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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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[He's distracted by how sweet Billy is being, though. It's a little unexpected, but he's happy to hear it.]
I can't imagine not being happy to see you, either. But... I know it's all still pretty new for me. You don't mind that I'll have to get to know you again?
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[Which isn't an entirely bad thing, but-- he'll have to do some thinking about school.]
No-- I mean, not if you want to try and get to know me.
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[And Billy's always been one of the most interesting people he knows. The self-doubt seems a little out of place for Billy, but... he's sure it's nothing.]
We can work something out properly later, right? Talk about where to go, and everything.
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[He teases lightly before he nods. That's-- probably for the best.]
Sure. You need to settle in, anyway... you should be worrying about that.
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[Besides, who else is he going to use it against? He shrugs, reminded that this isn't actually a good time to be getting into anything serious.]
We need to get this mission done first, too.
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[He gives a short smile as he shrugs his shoulders, turns his eyes back ahead.]
We'll have time to talk after, right?
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[It seems likt a good guess; everyone seems to be put in the same building. He just thinks it's worth checking, too.]
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[He thinks their floor is probably full, which might be for the best honestly. Even if he wouldn't mind Teddy close...]
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[Maybe it really is for the best. He can't expect Billy to be there all the time, not when things might be awkward. Besides, even a whole universe away, he wouldn't be surprised if Billy's mom knew if they were in a room together.]
Not much has really changed, I guess. We'll just have to arrange to meet up around everything else, same as usual.
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[Billy doesn't mind, certainly. He nudges at him, giving him a smile.]
They have a place that has really good strawberry milkshakes here, you know. I'll take you sometime. You know-- when we're not potentially being attacked by creatures or anything.
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[Which is a little weird- he doesn't think his side of the relationship is that far along yet. It's also sweet that Billy in the future has learnt a few things about him, though.]
A date, or more of a friend thing?
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[Not if it makes Teddy happy at least. He gives Teddy a look out of the corner of his eye at that question.
Well-- that's... something he hasn't really considered yet.]
What would you like it to be? I mean, this is a little complicated, right?
[Is it technically cheating if he goes out with a younger version of his fiance? Or-- well, boyfriend at least. He's not entirely sure fiance is still on the table after everything....]
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[He doesn't think even his friendship with Greg was this emotionally complicated. He likes Billy, and he's never met anyone else he wanted to date so much, but... is it really fair on Billy? Teddy's missing a lot of history and context to their relationship, still learning Billy's cues and tells and the shape he needs to be for that. For Billy, that has to be a big step back, if they've really been dating for two years.]
...I'd like you to be comfortable, whichever one it is.
[That's important.]
What do you want?
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[And figure out how to handle this... whatever's going to happen between them.]
I'm happy you're here though, T. I really am.
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[He has to admit, it isn't what he wanted to hear even if he offered the choice. Billy's never seemed to need time to think and it hurts a little that he's hesitating now, although he doesn't let it show on his face at all, pulling on all his ability to act like nothing is wrong. He can be upset later, when he can be out of the way somewhere and it won't upset Billy in turn.
But after a moment he pulls his hand back, pretending to adjust the straps of the backpack as an excuse.]
Let me know when you decide, then. I'm pretty sure I'll be around.
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[He lifts his hand once Teddy pulls it away, rubbing idly at the back of his own neck. He's-- probably said the wrong thing, but it's not like he can talk it out with Teddy when they've barely even started dating...
He doesn't know the answers to any of this stuff any more than him, he's sure.]
But sure, okay.
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[Just because it isn't what Teddy wants doesn't mean it isn't a valid choice.
He's still going to make sure he starts drifting a little further away from Billy, though, just to make sure he doesn't reach for his hand again or anything. He'll be friends, if that's all right with Billy, but that means stopping acting like they're dating for now.]
Do you think we're nearly far enough away to put this down yet?
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[But it still feels-- weird or wrong... or something. He lets out a sigh and looks around.]
Yeah, probably. We've been walking for a while.
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Now it's done, I'm probably just going to fly home, save myself some of the trouble... if you have a way to get back quicker, you probably should.
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[He isn't that worried-- he can take care of himself after all. and if Teddy wants space too... well, he kinda has to respect it, right?]
See you later, Ted.
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[He gives Billy another weak smile. He knows they'll still be friends, whatever happens, but right now he kind of wants his boyfriend and he can't have him.
At the same time, Billy is still Billy, and he owes him something for that. He makes himself smile a little more normally, although he's still not quite sure he can meet Billy's eyes.]
...Love you, okay?
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he wasn't sure he'd loved him that long.
His expression softens a little though, warm and fond.]
Hey-- I love you too, T. Like no one else, okay?
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Okay. I'll come find you soon, okay? Who else am I going to talk about comics with?
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[He gives a smile, and a short wave.]
Be safe heading back, alright?
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[He waves back at Billy, a little more hopeful, although it still hurts. He'll live, and at least Billy is still willing to give him some reason to hold on.]
Go on. I'll be right behind you. You be safe too, okay?
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