![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riverviewmod) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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.
information resources
premise ● arrival ● setting ● ask a question ● calendar ● navigation
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!
no subject
Heaven? Are you an angel?
[ there's been an angel sighting back in his world recently, but it was the first he ever heard of so close to him. some don't even believe it was true, that's how rare instances of angels making contact have become. ]
no subject
I was raised among them, but no. I am not.
no subject
he hasn't been bitten, but he's being more direct than he normally would be. this is someone that's been in contact with angels, and his kind revere and respect them in spite of their absence. it's akin to someone meeting their god. ]
I'm — a Nephilim. We haven't... Hadn't heard or seen anything of the angels in centuries. You lived among them?
no subject
[ She knows what the word Nephilim means, but is unfamiliar with the concept being real. Heven has been cut off from the other realms for a long, long time. Until recently, that is. ]
The Angels have not visited Earth since the days when men lived in caves.
no subject
the answer would be meaningless. it might not be the same angels. the reason could be completely different. clary and jace swear they met an angel just a few weeks ago, back home, so there's a discrepancy there already.
the question still rings in his ears, but he holds it back. instead he asks another, not considering it might be a difficult one for her. ]
Was she an angel? Is that how you came to live with them when you aren't one?
no subject
[ It was a power play, stealing the firstborn child of the rulers of Asgard. It was the move which led to Heven being severed from the World Tree, sealed off from the rest of the Ten Realms.
It would answer his unspoken question of why. ]
no subject
he rubs the back of his neck as he debates with himself, and then lifts his head again. ]
What are they like?
no subject
They are... rigid. Principled. An angel does nothing for nothing. Everything has its price.
no subject
That's good. I mean, it makes sense. [ he's having a hard time putting his words together, given the importance of this knowledge, and the feeling that he's closer to angels right now than he's ever been before. even with angel blood in his veins. ] Probably why they showed up a thousand years ago to create us to protect humanity and then... [ he lifts his empty hands. poof. drops them again. ]
no subject
You protect humanity?
no subject
but this is someone who lived with angels. so he answers her plainly, without being evasive. ]
Yes. Nephilim are trained as Shadowhunters. We share the angel's — Raziel — His blood runs through our veins, and grants us the ability to use angelic power in order to defend humanity from demons.
[ he gestures at his neck now, and folds his arm to display the angelic power rune there. ] These help us be more effective in combat. They're angelic runes.
no subject
Your angel-- this Raziel... He was male?
[ That makes no sense to her. All Angels are female. ]
no subject
We speak of him as if he was. [ but maybe that's incorrect, now that he thinks about it. he can't believe he hasn't before. he's not sure angels operate on the same basis of gender than humans do. ] Is that wrong?
no subject
Heven-- or at least, the Heven I am from-- all its Angels are female. The males are Anchorites, our monks who sit in silent prayer.
no subject
We could have assumed him to be male. [ that would not... shock him to learn. even shadowhunter society is rather patriarchal. ]
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Asgardian? [ he does not know what that is. ]
no subject
Yes. [ There is a scowl on her face as she discusses Asgard. ] Those who dwell in Asgard. It is there that I was born. [ Though if you try to call her Asgardian she will cut you. ]
no subject
Right. [ he won't press. he's curious, but he's not here to badger or pry.
he will go back to the start of this conversation, though. ] Sometimes the last places you'd expect end up feeling like home. It's not weird if you feel like that about this place.
no subject
I'd been close to finding that... home-feeling, back in Brooklyn with my beloved.
no subject
Are they here with you?
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)