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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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[ or at least deanna suspects she is. often the byproduct of these visits is for lwaxana to see if there are any eligible males running around - either for her or for deanna.
the shift to talking about lucretia's ship catches deanna's attention and a look of interest crosses her face. ] You serve aboard a trans-dimensional ship? That must be interesting.
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(Lucretia can't help her grin; she can only imagine the unexpected chaos this might invariably cause. She's spent one hundred years on a ship with a set of identical twins, so she feels as if she understands family struggles.)
Interesting is, uh, one word for it. (She fishes something out of her jacket pocket and hands it over to Deanna for her to inspect: it's a round, metal pin, dark blue in colour with the letters IPRE emblazoned across it in white. She doesn't need to wear it here, or anything, but it's a... comfort thing, to carry it about with her.) I work– used to work for the Institute of Planar Research and Exploration. It's one of the reasons I found common ground so easily with Beverly.
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Her visits were never dull. My mother is... a good deal more exuberant and outspoken than I am. And she doesn't tend to take hints very well.
[ but deanna does love her mother and wouldn't really chance lwaxana for anything. except for the part where she still calls her daughter "little one." ]
You should ask Beverly about her visits sometime.
[ as much to get a different viewpoint as to hear some stories.
deanna turns over the pin with interest, thinking it a more obvious token than even their commbadges. she's careful with it while handling it and gives it back after a few moments. ] I can imagine so. Do you mind if I ask what you do? Rather, how do you and your crew go about researching and exploring?
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(It sounds like there's a lot of story potential there, and if there's anything Lucretia loves, it's a good story!
Deanna's next question gives her pause, but not out of any hesitance or reluctance to answer. Perversely, Lucretia thinks, her being an empath may be helpful in situations such as these; she's simply trying to figure out how to put this in simple terms. It is a very, very long story.)
Well, (she starts, taking the little pin back with a murmur of gratitude, and sliding it back into her jacket pocket where it belongs,) my crew and I left our home world a little more than a century ago to pursue a mysterious force called the Light of Creation. We were to travel to a few different worlds and study it. It possesses the power to create anything given a tangible form, and stimulates advancement in all life; we decided to harness that power, try to bring it back home. I was the mission's chronicler.
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What happened? Were you successful?
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In a way. (As friendly as Deanna is, Lucretia doesn't want to get into any of the details. That part of the story isn't very fun.)
How long have you been aboard the Enterprise?
sorry this is so late!!!!
This will be my seventh year, the same as most of the crew. [ and the entire senior staff... with the exception of beverly, who left them for a year and then returned. ] Before that, I was studying psychology and spent the five years between graduation and my assignment to the Enterprise on Betazed. My rank is lieutenant commander, if Beverly has told you about our ranking system.
that's ok! ♡
Only a little bit. (Beverly had talked briefly of captaincy during their tour of the Enterprise,) does that mean you were stationed on the front deck too?
It's still so surreal to me, to think of such a large ship. Mine was so much smaller by comparison. Beverly said you could have up to a thousand crew members?
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[ a small smile curls the edges of deanna's lips. ]
We are one of the larger class starships. I suppose we've grown used to the size. It's hard to think of serving on a smaller ship now that we've known one so large. There are plenty of other starships in use, but ours is one of the largest.
[ though this makes her curious in turn. ]
How large was your ship?
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Very small, (she admits,) we were only supposed to be aboard for two weeks at most. It wasn't– the design wasn't intended for such long usage. It was about the size of a large ship you might spot at sea.
(And Deanna had said they have other ships in use? Wow.) How many people are there in Starfleet?