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JANUARY TEST DRIVE MEME

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.

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One;;
[Eira is, to put it mildly, not the most tolerant person in the world. She doesn't like people approaching her randomly and she especially doesn't like it when they sound like they're trying to tell her what to do. She weathers the "helpful" before her temper takes over and she's ripping one of the pamphlets in half]

Jesus, are you kidding me? How about you save the stupid Halloween stories for the next dumb little kid you see, huh? A fucking map and some real explanations would be helpful. [She tosses the pieces of pamphlet onto the ground and turns to try to walk in the opposite direction of the natives who were hounding her. She's short and not paying attention to her surroundings so it wouldn't be surprising if she happened to bump into someone]

Two;;
[Normally Eira is good at navigating in the woods. But these woods are all weird and she's not used to them at all. It's probably the first time she's ever gotten lost. She's annoyed and her brother isn't even here to blame it on. She hates when that happens. When she sees someone else she's probably happier to see another person than she ever has been in her entire life]

Hey! Please tell me you know how to get out of here because I'm over this woods bullshit.

Four;; (undecided monster because I'm indecisive)
[Being afraid of the hunters isn't something that ever even occurred to Eira. She was trained to kill from pretty much the minute she could walk. And these people? Amateurs. Nothing like the people she grew up with. Two of them had tried to corner her. They hadn't been successful. She can be found with two unconscious men at her feet, turning a knife over in her hand]

You idiots call yourself hunters? Pathetic. Couldn't even take me down and I'm like half your size. [The men are both out cold but she kicks one in the ribs, just for good measure] My grandmother would laugh herself to death if she saw you and that's the only way you'd beat her.

I'm keeping this knife, though. [There's probably a couple more guys further away from her. She may have let them chase her a little. It's more fun that way]

[He comes out to the open parts outside Bavan quite often these days. It's nice to get away from the smells and sounds of the big city (Seriously, this place is massive, on the scale of New York City and he's not even remotely used to that.), which plague him worse these days since his final changes set in. He ambles out in bear form, thick black coat, covered in tan lines and circles and runes of necromancy, to protect him from the chill and his nose enhanced to pick out anything tasty he might find along the way.

Said nose leads him right to an unconscious hunter, but yeah, he's not going there right now. It isn't that bad, and he can drop by the soup kitchen when it does get to that point. Still, it's curiouser and curiouser, and he follows a trail through the sparse trees and brush to find-

Two more unconscious hunters, a tiny young woman standing over them, and that voice. That voice stops his heart, because is it really her? Is it really Eira, after four months of this place alone?] Eira? Eira, jesus christ!

[And the briefest of pauses between outbursts, because it needs to be said,] If you shank me with that knife, dad is going to kill you.

[She'd kind of been tempted to shank the bear. Because bear. But then the bear starts talking in a voice she's very familiar with and....what the fuck. She squints, still holding the knife firmly in her hand]

Am I going crazy or is this some magic bullshit? Soeki?

[It's her. It's definitely her, something rings familiar in her scent, and her appearance, and her voice and everything. It's definitely his sister, and god, it's been four months since he's seen anybody from home. He's made friends here, weirdly, but that's not the same as seeing his sister again.

He rises up on his furry back legs and starts to shift, a change not unlike slipping out of his "skin", a bear pelt slipping off pale, gangly human limbs that would be a lot more familiar. It's his least painful and also least disgusting looking change.

Soeki catches his pelt before he's totally exposed, ties it around himself like a blanket toga, because his clothes do not shift with him and it's hilariously inconvenient. As soon as he's safely covered enough not to make this awkward, though, he's swooping in for a hug that will lift her right off the ground.

Skinchanger form: his bear strength does not go away.] It's magic bullshit. I can't believe you're here! What the hell took you, I've been in this shithole for like four months!

[Well. She wasn't expecting that. The shape shifting, not the hug. The hug she was kind of expecting. It doesn't even really surprise her when he lifts her. She's not that heavy and he's always been a tall weirdo. She ineffectually flails when he picks her up but somehow manages to avoid stabbing him. Even though she wants to]

Hey! Put me down, you giant freak! [Things she would call him even if he wasn't a shape shifting bear] The hell do you mean "four months"? I saw you this morning! Put me down, Soeki!

[He has literally four different bodies at this point and it's still really weird. As for the flailing? He expected that. Because it's Eira. She's a tiny ball of terror who does not like to be touched but oh well, he's doing it anyway, hugging her tight against himself and even spinning around once.]

God, how weird is it that I missed you calling me names? [A pause.] There's no way you saw me this morning. I was here. ...Unless this is more magic bullshit, I knew the peninsula was isolated here but isolated from time too?

[But that's a theory for another day. He gets a good hug in before he finally sets her down, still beaming.] You're here! Wait, shit, you're here.

I'm gonna stab you in the face! [It's an empty threat. If she was really gonna stab him, she would've done it already]

What the hell are you even talking about, Winnie the Pooh? Stop being crazy. [Pause] Crazier than normal, I mean.

That's an empty threat and you know it. If anything you'd bite me again. [He still has the scar from where she bit him hard enough he had to go to the emergency room. Dad was not pleased to have them show up at his work for that.]

Ryslig! Here. This place. It's freaky, nobody leaves the peninsula. And if you supposedly saw me this morning, but I know I was here, then maybe it's some kind of pocket dimension. I mean that would explain why something has enough magical force to draw people into it and change them into monsters.

Like me. I'm a werebear now. Did I mention that? Also my magic is gone.

[He's getting really good at this woods thing. Or at least better at the woods thing. Christian is trying to train himself to take full advantage of his werewolf senses, which has had mixed results for the most part. Just being part wolf does not in fact make you good at wolf, who knew?

His head comes up sharply when the voice calls out to him. He's confused at first, since the stranger is definitely human-looking, but he heads her direction anyway. She seems like she could use help.]

Ah, yeah, it does that. Where were you headed?

[There might be a couple more guys further off. Or they might have already been dealt with by the terrifying spider of a woman who appears behind her.

Natasha flexes her claws, tossing down the body of one hunter. The other scrambles to run away, apparently less brave alone and outnumbered. She ignores him in favor of the new monster, scanning the other woman for signs of her change and finding nothing definitive.]

Not bad. Your grandmother teach you how to do that?

Hey, don't diss the fur bearing trout. When you become one, we'll all laugh at how you thought we were just joking.

[connor clearly is, though, a grin playing on his lips as his tail twitches out of amusement. but if she wanted more proof of monsters, he cuts quite the figure - impressive wing span, horns, red eyes.

and ok yeah he looks like something out of a stupid halloween story but it's ALL ABOUT CONFIDENCE, of which he has plenty.

still, he was watching the whole display and can tell she's pretty bent out of shape, what with the turning the pamphlet into confetti and everything. he follows after her as she storms off, because, obviously, that seems like a great idea]

Hey, stop running off, though, okay? If you want to know a real explanation, I can give you the closest you're going to get.

[Normally, Itachi doesn't try to push the limits of sundown particularly; the discomfort and weakness aren't worth it. But with that time come again, he's on the lookout for new arrivals.

Eira won't find herself bumping into him; rather, when she comes charging out, she'll run through him, feeling a burst of icy cold as she occupies the shade's body space.

For his part, he pulls back quickly from her, glowing eyes regarding her with amused interest.]

Well. That's an introduction. In a hurry, are you?

[Someone really needs to hire, he doesn't know, a minotaur to keep watch over the woods, because Marco swears to god, the new arrivals get lost in there every time. Unfortunately, as far as he knows, nobody's thought of that yet, so he's patrolling the place himself today. Community service and all that. Can't hurt.

As it turns out, a lost person finds him first.]

Oh! Oh, yes, that's what I'm here for! Let me see... [He turns around to get his bearings.] There! I came from over there, so follow me, alright?

[He's neglecting to take into consideration the fact that he's already done quite a bit of largely aimless wandering.]

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