TEST DRIVE SEPTEMBER EDITION

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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 9/26.
• 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 (New):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

[finewithhalf]

[Okay she can't even pretend to hate this. There's even a faint rumble from somewhere in her chest -- and that's weird enough to be remarkable. That's never happened before.]

Okay, so -- you said you've been here a couple of hours. You like it here, right?

[plutonicideals]

[Maya is purring and that's kind of weird but Maya is also basically a cat and she is in some place not New York, weird was going to be a given no matter what.]

Kind of. I think I like New York more, but it's not that bad. [She's still trying to think the worse pamphlets are just a bad dream, but fuzzy Maya is making this a much better dream.]

[finewithhalf]

Well good! Be...cause. Well.

[Oh wow this is suddenly hard. What's a Riley-palatable explanation?]

Well, we're probably going to be here for a while yet.

[plutonicideals]

How long is awhile, Maya?

[finewithhalf]

How long has it been since my birthday, again?

[plutonicideals]

... A few months? A lot of months. Nearly a year of months.

[finewithhalf]

Oh. Well. [Riley's got to see the eighth grade. She's finally gotten away from having her father be her teacher.]

I've been here since pretty much then.

[plutonicideals]

[Oh. You can almost see the gears turning in her head as she thinks about that.]

But—you were at home. I remember you being at home.

[finewithhalf]

That -- happens, sometimes. I don't really know how. [It's been explained, but it always goes pretty far over her head.]

It's why I stopped waiting for someone to come get me, really. [She grimaces.] Can't miss someone when you don't notice they're gone.

[plutonicideals]

[Her hyped up behavior from earlier seems a bit more muted now because oh no Maya's been here and didn't expect anyone to come and that's terrible.]

I—Maya I'm so sorry.

[So now she's getting hugged again, as tightly as she possibly can.]

[finewithhalf]

[That's the story of Maya's life. Never feeling hope means never feeling disappointed. It's better for everyone this way.

But she'll take that hug, thanks.]

Hey. Don't worry about it. You're here now, right?

[plutonicideals]

[Maya is never getting left alone again, and whenever Riley finds her way out, she's going to make sure Maya goes with her if it's the last thing she does.]

Yeah, but—you shouldn't have had to be alone all that time...

[And the fact that Maya spent so long, becoming what she is now, is horrifying to her and it makes her want to cry a little (or a lot).]

[finewithhalf]

Alone? Me? [A soft "pfft".] You know me better than that.

[Maya can find a way to be alone in the middle of a crowd of people. It's easy to be physically one place and emotionally somewhere else.]

It's fine here. I'll show you around -- it'll be great!

[plutonicideals]

[And Riley knows that, because she knows Maya, and she knows everything's Maya ever said to her.]

Is it really that great here...?

[finewithhalf]

Well. Well okay so maybe great is a stretch. But now that you're here, it means that we're both here. And we can make the best out of anything.

[plutonicideals]

["We can make the best out of anything." She doesn't doubt that, but she's still worried about Maya. And probably thinking of kicking her normal act into hyperdrive for the sake of her friend.]

Yeah. There's no way we can't find a way to make the best of this place. [She pauses for a second.] We should go somewhere else. Do you want to go somewhere else? There's a lot to see, isn't there?

[finewithhalf]

There's tons. There's movies, and live entertainment, and there's this really pretty lake where I go to paint sometimes, and the bakery, and everything. [Everything as long as you don't ask for much else.]

[plutonicideals]

—Really? There's all that?

[At least Maya's still painting... though the emphasis she puts on the word bakery doesn't go unnoticed.]

Bakery?

[finewithhalf]

Yeah, a bakery. You know, starches and sugars, probably setting us up for diabetes when we're in our thirties?

[plutonicideals]

I know, but it sounds like you really like the bakery. Are the bakery things really that good?

[finewithhalf]

I don't really taste stuff the way I used to. But the lady who runs it, Ilia? She's so great. She's the kind of person who makes you feel like you can tell her anything.

[plutonicideals]

Really...? She sounds like a nice person. When can we go meet her?

[finewithhalf]

Whenever you want. She's usually there, unless I drag her out by her apron. She keeps to herself way too much, I think.

[plutonicideals]

Then it sounds like we've got some work to do.

[Someone keeping to themselves too much?? Gotta fix it.]

[finewithhalf]

Already on it, Riles. But it'll definitely be better with you involved.

[So maybe she's purring again. Maybe that's just going to be a thing.]