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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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So... you're all on your own? That must be really scary.
[ He spoons out some of the mix into the milk, stirring as the milk began to heat up. For all the problems he'd had with his parents, their lack of love for him and favoritism of his brother, he'd never been cut off from them, the way Lucy is from her mother. Cisco is glad, then, that she had found her way to his door. What if she'd been stuck in the cold? Or knocked on the door of a cabin with some weirdo? ]
Well, you can stay here long as you need. My boyfriend's gonna be showing up in about an hour... at least, that was the plan, I don't know if that's gonna happen, if it keeps coming down like this. Doesn't matter - make yourself cozy, there's a stack of blankets in that chest. When was the last time you had something to eat?
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[One in the same, really. Cisco may chalk it up to her being too old to believe in fairytales, but Lucy knows better. Or ...at least she thought she did. Fairytales were real, but breaking the curse to save her family, that was something else. She didn't think it was possible anymore, but she pushes the thought aside in favor of going to the kitchen to watch him work.]
Thanks, I'm no one of those kids that likes to mess things up or anything. [Just putting it out there, because that seemed to be one of Ivy's complaints...or just dealing with Lucy in general.]
Last time I ate was...[She had to think for a moment..] When I woke up in that hospital. They gave me food that wasn't the best, and before that I was at school.
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When she says she's not a kid that likes to mess things up, Cisco looks up from the hot chocolate, grinning: ]
No? 'Cause I totally was one of those kids. I mean... I never intended to make a mess! But I liked taking things apart and seeing how they worked, and that is a very messy thing to like to do.
[ He pours out two mugs of hot cocoa, pulls a canister of whipped cream from the fridge, and promptly applies a small mountain of it to the top of both drinks. He takes Lucy's over to her carefully, setting it down on the little table by the fire and warning: ]
It's hot, so be careful.
[ And then, when she has to think back to when her last meal was, well, that decides matters. He doesn't have a lot, in the little cabin, but he has plenty for peanut butter and banana sandwiches - and who doesn't like those? Cisco gets out the bread, asking as he does: ]
You were in the hospital? That's no fun - did you get hurt?
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[She asks as she watches him work. If he were to ask her if she meant an actual dragon, she would tell him it was true. But, really, what do kids know? Something that doesn't exist couldn't surely exist elsewhere.
She watches him pour the hot cocoa with interest in her eyes. He takes out the whip cream to add to it, and her eyes lit up. What kid doesn't like hot chocolate with whip cream? It's like, a must. Lucy walks with him, gingerly taking the mug in her hands.]
I will be. [She is careful, tilting the cup back to where the whip cream gets on her nose, but it tastes so good. As for his question, she falls quiet for a moment, wiping the whip cream off of her nose.]
I was upset...and I was going back to my mom and that's all I remember. I just woke up in the hospital and I was told I was taken away from where I was...[Which..is hard to figure out is a good or bad thing at this point. She couldn't figure out a way for the curse to be broken back home, not even after she tried Henry, but her mom was starting to fall in love with her cursed!dad...nothing was going the way it was supposed to..
Lucy had failed, and her belief in her family was crushed.]
How long have you been here?
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[ Not the most technically accurate description of being an engineer, but it's undeniable that he had learned a lot, just through those games he played to keep himself entertained as a kid. That had been the start of it: his love of figuring out how stuff worked, how things were put together, learning about all the secret hidden parts that made the world go. When he'd been young and isolated, things like remotes and telephones and old broken gameboys had made a lot more sense to him than people, and emotions, and their expectations of him.
Lucy's story is vague, and a little alarming to Cisco. Most people who arrived here had a fairly clear memory of how it had happened. Even someone like Eddie, who had died, remembered the dying, before the portal and him being rushed to the hospital. Was it possible (and he hates the thought as soon as it pops into his head) that Lucy had died and just not realized it? Had the portal drawn her here, the way it had with Eddie?
Or maybe he was leaping to conclusions, and she had merely bumped her head. Regardless, she's here now, and all on her own, and Cisco can't help worrying about who might take care of her. ]
I've been here about nine months. I came from a place called Central City. D'you know if they've got a city called that in your world?
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[Cisco explains it in the easiest of terms for a child to understand, and the only thing Lucy can think of is handyman or repair man. If he said 'engineer' then she would ask for him to clarify it for her. Or confuse him for one of those people that makes rides at theme parks, imagin--something.
Her story is one she doesn't want to tell yet. It's still fresh in her memory for her. Dealing with the fact that the curse would never be broken. Henry was gone to who knows where, and her mom was kissing her cursed!dad...nothing was going the way it needed to go. Maybe she was like her step-grandmother, trying to do the right thing only to get hurt in the end.]
No, I've never heard of it. I'm from Hyperion Heights, which is close to Seattle... [Which is in the States, so she's assuming he's from there or if not there...then maybe Canada?]
But, if you haven't heard of Hyperion Heights, that's okay. It's not supposed to exist...sort of.