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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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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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Shaking, bloody hands drop money onto the bar before she stumbles her way to the door and out, and no matter how much she wants to blame it on the alcohol she knows that isn't the case.
She doesn't look to see if Loki followed her. She feels sick at the prospect of having walked away from him, but the idea of anyone else in that bar witnessing the tears in her eyes was so much worse.]
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But he follows, a few steps behind. ]
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She wants to scream and cry and hit something, but instead she presses her back against the wall and stares at the sky. When she finally looks back to Loki, there's pain written across her face and tears in her eyes and she hates being this weak.]
I wish you had lied.
[It would have been better.]
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Some events do not deserve a falsehood.
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I should not have left.
[It was a stupid choice made by someone who was barely more than a child and Kara has borne it for a thousand years. She wonders if she'll ever stop having to bear it.]
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[ Which doesn't make it better, but at the very least, it means Kara is not the last. Which is a terrible title to bear. ]
I suspect she would be happy to know of your existence, though she may not show it.
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[It doesn't matter, really, it's not as though she loved any of her sisters more than the others, but it matters in that she needs to know, needs to have something solid to hold onto beyond just knowing there's one more.]
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[ Which may or may not mean something. Loki only knows them through song and blood-soaked memory. ]
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She can't talk about this anymore, not without crumbling.]
They gave me work, here, but I know who I serve.
[Loki. Thor. If they'll have her.]
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Do the work if you feel it suits you. No doubt Thor will summon you when necessary.
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Work is work.
[There's not much she hasn't done.]
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There is a place for the Valkyrie among us.
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If you're sure, I do not need to impose.
[She's used to be alone. It would be hard, but she could do it.]
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[ And his voice does not waver. Neither Loki or Thor are in a position to reject anyone. ]
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Thank you.
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If you have no need of me right now...
[She needs to do something, to scream or cry or fight or fuck, literally anything that doesn't involve feeling. But she can't find the words to admit that weakness.]
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You are dismissed.
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And then she unfurls her wings, taking to the sky with ease.]
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