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

[fairlycapable]

It does; and while getting lost is the only real consequence, this is an unfortunately popular hunting ground...especially after dark.

[What's worse than illusions? Illusions that come with man-eating monsters, probably.]

[brothersboots]

Hunting ground for what, exactly?

[Well, illusions that came with annoying Seraph that means losing one of your companions are pretty bad.]

[fairlycapable]

[Maybe it's a tie.

But wellllllllllllll...] ....Humans.

[A pointed stare-AT YOU!] Campers still come here, as well as hunters...and both are often targeted.

Someone alone, and uncertain of where they are exactly would be a greater target though.

[brothersboots]

[Maybe. She'd rather have the monsters though. At least they aren't pathetic.]

Something actually hunts the humans here? [As much as she doesn't like humans, she doesn't really condone that.

And, excuse you, Edna isn't a human. She's a 3000 year old seraph now going through an existential crisis currently. It'll get better, maybe.]

If you're implying that I'm going to let something try to attack me and eat me, you're mistaken.

[fairlycapable]

It's that or the cities; that's what happens when such a dietary change is forced on others.

[There is a wan smile at that, however.] I wouldn't expect you to let someone do that...

...but if you had power in your own world, you might find it missing now...

[brothersboots]

Dietary change.

[Keep your pity. Seriously. And she's already noticed that she's a seraph with no powers. It's lame. She wants her powers back and she wants her umbrella and her mountain and her brother, the dragon.]

I'm aware of that.

[fairlycapable]

People are brought here-and then they're turned into 'monsters', forced to feed on humans in someway...with the added insurance that putting such feeding off drives a monster into a frenzied state.

[Hey now, don't mistake this for pity-it's more skepticism at this point.]

I don't doubt that-but that makes it all the more dangerous to underestimate who might be here.

[brothersboots]

So, those humans in the city trying to give me stuff were, what? Trying to appease me so I didn't eat them?

[Edna makes a disgusted face. The thought of eating people is gross. She's never really had to eat before. She's only done it because she likes the taste of food, but people don't count as food, even for a human-disliker like her.]

I haven't lived this long by being stupid. I didn't try to come out here on purpose. I just wanted to get away from the humans.

[Shhhhh, no one tell her she is one right now.]

[fairlycapable]

Quite likely.

[And with that answer...Oh.

Ohhhhhhdear. She'll just. Stare, a little quietly-the sort of look one gets when they've said something incredibly against the obvious, something that clearly isn't true.

About...the human thing...]

[brothersboots]

Idiots.

[Just gross, gross, gross. As if Edna would lower herself to eating people! Yuck!

Hey, stop it with that stupid look! Don't make her kick you in your stupid spidery legs!]

What?

[fairlycapable]

[............................................................

ooooh try it, go on- ...don't try it you'd succeed actually.]

...There is a reason people arrive here powerless...

[Maybe Edna can figure it out. Maybe. Hopefully...]

[brothersboots]

[Do you see these boots? They'd hurt. They're weighted. And while Edna is a teeny, she has a temper that would make up for it.]

Because whomever is in charge is a big jerk who likes to see others suffer?

[Edna's not dumb but being without the same powers she's had since the day she came into existence is not something she likes.]

[fairlycapable]

[please small earth cracker do not break her shins,,,]

...Because you're human.

1/2

[brothersboots]

[Give her a moment to get over the preposterous elements of that statement.]

[brothersboots]

Funny.

[fairlycapable]

[Erp.]

I am not joking.

[brothersboots]

[Edna's about two seconds away from stomping like a little kid.]

Then you're delusional! I've never been human a day in my life.

[fairlycapable]

[ohhhhhhsweet summer child-]

...And you would be sure you aren't one, how, exactly..?

[brothersboots]

Because I'm a Seraph. Duh.

[She has always been a Seraph. Ever since she came into existence. Don't you dare insinuate otherwise!]

[fairlycapable]

[Uhhhhhh]

That doesn't answer the question. Whatever you were in your own world, that won't be the case here!

[brothersboots]

[And there's the foot stomp.]

Do you think this is some sort of sick joke? When I find out whose domain has stripped my powers, I'm going to stab them in the face repeatedly with anything sharp I can find. And if you don't stop lying, I'm going to make sure you can't do it anymore.

[fairlycapable]

I'm telling the truth, [she insists.] You weren't just stripped of your powers; everyone here is reduced to the same, human state, and then made into something else.

You're welcome to go after them if you can, but I'm not trying to trick you.