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TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER

Welcome to the Ryslig Test Drive Meme! Below are a few prompts to get you started, but you may make up any prompt you desire! Please take a look at the navigation page for rules, setting information, and links to reserves and apps. Have fun!

SCENARIO ONE

You wake up on the beach thoroughly drenched with your mouth full of sand. The salt water causes various cuts and scrapes on your skin to sting and the sand isn't helping. The air is slightly humid, ruining any feeling of refreshment you might have gotten from your dip in the ocean. There are lights in the distance but the unfriendly scent of gunpowder fills the air. If you're lucky, you're alone. If not, you might find yourself staring up into a pair of monstrous eyes or down the barrel of a local's shotgun.

SCENARIO TWO

So you've just arrived, and already SOME 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." Then there's the people who aren't happy to see you at all. Glares and silent, judging stares if you're lucky. Torches and pitchforks attempting to drive you out of the town if you're not. You may need a friend to help you.

SCENARIO THREE

"Seek us out," the voice whispers in your head, and before you have time to question it you've found yourself in someplace entirely alien. Maybe it's the Fog God's ghostly town of Dyster, where exultant followers dance around bonfires and sing their praises to the skies above. Maybe it's the Fourth God's arcade, with small robots wheeling about amidst the lights and colors of old pinball machines. Only one thing is certain: you are not alone, in this sacred place.

SCENARIO FOUR

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[A petite woman suddenly bursts from the shadows, grabbing the gunman's wrist with one hand and elbowing him in the chest with her other arm, throwing him to the ground.]

Were you just going to stand there and talk to yourself with a gun pointed at you!?

Talking is actually a very effective distraction! I could be rude and say I didn't need your lovely help and would've handled it on my own, but a save is a save and you showed some nice moves~

[He brushes as much sand as he can off his suit, but it doesn't help much.] Oh sure, you got the authority to dictate the results of my every action too huh?

And I'll be taking that...!

[The man's gun is snatched, examined, and holstered.]

You from around here yourself? Course if you got dropped off by some fanboy or fangirl like I was, then I can't help you with that.

[...She's not sure if she trusts this guy with the gun, either, but he's obviously as lost as she is.]

Actually, no. I was on a plane ten minutes ago and I don't have a clue how I got here. He doesn't look like he would know, either.

[She gestures to the now disarmed gunman.]

[Disarmed and with a single quick butt from the gun, now KO'd because NPCs are useless once their purpose is finished.]

Hehe, they said it.

[... Attention back on the lady now.]

Going from being on a plane to waking up on a beach? I bet you wish this was all some fucked up acid trip or something! Or maybe knife-induced hallucination. I've had one of those once.

[How smooth.]

[Squint. She leans to the side to try and see around him. Was there someone else there? Because who else is he talking to if not her or the gunman?

Oh, God, he's talking to himself, isn't he? He's unstable and armed. This day just keeps getting better. Maybe she should keep him talking until someone else shows up.]

It'd be a little simpler to chalk it up to a bad dream, wouldn't it?

Probably. Does that mean you haven't tried to pinch yourself yet?

[Oh yes he's very deranged, but he totally still has some morals. Totally.]

Pain and I have a very intimate relationship, so don't ask me to check if this is a dream. But if it was, then only one of us would be real. But with all the mutants around back where I was, maybe I shouldn't be surprised by the idea of people being stuck in one big shared dream.

Or we could just be blocks of texts paired with tiny pictures considering there's no sound to speak of and- I'm rambling so what do you think~?

Edited 2016-09-19 18:31 (UTC)

Pinched myself? Of course I... [sheepishly] Okay, yeah, I kind of did.

[Grace barely has time to finish that sentence before he's off again. She's having a hard time figuring this guy out, and she doesn't like that one bit. She's usually good at reading people. This guy? Who the hell knows.

Of course, granted, he's wearing some kind of superhero wannabe getup that's covering his face and that makes things difficult. And she's still not happy that he has a gun.]

What do I think? I think I might be going a little crazy. I haven't had much sleep in the last few days and none of this is helping.

[At least the eyeholes on the mask are strangely good at emoting for the face under it.]

In my experience, there's nothing wrong with having a bit of crazy.

[Wink.]

[HOW IS HE DOING THAT]

You know, I wasn't going to say anything, but since you brought it up... I can't really say I'm surprised?

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