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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!
for ivar; cw: violence/gore
And frankly? He's about to leave it. The dude looks like he's doing just fine, and he must know how to fight or they wouldn't have let him on the Guard. Before he heads off home, though, Marco wheels around in the air, catching a nice warm thermal, and drifts for a few moments, just watching him fight. It's pretty awesome, all things considered, the guy is like a tank, and with his osprey eyes, Marco can see the ripple of every muscle and the fury in the guy's blue eyes. Pretty compelling stuff.
But Marco spots the other monsters crawling up the wall before the other guy can from his vantage point, and that's when Marco decides that maybe it'd be good to step in. So he drops into a dive, lands just inside the wall in some underbrush, and a few minutes later he's a bit fatigued but safely in gorilla morph, powering his way up the wall to meet the guy at the top. Popping over the edge, he opens his mouth and bellows at the monsters just as they climb up over the edge, his fists slamming against his chest.
Marco knows how to make an entrance.]
<Hey man, there's a whole swarm of 'em coming up the wall. Thought I'd give you a hand.>
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Eventually, he whittles down the pack to a final individual. The last one finally sees where its fellows have failed and decides to wrap its tongue around Ivar's throwing arm, thinking that will stop him. Not so, for he uses his other hand to drag the creature towards him, and sticks a knife in its throat when it gets close enough.
He thinks he finally has a breather, but then this giant furry thing comes over the edge of the wall. The inside where the city is, not the outside, which he'll take note of in a sec. He's note entirely sure if he should be pointing his axe at it or not. It looks like it should be one of the monsters he routinely has to fight off the wall. It's human-shaped, but bigger, with a strange face, and it looks wrong. Like a human that got transformed into something else and got stuck halfway.]
What the hell are you? How are you talking inside my head? [His demand for answers is punctuated as the first monster comes over the wall, only to have part of its long tongue lopped off by the axe in an almost off-hand fashion. His focus is still on Marco, eyes suspicious.]
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Except the way the guy asks what he is - that's a little weird. Marco's used to people being pretty familiar with what a gorilla is.]
<Don't worry man, I'm on your side. And like, I can tell you're fine with the casually cutting off weird alien monster tongues all off-handedly like some kinda warrior prince, but I kinda need to focus. I'll explain later, when I turn back into my adorable self.>
[And with that, Marco bellows again, and leaps over the wall, holding on with one powerful hand while the other grabs a monster by the tongue, swings it around in a wild, dizzying arc, and throws it as far into the forest as he can. Which is pretty far, considering the massive power in those gorilla arms.]
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The creatures like to attack several at a time, but Ivar knows how to keep a cool head in battle. He goes for the boldest of them first, letting it draw close before he throws his axe, burying it in the creature's head. When the next tries to stick its long tongue against him, he draw a knife, pinning the creature's wide mouth to the ground. As it frantically tries to free itself, Ivar has time to retrieve his axe, and dispatch of this one. Now where did the third one go?
He sees it's chosen to face the massive creature instead of going after him. Those massive teeth are no joke and he'd hate to see a potential ally get hurt. He calls out.]
Kalla vaka!
[Watch out! in Old Norse, the heat of the moment causing the words to come through instead of the universal language everyone hears. He throws his second knife, landing it in the creature's eye. It's not a fatal blow, but it's enough to give Marco time to dispose of the pest.]