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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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Loki sends the vines reeling with another wave that incinerates the plant whenever it isn't quick enough in its retreat, shaking off her hands when the glow dies down. She sucks a sore finger, waving at the figure above. ]
Moron Man! Did you build yet another suit? Because this one could use some eyes in its toes.
[ It seems normal enough to assume just from the metalwork that this is her Tony, hence the vaguely exasperated bitching instead of actual bile. Her Asgardian armour is a little singed on the scalemaille but otherwise Loki, in her horns, appears unscathed, hands planting on her hips. ]
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He shifts around to find a figure waving in his general direction, so that's probably a good bet. A figure wearing very Asgardian looking green. With big...metal...horns...]
Loki?
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[ She salutes from a horn, quirking her head at his surprise. With his Iron Man voiceover and suit on, she strolls over the rooftop to perch on the ledge and get closer, a smile playing on her lips while unaware he isn't the man in whose workshop she sometimes crashes. ]
A lift off this soon-to-be-infested building would be nice.
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You're looking pretty different from the last time I saw you. [He says it almost warily, keeping just out of range.]
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I wasn't under the impression this would be a problem.
[ Glancing down at the ground, she spots new creepers starting to worn their way toward the building over their charred cousins. Loki holds up an arm to Tony, setting his weird reaction to the wayside for later. ]
Tit for tat. [ Hah, wordplay. ] I saved you, now you save me. Get a move on, Anthony.
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One of those alternate universe things, maybe. It still doesn't change the fact that it's Loki. Maybe she's being sincere and maybe it's a really weird trick, but with a sigh Tony drops down to her level and holds out an arm. Better to err on the side of not letting people get eaten by plants. If it's a trap, he can deal with that later.]
I don't usually do favors for people who throw me out windows, for the record.
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[ Never mind. He can lift all 525lbs of her Asgardian butt to safety and then complain some more, since he isn't who she assumed. Loki clasps his arm. ]
Er, first a jaunty escape, perhaps to a coffee shop, then more talk? The Feed-Me-Seymours can wait, I'm sure. Someone else will decide to be heroic soon enough.
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You seemed to be doing fine with it a minute ago. Sure you don't want to finish the job?
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[ During the airlift rescue, she wraps an arm securely around his neck and taps a black nail on the chin of his armour, renewed curiosity now burning in a green-eyed stare. ]
What are you like under there, Stark? Are you ginger? I haven't met a ginger-you yet. Any piercings? Wild tattoos?
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You know one of the other mes, huh?
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[ Loki, for her part, does her best to be a good passenger and holds on as Tony swerves and blasts the most determined vines. Heights don't bother her when she has a decent safety-belt and since it seems this Stark isn't going to toss her to her doom far below, her good humour overtakes the awkward surprise of discovering a new Iron Man in town and the worst she gets up to is scratching an 'L' in his paintjob with a nail. ]
You don't like your world's Loki, I take it? I take no offence.
[ Avoiding answering his question by posing her own. ]
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He's quiet for a long moment as they fly, gaining altitude to lose even the most persistent of the vines. It doesn't stop him from paying very close attention to them, though. Even beyond not wanting to get knocked out of the air, it seems like it would be bad manners to drop his passenger now.]
Well, he did try to launch an invasion from my house. And tore up most of Midtown. And killed a friend. So no, he's not exactly high on my christmas card list.
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[ Amused as she sounds, she tightens her grip in case her tone provokes him in any way. Hard to tell with Starks how they're going to react. ]
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[He shoots her a look, twisting the helmet a little to make the motion clear. He doesn't let go, though.]
So I've heard.
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[ Tapping a nail on his faceplate where his nose should be, Loki smiles broadly. ]
I've been to your world.
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[He can't help but sound a little wary about it. One Loki did more than enough damage. Even if this one doesn't seem to be working the megalomania angle quite as hard, Tony's not sure what exactly her aim is. That worries him.]
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[ The smile morphs into a teasing smirk. ]
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The rest of it, he's just going to ignore for the sake of his increasingly dubious sanity.]
I was going to find somewhere to put you down so I can go back and deal with Audrey Two.
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[ Getting dumped somewhere away from action of any kind sounds like her own personal Hel. Her grip on the suit increases by increments as she coos a pretty scene, wheedling just enough to sound on the brink of disappointed. ]
Take off your mask and speak with me face-to-face, at least. Be a gentleman.
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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.]
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[ 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. ]
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Multiverse. Go figure. He lets out a breath as he drops to the street and carefully lets her go.]
I'm sure I will.
[The faceplate snaps down again.]
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[ Loki hops down and gives a wave, throwing one last curious look over a shoulder as she walks off into the crowd; and within seconds, she seems to disappear from sight between one body and the next. ]