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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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[ SO EDGY. Child pls.
She slumps back in her chair, still fiddling with the handkerchief, now running it between her fingers instead of twisting at it. ]
Jeff's here. I know, your very favorite person. He said he's been here a few weeks. What about you?
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[Enjoy that none too subtle dad-shade, Athena. You'll be getting a lot of it here.
Cam can't help himself. It's instinct.]
Yes, I know. Lucky me. Of all the people to end up here it's that... [He flips the page of the menu, biting his tongue. Jeff is Athena's mentor, and he only shows him any respect for her sake.] Man.
I arrived earlier this week. Mr. Calhoun's been here longer than I have. Not that he's accomplished anything in that time.
[Make that 'attempts to'.]
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[ Athena shakes her head and smiles a little. She has no idea where Cam and Jeff's whole thing comes from, but it's kind of cute, in a "weird dad posturing" sort of way. She picks up her menu, not really seeing what's on it, not really focused enough to try. ] Yes, that man. Who got kidnapped by cultists and almost possessed so maybe give him some slack on getting shit--stuff done.
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[Jeff Calhoun, ever incompetent. Apparently as mediocre at surviving as he is at teaching.
That makes two people Cam has to keep an eye on, and he trusts one more than the other. At least Athena has street smarts.
Looking across the table, she already looks taller and more mature than the last time they met. Kids. Cam takes a long drink of his wine, and misses his daughter terribly.]
Do you remember when you, your aunt, and I went to the aquarium? They have one here. We could go, after this. If you'd like. For old times' sake.
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[ There, her eyes rested on something long enough for her to actually read what it was. Chicken alfredo. Tada! Choice made. Athena sets the menu down, staring at it again for a few seconds before she looks up at him. ]
Yeah, that'd be all right.
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[Cam sets his menu down at the same time, flagging the waiter as they pass. He orders the risotto. And another glass of wine.
Stress affects everyone differently. Cam's most often with Merlot.
He smiles upon Athena's agreement. Really, it's as much for him as it is for her. They could both use a distraction.]
I heard they have mermaids. I'm both intrigued and concerned.
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[ She orders her own food and hands off her menu, with a quick smile and a thank-you. Her aunt would hang her upside down off their apartment balcony for being rude to waitstaff, no matter how she's feeling.
Waitasecond. ]
Mer--you can't keep mermaids in an aquarium, that's fucked up.
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[Can leans forward with his elbows on the table, watching Athena's face with interest.
She's so much like her aunt in so many ways. Strong, and fair-minded. No matter how strong her apathetic teenage act. Her heart is in the right place.]
For all we know 'mermaids' are fish with legs, but it can't hurt to investigate.
And if we find a wrong, we'll right it.
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[ DEFENSIVE ON BEHALF OF HER MENTOR? YES SHE IS. ] I take him seriously.
[ So... there.... Not that she acts like she takes Jeff seriously half the time. She does when it matters. She does about being a bard. He's the first person she ever met who didn't talk down to her about her Gift, or treat her like she wasn't anything but the thief she'd learned to be when she was on her own. Him, Aunt Nory, then her friends and Waltz himself.
Jeff and Lenore were the first people who made her feel like she didn't exist to be either thrown away or used. ]
...Okay, good. Because I'd hate to go all PETA psycho on my own.
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Bards do have an unsavoury reputation, almost entirely undeserved, and it was kind of Jeff to take her under his wing when so many choose to keep their musical gifts hidden.
Cam breaks the fresh loaf delivered hot from the kitchen to their table, handing Athena one half.]
Darling, please. We are so much better than PETA.
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She stuffs half the bread into her face and then catches herself, biting down and tearing off her mouthful and chewing properly. She smudges some butter off the corner of her mouth with her thumb before remembering oh right, napkins exist.
Look her aunt isn't exactly strict about table manners.
For a second she struggles to swallow, but she's pretty sure talking with her mouth full would be a step too far. ]
I can't believe mermaids are actually a thing. Even if they are just fish with legs. This place is weird.