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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!
Llŷr | OC
Following the river was fairly easy, even if Llŷr had to swim along the surface to not get the backpack too wet. The things inside smelled horrible enough as it was, and he didn't exactly want to test how bad it would be if drenched.
It was strong for a reason, though. If they were to bait the creature across the water - no matter how shallow - it would be good to have some incentive. Who knew what it felt about splashing around, after all.
Waiting at a slightly deeper area than the shallows, he raises a hand and waves it a little to catch the other people's attention. "Everything's ready!"
Fireflies
Bugs tended to enjoy being near water, and while they couldn't exactly get to him under the surface, the fact that they were shiny had the merman popping his head above fairly quickly.
There was a rather rude realization that they bite, however, and he hisses a little while withdrawing his hand from an orange little bug.
"Did you see that? It bit me!" Looking at his finger, Llŷr frowns. "I hope it's not as bad as a cone snail."
Friendr
Bait
She was busy trying to shake the water off her boots (in vain) when she heard Llŷr.]
Roger that! Now we need to observe the target and make sure it actually gets here.
[Suddenly, in the distance one of the taller trees crashes to the ground as something very massive, but still unseen, makes its way forward with massive footsteps.]
That... didn't take long.
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Let's hope it goes for it!
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[She realizes how redundant it sounds, since Llŷr is already taking refuge in the depths. 2B takes a look around, realizing it's she who's actually out in the open.]
Ah...
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Come here! It won't get you in the water!
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I can't. I'll drown.
[Behind her, another earth-rumbling noise is heard a little bit closer. Something huge starts to be visible amidst the treetops.]
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I wouldn't let you drown! This is my element.
[Llŷr flick his green tail in the water.]
Come on, before it steps on you!
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[She looks around, quickly weighing her options. It's possible to flee either up or downstream the river, but the surroundings are not well known and dangerous...]
My body won't float in water. The weight will drag both of us down!
I'll jump to the other side of the river.
[That sounds ridiculous, and 2B herself also sounds like she's not entirely confident in her plan.]
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Give jumping a try! If you fail, I'll stay with you in the water and we'll find a way to get you out.
[...well, at least he tries to be comforting. Watch out now, 2B. Here it comes.]
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[2B takes a deep breath, realizing this is potentially a really bad idea.
She starts to run - towards the shore and the dry ground at first, to gather speed by circling as she prepares for the jump. And some speed gathering it is, despite the water's resistance she quickly outpaces an olympic speed runner. Then comes the jump, which is also supernaturally high and long!
But the river is pretty wide so while she crossed most of it, at this rate she will soon fall into the water anyway!]
Ghh?!
[She already realizes it while flying. Only a second or two are left until she plunged into the aquatic depths.]
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He doesn't really have time to think, snapping his tail fin hard to propel himself out of the water. Llŷr might not have to jump as high as she did (and what the heck was that?!) but this way, he could attempt to push her to the other side before she landed.
Or at least to an area that was less deep.]
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Brace yourself!
[She spins mid-air to slow down her horizontal movement. A strange move but it means Llŷr can catch up - and as soon as he's within reach, 2B's legs swing to reach his arms or shoulders.
As soon as she does that, she pushes herself off, using the mer's body as an improvised stepping stone for another long jump. All of this takes only a split second, no more than that - and good, because 2B's body really is surprisingly heavy!]
Ah - oof!
[She tumbles during the landing, splashing water everywhere - but finally lands in a crouch, in shallow water. Right in time for Liam to slowly appear from behind the trees, on the other side of the river.]
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Shaking it off, he heads for the surface again, carefully peeking up from the water to make sure 2B was safe - and it's a huge relief to see that she was wet but not drowning.
Llŷr is about to call to her to make sure she was okay when the behemoth shows himself, and instead he freezes and quiets down to see if the beast moves across the river like they hoped.]
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As for 2B herself, she looks a bit dishevelled but mostly relieved.]
That was a close call...
Are you alright?
[Siad the one who was in trouble just a moment ago.]
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I'm fine. Are you okay? That was some jump!
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I'm fine. That was lack of planning on my part. I screwed up.
[Could it be that her expression turned a little bit sheepish right now?]
Sorry.