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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!
Clara Oswald | Doctor Who
"This thing is bigger than I am," Clara grumbled as she prepared for her group's outing. "Suppose it can't be fixed this late into things. As long as we get Liam to safety, it'll be worth it, I wager."
She was more or less talking to herself in order to ease the adrenaline that was already starting to move throughout her system. It hadn't been that long since her last adventure with the Doctor, but ever since being pulled into this place and being brought back to life she felt a need to go out and see as much as possible. To do everything she could, to experience literally everything. It was a bit reckless of her to sign up to do this with no real fighting skills, but Clara wasn't about to be left behind when there was an innocent being that needed help getting somewhere safe. It wasn't Liam's fault that he was large and in the way of things. And really, she liked to think that if her idiot best friend were here, he'd be choosing to do this too. While yelling at her for volunteering to carry the bait, of course.
The bait in her cage was filled with food, a fact that she knew came with an element of danger. Trekking through the jungle to find its center meant there were plenty of other creatures who probably wouldn't mind a nibble or two of what she was carrying. So she moved swiftly - enough that the guard who was still keeping up with her was likely having a fun time.
That fun came to a crashing halt the second the lizard monsters came out of nowhere. Shouting out a warning, she tried to duck and dodge the incoming attack. The stupid cage was too large for her to do it without nearly tipping over, so at that point she braced herself and prayed those that were with her would be able to strike.
"Do something!" Being bossy wouldn't do her any good if she wound up dead an hour into the mission.
iii. (fireflies)
The thing about the fireflies was that Clara didn't really mind them being around. They were beautiful, even if she heard they had a nasty bite. No matter how often she ventured out from the housing compound she didn't seem to get bit, and she took that as an invitation to test her limits. There were some who had a natural repellent that she doused herself in, and she made her way out among the fireflies to get an up close view. Armed with a mosquito netting she had traded for, she placed it over her head and let it encase her body, enough that nothing would be able to get in. She knew she must look a sight, probably properly bonkers, but she didn't care.
It was almost like being among the stars, the brightness of their glow shining sharply in the growing darkness evening brought to the area. Standing among the rainbow, watching them fly and swirl together, Clara was honestly transfixed by the sight. A dull ache settled in as she felt herself getting a little overwhelmed by how much she missed getting to be close to the stars. Her eyes caught sight of someone nearby, and she was pulled out of her own thoughts and emotions.
"Fancy getting an up close view?" She called out to them, not sure if they were staring because they wondered what she was doing, or if they were wanting to come out and join her.
iv. (Friendr)
[ooc: I'm not committed to prose. Feel free to do brackets and I'll follow your lead! If anyone gets bit in prompt iii I prefer to steer clear of lust or love.]
[ iii ]
Closer how?
no subject
A closer look without being bit. Are you out here all alone?
[She's already walking over toward him, stirring up the fireflies in her wake.]
no subject
[ And he doesn't tell his parents everything. . . . most of the time. Besides, he saw them from far away with his super-vision and found himself coming here subconsciously. ]
no subject
[Smiling, she waits until she's in close and then holds open the net so he can step under and inside.]
We have to be careful to get it sealed up at the bottom once we're in place. Otherwise they might come up and bite us.
no subject
How do we seal it?
[ Jon would use his heat-vision if he wasn't keeping his identity a secret. ]
no subject
[Holding up the bottom of the net a little higher, she motions for him to step in.]
Come on, in you pop. We'll just wing it and figure something out.
no subject
Yes ma'am. Maybe we can put some rocks on them?
no subject
[Tapping at the side of his head, she offers him a friendly little smile.]
And please, just call me Clara. Only my students call me ma'am. And what about you, what's your name?
no subject
My name is Jonathan.
[ Still he hesitates at calling her by her name. ]
Are you a teacher?
iv.
Well! If my ears weren't burning before, they certainly are now.