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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewooc2017-04-20 11:42 am

riverview: april test drive meme

riverview test drive meme

Welcome 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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prompt i: baiting the behemoth

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....


prompt ii: pest control service

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.


prompt iii: rainbow bite

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.


prompt iv: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.


Many thanks to [personal profile] mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!


prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!


navigation

[jungle image is by Armand Serrano and Paul Lasaine]
hasitsthorns: (Fᴏʀ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀʀɴ ᴛᴏ ғᴏʀɢᴇᴛ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-04-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be happy to.
It is kind of crazy though, isn't it?
I think it's also really exciting!

Ah, yeah! That's him.
His younger brother Reyson is actually a werewolf, too. And his older brother Misto is a pirate.
It's a whole trifecta of 'what the hell, are these people even real.' Trust me, I know how ridiculous it sounds.
hasitsthorns: (Tʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ғɪɴᴅ ᴍᴇ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-04-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome

Like... hell demons?


[ 'Hunter' is in the name. She should have known. Hopefully, her kind of demons aren't the brand he's after. ]
hasitsthorns: (Fᴏʀ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀʀɴ ᴛᴏ ғᴏʀɢᴇᴛ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-04-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ How nonchalant and graceful this woman is seems to mismatch the things she's saying, but... She's also protecting Rose. So the blond's not about to question it still. Wouldn't be the first time she'd taken questionable assistance from someone and it turned out alright. Here's hoping her luck holds out.

It seems to be, anyway, as those bones form a protective bubble around them. Huh. That's some pretty impressive magic if she ever saw it.
]

I panicked. [ A surprisingly honest admission. ] I figured I could, dunno, Tarzan that junk if I had to and swing through the trees in a last ditch effort to not get chomped on. Though this is way more effective and requires a lot less energy.
finethanks: (☆ 1)

[personal profile] finethanks 2017-04-23 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I often like to have my tea in the park, near the flowers, so you can join me one of those times.

[Score, future tea date. But hold on—] You don't want to try some now? Whatever it is you're drinking must not have enough caffeine.
thevoidbeckons: (Interesting)

[personal profile] thevoidbeckons 2017-04-23 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Tarzan that junk"?

[The way the girl said it had Durzakh imagining a speed booster of some sort.]

Is that a rapid movement spell?

[Her head tilted to the side so it was clear she was looking at Rose with curiosity, though with the height difference, there was little chance of her eyes being seen through the small holes in the mask.]
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (and fire off into job land)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-04-23 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[This sounds difficult. She knows how to cook some food, but most of the culinary talents in the household lay with her butlers. It seems sketchy to mess around with weird colored meats.]

Hey, you think you could teach me sometime? I'd kinda like to see it cooked first before trying on my own.

[ALSO LET'S TALK ABOUT CLOTHES AND SHOPPING AND HAIR during obviously.]
heavyhead: (so young and not depressed here)

[personal profile] heavyhead 2017-04-23 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Tea date... oh boy.]

No, it's- it's working. [He fell asleep literally four minutes ago, fuck-] Maybe I could try some. Wanna trade?

[That was cooler before he said it out loud.]
hasitsthorns: (Aɴᴅ ɪғ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ғʟᴏᴡᴇʀs ғᴀᴅᴇᴅ ᴀᴡᴀʏ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-04-23 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, that's totally understandable!
I've seen a lot of crazy in my day.
So maybe that's why all this is easier.


[ Also, she hasn't quite realized how confined she actually is. How she'll keep seeing the same people instead of different faces day after day. It's not her plan to attach to the people here, but that works out a lot better in theory than practice. ]

It's, uh.
Definitely strange circumstances.
Especially since the pirate is also an immortal.
You know Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum?
He's Captain Morgan.
dogdaughter: (i'm not the one copyrighting shit)

so the meme told them both to watch where they were going!

[personal profile] dogdaughter 2017-04-23 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ She already knows one alien whose head looks like a skull, so she supposes it's not that weird that there are aliens who look completely skeletal.

She's... heard better jokes, but could be worse.
]

Couldn't have been too wrong, you're here anyway!
jiaasjen: boysareback (twenty nine)

[personal profile] jiaasjen 2017-04-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ He'd considered doing just that, of course, but had instead opted to remain silent when it had become clear that it would not have gone over well — ordinarily he wouldn't have cared but as new come as he was to the city, he didn't want to risk alienating any potential allies. Not when a position on the Perimeter Guard was at stake. ]

Funny how? [ Mild, teetering on the edge of disinterested. He doesn't get the joke if there is one. ]
finethanks: (☆ 36)

[personal profile] finethanks 2017-04-23 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
A trade?

[Too late, it's been said and now Eichi is intrigued and inspecting this... strange cup he's holding.] I've never seen something like that before. Is the cup special? Does it add to the flavor like different types of tea pots? Oh, but maybe it would be better as a surprise.
heavyhead: (all along the eastern shore)

[personal profile] heavyhead 2017-04-23 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[what the heck eichi]

It lets you fit more soda inside, that's for sure. Teapots do what now...? [Here he is, the most ignorant and uncultured prince-king ever. He does hold the cup out a little, since Eichi is so fascinated. The gentle sound of rattling ice cubes sure is exotic isn't it...]

[personal profile] bone_idle 2017-04-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Could be a lot worse. ]

They're slave-drivers. Couple'a weeks ago? Rewiring a fence after some giant lizard plowed into it. Got me workin' my fingers to the bone here.

[ Someone suggests they keep moving, so Sans starts shuffling to keep pace -- if barely.

She takes his bad joke in stride. That's nice. Anyone who doesn't kick up a fuss over a bad joke wins points in his book.

There's also the fact that there's magic here, he can feel it, a kind of vastness that defies description, and her appearance, those things make her less human to him and more, well... more monster. More like him and his kind.

He asides to Jade: ]


The name's Sans, by the way.
thevoidbeckons: (Oh how you do go on)

ii

[personal profile] thevoidbeckons 2017-04-23 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he may have to face it, but he doesn't have to face it alone. A thunderous crack split the air and a bolt of lighting came down right in front of the charging creature. When it hit the ground, the crackle of electricity didn't fade and a well of lightning splashed over the area, blocking it from getting past unless it dared to enter the small maelstrom of energy. A sudden path of ice formed under the lightning flood, freezing all it touched and rooting the creature in place as it's feet were encased in a block of ice. The ice extended out from a staff that had been slammed into the ground just to the side of Merlin. It's owner a tall, towering woman as broad in shoulder as a knight was expected to be and dressed head to toe in form-fitting red and black leather topped with a masquerade mask, stepped forward. Putting herself between Merlin and the creature. She clearly noticed Merlin, but she said nothing as she silently called another fountain of lightning down on the rooted thing to fry it soundly until all that was left was a sparking pile of ash.

When it was dead, she turned to look at Merlin, deep voice muffled slightly by the mask, "Are you injured?"
Edited 2017-04-23 03:42 (UTC)
generalginger: (006)

[personal profile] generalginger 2017-04-23 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Depending upon how the research goes, it could be used for the greater good.

[Hux isn't inclined to be forthcoming with many things in general, much less someone he doesn't know, so it's as close to an answer as she's going to get. Nevermind the fact that he's the one who roped her into helping.]

Hopefully enough preventative measures can be taken before everything descends into chaos.
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (what's their spaghetti policy)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-04-23 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
You think so? From the looks of it, he doesn't even let you guys fish. You really think he'd teach me?

[Even though fishing is boring, she's torn between hanging out with Noct and having to suffer through that. Nothing ventured, nothing gained though.

And did he just wink at her?

Iris squints her eyes at him and leans into the camera, brushing some hair behind her ear. No, that had to be her imagination running wild.
]

But no matter what we eat, this time we're gonna help out with the cooking. I'm sure Ignis could use a break.
thevoidbeckons: (Oh how you do go on)

Fireflies

[personal profile] thevoidbeckons 2017-04-23 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[The woman closest to her, a little over six and a half feet tall and dressed head to toe in form-fitting red and black leather, and face covered by a masquerade mask to ensure nothing of her true self could be seen, turned to look at Hawke curiously. The mask muffled her voice somewhat, but it was obviously on the deeper side.]

If you wish to talk, I am not opposed to listening. I was getting bored just watching the day go by anyway.
Edited 2017-04-23 03:48 (UTC)
leatherdaddy: (pic#11220665)

[personal profile] leatherdaddy 2017-04-23 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shots fired, Gladio flashes a grin at Prompto's theatrics, but it fades quickly at the mysterious sound. ]

What was that?

[ As always, the joviality dissipates when a threat makes itself known, but it's never gone for long. Gladiolus conjures up his heavy greatsword with the distant sound of crystaline shards colliding in midair. ]

Just what do you mean by friendly dog? [ SERIOUSLY, this doesn't seem very friendly at all! ]
ex_bossily211: (listen)

[personal profile] ex_bossily211 2017-04-23 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thought you might. Why else would you wander out here?

[Smiling, she waits until she's in close and then holds open the net so he can step under and inside.]

We have to be careful to get it sealed up at the bottom once we're in place. Otherwise they might come up and bite us.
generalginger: credit: <user name=androit> (022)

[personal profile] generalginger 2017-04-23 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Hux isn't entirely sold on this, but a complete stranger has no reason to lie to him. Or he shouldn't.

It's with this in mind that he actually tries to consider it.]


It would have to function as a virus.

[More of a guess, but it's the only pseudo-rational explanation he has.]
leatherdaddy: (pic#11287855)

[personal profile] leatherdaddy 2017-04-23 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Like a sack of Cleigne wheat? I'll pass. [ It's too hot for starters. ]

Anyway, let's -- [ Somewhere in the distance, a tree crumples under the strain of something and falls to the earth, making their footing unreliable. ]

What the hell?!
ex_bossily211: (pouty)

[personal profile] ex_bossily211 2017-04-23 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not. But your sourness probably has a lot to do with you being bit.

[The look she gives him is bordering on offended.]
dust_of_life: (Uncertain)

[personal profile] dust_of_life 2017-04-23 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Okay then. Fatima had never met someone outside of the Order who talked about magic so freely. She would have considered that nothing more than a product of his world, except for the part where he said 'the whole kingdom hates people with magic.' So he was apparently taking the whole 'hiatus' from life thing to heart.

Or he was just a crazy person. Fatima couldn't really dismiss it, between the way that he'd started sobbing and the fact that he hadn't exactly demonstrated any of his 'magic' yet.

The part about 'trolls' wasn't exactly helping his case either.

But she was working on the notion of taking things at face value. It was utterly foreign to her, but not to a lot of the other inmates. Maybe that said something about human nature. Or maybe it said something about her world. Either way, she decided not to dismiss him offhand.

Not yet, anyway.

"I, uh, I can't said I've ever heard of actual trolls befeore," she said, figuring she might as well probe. "How's that work, exactly?"
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[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-23 04:04 am (UTC)(link)

No they don't. [ There's already a roll of her eyes at the idea that Pino was feeling any kind of discomfort in her feet. For one, she had no sensors there as a companion type, and for another - she wouldn't know what pain was even if she felt it. At least physically. Mental anguish, she supposes, is possible. Iggy seemed to have developed some, after all - ]

There's no guarantee that we will even find anything. This could be just like when we make sure there aren't any proxies around....
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (a transporter of gods)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-04-23 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Tada

To his credit, Iris can see he's really trying for her and to her own, she makes a show by clapping when it appears out of thin air. The power of kings and fishing. Who would have thought the two could be combined?
]

Great job, Noct! That's an amazing power you have.

[All smiles the moment he steps into her line of vision, the previous worries she had when the video call ended faded away. A part of her had truly worried he wouldn't show up. That something would stop him from coming. Finally seeing him in person, it makes her happier than words could ever express.]

Alright then! Off we go. You've gotta lead the way this time.

[But she's making a list of awesome places and next time, she's giving him town tour pt.2]