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quaranmeme2017-06-19 09:05 pm
riverview: june 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 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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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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!
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[Regene would've loved to leave things at that and carry on about his day, because he was avoiding those damn birds with all of his energy after having one buck him off with no small amount of force, but - he knew the person who had just addressed him. Even with his limited access to the upper levels of Veda limiting his knowledge of the meisters other than Tieria, he knew this one.
This one was indelibly etched into Tieria's mind, after all, so deeply that Ribbons hadn't been able to resist taunting Tieria about it to his face. Of course Regene, his genetic twin, had felt the profound bond in his own way when he was finally able to form a proper link.
But that man was also dead, and if this place couldn't perform necromancy... but was that a fair assumption to make, considering how much they could do? He'd best play it safe.]
Lockon Stratos. [His tone is neutral, his expression wary.]
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[But as Lyle turned back to the person who had spoken, he froze. That person... looked similar to Tieria. He didn't sound like him in the least, but he looked very close. The hair was different, but it was hard to mistake.
Then the name makes his eyes go wide]
Who are you and how do you know me?
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[For once, Regene wasn't being vague simply for effect, but because he truly didn't know how to handle the situation. He wasn't the sort to come somewhere like this and immediately search for the comfort of familiarity, so he certainly hadn't expected any, and this wasn't even familiar in any comforting way. This was just unnerving.]
My name is Regene Regetta. [Trying to pull himself together, he straightened his posture as much as he could and looked Lockon directly in the eye.]
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[That's what happens when a giant chicken runs into you while you are trying to have a serious conversation with some strange person who looks vaguely like your teammate. Lyle fumbled to grabbed it, but missed and off it went so he turned back to Regene]
What do you mean another piece of the plan?
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I mean that I'm another being who was given the task of carrying out Aeolia Schoenberg's plan to unite humankind and guarantee their continued survival. Celestial Being haven't lost sight of that plan already, have they? It is the whole reason for their creation. [Give him a hint on timeline here, Lockon, throw him a bone so he can figure out which one you are.]
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Ah ha. Well, that gave him some more information and also explained why he looked like Tieria, but still... extremely vague. At the same time, he KNOWS about the other innovades... and he really doesn't like most of them. So where did Regene fit in with all of this? He'd never seen him before and Tieria hadn't volunteered]
Well, I for one have definitely lost sight of it. Kind of hard to see it from this place.
[Never! You'll have to try harder than that]
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Really?
That just stuck a pin in any intensity the situation might have had and let out all the hot air, but it was done so effectively, so casually, and reminded him so much of what he so often did himself when Ribbons got too self-important, that he ended up grinning before he could stop himself. They hadn't said much to each other yet, but Regene already found himself enjoying Lockon's sense of humour.]
That makes who we are in relation to it feel rather irrelevant for the time we spend here, doesn't it?
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[He shrugged, grinning faintly at the other. Perhaps they were more similar than either of them knew... and not just because they were twins]
What point is there for me to be arguing with anyone about it when we can do nothing but waste our breath.
[And there's Regene's clue if he knew enough about them. Lyle's not as vengeful as Neil]
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[Listen, Lockon was so agreeable that Regene couldn't help one more attempt. He had his suspicions, but the opening was there and he had to take the chance to be sure.
Another chocobo sprinted past dangerously close to where Regene was standing, and once he was able to gather himself after a startled step back, he gave Lockon a weary look.]
We should probably continue this elsewhere. Even if we don't need the privacy, my nerves could use the break.
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[Well it was true. He'd never been asked for his name]
I'll guess you already know my name, just not sure which one is which. Though, I'm also going to bet you know what happened to my brother.
But no, we should go somewhere else. It is kind of hard to talk with the threat of chickens running into you.
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That makes you Lyle Dylandy. I only know why you were brought in as a meister, not the finer details of the rest. You must have questions of your own, right? [He offers the opening as he's leading them closer to some sort of urban core, moving toward proper roads.]
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That does make me Lyle. I certainly don't know who else it would make me. Yeah, I have questions. How long have you been in the place? Did you just arrive too?
[He is almost deliberately ignoring the point of Regne's comment. He stands by it. There's nothing they can do here; why worry. If he finds out too much, that might make him do something he can't turn back from. But he does follow after Regene in an attempt to get away from the chocobos]
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I did. I haven't decided what to make of the whole thing yet, but it's been interesting so far, if disorienting. [Instead of lobbing the question back, he decides he'll leave a bit of silence between them to see if Lyle takes the conversation anywhere unexpected. He's not as frankly curious as he would be about Neil, but in a way, that just makes the discussion more pleasant.]
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It is disorienting. I basically just arrived and they decided that I needed to help catch chickens. So thoughtful of them. This is exactly what I wanted to do.
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Were you hoping your new home would be more of an endless vacation? Drinks in hollowed out pineapples by the side of the pool? I'm not sure any home works that way, sadly.
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[Lockon's correct assertion about Regene's own expertise earns him an interested sidelong glance, because he's played anything he might know about Regene close to the chest until now. Naturally, he takes the opening and tries to work with it:] You've got me there, Lyle, I wasn't trained in livestock management. What made it so obvious, or was that a lucky guess...?
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I suppose you could call it a lucky guess. Not that I saw too many chickens following you guys around. Though it would be amusing to think about for some of your... associates shall we call them?
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That was a good act. You really had me convinced that you didn't know me, or even know of me. [His voice has dropped in pitch, words coming out slow and deliberate, but while it's obvious that they're not longer just chatting, he hasn't yet crossed the line to sounding threatening.]
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I stand by what I said. I don't know you nor have I heard your name until today. But based on your appearance and connection to the plan, I know what you are. Not that hard to piece together.
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Still, having Lyle say that nothing will change now that he's confirmed his knowledge of the Innovades does bring Regene slightly closer to believing him.]
I had no idea how much Tieria would tell all of you about us, if anything. The last time I saw him, he sounded like he'd made the battle with us a personal one - not that I could blame him after how he was treated. [Fucking Ribbons.] Apparently he shared even more than I could've guessed.
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[Yes, he knew Anew was one of them, but he had seen she wasn't the same. Even in her last moments she had shown she was different. So he knew they weren't all the same, but where Regene stood personally was a mystery]
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The timeline shenanigans have officially begun.]
Someone - an Innovator - kidnapped a member of Celestial Being's crew. [Just to make sure he's clear on this.] After deliberately being captured themselves.
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[Oh... well... shoot]
How is that possible?
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- coming to the exact wrong conclusion, Regene ends up consumed by such a fierce flare of anger that it contorts his entire face for a long moment before he can regain control.]
Who was it? The Innovator, did they give a name? What did they look like? [Whether or not it's relevant to Regene and Lyle while they're here, if Ribbons has an inner circle within his inner circle and he's locked Regene out of it, that could become very relevant should any of them arrive later.]
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