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riverview: june test drive meme

riverview test drive meme

Welcome 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 July 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 for 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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prompt i: don't wake the deity

Whether you've just arrived in the city or you've been here a while, and you have a sensitivity to the spiritual, magical, multidimensional, or anything else outside the realm of everyday normal, you've probably noticed a distinct uptick in weird feelings, strange nightmares, or daymares - hallucinations of scary things that are lurking just behind you.

You're not the only one who's noticed it.

There are rumors going around that the psychological and spiritual disturbances are due to the emergence or re-emergence of a deity. Some people say that it's something new that's come through the portal with the sharp increase in new arrivals recently, and others say it's simply an ancient spiritual presence or some ancient incorporeal monster that's been somehow awakened. Gramarye, the top-tier magic research center in Riverview Quarantine, has been studying anyone who's felt this presence, and have recently confirmed that whatever it is, it's being fed by all the extra energies and prayers and thoughts as the city's population increases. The one thing everyone agrees on is that, if the expanding community is feeding the entity, then the entity has got to go! Teams are being assembled across the city to travel into the Abandoned City or the forests outside the walls and look for anything like an abandoned temple that can be destroyed or that contains a relic that can be broken or pacified by a ritual. You're looking for something that will solve the problem, or for other evidence of a way to solve it. The mission might be dangerous, though - there are the usual dangers of venturing out into the wilds, but this time, characters may also face booby traps, spectral or physical guardians, and if the entity itself gets awoken? Someone will have to kill it.

The mission is open to multiple teams, multiple deities can be named (both made up or from characters' various canons), and there can be multiple outcomes. If you complete the mission in a TDM thread, and all characters involved are apped and accepted, you can submit the completed mission thread to the exploration page once you are in the game!

prompt ii: monster miscalculation

The problems the city is having this month are not just ethereal - there's something a little more scientific stirring up trouble. Recently, a large research company in the Quarantine has been trying to develop a monster repellent to provide to explorers who are traveling outside the walls, in hopes of protecting them from attacks. Unfortunately, the containment unit used to store the repellent - which is still in its experimental stages, not even yet tested on animals, let alone people - completely failed, leaking the experimental repellent into the environment around the facility. This facility is close enough to the wall that the repellent has permeated the groundwater and soil in the area and leeched underneath the fences.

Even more unfortunately, the repellent seems to currently have an almost opposite effect on monsters than its intended purpose. It's attracted the attention of a large colony of carnivorous plants that has thrived just outside the wall for decades, living by attacking fellow monsters that are dumb enough to try the fence in that area. Now, instead of going for other monsters, the plants are drawn to the failed repellent and are climbing the walls in search of the source, craving more of it. Residents have been asked to both help clean up the tainted soil by the wall and to fight the carnivorous plants in that area.

The carnivorous plants are in the form of vines ranging from the thickness of a pinkie finger to nearly half a foot thick, that grow incredibly fast, writhing together to form thicker tendrils. The leaves are about a foot wide at their largest and have stingers around the edge that cause a painful rash, and the flowers are large and red or orange, capable of spitting thick globs of acid that can cause burns ranging from very serious (red) to moderate or mild (orange or yellow-orange). They can be defeated especially well with fire, extremely strong pesticides, and edged weapons - vines do not grow back once they've been cut.

prompt iii: wark games

The carnivorous plants aren't the only ones feeling the effects of the spilled experimental repellent. Recently, an intrepid team went on a mission after hearing rumors of a type of monster outside the walls that might be able to be tamed and used as valiant steeds. The team was successful and the possible steeds, which turned out to be Chocobos!

So far, the Chocobos have been comfortably in training, learning how to wear saddles and carry people, but once they get a whiff of the repellent in the air, or gotten a taste of it in their water, they kind of go a little off the wall. Or, over the fence, as the case may be. Highly energized and unwilling to listen, Chocobos who have been exposed to the repellent will get free of their pens and start stampeding around the city. Citizens, it's time to team up to tame the wild Chocobos! Let the wark games begin!

prompt iv: attraction repellent

The local wildlife aren't the only ones affected by the experimental repellent spill. While at first they didn't think it had any effect on sentients, they're having to start reevaluating that particular theory, because residents are definitely feeling it. Whether they're inhaling it in a gust of wind that smells disturbingly of ozone, or sipping a glass filled from a tap in the area of the spill and tasting something like chlorine, it's getting into residents' systems.

Once ingested or inhaled, the repellent can have two effects on an affected character: an overaffectionate mood, or an anti-social mood. The effects can vary in type, swinging from affectionate to cranky and back again at the drop of a hat, and they can also vary in intensity and manifestation - it all depends on body chemistry, both within an affected character, and in the interactions between two characters. So whether or not your characters liked or disliked each other beforehand, maybe their chemistries are very compatible or not compatible at all, and feelings might be a little...out of the ordinary.

Affectionate moods can range anywhere from a casual 'I love you man' to romantic or even carnal ideation; anti-social ones can range from being nervous around crowds or other people to being outright aggressive with other people. The repellent does not remove inhibitions and characters are able to control themselves. Emotions might be heightened, but these effects should not be used to facilitate things that would normally be completely out of character. Please put content warnings in subject lines.

prompt v: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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<tr><td></td> <td style="background-color:#2a2a2a; font:12px arial; text-align:left; padding:10px;">» Age: your character's age
» Seeking: friendship/romantic/anything
» Preferences: sexual preference or n/a
» Interests: three interests
» Bio: 30 words or less
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Friendr base code is by photosynthesis.
The code in the textbox is for the default color scheme, but the Friendr app has a wide variety of themes, so feel free to customize with colors and patterns as you see fit, but do not remove the credit line out of respect for the creator of the code.

prompt vi: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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[jungle palace image is signed and was found on artstation.com]

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ii. monster miscalculation;

[ Okay. So.

The overgrown carnivorous plants are definitely worrisome, and the weird, near-sentient way they grope after anything with a heartbeat definitely calls to mind some of the seedier (har har) porn vids he's seen in his life. But mostly, all he can think of is upbeat doo-wop music and alien venus flytraps demanding their mousy florist owners to feed them human blood.

And here's Peter Jason Quill, known mostly to himself as Star-Lord, hovering in the air, thanks to what looks like a jetpack strapped to his back. ]

Then you go Downtown, where the folks are broke. You go Downtown, where your life's a joke—

[ ... Yep. He sure is singing "Skid Row" from Little Shop of Horrors to himself up there. He fires in time with the song, his twin blasters whining as they send down sparking blasts of flame at the vines creeping up the walls.

The plant hardly seems to appreciate his efforts to keep the the residents of the Quarantine safe, though, and one of its larger vines swings upward to bat him out of the air. He dodges the first swipe, then the second, but then the plant cheats by using another vine, slamming into him from behind. Thankfully, Peter avoids the worst of its stingers, and when Peter thuds against the ground, bouncing and rolling with the impact, the only thing that's really hurt is his pride.

Well. His pride, and also possibly one of his kidneys? But when have those ever been important, right?

He wheezes out, ] Seriously uncool, Cleopatra. [ as he shoves himself up onto all fours. ]

v. part 1 - network; username: star.lord

[ The feed clicks on, revealing the Star-Lord in question. His expression is fixed in the sort of polite smile one uses when greeting store clerks or friends of friends of friends. His lips part, and he inhales to start speaking—

Except Peter is interrupted by a loud "KWEH!" in the background. A Chocobo thunders past with a rider atop its back, hanging on for dear life. Three other folks zoom past in pursuit, and Peter watches them disappear around a corner. His gaze stays fixed on the street, blinking a few times, and he slowly sucks in a breath through the side of his mouth. ]

... Uh... huh.

[ He looks pensive for a second or two – ostensibly weighing the pros and cons on whether or not he wants to lend a hand – but he shakes his head, deciding he doesn't care enough. His attention returns to his device. ]

So! I'm Peter Quill. Most folks call me Star-Lord. [ why u already lyin ] I'm new in town, don't really know these parts, dependin' on the kindness of strangers, blah, blah, blah. Anyway. It's been a rough day, and I'm in serious need of a drink. If someone could point me in the direction of the cheapest bar with the heaviest pours, I'd be grateful.

v. part 2 - friendr

Friendr

» Age: 34
» Seeking: anything
» Preferences: yes
» Interests: music, movies, TV
» Bio: the legendary Star-Lord. two-time galaxy saver. leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

kind of a big deal.

base code by photosynthesis

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vi. wildcard
(( let me know if you'd like something specific! ))

[Tony knows vaguely that there are other people dealing with the whole plant thing, though most of his attention is on not getting pollinated. He can hear sounds of fighting here and there as he flies through, and what sounds like...showtunes? Seriously? That's more than enough to send Tony right in that direction.

He gets there just in time to see the probable singer go down hard enough to make Tony wince behind his helmet. He drops to the ground behind the guy, firing a quick repulsor beam over his head as another vine starts to swing his way.]

You okay there, Rick Moranis?

[ Whoever it is that’s landed beside him packs some serious firepower, which Peter can appreciate, and as the vine tries to crash down on him, the beam slices it neatly in two. The end goes flopping to the ground, while the plant itself seems to writhe with pain. Peter would almost feel bad for it, if the thing didn’t smack him down to the ground like he was some kind of gnat.

At the question, Peter finds himself wheezing out a laugh at the mention of Rick Moranis. He settles back on his heels, an arm wrapping protectively around his middle as he tries to catch his breath. ]

Totally good. 100% meant to do that. [ Panted out. Peter lifts his head, then, turning to look at the newcomer, and— welp. That sure is a person-shaped robot. He wastes a second in gawking before he rouses himself. ]

... Thanks for the assist, Johnny Five.

[Both the insistence and the reference make him snort, Tony's expression going decidedly dry for all that no one can see it.]

At least give me a cylon or a cyberman if we're making robot jokes. Which I'm not, by the way.

[The tone is deadpan, but Tony's attention is still mostly on the plants around them. He keeps his hands up, palms out, and takes quick shots at anything green that moves. He can at least try to keep this guy covered while he pulls himself back together.]

peter quill | guardians of the galaxy | ota

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v-1 un: gamora; video

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v. un: zethir

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v.ii friendr | un: stiles

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friender | un: stonerwolf

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