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

[planmade]

[Isn't that quaint. That sort of unpredictability is just what can be expected from beings that consider themselves deities - if in fact they have any real influence over who becomes what at all. Throw in some similarities, make people think they have some idea of what's going on, then pull the rug out from underneath them. Sounds about right.]

A shade, huh? Is that what you wanted to be? The proverbial creature of darkness that vanishes into shadow at will? I guess that sounds a little like you.

[A form like that would have suited L well in the past, certainly. But is this really the form he expected or simply the one he wanted most?]

I don't think I'll take any guesses. I don't want to jinx myself, and none of the options are going to be any fun in the end.

[hearthebell]

["Quaint" is a word for it, if not one L would have chosen even ironically. He's been tried and stretched thin by the absence of logic for some of this world's processes, and the way it's worn on him shows. Part of that might be thanks to his undeath, though, and another part might well be because of the strain the Kira case was putting on him at the end.]

I didn't want to be anything, but it is what I expected.

[He says it like it sounds a lot like him and no one could possibly miss the similarities. He'd essentially have become a ghost, literally untouchable and incorporeal, and now he's relegated to the existence of a moving corpse.]

I'd say that you're being needlessly superstitious, but... since magic has been proven to exist here, and operate in all manner of absurd ways, superstition is no longer something to criticize too harshly. Maybe you're right, and expecting one monster does jinx you.

[There's a miserable edge of frustration in his tone. It's a second chance, but it's more like purgatory than heaven or hell.]

[planmade]

[With L sounding so frustrated, it's hard not to already feel somewhat defeated by this place - not that he expected to enjoy much of his time there as it was. The other man had always taken on cases with some air of certainty that he could finish them. Mello had fully expected him to be able to take out Kira one on one, and now he can only imagine how that task must have been similarly draining.

Was the quest to defeat these new gods one he was willing to take on? For the first time he finds himself wondering if victory is even possible. He's grateful for the chocolate more than ever, because he can at least find some comfort in the way it slowly melts on his tongue as he thinks.]

We're nothing if not adaptable, right? We'll adjust.

[Not just as human beings, but as detectives. If it takes Mello's presence to spur L on when he needs it most, then so be it. Of course, Mello's opinion of when it's needed and the opinions of others might not always match up.]

Do you share your meals?

[hearthebell]

[L's gaze has settled into something dull and vague, but it sharpens and focuses more at Mello's words. He wants that, and in spite of being unhappy about his circumstances, his successor is right. He's adjusted to them and is thriving in ways, even if it requires some smoke, mirrors and concessions.

Mello being here just means he doesn't have to do it alone, anymore. Because even though he's made connections, gained roommates and information and notice, he hasn't really felt like he was in any kind of company until now. Wammy's always had that effect on him, reminding him, startlingly, that he wasn't the only living person left in a world otherwise comprised of shadow plays and puppet shows.

He'd felt that with Light, too, but that's a topic for a different time.

Nodding to confirm that he shares Mello's determination, L goes on to speak somewhat reluctantly about feeding.]

To hear the others talk about it, vampires have it comparatively easy. I don't have to take lives to survive, and that's a rule. There are some that feed on energy, like faeries, and they share that privilege. A glut of monsters can't easily feed without killing the donor, though, whether it's flesh or souls that sustain them, so sharing does happen. For myself...

[He pauses.]

I recognize the efficiency behind the practice, of course, but it's not my preference. If a fairie, a demon, a vampire and a wendigo are all working together, sharing one human, you're looking at the energy being drained first. Then the soul, leaving that person a shambling shell. The vampire drains them to the point of satiety, and then the wendigo finishes what's left. It might as well be a conveyor belt, and if I can take what I need from those who will walk away, even help me later in return for not ending their lives, I see it as the preferable option.

[Also, living blood is warmer and tastes better, but he doesn't need to color this noble discourse with traces of selfishness and arrogance. A monster that doesn't have to have any part in the death of a human, after all, has no reason to feel the same guilt or shame that those sharing in communal kills likely do.]