the ground or attached to a tree trunk or other structure), a force shield and line of laser beams will engage between the newest post and the one before it, allowing the teams to slowly erect a zone of relative safety for anyone who wants to travel along the spur line.
Have your character start up a team or join an existing one and help get things moving toward expansion of the city! This mission will be assumed to be completed as of December's Test Drive Meme.
It isn't just security that's needed along the tram spur line - the whole thing needs to be activated and made to work so it's a quick and easy train ride from the Inhabited City to the power station. That means that the tracks and tram cars need to be repaired and the whole thing needs to be cleared of debris and plant life. It also means that supplies will need to be run along the spur line to aid anyone working on the repair.
Whether your character has some kind of technical, mechanical, or construction expertise that would allow them to help with repairs, is a fighter that can help protect teams on the semi-secure train line, or is just willing to help cart hover-sleds of supplies along the tram line for the teams, every little bit helps!
The upcoming holiday in December is called Hygge and it is a celebration of familial love and found family. Characterized by meals with family, time spent together, and cuddling up around bonfires with found family, it's very focused on a close-knit group that already exists.
But what about the newcomers? People who've only arrived this month or last month and haven't had a chance to put down roots and make those connections? It certainly isn't fair for them to be completely left out!
To deal with this problem, the Government of Riverview is hosting it's annual "More Alike Than Different" convention, an event where anyone who hasn't had a chance to develop a warm, comfortable circle of found family or close friends to celebrate Hygge with can come and find people who may be like-minded, share problems or interests. The convention lasts from November 20th until Hygge begins on December 1st, and features an open space full of cozy half-circle couches where people can settle in and create a sign or other indication of the shared experience being discussed there. This is a quick and easy way to find groups of people that you have things in common with, for better or worse!
How It Works:
● This prompt works in a slightly unusual way, and will happen in the prompt iii sub-thread. Players can post an OTA top-level for each individual character but use this sub-thread for prompt iii specifically.
● This sub-thread will work similarly to the Bakerstreet "Support Group" meme, where a player can post a blank top-level under the sub-thread with something about a character that they might have in common with other characters. Then they can post up a conversation starter with their character that other characters with similar experiences can join in on.
● The subject of the top-level can be traits, life experiences, interests, or anything else broad enough to encompass more than one character. Examples: "Underappreciated Geniuses," "Troubled Mech Pilots," or "People Who Love Pets More Than People." The mod account will post a couple of generalized top-levels to get the ball rolling and spark some ideas.
With the increase in rainfall in the Quarantine lately and the dropping temperatures, a bit of trouble has been brewing with some new delivery drones used by an online shopping conglomerate in the city. The drones have been malfunctioning due to leaks in their outer core, and have been functioning in a way they're not quite supposed to.
Instead of picking up items from the depot and dropping them off to the intended recipients, the drones have, instead, been taking items from random places - whether it's stolen directly off of a casually shopping resident in the marketplace or taken from an open window or a house balcony, things are going missing all around the city. And where are they ending up? Well...anywhere that's been delivered to by the online shopping conglomerate in the past year, which means pretty much anywhere!
Whether your character is losing a personal item to a rogue drone and chasing it down, or finding an item that might belong to someone else, just include a note for anyone who might like to lose or find the item, and see what kind of random new friends can be made while returning the items to their rightful owners!
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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That's a good call, apparently, because a few seconds later a handful of dog sized creatures leap out, looking like something between a lizard and an octopus, which isn't a great mental image.
Kara fires off a shot, but the energy pulse from the rifle seems to ripple over the creature without doing any damage, so there goes that plan.]
I got the two on the left.
[She drops the gun with little ceremony, before drawing her sword and leaping towards the creatures.]
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[With that, he charges forward with little abandon. The creatures are fast, but so is Shouji. He grabs onto the first with three of his arms - and once he's got a grip on something, there are very few things that can break free.
The bizarre critter thrashes its weird clammy body against him, but he has it held tightly in such a way that it can't bite him with its equally weird, beak-like mouth.
And now he turns to face his second creature, with the first tucked under his left side like a child throwing a temper tantrum.]
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The blade slices through the first, then the second and they both drop to the ground in pieces. Kara's barely broken a sweat.]
Need a hand?
[ha ha]
1/2
Shouji pays her no mind as he waits for the second monster to lunge at him - at which point he just grabs that one too.
Admittedly, this time it's a bit more of a struggle, but he manages to get this one grasped in his three remaining arms with only a few scratches.]
No.
[If Kara is paying attention, she'll notice that he isn't speaking with his mouth. Rather, his arms have sprouted some kind of weird nubby offshoot with a mouth on it. It doesn't look great.]
2/2
...maybe.
[His fighting style is really better for restraining foes, or knocking out criminals with a well-placed punch.
He doesn't really have any real weapons (or the prerequisite bloodlust) to go around killing animals with.]
I could crush them like this, but that doesn't feel very sporting.
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Hold still.
[And she's just gonna - slide the sword into each creature one at a time, careful not to hit Armageddon over here.]
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The job is done quickly enough and ass soon as the sword is removed from each creature's still body, he drops it unceremoniously to the ground.]
Gross.
[Well, that's over with. He takes a moment to wipe the monster blood off his arms and looks back to the swordswoman.]
Thank you, though.
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You have a mouth on your arm.
[So gross is a bit rich, coming from him.]
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[That's not all, though. One of the hands on his left side, shifts into an eye and extends outward, glancing in the direction that the creatures had initially come from - without breaking eye contact with her using the ones on his face.
He gets, logically speaking, why someone might think that his abilities are a little unnerving, but he decided a long time ago that he wasn't going to be ashamed of his abilities. So he's just going to ignore what she's implying, for the time being.]
I don't think I got your name, miss...?
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Kara. Just Kara.
[Miss doesn't suit her.]
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When Kara introduces gives her name, he nods and commits it to memory. He then extends an arm (with a hand on it, this time) for her to shake.]
Mezou Shouji.
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What the fuck are you?
[Obviously not human.]
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Human.
[He wishes he was more surprised by the question, but it's been made very clear to him that most places don't have heteromorphous type humans.]
Where I come from, most humans are born with some sort of power or ability. This is mine.
[He gestures down at himself. Some people get heat vision, he got a bunch of arms. It's very much a luck of the draw situation.]
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So like, human but fucked up?
[She isn't even actively trying to be rude, it's just her default state.]
Not magic?
[Just to clarify, because she knows human witches, but this doesn't seem like that.]
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Human, but... different. Not magic. Not fucked up , just different.
[Admittedly, his quirk isn't the least upsetting thing to look at, but it's not the most upsetting one either.]
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And your thing is arms?
[This is a practical question, they need to start moving again and she wants to know just what he can do, if they run into more trouble.]
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...yes, my thing is arms.
[As he says so, two of those arms point at Kara - with the tip of one shifting into a large eyeball, and the other shifting into an ear.]
I can grow additional body parts at the end of each arm, and use them to sense things better than the average person. I'm also very strong.
[What he doesn't say is that he can duplicate them exponentially - and that 'body parts' includes other arms. In a fight, it's difficult to stay out of his reach.]
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[That 'very strong' could mean a whole lot of things, but he did seem to handle those creatures relatively well, so she's... amendable with the situation.]
Let's keep moving, sooner we're done the sooner we can go back to the city.