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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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Oh no, he's not a kid. You can't call him one until you've seen him get angry--unless you have.
[Tantrums, really. A toddler knew better, but at least someone is able to see through that facade.]
That's...interesting. I don't know to feel about that, but that's something else to think about another time.
So then, you are Han and Leia's daughter...with no connection to Ben Solo.. [Or to Kylo Ren.]
...I feel like this is a dream, really. Or very much a weird vision.
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( Something she does often. Jaina rolls her eyes, eyebrows still raised. )
Genetic material is our only connection. He's got my dad's nose. But nothing else. I had a twin brother, and another brother a year younger.
They're gone. And this isn't a dream. I wish it were. ( She tilts her head. ) Who are you?
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So you are... [Related, in some fashion. But not in the same context--same universe or world. Different, but so similar...and they both know loss.] Oh...I didn't know, my apologies.
[And as for who she is, the words come out quickly, without hesitation.] No one.
[She doesn't believe herself to be of great importance, but she's trying to wrap her head around that Ben has a not!sibling, and she's talking to them. And thus, she's starting to like this girl better than Ren. If only because no tantrums.]
This, is a bit hard to wrap my head around.
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( She's going to avenge them if she has to kill every last Vong she comes across. In fact, that sounds like a great idea.
Still, she blinks, one eyebrow raised at the other woman's response. The sarcasm is gentler as she quips: )
Your name is "No one?" That's new.
( At that, she smiles faintly. )
You and me both.
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[So many different things to keep track of now. She's going to need a datapad to keep all the information correct.
As for her name..it's enough to make her let out a soft chuckle. Part of her wants to say it's classified, top secret, like what she told BB-8, but it would only lead to more questions...or just more sarcasm. The latter she could handle.]
Something like that. I'm no one important, and I came from nowhere. Well, basically no where.
[The faint smile on the other's face is enough to make one tug at Rey's lips.]
Perhaps...we should meet in person to discuss the similarities and great differences of our worlds.
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( She'd ordinarily roll her eyes, but now she narrows them instead, thoughtfully.
And then says: )
I'll introduce you as 'No One' to some of my friends if they show up. They'd think I were joking, and bad ones were my brother's department. Never mine.
( Yeah, more sarcasm. Eventually, she nods. )
Allright. Where?
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[There's a soft chuckle.]
You can tell them it's classified intel. On a need to know bases. [But...she finds herself telling a bit about herself.] My name is Rey, from Jakku.
We could meet in the park. It's open and easy to get to.
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( Her lips twitch upward imperceptibly. )
Well, Rey, your secret's safe with me. Classified, it is.
Sure thing. I should check on my junk pile, anyway.
( Kriffing birds. In about ten to fifteen minutes, Jaina's back in the park, staring at her bunch of scrap, now covered with porgs.
Her expression couldn't be any more pinched if she were actively trying to look that way. )
Ugh.
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But she also had to deal with losing her siblings. Major differences there.]
Junk pile? You're a smuggler and a scavenger? [Smirking just a little bit there.
Well, she's about to find out more about this girl. Rey was already at the park, one porg on her lap with her gently brushing it's feathers down it's belly.
Once the other is within close enough range, Rey finds herself looking up. There was...something about her, that Rey couldn't exactly say. She was still trying to listen to the Force and let it guide her.]
Be warned, some of them have already made a nest in that pile.
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And possibly a scoundrel, too. That should cover all the 's' words. Great alliteration. ( Just don't call me scruffy-looking. ) But I'm a mechanic, too.
( Jaina looks directly into Rey's eyes now, feeling a tug in the Force. Then she casts her glance back to the pile, decidedly unimpressed. )
What are they? Other than a pain in the neck.
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I wasn’t thunjing scoundrel, more like sly or sophisticated. [ Both words covered Jania’s parentage. Rey wouldn’t say she was scruffy looking but, maybe she would say it just as a joke.
And stars help her, looking at Janis was like looking at a younger Leia and Rey finds herself missing the General. Plus the stirring in the Force wasn’t helping much. ]
I have no clue. They’re just tiny and like to make themselves at home anywhere.
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the tug she can feel grows more insistent, so she folds her arms across her chest. )
They're free to nest anywhere Just not on or in my scrap heap.
( Looking around, her brows rise. )
And they're multiplying.
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Rey tries to put the bird down on the bench but it decides to make its home on her shoulder....okay, she'll just deal with it.]
They are. I think I spotted a nest in there, or two now. They...are quite intriguing, but annoying. [The bird on her shoulder simply opens its mouth to let out a huff. It's disagreeing with her but whatever.]
Some are annoying. [There, no need to ruffle any more feathers.]
But given your scrap heap, any luck finding an engine?
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These birds are clingy, bossy, squawky She decides she doesn't like them on principle. )
They're on the last frayed wire of the last nerve I've got left. And all pretty annoying, seeing as they're infesting everything.
( Either no feathers, or all of them. No Solo deals in half measures. )
Yeah, a small one. Can't tell how good it is yet because— ( Yeah, gesturing at the birds. )
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[The few parties Rey has been to, they were very casual, but so many people. Too many people and what do you actually do at a party? Talk? Have fun? What's that?]
There's nothing keeping them in check, but they'll go away...eventually.
[She's hoping that's the case, otherwise, people were going to start hunting the poor things and yeah...]
Oh, interesting. I haven't had much luck with trying to build a ship. The engines are usually damaged, and even then there's really nothing to help get it into lightspeed..
[And no, that's raining on Jania's parade a little. ]
Have you met anyone else from our similar world yet?
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( It's easier to buy a hyperdrive than build one. Potentially.
She snorts. )
Not in person, and that's probably for the best. I've got to find my way back; the war's not gonna win itself.
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Hoping not.
That, I don't know. The people here--the ones who were initially here before they started bringing others from different places--don't say much. Anything they do say, I don't take much stock in.
[And her interest is peaked.]
Which war and against who?
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( A bit of dry wit, and Jaina runs a hand through her shoulder-length hair with a sigh.
—and then she steels herself, both in terms of body language and in the Force. )
The Yuuzhan Vong. Scarheads. They came from beyond the galaxy to make it theirs, and they've killed billions.
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[More dry humor between the two of them.
Rey does feel the shift in the Force, making her wonder if it was possible that it was coming from this person... Her eyes widen and dread fills her. Another war? Another foe for them to defeat at the cost of more lives?]
There...there isn't such a thing in my world--or my time, I should say. [So was this girl more from the past? The future? Either way it's a separate state from where the rest of them were.]
We're trying to figure out a way out ourselves, perhaps we can work together on this.