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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 instead he stands back at a decent distance, still close enough to loom uncomfortably close just due to his height and sighs, because as much sympathy as he has for what he assumes was a little girl caught in a warzone, he really wants his goddamn apples. ]
Red Delicious? Terrible choice, they taste like shit, even here.
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She looks down at the apple, then up at him, for a moment bewildered by where she is and where she expects to be. ]
What?
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They serve them at chow because they're cheapest, so it was my advice to you.
[ he continues to talk as if nothing happened, not even bothering to turn his attention away from her and to the apple. it rolls awkwardly past him, a lonely forlorn apple. ]
I'd choose a different variety. Or at least, take it and move on.
[ :| ]
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he shouldn't care, but a quick gauge of age puts her too young to even be in ROTC. JROTC maybe. curiosity finally wins as he picks up his own handful of apples, not bothering to check for spots ]
élève-officier? [ he quickly corrects himself as he holds out a good apple for her, Fuji and spotless. distractions helped eased conversation. ]
ROTP? Your equivalent, whatever it is.
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Freshman cadet at Corbulo Academy of Military Science. [ Tentatively, because she's not positive, but she's pretty sure: ] Sir.
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[ he hasn't heard of the academy, which isn't surprising since the world is big, and now even bigger than he previously knew. the name sounded italian, but he didn't detect an accent. didn't matter, it wasn't any of his business.
it all made sense now. he can remember his first few days out of basic, how overwhelmed he'd felt, and how foreign and chaotic the civilian world was in his first week of leave. ]
Things make more sense after a while, once you stop expecting the world to be as orderly as service. Think of life prior to academy, pretend you're the same as you were back then.
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[ Er. She glances away from him, the only sign to indicate embarrassment. And then she takes a couple of steadying breaths as she forcibly reminds herself that service is orderly. It's a world of rules she knows, rules she understands, even if the twelve hours before she woke up here broke every one of them and then some.
How does conversation. How does explain 'before the academy life was chaos and preparing to be a soldier'. She bites the corners of her lips and just... nods instead. ]
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Buck. Apple connoisseur, and JTF2. French Canadian, and not one for formalities.
[ a name, or at least a nom de guerre made it easier to break away from the sirs. ]
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So uh, she comes to attention instead of relaxing. ]
Yes-- [ HNGHRHGH she doesn't know his rank?? ] Sir.
[ She can't call him Buck that's not a thing she can do. ]
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And does the private have a name?
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Chyler Silva. [ She even manages to not say sir after it this time. ]
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[ small victories, he'll take the lack of sir as progress. also the fact that he's finally gotten all the apples he originally came for, in the proper variety. ]
Here, we have no rank. Nothing as arbitrary as regulations to keep your attention. I'd keep your respect for those who earn it.
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[ It's like that one word of defiance breaks something open. Her voice rises. ] No, I won't. I won't just pretend suddenly that everything I've learned, everything I've done, just doesn't apply because of where I am. You outrank me. You earned my respect by virtue of that alone. I'm not going to act like that doesn't matter. It matters! It's the only thing that matters in this place!
[ Chyler hisses in a breath, falling abruptly silent. For her apparent insistence on respect that was... not. Very. ]