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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!
Jon Snow | Game of Thrones
[Sooner or later, he would need to accept that his life was destined to be one of constant battles and danger rather than a quiet life at home. But you, Lord Snow, you'll be fighting their battles forever. Either through compelling persuasion or honor, he seemed to find himself back into the role of warrior and ranger. While he declined carrying the bait, he had agreed to accompany the person who did. There was nothing wrong with his sword hand and he didn't wish to see another of his companions fall.
The quiet of the jungle was unnerving, but it was no different than beyond the Wall. At least here, he could finally feel warm. His eyes and ears were open, searching for signs of danger or anything at all amiss. A world like this, he didn't know what to expect, only that his luck could never allow him peace.]
Mind where you step.
[His hand shot out, holding onto the arm of the bait carrier, nodding at what looked to be a vine...until it moved. Snakes. For the first time in his life, he was seeing snakes.]
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So to hear him speak, and then feel him grab her arm, Clara was a bit startled. Jumping in surprise, her eyes went wide as she looked all around them. Eventually, she was able to see what caused him to grab at her.]
It's only a snake.
[She laughed a little, attempting to pull away from him so she could move in and get a closer look.]
Hopefully not the sort that grows three times its size and spits acid when threatened. Dealing with those never ends well, trust me.
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He needed to stop thinking and Clara provided him an avenue to get out of his head.]
You have seen those? Were they in your world?
[Three times its size? He looked back at it, keeping a sharp eye on the snake as they walked away.]
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It had not worked out so well for the jabberwhelp. The cage is awkward against her back, but she complains not at all, eyes alight as well as alert on their surroundings. From time to time, though, her gaze turns to her silent companion. She has not seen him before, in Faerie nor at home.
Her curiosity about him matches that she feels regarding the environment in which they find themselves, thus off and on, she will offer him small little smiles, about as much as she can manage when the task at hand is so serious.
When his arm suddenly grasps her, she goes very still, nearly stumbling in her bid to see just what has startled him so. Ah. A shiver goes uh her spine, as she stares down in equal parts wonder and disgust. )
It looks like a brightly-coloured worm. We can travel around them, surely.
iv / u/n: kara
And second: what do you do now, if you're not the commander of that night thingy anymore?
( There's a story here, and the reporter in her is pinged. Also, he sounds like he needs a hug.
So here she is: one giant ball of sunshine, coming right up. )
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[It takes a minute for him to gather what it is she thinks he said that is insulting.]
I never knew my mother. She bore me outside of marriage vows, it makes me a bastard.
[Simple, cold fact.]
What I do now is whatever I am asked to do here.
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( :( Now she feels terrible for bringing it up in the first place. )
But you're just you. Good or bad. people should judge you for who you are and how you treat other people. Not what you are.
( Another simple fact, courtesy of earth c. 2017. )
What if you were asked to have fun?
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[He hadn't understood Tyrion then. It was only until he faced Ramsay that he could see how the word could become a shield. After hearing it so often, it ceased to be an insult. It was what he was.]
My world is a bit different, my lady. How you were born, where you were born, it matters.
[Save for the Watch, but even then...]
I...wouldn't know where to begin.
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( 'Alien.' Especially in the context humans are so fond of using it for. She pauses, smiling faintly.
It's hard, being able to empathise so much with what he says without being able to give voice to it. But she simply can't take the risk right now. Especially with so many relatives here. )
Kara. My name's Kara. What's yours? I know what you mean, sort of. I've been a lot of places where that matters, and sometimes I just think it's stupid.
All that keeps people apart, from understanding each other. It's... sad.
( Her lips twitch into a somewhat brighter smile. )
Oh boy. Well, it's about time you get some help with that, then. Life's too short not to enjoy it.
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You can call us 'slayers' if you want. Some called us 'knights' once.
[When it was an honorable order.]
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So we'll say it's cleared up and I'll give you a round of applause for carrying a big pointed stick.
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I think you are confusing the Night's Watch with something else. What are 'slayers' to you?
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I've never heard of 'vampires' before or girls with the ability to fight them. [Though he could see Ygritte or even
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They exist. I'm one. We're out there, all creepy creeping in the dark. You heard of demons?
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You think a world is made better by something called 'demons' and 'vampires?'
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[No slime though.]
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I didn't know chaos could be fun.
[He hasn't had fun in a long while.]
What is a succubus? Another demon?
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Sexy demon. Succubi and incubi feed on sexual energy. Worth a headache the next morning.
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No. I'm not here for that.
[Not that he is here for anything really.]
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Bffs, Jon. Live it.
You will regret this, Spike
NEW BFF FOREVER! COME GET DRUNK. RAH!!.. .and stuff.
He's allergic to fun
Spike has an epipen. Let's go have fun!
What is this "fun" you speak of?
Well, he's heard of dysFUNctional, hasn't he?? >>
He lives it
Then unlive a little, man. Gosh. GOSH.
He can be undead or he can have fun. He can't do both.
Look, Jon. Undeath brings fun. He can totally do both. Trust him.
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