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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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[ As he walks on, leading the way, he lets those words settle for a moment. ]
... Oh, right—I guess I should mention I've been here for a few weeks already.
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[ his big blue eyes become dinnerplate-sized, and after a moment's shocked pause, he turns to Yuuto, stopping in his tracks and grabbing a fistful (pawful?) of the boy's jacket in an accusatory fashion to stop him, too. ]
A few weeks?! Why didn't you say so earlier, stupid?! That's important information!!
[ despite his own actions not too long ago, the thought of Yuuto struggling through this on his own does make him a little nervous. There's also the fact that he certainly doesn't remember the leader of the Phantom Thieves going missing for several weeks; he saw him just yesterday. But Morgana is familiar enough with the concept of alternate dimensions, and places that don't adhere to Earth's rules. Time probably flows differently here. ]
What's really going on? You better tell me everything!
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It definitely jerks him to a halt; Yuuto lets out a mildly surprised noise before freezing mid-step, flicking his gaze toward his smaller companion. As shocking as the news likely is, Morgana's reaction does catch him off guard. ]
I didn't want you to feel like you're the one who's actually late...
[ Even in times like this...... Okay, okay, more seriously—Yuuto shakes his head, as if to quickly brush off the crack. ]
... Sorry—I know it's a lot to take in. They probably told you a lot of stuff when you first woke up here, right? But I can fill you in, too.
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That's right. They showed me a presentation. I basically understand the gist of it all. [ it's just a lot to process, really. He feels rather fortunate that this sort of interplanar travel was already part of his daily life. ] ... We can figure out how to deal with their problems later. I'm more concerned about what you've been doing here alone for weeks.
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[ And not much on the thieving front, honest; he could count the number of people who's seen Joker out and about on one hand, but it's nobody who could ever connect them to Yuuto. This may be another dimension entirely, one where the Phantom Thieves name invokes no memory nor feeling, but he's no less cautious here than he is back home.
He shoots Morgana a softer, more genuine smile. ]
I promise I've been fine. The others in the same boat as us aren't so bad, too.
[ So he hasn't been entirely alone. ]
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Just normal stuff... huh.
[ it's not what he was expecting, somehow. Maybe it's because he just got here and it's all been sudden. He's still expecting this to be a Palace - some place fraught with danger, with the two of them on the run from some enemy they probably don't fully understand. The story he was told about how this place came to be certainly sounded like the results of some stupid adults...
Still. He's glad that Yuuto is okay. He looks up at him for a moment, then returns a small smile of his own: not entirely convinced, but placated for the moment. ]
Then... I guess it's okay. It'll be weird exploring a world where you know more than me, though.
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Otherwise isn't off the table, and it certainly won't be soon—because the city is quiet on the outside, with innocent intentions and bizarrely generous hosts, but Yuuto isn't content to sit back and ride it all out. There has to be something more, but having a gameplan without your usual connections or teammates makes for a wholly different process. A slower one.
However, with Morgana present, maybe that could change, if only by a little. If there's anyone who's always known where to guide them all, it's him.
Now that the news has dropped, Yuuto falls into a step toward their destination again. ]
—Really? And here I thought proper balance was finally put into place. Isn't that a leader's responsibility?
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Hey! Don't go getting a big head over it. I'm the one who picked you.
[ ... or so he says. Really, he's right. Morgana's more of a sidekick. He certainly looks the part as he bops along next to him. ]
Still, you're not wrong... Looks like I'll be in your care again.
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Though, glancing down at him does give Yuuto a thought. ]
... Hey—is this form permanent now?
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[ he's only heard their introductory schpiel, and the only knowledge he has besides that is what he can infer based on his experiences. But he offers his guess anyway. ]
It probably doesn't "exist" in reality the same way home does, with that portal and everything. There's some kind of weird power here. It's not the same as what we're used to, but it's not like Earth, either. I don't really know how to describe it. [ a beat; then, he looks a little troubled. ] Of course, that still doesn't really explain why I look like this and you look normal... I must be a special case here, too.
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No, it's definitely weird. I'm still able to use my Persona, too.
[ Despite not hanging around in the Metaverse—and he hasn't been able to find out if there is one, either. With no name to test with and no keywords to attempt in the Nav, targeting a Palace hasn't been a possibility yet.
That aside, however. ]
But I didn't bring that up to make you worried. [ He adds, trying to speak reassuringly. ] I was just thinking... It was probably inconvenient that you always had to be with me before, right? If you stay like this, you won't have to rely on me so much.
[ A good thing, he hopes! Morgana deserves his independence. ]
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Not that he's going to say that. Or even admit it to himself. ]
That's right. [ he almost makes some comment about how he would have been able to get by just fine on his own anyway, but he bites his tongue on that one. There's no need to go through all that again... Instead, he glances up at his friend, shooting him a smile. ] But, you know, I kind of like being your partner.
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[ Yuuto trails off for effect, hand curled underneath his chin. ]
... I'd have to invest in a bigger bag. Or maybe my back could use the break after all.
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[ he should know Yuuto is yanking his chain by now but THIS IS IMPORTANT. To him, anyway. He balls his little fists up, seeming to draw up some strength to say this. The strength to swallow his pride, probably. ]
What I mean is... um... What I mean is, I still want to hang out with you! And I also heard that everyone lives together here, so... I'm going to keep living with you, Yuuto! So you better not think you can start being lazy!
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My days of sleeping in are over, huh? [ Again, that's not it...... ] Just kidding—you know I'm always happy to have you at my side. I was starting to get a little lonely.
[ Which isn't that much of a lie, really. He was missing his friends!! ]
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Good! You won't be lonely now that I'm here. [ as if this is the clinical solution to some kind of problem he's been having: more Morgana. ] With the two of us working together, I'm sure we'll be back in Japan in no time.