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quaranmeme2018-06-20 06:40 pm
riverview: june 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 47 Character Slots available.
● Reserves are currently OPEN. Applications are currently CLOSED and will open on August 1st 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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After the unveiling of the newly cleaned-up amusement park, it's been going strong, open to the public and seeing heavy traffic flow from residents of the City. After all, it's been a while since a new attraction opened in Riverview. Slowly but surely, the people in charge of the park have been keeping it open later and later into the evening, testing the strength of the wall and trying to see how many monsters the bright lights and cheerful music and chattering crowds draw.
And it's all seemed to be just perfect - until the middle of June. It started with a few little critters, mostly the size of toy poodles and vaguely crablike, they skittered around the bottom of the laser fences, testing the strength of it. And then more of them started coming. By the 20th, there are probably hundreds of little toy poodle sized crab critters prodding at the fence, making a racket and making the guests nervous. Not a huge deal, not at first.
But apparently toy poodle sized crabs are really delicious, because predators have started coming over to the fence to feed on them. Between the horde of crab-critters and the marauding predators, there's starting to be a dangerous buildup of pressure against the fences.
The Perimeter Guard is putting out a call for anyone willing to help disperse the horde, and the owners of the amusement park are throwing in vouchers for free passes to the park (and all the fun rides!) for anyone who takes up the call. Care to join?
The amusement park isn't only the place where pint-sized monster pests are showing up - they're everywhere. Inside the city, they're a little smaller but far more insidious, and almost impossible to get rid of on a large scale. After a bit of consideration, the Government, in cooperation with the Perimeter Guard, has decided to set up a little competition to help with a bit of pest control. A scavenger hunt!
From the 20th of June until the 20th of July, the Government will be offering a reward to anyone who can prove they have 'taken care of' 5 or more each of the four pests causing mayhem in the city - a mildly-poisonous leathery-winged reptile that feeds on eyeballs, a mutated rat-like creature that likes to nest in the hair of sleeping people and animals and has a high-pitched scream that can cause disorientation, a beautifully sparkly delicate moth-like creature that causes intense mood swings through pheromones and hormones, and a creature that looks exactly like the standard domesticated foxes many residents keep as pets but who spit fire when angry.
The reward for bringing in proof of taking out 5 of each of these pests will be around 250 Units, or a gift or gift certificate of equivalent value.
Perimeter Guard Captain Anali Apple has released a statement regarding this challenge: 'And to all the animal lovers out there, if you've got a problem with killing these guys, then by all means go gather them up before they get killed. We'll reward people who catch and release, long as they're not in the city.'
Welcome to Riverview Quarantine! What's your talent?
Everyone who arrives in the Quarantine gets a short interview to try to place them in an appropriate job, but this month it's a little different. With Carnivale and its focus on creative performances right around the corner, the Orientation teams are asking an extra question - do you want to join a talent show? Characters new and old are invited to attend and perform in the Riverview's Got Talent show on a large stage in the city center, performing any kind of talent they might have, from singing to dancing to art to martial arts to magic or anything else you can imagine! After the performances, there will be free refreshments and a meet and greet so performers can get some feedback on their performance (please be kind!).
Since new characters or players may feel a bit shy jumping in on this one, there will be a mod-posted subthread for existing players to post up a quick description of a performance their character might put on for new arrivals to respond to. Any existing players should keep their top-levels to this prompt and this sub-thread, and only new characters should be responding to them - if you want to play out talent show performances and interactions with two characters already in the game, please post it on the logs community.
Residents new and old might notice advertisements going up around the city for a brand new restaurant - the Blind Date Café. A pioneering concept by a born romantic in the city, the Café is a concept business where it's Dragosta (the celebration of romantic love) all year around! Singles, or people who are into polyamory, can come to the Café and tell the host/ess what their romantic preferences are (gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, etc.) and be seated at complete random with someone else at the Café who has compatible preferences. Once the random pairing is seated, they can order from a pretty standard restaurant menu at one of the lovely flower-and-candle adorned tables with a complimentary glass of wine each (for the first 100 customers!) and share a nice romantic meal.
Paired up with someone you don't get along with? That's just fine. You can totally take your meal to go. Paired up with someone you really like, and you both decide to go on a second date? Both meals are on the house!
And what about people who just aren't into romance? Well, thankfully one of the preferences you can pick is 'platonic,' in which case you'll be sat with someone who might just be your new best friend...or your future worst enemy! Who knows?
New arrivals to the city (as played on the TDM) will receive a voucher to the Blind Date Café with their welcome to the city, entitling them to a free meal.
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!
Bishop Heahmund ( Vikings )
» Seeking: A heathen awakening
» Preferences: Pagans
» Interests: Blood, battle and hearing the sound of my own voice
» Bio: Pretentious warrior of God. I take myself too seriously and will take every opportunity to quote the Word of God, not that anyone listens (sinners). Does come with an awesome sword.
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[ I'll match tenses and styles! Feel free to hit me with your best shot or hit me up via PM or on plurk at
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When he'd offer to "help" set up Heahmund's Friendr, he'd had no choice but to accept since he wasn't yet familiar with the technology. So Ivar had given what he thought was a fairly accurate portrayal of the bishop before handing his phone back over to him.]
Where are you staying?
[It would be a good idea to keep tabs on his slave at all times. The temptation to just put him back in chains and a collar (he did so miss the sight of that on Heahmund's neck) was such a strong one.]
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This is, of course, even more of a culture shock than being introduced to a Viking village. At least the people here seemed more civilized -- to some degree.
Until he runs into Ivar. The level of civilization plummets quite a few notches. ]
In the housing they have provided. [ The answer is intentionally obtuse. ]
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[He knows plenty of people in the housing and he's sure most of them would answer his oh-so-innocent questions about the "friend" that had recently arrived from his world. Sorry, Heahmund. He's keeping tabs on you whether you like it or not. In fact, definitely "or not".
It had pleased him greatly to have Heahmund show up so soon after losing his father and Athelstan. That had hurt a lot, but having one of his favorite toys now in the city had gone quite a ways to cheering him up. He can't say why he fancies Heahmund's presence so much, just that he does.
So whether the priest likes it or not, he now has a shadow following him around in a wheelchair being his unwanted tour guide.]
This place is going to be a lot noisier than home, but there's advantages. The food is one of the better things. Just keep in mind you're going to see a lot you're not going to understand at first.
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The wheelchair is an interesting development. It seems a tad less deadly than the crutches that Ivar had often sported and faster than crawling on the ground, so perhaps it's not all that less dangerous -- not that he's particularly worried when it comes to Ivar. ]
What things are those?
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I'm sure you've already seen cars. The transportation that runs without horses. And this. [He taps the phone screen.] It allows people to communicate over long distances.
[He pauses.] Also, some of the Norse gods are here. [Yeah, he'd been waiting to drop that bombshell on Heahmund. The gods are real, priest. What are you going to do now?]
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Sure there are. [ Heahmund will remain doubtful, Ivar. ]
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I will have to introduce you to my uncles, Thor and Loki.
[There's that slightly evil and smug look, the same one he'd worn when he'd told the bishop he was coming on a journey with him when Ivar had kidnapped him from England. It's the one that says that Ivar is right, Heahmund is wrong, and he's going to do everything he can to prove it.]
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I'm sure you enjoy that you have found people to share in your delusions.
[ He's unperturbed by the look the other gives him. ]
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[He'll prove to Heahmund his gods are real one way or another. He's sure Loki would have fun messing with this stubborn priest.]
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Re: Bishop Heahmund ( Vikings )
Jenna kept insisting that they continue, that she try to find a hobby outside the home, something to take her mind off of things. She humored her by window shopping, but anything that usually took her interest seemed too much trouble; besides, she was too drained from taking care of things in the homestead.
The man just a few feet away did cause her to look up, the way his clothes were was different but familar at the same time-and there was the cross around his neck. Even in this place, the christian cross wasn't a common symbol except around certain festivals.
The homespun tunic and skirt she had on was of a neater cut than home, but it was made by a generous shop keeper, and with half her family gone, anything to keep homesickness at bay was taken.
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"Hello," he decided to say out loud. It's still not particularly friendly.
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His tone hardly bothered her, though she took notice of it. She also took notice of why he looked familar; of the stories Ivar told her. "Have you just arrived here? There aren't many here who wear the Cross like that except with smaller pendants."
Likely because they thought it looked pretty, which they were right. However, Gyda wondered if they really knew of what they were wearing.
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"This place is strange," She agreed. "But there are good things. They have buildings called clinics and hospitals, with the healers being called doctors, and have substances that help fight off fevers and other signs of illness."
No matter how long she'd stayed in this realm-given her arrival-such facts would never stop being a novelty for her. Some times, she still had nightmares of the Hall during the plague, of the smell and sounds of people coughing or breathing out their last from the fever.
"Food as well," She tried to focus on the good points of this place. "They have means of storing and preserving food, so that even in winter there's no severe need for rationing or keeping food stores."
Her brothers could worry about battles and war; she'd worry about things that couldn't be fought by the sword and shield.
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"I see," Heahmund acknowledges. "And who might you be?"
At the moment, he doesn't particularly care all that much.
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There was also the possibility that he might take revenge if she'd known; though her family tried to hide it from her, she knew Christians could kill as much as the Northman, whatever their commandments said. She casually made to look like she was just fingering the fringe on her belt, though in reality she was making certain that the knife her brother insisted on wearing was still there.
"What're you called?" Now that she was closer, there was something in his manner that was familiar, but she couldn't recall how or why she should think that; she'd certainly never seen him before.
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"Heahmund."
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"I know of you," She finally said. "My brother spoke of you when he returned from his journey through the Door. He said you're a great warrior even if you fought on the other side."
Which, for Ivar, was about as high a compliment as one could receive.
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