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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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[Less of a mouthful and a lot less fancy, although now that whole "we" thing is continuing he's starting to guess there's definitely some kinda royal nonsense going on. He could ask, but it doesn't really bother him either way, he can roll with someone using different pronouns than most folks do.]
A hundred percent elf, bubbale, and you're real tall for someone with a goblin mom but that could be a like, different realities thing.
[He'd expect someone with goblin parentage to be shorter and more, well, green, but he knows not to assume that they're describing the same kind of being. Loki's dark elves are very different from those in Fearun, after all.
As for the wizard thing, he snaps his fingers to create a little rain of sparks, because he can. That answers the question well enough.]
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He doesn't have time to dwell on that, because Taako's comment about his height is baffling. ]
Almost certainly a- a different realities thing. Our maternal grandfather is almost seven feet tall.
[ 'Goblin' and 'elf' clearly had different boundaries, in whatever world Taako came from. Maia had never met a full-blooded elf with a complexion as dark as Taako's, and if he thinks goblins are short, well. They're clearly talking about separate things. And yet it is still somehow a comfort, even if the definitions are different.
Maia had only seen one spell before, and that had been the death-spell that Cala had cast on Eshevis Tethimar when he had lunged at Maia with a knife. The moment had been such a chaotic blur that Maia hadn't really seen anything. Magic is not something performed commonly or lightly where he comes from; when Taako snaps and suddenly a rain of tiny sparks falls, Maia flinches, but only for a half-second. Then he laughs, both at his own jumpiness, and at the display of harmless, twinkling light. ]
I wanted to become a maza, when I was young, but-
[ He stops himself, only realizing his own slip into informality after the fact. Better to let that sentence stop there. Whether or not he would have had any talent for magic, without Setheris's impatient and occasionally violent disdain for his hopeful attempts, doesn't really matter at this point. ]
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[Which isn't to say that all goblins are, just that most of them live a little outside of civilization and polite company. They're not usually as well spoken as Maia is.
Taako doesn't miss the slip up, but rather than call attention to it, he just follows the magic part of the conversation.]
Is magic the kinda the people are born with or did ya just not have a knack for it?
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Many elves believe such things in our world, too.
[ Of course, in fairness, goblins had plenty of inaccurate and unflattering ideas about elves, too, but Maia had not grown up around goblins. Taako's words would sting more, if it were not clear that he is not speaking about people like Maia's mother - or Nemer, or Oshet, or any of the many goblins and part-goblins who work as servants of various kinds at court. For all Maia knows, the goblins in Taako's world really are, as he says 'rough'. ]
It is a skill that anyone can be taught, if they have skill enough to be accepted as a novice, but... as you say, we did not have the knack for it.
[ It's true enough, if not the whole story.
Maia turns and looks back to the crab, which has stopped near to the sugar. He watches as, delicately, it picks the little cube up between both of its large pincers, bringing it carefully to its (rather horrible to look at) mouth and starting to nibble at it with an extreme delicacy that is mis-matched with its intimidating appearance. ]
Perhaps we should leave while the ferocious beast is distracted.
[ A little humor in that, at his own expense, for being afraid of an animal that is now clearly harmless. Maia hesitates, then asks: ]
If you would like, we would be pleased to speak to you more, about magic and your world. Might we- buy you a cup of tea?
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If you end up here for a while you could always give other types a shot, magic's easier here for some thugs.
[It seems to be a little more accessible for people who might not have had it in their own worlds, although it hasn't made much of a difference to him.
The joke about the crab gets a little laugh, and as for the offer:]
Make it a coffee and you've got yourself a deal, that's my usual exchange rate for this sorta thing.
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He also thinks about what Taako said, about giving magic another try. It's an interesting idea... of course he's too old to ever be really good at it, but there might not be any harm in testing it out, learning a few things, if he can... ]
You have such conversations often enough to have an established system?
[ He asks it, amused but not quite sure whether or not Taako is kidding. Another thing he isn't so sure about... ]
We... would be happy to buy you a coffee, if we knew what it was, or where we might find it.
[ Is it another beverage? Some kind of food? Or perhaps it's a token of some kind. Maia feels his face heating, embarrassed at his own ignorance. At least he has the small consolation of knowing that word from this place is unlikely to travel back home. So no one in court will ever need to know what an ass he made of himself. And besides... it's not his fault, that there are so many strange things, in this place, that he's never heard of... ]
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[It helps that there are regular events like this where people run into each other and it's easy to pick out someone overwhelmed or unsure about the situation. And Taako had been there, so he gets it. There's no real harm in helping people out, especially if it means they'll remember him and be willing to help him out in return, if he ever needs it.]
Coffee's a kind of drink, hot like tea but made from beans or whatever, not leaves. I think there's a cafe somewhere around here, if you wanna walk with me.
[He can lead the way! He's probably not luring Maia off to murder him or anything.]