TEST DRIVE: NOVMEMEBER (get it because it's a meme)

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TEST DRIVE

Welcome to Ryslig's test drive meme! If you're considering apping here, this is where you can try your characters out in the game's setting. A few things to note:

• You can only app ONE character per round so choose wisely.
• We now have a Quick Game Facts that simplifies the basic information about the game. Good if you want to see what the game is at a glance!
• Ryslig's FAQ is located here, so please take a look if you have questions.
• The reserve date is 11/27.
• Test drive meme threads can be used for your roleplay sample!
• Players with characters already in the game can earn up to a maximum of 6 coins by replying to potential character threads! You cannot use this to go over the bonus 20 coins per month total, but you can use it to reach that coin total. Same rules as normal bonuses apply.

Sample scenarios:

SCENARIO ONE: So you've just arrived, fresh out of the hospital, and already the natives are trying to get on your good side. Offers of food, shelter and other luxuries in return for hoping you don't eat them. They even have some helpful pamphlets to share with you. "How To Deal With Changes", "Alternatives to Human Flesh", "What to Expect When You're Expecting (to turn into a monster)" are all great pamphlets. There's even some detailing certain monsters, and the changes they go through. Some of these seem to have been passed down from one monster to the next.

Among these however, are some... not so helpful ones. "Bunnyipyips And You", "Axe Thief Axehounds," and "So you're becoming a Fur Bearing Trout" among others. Sometimes they have marks on them from previous people who had them saying they are lies, or pointing out good "jokes."

SCENARIO TWO: You've become hopelessly lost in Lager Woods. Paths don't seem to lead where you remember them leading, and you feel as if you're going around in circles. Childlike giggling can be heard from no direction in particular. Suddenly, you stumble upon another character, who seems to be just as lost as you! Perhaps you can find a way out together. Or maybe they want you for lunch...

SCENARIO THREE: The time has come and you've found yourself becoming a monster. Is the change instant, or gradual? Are you familiar enough with monsters to know what's happening, or is it a complete shock? NOTE: Feel free to pick any monster type for this prompt, but note that you may not get the same one in game.

SCENARIO FOUR:The claws, the fangs, the pangs of hunger - horrible as they all are, it's manageable given enough time and perseverance. Local monster hunters, though, not so much.

Maybe it started with a few wayward glances on the outskirts of town, critical stares and disapproving whispers, or just the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Whatever it was, deserved or entirely unprovoked, you're being hunted: a handful of aggressive, well-armed humans doggedly chase your trail throughout city streets and out into the open, and if you're not careful (if you don't find help soon) you might wind up as the next trophy kill claim on one of those hunter's walls.

Comments

Haru Igarashi | zettai kaikyuu gakuen

[tinypebble]

scenario one
[ Haru is far from used to people being nice to him. And with what has just happened in his own world? He's not up for people treating him like he's some kind of animal, or becoming one.

Books however, he likes, even if they aren't artbooks as he's much more enthusiastic about art than he is books. He can take the pamphlets to read, no problem. Hopefully no one will beat him up for having something that isn't really his, but. Well. He'll deal with that when it happens. ]

Human flesh, what?

[ It's meant more to himself than anyone else. ]

But I don't eat human flesh...

[ So why would he need a pamphlet on it? ]

scenario four: manticore
[ Never mind that the changes had been scary and painful. Now he's being chased by strangers and he doesn't even know why?

The scorpion's tail and the wings makes him feel oddly heavy at the back, and he doesn't feel very steady. He stumbles, almost falls backwards, stumbles over a tree root and falls face first into a tree.

Shit! He has no idea what to do here, and suddenly he's cornered as soon as he turns around, back to the trunk of the tree. Sort of. He's forgotten that maybe he can fly. He hasn't tried yet. ]

I didn't do anything!

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[twomeals]

[You know who heard that? Yue heard that. He pauses, having just been walking past at the moment, and...turns to talk to the newbie.]

Some people do though. Eat humans, I mean.

[Like everybody? Yeah.]

Re: 1

[tinypebble]

[ Why is he talking to him? Why is this stranger talking to him about this? ]

Yeah, cannibals do. But I'm not a cannibal.

[ A beat. ]

What the hell?

[twomeals]

Canny balls? [???] I don't think I'm one of those either...

[Also a beat.]

What do you mean, what?

[tinypebble]

[ He doesn't know what a cannibal is? ]

What the hell are you?!

[ He's not human! ]

[twomeals]

Eh? I'm-- [ah. Yue hesitates - he can't really call himself human anymore, can he? But then, he's kind of a lame excuse for a bird, considering he barely has any feathers and can't even fly.

...Sigh.]

Um. I'm a...harpy? Probably.

[tinypebble]

Probably?! You should know what you are.

[ He takes a wary step backwards. ]

[twomeals]

Well I wasn't one before I came here...and I never heard of harpies before I came here, either.

[Why is this guy backing away!! He hasn't even done anything, is he that scary...Yue actually looks down at himself, just in case he got some more new changes he didn't notice, but... :(]

[tinypebble]

[ Now he's grumbling more to himself than Yue. ]

How can you not have heard of harpies before...?

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[aslyfox]

[ Curious eyes and ears catch the one talking to himself about a subject most tender to the former sword spirit and current were-dog. He hovers around Haru, eyeing the pamphlets and sighs. ]

They just hope you won't eat them, you know? It's an inevitability. [ Kogi shakes his head, doggy ears twitching. ] Of course, you may not eat their flesh! You might take their souls or their blood.

Re: 1

[tinypebble]

[ Haru just stares at him like he's crazy. Are there any were-dog features visible at the moment, because if so, his eyes will be even wider. ]

What. Why would I eat them.

[aslyfox]

[ Yes! Look at those super fluffy ears and the long, magnificent tail. It's as if Kogitsunemaru shares traits with a samoyed. ]

Hunger. A different kind of hunger. It's not one sated by cakes or meats or tea. It's unnatural and over time, unavoidable.

[tinypebble]

[ Fluffy...

Haru likes animals.

But this guy looks like a person too. What, why? ]

What are you talking about?

[aslyfox]

Ah. People who come to this peninsula, over time, turn into the monsters you may see on some of those writings you have.

[ At least the brochures are useful in telling the readers what their futures may look like. ]

Once, I was a sword. Then I woke up here on a mountain as a human. Now I am a beast, of sorts.

[ Kogi wiggles his ears. He's trying to stay a little optimistic. ]

[tinypebble]

[ Couldn't he have been just a regular dog? Like, he could be having a dream where there's no one else but him and animals. That would be a great dream. ]

That doesn't even make any sense. Swords aren't alive.

[aslyfox]

You're right. The spirits of swords, though? Very alive! Just not here, not in this place. Most non-humans become human at first, and then...

[ And he gestures to himself. At least he's a little proud of himself, being so close to his namesake. ]

Unless you think I'm fake? And then I could show you that I'm not.

[ Toothy grin. Pointy, toothy grin. ]

[tinypebble]

[ He takes a step backward at the grin. Some people look at him like that before they beat him up. But then he stops, and plants his feet more firmly on the ground. ]

No thanks. You might try to eat me.

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[youngdragon]

[ It was weird to have cloven hooves instead of feet, and they made Zhao Yun stumble a lot over things as they were smaller than human feet. The tail wasn't big but it still made him overbalance at times.

But it had not impaired on his ability to fight very much; he was still the greatest swordsman in Fanyang and very capable in martial arts, and he also still hated when people hurt others for no reason.

Which was why he got in between the angry mob and their prey. ]

What do you think you're doing?

[ He gave the mob a glare. ]

Re: 4

[tinypebble]

[ He hadn't even noticed the stranger come close, too busy trying to escape these other strangers. And how was he supposed to know he wasn't out for his blood too?! Then... he seems to be glaring at the others rather than at Haru. That's... a good thing, right? He doesn't exactly have a lot of hope left these days.

He stared between the stranger and the mob, not sure what to do, and still too surrounded to escape. Maybe if he stayed silent he would finally turn invisible.

But some members of the group turned to Zhao Yun, while the others closed in on Haru. He pressed up against the tree, trying to inch around its trunk but someone stabbed a weapon into the trunk right beside him, making his breath hitch.

Shitshitshitshit...! He's going to die. ]

Re: 4

[youngdragon]

[ Zhao Yun was hardly going to attack someone who was defenseless and without a weapon. It could be possible that he could be blessed by the xian, of course, but that didn't seem to be the case, considering how he was acting. It was much more likely that the other boy was just a civilian caught up in the madness of this world.

The rebel cut through the weapons pointed at him with one fell swoop of the simple sword that he had managed to acquire for himself. It wasn't as comfortable in his hand as his usual long swords, but it was enough. The men who had just lost their tools paled considerably, clearly expecting to be cut down as well, but Zhao Yun ignored them for the moment.

Instead he turned on his heel, ramming the butt of the hilt into the side of one of the mob members neck, so that the much bigger man passed out. It was one of those closest to the unarmed kid, and it made the other mob members freeze and regard him. Zhao Yun hardly looked as strong as he actually was, even with monster traits. ]

One does not attack someone who is unarmed, nor someone who is not looking for a fight. It is despicable.

Re: 4

[tinypebble]

[ He had not expected this stranger to be as strong as he turned out to be. He had disarmed several of them so easily, Haru was in awe for a moment, before trying to go the other way around the trunk, his body awkwardly pressed against it due to his tail. He knew real scorpions were poisonous, but he had no idea if he was as well, and right now he wasn't sure if he was willing to try it out. The stranger was right, he hadn't been looking for a fight. He just wanted to... No, did he even want to go home anymore, with how things had turned out? He wasn't sure anymore. But this sure as hell wasn't what he wanted.

One of the larger members of the mob move his knife to press against Haru's throat. ]

Come any closer and I'm slitting this monster's throat!

Re: 4

[youngdragon]

[ Taking a hostage... It was dirty but useless. Zhao Yun was the most skilled swordsman from his birth region, and he had yet to meet anyone who was much a challenge. Even with cloven hooves and a tail as an obstacle, he was better at fighting than some villagers in a rage.

He could cut off the man's knife hand, but he didn't want to hurt civilians. On the other hand, these villagers were acting like mere ruffians at the moment.

But he didn't know what the boy might do. A scorpion stung, it was its nature. If he got too distressed, would he do so by accident?

He sighed. ] You are being foolish. I could take your head off before you even have the chance to move your wrist. Are you really prepared to lay down your life for nicking someone who has not done any harm?

Re: 4

[tinypebble]

[ Haru wouldn't have been as bothered by this situation if they hadn't had weapons. He was used to getting beaten up, punched and kicked and choked, but when they had sharp objects it was different.

He just hoped they would stick to kicks and punches instead.

His tail was shaking, the rest of his body stiff as a board. What should he do? What could he do? His only weapon was sarcasm, and that wouldn't help at all in a situation like this.

He should... say something. Anything that wouldn't piss anyone off. ]

I just wanted to paint the place, I won't do it again if you don't like it, just take that thing away from me. Please.

Re: 4

[youngdragon]

[ When the man didn't seem to want to comply, or listen to the plea, Zhao Yun stepped forward with great speed, and swiftly disarmed the man who was holding the scorpion hostage. At the same time, he pulled the boy from the man's grip without causing him or the man any harm.

He turned a sharp glare at the villagers. ]

Leave.

Re: 4

[tinypebble]

[ The men stood their ground for several moments, before they deemed this one too much trouble. They would get their hands on Haru sooner or later, with how weak he seemed to be even while being a monster.

Haru's own body was stiff and he backed away from the stranger who saved him as the men left. ]