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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] quaranmeme2017-06-19 09:05 pm

riverview: june test drive meme

riverview test drive meme

Welcome 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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prompt i: don't wake the deity

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!


prompt ii: monster miscalculation

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.


prompt iii: wark games

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!


prompt iv: attraction repellent

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.


prompt v: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below. An example of how it looks can be found here.


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.


prompt vi: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!


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[jungle palace image is signed and was found on artstation.com]
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-23 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
I shouldn't have to order him to find his way here, he knows whenever I'm in any trouble or unwillingly separated from him. He'll find me to keep track of me.

[Or, at least, he's confident that Sebastian will do that. He knows it's not actually a definitive skill.]

It was originally a lifesaver. [So dry. It was a terrible experience and nothing funny about it, though he still doesn't want Undertaker knowing too much. The water had been so cold...]
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-23 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
Even across worlds? Even in a place where the grim reapers couldn't follow? You know what brought us here. The process is rather selective, so I hear. Now might be a good time to consider this place might not want him around. [He can hope. Let him hope.]

[He knows it was cold. He was there, he knows the time of year, he knows what ice water feels like. The little Earl is fooling him not.]
I would say it still is. Saved your life.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-23 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll make them accept Sebastian then. [Because he absolutely has that kind of influence, right? Really though, why would it not want him around? It was bringing along reapers. A demon shouldn't be any different. Even though they are very different.]

Sebastian saved my life. [Undertaker probably doesn't quite want to hear that.]
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-23 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Influence over an entity even he doesn't understand? Such ambition.] If you can, that would be something to see. The natives don't even understand how it works, so I hope you're up to the task, young Earl.

[He doesn't want to hear it, no. But it's what he needed to rely on back in their world, during that incident, so he'll hear it anyway. He doesn't say anything more about it though, just skips a bit on his way back to his home, temporary or not.]
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-23 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Then they're idiots, allowing something they don't understand to continue to function. If they don't understand it, they shouldn't make use of it. [It was plain for anyone with two brain cells rubbing together that it was reckless, and plain stupid, to use something they didn't understand.]

So you mean to just sit by while here?
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-23 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs, sleeves rustling with the movement.] It's the nature of human curiosity. You'll do what benefits you or what doesn't simply because you want to see what happens. It happens all the time. There's no use in telling them to stop.

[Not that he's been through this before. Not that he himself hasn't done it before.] That's not something I can do. I can't be a bystander if I didn't agree to come here. I think for once, we would agree on that much.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-23 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
They're fools and they'll destroy themselves at this rate. Isn't is also human nature to survive at all costs? Even they must realize what allowing this phenomenon to continue could cost them.

[It's a little strange, for him, to think about something they agree on.] What will you do then?
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-24 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Shruuuuuug.] Maybe they will. Maybe they'll figure it all out in the end and they won't. I just don't know. [He says it like it doesn't affect him in the least, though simply by being here it does.] But I'd like to say it'll turn out for the better. Seems like a whole bunch of nothing won't beat out what's already here. It just wouldn't be fun anymore.

[But then he shuts himself up again. The open book is now closed.] My, my. What will I do? What, indeed?
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-24 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[And Ciel almost points out that it does affect him before a little voice in the back of his mind reminds him that Undertaker has lived much longer than anyone. He knows.]

That's all you want from this, isn't it?

[Frowning.] You're not serious...
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-24 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he knows it does. He has no intention of going down without a fight on this, but one thing at a time.] What I want... doesn't really seem to matter so much now, in a world where anything can happen. It isn't like home, young Lord. These times are far beyond our own.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-24 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure someone like you wouldn't allow a change of scenery to stop him from doing what he wants. [It doesn't even sound right.]

I never imagined you'd let such a thing as more advanced times put you off, of all people.

[Ciel, don't get snarky...]
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-24 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Grin.] I never said anything. [And he'll leave it at that. He can see his apartment building in the nearing distance and it puts a bounce in his step. So much so, he'll hum a bit as the go.]
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-24 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[It occurs to him that he's missed the turn for his own residence, and he frowns. He let himself get distracted, it's been a long time since he allowed himself to be distracted.]

Fine. Keep your secrets.
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-24 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[He, having no idea where the Earl lives, would have been much amused to know that.] Patience, young Lord. One day, you may yet find out. I wonder if you can, without that butler to help you?
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-24 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[And he's not planning on telling him if he can help it.]

I can find out just fine without Sebastian! [Rude, he's not that incapable.]
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-25 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Just as well, he's not asking.] Fair and fine enough. Let me decide on a price for that information, if I'm willing yet to sell it, and see me again some day.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-25 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
I have no doubts you'll think up a price quickly enough and I'll hear of it. You've never hesitated to ask for me to make a fool of myself in the past. [Under his breath:] That damnable Phoenix pose.
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-25 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes. So hard to keep up appearances when one must? I never did like the upper ranks of society. Too many petty rules. [He grins and turns back to face the Earl, pausing at the road off the main street leading into his apartment complex.] Maybe the young Lord would like to reconsider his career once all is said and done, hm?

[Fat chance and he knows it. Ciel? A mortician? The kid would never survive it.] Let's not be hasty. I did say... if I was willing to sell.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-26 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Every part of society needs rules to adhere by in order to function as a whole. [Maybe they are stuffy but Ciel is kind of stuffy as well.]

I'm fine in the occupation I have now. Even if the title of Queen's Watchdog is ever taken from me, I have Funtom at my disposal.
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-26 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
They do. Even the dead need rules, else everything just goes [By way of explanation, he flings his arms up in the air, as if he'd been tossing papers or confetti.]

It's a shame. A shame, indeed.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-26 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Rules regarding the dead don't seem to mean much any more, thanks to you. Though I suppose you have an explanation for that as well.

[He crosses his arms.] How is it a shame?
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-26 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh no, not gonna spoil that more than he already has. Not yet.] There's an explanation for everything. Always is. The bigger question is whether or not that'd be explained.

[Griiin.] That it might not ever happen.
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-26 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
And that's something you'll also have to decide whether you'll share and the cost of it?

[Ciel is made of frowns.] That doesn't matter.
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[personal profile] somakemelaugh 2017-06-26 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure I'd like to do that. But it'd be bad business to sell product I don't own, wouldn't it? [New world, new rules, and he hasn't seen another reaper around. He'd know them for sure.]

[So the boy is. He knows that well enough by now.] Oh?
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[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-06-26 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
You're a reaper, doesn't that make you the authority on that while here? [No one could say he was wrong.]

My business dealings and property would be taken by the crown and likely turned over to Edward as the next Phantomhive heir. Everything is taken care of in either event, my survival or death.

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