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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!
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[At least that's a topic about which Ivar won't be hostile about. He's been here a long time being lonely, so to have those from home is a blessing. Does that include a Christian priest? Time will tell.]
You seem oddly familiar. [Like he'd seen him before in a dream or something.] What is your name again?
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[ Athelstan says and he doesn't question what the other might have been about to say. If it started that it was likely not something pleasant. ]
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[But Ivar speaks of him with fondness. Floki had helped to raise him. Sad thing was that he was probably the most stable parental figure Ivar had, what with Ragnar being gone and Aslaug being...well, herself.]
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As have many. I have come to respect the gods of Ragnar. [ Even if belief and faith are other and more complicated matters. ]
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[For once, Ivar isn't being abrasive about religious questions. After someone had come to know the Norse gods, he honestly couldn't understand why they would continue to follow their own.]
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[ It feels blasphemous to say out loud the thoughts that came to him often in the quiet of night when at last everyone had truly fallen asleep and he was left to nothing else. ]
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[Nothing at all like the arrogant ones that used to come through Kattegat. His mother had enjoyed doing things like making them hold red hot iron bars, supposedly to test their faith, but mostly because she just enjoyed making them suffer.]
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[Well, anyone but himself. Ivar had been set in his ways for a long time now.]
My name is Ivar The Boneless.
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[He hasn't yet threatened to kill Athlestan, so really, all things considered, it's going rather well.]
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[Bjorn was Ivar's oldest brother and he loved him most of the time, but he could be aggravatingly stubborn and set in his own ways.]
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[ There is the briefest of pauses before he asks. ]
Why boneless?
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Because I'm a cripple. I'll give you one guess as to who gave me the nickname.
[Ragnar hadn't exactly been thrilled with having a son with a physical disability.]
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He is not always the most compassionate.
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Yes. I hated him for a long time for not being able to do the right thing and just abandon me in the woods. But he's easy to love even at his worst.
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[ There's a rueful smile. He remembers the growing affection when he should have hated Ragnar but he had been difficult to hate or even dislike. ]
If you have done well for yourself then perhaps he did the right thing after all.
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[It had taken Ivar exactly as long as it took Ragnar to acknowledge him as being equal to any of his brothers for him to forgive him for most of his faults.]
He showed me my true potential and what I was really meant for instead of just crawling around all day.
[Ivar's tone wasn't nearly as frosty towards the priest as it had been at the start of the conversation. Perhaps they could find common ground over Ragnar.]
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How so?
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Mine comes from having no limits. No matter what I've ever set out to do, I've always accomplished it.
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