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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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Well, at the very least, thrown from a chicken is easier to recover from than trampled... and more possibilities to make up stories about it.
Yeah, I'm sure he'd love to hear that.
[He's still not sure what to make of his brother being here, but he doesn't exactly seem at ease with the topic, almost waiting for something that compared the two of them]
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Fortunately for Lyle, Ed went quiet at that response. It wasn't the reaction he was expecting, and it didn't help him feel the other out at all - so best to drop the subject.
Things were ... complicated was putting it lightly, in Purg. He knew that, and since he technically didn't know either of the brothers here he wasn't going to make the mistake of pushing the issue again a second time. It didn't end well with the previous Lyle, and he didn't want to risk a repeat of that.
Closed off snarky sarcasm was not his favorite mode in people. His tone is quiet when he speaks again, not entirely apologetic but certainly an extension of "truce". Wrong move, got it.]
Guess we'll skip telling him if it happens then.
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But when Ed speaks again, he gets the opinion that he realized something was off and he didn't want to push it. That was a relief]
Yeah, I guess we can.
So... didn't get your name but you seem to know me.
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[He offers a smirk with the introduction, even if he's not entirely sure how to approach that statement.]
Yeah, that's... a little complicated, to be honest. This place is weird like that.
[Not exactly an explanation, but he certainly didn't want to break the guy's brain outright.]
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So its too complicated to explain how you know me?
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You know the whole, arriving here because you got pulled into a portal you didn't expect to get pulled into? This isn't exactly the first time that's happened to me...
[Okay, that was the easy part. Sure, it usually raised questions, people got really dumbfounded by the notion Ed had been to other places like this before, and although he would argue they weren't like this, he got the mentality behind it.
The hard part usually came with explaining duplicates - and he hadn't had to do that yet in Riverview, he'd certainly never had to explain it to Lyle, either. Oh boy.
Ed exhales slowly before speaking again. He's pretty much ready to be called a liar, if he's being honest with himself.]
It's going to sound a little hard to believe, to be honest. I knew both of you on one of those other worlds. Other... Versions of you, I guess - which would explain why you don't remember me.
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So wait… you have already been to a different world than this? And I was there in that one? That sounds… I’m not even sure there’s a word for that.
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Yeah... This is my third- you and your brother... were on the first.
[It wasn't a pleasant world, you don't want to know about it. Trust him. He offered a grin at that, the kind that implied he knew he sounded crazy.]
You can quiz me if you want. If you don't believe me... I knew- one of you anyway, long enough to know some things about Celestial Being.
[He knew that CB was named after something from their world, but he didn't know too much about it - so honestly the offer was a risk. He could probably name just about anyone from the ship, or something like that... he just didn't want Lyle to think he was jerking him around with all of this.]
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Well, you already know the name Celestial Being, but I don't know why you'd say all of that just to hide where you are from.
[That would be ridiculous]
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Have an awkward grin at that.]
Celestial Being was the name of the building you all lived in, in Purg. I always figured it was some Head Quarters back home, but- didn't seem important to ask about.
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[There; that was the actual answer for what it was. What did he care if someone else knew what the Celestial Being was? They weren't exactly hiding back home and this was definitely wasn't home.
So Purg must have been the name of the first place he had been]
Who all was in that place? Purg?
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From your world? There were a lot of people... but I honestly don't know how many people living in Celestial Being were originally from your world, and who moved in later. You, your brother, Alle, Soma- there was a girl named Mileina. Tieria, Michel, Saji. Setsuna. Just to name a few.
[Michel Blanc isn't from their world, but again - Ed doesn't know that, just that he lived there with them. Ed didn't know the Innovators well enough to go off listing names. He doesn't mention Feldt or Sumeragi, there are others he's missing as well, but he didn't know them well enough to recall right away.]
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[Lyle doesn't even know. He hasn't been with Celestial Being from the beginning so Michel could have been someone from an earlier time]
How many are here?
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So far I've met you, your brother and Tieria here. I wouldn't have noticed Tieria, but we're roomed on the same floor.
[He hasn't met Regene yet, but he will.]
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You could say that. I can't even argue with that.
Oh, I'm sure you would have noticed Tieria. It just would have taken longer if he wasn't on your floor.
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He shrugs.]
I would have recognized him eventually, but there are plenty of people here and little reason for me to bump into him if we didn't live together.
Purgatorium was... smaller. It was hard not to notice people, especially if you were friends with anyone they knew.
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[And a lot of giant chickens too]
Not much different than a large city. Hard to find people you are looking for.
[Also if you really wanted to avoid someone it was fairly easy]
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This place has the capacity to hold two million people, apparently. It's easy to get lost in a crowd like that.
[There weren't nearly that many here still, but details. And the chickens are hardly the worst part, wait until he sees them after all of this is over and they're tame as can be.]
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[No actually that was a lot of people]
I'm going to hazard a guess there are not two million people here.
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[His expression shifts, knowing he's about to give bad news.]
This is a quarantine, we're here to make sure we're safe to pass on to other planets or whatever. There was a virus outbreak not too long back, took out a good chunk of the population.
[There was no way to say that the possibility for it to happen again wasn't there. It could, and no matter how it was worded, 'you've been sucked into a portal unwillingly and a virus could come through and kill us all before we ever get home' is hardly the best news to deliver to anyone.]
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[Lyle kind of rolled his eyes at that. Just exactly what he wanted to hear that this place could potentially kill him if this virus came through again]
And I'm sure because people are being pulled here from who knows where no one has any immunity to this virus.
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[He pauses, thinking. Honestly, he sounds way less concerned than he probably should be and more like this is a puzzle to solve.]
By now they must have taken some measures to prevent that from happening again, at least from the same source.
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[He sighs at that. He kind of hates this place, thinking of it that way.]
Especially since most of the population is supposed to be just like us, and who's to say a bunch of random people pulled through a portal are going to know or care to work on virus protection?
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[He doesn't like the fact that he doesn't know anyone who has been here for an extended time. They seemed to be hiding from them. It had bothered him about Celestial Being as well when he had first joined, that there was someone or something pulling strings and they didn't know anything about them]
Also I wouldn't be the best person for figuring out a cure. Science wasn't my thing.
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