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

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

It's probably different from how you used to, it is for me.

[No more songs, no more warp pads, no more owl statues. He misses the old system a lot, having only three warp points was so limiting but never the less it was still the most practical way to get around on the peninsula.

At her thanks he just shrugs, smile almost taking a bashful tinge. He slowly lowers his hand until it's flat against the grass, she's free to step down onto the more stable ground now if she wishes. He stays silent for a few moments, trying to figure out where to start. She needed to learn how to warp too, but she might just not have that power yet. Besides, for now there was a more immediate issue.]

Are you stuck tiny?

[fourthscribe]

[She chuckles softly and smiles, but doesn't bother correcting Link. After all, what does it matter what he assumes she could do back home? It doesn't change what she can do here.]

[Tanyuu steps off carefully, still not completely used to the strange twisted zig-zag her legs are now. At least she can walk, though--it's one of the few good things out of this whole mess. She flutters over and perches on the edge of one of the mushrooms of the ring, feeling a little safer there than sitting in the grass.]

No, but it's easier for me when I'm small. My legs are a lot more...troublesome, when I'm at full size. [Her antennae flick again, and she extends one leg out as an example--rather than going forward as one might expect, it juts out to the side.]

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[Once she's settled on a mushroom, Link shrinks down and joins her. He doesn't really mean to, but the size he settles at is roughly proportional to hers. He's just under two inches, so for once in his life he almost appears tall for his age, ironic as that is. He casts a glow too, much brighter than hers, with a bright green coloring. It doesn't totally obscure his features, but in the dark night it might take a moment for her eyes to adjust.

He tilts his head as he watches her leg move. She's got buggy-ness all the way up to her hips, and the angle of her legs is very strange. He kicks his feet next to her, stretching out his buggy toes in a silent show of something like solidarity.]

You'll get used to it. I keep myself a little shorter than I can be most of the time, cause I don't like being as tall as these things make me.

[Another wiggle of his toes accompanies his statement.]

[fourthscribe]

[It is a bit dazzling, and she blinks a few times before her eyes adjust. This close, Link will be able to tell that the lilac color isn't just limited to her iris, but covers her entire eyeball--she doesn't have true compound eyes, but if there is a pupil in there somewhere it's hard to tell.]

[One pair of hands folded in her lap, one of the others raises to Tanyuu's mouth as she chuckles.]

It is strange! I started keeping myself about the height of someone your age once I found out I can, it's easier to move around like that if flying isn't an option. [A pause, then:] Or the age you look, at least.

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[He smiles, a real genuine smile at that. How did she know? He giggles a bit in response too, then makes a sort of pouty frown, thinking over a few things. He'd never really been sure how old he was, since none of the Kokiri paid attention to that, and then time travel made that even more complicated. Termina was a better estimate since it was after all that and he knows about how much time he spent there. Romani was the same size as he was, and she was ten, so he probably was too, but then...he's been here a long time.]

...I think I'm eleven.

[He shrugs. The only measurement that really matters to him is that he's not an adult. He's not really prepared for the process of (relatively) slow growth that's going to hit him. Even though he knows it's not going to happen, he keeps expecting to just wake up one day and be as tall and strong as he used to be. These in-between stages are what he doesn't know how to handle.]

[fourthscribe]

[Partially a hunch, partially knowing that (former) immortals and the like certainly existed here. Either way her caution seems to have worked out here, even if the boy did turn out to be about as old as she suspected.]

I feel like there's a story behind that qualifier. [A gentle nudge, probing but not demanding an explanation in response. Some habits of her role as the Scribe are hard to drop, but she also doesn't want to force the boy to talk about anything that could very easily be a personal and sensitive topic. How many years had it taken before Ginko was willing to talk about his past, after all?]

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[The nudge does get a frown, but it's the same one from earlier. All concentration and meandering memory, no malice. After a while he nods.]

Mhm. It's pretty long though.

[He's not really trying to discourage her, mostly just wondering where to start. He's never really had the opportunity to talk to somebody about all this since Navi left, and he doesn't have the words ready yet.]

[fourthscribe]

[She nods, just a little, and keeps her calm smile in place. This isn't like the other times she has listened to tales of the supernatural, all self-indulgent boasts and ferreting out the actual details of the case, but Tanyuu has a feeling about what is needed here.]

I have time.

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

Ummm...okay.

[He nods, glancing up at Tanyuu quickly before looking straight ahead again, kicking his feet a little over the edge of the mushroom.]

The first place I remember is Kokiri Forest. I lived there with a bunch of other children, and nobody ever got old or big and I didn't think I would either. I figured I was Kokiri. Kokiri don't [He makes a vague waffling hand gesture mid air.] pay attention to years or ages.

[He lets out a little breath he didn't realize he'd been holding, and frowns. This time it's not just thinking. He had always known he was different, he never really fit in there. Without a fairy for so long almost everyone thought there had to be something wrong with him. Even so, getting older wasn't ever a thing he considered. Pausing here he doesn't realize that that alone would be enough of an explanation to cause somebody to question their age. But no, he's got more ground to cover.]

[fourthscribe]

[As Link speaks she lets her gaze wander, looking around at the bushes and trees but still keeping her attention on him. Her own feet sway idly, and she nods with a soft laugh.]

Well! Anyone would lose track in that situation. But I assume you eventually found out otherwise? [That seems to be where he's going with this.]

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[He nods again but stays quiet for a bit longer. There's a lot of stuff here that's just extra and confusing. Navi arriving, meeting the Great Deku Tree, Zelda, the spiritual stones. Ganondorf was important sort for his age thing, but he didn't want to have to explain all of it. He's having a harder and harder time trying to sort the relevant information from the whole extended explanation, so finally he just gives a little huff of frustration and starts talking, hoping things work out.]

Yeah. I left the forest, which Kokiri aren't supposed to do, but it was because I had a mission, and it was important. And a bunch of stuff happened, and I had to get a magic sword, but I was too young to wield it, so I fell asleep for seven years and when I woke up I was a grown up.


....It was weird.

[Even this isn't the full story though. There continues to be More.]

[fourthscribe]

[Maybe it shouldn't be as surprising as it is that the story all seems to come out in a tumble, but her eyebrow still raise as Link rambles on after those moments of thought. It's a lot to keep up with, and--seven years of sleep? Just making someone older doesn't mean they're ready to fight!]

It...certainly sounds like it. [She frowns, carefully considering her next words.] But it looks like you were...sent back? Or was it this place that changed you again?

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[He was ready to fight. He'd already been fighting. The point was he was too short to effectively use a long sword. He tilts his head to one side, again trying to figure out which parts of his story were actually relevant.]

Actually, I went back and forth a bunch for a while. But yeah once I'd...finished the mission she, um I got sent back to before I picked up the sword.

[He folds his hands in his lap and looks down at them. He doesn't like thinking about this bit. It was the right thing to do, he knows that. By sending him back Zelda had undone their mistake, stopped Ganondorf from ever taking control, but still. Coming back was hard, especially after Navi left.

All that explained and it's still not quiiite everything. He needs to take a breath or two before he continues though.]

[fourthscribe]

['She'? So it wasn't just a nebulous magical force that had been pushing him around. The cold ball of anger that starts to form is firmly pushed down to deal with later; right now the Scribe's only job is to listen.]

To give you back the years that you lost in-between? [She says it in a soft, carefully neutral tone, the same way she disguised her real feelings to the mushi masters that saw her only as a ticket to further knowledge.]

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[Link nods slowly. Regain his lost time. Go back to where and when and who he was supposed to be. That was part of it anyway. The other part though, that's always been more important to him. They'd made a mistake, a big one, in trying to use the Sacred Realm against Ganondorf. By sending him back in time Zelda was asking him, just one more time, to do something that she could not. Stop their recklessness from hurting so many people. But that was hard to explain, and complicated, so after a few lackluster attempts to find the right words he just shrugs, then nods more confidently. ]

Yeah. But- well when I got back I had to go away again. Not time wise this time, like...on a horse.

[Now. How to explain Termina? No amount of thinking or remembering he's done has ever made the events there make all that much more sense, so mulling it over now would be pointless. Instead he just starts talking.]

And this town I got to was in trouble, but I only had three days, so I had to keep going back just a little bit until I figured everything out and stopped the moon from falling.

[...]

And then I've been here a whole year, and then some. So...I'm probably eleven.

[He knows that got confusing and disjointed at the end, and his antennae swivel a little with nerves. Talking so much, especially to strangers, was never very easy, but this lady was quiet and kind, so he manages a sheepish smile.]

[fourthscribe]

[She can tell there's a lot more to this that he isn't saying, details he can't quite put together, but this is enough for now. It paints enough of a picture for her to understand what this young boy has been through, and that knowledge tightens around her heart.]

[Her smile widens, sympathetic and understanding, and she places one hand on his back, her claws clacking faintly on the chitin plating.] You are very brave, to make it through all of that.

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[If he knew that she was feeling sorry for him he would regret telling her. Not because of pride or irritation, but because he doesn't want people to get upset over him. He takes what she says at face value however, and gives a single weak laugh and a faraway smile. Almost unconsciously, his right hand scratches at the back of his left.]

Courage comes easy for me.

[He may not have the tiforce anymore, and even if he did he doubts it would mean much here, but he knows who he is.]

[fourthscribe]

[A fond smile crosses Tanyuu's face, and she nods.]

It seems so. You know, I've heard many stories of people's adventures before, but none that were quite like that.

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[He rubs the back of his neck sheepishly, not sure his babbling really counted as a 'story'.]

Yeah I didn't tell it very good.

[fourthscribe]

Hm? Oh, no, I didn't mean it in that way. I've heard far worse story tellers! I meant the story itself, and what happened to you.

[She glances to the side with a far off look in her eye.] Usually problems of time like that are a lot more...contained, I suppose is the best way to say it. Certainly the victims had no control over their loops.

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

[That gets Link to look up from his lap. He peers at her quizzically for a moment, head tilting to one side.]

You've met other people who do time stuff?

[He's never met anybody who had done anything like him before. Granted, he doesn't ask or answer questions about his world versus other people's very often, so maybe he shouldn't be so surprised.]