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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!
but she's so good at it!!
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I'll stay here for now. Could you hold out your arm, please?
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Just get it over with.
[Part of her resents being treated like some fragile, breakable thing, but she realizes that she's kind of acting like it, at least right now.]
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He knows that people aren't always short with him because they're genuinely assholes. ]
It's flooding your bloodstream and changing your neurochemistry. What happened?
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[She felt the sharp sting of the bite and the fear that come flooding after. Having something to focus on is helping, usually she's not lucky enough to get a conversation when she's scared.]
Is it norepinephrine? Can you tell? I need- I have to stop it.
[Trying to remember specific brain chemistry is hard when her body keeps yelling at her that everything is a threat.]
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[ He disappears in a rush of wind.
When he comes back five minutes later, he's holding a small whiteboard with the chemical formula and molecular shape of what's affecting her. Clark had also looked up a few possible inhibitors.
He'll apologise to the librarian later. ]
This is it.
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It's not working, really, but it's better than running around like a headless chicken.
When Clark comes back she startles a little, scrambling to her feet so she can look at what he brought back. She's cycling through solutions and dismissing them within seconds, not sure if she can actually manage any of them without accidentally killing herself.]
It looks like an amino acid, but I can't... I don't know how to do this. I've never altered neurochemistry at this level.
[Only one person at home knows what she can do, but hiding doesn't seem to matter here.]
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I looked up a few options for an inhibitor. What do you need to know?
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Beta or alpha blockers?
[If he has an idea of which way to go on that front, maybe she can work from there.]
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thats ok im just obsessively reading wikis
[She has to block the adrenergic receptors; it takes her a moment to remember where where those are located.
Amelia sits back down, knowing that she can't waste her energy on things like standing up, and closes her eyes. This hurts, it isn't the same as surface changes, where there are nerve endings involved, but she's still changing her body on a chemical level.
It takes several minutes of focus before anything happens, but eventually her heart rate slows the tiniest amount, and then her hands stop shaking. The chemical is still in her bloodstream, but she doesn't want to risk doing more, not when this is such a fine science. Lessening the effects has to be enough for now.
She opens her eyes again and looks at Clark.]
Thank you.
[It's shaky, but genuine.]
my hero(ine)
No problem. What's your name?
kryptonite by 3 doors down plays softly in the background
[It's a lie, told smoothly enough to fool anyone who doesn't have super-hearing.]
What's yours?
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[ It's not the first fake name someone's given him. Clark doesn't take it personally. He smiles and nods at her.
She might be doing better. That doesn't mean she's not still scared and wary of him. ]
My name is Kal. Do you want me to leave?
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Amelia is trying very hard to pretend that she has her shit together, that being pulled into another world with strange people and strange creatures doesn't bother her, but this whole thing is scary, even without the firefly making things worse.
And she's not used to people being so nice.]
You have a lot of powers. [That's kind of rude; give her a second.] Where I'm from, people only have one, even heroes.
[Still not great, Corelli.]
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[ People can say that about Superman. Clark hasn't given that name here to anyone who doesn't already know it. Here, it's not an S.
He wants to figure himself out before people ascribe that to him. ]
I'm from another planet. This is an ancestral outfit.
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[She has a love-hate relationship with them, because part of her is still a stupid little girl that thinks someone is going to come rescue her.]
I can shapeshift. [It feels weird to say it out loud, she never has before. It should come with fanfare or something, but she just sounds tired, an adrenaline crash isn't a fun thing.] I'm not a hero either.
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What makes you say that?
[ There's only one superhero operating with impunity in his world and Alice is looking at him. ]
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The only thing they care about is how popular they are. Papa says they are in the military's pocket, too.
[She doesn't believe everything her father tells her, but if anyone would know about corruption, it's him.]
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Did the military create them?
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[The powers they have are natural; some people call it magic, some people call it science. Her mother tried to tell her it was a gift from god, once, but that had only made Amelia feel worse.]
The military pays them. [She shrugs.] Anyone can be bought.
[That she knows for sure.
And anyone who can't be bought can be killed.]
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[ Clark has a terrible feeling.
He still asks. ]
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Lois would say this world needs hope desperately. From the outside everyone can say that. ]
I thought so.
[ He looks down and swallows heavily. ]
What about you? Aren't they after you?
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She should pretend to be normal, maybe, but he's seen her with a gun and he's seen what she can do, and she's so sick of pretending.]
Papa found out first.
[In a kinder world, that might mean she was protected.
What it really means is that her secret is kept hidden, for now.]
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