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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!
hanako 'rosalina' nurumi; oc; ota
iii; rainbow bite
iv; friendr
Pest Control
She'd found herself with no interest in returning to the city just yet, so had stayed with the creature, or near enough to it, to maintain a few magic shields that blocked it's would-be attackers from casual attempts at chowing down on the big guy. Other people accompanying the creature were not so lucky. She could only maintain such magics for so long and over so much space, no matter how powerful she'd become in the last year.
But that didn't mean she wasn't merciful when specifically called to. Thus she turned her head and after a moment, moved to cross the path she'd been walking to stand under the tree holding the young-seeming girl and look up at her.
From behind her mask, a voice on the deeper side sounded, though muffled slightly, and spoke in a calm, commanding tone:]
Come down and walk with me. Stand close enough and the bones of the lost will shield you just as well as they shield me.
[It was hard for the creatures - any creature really - to get past the whirling mini-funnel of bone and detritus that surrounded her when she decided to call it forth.]
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You got it, [ she says easily. She hops down with a surprising dexterity but still can't help look around warily for more of those strange six-legged creatures. They're like annoying lesser yokai... ]
'Bone of the lost' though. That sounds, uh, a little intense...
[ Please don't be a necromancer. Or, at least, please don't be a creepy necromancer. She's dealt with one too many of those in her life time. ]
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It depends on where the bones are drawn from. Here, it is only those creatures which have become prey for others. Elsewhere...
[She shrugged, a small, almost elegant motion before she raised her hands to adjust the fall of the cowl around her mask.]
It has little importance, really. Why did you flee into the tree? Those things can climb perfectly well, you know.
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It seems to be, anyway, as those bones form a protective bubble around them. Huh. That's some pretty impressive magic if she ever saw it. ]
I panicked. [ A surprisingly honest admission. ] I figured I could, dunno, Tarzan that junk if I had to and swing through the trees in a last ditch effort to not get chomped on. Though this is way more effective and requires a lot less energy.
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[The way the girl said it had Durzakh imagining a speed booster of some sort.]
Is that a rapid movement spell?
[Her head tilted to the side so it was clear she was looking at Rose with curiosity, though with the height difference, there was little chance of her eyes being seen through the small holes in the mask.]
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Uh, no, not... quite. Tarzan is a character from a movie where I'm from. He's like a wild dude that lives in the jungle.
[ She thinks to say 'with a sweet Phil Collin's sountrack following his life' but that's another thing she probably won't get so Rose refrains. This is going to be so difficult. Whhhyyy. ]
So he gets around by swinging from vines and jumping through trees. It's pretty neat!
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[Based on context of the man being a 'character', she made a guess.]
I believe those in my world would call such a 'stage play'. You call it a 'movie' because the actors move?
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It's really starting to set in that there's a multiverse and it's all collecting here. ]
'Movies' is short for 'moving pictures,' actually! So it's like... a recording of what actors do, then projected onto a bigger screen for lots of people to watch at once. It's pretty cool.
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[Because that's people used in her world. Though, not usually for entertainment. But she's certain that some mages have done so when they were bored.]
Surely if it's on a screen you don't get to see all of the person moving about. Would it not be flat, like a painting?
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Yeah, kind of! I mean, there's tricks to make it look more three dimensional but... it is just a projection on a screen, you're right.
That's about as good as it gets where I'm from.