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

[boldlybackwards]

[He shakes his head immediately—it's willful denial, no matter how serious her tone or the expression on her face.]

[It's either cling to the denial, or risk letting his terror win out over his rational senses. There is no way to run screaming to safety when it's a danger that supposedly comes from within and without.]

I can't accept that.

[No more than he can accept that the one thing he doesn't want to do—die—wouldn't even save him from becoming... well, like her.]

[pastlanternlight]

[Her expression remains sympathetic, but hardens a shade. She knows how hard it is to accept the reality of becoming something else, but she's had to do it several times over here. Making it harder on himself isn't something she thinks will help anyone.]

You're not the first to say that. But unless someone finds a cure before the end of the month, you're not going to have much of a choice.

[She's pretty sure at this point he's recognised that - the way he said that sounded more like determination than anything - but maybe he can find his way to the ones trying to find a cure. It'd be something.]

[boldlybackwards]

[Cain exhales. He's been too-lucky before, but always on terms and turf he recognized. Even if he's not about to give up and cheerfully start running around the woods calling himself a "monster," he can't deny what she's saying.]

[He rubs the bridge of his nose as he tries to gather himself and resist curling fetal at the root of the biggest nearby tree.]

Point taken, but I'm holding out that hope as long as I can.

[He pushes a strained smile to his lips. More strained than it shows.]

Naive of me, I know, but I'll take what I can get.

[pastlanternlight]

[She returns a smile just as strained, but a little more obvious. It's probably not hard to tell this isn't the first time she's exchanged almost these exact words with someone.]

Yeah, I get you. I'm pretty sure all of us hold out hope for a while that things'll be different this time around.

It was probably easier for me to start with because I wasn't human even before I came here, but this place ended up turning me into pretty much the complete opposite of what I was anyway. So I think I'm starting to understand how humans feel about it, too.

[Humans seem to treasure their idea of humanity, so losing that must be just as hard a hit as her losing her fire and everything associated with it.]