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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!
@gladio; video I HAVE NO SUITABLE ICONS
[ Gladio yells this at such an unnecessary volume that the feed crackles. He's probably been looking for her everywhere. ]
Where are you?
make every icon a chocobo
[The surprise is apparent in her voice and the smile on her face brightens for a moment then disappears. His loud voice might have scared others away, but it's so familiar to her that she feels comforted. Then guilty. If she had thought, for even a second, her brother would be displaced here, she would have immediately sent a message his way. The guilt gnaws at her, making her feel like a kid again.
It's strange to see him there, in the feed of her phone, when her last memory was him arriving to Caem. Arriving without Noct. With hurt friends and-
The rush of emotions she felt that day (yesterday? today?) comes surging back and her voice wavers.]
I'm at a mall. It's the one closest to housing.
[Iris pauses, knowing that he's already on his way, but attempts to offer all the same:]
But I can come to you! Where are you?
SOB OKAY THIS IS HAPPENING 1/2
This is when he yearned the most for home. Every long hour through the night was a journey, every day a trial in loneliness. Friends can come and go and leave empty spaces in his heart where they used to be, but Iris is blood. His treasure.
And she's okay. ]
...
2/2
How about we go shopping together, Iris? Spend your big brother's units for him, alright?
Amicitia sufferin all day everyday
Unless it was something important for him or his friends, it's doubtful she would willingly take any of his hard earned cash, but she can't pass up the opportunity for normalcy and mess with him a bit.]
You sure about that?
[There's a teasing edge to her voice as she looks at the camera now.]
Don't blame me if we're stuck eating canned food all week. I have expensive tastes you know.
no subject
[ Gladio puts his device down to get changed. Jacket gets draped over a chair, a tank top thrown on in it's place by the time he reappears on the screen. The ceiling spins as he keeps the feed live while he walks. ]
If we're that hard up, could always round up the guys for a hunting trip. Maybe if you ask nicely, Noct will teach you how to fish.
[ Did he just wink just now? ]
Between us and Iggy, I think we'll manage. [ Iris is worth tightening his belt a little for. ]
no subject
[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.
no subject
[ Gladio stills, wondering if the air just vacated his lungs without him noticing or is he just realizing how grown up his little sister is? She's had to make do alone, kind of. She's a cute kid, wanting to do her part to fit in with his frends - Noct's, that is. They've always been close and brother and sister, but he knows a childhood crush when he sees one. ]
Ignis will probably appreciate the help, just know that getting Noct to do anything more complicated than stirring a pot or chopping vegetables will be mission impossible.
[ Gladio heads over to the shopping area, glancing away from the feed as he scans the crowds. ]
Okay, Iris. Gimme a landmark to work with.
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[A landmark. Iris looks behind her, stands on her tiptoes to look above some very tall heads in the crowd and then off the side. It's stores and people as far as the eye can see. She looks frustrated, then thoughtful and finally her face vanishes from sight as she raises the phone far above her head, turning in a slow circle to show him everything she's around. An ice cream shop, an accessories store, a couple people with bright clothing. Hopefully something helps.
She's off the screen, but her voice perks up as she turns.]
And don't worry! I'm an Amicitia too you know. I'll be able to get him to do both those things and boil water.
[There's pride in her voice, already confident in her minor victory, despite the fact it hasn't happened yet. All of that is definitely not an excuse to spend time with Noct either. Obviously not. No way. All to help Ignis. That's what she's telling herself at least.]