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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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[ And by “kill me” she means “probably disapprove.” Still, she’s curious about this boy too, now that she’s gotten out the rage of being called a banshee. ] So you don’t have to do anything. No ritual, no plan, you just make shit happen.
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[ TRUST CHASE, HE KNOWS.
...
Anyway, magic's way more interesting to talk about. ]
That's right. [ He grins. ] It's like flexing a muscle. [ Then, curiously: ] So does everyone in your world like... have to get into musical theatre to cast or what?
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But magic tho. ]
No? Like. I sing, my aunt uses crystal formations, people do woodwork, or dance, or paint, or whatever, really. There's probably someone who has to fart their spells. It depends.
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[ Haha Chase is so witty. ANYWAY. ]
Well, that sounds like a pain in the ass. Pun intended. [ There's a moment, though, where Chase starts to go a little serious, thinking. ] So it's like... a family thing, or anyone can do it where you're from?
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[ THE DRYEST LOOK.
She sees the shift in his demeanor and lets him think things out, going over to the sinks and pulling herself onto the countertop to swing her legs. ]
Not really a family thing, no. I mean, it can run in families, but my whole family's Blanks other than my aunt.
[ And they all fucking suck, but details. ] It's a family thing for you?
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Chase crosses his arms, leaning against the counter. He's not even sure how to answer that except with a snort. ]
Yeah. It's all about your blood. Your lineage. [ He shrugs, throwing a bitter grin her way. ] But it gets a little complicated when you're adopted.
[ So there's something they have in common! Raised by 'Blanks.' ]
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[ Bad enough being a stealth dyke in her parents' house with the Gift. That had been the one thing that kept her sane, even if she had to be tutored after school by her English teacher and tell her parents she was on the track team.
That lie hadn't lasted very long. At least when her teacher found out, she'd threatened to call CPS on her parents. Even if it wouldn't have led anywhere, even the smell of a mark on the family name was unacceptable. Particularly after Aunt Nory.
She leans back until her head touches the mirror and she can have a weird, upside-down staring contest with her own reflection. ]
Don't they have records to keep track of witches where you're from? It should have been like, in your file or something, right?
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[ TELL HIM MORE. For all his trolling and shit talking, she seems to be holding his interest more than most people. So maybe-- MAYBE-- he's actually genuinely interested in learning more about this chick.
And then he has to laugh. Man, what kind of world does she come from? He's met people from, like, dark ages types of worlds who're totally open about magic, but most who're from worlds like his tend to have experiences similar to his own: lives of secrecy. ]
Witch, please! That's like asking for a sequel to Salem! [ Hell, he's still getting used to being able to Use in the open here. Sometimes there's a part of him waiting for the other shoe to drop. ] I didn't even know there was anything different about me until I turned 13.
[ Pause. He seems to turn over his own words, in his head, and concedes-- AS IF ANYONE WAS ASKING: ] Okay, I knew some things about me were different. [ The gay thing. The adopted thing, too, since that was never a secret. ] But not that I had magic freaking powers! They've seriously got a witch registry where you're from?
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Parents kicked me out. I got by with busking and... convincing people they wanted to give me their shit.
[ She glares preemptively, daring him to say something about it. ]
We get tested for the Gift when we're kids. It's not like they track us or anything, but there's laws against using your Gift on other people, things to keep us from abusing it. There's too many of us for Salem part two. We'd fuck up anyone who tried.
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I mean, he murdered his parents, so who's he to judge her for getting kicked out. ]
If that's true, why didn't you guys stop Salem part one? I mean, I'm guessing you didn't, anyway... [ If only because it sounds like there was a Salem part one at all!! ] Anyway. It's all hush-hush where I'm from. Totally a secret. There's only like four other witches my age. They all grew up knowing what they were.
[ And he tried to kill them, OOOOPS. ]
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[ The witch thing was what finally pushed them over the edge.
She shrugs at the whole Salem situation. ] We used to hide. I don't know. Maybe there weren't as many of us back then. But then the whole World Wars thing happened and it's kind of hard to stay hidden when you're using your Gifts to try and help stop Nazis from taking over the world.
[ Athena wrinkles her nose. ] So you had to figure it all out on your own? Jesus. We have classes, foundational stuff while we work on our rituals.
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My parents might've kicked me out, too, if they'd known. [ Totally cavalier: ] Too bad they're dead now!
[ Now that's interesting. They're only... kind of recently out of the broom closet in her world. ]
Lucky bitches. I just had a lot of trial and error.
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Wouldn't mind if mine bit it.
[ If she thinks about that statement too hard she might start feeling guilty or something, so she's just gonna shove it aside. ]
We've got some of that too. You don't just start off knowing your ritual. It didn't take me too long to figure it out--it's like, magic kind of... attaches itself to things that matter to you? And I always loved singing.
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[ Chase, no. Stop encouraging parricide. ]
Huh. [ He mulls over that for a moment, wondering how he'd do if he'd grown up in a place like that. Would he be, say, 75% less homicidal? Less of an addict? Which begs the question: ]
So, you guys do your rituals, and then what? You just get to Use magic like-- [ He snaps his fingers. ] --that? No side effects?
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Athena shrugs. ]
If people go too far, like push themselves too hard or try to do a spell that's too big or something like that they can flame out. Usually kills them. We get lots of lectures on it. [ She deepens her voice: ] Responsible and saaafe use of your Gift.
[ Another shrug. ] But that's only really extreme cases. Like... I don't know, I'd have to be tearing my voice box to pieces before I'd be at risk. Why? You get side effects?