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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!
Guzma | Pokemon
[ These were some strange as hell birds. But they look powerful, and that's what Guzma is after.
You see, he's just released his secret weapon, his Golisopod, from his pokéball and it seems the two creatures are engaged in a Mexican stand-off. Occasionally, the giant bug will attack and the chocobo will pounce back, and to most people it looks like he's taking part in a weird animal fighting ring, but what Guzma really thinks is that he's just taming a powerful, wild pokémon. One can even see red and white balls scattered at the monsters' feet, where he presumably failed to catch this giant chicken. ]
Just a lil more! Show 'em what you really got! We ain't leavin' without that foreign pokémon!
[ Help him...? ]
attraction repellant:
Buddy. Buddy.
[ Someone just happens to be way in your space, draping a powerful arm over your shoulder and schmoozing in way too close and familiarly. You looked different out of the crowd here, and that's just enough for his affection-addled mind to wander over and burst your personal bubble. ]
Listen, I'm a new guy. Surprising, right? I went right through a magic portal and wound up here of all places. I need you to spill the beans. Just where the fresh heck is a woman named Lusamine? You see, she writes my paycheck for the time being and I really, really hate pushing back the payday. You look like a helpful type, aren't you? So why don't you tell me nice and easy where she is. She's blonde, hair down to her ankles, maybe a bit crazy. But that's what's fun about her! Heh heh.
So you tell me and I'll let you go! Fun deal we have, yo?
friendr:
» Seeking: Grunts
» Preferences: Strong, reliable, follows orders.
» Interests: Pokémon, a lil Mayhem, Being the BO$$
» Bio: You're looking at Team Skull's head honcho! You message me, you better show some respect, yo!
Wild Card:
[ Feel free to pick any other prompt, make up your own, or hash something out with me on
Wark Games
Unfortunately, someone else that seems to belong from his original world didn't get the memo. Because while he's helping out rounding most of the runaway giant chicken-like steeds, he notices someone in a baggy outfit trying to capture a Chocobo. Yet what's even surprising is that the Pokemon that he owned, which Sycamore hasn't seen it before in Kalos or other regions.
However, the new Pokemon will have to wait as he quickly rushes into the battlefield to stop him.]
Stop right there! I'm afraid I will ask you to return your Pokemon back into its Poke Ball and leave this creature alone.
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[ Stubborn indeed... Guzma really wasn't in the mood to debate it, but he also didn't know this thing couldn't be captured (at least, not with a pokéball). It was a large, monstery looking thing that also looked fun to ride, so he was all up for taming it, even if he wasn't a Flying-type trainer. ]
Waaaitaminute... you know what pokémon are! Everyone else's given me a stupid look whenever I mention it! Just who are ya?
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Well, the only problem now is his manners as he feels he's not going to be lenient with him.]
I'm Professor Augustine Sycamore from the Kalos region and where we are right now is neither our world.
As for that creature you're trying to catch, I'm also afraid to tell you that it's not a Pokemon, but a creature called a Chocobo.
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He waves off his Golisopod to get it to stop attacking, but not to let the bird go. ]
Fess up, whaddya mean it's not a Pokemon? What else could it possibly be?
[ Did Lusamine drag them through some parallel world? ]
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And from what I can tell by those Poke Balls on the floor, I can say that proves that they are not Pokemon.
[Of course, if Guzma refuse to believe on his words, then he has no choice to but to prepare for the worst. Of course, he does have a secret weapon (or ability) in case he will keep using the Poke Balls against the poor Chocobo.]
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[ As far as you know, Guzma, which you don't. He looks at the bird again and all the pokeballs he's wasted on capturing it. Well, if it was some kind of monster you couldn't capture with a pokeball... you'd just have to capture it another way. ]
Golisopod! Stop that bad boy in its tracks! If I can't capture it the easy way, better go for the hard way!
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Thankfully, he already prepared another solution, which is pulling out his Poke Ball and throws it to the Chocobo's direction.]
Garchomp, protect that Chocobo from that Pokemon!
[With his Mach Pokemon released from her ball, she quickly attempts to use her scythe arms to block Golisopod's attempt to capture the giant chicken.]
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[ He's going to get into Sycamore's face for this, because really, what was this guy's problem? It was just a giant bird, anyone's for the taking. He just wanted to tame and keep it. Like any other trainer. Nonetheless, Golisopod is halted by Garchomp, and the chocobo is starting to get away. ]
Yo, what's the matter with you? Don't go butting into my business!
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[Besides, they were supposed to be guided back into the pen, so catching it might be against the rules.
Of course, her Garchomp agrees with him as she growls at Golisopod as a warning to both of the newcomers.]
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[ He turns away and hisses as the bird makes it back down the street in a hurry and Golisopod and Garchomp are locked in a standoff. He frowns immediately. The nerve! ]
I ain't gonna forget this, you know! [ and yet, he... doesn't make a move to withdraw his pokemon from the fight. ]
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[Mental facepalm aside, he commands his Garchomp to stand down once he sees the Chocobo successfully fled the area. Considering that he doesn't have any signs of battling him, it's best to idle rather to fight on.]
If you don't want this to happen again, then I suggest you leave those Chocobo alone. Otherwise, I will have no choice but to use force!
[Of course, while he didn't equip his Garchomp with her Mega Stone, he knows that she's strong enough to battle the new Pokemon.]
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[ At that, his Golisopod menacingly clacks its pincers. At first, it seems like it's about to pounce, but Guzma recalls it back to its pokéball, because he's more interested in getting all up and personal with this guy than he wants to have a pokémon battle right now. ]
Listen here! The big boss of Team Skull never backs down or quits! You best be keeping to yourself and minding your own business, or things are gonna get real ugly, pal.
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As long as I don't bother you, that's okay. But when it comes to you and hurting the Pokemon and these other creatures around here, chances are you won't able to.
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[ He sounds awfully proud of himself, having haughtily talked himself up. Let's just say he's not the best at making friends, even without his grunts as backup. ]
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Again, I will not going to bother you if you don't do anything that might hurt anyone.
[He's no Ash or Alain, but he will try to stop Guzma's misdeeds if he does them like with the Chocobo again. But just in case, he might try to contact security and the Perimeter Guards to inform them regarding the Team Skull boss.
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Sure, buddy. Like ya gonna catch me. Don't you know what Team Skull is?
[ His team rocket suspicions are right on the money, with Team Skull being a little bit more... menacing? Or more willing to follow through on their actions. He was sure his notoriety should have spread to the main regions by now! ]
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No, I don't think I heard of you before.
[Despite this, he still being cautious around him in case he might do something that might hurt anyone. It makes sense since he encountered Team Rocket three times now.]
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[ Yes, Guzma, strut more. It's not going to make your team join you here or anything, but old habits die hard. ]
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repellant
Hey! Get your hands off of me. I'm new too, and I have no idea what the heck you're talking about.
repellant
[ He removes his arm from her, despite his urge to be chummy, mostly because he's confused at that. ]
I didn't see you go through that portal. Did you hop in after us?
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I've never even seen you before, whoever you are. Maybe you just weren't paying enough attention!
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[ Maybe she worked for Lusamine? Though she didn't look like anyone he'd seen hanging out in her base... huh. ]
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I don't even know what that is, guy, so I have nothing to admit.
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[ he's... yeah okay he'll concede on that point, she looks pretty good. he'd schmooze but he kind of ruined the mood, huh ]
And if you didn't come from there, where the heck did ya come from?