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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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Still, when she calls him that, his eyebrows go up, and he shakes his head ruefully, stifling a laugh.]
Oh, I suppose that is my title -- it has been, it may be again. And I don't want you calling me 'Your Grace.' Just call me Jon.
What made you want to come out here in the snow, my lady?
[He knows she's unlikely to be entitled to the title, but when you're unsure, it's a matter of courtesy. If she is a lady, then referring to her more familiarly would be insulting, and some of the instincts a bastard might develop to keep from annoying his betters are hard to outgrow.]
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Seeing as you're not my king, I won't be calling you anything but Jon.
[The corner of her mouth turns upward and she smirks as she glances back his way.]
And I know I may be short, and a woman beyond that, but that doesn't mean I won't risk my life to save these children. I'm a teacher back home. It's my job to keep kids safe.
[And her maternal instincts make her want to take care of pretty much any kid she comes across in the sense of keeping them alive.]
Why? What made you decide to come along? You think I need protecting 'cause I'm a girl?
[She's just giving him shit now.]
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Jon may be a king, but none of his people are here, and rule doesn't always sit lightly on his shoulders. As Warden of the North, he would be Lord Snow, and as Lord Commander, too... but he's given up his place and his rank in the Night's Watch since his murder and his return to life, and he has no special rank in the Guard here in Riverview. Everything but his name seems to have some pretense or something irrelevant attached to it.
But he's serenely and seriously untroubled by her attempt to give him a hard time.]
I think you need protecting because you're not a member of the Perimeter Guard, and you're not used to these conditions. If the cadets who are in training to become full members of the guard ran into trouble, anyone might. And I've seen even seasoned rangers begin to lose their way in the snow now and then. Not here -- back at home. Take the dagger.
[He holds it near the hilt, so she can grasp the handle.]
I'd give you my belt, but I need it for Longclaw. [Every Valyrian steel sword in Westeros has a name: Ice as was, Lady Forlorn, Heartsbane, lost Dark Sister, and others. His is no different.] You're a teacher. I was taught by a maester of the Citadel... he always had a care for his charges, too.
[Women don't become maesters, but most of them don't become warriors, either... and he'd had a sword forged to give to a beloved younger sister as a farewell gift.]
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Not that she is one, but given some of the titles she's earned on her adventures, she wagers that she's close enough.]
Keep your belt. I don't need to catch you with your pants down out here. Especially not if there'll be children around.
[The dagger is held in a hand for a short while as they walk, but she has to keep switching hands because of how cold her fingers feel. She'll need to acquire things like gloves and a scarf once they're back in the city too.]
Your sword is named Longclaw, yeah? What's the dagger's name?
[If he gets to have a named weapon, she really should too. It's only fair.]
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No name: it's only a dagger. Longclaw is Valyrian steel, and I didn't name it myself... it's had that name for hundreds of years. It's a rare sword. If you want the dagger to have a name, you can name it yourself.
[They continue moving through the trees. The forest is silent, eerie, seems untouched.]
My belt is a sword belt, lady. It doesn't hold up my breeches. It holds scabbards.