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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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[ Which says a lot, coming from Molly. ]
It has a lot of things that doesn't exist in Exandria. Like everlasting lights not made by magic but lighting instead? That's just one small thing, too.
[ He starts heading towards the cheapest restaurant he knows. Technically he doesn't have a job yet and is just busking on the streets, otherwise he'd take her somewhere fancier than whatever is the Riverview equivalent of a fast food place. Still, it's food? ]
They have all kinds of people here, too. Folks I've never even heard of, and others that are claiming to be some kind of gods. I don't think they'd have an issue with goblins.
[ He nods a little to her mask. It's not his place to decide whatever makes her feel safer, just putting it out there. ]
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The mention of the diversity of people and the notion that people might be fine with goblins is... a little alarming. Gods are kind of out of her wheelhouse, thanks. She pulls the mask tighter over her face, despite his assurances.]
I'd rather not find out the hard way. I'll just be a regular halfling girl, thanks.
[She looks up and around at all the places around them, though. Very fancy looking stores and other businesses, punctuated by lush greenery all around...
This place makes her feel so out of her own body that it's terrifying. She's been taking it slow, keeping to herself, focusing on losing Caleb (if... temporarily), but mainly she's been too scared to even explore the place. There's so many people around.]
If even you're overwhelmed, there's no hope for me. Maybe we can escape and go live in the forest or something. That sounds much better and safer.
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Then again, maybe she'll love a cheeseburger with whatever mystery meat they put in that more than anything else?
He doesn't push the goblin issue, because that's her call and he'd rather see her safe while hidden than shooting someone. Especially in this place where every other person had some kind of magic. ]
If it's too much for you, we can definitely get away for a while. Not sure abut the forest outside the walls, though. Apparently they're full of monsters.
[ Which technically would be easier to handle, but probably deadly as well in a party of only two. ]
How is everyone back home? I've been here almost a month and I can't even imagine the stuff you've been up to.
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Okay, maybe not the forest, then. Maybe we can just, I don't know, find a nice hovel and board up all the windows and become hermits. Maybe that's our new gig. Being hermits.
[She's mostly joking, though, because she knows she wouldn't survive locking herself up. It'd basically be prison all over again, just a self-imposed one. She plays with her hair.]
Everyone is... fine. Beau and Caleb were fighting again. I don't know if telling you means much though, because you were there when it happened?? You can't have been here a month, you must be counting the days wrong. We've barely been a group for a month. And I saw you, you were right there when we hunkered down to sleep in that safehouse. You're very hard to miss.
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[ The truest thing he has ever said, weirdly enough. ]
I have a bed in some kind of free inn, but the sleeping arrangements are very out in the open with no rooms.
[ The only other real place outside bars and food places he had been to was the sex shop Taako took him to, and he seriously doubt Nott wants to see that.
At her words about what was going on in Exandria, Molly has to stop for a moment and try to backtrack the length of time he'd been here. ]
This place works different on time, or so I was told. I don't remember a safehouse, last I know we were trying to get out of Zadash.
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That sounds completely awful. I would never sleep in an inn like that. People could just walk right up and steal your things!
[You know, exactly the thing she'd do! When Molly explains the time discrepancy though, her mind completely blanks. She has no idea how to even begin to tackle that.]
You mean... you've forgotten everything that happened after we took those jobs from the Gentleman? Labenda Swamp? Kiri? That shifty dragon girl?
[She tries to grab him by the shoulders, but he's much too far up, so she settles for accosting him by the arms and giving him a good shake.]
Oh no! Your amnesia is coming back!!! Molly! You have to remember! How many fingers am I holding up!?
[She holds up two clawed fingers and hides her other hand behind her back.]
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Molly fully agrees with her on the unsafe inn procedures (there's a reason he's wearing his coat even if it's hot outside), but he's not able to comment much on it before Nott is grabbing him.
It takes a second for him to take it in, and when he does it's really sweet of her to worry. Of course he can't quite handle that, so he goes back to being a little shit instead. ]
Five.
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[She pulls the other hand forward to reveal that she was, in fact, holding up five fingers total between the eight on each hand. You thought you were being a shit about her having only four fingers on each hand, didn't you Molly? No. All along, it was Nott being the shit.
Only now she's had her brain completely jostled out of the matter at hand. She shakes her head and puts herself back on track.]
Maybe we have to scare your memories back. Molly, if you don't remember everything that happened after Zadash, I'm gonna... stab you in the kneecaps!
[She pulls out her short sword.]
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[ Honestly he's kind of freaking out himself about the memory thing, but that's his own problem. He prefers to not get stabbed anywhere right now, even if it comes from a good place.
(He's Mollymauk Tealeaf. He's a fortune teller. He's a member of the Mighty Nein. He remembers, he's not forgetting.) ]
This place... an elf told me that his sister is from another time than him, so it has to be the Quarantine. Not me.
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I wasn't really going to stab you.
[If Molly's the only one of them here, she's going to need him to hide behind.]
This must be some powerful magic if that portal is able to take people from different points in time. If Caleb were here...
[She hiccups, a leftover from her drunken state the night before. It stops her sentence in its tracks, and by then she's too depressed to continue it. If Caleb were here, he'd love to study it. He could learn so much.]
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It was always good to be prepared.
Nott's mention of Caleb and her trailing off is kind of a wakeup call, really. She didn't do well on her own, just like him. She always had Caleb to protect and to protect her, and now she was alone with a carnie.
Carefully, Molly puts a hand on her head. He can't reach her shoulder without leaning down even more, and that would just be awkward. ]
We'll get back to them. You can tell Caleb all about it.
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I'm not sure I could describe it well enough. He'd know what to look for. What to ask. I don't even remember what all the schools of magic are. He's so smart.
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[ Molly you don't even know how to read fancy words. ]
It could help. Like you said, he's a smart man. He could figure it out.
[ Finally at the food place, he orders some burgers through the window. The person inside rolls their eyes because why is the purple man in the damn drive-through again, but they get their food. ]
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[Nott, who fully believes Caleb can do anything if he felt like it, feels like Caleb could get them back home if only he were here. But he's not, so they're going to have to just wait on the mages that are here.
Nott takes her burger from Molly, sniffs it curiously, then takes a big bite. Holy shit. What is this invention.]
Even the food is new... Have you really been here that long by yourself?
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[ It's not that he doesn't believe in Caleb, but this was probably god-level stuff. So he's with Nott on waiting for the mages or 'scientists' here.
Molly nods a little at her mention of the food being different, promising himself to introduce her to iced coffee later. Taako's had a bad influence on him.
...and then; ]
Yeah. I have.
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But she knows she'd feel pretty bad if she were here by herself -- she just got done thinking she was and drinking herself into a stupor before she ran into Molly -- so she decides not to dwell too much on that.]
Well... On our way out of Zadash, we were approached by the Gentleman with some jobs and we took them, so we started heading northward to Labenda Swamp. Which, okay, possibly the worst location I've ever been in. Just for the record. Terrible place. But we adopted a little bird -- well, big, she's big for a bird, she's about my size but she's a child named Kiri -- because she was about to be eaten by alligators. And then I was almost eaten by an alligator. It was awful.
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Listening to Nott talk about what they were doing and eating how own burger, Molly makes a slight face at the mention of goblin-eating alligators. ]
Did it spit you out because it didn't like your taste?
[ Booze-marinated goblin sounds unappetizing. ]
...and why are we saving a bird?
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[She was unconscious for them actually killing the thing, she doesn't know who saved her in the end.]
And because she's adorable and innocent and deserves only good things! She's a bird person, not just a bird. And she's only a child.
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[ He really is, even if the phrasing makes him sound like a dick. 'Cause he is that, too.
Her explanation about the bird kind of helps, though. There was a difference between a bird and a bird person. ]
Alright, alright. It sounded a little like it was just a bird and I was wondering if we were losing our minds. What's her name?
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[She squints at him suspiciously over her burger. That sounds like something a person who wanted to feed her to a pet alligator would say. He probably doesn't have one of those, though.]
Her name is Kiri and she's very talented. We're protecting her because her family all got eaten.
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Huh. That's new for us.
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[He might not, but Nott is firmly on Team Kiri, okay.]
She's an asset to the team.
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Well, I'm sure we can find her a good place to grow up.
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[Nott hasn't thought that far ahead. She just wants to keep her safe. Kiri is a joy in Nott's life, and those are few and far in between.
More common now that she's fallen in with the Mighty Nein, at least. But mostly, life is difficult, and it can be tough to find the light in it.]
She's very good at stabbing corpses.
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[ He's not about to crush her happiness or anything, he's not that kind of asshole. Instead he's gonna hand her some fries and change the subject. ]
What exactly did the Gentleman want from us?
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