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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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( She's very, very grateful not to be stuck here alone right now. )
That'd make a lot of sense! Especially if most people here fill some sort of niche. Thanks; I will.
( Beyond good; it's fantastic, she thinks, as she considers things. Whatever is going on, this isn't so bad. To belong.
Kara smiles at that, squeezing his hand. )
I never had a brother. My aunt Astra always said she couldn't love a daughter more if Rao had granted her one of her own. I felt the same about you, when you were little. Like you were my brother.
( Something that's never changed, no matter how much time has passed by or whether she'd been able to keep that promise or not. Emotion wells in her chest, and she swallows once before nodding, expression fond as she gazes up at him. )
That goes both ways. Thank you.
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[ He'll get his notes after their meal and they can put their heads together. Kara can tell him about the first experience she had. ]
Thank you, Kara.
[ Clark has met kindred spirits here. This is the first one who's a sister in every sense of the word. ]
Whatever happens, I'm glad we met.
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( There's nothing she'd like better, at all. They might be stuck here, but they're together. To her, that's what matters most. )
You're always welcome, Kal.
( If she's not supposed to call him that in here, he'll have to let her know. Smiling over at him, she breathes out deeply. )
Me too. I had no idea there might be a reality where we'd never met. I'm glad I can be here.
( Here. Instead of across a country.
—and the sauce he's making must be almost done, because it smells to die for. Kara lifts her nose to the air, and grins. )
The closest I've been to cooking other than making pancakes was using my heat vision to roast the Thanksgiving turkey.
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It's been thirty-three years since I landed on Earth. I hope you're out there, Kara.
[ There'd be no Kryptonians left but them. Selfishly, Kal would be glad for her company, and endlessly grateful she survived. ]
I used to do that too. Mom always asked me to check it was done.
[ The pasta's done. Clark picks it up and sets it on the counter, busying himself with plates and cutlery. ]
Enjoy.
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If I am, you'll find me. And either way, I'm here now.
( Back on her Earth, he'd never really needed her. She doesn't know if that's different here and now, and a big part of her wants to find out. )
Eliza used to worry the meat would be radioactive. ( She laughs a little. ) It always worked out. And for you, too, sounds like.
( And there's a lot of it. Which means she feels less guilty about heaping her plate full, just before grabbing herself a fork and spoon. )
I will! Thanks. Come sit with me.
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I'll find you.
[ He promises this earnestly. ]
Who's your family on Earth?
[ Clark had thought she would stay with the Kents but that doesn't seem to be the case. He doesn't know anyone he'd feel comfortable giving her to.
He sits down and lets her take her serving before him. ]
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I know.
( Because she trusts him more than anyone else. Completely. )
The Danverses, in Midvale; Jeremiah, Eliza, and their daughter Alex. The you in my reality placed me with them.
( That's been a bone of contention between her and Alex for years. As much as she loves her sister, the assertion she'd once made that he'd abandoned her had stung. there's no way she'd ever agree with that.
Sitting across from him, she sets about eating quietly, but with enthusiasm. Half her plate's gone before she speaks up again: )
Eliza and Jeremiah are scientists. They'd helped you better understand your powers.
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I haven't met them.
[ Now that he has names, he can look.
Clark had no one to help him with his abilities. Even the hologram of his father had only said to keep testing his limits. ]
I've been learning more about them by teaching Jon. [ He can finally tell her about Jon! Clark beams. ] He's from another reality... and he's my son. You'll meet him at dinner.
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( If they exist, though she sees no reason why they shouldn't. The differences between their realities don't seem nearly as glaring as Barry's and hers, for instance.
Tilting her head, she grins sheepishly. )
The boot's on the other foot! You taught me. ( Kara's eyes widen, and then she beams at him, reaching over to take his hand. ) That's great! I can't wait to meet him.
I'm no expert, but I'd love to work on that with you two. If that's not a private thing, or anything.
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[ Jon spoke highly of her. Clark sees no reason this should be different for another Kara: Jon is more used to alternates. ]
I have a place out by the forest where I practice. You're welcome to join anytime.
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( Kara finishes up what's on her plates and wipes her mouth, all manners. )
Yeah, I could use the practice. I've been training off and on with Mon-El, but it's just not the same.
( Sighing, she leans back in her chair. )
Okay, your turn: is there anything you'd like to know?
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Did any other Kryptonians survive?
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And yet, her eyes sting, and her chest feels tight. Slowly, she nods her head. )
Some. They were aboard Fort Rozz, our planet's equivalent of a maximum security prison. My, ah. My mother's sister and her husband were among them.
Pretty much all of them wanted to kill me.
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The ones I fought were a faction of the military who had attempted a coup, trying to save our world. They're all in the Phantom Zone now and their leader is dead.
They didn't want to live alongside humans, Kara.
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Fort Rozz was in the Phantom Zone, too. I... I didn't know about a coup. Mother wouldn't have told me, even if that's what happened in my reality, too.
I'm sorry. I've found that out the hard way, too. That actually our people didn't want to live alongside anybody.
( Now, she finally gazes downward, momentarily not at all hungry. )
Turns out, I didn't know my parents as well as I'd thought I had.
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I'm sorry, Kara.
[ While Clark's glad she empathizes, he doesn't want her to share this with him. They should remember what was good about Krypton. ]
Maybe there'll be a chance for us to rebuild. The knowledge isn't lost.
[ She's here, and Clark has his father's AI. ]
The pod that brought me to Earth was lost in the battle. There's still the Kryptonian ship they arrived in but it's been confiscated by the government for research [ and military ] purposes. It might have what we need... I just don't know how to get it back.
[ He can't walk in and take it with impunity. ]
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It's all right. No matter what, they loved me, as much as yours loved you.
( That means more than anything else, as it should. It'd been J'onn J'onzz to remind her of that, and she's glad he did. )
That's a good idea. Have you built the Fortress yet?
( Apparently not. Kara sits up straighter, brow furrowed in thought. )
In my reality, all that stuff is safe, way up north in the Arctic. The DEO confiscated my pod, and the AI of my mother. But all the archives and everything else, including Kelex are there.
( It can be a start, anyway. Again, she squeezes his hand. )
If the government's got it all in yours, I'd be happy to help you get it back if we ever get out of here.
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[ It was why they separated. Clark misses them but he understands so much more after meeting Jon. His child is his future and he would do anything to protect and save it.
Just like his parents did for him. ]
The Fortress of Solitude? Mom used to joke I needed one.
[ Clark smiles faintly at the idea of having taken her seriously. ]
Let's do that. I don't like seeing it in the shadow of the LexCorp building.
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( Because it'd already been there for at least twelve years, if not longer than that by the time she'd come along.
She smiles softly, though the expression falters. )
That jerk. I've only heard of it and don't like it either.
( How had Lena turned out so... normal? As far as she's aware, anyway. The rest of her family is nuts. )
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[ Kara, like him, doesn't seem like she makes promises she can't keep. ]
I've been warned about him and a few others. Do you know a Metallo?
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( She knows a little about that, and fully intends to keep her word to him. If it takes asking the Flash for a favour to get her to his reality and back again later.
Belatedly, she digs into her food, finishing up. This time, she neatly lays her utensils together on the plate and pushes it to the side. )
With good reason. His mother is causing me all kinds of grief lately. And uh, yeah. Two of them.
( Frowning, she shakes her head. )
They almost killed us.
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With kryptonite? That hasn't been invented or found on my Earth yet.
i would love to keep this if i get in! is that ok?
That's right. And there's a "genius" on my Earth who even invented a synthetic form of it to try and put down the escapees.
He got me, instead. Wasn't fun.
a-ok by me!
He got more than he bargained for.
[ As sweet as Kara seems, Clark knows there's steel in her. She's a survivor.
He doesn't want to linger on what might be a bad memory so he asks a different question. ]
Is there just us where you're from? Are there other aliens or metahumans?
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You can say that again.
( They both are, which is something almost nobody else understands.
And she's thankful for the change of topic, her expression lightening considerably as she hangs up the wet tea towel. )
Well, there's probably still more than a few former prisoners out there, but yeah. Aliens, I mean, anyway. Metahumans are almost unheard of.
J'onn J'onzz is the last Green Martian, and heads up the DEO. And Mon-El crashed about eight months ago. He's from Daxam.
( Her lips twitch, and she laughs a little. )
I've been to what's been called "Earth-1" before, and there's oodles of metahumans there but not really any aliens.
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