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quaranmeme2018-05-20 02:35 pm
riverview: may 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 34 Character Slots available.
● Reserves are currently CLOSED. Applications are currently OPEN and will close on June 7th at 10:00 pm EST.
● 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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Something strange has been happening in the city over the past few weeks, and it's starting to get kind of serious - people are disappearing. It started with a little girl whose parents are still convinced and terrified that she wandered off into the jungle to the north of the city, and things have only gone on from there. So far, a total of 10 children ranging in ages from five to their teens have gone missing, most last seen near one of the exits at the city walls or near where the river flows through the fences of the Inhabited City.
Today, it's reached the point where it's becoming a bit of an emergency. With so many sightings near the exits to the city, the government and Perimeter Guard have set up a joint search project, and are requesting volunteers to help scour the jungles in search of the missing kids. Any volunteers or members of the Perimeter Guard are offered a handout with images of the kids and will be forming a grid to search the entirety of the jungle. Which won't be easy, because it's not just a jungle out there - it's dangerous!
Normally, living inside the Inhabited City is a pretty safe bet. You can go day to day without running into a monster or risking any kind of danger requiring a fight. Generally, the tall, laser-fenced walls keep out anything particularly dangerous.
The problem with walls? They only go so high.
While usually assault from airborne monsters isn't a problem that's on the map, as residents who've been around for a while might remember from last year, there's a few weeks during late spring where a swarm of flying monsters not unlike feathery pterodactyls are migrating back to another part of the moon. They're only in the area for a couple of weeks, but during that time, residents can expect occasional attacks by swooping monsters if they should see easy prey. Usually, a good sturdy dark-colored umbrella is enough to keep them from seeing a potential victim or meal, but sometimes the attacks still happen. So the Perimeter Guard sends extra details, calling in all the reserves, to patrol the city and keep an eye out for citizens in distress. There's also a general call for anyone who's experienced at fighting to help protect their fellow citizens. Whether your character is being attacked or protecting someone else, be prepared - these monsters are quick and have very sharp teeth.
It's been all over the news lately, the restoration of the old abandoned Amusement Park that was successfully cleared out and repowered, and is gearing up for a grand opening. However, thanks to a team led by Aecinos Ixocia and the technical expertise of Aoba Seragaki, there's another entertainment feature that was powered up and cleaned up at the same time, and is ready to open over the weekend - the Hot Springs!
Flyers and other advertising has been put up all around the city to alert city residents to the fact that the springs are opening, and expounding the various amenities and activities that the springs have to offer. Among the touted features are mineral hot spring pools of various temperatures ranging from cool to near-boiling, said to have healing qualities that moisturize and soothe the skin, as well as whisking away stress. There are a lot of testimonials to the fact that the springs have had an impact on chronic pain, headaches, and even temporary, acute illnesses.
If soaking in a hot tub isn't your thing, there are also lap pools, a wave pool, and even a few waterslides that are cleaned up and running smoothly - there's an easy and medium one for the less adventurous, but the other two slides are pretty harrowing! There's also a lazy river with inner tubes intended for couples or groups of friends to laze on and enjoy the warm spring weather. For those with something a little more frisky in mind, there are special tubes intended for romantic pairs or groups that go through a Tunnel of Love that lasts for 10 minutes and affords a pretty decent amount of rose-tinted privacy for lovers to enjoy.
Ever heard of Tough Mudder, the Spartan Race, or Ninja Warrior? Well, something similar is brewing in Riverview. With the weather warming up, several companies in the city have contributed to the construction of a difficult obstacle course with three different levels of difficulty to make it challenging for people of all fitness levels. Featuring just about any obstacle you can think of, it tests participants' running, jumping, climbing, and other athletic prowess. It also tests participants' teamwork skills, since several of the obstacles can't be overcome without a little help from a friend or stranger.
But what about people with super powers? Isn't that an unfair advantage? Yep! It sure is! Any participants in the Mud Run are required to use a power dampener of some sort if they're super powered, so everyone is on the same level. Have fun with that!
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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[Magnus goes a little quiet, processing this. Raven's Roost was just the product of a mistake. Julia was an accident. Happiness and safety... He could've had it, if only rounding up the Relics were easier done than said.
She's only two years in. She doesn't even know about that. Should he tell her?
...He doesn't want to put that on her shoulders, too.]
A lot happened during that decade. It gets fixed in the end, mostly, but... Lucretia, we're all in this together. You didn't have to do all that yourself. We-- I care about you too much to leave it all up to you.
Just... promise me next time some world-ending danger comes up, you come to us first. Or even just me. Deal?
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Not much, not enough... but Lucretia knows that they were in love. That Magnus and her married. That she died in the raze of Raven's Roost. She isn't sure how to begin addressing that, and he doesn't bring it up, so she remains silent.)
I'm sorry, Magnus. (She repeats, and reaches out to lay her hand lightly over the top of his wrist.) I just– wanted to be able to fix everything for you.
(There's a very tiny, unbidden part of her that knows she had imagined a repeat of the triumph, too. Like the aftermath of cycle sixty five, when they had all marvelled over how capable she was, how she had saved all of them, all by herself. When they had told her that they were so proud of her.
Not so much this time, huh.)
Deal, (she says, and her voice comes out a little tight and funny. She clears her throat, repeats herself.) It's a deal.
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He can understand it. He can't understand leaving them out of it, but he can understand the need to take matters into her own hands.
After all, didn't Lup do the same?]
I'm holding you to it, Luce!
[He points across the table at her.]
I better not find out you're conspiring on your own to bring world peace! Moon peace! Whatever!
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I have no grand plans for the Quarantine as of yet. I'm taking a fucking break for once, Magnus; this is like a paid vacation.
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[So there.]
But a vacation from the Hunger sounds pretty nice.
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(She laughs, and this time it's genuine.)
I've been here for a year, Magnus. I almost feel settled. The Hunger can take a back seat for a bit: it's Lucretia's time.
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A year... Well. It's a nice place to settle. As long as you're enjoying yourself.
[Magnus isn't quite "settled" yet, still sort of anxious about the whole Hunger thing, but you know... He's been told it goes well, and he's still barely gotten here. Maybe he'll settle. Maybe it'll be a whole thing.]
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Yes.
(Honestly, this is a touchy subject because she is enjoying herself. She's made a facsimile of a life for herself here and she knows that she has to leave it the moment the portal opens back up to take her home.)
Maybe a little too much so.
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No, you'll be enjoying yourself too much if Merle shows up with his 1,999 party points. He's like a black hole or an infectious disease; he'll have you going hard in the paint.
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That's certainly true. I wish he'd come here.
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[Forget just not being the Tres Horny Boys, Magnus wants all of the IPRE here, stat. They've certainly got a majority of them by now, why not finish the job?]
We all deserve the same vacation.
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(She thinks about that a lot. Sometimes... she's secretly glad for Davenport's absence because she's not sure what his presence would bring to the table, and then she immediately feels guilty and terrible for such a thought. She misses him. She misses Merle. Having five of them here again is good, but...
Lucretia sighs.)
Can you even imagine Merle's reaction to this place? I've never seen anywhere greener. (somebody had to say it.)
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Gods. He'd go ballistic. Even just Taako's house alone is full of plants. It's like the perfect dwarf-bait. Would he even live in a house or just sleep in random bushes and pop out of them unexpectedly?
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(Her expression is a mixture of resignation over having just said that out loud, and that classic, about-to-laugh mouth scrunch.)
You've seen Taako's house? I presume you're going to stay there with him and the others?
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[This sounds highly flammable but also entirely probable.]
Yeah, I guess that's where I lived before, so... it made sense. Also it may or may not come with free guns in the deal. Schrodinger's guns.
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(They may be inventing wildly, but it's comforting all the same. Lucretia's smiling, at ease again as she has another sip of her wine.)
Schrodinger's guns, huh? Well, I don't think I can top that; I'll be sure to visit you once you're settled in.
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[And... okay, this is the most blunt way to possibly put this, but Magnus is observant enough of his friends that he's been getting hints of something between Lucretia and Taako. He tries to be casual enough about it.]
Why aren't you staying with us, anyway? It'd be like old times.
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(Huge rows of plants... like, who is to say they wouldn't all be of the weed variety? Lucretia's still smiling when Magnus ventures his next question, and can't hide the way her expression shifts in time. She sighs.
She's not sure if she wants to get into this. It's not like she feels like she can't tell Magnus, more that she has no idea what Taako's said to him already and it's... well, it's complicated. Everything that happened still stings. She misses not living with them so much, it's like a dull ache in her chest. She might not live alone, but sometimes she feels very lonely.
Hmm. She's paused for far too long, but she knows how to pike out of this conversation easy enough:)
Because I'm living with my girlfriend.
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[Merle is pretty unbelievable.
But then Lucretia is silent for a while, and Magnus' smile fades. He doesn't... He probably should've realized he was treading dangerous territory, if there's really something between her and Taako.
Then, suddenly, she answers in a completely normal way. Shit, maybe she was just nervous to confess she was dating someone that seriously!]
Whaaaaaaaaaat! For real?? How long have you been dating?? Is it anyone I know?
[Magnus, you know like five people. But he's effectively distracted, shocked and excited for her.]
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(She takes a moment to think, puffing her cheeks out, then exhales in a soft rush:) nine... nearly ten months?
(Holy shit.)
I moved in with her a few weeks ago.
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[If they've been dating that long and even moved in together, then that means it's definitely serious. And anyone who's dating Lucretia has to pass the Magnus Approval Test.]
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Well... her name is Beverly. She's a doctor, and she works aboard a starship with a crew of over a thousand, Magnus- can you believe it?? It's called the Enterprise.
(Lucretia's well aware that she's smiling uncontrollably right now but she doesn't care. She's knowingly made her bed in the getting teased by Magnus department and now she's going to lie in it.) She loves to dance, and she's incredibly intelligent, and passionate about her job. I've never known somebody to be so kind and caring; she's amazing.
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[Magnus can't help it, though -- Lucretia's smile is contagious. He grins back at her, but looks a little more smug as he does.]
Ooooooooh, you liiiiike her.
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(She rolls her eyes in reply, but it's all in good fun. Honestly, it's kind of nice to be teased about it!)
Yeah, I do. I'll introduce you as soon as you're settled.
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[But Magnus grins.]
Well, I'll hold you to it.
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