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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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Though never captive against their will.
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Around five minutes after the sun has properly set, he will walk into the lobby. Being displaced from one world to another, especially an unexpected one, seems to have had no impact on his style. He's as well-dressed as ever and just as ornamented. ]
Axel! Hello there. [ He'll raise a hand in greeting as he approaches.
Is it weird that this doesn't feel all that strange to him? Just, you know, meeting up with a dear friend who doesn't remember you to explain how you know him when he's got no clue who you are. But Magnus has felt a certain ease around Axel since the moment they met. Just because this is a second first meeting doesn't mean that feeling is totally gone. ]
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He and his ostentatious outfits. ]
That would be correct, yes! It's nice to see you. [ Again. Ahem.
He gestures ahead, seeming no less cheerful or energetic for anything that's been said already. ]
Please, lead the way. I hope the walk helps, but I can't make any promises.
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This is something else. ] I'll definitely do my best, Axel. Starting with this:
No, you don't. We met in a world that's a little similar to this one, but we both chose to be there.
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Okay, onward and upward... ]
We were among a group of volunteers, each with a contract that exchanged an agreed upon incentive for any kind of physical intimacy with someone else, friendly or otherwise.
Actually, you worked for me for a time.
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No, please, excuse me-- I could have explained that more clearly.
Clearly.
No, it's nothing like that. I owned a club and you kept the books for me. And there was no prostitution of any kind. Sex wasn't really the commodity in question, but rather intimacy. Holding hands with a friend worked just as well as anything else, albeit more slowly.
As for your memories, that I can't tell you. When I left, you were still there, so I don't know what happened or will happen when you're ready to leave. I know volunteers have that option.
I didn't take it. I'd rather have all my memories intact, personally.
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It is a lot to swallow.
But Magnus likes transparency and Axel did ask! And he thinks he knows by now that Axel would want to hear the unvarnished truth. Which has nothing to do with prostitution! ]
Some chose to protect others from harm, others came to change events in their past or gain new abilities they didn't have at home. I know at least one volunteer who came to Eudio for the purpose of living there for the rest of their life, as an alternative to returning to their own world.
A lot of the requests sound impossible, but I was there for a year and never heard of one being left unfulfilled. My own was granted.
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Apparently some that exist very close together on a timeline that's far from normal for either of them. ]
There truly are more impossible things in this universe than I could begin to explain to you. I think there are several explanations for you not remembering me, whereas I do remember you. One, you are indeed the same person I met, but at a different point on your own personal timeline. The Doctor Who explanation, if you will. Two, you're not the same person I met, but a version of yourself that wasn't approached by the same people that approached me. Or maybe you were and you chose not to accept their offer and have no recollection of it. Let's call that the Back to the Future explanation.
It's hard to say. From my perspective, you are definitely familiar. And also different. If you were the same version of yourself that I met, this would be a very different conversation in more than one way, I think.
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You never gave me any indication you intended to forget your time there. I believe you had good reason not to. [ This is like walking on some serious eggshells now. ] And I can tell you with certainty that if you did go and you did achieve your incentive, you would know.
[ This gets a little dicey. ]
I believe it was 2016 on Earth when you arrived. That would put you in the neighborhood of 140, wouldn't it?
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It would have struck me as very odd. [ Because, Andrew. And other stuff. He will try not to get into that if possible, because it really does seem like a sticky wicket. ]
You'd be a little ahead of us. Though, I should tell you, we'd long ago established our worlds were different versions of Earth.
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Yes, my world has magic. More specifically, I have magic.
[ He pauses as well at the second part. This is hard to answer. And easy to answer. The answer comes quickly into his head, but less quickly onto his lips. ]
I would say he's one of the best friends I made during my stay there.
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