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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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[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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Clark is angry: he wants to hover or fidget. He doesn't believe the world is always good and kind but even in this one there are good people in it too. If Dick can talk about Gotham as corrupted as it is, there should be. ]
There's only me in my world.
[ She told him about hers. It's fair to offer something in return. ]
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[He seems nice, and there's not a lot of that going around with the heroes in her world, even if they're good at pretending to be.
But also:]
Do you kill?
[It's a sticking point between the public and the heroes, something that always comes up in discussion. Some of them have been known to operate with more extreme prejudice, but they're usually reined in, at least as far as the general population knows.
Amelia has been to enough funerals to think otherwise, even if she didn't mourn those dead.]
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I have, once.
[ Like Bucky said, sometimes there's no other choice.
He has't told that many people and here he is telling a stranger. ]
As long as I live, I never want to again.
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It gets easier.
[If he ever has to do it again. Her first was the hardest.]
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[ Clark can snap a man's neck as quickly as a toothpick. ]
I'd rather not at all.
[ Besides, it won't help humans accept him if he acts like a vigilante. ]
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That's not what she meant at all and she thinks that he knows it.]
Must be nice to choose.
[It doesn't seem like anyone could make Kal do something he didn't want to do.]
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Clark isn't very good at blowing off steam. He changes the subject. ]
Are you feeling any better?
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You're allowed to leave.
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Just making sure you're all right.
[ She was having a panic attack fifteen minutes ago okay!!!! ]
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[Not that she was before, really, but it felt like it.]
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I can stay outside and make sure no one comes in.
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I doubt I'm the only one who was been bitten, you should help them.
[She can deal with the residual effects.]
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All right. I'll check in on you later.
[ He won't abandon her. ]
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Thank you, Kal.
[Saying that and meaning it is weird.]
Please don't tell anyone about me.
[He doesn't seem like the type that would, but she needs to make it clear.]
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[ He nods and moves towards the door. ]
Alice.
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Good luck.
[She's so good at interacting with people like a normal human being, totally nailed this entire encounter, good job Amelia.]