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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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[ EXCUSE YOU his pants creak. Like proper, manly leather pants--SHUT UP. ]
Beats me, feels like I deserve a medal for havin' to share it with you, right?
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Metal's even hotter in the sun. You'll get your award sunburned right here. [He's put his drink down to do this, making a circle out of his thumbs and forefingers and holding it over the middle of his own chest. Imagine it, Gladio.]
1/2
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[ Problem solved. Also he's going to drape an arm around your shoulders and reach over with his other hand to give you a noogie if you don't block him first, NERD. ]
'Sides, who's gonna get the sunburn? You're so pale you're gonna blister in the sun. Maybe you'd better keep that shirt on after all.
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Guess I should wait for Ignis to lecture me on the merits of sunscreen, huh? You guys could team up.
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I'll leave the nagging to Iggy. [ You'll get no mollycoddling from him. ] Personally, I think the best way to learn a lesson is to let it burn you just once.
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If I start peeling, it's on you.
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Your majesty can manage to apply his own lotion.
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[His baby face matches his baby personality.]
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3/3
Nngh... are we almost done here?
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Nobody's forcing you to stay. [But he's done melting in this particular spot and ready to move on to melting in the next one, he supposes, so he'll grab his drink and get up.]
I guess it's about time to move on. Looks like you need a little R&R. [Sssip. Admit it. Whine about the heat. He's waiting.]
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Oh sure, this shield is just gonna leave you to pass out in this sweltering heat.
[ He's clearly sweating, but like hell he's going to lower himself to Noct's level and behave as if he's too hot. Even though he is. ]
If you're done here, then let's go. It's getting late. [ Not that much late, but hey - he's going to use the excuse. ]
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Maybe you should carry me back. [Don't carry him back. He's ready to go, he's going, let's go.] Don't, though. Lead the way.
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Anyway, let's -- [ Somewhere in the distance, a tree crumples under the strain of something and falls to the earth, making their footing unreliable. ]
What the hell?!
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Alright, new plan: pick a direction besides that one and just run.
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Go! [ A flash of light and a shield appears in his hand. He'll cover his king's retreat but that doesn't mean he's just going to stick around to get run down. ]
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Gladio, hurry up and get over here! [come here and crouch for MP with him!!!]
LMAO FHSDJKHGJDG game mechanics in tags I love it
[ Gladiolus barrels after him, kicking up rocks and dirt as his heavy boots allow him to skid to a stop behind cover. His eyes scan the leaves and branches around them for signs of an approach, aiming his shield out in front of him as stands coiled, knees bent. ]
...I don't see it, do you?! [ There's a tension in the air, like a thousand cicadas at the loudest point of their cry, stuck in a loop. ]
finally, i live,
for five days, leaning out from behind this tree only when Gladio's shield offers him the extra cover to do so. It's like he's kind of learned something.]I don't even know what we're looking for! If you see anything, just kill it!
[This strategy will surely work.]
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What kind of strategy is that?!
[ Don't just slap something together! ]
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Want me to call Ignis?! Take it or leave it!