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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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[Shrug. She rests her chin in her palm.]
When and where are you from, Luka? There seem to be a lot of people from the same worlds.
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I believe it is the . . . 21st century. As for where, it no longer matters. I have no place of my own.
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Hopefully that means he won't have an irrational fear of kiwis, like the last one.]
Oh.
Well, there are a lot of people from the 21st century.
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But you are not.
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Los Angeles. 2009.
[And he hasn't even asked her name yet. Rude. But then again, manners can go out the window when you're, you know, kidnapped.]
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[ Loki doesn't make a habit of knowing mortals, or making their acquaintances. That may shift, as Loki's moods are always changeable. ]
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[She impressed the hell out of Ivar when she started reciting the Prose Edda. It was fun. There's nothing Fatima enjoys more than the opportunity to show off.
Except maybe strappy sandals. She loves strappy sandals.]
"King Gylfe ruled the lands that are now called Svithjod. Of him it is said that he gave to a wayfaring woman, as a reward for the entertainment she had afforded him by her story-telling, a plow-land in his realm, as large as four oxen could plow it in a day and a night. But this woman was of the asa-race; her name was Gefjun."
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"He thought to himself whether this could come from their own nature, or whether the cause must be sought for among the gods whom they worshiped."
It is one of the more aptly written texts, I find.
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Shit, she's lonely, isn't she?]
"He therefore undertook a journey to Asgard. He went secretly, having assumed the likeness of an old man, and striving thus to disguise himself. But the asas were wiser, for they see into the future, and, foreseeing his journey before he came, they received him with an eye—deceit."
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"For you cannot know where enemies sit in the house before you."
[ His smile is faint in his eyes, hooded by his eyelids ]
Impressive, indeed. It is no mean feat to speak such words from memory. That merits an apology from me. To whom do I speak to?
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Fatima. Fatima Merali.
[It's a reflex. On the tip of her tongue are the words "And I'm not a terrorist." It's a defensive mechanism. Always make a joke at your own expense, before someone else can make it for you. But anyone intellectual enough to recite mythology can't be ignorant enough to make that assumption.
...right?]
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The captivating daughter. A fitting name.
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Okay, it's my turn to be impressed.
[No one ever knows what her name means. Especially not super, super white dudes.]
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Names carry weight. It is important to know what they stand for.
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Sounds like you were born to be a mythology buff. You're not a professor, are you?
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[ The best lies are the ones that ring with the truth. ]
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My boss is named Artemis. That's why religious texts are kind of important to her and her employees.
[Employees. Ha. More like "cult followers." But that sounds pretty nuts.]
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What did this job entail?
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Yeah, that won't make her sound like a crazy person at all.]
Among other things, a lot of research.
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[ Loki has some conclusions forming in his mind. ]
To do with things long-forgotten, buried under history.
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You know that expression? "Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it?"
Artemis likes to add, "And those that fail to learn history correctly are simply doomed."
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History is written by the victors. Where, then, does the correct history lie? In men drunk with power and pride over their achievements?
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It's mostly between the lines of mythology.
[She clears her throat delicately.]
At least, that's how it works where I come from.
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Again, a very particular brand of history indeed. I thought most people no longer pursue the study of old mythos.
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[She tosses her head back and stares in mock defiance at the camera for a moment. Then shrugs, going back to neutral.]
My favorite is The Odyssey though. It's basically a necromancer's cookbook.
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