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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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Down the road, huh? Recruiting young? [Tim raises an eyebrow at that. He wonders if... there had been reports, but he hadn't realized Damian liked people, even if they were other kids.]
Starfire, Raven and Beastboy are still on it. Raven had.... an incident, so it's Star and Beastboy who do the mentoring, mostly, even if they're not 'teens' anymore. Wonder Girl. Superboy. Kid Flash. [His voice gets quieter with each one. Did they rejoin the team? He'd called and they'd answered, but they hadn't actually had a chance to talk.] Ravager. I guess they're the core team, now.
[Noticing, Tim very carefully doesn't react when Damian gets closer. It was like dealing with cats. A savage, twitchy cat. As much as he might instinctively want to tense up, it wouldn't do anyone any favors, right now.]
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Starfire is the only one of mentoring age. [He's pretty sure she's only stuck around to keep an eye on him for Grayson. Raven had an incident? No surprise there. With her powers, something seemed to happen to her ever mission. He let out a scoff.]
Beat boy as a mentor?That sounds painfu-- [Wait... Ravager? He's seen that name for the file he was building on Slade Wilson.] Wilson's daughter? Why the hell would you recruit her?!
[You don't trust a Wilson! Why was this still a question?! Yes, her past was complicated, what with her dad putting a hit on her head... Actually, maybe it was a bit too relatable now that he thought about it... A thought crossing his mind seems to make his sudden flare in temper instantly start to simmer and he glares at the fire.]
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I guess I should've known back then that he'd never give up on saving anyone.[And that was how Damian became Robin... right?]
It's not that big of a deal. Her half-brother, Jericho, was on the team. Plenty of people have pasts... She really was pretty crazy, though. [The whole bed episode was probably the least of it. Still, he had no idea why Damian was this angry.]
...What's gotten into you? Did she do something to you in your world?
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My father actually helped his daughter once. Don't know much about her sanity.
[Damian grunts softly. Funny hearing Drake talk about forgiveness. Out of all the bird in Batman's cave, Drake was the one that held tightest to grudges... well next to him anyway.]
So fair enough. Psychopaths for parents? My Teen Titans are practically the club for that. [He leans on the arm of the couch, taking his eyes off Drake and the fire.] Still not planning to sign up a Wilson though.
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Wouldn't recommend it, anyway. She's tough to handle and has her father's tricks. [A pause.]You can't help your parents. [His best friend was technically Lex Luthor spawn.] But you can help what you do about it.
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[Damian side eyes Tim for that one.] Funny hearing a Tim Drake say that. I thought you'd be on the "Nature" side of the nature vs nurture argument.
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[Tim raises his eyebrows at that.] if i was, then i wouldnt have bothered working so hard to be Robin.
Nice to know you know my name after all, though. Just one thing... [An inadvisable one thing.] It’s Tim Drake-Wayne.
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Don't you dare tell me you are married to my father in your world?!
[Because you know, adoption is not even registering as an option in Damian's mind and last he heard Tim Drake's parents were alive in witness protection.]
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Of course we're married. [Sarcasm may be lost on Damian. Why does he always end up engaged or married??] I was waiting for a right time to tell you-- son.
[He can't do this.] How can you even think that?
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YOU-- [He hisses at him when the word "son" some out like that very utterance was burning his skin!] Never say that word to me again, Drake.
[His father was not making the most sound marriage choices in his world, so who's to say that weren't just as disastrous in another!]
Then how did you weasel your way into my fam--No, no you're-- You're not-- [Say it isn't so.] ...Are we blood related?
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You make that sound worse than the marriage. [He's not sure how to take that. But now he has a somewhat morbid curiosity what else Damian's hyperactive tiny assassin imagination will come up with.]
We don't look a thing like eachother. [Minus the black hair, he supposes.] Strike two.
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And thank goodness for that. [Whatever defective genetics made up the Drakes was thankfully not mudding up any Wayne blood.]
...Lifelong servitude? [No, than Pennyworth would be Pennyworth-Wayne to.] Well, your parents are alive in my world... so adoption isn't an option... right?
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No, my parents... are dead. Bruce adopted me when I was sixteen.
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I... guess that makes more sense. [He mutters, not seeming as angry anymore.]
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Hey, is Dick still your mentor?
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If you mean, is he still Batman, then no. Father is and Grayson is Nightwing again.
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Then he was gone, in your world, too. [Hopefully his other self had an easier time getting people to believe he wasn’t crazy.]
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Yes, he was and Grayson and I found him.
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....You did, huh? That must mean he wasnt lost in time then?
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You were just a meer place warmer until the worth successor came to take the mantle of Robin!
[He shouts at him. Hitting, kicking and taking in the satisfaction he felt when his hits landed before the inevitability of Drake throwing him could come.]
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That's true. [Even if it stings a bit, that was what he'd always been. He'd said so himself.] So let me know if you see anyone that matches up.
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