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

[vigilia]

Oh ... Light knows that voice. It's been years since he's heard it, of course, years since he himself saw to it that it was silenced, but hearing the syllables of his own name spoken by that voice crawl into his ears now, it feels like it was only just yesterday. That voice is exactly the same as he remembers it, and Light has to repress a full-body shudder at hearing it. No, he thinks, this is impossible!

He knows exactly what he'll see what he turns and looks up to the direction from which that voice emanates; it's not a surprise, not really, but all the same, Light can't help the widening of his eyes, the dropping open of his jaw, the speeding beat of his heart. L ... you're dead. A wave of fresh fury washes over him; how did the detective manage to fake his death? Did he fake it? No - Light himself had watched the other man breath his last. It was no hoax; he was certain of that. L was dead.

Now, though ... he's not. And that's a problem Light will have to deal with in due time. A plan will have to be made, and it will take time. But Light killed him once already. He's certain he can do it again, if it becomes necessary.

For now, though, Light slips right back into the role of friend, colleague, innocent suspect, as easily as if he never left it behind. He exhales an audible breath, allows his head to drop and a relieved smile to fix its way over his features.

"Ryuzaki," he says, hushed, awed, "it's good to see you."

[hearthebell]

Up closer, L can tell that years have passed since the last time he saw Light. There is less of a boy about him and more of a man, with broader shoulders, added height, and a face that is beginning to resemble his father's in ways. Though L is still older, one wouldn't guess it, to see the two of them standing side by side, spindly and shabby as ever in the shadow of one who has grown to a position of power and respect. Light has never been content to merely play such parts, aspiring to look them as well, and L has never seen him disappoint.

Hell, he managed to have a kind of indignant grace about him when he was being held in confinement.

L cants his head, watching the young man's reactions closely. If his heart wasn't a small and clever bit of clockwork held in a pouch outside his body, it would be beating faster, hammering away, warning him to draw back while urging him closer to the flame. It would be matching Light's, in other words, which L can hear clear as day now that his senses are sharpened and attuned to the blood singing through mortal veins.

"It's not Ryuzaki here," L replies softly, dark, unblinking eyes remaining fixed on Light's features. "It's Linden Tailor. You should know that. I wouldn't want you to compromise the identity I've established since my own arrival."

His eyes narrow slightly.

"L-I-N-D-E-N, like the tree. T-A-I-L-O-R, like one who makes and adjusts clothing."

[vigilia]

"Of course," Light says, nodding to acknowledge that he understands what he's been told. But he recognizes that name as well - too close to the name of Lind L. Tailor L first publicly challenged him with years ago, a name Light wrote in large scrawling letters on a page of his Death Note and watched as the man pretending to be L on the TV screen in front of him clutched at his chest and slumped over on the desk, dead in a matter of seconds by Light's own hand. "Linden," he repeats, "it's good to see you again. I didn't think I would."

Because you're dead, he thinks, and no one comes back from that.

"I guess I should ask you to use my alias here too." Light knows he's in no danger of being discovered by Kira here, but he has to keep up the appearance of innocence, and part of that involves caution against the ways Kira works. "You remember it?"

[hearthebell]

In spite of the fact that L has no shortage of false names in his arsenal, he's fairly deliberate about which ones he chooses. It's no accident that the one he used to call out Kira first is the one he opted to use in Ryslig, because a significant part of him always believed in the possibility of Light eventually showing up.

Seemingly, he wasn't wrong to.

He nods stiffly. "Good... yes, I think that word is an appropriate one, under the circumstances. It's not good that either of us are here, of course, but... there is worse company to keep if it's inevitable."

And it IS inevitable.

"I remember, but as ever, I will simply call you Light. But I have to ask... why didn't you think you'd see me again? That's an odd thing to say. You speak as though something happened to me," L says.

Let's see what you remember, or at least, what you want me to think you remember.