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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!
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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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Trust me, it's going to get weirder.
[ Because aliens and magic? Yeah those all exist in spades here. ]
Give me a few and I'll come to you.
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I'm afraid to ask how.
[But he does give her a few, and it might surprise Karen to find him so—okay, somehow, not shot and not freaking out too much over being here. He is panicking a little, he's pacing around restlessly in front of the bar, but he looks better than the last time she must've seen him. Also, wearing that salmon-pink shirt he was wearing when Grotto stumbled into Josie's.
Wait a minute.
Once he spies Karen, his eyes grow wide.]
Karen! [Waving a hand to try and get her attention.] Karen, Jesus, are you okay?
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And then she was brought here.
He won't recognize the clothes she has on, having purchased new ones since she's been here. They still look like you could find them on Earth but the fabric is apparently better than cotton.
She runs over to him and immediately will find himself in a hug. It's been months since she's seen him and by God he feels like the real deal. She's none the wiser as to what is really going on. ]
I can't believe you're here.
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I can't either. And—wait, how long have you been here? Because I just saw you, in Josie's, and—
[He looks her up and down. This is even more confusing and a little bit distressing, Foggy is way out of his depth here and he knows that all too well.]
You okay? What about Grotto?
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About four months--
[ But her words trail off as he mentions Josie's and Grotto and she steps back slightly, her expression shifting into something startled, her own stomach sinking. Is Foggy... ]
That was... several months ago for me. Like before I even got here.
[ Does this mean he really doesn't know about... anything else? ]
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[He blinks at her, his thoughts stuttering to a stop as he digests this new information. Wait. Several months ago?]
I just—What are you talking about? I saw you an hour ago tops. [Is he freaking out? He's freaking out. It's not as bad as last year's Incident (discovering your best friend is a vigilante with super-senses deserves a capital letter, goddammit), but it's definitely cause for panic.] Matt and I were just at the crime scene.
[He skirts around saying what Matt did when they left the crime scene, still believing that she doesn't know.]
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Foggy, it's okay, alright? This is just--it happens a lot here.
[ Someone has to NOT panic here and she's gonna try being that person (even when she's low key feeling the urge to). ]
People get pulled from different points in time even if they are from the same universe. It's like really fucked up science fiction shit.
[ MORE OR LESS. ]
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[Okay, give him a second, he's just going to sit down on this convenient bench, because his life has turned upside down, for the second time in a year. This is way too much for him to deal with, he only just managed to wrap his head around Daredevil.]
So—you're from the future? [He's at least not shouting, but he's a little stunned when he looks up at Karen, a faint crease appearing between his eyebrows.] We gotta deal with time travel now on top of being on a moon in a completely different universe?