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quaranmeme2017-12-18 08:58 pm
riverview: december 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 13 Character Slots available.
● Reserves are Open. Applications will be open from January 1st until January 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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Going into the last week of December, the city experiences an abrupt and unexpected dump of snow - several feet of it, in fact. Usually, it wouldn't be a big deal, since most people and most exploration teams could just hole up and ride out the storm and snowdrifts. And that's what most of the city is doing.
Unfortunately, this is the week that some of the Perimeter Guard Cadets have decided to go on their Winter Expedition - a sort of camping trip slash exploration expedition into the Abandoned City just outside the walls of the Inner City. While the goal wasn't to get too far away from the walls, with the snow starting up in force, the groups of Cadets have gotten turned around in the inclement weather and are stuck outside the walls, unable to return to the safety of the Inner City.
A general call has gone out to anyone willing to brave the snow and storm to rescue groups of Cadets between the ages of 12 and 17 who are trapped outside the walls in their camps.
During the last half of December, residents might start noticing the appearance of cute, trilling little birds with soulful eyes (very mild spoilers for the most recent Star Wars movie in the link) throughout the Quarantine. Perched on tree branches or the corners of awnings and eaves, they will keep multiplying in number until December 20th, when a positive swarm of them will come through the portal.
Welcome to the Quarantine, Porgs!
These little lovable birds (spoiler-free image) will be settling in to roost just about anywhere you can think of. Outside your window, inside your kitchen on top of your fridge, under your bed, or anywhere else. Whether residents consider them a nuisance or a potential new pet, they're bound to cause a stir. The Porgs will be out and about in the city until the end of December, when most of them will find their way back through the portal to whichever world they came from, though a little colony of them will remain in the City from now on. Porgs will be added along with domestic foxes and Pokémon as creatures that can be found or caught in the city as pets without the use of AP!
Some residents may remember that back in September, a love-drunk and confusion-spell-addled newlywed mage from Gramarye Magic Research let loose some pretty little fairy lights that trapped people in the city in little invisible bubbles until they kissed (and any kind of kiss would do). Well, the same slightly-less-newlywed but no less romantically-inclined mage happens to really, really enjoy the winter season, and thinks it's totally romantic. That particular sentiment is pretty common in the Quarantine - while Hygge is the celebration of familial love, the residents of the Quarantine all agree that that family often includes partners and lovers. Besides that, the folklore of mistletoe as being representative of love and friendship is something that the Quarantine has in common with the universes many residents inhabit.
So, as the last week and a half of December rolls around, residents around the Quarantine will see the result of the resident romantic trying to share a bit of Hygge love - small, glowing sprigs of mistletoe will be floating around the Quarantine, ready to trap people up and make them share a bit of affection. But how does it work?
Two or more characters walking under one of these glowing, floating sprigs will get stuck for one hour, trapped inside an invisible enclosure with an approximate three foot radius. The only options are to either wait out the hour, or to kiss! Characters will know they're meant to kiss, because part of the magic spell is the sudden and intense knowledge that they should kiss in order to break free. There is no compulsion to kiss, just the knowledge that that's how to get free. This time, instead of any kind of kiss working, there will be different types of kisses that will work to release the trapped residents depending on the color of mistleglow:
GREEN: FOREHEAD ● BLUE: HAND ● VIOLET: BUTTERFLY
Trapped residents will not know what kind of kiss will work for each color and may have to experiment before finding the right one.
Remember those Hygge Cabins that the City set up all along the banks of the river? Little cabins with enough space for a small kitchen, a table to eat at, and a lounge area in front of a fireplace, meant to be shared in celebration of familial love and found family during Hygge? Well, the sudden onslaught of snow that trapped the Cadets outside the city are also serving to isolate people who are in and around the cabins.
With the river nearby, the heightened humidity in the area of the beaches where the cabins are set up, the snowfall is even heavier than it is throughout the rest of the city. Anyone who's down by the water will find themselves quickly driven out of the open and into one of these cabins, whether it's inhabited or not! Whether these weather refugees are sharing a cabin by choice, after having a lovely dinner together, or unwillingly, in the form of an intruder on someone else's holiday or by being driven into the same cabin with a stranger, they're going to be snowed in for a while!
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!
polaris | the gifted
[ Mutants are old news to Lorna. But weird animals she's never seen before? OK, she's a little intrigued. She's been keeping an idle eye on the flocks of them here and there through the city. Judging by the commotion, they're not local wildlife.
Having finished her lunch an hour ago, Lorna is just trying to live her life and figure out what's going on. Only the porg she fed half her bagel to under the table is following her. Has been following her. For like two miles, now. Every now and then, she'll stop to try and scare it off. ]
All right, go on. Get outta here. I'm out of food.
[ Scaring it off? Not working great. She shoos, but the porg just stares up at her with its big, unblinking eyes. Lorna does a little back-and-forth pace on the sidewalk. ]
I can't look after you. I don't even know where we are.
iii. mistleglow
[ Running the Mutant Underground and training people to use their powers means sometimes you get whammied. Lorna gets this, has accepted it as part of the job. So she's not put off by the glowing sprigs of mistletoe. Maybe the act of another mutant, nearby? Of course, all that wonder and hope dissipates the moment she's trapped underneath one of the little suckers.
Cornered animals get mad, and Lorna's no different. She'll round on the person nearest to her. ]
Uh-uh. [ Holding up her hand in the universal gesture for no way. She's filled with the overwhelming urge to kiss this person and she knows it's not her. Something's influencing her. ] Are they serious?
iv. snowed in
[ Not a fan of the cold, Lorna was by the river when it started to snow. She just wanted to get the lay of the land, but now she's holed up alone in what looks like something straight out of a Hallmark catalogue. Without Marcos around to keep her warm, she's diligently started a fire, then promptly buried herself in the pillows and blankets set out in the lounging area.
Every now and then she gets up to check the windows and see if it's worth making a run for it. And every time the answer's the same or worse: she's stuck here for awhile. Better hunker down.
Exiting her tangled nest in front of the warm hearth for sustenance, Lorna can be found heating canned soup on the stove, wrapped in a blanket and muttering about her situation. Also, the soup's stirring itself, her hand braced above the spoon and a green glow swirling around them both. ]
v. network; @polaris
[ Uncomfortable with the video function, Lorna nevertheless appears onscreen. There's a porg on her shoulder. ]
What the hell is this? [ She angles the camera and points at it, just for emphasis. ] And how do I make it leave me alone?
[ Seemingly unaware of its new friend's agitation, the porg blinks placidly into the camera, then lets out an enormous yawn, fluttering its little wings. ]
v. friendr
» Seeking: mutants
» Preferences: n/a
» Interests: tbd.
» Bio: humanity's great leap forward.
( friendr )
no subject
[ Most. She’s growing! ]
no subject
no subject
yeah. i thought it was worth a shot.
no subject
no subject
in my experience there’s always another surprise
are you gonna make me ask?
no subject
But in case you're not-asking what I think you're not-asking, I am in fact also a mutant. Hey.
no subject
hi
i’m lorna
[ She really needs a second person here to do the whole small talk thing. Didn’t think through what she’d do if she met any mutants through this app. ]
are you in the community housing whatever?
no subject
David. Nice to meet you.
Unfortunately for the time being, though my first priority right now is finding other options. It's one thing to trust my control around a bunch of other mutants who know what the deal is, but I'm not so confident around humans + etc.
What about you?
no subject
the place i was living in back home was actually a lot like this
except more mutants
[ Lorna has a good lock on her powers and doesn't really care about human safety right now, but the point is generally the same. ]
i'll come with if you're going apt hunting
no subject
You weren't at Summerland, were you?
Thanks, the company would be great.
There's at least three of us, maybe more?
Might be good if we're all kind of within reach of one another. [ just in case is what he doesn't say. ]
no subject
i run the mutant underground out of atlanta
[ She’s weirdly got a good impression of this David guy. Weirdly because Lorna’s not usually a people person. Well, it’s at least partly having another mutant around. It’s familiar, like the hum of electromagnetic waves in the air again, after losing her powers to that shock collar. But his implication isn’t lost on her, and she sobers right up. ]
strucker’s with me
[ If that’s who he talked to. Faintly protective. ]
she’s a kid
no subject
[ which he's willing to tell, even if it's embarrassing, but again-- it really is kind of a long story, and he'd rather not do it over text.
strucker, huh? ]
Want to see if she wants to come out with us?
no subject
[ As in, it's a given that she's interested and she wants to know and that he will tell her, so she'll skip past that part. Lorna loves origin stories. Even the horrible ones exist as cornerstones to the people these mutants become. ]
yeah i do
no guarantees but safety in numbers, right?
[ Might as well come out and say it if they're all going to be living together. ]
no subject
Definitely. Plus, honestly? Not really sure how to live alone anymore at this point.
no subject
i'll be there
might as well see what we can all do
[ Her first impression of David is actually A++ but would she really be Magneto's daughter if she expressed that sentiment right off the bat? Nah. ]
you don't like the quiet.
noted.
no subject
I'll send you somewhere we can meet up, and you can grab Strucker?
no subject
i'll see you soon/around, david.
i wanna see what you can do.
iii
[Clara tips her head to look up above them and frowns. This whole thing has the potential to go terribly.]
How long do you thing it'd take before we managed to just force our way free?
no subject
[ There's a hint of anxiety in her shrug, like that's a total guess and she still doesn't know how long they'd have to wait here. ]
Hell of a welcome party.
no subject
[At least the company seems nice, and is pleasant to look at in close quarters. The idea of waiting it out isn't awful, but Clara's sense of getting things done make her reluctant to agree to that plan right away.]
Last planet I ended up trapped like this, I ended tied up in the desert because they thought I was a witch.
no subject
[ That's not where she was expecting this conversation to go. There's a faint quirk to her mouth as her interest ticks up a notch. Touche, human. (Human(?)) which is even better, really. ]
I guess telling you to 'think warm thoughts' isn't gonna help then, huh? Here I thought things were bad in Atlanta.
[ Playing it super cool but in the way where she lowkey needs to hear the whole story. ]
[Test Drive] Relentless | Original
Cold weather and snow wasn't as bad it was for this woman. But when it started to go from heavy snow to Blizzard conditions finally drove her to one of those cabins that was nearby. The sound of a fist slamming on the door before it suddenly snapped open and Relentless was revealed.
She wasn't the tallest of women at 152 centimeters but that wasn't what would catch the eye about her. The fact that her skin was pale to the point of being gray with a bluish tint with shock white hair was odd but the fact it took her a bit to get through the doorway with the blizzard raging outside. The fact that when she turned around to shut the door a massive of tail around three meters long followed into the house. Of course, this is where the problem begins. That tail itself doesn't end with a tip. It ends with a monstrous head, which looked like the cross between a ship's bow and some sort of monster. Massive teeth hinted that this could chomp down but the gun turrets mounted atop the head and to the sides just added to the fact that this wasn't a woman but some sort of monster!
Relentless turned around as the Abyssal kept big smile on her face, her teeth are too sharp. She walked in and looked for place to lie down, "This sucks. Why did I agree to not fire here? I could have just blasted a hole in the ice and been under there going fishing. Now I'm stuck in this abado-Oh hey a human!"
Her tail's plenty flexible as it looked over her shoulder, both heads looking towards the kitchen as she took a few steps closer to the kitchen head poking around the corner, some snow stuck to her as Relentless looked to the stove and the human covered in blankets, "I guess you came in first?" She’s still smiling, those violet eyes are still looking and staring and that tail is breathing.
At least she sounds friendly.
» Seeking: To be the best she can
» Preferences: ???
» Interests: Fighting, Getting Strong
» Bio: Came to the Surface from the depths. Found new things and people, still looking for new fun things.
[[OOC: The Friendr is more there to be something I can put a picture of Relentless in as well she's a bit odd looking]]