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

[twocomplex]

Your scowl does you more harm than good, my friend.

[The words that sound from behind Squall don't come from someone entirely human. He's got robes fitted for his monstrous form, allowing bones to jut out and around him without interfering with cloth. A bit of fur shows on his chest and his shoulders, where they're particularly revealing (a style he's familiar with from home), but most notably would have to be the long tail made of bone and fur swinging behind him and the antlers that raise from his skull.

They're small as far as wendigo antlers go, at least. As he moves forward, he gives Squall a pat on the shoulder and gestures at the crowd around them.]

Excuse me, he's with me. There's no need to worry. I did see a few lost souls that way, if you care to help? [With a small gesture, he sends the crowds away just like that. Soft murmurs of acceptance and curiosity of the others redirect them, and soon enough, Oren and Squall are left to silence.

His hand drops away from his shoulder then.]

A good smile can send people away all the same. Tell me, have you paid any attention to what they were saying before you lost your patience? It will be important in the long run.

[unshelledbullet]

[A talking, two legged monster. A talking, two legged zombie monster. He flinches a bit from the pat on the shoulder. Forgive his rudeness, Oren, but he's not one for physical contact and he's never been touched by a zombie deer before.]

Something about monsters. The papers they were trying to hand me had all sorts of nonsense titles about fish and rabbits.

[twocomplex]

[His discomfort had been something Oren had guessed, honestly. (And yet the touch was intentional...) Disregarding the flinch, he laughs.]

Oh, those. Trash, unfortunately. I had relied on those at first and was heavily misinformed.

But I'm sure now that you've met me you have at least a bare idea of the truth of them all.

[unshelledbullet]

So you're saying this isn't some sort of small town superstition and it's true? People really do turn into monsters? On a regular basis?

[He's saying this not with skepticism, but with a need for information. Before, he would have assumed that this person was simply just born an undead deer. Squall comes from a place where magic and monsters exist, and it's fairly difficult to deny when there's supposedly living proof of it standing right in front of him.]