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

[terribibble]

[From the way his entire face lights up (not with demon fire, mind you, but with enthusiasm) it's clear that it does. Something about his posture seems to unwind, to straighten. It's like he's a completely different person]

That's fantastic! Did ya make it yourself? What sort of special alloy? Does it run directly on neural impulse or does that codin' take care of the movement?

[Please dear god talk science with him. Please.]

[wellmadeplans]

[This might not be better than the alternative - Rhys isn't this used to seeing this much enthusiasm about cybernetics from anyone that's not, well. Himself. No one else really got on board with the whole "let's become part-man, part-machine!" thing, which is a shame.]

Uh, no, I didn't make it. [And yet that somehow still sounds smug.] I've made a few modifications and changed some of the code, but nothing that would have voided the warranty.

[Which is technically not a lie because there was no warranty on the arm or even a guarantee the surgery wouldn't kill him.]

It's... complicated. [But Fiddleford is asking and Rhys does like to hear himself talk.] The arm doesn't require conscious input unless you want to operate it remotely? [Or not-so-remotely it if you happen to be an AI hitching a ride with Rhys.] Or to do things like pulling up the interface, but that's all tied into my internal network and ECHOeye so it's not a brain-to-robot-arm thing. For the most part. [He shrugs.] I could download a different software for it, but at the risk of not being able to remotely access the ECHOnet.

Of course, there's no ECHOnet here to access so I guess that doesn't... really matter anymore...

[terribibble]

[A lot of that-- most of it even -- was words Fiddleford can only possibly guess through context. Even more of it are words he has absolutely no idea how to parse. This is exactly how he likes it when it comes to engineering, because that means there's something to be learned.]

Don't suppose you'd let me take it apart or nothin', not when it's attached to you and all.

[He's only joking. Sort of.]

Your ECHOnet sounds an awful lot like that ARPANET they're workin' on over in Los Angeles. Somethin' that connects hardware devices, lets them talk to each other. So your arm and your eye can talk to each other, an' presumably to others around?

[This is the most exciting thing he's ever fucking heard. His life got ruined right around the time the big internet breakthroughs were being made, so he's from before most of them and wasn't paying too close attention to the rest thanks to being distracted by that interdimensional portal. Bionic limbs? A real network, one sprawling across more than just a few different University computers? That's... there's no words.]