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quaranmeme2018-02-18 06:06 pm
happy first birthday, riverview!
riverview fourth wall memeIn honor of Riverview's ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY, players have voted for a fourth wall style event where players and non-players alike can indulge a few whims, try people out in Riverview's setting, or share small slices of their homeworlds with friends. This is a place where anyone can throw a character they'd like to play in the game, an AU version of a character they already play, a character who might not normally be appable, or a few threads with canonmates that they might not get otherwise.
Create your own scenario - the setting is built to be flexible, so feel free to make things up as you go.
● Top-level posts can be made by either current players, potential players, or just people who want to dabble in the setting or engage in some threads with current players.
● Doubles of characters who are currently in the game cannot be posted to this meme. If a character is listed on the taken list and couldn't be apped under the canon AU provision, please do not play that character on this meme.
● Aside from the above, characters that would normally not be appable can generally be played on this meme: AU or heavily altered CRAU versions of characters (providing the original is not in the game or you play the original), dropped characters (providing they have not been re-apped by a new player), that second character you wish you could play that's too closely related to the one you already play, among many other options. If you have any questions about what's okay, just drop them on the Mod Questions Thread.
● The explanation for this event is Game Canon, so threads in this event can either be non-canon meme-style fun, or remembered by characters going forward, providing both parties are amenable. Threads on this post can be used for Activity Points providing both characters are accepted into the game, but cannot be used for the monthly Activity Check.
● Threads from this post can be used as app samples providing the character in question is appable and not an AU.
● Ideally, all characters who are not currently in the game should be played by someone, if you are fiending for your character to introduce someone in the game to someone from home that isn't likely to be played, that someone can be NPC'd in a thread.
● Settings brought from characters' homes can range from as small as a table or desk to as large as one city block.
It's a well-known but not often talked about truth that sometimes people who have come to the Quarantine didn't exactly want to come. Whether it was a mistake, or the portal picked up on the faintest short-term feeling of displacement and jumped the gun by pulling someone into the Quarantine, some people just don't want to be here. And while the government and the scientists employed by it try their best to find ways to send people home as quickly as possible, it's not easy.
And for some residents, it's not enough.
On the morning of February 19th, some residents have decided to do something about it. A group of highly-intelligent, scientifically-minded people have banded together trying to find a way to make pinpointing specific other worlds easier, but a year's worth of research hasn't proven very successful. So instead, they've decided to bring a little bit of home to Riverview. How?
A virus was released into the general network - every device connected to Riverview's internet equivalent has been hit with it. It's not a very malevolent virus, though, geared toward all of the city's many, many holoemitters, cameras, and other types of sensors. Through various complicated algorithms and a direct line into the Perimeter Guard's open database of information on other worlds, all of Riverview has become holo-capable.
Throughout the city, almost anywhere that they go, characters may find themselves running into a little piece of home. Whether it's something as simple as the desk from their bedroom back home, the block they lived on, the bridge of their starship, the unfamiliar world they were pulled into before Riverview, or the meadow they like to watch the stars in, it might show up. And with those locations come people.
Characters may run into holographic versions of almost anyone they can think of. And, much like the locations, those people feel, smell, and sound perfectly real. They are fully interactive, and they come across exactly like the real thing. However, unlike the real thing...they're going to disappear. Whether it's within an hour or two, or if they stick around until the virus is shut down on the evening of February 23rd, they will eventually fade away.
(Unless your enabling game is strong enough and the character's appable, of course.)
Since the virus is affecting the whole network, there's one other thing that the holograms can use - Friendr is a friend-finder and/or dating app. Even a hologram can 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 (however one-night the stand will be). 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.
During the upcoming festival of lust, also known as Sampremi, many of the highly-anticipated seasonal delicacies that are about to be baked, broiled, steamed, candied, and pickled are made from a type of fruit called the Lababerry, which only grows for a couple of months a year, in the warmer rainforest area to the north of the city. Businesses all over the city are gearing up for this year's festivities, ready to prepare the highly-anticipated treats everyone is craving, and while the usual harvest has already taken place, demand is high enough after last year that it's outpacing the harvest, and many, many businesses are offering very large rewards for harvests of the Lababerries.
And why are the rewards so large?
While the Lababerries are still in season, the usual harvest happens early in the spring, before the rains fall so heavily and the plants they grow on come out of hibernation. This is because the plants they grow on are highly carnivorous, willing to chew on whoever might be stopping by to pluck their sweet fruits. The plants are equipped with an acid that thickly coats the tops of the leaves, which are capable of clamping onto any intruder. The acid is fast-acting on non-biological materials, and slow-acting on skin and flesh. Once it contacts skin, it turns it into a sludge that the leaves suck up.
But hey, the rewards are very, very much worth the risks. If you want to start your time in the Quarantine with a pretty penny in your pocket, this is the job for you.
In preparation for Sampremi, a lot of the clubs, restaurants, and hotels are doing special events to encourage people to pair (or trio, or group) off in anticipation of the particular sexy set of festivities for the season. There are flyers around the city advertising various couples activities: speed dating, dance classes, overnight pool parties, and all-expenses-paid lovers' nights in.
The catch? The great deals only count if you're a twosome. So if you don't have someone to love, hit up speed dating in the indoor courtyard of Riverview's largest mall, or grab the first person you see and take the opportunity.
Use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!
foggy nelson | marvel's daredevil
» Seeking: Someone to explain just what's going on here.
» Preferences: Seriously I was just in Hell's Kitchen what the hell?
» Interests: Law, sticking up for the little guy, and okay money is somewhere in there.
» Bio: I'm a lawyer from Hell's Kitchen, New York. Hit me up if you're from somewhere in the same territory! Or if you need any legal help, I guess, though I can't guarantee anything seeing as I left my license in New York.
✔ - un: k. page
[ yes she's tearing up, seeing him here ]
un: foggybear
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[ That is pretty much the gist of it. ]
At work right now. Where are you? Are you okay?
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[He was just in Hell's Kitchen for Christ's sake!]
I'm outside a bar. [Plenty of those around, so he specifies:] The one with the sign that looks sort of like a misshapen hairless dog. [It's a badly-drawn horse, Foggy.]
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Yeah that doesn't help me, either.
[ Foggy ur terrible at this directions thing. ]
There's a lot of technology and science behind it but the barebones is: we are in another universe. Everyone else here is also from another universe or a completely different galaxy. Are you with me so far?
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[He's honestly trying here!]
This sounds completely unbelievable, [and in the past year he's seen and heard some unbelievable things,] but I'm following so far.
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[ she rejects him with no context at all, which ... considering her reputation, can't be that much of a surprise. hey, foggy. welcome to the shitshow. ]
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It's The Phantom Menace, isn't it.
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It's when he hears the profile of an all-too precious friend that he can taste the salt in his own eyes and he wonders if he might actually finally be back. ]
You know, I have been looking for a decent lawyer in this town.
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Look no further! I'm—well, I'm actually in front of a bar. And a Barnes & Noble rip-off's just across the street, you know where Coombs & Temple is? [He doesn't bother to mention the ugly hairless dog, sorry, misshapen horse painted on the bar sign, because it's Matt, and that information is useful as nipples on a superhero suit, probably.] You okay? The guys who went after the Irish, they didn't hurt you?
[Guys, he says, like he assumes a group of vigilantes went after the Irish. Like he doesn't know who the Punisher is.]
✔ un: NerdAlert
un: foggybear
[He's lived in it all his life, he's kind of desensitized to how cool the name sounds.]
It's less cool once it's summer and it's really living up to the name, though.
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[ That just seems like some shit that could plausibly happen in Faerun ok! ]
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Two suns? Really?
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[ congrats, foggy, you're the first adult male she's found non-threatening enough to swipe right on. of course it could have something to do with that mention of sticking up for the little guy. ]
un: foggybear
[He'd be flattered she found him non-threatening enough to talk to, and more than a little bit concerned that he's the first.]
And it's a little bit disappointing, if you liked the original movies. [So he says, having only seen the original trilogy in his teenage years.]
un: mollyringwald
[ casually freaking out about lando calrissian elsewhere on this very meme, in fact. she hasn't really thought about the age of these films however. ]
but i thought there were only three
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There's six. There's the original trilogy, then there are the prequels, and those finished up about ten years ago, more or less. Phantom Menace didn't really age well, let's just say.
Molly Ringwald? Really?