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Piper 90: Mods ([personal profile] goneawaymod) wrote in [community profile] goneawaymemes2020-04-04 10:47 pm
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TDM #1


TEST DRIVE #1


So it's your first day at your new job! Welcome to the Jorgmund Family™! It's time to settle into your new workplace on the Piper 90 rig, the coziest place of employment this side of the Livable Zone. A leader in its industry, Jorgmund is excited to have you join them in enthusiastically envisioneering team-driven paradigms.  

The Piper 90 rig's mission is not only an impressive undertaking in terms of impactful customer-oriented deliverables, it's providing a vital backbone to the Livable Zone by creating a safe region for citizens to live, work, and play. Jorgmund's "outside the box" thinking means they understand the importance of wisely investing in their human capital - you! You'll soon find that you'll take pride in this vital work - and the benefits can't be beat.

Rest assured, Jorgmund's multidisciplinary approach to our world's period of recovery means we know how to keep it real when facing this opportunity for restructuring and growth. Jorgmund: Even if most of the world has gone away, we can make a world of difference!

Synergy!

USEFUL LINKS
It is recommended you check out the following links first for info on the rig, rig conditions, game mechanics, and the intro and slideshow your characters would have to endure that takes place chronologically before the Test Drive Meme: 

Welcome/Arrival  | Rig Weather & Hazards | Rig Setting Page | Game Mechanics


SCENARIO #1 - MOVE-IN DAY!

After the bewildering and unpleasant onboarding process, you've finally been unleashed on the rig. (Well. To places you're allowed to go on the rig.) It's time to get acquainted with your new surroundings, process some of All Of That™, and meet your fellow captives - err, coworkers!

a) A BIT OF A MESS
Perhaps you're hungry? The mess hall food isn't amazing, but it does the job. Characters that have higher metabolic needs than your average human might be left feeling a little hungry, though. The worst part is actually the electronic sliding door: a small sign helpfully informs you that if you want inside, you need to smile for the camera! In addition to being patronizing, this may be a problem for characters who refuse to play ball, or characters with sufficiently nonhuman faces the door sensor can't read them. Remember, if then company doesn't see people like you, it's not discriminatory -- it's just indifferent! And that isn't legally actionable!

b) GOING NOWHERE FAST
The rig's elevators are a little off-kilter today. Overhead announcements mention this, but downplay the severity and are easy to miss -- which means you and your threadmate are stuck in here, somewhere between the fifth and sixth floor. You can complain into the emergency intercomm, but it might take from a few minutes up to an hour before the elevator gets rolling again. How do you pass the time?

c) SHOULD'VE TAKEN THAT LEFT TURN
You're really just trying to get somewhere else on the rig, but you've gotten hopelessly lost. Oh well, at least you're not alone! Did you run into your threadmate here? Did you lead them astray? Are they at fault? Even worse, are you somewhere full of AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY signs, mysterious equipment, and a worrying number of security cameras?

d) NEED A HAND?
You've been assigned a room and some relatively spare possessions to put in it. Unfortunately, it seems that the staff assigned to help move in new hires are all busy at the moment. Unless you want to wait around, you're going to need to lug and assemble your new assigned foldable den furniture yourself. Do you team up with another newbie? Do you try it alone and find yourself needing help? Do you come to the rescue of someone else who did that?

e) SPECIAL DELIVERY
Somebody in processing decided to give you two a quick little errand: you're supposed to take a couple boxes of files up to the executive deck. Unfortunately, a skeptical security staffer is giving you a hard time on your way there, on account of your funny-looking face, insufficient ID or sketchy-looking package. How do you deal with this and accomplish your task?

f) BLOW OFF STEAM
You're likely still a bit sore from Jorgmund fitting you with the nanochain, but you were promised a gym and you are going to use that gym, dammit. It looks like you're not alone in deciding to try out the training area. Do you train together? Spar to let some frustration out? Or are you gonna argue about whose turn it is on which piece of equipment and resent your lost solitude? You'll also find you have to contend with the communal showers when you're done.

g) NO REST FOR THE WEARY
It's the middle of the night on the rig. You're displaced from home, it's not very warm, your door doesn't shut because privacy is a "privilege" nobody has earned yet, and occasional mysterious clanging noises ring through the rig. You can't sleep, not yet, and perhaps you're not the only insomniac wandering the crew deck?


SCENARIO #2 - YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO PANIC

Around dawn on the morning of Day Two, something goes wrong. (Wrong-er?) You awake to the sound of alarms, and a voice over the speakers telling you NOT TO PANIC! A Stuff storm has caused a brief and contained leak onto Piper 90. You may encounter strange sights or sounds. Any anomalies should be reported immediately to rig security. Thank you for your cooperation!

The nature of the problem isn't immediately clear, but over the next handful of hours you find yourself embroiled in a bizarre fracas: a Stuff leak has caused numerous inanimate objects on the rig to come to life. Furniture and appliances small and large are roaming the decks. Some of them are docile, but others are aggressive (or just troublesome due to their size). Some examples:
  • A rogue photocopier spewing paper and ink
  • A mahogany conference table with old clawed feet and a brand new gaping jaw
  • A water cooler that scuttles the halls, squirting people with jets in varying temperatures
  • Small office supplies like pencils and paperclips that swarm in large numbers
  • Dressers and drawers that spit their contents at high velocity
  • A room's worth of folding chairs that hunt as a pack
  • An emergency fire hose that attempts to ensnare crew members in its coils
  • The angriest coffee pot you have ever seen
The objects can be dangerous, but are more strange, troublesome, and determined than deadly. If a foe seems to be incapacitated or "plays dead," even the aggressive conference table or hose will leave them with bruises and move on. Crew members who get in over their heads will be bailed out by security personnel as the incident dies down. Jorgmund staff stresses that the leak has been contained (so no new anomalies will appear), but after the initial surprise it's everyone's job to help hunt down and dispose of the Stuff-altered... stuff. It's gonna be a long morning, and you haven't even been properly briefed yet!

h) GOOD MORNING, PIPER 90
Rise and shine! There are alarms going off, announcements blaring, and people are scrambling around trying to figure out what's going on. You're one of them. Freak out? Spring into action? Team up with someone to shake down a staffer for more details? Run into someone new, perhaps literally?

i) INTERIOR WRECKORATING
You've been ambushed by an animate object that seems to have it in for you, or you've heard the shouts of someone who has and come running to help. What's ruining your morning now, and what are you going to do about it?

j) ON THE RUN
The folding chairs from Presentation Room B operate as a unit, harrying their prey through the halls with much scrambling of legs and flapping of seats. They're after you, at the moment. Can you escape, or perhaps lead them into a trap? Or do you stand your ground?

k) HERE'S THE PLAN
You and your threadmate have found somewhere secure (for now) and are deciding how to deal with a larger enemy. Are you hunting it, or is it hunting you? Are you planning to take it out of commission, or just how to get away from it? Or are you just gonna hide here and lay low until this is over?

l) PROP HUNT
Things are getting back under control, thankfully. Large disturbances have been disposed of, but that leaves the little things like elusive chains of paperclips, a small but vicious stapler, pens and markers that write rude words on walls, and utensils from the mess hall. These anomalies are stealthier, but must still be dealt with, and it's up to you to flush them out.

m) CLEAN UP IN AISLE EVERYTHING
The chaos has passed, and now you've been instructed to clean up a mess. Ink or loose paper from the copier, coffee from the rampaging pot, mopping up after a water cooler, scrubbing marker off a wall, etc. You might get roped into contending with the Yuck Puddle, which is a permanent fixture and not a new development, but someone's always contending with the Yuck Puddle.


OOC DETAILS

Feel free to play around with powers. If your character has powers from canon you want to play around with, go for it. If you'd like to test out possibilities for game powers, also go for it. Feel free to change it up from thread to thread if you need to. This can be handwaved as exposure to Stuff making characters' powers shift a few times before settling.

Potential players may use test drive threads as their log samples. However, at least one post in their thread must fit the requirements for apps, both in length (200 words) and in quality. If you do plan on using a thread as a sample, please make sure the writing throughout your threads is a good example of your writing skills and has some solid examples of the character's voice.

Players can eventually count TDMs towards AC. They can only count towards comment-based AC proofs.

Potential players can opt to keep these threads as game canon when they app in, or start over fresh, based on preference. The Stuff bringing them to the game universe can fog their memories, if players don't want their character to remember TDM threads when introing into the game.

The game is invite-only. Players without invites are allowed to tdm since some of them may know someone in game to ask for one, and since some people enjoy TDMs just for fun in games they don't plan to app into. But an invite is required during the apping process.

The game is at a starting cap at 30 players. Right now the current number of invitees is likely to not exceed the game's 30 slots, but if we go a few over they will still be allowed to app during this first round. Future apps will be rolling apps and will have a wait queue if the cap has been exceeded.

The first game round will be apps only, no reserves. Apps open: Sat 4/11/20. Game start: Fri 4/17/20.


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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-19 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Reeeeeeeeally big Grimm," Nora explains. "I've never fought one personally. You pretty much need missiles." She shrugs. "I don't know what 'the galaxy' is, so we're even."

It's what she'd been about to ask before he knocked all the air out of her lungs.
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-19 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
"All right. The galaxy is.. well, you've seen stars at night, yes?" He continues. "Galaxies are systems of stars all bound to each other by gravity, along with a lot of other things. Planets, nebulas, asteroids, rings made of ice, that sort of thing." He has no idea she probably doesn't know half those words. "I was created as part of a force to conquer all of them. To make a place safe for humanity, after ten thousand years of darkness and slavery. Well, maybe created is the wrong word."
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-19 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, so it's what you call a bunch of stars. Cool," Nora says, missing the point a little, but at least Loken doesn't have to teach Astrophysics 101 in the gym. "You're from one of those places that has a lot of planets."

She's iffy on this galactic war of his, but ten thousand years of darkness and slavery doesn't sound super-great, either, so she just leaves that alone.
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-20 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"That is correct, though the star I am from had only one marginally habitable planet. It was a mining world left to rot, and overrun with kill-gangs."

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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-20 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't sound fun." That sounds like the opposite of fun, in fact. "But you don't live there anymore? I probably wouldn't go back for a visit, personally."

This just in, Nora has no sense of the scale of the galaxy.
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-20 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. I'll be going back for a visit. Just once." Probably with a battlebarge and void torpedoes.

"And no. I don't... live any place anymore. I go places, I fight, I re-arm, and I find another place where the war that has set the galaxy aflame is burning."
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-20 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Nora makes a sound midway between a laugh and a sigh. "Sounds like my life since the fall of Beacon--that's the academy where I was training to be a Huntress," she clarifies before Loken can ask. "Sometimes it feels like the whole world is coming apart."
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-20 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"There's only one thing to do. Cling to your own convictions. Do what is right, as best you can, and take what victories you can."

He looks towards the door, and half whispers. "I think we both know we need to do something about our erstwhile masters."
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-20 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Tough when they've got a kill switch." Nora's eyes narrow. Did she get shocked unconscious on Day 1? Maybe. "Not like I'm much of a tactician, but that's gotta go first."
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-20 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Loken nods, then says. "A kill switch only works when they can see you doing something they don't like, though. So evading their detection to do what we need to do also works."

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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-20 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Nora scoffs. "That shouldn't be hard. Nothing here works right and half the employees wouldn't care if you set your mattress on fire."
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-21 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
"If you've done that, where do you sleep?"

Loken looks shocked.
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-21 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Loken is weird. Sometimes he's hypercompetent, sometimes he's worse than Ruby. Nora thinks he probably hasn't done anything but fight his war for a very long time, and the look she gives him is a mixture of skepticism and amusement.

"It was a hypothetical...but it's not like I haven't slept on the floor before."
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-21 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I thought it was a reference to lived experience." Also she seems like the type to totally set a mattress on fire just to cause havoc. "And of course, given your training and being a huntress, as you said."
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-21 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Excuse you, if Nora sets her mattress on fire it's all part of the plan. Or she isn't paying attention. Or she didn't think something through. But it's definitely never simply for the hell of it.

"I've never set my bed on fire." The twin facts that she doesn't take offense and has to think about it for a second before issuing a blanket denial might be a little worrisome.
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-05-23 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. He doesn't quite notice though. "At any rate, well fought. I would suggest we go and get something to replenish ourselves, but the food rations are rather stark around here."

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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-05-29 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Nora's small enough that the serving sizes aren't outright starvation rations for her, but Loken definitely can't survive on what a skinny five-foot girl can.

"They're so disorganized." She shakes her head. "They'll have to straighten it out once somebody realizes they're gonna starve you big guys to death."
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2020-06-02 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
"You needn't worry about that with me, if I get too gaunt I'll end up in a sus-an coma until someone is able to revive me with an infusion of high-calorie food and drugs, most likely."