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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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What if he gave out his secret to the wrong person? ]
No . . . ma'am. We — we should go.
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Miss, please! Miss. I'm way too young to be a ma'am yet!
( That's got her laughing softly, before she extends a hand. )
Allrighty, grab on to my hand, okay? I don't want to lose you in this uh... is it a jungle, or a rainforest? I mix the two up all the time. In whatever this kind of forest is.
( And if she makes just the teeniest use of her superspeed to get them past the bug in a hurry, she will never admit to it. It's with a great sigh of relief that she peers all about their surroundings and can spy nor hear no overly large insects. )
What's your name, kiddo?
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I'm Jon. Jonathan Kent.
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And she's caught between confusion and something else that's tightening her chest. )
I'm Kara Danvers. It's, ah... nice to meet you, Jon. Any relation to Martha and Jonathan Kent, from Kansas?
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[ And that knowledge is bittersweet. Nobody knows who Jon is and the old fears haven't been laid to rest. He fiddles with his large glasses nervously. ]
They're my grandparents. My dad told me about them.
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( This is... oh, look! A fallen log, how convenient. Kara is going to march right over to it as if in a stupor and sit down heavily. And then look over at him in amazement. )
Are you... telling me that I'm a cousin and I guess sort of aunt, and nobody told me? No, wait! Aha. This is another one of those alternate reality situations, isn't it. or you're from my future—or—
( Sheepishly, she smiles over at him. )
Sorry. I'm not crazy, I promise. Just surprised! In a good way.
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Different reality. And you're my cousin once removed? That's how you explained it to me.
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She'd rather get to know her new cousin. )
That's cool! ( And sweet Rao, Clark finally proposed to Lois, then. Little fireworks go off in the back of her mind. ) Guess so. It's hard... and weird to argue with myself.
Let me guess: the three of you were living in Metropolis before you ended up here?
( It would take several somethings freezing over for Clark to leave his city. )
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No, we live in Hamilton County. It's a few hours away from Metropolis. We had to stay there because . . . of reasons.
[ He looks away, briefly, chewing on his lower lip. Some of those reasons were Jon, others were complicated. Even now, Jon couldn't explain himself adequately, struggling to explain his story. ]
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Kara reaches forth to lay a gentle hand on his shoulder. )
Are the three of you happy out there? That's what counts the most. People, not places are what make a home.
I realized that eventually, when I was a bit older than you.
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[ It's pretty obvious from the way his mom went back to her job and his father keeping tabs on the city. Not that it bothered Jon. ]
But the farm is nice and Hamilton's a pretty decent place.
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( She'd always fly back to check on National City, too. If she could. Being here puts a stop to that, but what's important—her family—is here.
So she doesn't feel so put-out at all about being stuck. )
Oh, yeah? Got any animals there, or do you guys grow crops?
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We have a few cows, but it's mostly crops.
[ But he brightens. ]
I can drive a tractor though!
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( She grins. )
Impressive! You'll have to show me how, I can't drive anything.
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[ Jon doesn't have strong feelings for cows. ]
Really? I can show you. It's easy. Maybe in return, you can tell me more about Krypton!
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( All animals are awesome because they're totally different from everything she'd ever known before arriving on earth. And she's also a consummate nerd. )
I tend to fly everywhere, so that sounds entirely fair to me. A deal's a deal, kiddo. here, let's shake on it.
( And like a nerd, Kara offers her hand. )
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[ Jon can't even manage that yet. But he smiles warmly, shaking her hand with complete seriousness. ]
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( Grinning, Kara shakes his hand, sealing the deal. )
I used to take my adoptive sister all the time once I learned how. Until Jeremiah caught us once, and we got into trouble.
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[ Jon knew very little of Kara's world. He swings his legs back and forth. ]
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( She'd not had as much of a chance to get to know Jeremiah, but Eliza had put her all into raising her and Alex alone.
Kara smiles wistfully now, thinking of her. )
I was thirteen when I went to live with them. How old are you now?
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[ He had been younger when his parents shifted realities, so he doesn't remember it much. He only knows through the differences of their current reality. The two Supermans, the two Lois Lanes. Most of his life was spent in complete secrecy and new identities. ]
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( She's always been a bit out of her depth with kids. When she'd utterly failed at babysitting Cat's younger son, she'd also not really known what to say.
Stretching her legs, Kara listens in to make sure no one is nearby. Then she gives him a little grin, and raises an eyebrow. )
Is that too old for a piggy back ride? I can run us out where we need to leave this bait and get you back to the city.
( She's feeling no small amount of protectiveness. )
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I can run just as fast as dad.
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Race me instead?
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Don't be mad if I beat you, cousin Kara!
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