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riverviewooc2017-04-20 11:42 am
riverview: april 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!
● Reserves are currently OPEN.
● Applications open on May 1st.
● 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 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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Recently, a team of skilled explorers went out into the jungle to the Northwest of the city to follow up on several sightings of a giant lizardlike behemoth that's been skulking around outside the walls, a creature whose level of aggression (and therefore how dangerous it might be) was unknown. The team, while not exactly as stealthy as they were supposed to be, did manage to find the creature, which they found to have about the intelligence and temperament of a very, very, very large dog. And whom they named Liam.
Having established that the behemoth (which is around the size of a blue whale, snakelike in shape, but with four legs, brown striated scales, large claws and teeth, bad breath, and an affinity for face-licking) is not an intentional danger to the city, the authorities could not rule out the idea that it might cause accidental damage to the city, walls, or crops around the city. As a result, research has been done and a new mission has been drafted and recruited for - baiting the behemoth. The objective of this large-scale mission is for many small, quick-moving teams to take behemoth bait deep into the jungle for the purpose of luring the massive but mostly-harmless creature away from the city and hopefully to a new, less-inhabited feeding area. There is room for many different teams, and all of them should be heading deep into the jungle heading directly away from the city, going Northwest. The authorities in question have come up with a wide variety of food and pheromone scented lures that range from mild to truly stinky, so which type your team gets is up to you.
Each lure is small enough to fit in a cage-shaped canister that can be carried like a backpack by one person with average strength, and each lure-carrier will need to be accompanied by at least one or two fighters. Why, when the behemoth is peaceful? Well....
The behemoth might not be aggressive, but unfortunately it's picked up some unwelcome companions. After last month's near-disaster where a colony of lizardlike monsters had taken up residence in tunnels under the city, wreaking havoc in the power grid, and were subsequently either killed or flushed out of the underground, some of the local fauna has been bumped down the food chain.
The fauna in question is a very large pack of mammalian six-limbed creatures that usually live in the trees and hunt oversized insects in the underbrush. When the lizards escaped the underground into the surrounding jungle, and drastically reduced the population of the insects the mammals usually feed on, the predators became parasites, attacking the only thing left that is more docile than the insects they usually feed on - the behemoth. These creatures are quick-moving, well-camouflaged in the jungle with mottled brown-and-green fur, and sport massive teeth and long tongues that allow them to stick to whatever surface they land on.
Hungry as they are, they will make no distinction between the behemoth's juicy hide and the lure-carrying teams that are trying to help it. Hopefully, their ranks can be thinned enough that the behemoth survives the trip to its new home.
Not everyone is cut out for missions into the jungle or cleaning up angry predatory parasite monsters, but that doesn't mean that staying home means being safe from the weird things that come out of the portal. In the early morning of April 20th, drawn by the warmth of the rising sun, a massive swarm of rainbow-colored fireflies emerges from the portal into the quarantine. Unlike regular fireflies, though, they are bright enough to glow even during the day, and these bugs have bite! While generally harmless aside from stinging a little, the bite of the rainbow fireflies causes certain kinds of emotional response to become heightened, depending on the color of the firefly in question. While scientists have never run into these bugs before and have no idea how it works, they can cause this effect in any kind of sentient creature that is capable of emotion, including androids and characters that are usually unaffected by substances. The effects on emotions are as follows:
| ● RED: Lust/Anger ● ORANGE: Honesty/Openness ● YELLOW: Fear/Anxiety |
● GREEN: Jealousy/Envy ● BLUE: Sadness/Grief ● VIOLET: Love/Affection |
When a character is bitten, the effects on their emotions can last anywhere from an hour to a week, depending on the character's psychology and resistance to certain emotions - for example, if a character has a hard time dealing with their grief, the effect of a blue firefly may last longer than other colors. How the characters manifest the heightened emotional response or sensitivity is up to the individual player, as different body chemistry or other circumstances might change how characters are affected. Red firefly bites have a 50/50 chance of affecting a character with lust or anger, though characters who have not reached sexual maturity (underage characters) won't get get the lust effect.
Firefly effects can be easily avoided simply by avoiding the fireflies. It won't take long for some of the geniuses in the Quarantine to start making and distributing firefly repellent, and characters can expect sales of mosquito tents to skyrocket.
These alien fireflies have a lifespan of around a month, and they are unable to procreate outside their native environment, which means the last of them will be dying off around May 20th.
CLARIFICATION: In response to a player question, the effects of the fireflies CAN layer, so they can be affected by more than one at the same time. Red fireflies with the lust effect don't make characters incapable of controlling themselves, just heighten feelings of arousal/desire.
Whether your character is posting up a silly word game to distract people from the dangerous mission going on, 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.
Many thanks to
mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!
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Stepping out of the shadows, he replies without a beat. ]
You look ill, dear brother. Don't tell me the mighty Thor has been bested by tiny gnats?
( any colour is fine! though I prefer Orange, if you don't mind? )
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Thor snaps to attention the moment he hears Loki's voice. First, he's surprised, then his brows furrow in response to Loki's scathing commentary.]
Better ill than dead. [Well, that slipped out.] You look awful. [That was meant to be well. You look well.]
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Silver-tongue you are not.
[ Loki circles him, predatory. ]
How did you find me?
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My intent was not to search for you. I'd no idea you were here. [Now it's his turn.] Why are you hiding from me?
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Dead men have no reason to walk among the living. Or have you forgotten our last fateful encounter?
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He doesn't know anything with certainty, that much he can be honest about.]
Do you expect me to take every encounter of ours as wholly authentic? That I would not expect for you to find some way to fool me at every turn? [Not that he didn't, at the time, believe that Loki had passed. It's only lately that he's become uncertain.]
You could hardly blame me for being skeptical. [Flatly.]
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Not that Loki would ever divulge that. ]
So much for a touching reunion.
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He presses his lips together for a moment as he struggles to think of a way to salvage this without going around in circles, biting each other's tails.]
I do not think it was a mere gnat. [He scoffs, lifting a hand to rub where he's been bitten, though it doesn't so much as sting anymore.] I am glad to see you, truly.
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Let's see it.
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I do not believe this will be the end of me, yet.
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Your luck still holds, Odinson. I'm sure you'll have plenty of adventures to prove your might and worth.
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I would not know.
[ It's not as if he has spent time in a cage — oh wait. ]
But no doubt you will survive. There will be plenty of people to . . . admire your heroic deeds.
[ The last few words taper off as if it hurt him to speak. In fact, Loki was starting to look distinctly uncomfortable. He should leave and he knows it. The instinct for fight or flight hangs over him. They no longer mean anything to each other, do they? ]
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There are matters to attend to back home. Ones that I cannot stand to be held back from. [He's getting used to the fact that he's constantly prompted to say everything he's thinking. It's like a hard prod in the back that makes him blurt things out.]
To know that you are here and alive is enough to make this tolerable.
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Tolerable. Loki would laugh if this whole conversation didn't upset his own delicate balance. ]
Surely you'd prefer a world free of my tricks.
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[He's surprised he's letting himself admit that, and surprised Loki is letting him say as much, too. He won't deny he was powerfully angry at Loki for a long time, but he had since redeemed himself. At least in his eyes.]
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Your sentiment still rules you. I . . . would have thought you learned better.
i am loving this thread
I've lost so much in my foolishness, there's so much I cannot right. Mother is gone, Asgard is surely in ruin and my own brother is either dead or despising me.
[He starts soft spoken, but his volume increases as he continues.]
And for how long you hated me, I do not know. I will never know what memories we have had are true and which ones are lies.
ME TOO <3
[ His tone is gentle, and yet painful in its bittersweetness. Trust my rage, Loki had told him and it seemed Thor was caught in his own doubts, much like Loki was. Is. Loki was trapped and he finally saw the trap for what it was. But he cannot escape his own reflection. He can only make it real by playing the part. ]
Everything was a lie.
[ That is Loki's truth. ]
i hope you app because i defs will!!
And yet, there's something in him that's stubborn. It's just stronger than his pain or his feelings of loss and regret. It's hopeful and it's determined and it's damn near the only thing keeping Loki alive.]
I don't believe you. [He says it plainly, with nothing but a smile on his face.]
I have my app all ready to go!
Foolish, foolish sentiment will be the death of him (who though? who will perish first?).
With a sharp inhale, Loki seeks to seal the cracks in his composure. He'll not falter now. He buried the past in the dust of Svartalfheim. If Thor cannot see the merit in that, then Loki will make sure he does. ]
You never did. Is that not what kept us apart? You cannot trust me. You cannot believe me. And you would be fool to.
With that in mind, there is nothing to hope for. Nothing will change, Thor.
[ His tone is calm, almost soothing, if to lull Thor into accepting this conclusion. ]
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But I did trust you, and it never kept us apart. Not until you bid it to. [He could almost laugh, he's so exasperated.]
Things have already changed. [He is relentless in his belief, here. Loki's tone doesn't change what he believes at his core.] You cannot have planned for a situation like this. You have no idea what the future holds, nor do I, but we will both suffer if we pretend as if we are not changed by what occurs around us.
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[ Loki laughs, a clear ringing sound. When he stops, the smile is garish and tight. ]
You wish to talk to me about suffering? How bold of you, Thor.
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[And he's been completely serious, even if he's raising a brow.]
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But since you brought up this topic, Thor, have at it.
[ His arms spread out as Loki leans back. Nothing is out of place, not even a hair. His eyes glitter. ]
After all, my death did not give you sufficient time to unburden yourself. Why not set your grievances free?
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