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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!
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Wait a second! ( not that she's a crab rights activist or anything, but that's her shit. ) I said wait!
( give her a damn second to catch up from across the field, okay? )
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though, he really couldn't blame her for his willingness to go toe to toe with these things.
robbie circles the crab while rushes toward him. lifting his head up he shouts in her direction.]
Looks like you could use a hand. Don't pull a muscle trying to get here. I think I can handle this one.
[and with that comment he brings his attention back to the crab, dodging as it tries to lunge at him. robbie follows with a kick and punch combo as another joins the first. his next few punches don't connect, but by then she's caught up to crab number one.]
Hey. You made it. What do you say we kick some crab ass?
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( she just wants her charge cord back, and this wannabe-terminator is trying to kung fu the crab into submission. why? probably to make her life more difficult than it needs to be, because that seems to be the way the world works these days.
skye heaves a melodramatic sigh, sizing up the crab beasts for a moment before picking up a rock from a nearby pile and hurling it towards the scuffle. it doesn't quite make contact with either mister latino jackie chan or the crab, but it at least startles the latter enough that the pinchers release her gear, creature snapping angrily in her direction before rushing off to start another wave of aggression in the man's direction.
not ideal, really, but at least it gives her enough time to dart in and scoop up her cord. )
Now's probably a good time to consider bailing, you know!
( as for skye? that's totally what she's going to do, because signing up for animal control wasn't really on her agenda today. )
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not that it makes contact. with anything.
but the crab drops whatever it was holding and makes a lunge at him, which leaves robbie with few options. he reaches out and grabs hold of the crab, just beneath the pinchers, doing his best to wrestle it to the ground.
she swoops in to grab whatever of hers the crab had stolen, and then shouts that he should consider bailing.]
Huh? What? Bailing?
[and then she starts doing just that. he lights the one crab on fire and throws it toward the other one and starts hurrying toward her.]
What the hell was that all about, Daisy? Since when do you run away from a fight?
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it seems way more likely that this is another case of spoiler alerts from the future, a la spiderman's sokovia name drop, and skye's really not sure she's ready for that. but she can't run forever — figuratively and literally, considering her stamina's just now breaking a decent miles-per-minute ratio. so, fine; it's with no small amount of irritation that skye stops in her tracks, spinning around to face the mystery man, arms crossing indignantly over her chest. )
It's Skye. ( god help her, she's not a fucking flower. ) And I don't need to fight some stupid overgrown crab, I just wanted my shit back.
( which she got. thus, bailing. )
If you want bonus points for hero duty, that's on you.
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Okay. [he mutters, hands held up in as non-threatening a pose he can muster.] Skye. Got it.
But I remember you, and you've got hero written all over you. What happened?
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I don't know what you remember, dude, but as far as I know? We've never met.
( deep sighs. this is totally spoilers territory, and skye's pretty sure she's not supposed to get cliff notes about her future from some guy with facial hair out of a latin pop music video. )
Sorry. ( she doesn't mean to sound so aggressive. it's just ... confusing. timelines are garbage. ) I just — spoilers, I guess.
( time for the standard shield litmus test. )
Does a flying red Corvette mean anything to you?
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well, wasn't that basically how his uncle nearly destroyed los angeles?
it puts them in a weird spot, of course. but there's at least a few safe topics. shield, for instance.]
Yeah. Coulson nearly ran me over in it.
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Hey! No soliciting! We don't wanna buy your vacuums, and we already go to the church down the street.
[He looks at Skye, almost like he's having an aside, but they all can hear it.]
... is Crouching Tiger Hidden Firefists giving you any trouble?
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as if the added company isn't annoying enough, he's got to go and sling insults. no manners on that one.]
Anyone ever tell you that you're an annoying little spider that needs to be squashed?
[he shifts his gaze back to skye for a moment before he fires back at the stranger in a rather ridiculous costume.]
Skye and I were just catching up on things back home. Weren't we?
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( talk about disastrous situations. it's not that he's technically giving her trouble — she might not know his name yet, but if he knows coulson and in theory knows her in the future, skye has to assume he's probably an okay guy. besides, she can defend herself if she has to.
but snapping at a friend who's just trying to do the right thing isn't cool, and considering she actually knows the webswinger for longer than two seconds, it becomes pretty clear whose side she's going to have to take. )
First of all, everybody take, like, five thousand deep breaths. I'm fine, this is fine, it's — whatever. Spoiler alert: I don't know anything anybody talks about in the future, I just ... don't.
( she needs a fucking drink. and to take a breath herself before addressing the two men. or, you know. boy and man. whatever!!! )
Spider-Man, meet future dude. Future dude, Spider-Man.
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But just in case, he looks at the guy with one spider eye squinted.]
What, like the Terminator? Or Kyle Reese?
There's two very distinct breeds of Future Dude.
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he gives a shrug at the question. how is he supposed to answer that? but since spider man is looking less tense, he can at least seem a little less imposing, relaxing his tensed muscles and breathing a sigh.]
That's kind of a little loaded isn't it? Cause the Terminator isn't always the bad guy. Besides, I'm not like... distant future. More like just a few years, later.
My name's Robbie. I met Skye in Los Angeles, but apparently I'm some kind of spoiler and she doesn't know me... Yet.
I'm not trying to cause any trouble.
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To be fair, Spider-Man's a spoiler for me too. Apparently there were some accords in Sokovia and SHIELD's a thing now.
( #shrug )
Can we all play nice now? Because I really only came out here to rescue some kidnapped tech so I could get back to marathoning Riverview's Next Top Model ...
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[Is it even a word in the dictionary, though? Good question. Excuse him while he shoots a tiny web to stick one of the gross crabs to the ground, just before flipping to hang out like he's on a jungle gym.]
Do they really have a Next Top Model here?
[May would love that, man. Wait, wasn't this a serious intervention? Not anymore it's not. I'm so sorry, Robbie.]
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[he says mostly to himself. don't mind his mild look of jealousy as spidey shoots a web at one of those crabs. he just misses his chain. it seems that skye's gotten her wish, there's no longer an immediate threat of a throwdown.
but he's not feeling the whole RNTM thing.]
If there is... I'm not watching. There's gotta be something better to watch. Sports? Buddy Cop shows? I'll even take Seinfeld.
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( but she stops short, the words trailing off into dead air as skye considers the possibilities. what were they? friends? colleagues? something a la bobbi and hunter, unspoken but understood? she wasn't sure, and suddenly, potentially being wrong about it out loud made the whole thing way more real. )
Well. I'm not watching Seinfeld, even if we are on the moon.
( he didn't exactly invite you to, skye!!! )
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[Maybe he should ask more about this guy's alien problem, because people are way more connected here than a lot of them think to be honest.
Also one sec, let Spider-Man inadvertently insult everyone here for a minute.]
Oh, wait! Seinfield? Isn't that some super old show from the 90's?
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skye who is actually going along with his inserting himself into her daily routine. they're not friends. not yet, no matter how many vivid memories he may hold of this woman.
he's all set to ask just what she'd like to watch instead when spider-man yet again shows his age. kids these days.]
Seinfeld's a classic! Better than watching YouTubers at any rate.
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( and she's not watching it. which she already said, so no reason to repeat herself. instead, she'll just find herself a currently-unoccupied tree stump to casually sit upon, one leg crossing over the other while she watches senor grouchy — robbie — play old man vs the hooligans with spider-man. whose name she apparently still doesn't know. weird. )
YouTube is also terrible, if you mean vloggers, but it's useful for crowdsourcing information and first-hand accounts of weird shit.
( like, you know, other people who randomly have special powers. not that skye's had opportunity to play with that quite yet in her own history. but soon! maybe! if she ever goes back home! )
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[There are also a ton of clips of Spider-Man on there, not that he looks himself up...!!
And triumphantly, flipping to land on the ground, he holds up a finger.]
And score one for me, that's two against one on Seinfield. [He really should get back to stopping giant crabs, because bigger, badder monsters have been hopping the fence for them. But, you know. Trashing old shows is more crucial.] Friends is better.
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what is surprising though?
that spidey likes friends.]
Really? Friends? Smelly cat... we were on a break... that Friends is better?
I think you might be loco for more reasons than that you run around in your underwear, dude.
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( the shows, and the two boys arguing? yeah, both. they're both terrible. she's sticking with that. )
As is this godawful forest we're apparently going to linger in. Can we, you know. Relocate this happening conversation to somewhere less garbage? Maybe a place with actual food?
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... You wear underwear under things you wear, anyway, so.
[He's so offended, how could you betray him like this. Both of you! He gives Skye a huff before glancing at the time in his HUD system, and — Oh, geez. He's a little begrudging about it, like a kid who can't go to recess because the playgrounds all flooded.]
Actually — I should... probably get back to work; got a lot of gnarly monsters popping up thanks to these freaky little Half Life 2 rejects, and the last thing we need is some weird alligator-bird-frog the size of a car trying to eat any of the civilians around here.
But — rain check, maybe? I'll even pay for the food next time.