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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!
iii. video / @pro.fisherman
Sure, that's doable. Does the color matter? Like, a hundred extra credits for your favorite color, but minus 25 for green?
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The same can't be said for every devil.]
Color don't matter right now, I want an even mix of all of 'em.
[He doesn't know which ones will make the best drugs yet. If one color turns out to be better than the rest, though, that might change.
That being said, he pauses a bit as he looks into the camera at Noctis. His toothy grin seems to widen, if that's even possible, as he speaks again - a clear tone of amusement to his voice.]
I'll tell you what, though: Bring me one jar of each color, and I'll throw in an extra hundred for ye.
[You might be wondering where he's getting all this money. The answer is crimes.]
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Please don't grin like that though. He tries to look totally cool with this, but there's no hiding the way he flinches. Enh.]
Is that fifty credits each, and an extra hundred?
[He has never asked where anyone gets their money in his life, since all of his lately comes from stuff like bug collecting. It works out.]
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That being said, he's making no attempt to mitigate the creep factor whatsoever.]
As long as the bugs are alive and the jars are full, aye.
[Full, of course, meaning that they have a good amount of bugs in them. He isn't the sort of devil that sends people on sisyphean tasks, so he doesn't expect them to be physically filled to the brim with fireflies.]
That sound good to you?
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Oh. Okay. That's not bad. [The whole devil thing kind of put him on edge for being fleeced out of his bug credits, so now he's faltered awkwardly twice within a few minutes, but that's better than expected.]
Where am I supposed to bring them when I'm done? You got a stand that says 'EVIL' on it, too?
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When yer done, pop me a message. I'll find ye.
[It's not a stand, but Noctis wasn't far off.
He could probably find Oscar on his own, honestly. He's not a particularly subtle devil when he isn't actively trying not to be found - even if he weren't a devil walking around in a world of mostly human-passing creatures.]
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It's all very embarrassing and he's glad no one came with him. But eventually, with four beautiful jars of fireflies (the last two have slightly more pathetic amounts of fireflies in them, because he was tired of it), he'll just shoot off a text to Mr. EVIL himself.]
Got your bugs.
[Where he is now: sitting in a food court or somewhere you shouldn't bring jars of insects, but being outdoors is worse.]
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Not too shabby. Faster than I expected.
[Not that he hasn't seen extraordinary things from humans in the past - its just that the louts that would volunteer for this kind of job aren't usually the type he'd expect to excel at wrangling a bunch of bugs.
In any case, he casually walks around the table and sits in the seat opposite of Noctis.]
Kinda skimped on the last two jars, though, eh?
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All the good ones were taken. Nothing I can do about that.
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He doesn't, though. Right now it's smarter to accept what he can get and not make too many enemies along the way. ]
Shame. I asked for six full jars - ye ain't gettin' the full bonus for this.
[With that, he drops some legal tender on the table between them. It equates to 50 credits for each jar and an extra fifty on top. More than fair, in his opinion.]
Hope ye understand.
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He's about to object, thinking once again that he'll get maybe a single extra credit as a "bonus"—but 50 each and an extra 50 isn't bad, so it's his turn to bite his tongue before his attitude gets in the way. Aha.]
Y—Yeah, I get it. That's fair. What're you doing with all of these, anyway?
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[Is this kid serious? Well, if he hasn't figured out the potential these things have to be made into a drug, Oscar's certainly not gonna tell him about it.]
Devil stuff. Nothin' you should be concerned about, boyo.
[He's not going to elaborate more than that. Instead, he's gonna stand up, gather the jars together, and step away from the table.]
If you want more coin, you know how to contact me.