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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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[A long, elaborate way of saying it's cool, he guesses.] Something like that would pull me away for sure.
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What, really? Something like this one? [He's holding up the fish even more, like perhaps Eichi hasn't seen that this is still not even an arm's length of fish. Really??]
It's not that hard to hold the line. Bet it'd snap before it dragged you into the water.
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[That doesn't make sense, can it really snap?] It seems I don't really understand the power of fish. [Hold on, he's standing up carefully to come over and peer at this big fish... from a few feet away.]
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[Come on Eichi, try harder. Noctis holds the fish out closer to him. Observe it wiggle. Now that he's closer,] Still think you couldn't take this one on?
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I'm afraid not. I have no expertise in anything like fishing, you see, and I'd worry that my grip on the rod wouldn't last.
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You can get gloves for that. [See, there's a way for even prissy babies to enjoy the wonders of fishing. But fine, hell quit menacing Eichi with this fish, holding it back at a normal distance and looking at it thoughtfully.]
Like I said before, cooking and me don't really mix...
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Should we release it, then?
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Anyway, releasing this fish... Now then.] You're not really an emperor, but you have servants?
[how fake are u on a scale from 1-10]
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Well, I'm the scion to a huge financial conglomerate, so my family is well known. On top of that, due to my health, I always have to have someone following me or guarding my door.
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So it's like that, huh? [A Rich Boy... He's never encountered one in the wild who didn't technically work for him.
Whatever a financial conglomerate actually is. He'll ask Ignis later.] You're not gonna pass out from hanging around by the water or anything, are you?
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[He's joking, probably, but he's also curious. Anyway, though, since he is tired, he'll stand up and brush the wrinkles out of his clothes.] The fresh air by the water feels more relaxing than anything else. I enjoy quiet, calm areas like this, even if venturing out into the city can be a fun change.
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[He'd do it heroically and without the fishing gear, honest, but: more jokes. He looks out at the water again; it'd be nice to keep fishing, but drop-dead Eichi might just drop dead behind him somewhere and he wouldn't notice...]
Guess we can stick around for a while.
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To be fished out of a lake... how embarrassing that would be. And I doubt I'd even be the largest catch. [The true damage to his pride, here. But look, he notices that glance to the water and smiles a little to himself, moving to the edge to sit down.]
Should I keep track and rank you?
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Rank me against what? All the other people fishing here?
[This is not a no, he's already getting ready to cast again.]
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[He sounds so much more into this than he has been about actual fishing, but it's making him want to humor Noct (along with that sad puppy look out to the water), so. At least he can enjoy the nice breeze of the water and relax. Surely they have time to do this a little while longer.]
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Yeah, I get it. Then keep an eye out for me, will you?
[It's Fishing Time.]
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[And he does, for quite some time. For the first hour or so of fishing, he comments a lot, scoring Noct on silly, non-fishing related things like how his pose for casting the line was a little flashy, but it made him look cool so he still got a pass. Or how one fish was prettier than another, so it should be worth more points.
After that, Eichi lets it die down a little, only commenting occasionally and more seriously, pointing out when Noct has caught one bigger, or one a lot faster. And now, who knows how many hours later, it's hard to keep his eyes open. His body is still exhausted from all of the running around he's been doing nonstop, and his eyelids are growing heavy watching all of this repetitive motion.
They flutter closed every now and again, and his head bobs down a couple of times before the weight wakes him up again, gets him to blink himself back to reality, and then just a few minutes later he's nodding off once more.]
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But his natural state is still pretty terse, so while the hours pass and he gets more and more into the fishing, he doesn't really notice that Eichi is talking to him less and less... It's only when it actually starts to get dark that he pauses to stretch and look down at his fishing buddy.
Oh.] Hey. You still with me?
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Mm? [Oh. Oh, normally this isn't a problem, so he actually looks a little embarrassed, fingers curling into his lap.] Sorry, it seems I lost track. Did I miss one?
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[And yet, he still holds out a hand. Come on, sleepyhead.]
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It seems I've missed the end of the show, so I'll have to wait on your own report, Noct-kun. Did you beat your own record, or at least one of them? [In size, in speed, in quantity, or how about in fun? Hmm?? He's sleepy but he can still ask these questions before making sure he has his bag of tea goodies, his umbrella at his hip, and he's ready to go.]
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Something like that, I guess. If it had been that intense, you wouldn't have fallen asleep.
[Because he would have been yelling about fish, he means. Anyway, time to go.] You good?
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[He takes a step forward, but just in case that doesn't indicate that he's ready enough:] I'm good.
[Still, even if he's not tired enough to need to lean against him for support, he's going to keep his pace along his side as they walk.] I'm a little embarrassed that I grew so tired. I hope you know it wasn't a reflection of what I thought about our time together.
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That's, uh— not what I thought...? Really.
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Good. [As simple as that, he brushes past any awkwardness and keeps on walking.] We could always have tea again some time. I'm always looking for more people to join me.
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