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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!
inquisitor adaar | dragon age
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"We've got more incoming. A group ahead. Looks like four or five of them waiting behind the trees."
Working with others was something she had not done in quite some time, but it was a relief, in a way, not to be doing this alone. She glanced back at Adaar, looking to her for direction, rather than rebelling against it. Her appearance means nothing to Rey. She's grown up around an ever shifting population of species on Jakku, in all shapes and sizes. But the command in her voice gives Rey something to focus on.
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"Can you flank them?" If her fighting was anything to go by the human seemed more of a close range fighter -- fine by Adaar. "I'll keep their focus if you'll take them out from the side."
She notches another arrow, letting the magic in the bow set the arrowhead aflame while she aims. Setting the jungle alight isn't something Adaar is interested in doing, but she's not going to try and pry the rune out of her bow. Not when she can't get a replacement.
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She had taken on groups before, creature and fellow scavengers alike. She could do this, and she was sure of that, but not cocky enough to want to take them on alone if she didn't have to.
Adaar's plan was a good one, and Rey took a deep, steadying breath before nodding, her hand on Liam's hide for balance and to try and calm the behemoth under attack.
"As long as you keep their attention, I'll do what I can." A last check over her shoulder at her partner, and she jumps off the other side of the large creature, knocking another of the mammals under the jaw and backwards with a snap of her staff. They were by no means a joke of a creature on their own, but she had found their jaws especially to be sensitive weak points.
She vanishes at a quick pace into the trees, arcing around to where she hopes the creatures will be by the time she reaches that point. She has to trust Adaar and the Force that she will not end up the one with one of those flaming arrows in her.
When she emerges, she uses her speed more than her strength to slam into the left most beast, bowling it into one of its companions and swinging her staff up and under them to keep the movement going, rolling it almost completely onto its back and knocking the second one enough off course to have the two of them momentarily attacking one another with angry, frustrated noises.
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Adaar sets the thoughts aside, refocuses.
Rey is far preferable than anyone else for the moment, and Adaar drops to one knee to aim her bow, pulling it taught as she watches, waiting. Rey is far enough away, and the two beasts close enough together, that she lets go once she is sure -- they're fighting against each other, and in that moment of confusion the arrow strikes true -- embedding itself it one and setting it on fire, followed by another that does the same.
It's in the brief lull that Adaar calls out to Rey. "Where'd you learn how to fight?" Most staff fighters are mages where she's from, but Rey is no mage. At least not that she can tell, and normally they're very obvious about what they can do in any battle.
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GUESS FUCKIN WHO!!
Her own train of thought isn't too far from Adaar's --- this is practically a vacation, more like fighting spiders or deepstalkers, nothing with any sense of complicated tactics. The simplicity of it will bore Amell much sooner than later, but for now the reprieve isn't entirely unwelcome.
She refreshes the glyph around her that keeps the beasties bouncing away and slams down her staff on another to send one of them up with a crackle of lightning, smirking when the discharge freezes another in its tracks. Perfect for another arrow, if Adaar has the mind for it.
"Bit like escorting a druffalo through the Deep Roads, isn't it?" she calls over, already bringing her staff back around for another casting.
FUCK YEAH!!!!
"Wouldn't know," Adaar calls back, dropping to one knee to pull as far back on her bow as the tension and her strength will allow. "The Deep Roads are about the only place I haven't been." And she is absolutely not looking to change that in the slightest. "I did have to escort one through the Hinterlands once."
Not the same thing, thankfully, even if there had been a Rift right there.
Friendr: Text @d.dixon
[Because religious figure for a god you don't believe in? There's a story there.]
@adaar
( it's better than being dead, sure, but now everything is trying to kill her. life was a lot simpler before she tried picking up a funny looking ball. )
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Friendr: text d.cyborg
If you require defense against those who would attempt to kill you, I am professionally obliged to assist. How many assailants are you concerned about, currently?
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One last question: how do you feel about the end of the world?
None right now. I think that's the best part of this place, but I don't expect my luck to hold.
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iv (un: wizard)
BLESS ( un: adaar )
What's a tiefling so I know if I am or not?
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But they're a race that have horns and people tend to not like them very much because of their infernal heritage. Your situation sounded similar what with the whole people trying to kill you and all.
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bc u hate me
Might want to consider being a touch more careful where you loose those things, darling.
[No harm, no foul, but any projectile weapon in the middle of an open brawl has its downsides.]
you're right i do
I know what I'm doing.
( she hasn't shot any of her companions yet. )
it's k i can take it
[She picks one of them up to indicate the likeness - she's quite a bit stronger than a normal human her size would be - and then she zots it, cooking the damn thing from the inside out.]
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friendr
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( attached is a selfie, but a selfie taken by someone who is very very new to the idea of technology, cellphones, cameras, and the concept of a selfie. still, there's the unmistakable curve of horns back from her forehead, a bit of a yellow eye, and a lot of pure white hair. )
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A longer pause while he hesitates with his question waiting to be sent.]
Are you not human?
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iv. @nill
Friendr @splash