riverview: april test drive meme

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riverview test drive meme

Welcome 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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prompt i: baiting the behemoth

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....

prompt ii: pest control service

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.

prompt iii: rainbow bite

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.

prompt iv: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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Many thanks to mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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[jungle image is by Armand Serrano and Paul Lasaine]

Comments

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki inhales sharply. Another sibling. For a moment, all he can be is anger and fury, directed at the All-Father. But it simmers quickly, sinking back to his fathoms. Loki will not consider the implications right now, so boldly faced with a . . . relative. Later, he will digest this knowledge. ]

Has the All-Father abducted another orphan from a battlefield? He has a bad habit of that.

[hevenly]

[ Angela winces at the mention of Odin. She still bears no love for the man who would be her father. All the stories she was told of his terribleness as a child lingering on her. ]

No, it was the opposite. Odin and Freyja's first child, Aldrif, was stolen by the Angels and raised in Heven, as punishment for Asgard's crimes.

[dothelokimotion]

Hm.

[ It's a thoughtful pause. While Loki can muster some pity for Freyja, he can certainly see such a situation occurring from Odin's pigheadedness. No sympathy for the wicked disguised as the valorous. ]

But I wonder. Who was truly being punished?

[hevenly]

[ Now he reminds her even more of Loki, saying things she cannot parse the meaning of. ]

Speak plainly. What do you mean?

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki shrugs gracefully, his manner non-threatening. ]

I am only implying that perhaps the All-Father was not truly punished by this deed. After all, he has a virtuous son for the throne. What more could he need?

[hevenly]

The Odinson is welcome to the throne, should he reprove his worthiness. I have no desire for it, and even less claim to it.

[ Besides, she already has a throne, in Hel, that's hers should she want it. ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ That was welcome news, though Loki suspects it has little to do with his reality. He would have known if he had another sibling. He assumes. Who knew what kind of secrets Odin kept in the dark? ]

I suppose Thor is quite pleased with that outcome.

[hevenly]

I doubt she cares one way or the other.

[ She is not Asgardian by blood, and has less claim to the throne than Angela does. ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ . . . Pause. ]

She?

[hevenly]

Have you not heard? The Odinson is no longer Thor.

[ While aware of the concept of a multiverse, it does not readily occur to Angela that hers is not the only reality. ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ How does that even work. ]

That — How can that be possible?

[hevenly]

[ Angela can do nothing but shrug. ]

He cannot lift his hammer. He is unworthy of the title.

[dothelokimotion]

[ There's a long pause before Loki lets out a quiet huff, so muted in nature that it would be easy to ignore. Oh, Thor, he thinks to himself, the smile curling on his lips, you fool. ]

What an unsurprising outcome.

[hevenly]

[ Though she holds less animosity towards the Odinson than she does for their father, Angela cannot say she cares about her brother. They have been in opposition more often than not, and she has bested him in battle more than once. ]

In any event, now a human woman wields the hammer in the name of Thor.

[dothelokimotion]

[ That piece of information makes his head hurt and Loki does not attempt to disguise it, pinching the bridge of his nose. ]

That . . . is not how the hammer works.

[ How humiliating. ]

[hevenly]

Try telling that to the hammer.

[ Who is she to question who it deems worthy? ]

I have always preferred blades, myself, over blunt weapons.

[dothelokimotion]

[ He subconsciously nods at that. While his magic has always been his favored means of attack, Loki can appreciate the sharp cold edge. ]

Obviously. There's no skill in bludgeoning someone to death with an oversized worker's tool.

[hevenly]

[ Angela's lip quirks up in laughter. ]

It may as well be a club.

[dothelokimotion]

Or a very long stick.

[hevenly]

That might be an insult to sticks.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki considers this with a minor pursing of his mouth. ]

I see your point. At least sticks are offered more dignity, from the way Thor swings that thing around.

[hevenly]

And, in a way, a sword could be considered merely a stick that is sharp.

[dothelokimotion]

[ That draws a low, hearty chuckle from him. ]

Let us not get carried away.

[hevenly]

[ She doesn't laugh out loud, but her mirth is visible on her face. ]

Fine. I'll stop there.

[dothelokimotion]

I'm honoured by your magnanimity.

[ But it lacks his unusual bite. A sister from another world, one that Loki finds is easy to converse with, even hold a sense of camaraderie. It is rare and confusing and a part of himself balks.

But the sum does not follow. ]