riverview: april test drive meme

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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.

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Many thanks to mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

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

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[jungle image is by Armand Serrano and Paul Lasaine]

Comments

Angela ¤ Marvel 616

[hevenly]

ii. pest control
[ Angela did not understand why the great beast was being lured away rather than slain, but perhaps that is just a remnant of her time as Leader of Heven's Hunt. As such, she's far more suited to the task of thinning the herd of mammals which are preying on the beast. She wields her blades of ichor efficiently, leaping into packs of the mammals and slitting their throats before they can so much as growl. She returns from her mission covered in blood, but she cares little for her appearance. ]


iii. rainbow bite
Orange
[ The blood splattering Angela's body makes her a feast for all manner of insects, including the rainbow fireflies. One orange one manages to bite her before she can swat it away, and she finds herself more talkative than usual, spouting every honest thought that crosses her mind. ]

This armor is uncomfortable, [ she might say, or, ] You look fatter than Volstagg the Devourer in those jeans. [ Perhaps you might even hear her say, ] I feel more at home here than I have ever felt anywhere. [ And isn't that just the saddest thing to hear? ]

Violet (closed to female characters)
[ Catch Angela before the violet firefly bites her, and she might tell you of the magnificent Sera, waiting for her at her apartment in Brooklyn. But find her afterwards, and you'll find an Angela completely changed. Sera who? She only has eyes for you, now. Her adoration comes not with words, but with deeds of chivalry and longing, affectionate glances. Have you ever wanted someone who would both die and kill for you? Congratulations, you've found her. ]


iv. friendr

FRIENDR

Angela

AGE: Millenia
INTERESTED IN: Female
SEEKING: Comrades in arms
ABOUT ME: I do not understand the purpose of this device.

iii

[helical]

[ it's not a shocking or sad in alec's eyes. in fact, he relates. he's been in another city like this before, and lived a life he never thought he could have. a place that became a home to many others during his stay.

so no, it's not all that surprising to hear she feels more at home here than anywhere else. there'll be no judgment from him. just a question in response. ]

How long have you been here?

[hevenly]

Perhaps a week. [ She frowns, considering further. ] Perhaps that is not completely true. Perhaps briefly, when I was young, Heven felt like home to me.

[ The other Angels, Meresyn especially, gave her hell for being wingless. And in the end, she'd never been one of them. But her mother was kind to her. She was not a completely lonely child. ]

[helical]

[ he would have had something to say about growing up changing your perception of places you once considered home, but he has to first clarify something. he goes very still, looking right at her. ]

Heaven? Are you an angel?

[ there's been an angel sighting back in his world recently, but it was the first he ever heard of so close to him. some don't even believe it was true, that's how rare instances of angels making contact have become. ]

[hevenly]

[ There's a down turn to Angela's expression. He's hit a sore point, but due to the effects of the bite, she'll end up confessing things she'd rather not say otherwise. ]

I was raised among them, but no. I am not.

[helical]

[ alec nods, but on the inside, his mind runs along the lines of raised among the angels?! AHHHHHHHHHHHH

he hasn't been bitten, but he's being more direct than he normally would be. this is someone that's been in contact with angels, and his kind revere and respect them in spite of their absence. it's akin to someone meeting their god. ]

I'm — a Nephilim. We haven't... Hadn't heard or seen anything of the angels in centuries. You lived among them?

[hevenly]

In Heven, yes. My mother was handmaiden to the Queen of the Angels.

[ She knows what the word Nephilim means, but is unfamiliar with the concept being real. Heven has been cut off from the other realms for a long, long time. Until recently, that is. ]

The Angels have not visited Earth since the days when men lived in caves.

[ iii ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ It's the name that commands his attention. Though the woman seems unfamiliar, she clearly has knowledge of Asgard. Still, Loki isn't keen on revealing himself yet. ]

Mortals have a curious saying among them. Home is where the heart lies.

[hevenly]

If that is true, then this place will never be my home. [ For her heart lies with Sera, back in Brooklyn. Only if the portal sees fit to bring Sera here would this place become the place where her heart lies.

The man looks familiar to her somehow, and she feels the need to tell him so. ]

You remind me of someone.

[dothelokimotion]

Is that not wise?

[ A strange waystation for wandering souls. Loki could see a measure of peace, a place for him to cast off his old reputation and begin anew. But his heart still burns cold and he'll never stop yearning for more. He watches her, wariness in his eyes. ]

And who might that be?

[hevenly]

I know little of wisdom.

[ Her eyes are open, emotions plain on her face. Perhaps a side effect of the bite from the firefly. She looks fondly on this stranger, lip quirked into a smirk. ]

My sometimes-brother. Loki.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki inhales sharply. Another sibling. For a moment, all he can be is anger and fury, directed at the All-Father. But it simmers quickly, sinking back to his fathoms. Loki will not consider the implications right now, so boldly faced with a . . . relative. Later, he will digest this knowledge. ]

Has the All-Father abducted another orphan from a battlefield? He has a bad habit of that.

[hevenly]

[ Angela winces at the mention of Odin. She still bears no love for the man who would be her father. All the stories she was told of his terribleness as a child lingering on her. ]

No, it was the opposite. Odin and Freyja's first child, Aldrif, was stolen by the Angels and raised in Heven, as punishment for Asgard's crimes.

iv. friendr

[rydes]

You kinda found it. Mostly just communications purposes.

[hevenly]

Then why ask our preferences in partner?

[rydes]

That's a little bit more specific than the device itself.

The app is for making friends, apparently. The preferences in partner is just if you don't want to meet some kind of people, or if you're looking for something a little more... uh. Romantic. Then you can specify who you'd prefer that with.

[hevenly]

I am not interested in finding a romantic partner. My heart belongs to someone else, and I will not give it again.

[rydes]

That's fine, too. You can just use it to make friends, if you want that. Whatever kind of companions you to meet, really.

[hevenly]

Very well.

I do not have many friends, and even fewer here.

III. orange to violet? hope this is alright!

[leadintheyoung]

[ Striking. That's Líadan's first thought when she lays eyes on the blood covered warrior whose hair seems to her in that moment like the brightest of flames. She is sure of it, that the woman is a warrior of great ability and that none of the blood that paints her is her own, and it's this surety eschews any concern she might have otherwise voiced. It's no insect bite that sees her eyes linger a moment longer and her entire being brighten with an easy smile when she perceives herself as being spoken to. ]

It looks like it very well could be. Does it truly afford you worthwhile protection?

[ Perhaps it's enchanted? That's her foremost thought as to the answer there. ]

[hevenly]

[ Her armor is indeed enchanted, though not to provide any particular protection from attack. It is enchanted to take the form of whatever the wearer needs it to be, including wings which grant Angela the power of lightning-quick flight, and to shield her from the watchful eye of Heimdall of Asgard. ]

It has served me well. Though now that the battle is done, I'd just as soon be rid of it.

[ That's as close to innuendo as Angela's likely to get, but she does smile that the object of her attention gives her the time of day. ]

[leadintheyoung]

[ If that doesn't see the corners of her mouth tug up and a little wider. ]

I have heard the city is home to some places where one might relax. Spas, I think they're called? I haven't tried them myself, but I wouldn't be opposed to a joint venture should you be game.

[ Isn't... she forgetting something, though? Oh, yes. Yes, she is and she's a little embarrassed for it, but she's never let that stop her in anything. ]

Pardon my manners. I am Líadan Ní Donnabháin. May I have the pleasure of your name?

[hevenly]

[ So long as they're on the subject of manners, Angela will take Líadan's hand and bring it to her lips. ]

I would be honored to join you, Líadan. You may call me Angela.

[ No last name, or none that she cares to give. ]

[leadintheyoung]

[ And she can't quite help the bit of pink that rises to her cheeks for that gesture. That no last name is given is strange to her, but it's something she's learned to respect in this reality. Regardless, it would seem Fortune favors her today and she is very, very glad for it. ]

Well met, Angela. Your name is as lovely as as your visage. Shall we go, then?

[hevenly]

Lead the way.

[ Angela will follow, dutifully threading her arm through Líadan's. ]