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

[gravesite]

That's assuming that all of those pamphlets are true — which, who knows? Do you think a place like this would tell you the truth, and nothing but the truth? [ still, he doesn't expect her to take his advice to heart; eating people isn't the easiest concept to get used to. ]

Plus, they aren't even humans that you'd recognize. [ and..... to put it in a way that he'd seen someone on the network say.... ]

They're renewable resources.

[8bytes]

...

[ And that's when her lips press together, a serious look reaching her eyes as she clutches her chest, fingers tightening around the fabric. ]

You've got that wrong. [ Somewhere out there, a protagonist sneezes from having his line quoted... ] Humans aren't like that.

[gravesite]

[ he blinks at the immediate contradiction, but while he's been alive for far longer, he can't say that he acknowledges the good side of humanity — not that he's ever been exposed to it, exactly. ]

Aren't they? [ a tilt of his head to the side accompanies that, curious to see how she'd word it. ]

Then, tell me — what are they like?

[8bytes]

They're not. [ Unlike the last few times where she had paused before speaking, this answer is immediate. ]

People aren't renewable resources. Each and every person is an individual with their own life, their own purpose. They can't be grouped together like game consoles or cartridges. Because while those can be replaced, people can't be. You can't "fix" them once they're "broken".

And you can't make a new one, either. There isn't a single person that is exactly the same from the next. Even though there are good people and there are bad people, it doesn't mean that we should use them as a resource for personal gain. I want to trust in everybody. [ It may be a naive way of thinking, but that's the philosophy that she's run by since day one. She's not about to change that now. ]

... That's what I think.

[gravesite]

[ throughout her entire speech, he listens quietly, despite the small gaps in his knowledge — what are consoles? what are cartridges? — because while he doesn't think much of the first half, it's the second half that he understands more than he wants to.

so he smiles, just a little. ] You know, that way of thinking isn't bad.

[ he's actually a bit impressed! but then, there's also the reality of the situation. ] You'll get by like that for what, four months?

Ask anyone else that's been here long enough — that's about how long people last, without trying to eat humans. It's almost like we have to, after that point. What will you do? Eat people that are already dead?