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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!
as of a few weeks ago HELLO
Ah, er. About that.
[ he straightens up, makes a contemplative pursed-lip expression that might just be slightly too shifty-eyed for comfort, opens his mouth to say something...
then holds out his bag to her. ] Have a doughnut.
[ (there are still a couple more delicious fried dough rings in there.) ]
I obviously need to pay more attention
Don't mind if I do. [ She reaches into the bag and takes a doughnut, biting into it and chewing with a smile. Once she swallows her first bite, she continues, ] So...? The TARDIS?
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That's two of those you owe me, now. [ you bet he's keeping track.
but he's also counting on treats to help soften the blow a bit. one can't be too distraught or angry when they've got a doughnut, right? probably right.
and this really is quite crappy news. ]
The TARDIS isn't here, Bill. She's, er... [ makes a wobbly sort of hand motion through the air ] back in our universe.
Unreachable, for now.
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Then she swallows, because the TARDIS not being here isn't good. He's... He's got to be joking, right?
She gives him a Look. ] Did Nardole fly it back or something? Can we call him?
[ She still hasn't grasped that the quarantine is more than just a different time or planet, it's a whole other universe. ]
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No, the TARDIS and Nardole were never here. [ but at this rate, he might arrive tomorrow.
let's start with: ] You're familiar with the concept of parallel universes, correct? We're standing in one, right now.
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She finishes the doughnut and swallows, nodding along. ] Parallel universe. So everything's the same, only different. Different Earth, different everywhere.
[ And this is when it starts to dawn on her. ]
But the TARDIS... is back on our Earth.
[ There's a big frown growing on her face. She doesn't like the sound of that. ]
...So we're stuck here.
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...Yes. For the time being.
[ despite all this, he's happy enough to launch into an explanation: ]
The portal that drew us in is naturally-occurring, and impossible to totally tame. It's really quite fascinating--
But we can't aim it back towards our universe like a cannon - it could take a great deal of time and effort to nudge it in the right direction. [ he mimes aiming something through the air. ] And there are possibly over a hundred people here waiting on just the same.
I've had a several weeks already to look into it.
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Are all the people here from the same universe, or different parallels? Does it keep shifting its aim all over the place?
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[ then waves for her to follow him. ]
When did you arrive?
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[ declares this with the usual air of authority. ]
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How d'you know? How do you know there isn't a universe out there where everything's exactly the same, except Jonathan Ross can pronounce his R's.
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Clearly, neither of us is from such a universe - which, by the way, does not exist. I guarantee you, you won't find any discrepancies.
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So how come you've been here for weeks and I only just got here, and I'd just seen you before I came here?
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It's able to pluck us from any point in our respective timelines. And so, most likely, the same applies to our eventual return trip.
I might be from a time before or after yours.
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So when were you plucked from, then? What's the last thing you were doing before you came here?
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but obviously, never going to mention that.
instead, he opts for something vague enough that it won't be a spoiler, if she happens to be from earlier, ]
Wood lice from space.
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[ If he's only just done the wood lice in space, then that means he hasn't sacrificed his sight for her yet, and she hasn't given over the whole Earth to get it back. Her smile becomes a little less genuine, as she silently hopes he doesn't ask her about his future. ]
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Ah, well, no spoilers. It's cheating; wouldn't want to taint my future feats of genius.
[ she's still in one piece and smiling, means everything's probably fine. ]
just watched the latest episode and I'm crying everything's not fine
Right. [ Typical Doctor, assuming he'll be brilliant. Spoilers: he always is. ] So where are you taking me?
wrote that tag right after watching :')
Grand tour. I'll show you my place.
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Are there aliens here? Everyone I've seen looks mostly human so far.
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There's me. [ yeah ok, he knows that's not what she meant-- ] And several other species, yes. But they are generally humanoid. It's not the most diverse inter-dimensional hub, I'm afraid.
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[ WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE LIST (he's got no idea what blue bloke she's talking about, but he shan't ask.) ]
Can't escape your lot, though. Once you colonize the stars... [ he spreads his hands up towards the sky. ] Worse than rabbits.
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