JANUARY TEST DRIVE 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 01/29.
• 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

Riki | Xenoblade Chronicles

[nyapakapow]

[2. Riki scared! Friends run!]

[If you go down into the woods today, you'd better be ready to deal with some noises other than the usual giggle of children. Namely, screaming. Not just any screaming either, but screaming that comes from the high screech of an adult man, running for his life.]

AWWWWWWWUUUUUHHHH! AHHHHHH! NONONONO! STAY AWAY FROM RIKI! RIKI NOT FURRY ENOUGH TO BE TASTY!

[And if you're unlucky enough, you may see a short, fat man running over towards you, waving a stick over his head as he screamed. Unfortunately, Riki had been gifted with a 'second-sense' for the supernatural... and he was terrified shitless of whatever his lingering 'nopon instincts' could detect.]

EeeeeEEeeeee! Ghost! Ghossts!

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[4. SAY SORRY!]

[Riki was not a brave nopon. He was a coward, but he was willing to put that aside when there was a need.

The werewolf was minding his own business, eating as much free food as he could beg for, when he noticed the hunters chasing some random monster girl. Even though she was a stranger, she was a child, and Riki couldn't stand seeing a kid in need, even if it wasn't one of his own. So picking up a huge stone, Riki lobbed it at the hunters.]

NYEH NYEHH nyehehhhhhhhh~

[He stuck his tongue out at the hunters, revealing his sharp, canine teeth. The hunters probably would have split up, if not for Riki continuously robbing rocks and garbage at them.]

No bully littlehom, scary homs! You go awayyyy! SAY SORRY!

[Unfortunately, this is very dumb when the hunters are... armed like hunters. Riki only realises this mistake when a bullet whizzes by him.]

. . .RIKI SCARED! RUN AWAY!

[Please someone help this... this weird monster that's running away at top speed away from angry men. What even is he anyway? He's probably some werechihuahua or something.]

SAY SORRY

[godofnothingness]

[Run away indeed! It's the thought that counts though Riki and hey, you tried.

Now it's time for the 'big guns' though.] HAH!

[Or at least the cards. With a whizz and a slice, most of the bullets are meeting with solid sheets to stop them in their tracks, a few more going right through the tendons of one hunter's hand before most of them scatter.] These punters don't even plan to stay for a fight then?

[He openly scoffs, all 7 feet of lanky bear-shape coming down to get the cards back. The hunter that was struck, needless to say, runs while leaving a certain smell behind in his wake.] Hn! Seems to me that a lot like that shouldn't even be holding a gun then!

[Well now. He looks back at the... Er.

...Are you a chihuahua, a pomeranian... Both??]

Oi! You doing alright over there?

[nyapakapow]

[Both. Both is good.]

YEAHHH! That's right! No guns! Snap pow bang!

[Well once the hunters are gone and Riki finishes yelling loud insults at them, he turns to Loki and grins.] Good job, furry homhom! Not bad at all! Good finishing baddies for Heropon!

Heropon Riki is alright!

[godofnothingness]

[He has absolutely No Idea what half of that meant, but it's enough to get a grin at least.] Heropon?

That your name then, 'Heropon'? [he laughs, looking down to the older man.] You're sounding pretty damn cheerful for someone that just about got a few bullets in them mate!

[nyapakapow]

Noooo! Riki's name is Riki! Riki is heropon of Bionis!

[The man grins up and crosses his arms happily.]

Riki very tough! Riki once beat whole Telethia by himself... with some help from friends. Riki also fall from high places! So Riki not get hurt by meanie homs! Riki is brave and ooookay!

[godofnothingness]

'Hero' then?

[The more this guy talks the more he wonders if he's as old as he looks...man.] Well, I still don't know what a 'Telethia' is, or whatever else you're on about but if that's true...

[He looks toward the man's shoulder.] Might not be as 'okay' as you think, [Loki laughs.] Got red on you.

[Ah yes, a graze-]

[nyapakapow]

Yes! Riki greatest Heropon ever! Dinobeast Telethia! Big and scary but Riki can take it one snap POW!

[He mimes little punching movements before he winces, the werewolf moving his bad shoulder too quick. He looks at the shoulder and gives a small, grizzly whimper.]

Y-yeah but! Riki big boy! He no cry!

[godofnothingness]

[The bear squints a little, raising an eyebrow.] ...Right...

You sure you're not crying there? [He finds himself asking with a joking smirk.] Seems like you're coming close!

[nyapakapow]

R-Riki isn't! Hom hom must be bad at seeing. Riki no cry!

[He is. Tears are getting into his beard. It really does hurt though. Humans are less durable than nopons, even if he is a werewolf.]

[godofnothingness]

[They are and that's...that's sad.

He can't laugh at that any more, shoot.

That said, he is frowning a bit. This guy's pain tolerance can't be that...] Oi, no shame in it if you go along with it you know! It's not until you start trying to say otherwise that anyone starts poking at it!

What the hell did they shoot you with if it hurt that much though, silver?

[nyapakapow]

R-Riki know that! Riki just didn't think it hurt too much!

And R-riki do not know! Stupid hom hom! Riki doesn't look at bullets when being shot at!

[godofnothingness]

You don't have to look mate, you have to feel!

Is it burning or not?

[nyapakapow]

Burning only slightly! But not to worry! Riki okay!

[Help the poor fluffhed]

RUN! ...and show off some of that parental-pon side :U

[blurspot]

[Ghosts are not what are floating around these woods-and if they were, they probably wouldn't be interested in the panicked man running around waving a stick above his head.

For all that Reira knows those sorts of things, what he does not seem able to predict is the fact that a scared man with a stick might run in his direction, despite his size and crouched position in the bushes.]

Mnfp-H!

[Congratulations. You tripped over a child.]

[nyapakapow]

OOOOFFFFF!

[Riki falls flat on his face and eats dirt, and not in the good way. However, Riki is a tough nopon, and immediately he sits up and he turns to face the small child.]

Hey! Why you do that to Riki? Owww!

[soft_focus]

[Thaaat's gonna be a lot of dirt.

And a rather irritated child.]

...You did that. [Don't you dare blame him for tripping on...him. YEAH.]

[nyapakapow]

[It's stuck in his beard.

... And in his mouth. It doesn't taste good so he's still trying to spit it out.]

Littlehom shouldn't talk back like that! [Read: He knows he's in the wrong, he won't admit it]

... Littlehom shouldn't be in forest either. What is littlehom doing here?

[soft_focus]

[These are all very very good questions, to be met with an equally key one.]

...Littlehom..?

[wat]

[nyapakapow]

You are littlehom. Small Homhom, yes?

[He emphasises it by sitting up and pats Reira on the head.]

[soft_focus]

[A frown is your answer.] ...'M a wendigo.

...I've never heard of a 'homhom'.

[nyapakapow]

Homhom is you. With two legs and tall and homhom looking. It make senses. You homhom wendigo. Riki is turned into homhom. Understand?

[Beat.]

Why is wendigohom here?

[blurspot]

[???!!!???] ...I'm not tall though... [Your logic is flawed, sir-

Anyway.]

...I hunt things here. [...Let that sink in a moment.]

[nyapakapow]

You are taller than nopon, and you look like a hom. It makes sense.

[Sure...]

Hunt? Like for food? By yourself? But forest is big and spooky!

[soft_focus]

[To that, he just shakes his head.] ...I don't think I look like a 'hom'. [Homs do not have feathery wings and fluffy tails, nope. Whatever it is at least.]

There's lots of food here; like rabbits... ...and deer...

[And he's hungry bro-]

...It's not scary.

[nyapakapow]

[He knows you're a hom...]

Then what are you?

[Riki stares blankly at the menu selection...]

... Have a bit for Riki? If you say forest no scary, maybe not. Especially with food. Riki help friend catch food!