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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 Maia lets his hand go and takes the cup of chamomile tea, holding it between both hands, glad for something to occupy them. Maia feels light, and his voice is cheerful as he declares: ]
As I wish for yours.
[ There is no way that Csevet will miss the change in formality - this time, it is intentional. Maia takes a sip of the tea, finds it too hot still, and sets it down. His grey eyes are bright as he says, a little amusement creeping into his voice: ]
Well, then, as your friend, I would ask- and it is a request, not an order- that you call me 'Maia'. After all, I am not the emperor, here. The people in this place do not use titles, and we- [ The plural, that time, assuming he can speak for himself and for Csevet ] -want to fit in somewhat, do we not?
[ Maia, it is clear, has taken some steps in pursuit of fitting in. He is no longer, for instance, wearing clothes of the sort he arrived in. He is still dressed decorously, in well-fitted black pants and a long-sleeved shirt with a line of buttons down the front. But he isn't wearing any jewelry, and his hair is done up in a simple bun of three braids twisted together. The effect is asymmetrical enough that it is clear he did it up himself. ]
But tell me, what has happened since you arrived? Have you been given a job? Quarters? Is there aught that you need?
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Truly, that is a path Csevet knows better than to allow his mind to follow, and he ducks his head as if to avoid it, though he is still smiling slightly as Maia says he wishes for Csevet's happiness. His heart fluttering in his chest, Csevet notes the informal and tries to imagine using it in return as Maia most likely expects, and he's barely become accustomed to that thought, foreign and frightening and exciting all at once, before Maia is asking him to use his true name.
To call him Maia and not Serenity or Edrehasivar VII. A request, and not an order.
Lifting his chin, Csevet looks at Maia for a few moments, searching his face as if for some sign of deceit (though truly he knows that there will be no such sign, that deceit is not something Maia dabbles in or excels at) or something else, something he can't put words to. After a moment, he exhales, settles his slim hands on the edge of the table, and lowers his lashes slightly, looking at Maia through them.]
If that is what Serenity wishes... [A pause, a momentary, uncharacteristic hesitation-] ...then I will...I will call you Maia.
[It feels strange and awkward and wonderful on his lips, and Csevet immediately lowers his face, cheeks flushing bright pink, the tips of his ears going almost red but lifting slightly with his happiness and anxiety. Maia continues to speak while Csevet's head spins, leaves him almost dizzy with shock and pleasure, and when he looks up again, he's still smiling slightly, though he's composed himself a good deal.]
I suppose it would be best to fit in. I admit, finding appropriate clothing has been difficult. Everyone here seems to wear so much less than we...I am accustomed to, though it's so overwarm I can hardly blame them.
[It's a tentative foray into humour, the kind he shares with his casual friends among the servants and the couriers, and he watches Maia's face for any sign of displeasure at his flippancy. But, if Maia truly wishes to be friends, then Csevet will make an effort to speak to him as a friend, even if it's tentative, a little frightening.]
I have been given a job, Sere- [A pause.] Maia. A position in which I feel not at all ill-used, though I much preferred my position in the Alcethmeret, and quarters that are much like the dormitories I stayed in at times while I was a courier.
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Maia is not displeased by Csevet's humorous remark, about the clothing here and the warm weather. Instead, he just grins, leaning forward a bit and saying: ]
You cannot yet have seen the half of it. A few weeks ago, there was a grand parade, and most everyone was parading around in- well, in almost nothing. Just- scraps of cloth, and feathers, and string. But do not worry. I know a few shops that I believe will not displease you.
[ Maia sits back, taking up the silverware and beginning to dig in to his dish, saying as he does: ]
It will be as it was when I first arrived at Court, only I will be the one helping you become accustomed to your new surroundings. Only doubtless you will be a far faster learner than I was, and will know more about the ins and outs of this place than me within the week.
[ Maia's voice is warm with fondness as he delivers this compliment, newly relishing his ability to do so, without Csevet being able to refuse it by saying that the emperor should not speak that way to a servant. ]
What is your job?