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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] quaranmeme2017-06-19 09:05 pm

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.


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!


navigation

[jungle palace image is signed and was found on artstation.com]
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-06-25 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, come now. I'm not as familiar with espionage as your flattering accusations imply, but I know that they don't just let an idiot - even a multilingual idiot - out to spy.
mansplane: (wondy179)

[personal profile] mansplane 2017-06-25 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He blinks at Byerly, honestly a bit confused. ]

Okay, yeah. I consider myself to be a smart guy. What else are you looking for?
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-06-25 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
A story, my good fellow. It happened is a piss-poor story. Give me a bit of texture and excitement. Come.
mansplane: (wondy143)

[personal profile] mansplane 2017-06-25 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
There ain't much to tell. War is terrible and they were desperate. And I figured I had to something, seeing as how nothing wasn't any good.
supersweet: (In the hands of a man)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-25 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Using magic, right? That's how you learned it on your quest.
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-06-25 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And so you approached the brass, and you said to them...
mansplane: (wondy160)

[personal profile] mansplane 2017-06-25 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Not the brass directly. I worked my way up the line. Good missions led to more.
stalkingandplotting: (Replacement)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-25 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Other things don't hurt, but yeah,
that's a good place to start.

buildsomething: (that went well)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Without a word, but with a deeply unimpressed look, Tony finished the turn and kept walking. He'll feel bad about it later, but all he can think in the moment is that he needs to get away. From everyone.]
buildsomething: (armoring)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[The faceplate flips up in time for Tony to give her a dry look. Gentleman is definitely not anything he's even been accused of.]

Pretty sure we can do the tour guide thing after the problem is taken care of.

[He can't just ignore it. Even if he might want to.]
buildsomething: (not sure about you)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I've heard about that. I'm sure I'll work something out.
umbrastaff: (Default)

[personal profile] umbrastaff 2017-06-25 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Squish the problems down and lock them away far inside. Ignore the festering, go on with your life. The Taaco™ life.]

Well, it's not a place full of toxic fungus so I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

[From what she had seen so far it was pretty nice, honestly. Lots of people, interesting places and fun little shops. The walls and the fact that there was shit outside them was a little less... good, but she could deal.

Smirking, she looks at her brother with a slightly amused look.]


Are you telling me you haven't run any cons here? That's outright depressing, Koko. How on earth have you managed to get such a nice place, then?
umbrastaff: (Default)

[personal profile] umbrastaff 2017-06-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Plus we're pretty good at languages in general.

Did he tell you about any other places?
buildsomething: (Default)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. [He says it with a kind of offhand shrug. Why wouldn't he? Sam's a good guy, and a good person to have at your back. Seems pretty obvious to Tony.]

I mean, you'd probably have to work on the self-righteous parts, but I'm pretty sure that can be learned.
umbrastaff: (Default)

[personal profile] umbrastaff 2017-06-25 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lup is mostly chilling at the plaza, leaning back against a statue and looking around a bit. When she sees the person she had been talking to (courtesy of actually having a profile picture) she tosses up a hand to wave at Bill.]

Heey, guessing you're the phone pro?
buildsomething: ([armor] wrecked)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tony jerks back a little as he's spattered, but getting it all over the armor is probably the better option. It still means cleanup will be a bitch.

He glances over at the other guy to see how he's managing in time to catch his back as he just...leaves. Huh.]


Who was that mysterious masked man? [He finds himself saying, just loud enough to be heard.]
buildsomething: (listen to me)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh trust me. It's relevant. [His own voice is flat, though he can't help but feel slightly caught off guard by that flash of hurt on Steve's face. Who knew he cared a damn thing about anything Tony said?

Which, okay. That's not quite fair. Tony is trying to be fair, he really is. It's probably the only reason he hasn't snapped yet.]


Seriously, think hard. Maybe something you've been holding onto for oh, say, years?
umbrastaff: (Default)

[personal profile] umbrastaff 2017-06-25 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Tell me about them?

[She's curious, okay? It's been pretty much the seven of them for 82 years, new (lasting) friends is kind of a weird thought.]
buildsomething: (hell no)

[personal profile] buildsomething 2017-06-25 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
So yes, then. [He says it with an amused snort, but he's eying the other him with an expression that's a lot more measuring.]

No special treatment for yourself? I'm hurt.
umbrastaff: (Default)

[personal profile] umbrastaff 2017-06-25 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know that feeling.

[She was doing some seriously important stuff too... but at the same time it was kind of a relief to be trapped here.]

What do you do back home?
ikols: if i were you (♀ i wouldn't)

[personal profile] ikols 2017-06-25 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... You're ten years older.

[ Surprise widens her eyes, astonishment sweeping away Loki's smirk. ]

He's in his mid-thirties, the Anthony I know. I think he is, anyway, mortal age is such a weird thing. [ She shakes her head to get back to the main topic, distracted enough. ] Set me down in the high-street, you can come and find me once you're done heroically getting nowhere with the vines and tag in someone else.

[ That being what she expects will happen, anyway. ]
stalkingandplotting: (I believe in you)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-25 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, anyone in Gotham even suspected was going to be eliminated." Quite possibly along with anyone who stood in the drones' way or fell in the path of the damage they caused.

Tim meets Jason's eyes for a moment and it shows briefly exactly how dark the circles are under his eyes, even without taking his fading black eye into account. His eyes say he's haunted by his time in solitary confinement, but he shakes his head. "I'm okay. The medical facilities here are pretty nice, and healthcare is free. I didn't even have to pay for my antibiotics."

He nods. "I can do that. I'm taking classes at the university and working, but I've got plenty of free time. I'll give you my schedule."
vorrutyer: (punchable eyebrow)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-06-25 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You're really dreadful at this. What sorts of missions?
divulsion: (Default)

[personal profile] divulsion 2017-06-25 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck then.

[There's nothing more she can think of that needs to be said now, and certainly nothing more that she wants to disclose at the moment. Unless he brings up something more, she intends that to be her final message.]
mansplane: (wondy167)

[personal profile] mansplane 2017-06-25 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Classified ones?

[ ... All right, now he's just messing with Byerly. ]