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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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Well, then. Fortunately for both of us, we have plenty of time on our hands.
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Why can't I feel you?
[The question is almost plaintive, all but pleading for an explanation, something that would make this easier to deal with.]
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What is there to feel?
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I was made by Freyja. [Remade, reborn, the semantics don't matter.] Everything I am comes from my gods.
[So she should be able to tell with more certainty than she has right now.]
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I am not your god.
[ It is kindness he attempts to give. He hates the taste of it, even now. ]
I cannot look into your deeds and run the sky with you. But I am Loki, for whatever end that may mean.
[ At the very least, he's learned to own up to that. ]
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Kara hasn't known any kind of gentleness for centuries, and that's what stops her from reaching out no matter how much she wants to.]
Loki.
[It sounds like a prayer, the way she says that name, one she hasn't said for a long time. The only god she was close to was Freyja, but that doesn't mean she had any less reverence for the rest, regardless of their deeds.]
How are you here?
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The portal does not discriminate between mortals and gods. Thor and I have been here for some time now.
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Kara stares at Loki for a long moment, too caught off guard to be ashamed about it, and she only finally drags her gaze away so she can wave at the bartender.]
Whiskey. Leave the bottle.
[It won't be enough to get her drunk, but maybe it'll take the edge off.]
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What made you lose your way?
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Asgard closed it's gates. I was young and foolish and chose Midgard.
[The appropriate thing to do would be to pour the whiskey into the glass, but Kara drinks straight from the bottle.]
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We were all young once.
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I did not think it would last, but the men abandoned their gods.
[Her speech is already slipping into something more formal, losing the roughness she's adopted in the past centuries.]
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Men are often quick to abandon things when it suits them.
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I-- [She doesn't know what to say, Kara presses a hand to her face before she reclaims the bottle and takes another long drink. She feels so young and so, so old, all at once.] Are you well, Loki?
[It's a clumsy question, as if she has any right to ask after a god's well being, but she doesn't know. She doesn't know if they're alright.]
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He didn't like it. That the connection was so tenuous, but also so treasured. That he is now Loki of Asgard after every attempt to prove otherwise. It feels like a chain around his neck, far greater than the ones his father ever put on him. He'd take back that muzzle. But perhaps Loki is not meant to be cruel, so he feels no need to engage in cruelty. He is the God of Mischief. ]
I am alive.
[ His grin isn't warm but it is not cold either, gleaming around the edges like tarnished gold. ]
I have learned not to take that for granted.
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Kara does not smile, not often, and not when her carefully constructed facades feel as though they're crumbling beneath her, but her expression is soft and open in a way it never is. She didn't expect any real kind of honesty from Loki; the gods are hardly conceited, but Kara knows her importance compared to them. She never doubted Freyja's love, but it was not a love between equals.]
That lesson is yet to take.
[She can repay his honesty with her own.
Kara has been searching for death for a long time.]
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It is a rather lengthy lesson.
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[To give him an idea of how long it's been for her since Asgard closed it's gates, for how long she's been alone. She knows it's nothing compared to how long the gods have been around, but... still.]
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You know it doesn't work that way.
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I should go, you surely have important matters to attend to.
[She feels like a child and she hates it, she hates how much she wants to stay despite the fact her tongue is heavy in her mouth with indecision over how to even speak to him. What does she say to a god she's missed for a thousand years?]
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Stay.
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But there's nothing she'd deny him, not even her presence, not even her trembling hands.]
I'm-- [I'm sorry, she wants to say, an apology for the way she is right now and for everything she's ever done. But apologizing is too close to asking something of him and she can't do that, not yet. Instead, she offers an explanation:] It has been a long time.
[She'll do better, she has to do better, but right now she's overwhelmed.]
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[ Though he's sure that Valkyrie would adore her. Or understand. Loki only grasps a tiny part of it. Gently, Loki withdraws his hand. ]
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There is something desperate in her voice when she asks:]
Where are my sisters?
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Dead. They fought the Queen of Hel and lost.
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