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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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I should dearly love to tell you, but I can only say with certainty that I've no idea where I am.
[He just moves his camera around so Loki can see his surroundings himself. He's in the shopping district, seated at outside one particular cafe, he shows Loki the sign.]
Through the wonders of technology, I shan't escape my punishment.
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Found you.
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Thor tilts his head upward when Loki speaks, already smiling.]
That you did. [He tilts his head back down and leans around to look at him instead.] Do you still have a punishment in store for me, or can I buy you off with coffee instead?
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He paces around to take the opposite seat, resisting the urge to reach out and touch his otherverse sibling in any way. That might be weird. ]
A soya mocha frappe will suffice. [ True NY trash, right here. A smile never quite leaves his lips as he chins a hand, folding over a leg so he sits inclined toward Thor. ] I didn't think you'd find your way here. Not any of you, that is, any Thor at all. Getting sucked through a magic portal seemed to be more my sort of accident.
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It certainly sets a strange ache upon him.]
Of course. [He says, but he wrinkles his nose when he turns to wave someone down and order it. As if his spiced latte is any better.]
Your Thor is luckier than I, then. I've had quite my fill of portals, for this age and the next. [He frowns at the very thought of it, but it fades.] I suppose it goes without saying that I did not expect to see you here. Were you aware that the Loki from my world is here as well?
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I've dealt with other Lokis before, I knew your brother was here soon after he arrived. Alarms and warding spells, that sort of thing. [ Because only he would set tripwires against himself. ] He's very into his brooding and didn't appreciate when I pointed it out.
[ Trying to redirect the subject, he gestures back to Thor. ]
What was that you mentioned about portals?
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So you live in a world with more than one Loki? [He asks a question, but he pulls a face that says say no more.
..And then he laughs at Loki's last observation, because it absolutely sounds like something his Loki would do.]
I very recently dealt with Malekith and a very poorly timed Convergence. [He'll search Loki's face for a sign that he's familiar with the time, but moves on all the same.] Loki made use of them in his attempt to rule Midgard, as well.
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[ Timey Wimey shenanigans that he shrugs off in favour of snorting at Malekith's name. ]
A Convergence? I've never heard of such a thing. [ Never mind Loki trying to rule Midgard, that's old hat. ] You could do worse than to avoid Malekith for a long time, is all I'll say.
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Nor had I, until it happened. The Convergence is an event that occurs once every five thousand years, it is the exact moment when all nine realms are in alignment. The barriers between them become thin, which causes.. anomalies, strange occurrences. [He's parroting things Jane has said.]
He sought to take advantage of that moment, but instead I imagine I will deal with him no longer.
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You imagine wrongly, I would bet my horns on it. Malekith is a creature of magics that even I no longer touch. Be on your guard.
[ A small smile twitches up. ]
And there are ten realms, you may find. If your Loki assists you.
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I've heard tell of a tenth realm. Is this the realm that Angela resided in? [Since he has not one but two surprise siblings here.]
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I ... I assisted Thor in tearing open the sealed road to Heven when he came asking. He saw a vision of our sister and insisted we bring her home, only Angela went her own way once freed. She was displeased to discover she was of Asgard, to say the least.
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It is good to know I've not yet learned to restrain my meddlesome tendencies. [Which is to say, he sounds like he knows why Angela has a chip on her shoulder when it comes to him.]
We make for a strange sort of family.
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[ Said as he looks down at his drink, remembering it's there and taking a sip. ]
Mother was not happy with me, last we spoke.
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His smile becomes pained when Loki mentions mother, though hearing of her gives him some happiness.]
Then she lives on, in your universe?
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Most certainly. What happened to her, for you?
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But he knows he cannot change the past.]
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Malekith only wishes he had the power to attack mother, where I'm from. I'm sorry for your loss.
[ It makes no sense to him how one of their parents could actually die, forever and ever, so he can't really relate, but he doesn't want his words to sound casually callous either. ]
He did, ah, take your arm, though.
[ Why not admit that, it seems so small a thing now. ]
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He's happy to move on from the topic, though he's not sure he enjoys the change all that much.]
How did he accomplish that?
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[ Blinking down at his cooling drink. ]
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I suppose I am well prepared for that now then. But all that happens in your universe may not come to pass in mine. [Hopefully.] Have you faired well here?
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[ Safe but boring but comparison. Loki looks out over the street and shakes his head, fingers rapping on the mug of his drink. ]
I plan to stay awhile.
[ Even if he doesn't want to ask what Thor's intentions are; Loki doesn't want a countdown on their time together. ]
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You do not feel suspicion toward it? No doubts?
[He asks only because he's worried about how perfectly fine everything seems. The people who brought them here seem genuine in their intentions and he feels guilty for almost enjoying the opportunity not to face what's happening back home.]
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[ He intends for those terrors to remain behind him and if they don't, well. He supposes he'll get angry. Loki certainly isn't going to solve any more problems by
immolatingrunning away.He shrugs to the general surroundings, the people milling about in the moon's sunshine. ]
I think this is a realm of fools too stupid to fix their own mistakes, but I don't think they chose this. They're just ... remnants of a greater age. They know that survival is a gift, that's why they're so welcoming of us, their resident quota of refugees. [ Loki chins a hand, looking back to Thor. ] I doubt the safety of the place but not the people.
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Although it opens the door to a lot of questions that he hasn't quite figured out how to ask, like how this Loki came to be.]
I will trust them until the very moment they give me reason not to, then. And hope that moment shall never come. [They are very nice, very accommodating and kind. He hopes it stays that way.]
I do intend to appreciate my time here, but I know that it shall have to end.
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