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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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And smokin' is nice, makes me forget how shitty my life is.
I don't see how you enjoy... whatever the shit you do.
I don't know what the shit you do, but I bet it's weird.
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My full name is Letha Isidora Regis - it means 'true queen and gift of the gods'.
[Which is a BIG stretch from the individual meanings of the names, but his attitude is starting to make her defensive. And... she's choosing not to give him anything to poke fun at.]
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My full name's Jason Stevenson... it mean...
Jason Stevenson, aka me.
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Jason was a hero in mythology - the name means 'healing'. But I can't say what Stevenson means, aside from 'son of Steven'.
[When you come from a family as huge as the Regis clan, you end up learning a lot about names.]
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My dad's name ain't Steven, so that's weird..
You're really smart... it's weird.
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Were you some form of peasant back in your world? I mean no disrespect, but your particular...
vocabulary made me wonder.
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I Don't... know what a peasant is, so maybe?
Are you rich? you talk really fancy, or at least real smart.
It's pretty cool.
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I do like to think I'm smart, though.
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Why? bein rich sounds pretty cool, nice place to live, food to eat? what's wrong with that?
Maybe you ain't as smart as I thought.
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[She's starting to get frustrated with his attitude.]
And anyway, where I rest my head and what I put in my mouth are none of your business. I'm happy with where I am - most people would call that a sign of humility.
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I guess..
but damn I wish I was rich... I'd get nice food and a warm place to sleep...I don't see nothin wrong with that... but I guess if you're fine with it..
Fuck... this place is weird.
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And stop typing 'weird'. It's not weird, but you're ungrateful and annoying.
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And It is weird... but fine.
I'm not ungrateful... and I'm not annoying I'm just confused, that's all. It's just confusing on why you wouldn't want to be rich, you can have all the food you want,
and warm places to sleep... nice clothes and friends, I just don't get why you don't want that anymore?
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And if you type 'weird' one more time I'm going to come at you with a pair of scissors.
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my bad It's just the first thing that comes to mind.
I'm poor and I'm not happy at all...
also, your not the only one with scissors,
I'll stab you if you come at me. I don't wanna so don't please.
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...Well, she feels bad, hearing that he's poor and unhappy. She may not understand poor people, but she likes to think she's a good person and part of that is being nice to those who admit to being unhappy.]
You're not poor here. Even if you refuse the job offered by the officials, I'd imagine you can live well on their monthly donations.
I understand the new surroundings may be troublesome, but that's no reason to be rude or tease others.
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I'd still like to have a job, I'm not picky as long as I get paid.
I didn't think I Was being rude... I was just curious, Guess I didn't ask very well huh.
I'm sorry.
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You'd do well to refrain from calling people 'weird' to their faces.
[Nevermind that it only took being called it twice for her to go on defense.]
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I haven't talked to your face? but fine.
[Jason's not on the deference at all,
he's just so confused with all of this at the moment.]
Do you know any more cool plants I could see?
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...Your attention span isn't very long, is it.
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And what do you mean? my attention span's fine... I just like plants more then I like to get lectured.
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Fine, I'll find my own plants... I'm just askin questions, your the one being rude.