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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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[ He makes educated guesses. Clark has catalogued everything here. ]
I've had all my life to practice. For example, I've just met you but I could find you in the city from your voice.
[ He could track her heartbeat too but that's a little creepy for a first meeting. ]
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You've always known you could do it?
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[ He doesn't mind but if she's asking because of more than that, he'd rather know. ]
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After her encounter with Kylo Ren, she had no desire to go into anyone else's mind unless she had no other choice. It was invasive, in both directions, and terrifying. Instead, she tries to use the force to find movement, feeling for the shift of energy around them.
She almost thinks she's got something, but her focus slips, too unsettled keeping her eyes shut in unfamiliar territory.]
It's the fastest way to learn, and learning is the best way to survive.
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There's a cricket high up on a tree over there and a family of rabbits in a burrow. See if you can find them.
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She could feel the trees, the rocks, the grass, the man beside her, but all of it melted together, sifting in and out of one another, almost indistinguishable.
Taking a slow, deep breath, she let it out as she tried to slowly ignore the background and focus on the cricket, seeking out the tiny chirping insect with the Force. In. Out. Breathe.
As she tried to find it, the pebbles and pieces of loose dirt at their feet rustled, shifting just slightly, a pebble tipping over, a speck of dirt skittering across the ground, each tiny piece of earth moving just slightly in the direction of the tree or coming off the ground a sliver of air.
All of it going still when she opens her eyes again.]
It's too small. Maybe I should try something else
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He turns his head, listening to the forest. ]
There's a herd [ he points. ] that way.
[ They're slow-moving creatures with thick skin and horns to deter the many predators. He doesn't know her range but hopes this will be okay. ]
What about them?
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She searches for the creatures, moving together but slow. This time she finds them, though at first it's just one large thing, and she thinks perhaps she searched too far and found Liam.
Slowly though, as her focus intensifies and the earth around her shifts again, just slightly from the concentration, they start to define and break apart until she can count them. She can feel their movements. It makes her dizzy with the effort, but for just a moment her sense of the force shifts from blurred to fuzzy edges, and she can feel them enough that she lets out a soft, surprised sound, quiet but almost a laugh.
It breaks her concentration, but a bright look replaces the calm when she looks back over to the man beside here.]
There's nine of them. One is smaller than the others. Younger and clumsy.
[There's an almost euphoric feeling about it. She by no means had refined her abilities in any way but for a moment she had felt the force, and felt connected to it, really connected. Unlike the visions that had overtaken her while touching the lightsaber, this had left her feeling light and confident, rather than terrified and overwhelmed.]
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It still warms his heart to see her use this ability. She was asking him because she wasn't sure and she trusted him enough to use what she had in front of him.
When she looks at him again he's beaming at her. ]
How do you feel?
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Trying to learn on her own always seemed to get pushed back for more important things like updating the maps or missions from the city.
But the feeling she had had after finding the small herd was indescribable. She wasn't sure how to give it a word that would fit how she felt.]
Connected. [She finally settles on that after a moment, and the feeling is already fading, but the smile only fades enough to be more relaxed. Sadly her instincts take over not long after, and the feeling fades further while she scans the jungle around them again, just to be sure.]
Thank you- for your advice. There's so much- it's hard to focus on one thing.
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Of course. It takes practice.
[ He hesitates, not sure if he should be so forward. Clark doesn't want to presume too much of her when they're strangers.
They don't have the same ability even though he sees a kindred spirit. ]
If you'd want to train, I have somewhere you won't be disturbed.
I can come with you if you like.
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he could let go of it. Never touch the power that had awakened inside her and keep surviving the way she knew best. There was no guarantee she would ever really be able to learn to use it and not be pulled to the dark without the proper teacher, but-
He had already helped her a little, and having somewhere quiet to escape the crowded city that still set her nerves on edge was tempting.]
I wouldn't mind having a place to train. [Somewhere other than alone in the jungle, as much as she loved surrounding herself with the beauty of it and learning and writing about the dangers and creatures it held.]
And I appreciate the guidance.
[Something she had never had much of at all in her life. She was used to learning on her own and adapting as best she could.]
Did you have someone to teach you, or did you teach yourself?
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[ After what she said about survival, it means a lot that Rey would accept. Clark knows from his own experience that taking the leap of faith is hard. ]
I promise to help you where I can. I've... never tried being a teacher.
[ Clark never makes promises he doesn't intend to keep. Especially when the ability is something like his hearing. Not many people understand how overwhelming it can be. ]
My name is Kal. I'm Kryptonian.
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I've never tried to be a student before, so we'll be on even footing. [It's a soft, slight joke and she shrugs, trying to listen to the sounds around them, never raising her voice far and never letting her guard fully down, alert and aware of her surroundings.
He approached the offer from a far better angle and under much better circumstances than the last person who 'offered' to help her train, and that alone wins her over more. He seems patient, though she knows better than to trust first impressions.]
Which system is that in?
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Clark smiles at her joke. ]
It orbits a red dwarf star called Rao. Have you heard of it?
[ He should use the past tense but Clark has been saying it's uninhabitable instead of gone completely. He doesn't want to segue any conversation into talking about what happened to Krypton. ]
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No, but I'm not familiar with many of the systems beyond the core worlds. Jakku is in the Western Reaches, the inner rim, but you wouldn't guess it by going there.
It's just as violent and desolate as people say the outer rim is. Little more than trade posts and graveyards.
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Sorry to say I haven't heard of it. The world I live on doesn't have space travel beyond its moon.
What's the climate like on Jakku?