graveyardsmash | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[You know why they always tell you not to rap on the glass of fishtanks? Because the fish don't like it. Having rocks tossed into their hidey-holes is much the same, particularly when one is a catfish and one has already become quite prone to being territorial and particular about their burrows. Barrels. You know.

The point is, the rock clonks him right on the head. It's not a particularly big rock and it doesn't particularly hurt but he's still not expecting it and it's that more than anything that makes him flip his everloving shit. The barrel wobbles, sloshes, and then a thin form erupts from the water with approximately none of the grace of a breaching whale.

At first he can't see anyone in the alley at all. No one to either side, no one above -- did he imagine that rock? Is he starting to have solid hallucinations? The feeling of panic the rock knocked into him starts to really ramp up into something --

And then he notices a bright spot of pink a little down and to his left and it's shoved aside by curiosity.]

What in the-- what the heck kind of junebug are you?

[A not-hallucinatory junebug, he hopes. He leans over, adjusting his glasses on his nose with one webbed hand.]

[ He moves away from the barrel, whatever stirs inside rising to the surface with no shortage of water. It drenches the fae, earning him a wet and heavy dress for his efforts. Now he smells like fish water, just perfect. ] Oh, come on! Seriously?

[ Stan's wringing out the fabric when the merman spots him, his neck cranking back beyond comfort to look up at McGills. ] When was the last you saw a june bug, fish stick? I'm a faerie. An magical being feared by even the bravest monsters! What are you supposed to be, some guppy livin' it up in a barrel?

I -- I don't live here.

[Faerie. Duh. He should have known, he's read Ford's notes. He's just been all sorts of discombobulated lately and seeing little beetle men in pink dresses isn't helping at all. Every time he turns around it's like some new thing is jumping out at him. He's overstimulated and bad at coping with change, okay? Even after all the time he's had to get used to the idea.

More than the dress or the carapace or the horns, he's looking at that minuscule but very-familiar jawline. That's normal. It's about the only part of this that is. He'll ask about that, maybe, when he's taken care of more immediate concerns.]

I'm mighty sorry about splashin' you. Y'just startled me is all.

Sure picked a lousy hiding spot then. I've seen what harpies leave on folks roofs and trust me, I wouldn't want to be sittin' in it. Even if it is watered down.

[ Now that he's assured the guy isn't trying to drown himself, at least with any dark intent going by the gills on his neck, the faerie can begin to take in his full appearance. Stan hasn't met any mermaids but from what he remembers in books they were renowned for their beauty and enchanting voices. It's almost laughable how vast the real deal differs. Though, there's something oddly familiar about him... ]

You in some sort of trouble?

JANUARY TEST DRIVE MEME

oh thank goodness fairy godgrunkle where WERE you the barn dance is tonight

you can't go in that dirty old rain barrel

well turn it into a nice pair of overalls then jeez

in a minute, i'm making you tractor out of a tin can