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quaranmeme2018-04-20 06:40 pm
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!
● There are currently 25 Character Slots available.
● Applications are currently open and will close on May 7th at 10:00 pm EST.
● 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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For the past month, the flooding in Riverview has been out of control, and the attacks of strange mutated creatures from the swollen river haven't been helping much. While the water level has stabilized over the past couple of weeks, the river is still way, way out of bounds and keeping a large number of people in relief shelters or put up with volunteer families, causing significant damage to riverside properties, homes, and businesses. While residents have done everything they can to try to correct the situation, from machines and tech to magic and appealing to the River Spirits during the yearly Flower Festival River Spirit Procession, nothing has made any real meaningful difference.
On the 20th, almost a month to the day after the river started swelling out of control, anyone looking at the rushing surface of the water will start to see a strange glow just underneath it, and as the day progresses, glowing white tentacles start to rise from the surface of the water. As the tentacles rise from the surface, members of the Perimeter Guard will be setting up a protective barrier around the area to keep civilians back until they figure out what's up with whatever's in the river.
In the meantime, the presence of the glowing thing is driving the last of the nasty giant mutated crocodiles, carnivorous toads, and other monsters out of the river in droves. While the Perimeter Guard is still holding the line, volunteers are being called for to take out the monsters as they exit the river, menacing the rest of the city. Whether your character is a member of the Guard in training, helping keep the civilians safe from the possible new threat in the river, or a volunteer helping take out the fleeing monsters, their help will be more than welcome.
After a few days of study, Gramarye Magic Research's strongest mages have banded together and found a way to communicate with the glowing presence in the deep, using a wide variety of nature-based magicks from different realms. And what have they learned?
The presence is not just one creature, it is many, and they are awakening from a long, long sleep. Possibly almost as long as there have been people on the moon - it's hard to tell, when the creatures 'speak' so slowly. What the mages have managed to get from them is that it is their awakening and movement that's causing the flooding in the river, a combination of blocking up the river's exit through the fences with their bulk and an overflow of elemental water magic that is causing the river to swell with more water than it can hold. The creatures, who call themselves the 'Guardians of the Deep,' are eventually ruled to be completely benign, and their only request is to be helped on their migration to the sea - a trip that they usually take once a year when they are not in hibernation. The problem is that, since their last migration, the river has become a much more dangerous place, plagued by monsters and clogged with rubble from the Abandoned City.
Any resident with nature magic of any kind and who can communicate with the creatures, who is a fighter or member of the Perimeter Guard, or who has abilities that can help to clear the river of any debris or blockages, is invited to aid in the attempt to escort the Guardians of the deep down the river. Once they reach the delta and waterfalls, their path will be clear and they will be free to explore the ocean until they return to the city in late fall.
ETA: In response to a player question, the Guardians look like very large glowy amoebas.
The Guardians of the Deep are slow-speaking and they are also slow-moving. For a period of at least two weeks, they will be making their way from the center of the city down the river with the current, and as they travel, they'll be having a rather...interesting effect on anyone who is sensitive to their influence. This sensitivity is something a character may be aware of through a strong connection with or love of nature or animals, it may be a spiritual or magical sensitivity, it may be an emotional one, or it might simply be something a character is not aware of until they are affected. However, no matter what a character is or where they come from, they may be susceptible to the aura of the Guardians.
And what does that aura do?
Starting on April 20th and intermittently continuing throughout the next month, any characters with a sensitivity (feel free to make one up that affects your character, or have them be immune as per your choice) will lose an important sense. While sight is the most commonly lost sense, others may lose hearing, taste, touch, smell, or other senses unique to their physiology (whether biological, mechanical, or otherwise). The only relief from this loss is for the character to make direct contact with another character - any other character, in any way, as long as there is no clothing, material, or other matter blocking contact. As soon as contact is broken, the loss will return.
The effect can last for as long or short a time as each player wishes, and affect whatever sense is desired. Reprieve from the effect comes with skin-to-skin (or equivalent) contact with another character, and is not limited to just one other character - it doesn't matter who else is being touched, as long as it's someone.
During this year, there's been an influx of people from a dying reality consisting mostly of living plant people, and they've really taken the Flower Festival as a great opportunity to introduce one of their most honored traditions to the people of their new adopted world. The tradition involves sharing various types of flowers with strangers, with each type of flower having a different meaning and effect on both the giver and receiver - the bond of the exchange can spark emotion as well as physical responses that function in a unique way that affects almost everyone that participates, whether animal, plant, or even android.
Some of the flowers have been used up, but a few types still remain. Any characters exchanging the flowers with other characters, whether friends or strangers, will experience emotional/psychological effects, physical effects, or both once the exchange is complete. Effects can last for as short or long a time as the players involved want, and are as follows:
● Baby Blue Eyes - Trust/Healing the Inner Child
Emotional Effect: Either an inexplicable trust in the person the flower was exchanged with, or a generalized paranoia.
Physical Effect: De-aging. Characters can become a younger version of themselves, physically, mentally, or both. Whether or not their normal selves are of age, de-aged characters may not participate in adult prompts unless they're de-aged to something above 18.
● Rose - Friendship/Beauty
Emotional Effect: Openness and a desire to make new friends, or excessive competitiveness.
Physical Effect: A temporary glamor that makes both participants in the exchange appear as the most beautiful possible version of themselves, and improves their charisma.
● Valerian: - Relaxation/Heart-Opening
Emotional Effect: A near-complete erasure of anxiety and stress, or a dramatic inexplicable increase in it.
Physical Effect: Forced honesty. Both affected characters become incapable of lying. Whether they're compelled to blurt the truth or if they can keep their mouths shut or talk around the truth is up to player discretion.
[Flower meanings used in this prompt come from this site.]
Whether your character is posting up a silly word game, 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.
Use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!
matthew swift | a madness of angels
[The Guardians fascinate Matthew and the angels that they come to the edge of the city to see them. It's an uncomfortable boundary, with the familiarity of the city's life and magic bordering the strangeness of nature's. They spend hours communing in low voices with these strange creatures, but Matthew does look up when another character approaches.
He's dressed in clothes picked up from a second hand clothing store, but his most noticeable feature are his eyes which almost seem to glow with the magic of the blue electric angels. Those with magical sensitivities might be able to pick up there's far more to this man.]
Hello. Are you here to see them too?
iv
[Life in all it's forms is magic at it's purest so of course Matthew comes to see the sights. He walks with the rhythm of the hustle and bustle of the festival and when he breathes it's with the knowledge of the vast history of the area. But it's far too easy to get lost in city so to distract himself he picks a rose and offers it to the nearest person just to have something to talk about.]
We think this is how it goes?
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» Seeking: Do you need to be seeking something?
» Preferences: This is rather forward
» Interests: Eating, walking, living
» Bio: Midnight Mayor of London. Thoroughly enjoying my break from said role. I am we and we are me.
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[If it's possible to communicate a complete lack of amusement through text, Breq is sure trying]
What divides you from the angels?
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ii
It's not magic, so the Tetherer only notes the strange glow in this man's eyes, but doesn't make any particular comment on it. The worlds are vast and seemingly endless. He could be from any one of them.]
Do they have any interesting stories to tell?
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That's what I'm trying to find out. They're very slow talkers.
[The angels already thought the mortal confines of human flesh was slow, but this was something different.]
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I guess we can only hope their stories are short, then. "Oooone tiiiiime I saaaw a cuuuurly fiiiiiish."
[And sometimes they're more eloquent in diplomacy than others.]
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[They've heard every inane word ever uttered down the phone lines and had been fascinated by every single word. They saw life as the greatest achievement possible and to hear recollections of another's was an honour.]
Even if it was something as simple as that we'd still want to hear it.
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[Most worlds that show sapient life have human-shaped people. The Tetherer has seen a few that did not, but those were few and far in between.]
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text; un: pc.grant
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[Peter has more than a little experience with that type of thing these days.]
So what are you protecting us all from, then?
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Jace Wayland | ii
[ Jace isn't as impressed. He's seen a lot in his short life. At least, he's not letting on how beautiful he thinks they are.
The eyes, though. They certainly hold his attention and delay his words a bit. Definitely not a Mundane. ]
The mutant monsters are great too.
[ Just a gentle reminder that the Guardians aren't the only creatures in the water. ]
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[He hasn't forgotten about the monsters although they're cheerful when addressing it.]
I'm sure I can handle that.
[However Matthew does glance back to the river to see if the Guardians have well and truly scared the crocodiles off. The angels may feel up to the challenge, but he's uneasy about their distance from the urban areas.]
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[ But he's following those bright blue eyes and smiling a little. The Guardians are beautiful. ]
The same could be said about your eyes. Are you a warlock?
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Sorcerer actually.
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My brother-in-law is a Warlock. We have a Swamp Witch living in the Lux. And now I've met a Sorcerer.
[ He can't stop looking at his blue eyes. There is something about them.... ]
I would have guessed something a bit more...angelic.
[ His father--no, Valentine--had experimented on him. But not with demon blood like he'd believed. He's not sure if it's just the feeling or if there is something more to this Sorcerer. ]
iv. [quietly screams over this]
he will blame it on Minsu and the afternoon pizza that turned into late afternoon coffees and Sage just-- not going back to work.
point is, it is weird that he is out at all is strange, and the fact that someone proceeds to talk to him even stranger.
the rose barely even registers to the witch.]
Wait, what?
[ and yet, he is taking the rose with a few fluttering blinks as he focuses on the man that handed it to him.
at least, he thinks they are a man. there is a crackling power in him that makes the magic in Sage surge, he almost feels like-- like some kind of magic packed too tightly together and given the form of a man. like there is too much under his skin waiting to get out.
Sage finds it interesting more than anything.]
Holy fuck--um, okay. How what goes exactly?
hello hello!
The flower sharing.
[What ever magic is in those flowers is harmless, but unfamiliar enough to Matthew that he can't do much to stop it.]
I've never met a druid before. Let's be friends?
one of my fave series okok F A V E
Druid? Wha-- fuck no, I'm not a druid.
[ druids are-- well not myths, but they aren't what he is. druids are old men in weird robes with vines in their beards and too much time on their hands.]
Witch. Swamp witch. And you are?
[ you know, aside from being really powerful and strangely attractive. ]
i need a reread tbh so i hope i don't disappoint!
You're very far from a swamp.
[He coaxes a ball of neon light from a nearby sign to him and rolls it between his fingers as if to remind himself that he was still in his area of power when faced with this kind of witch.]
I'm an urban sorcerer.
[He opens his hands, letting the ball return to the sign with a quiet pop.]
so far NOT EVEN A LITTLE <3
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