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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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Still, he shrugged when Dick spoke.]
I'm asking you, I'll ask other people later, I want the Grayson rundown.
[ He waved a hand as he spoke before a bit of a sharper look was thrown the other's way.] What change do you mean? [ As soon as he said it he realized what Dick had been asking, he sat back in his chair and shrugged in a non-chalant way. Trying to project a more devil may care look, but he wanted to reach out, to ask Dick to not leave no matter how mean and vile he could get. He wouldn't though, he could never reach out.]
I'm what brought the chance, long story short they expected a hero, that's not what I am.
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But Jason deserves his attention, at the very least. Dick's gaze doesn't waver. ]
There a reason why it has to stay that way?
[ It's an honest question actually. ]
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[ It was raw, he didn't mean to repeat himself, honestly. Yet, it happened, thinking of the look on Roy's face when he walked away made him hurt still, he pushed him away for Roy's own good. Kori had been gone awhile... but he wasn't exactly alone given the other Robin's being there...yet he never felt he could reach out right.]
Because, Dick, that's who I am. It's not changing anytime soon.
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How far away the Jason he remembers is. The Jason they'd lost.
On the other hand, experience has made it clear by now that that there's little to no chance for discussion if he can't pick and choose when to lean on that issue. For whatever reason, Jason is giving him another chance.
He'll never get through to him on the bigger stuff if all lines for discussion are closed. ]
Well as long as we're drinking- [ -light again, like this can somehow be fine- ] -you could fill me in on what I missed.
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[ It raised a good question, he didn't know Damian, but seemed to know him as he was. Granted, he already knew that somehow another version of him had already been there. It left gaps in his own deductions.
How much did Dick know? He wanted to know, but he also didn't care to open the floor into a two way conversation. Sometimes compromises needed to be made however.]
I wouldn't think coffee is the right drink for that kinda talk, Dick.
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Something tight in his chest eases. ]
Well, we could start with an easy one. I came in during the Cataclysm, if that rings any bells.
[ Jason wasn't around for that, but anyone living in Gotham anytime after the quake would understand the context. Their city in ruins. Forever changed. ]
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He had a feeling it was something.]
I must have still been six feet under, does't ring a fucking bell. So fill me in?
[ Usually when things had a name like that shit had hit the fan. Which worried him a little, but not enough to let it show much.]
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...Nevermind. [ He runs a hand through his hair. He's definitely going to need more coffee. ]
Long story short, you've been... gone for a few years now. [ It'll never be something he can say easily. ]
This place does a lot of mixing across the multiverse so this is probably just... that again.
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[ he muttered in return, thinking about the strangeness that was his memories of his return. Most of it was jumbled before the look of horror in Talia's eyes, but he knew he had been awake awhile before then... He hated thinking of the time he had lost, but he waved a hand as if to wave off the seriousness of it.]
I'm twenty two now, been back a few years as well. The exact amount of time is... well here not there, but it doesn't matter. I'm here, and I'll still be a pain in your ass like I was back then.
[ he tried to sound aloof despite the strange desire to reach out and take the hand of the first person he really considered a brother. He knew he should be lucky that Dick didn't remember the hell hes caused him. But he also knew he didnt deserve that kind of luck either.]
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Not planning on staying a stranger? [ It's been offered and then snatched away from him before. ]
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Probably, I'm bad new's Dick. Just take my advice get to know Damian.
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Tim mentioned a few of the details. [ As had the previous iteration of Jason, but like hell is he bringing that up now.
None of it is alright. Not the hell Jason had to walk through, that he hadn't been able save him from. Not the way he's apparently chosen to deal with it, that he won't back down from now. Dick has had months now to stew it over, and still it isn't enough. The unfairness of it is a raw wound. ]
Just so happens there's no evidence here to back that up. [ He steadies his gaze on him. ]
Until that changes I don't really see a reason to dredge up the past.
[ He owes him that chance. ]
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He hated it, he could feel his eyes trying to mist. This wasn't how it was...
Sure, they got along better these days than in the past, but he couldn't help looking to Dick and seeing the man he lashed so violently at before and after his return. The brother he had wanted, but the brother he didn't deserve. ]
...I guess.
[ He felt the first tear escape, and he pushed up fast, money for his drink thrown down. And not a word spared as he tried to put distance between him and Dick. He had felt off all day, but his burning eyes were to much. Here he was a child again, opening his heart when he needed it slammed shut. His mother taught him the truth of an open heart.]