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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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Gamora keeps stroking the bird, letting it calm. It still gives the occasional shake of its head to be contrary, but it doesn’t snap and squawk again. ]
I believe I saw was a pen back there.
[ She nods down the street. ]
Can you help me return them?
[ And maybe tie them more securely or find someone who’s supposed to be responsible for the giant birds.
But even as she asks, she’s still watching Spike with mistrust in her eyes, like he might be just as unpredictable as the chocobos. ]
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She asks and he nods, rising up and making the bird stand with him. He keeps a hold of the beak and just the beak, waiting for her to show him where to go. There's a sudden moment of clarity and he stands a bit straighter, smooths his shirt that's mussed up into a more proper state, the nod looking a bit more precise.]
Right. Right. The, ah, pen. I think I can manage that.
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She encourages the bird back to its big feet, keeping a firm hold on its beak to try and discourage any additional outbursts or escape attempts. ]
That way — second street to the right.
[ She jerks her chin down the street, clearly expecting him to go first — or at least stay in step with her. She's certainly not about to turn her back on him. ]
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So...
[Try not to scare the girl, Spike.]
I'm guessing you're not from around here.
[... Smooth.]
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What an astute observation.
[ There’s still sarcasm dripping from her words, though the tone isn’t necessarily scathing. ]
But I am going to assume that’s mutual.
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sorrynotsorry.Still, he walked with her behind him, not bothered in the slightest with the fact she might attack him. If she did, he probably deserved it. He'd been bad, after all. So very, very bad.]
Is for most, from what I can tell. Anyone here is not from here. This is a blip in the radar before you move on to that big world in the sky. Keeping us all here like rats in quarantine to make sure we don't spread a plague.
[He turned to look at her over his shoulder.]
Wouldn't want that. Been through a few plagues. Nasty things. Spread like wicked evil wildfire.
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I doubt we would be considered a plague.
[ But who knows, she could be wrong. She's met many men who consider life to be a plague. ]
How long have you been here?
[ That seems like an easier question, less likely to get her the equivalent of word soup for an answer. ]
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No? Depends on who you ask, I suppose.
[Of course, he was basing that off human standards, and maybe she wasn't anything like that. He'd no idea what her kind would be thought of as.]
Not really sure. It's muddled up, like little shattered bits of a picture. Here, then not here, then here, but am I? Maybe none of us are here and this is just a dream.
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[ And those, she's used to — even if his answer still isn't the clearest.
The chocobo decides to protest again, and it tries yanking its head away with a disapproving whistle, but Gamora clamps her hands down on its beak a little more firmly. ]
Knock. It. Off.
[ The bird blinks its big eyes at her, looking thoroughly disgruntled, but it stops squirming around. ]
Are they always this disagreeable?
[ She's new enough to make the assumption that the birds are fairly commonplace around Quarantine, rather than a recent addition. ]
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Or maybe the bird had finally picked up on the scent of unlife coming from him. Either way, it wasn't fussing and he looked back at it, then over at hers before he answered her with a shrug.]
Dunno. First time I've seen one.