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

[chosenofthunder]

[A quiet kid, he can tell. Though based off how that name sounds..]

Reira's your first name?

[Hey sometimes you gotta be sure.]

And you probably don't know any more than I do of what the heck I'm supposed to be... but what are you exactly?

[soft_focus]

[Well, there's a shrug at least.] ...You look like a dragon but...

...Your wings are too small, so... [So he's stuck.

Regardless though.]

I'm a wendigo.

[chosenofthunder]

[Touya laughs a bit at that.]

Yeah, I think I look a lot like a dragon I know from back home too! I'd show you a picture on my pokedex, but everything in my bag is gone somehow...

But oh well, maybe my wings will get big enough to fly like he does then!

[Too bad because they won't, but Touya doesn't know that.]

And what's a wendigo...? Haven't heard of it.

[soft_focus]

[Somehow? Well.] ...That's probably from when you got here...

...I didn't have my bear either. [A true shame.

For the other question, he just points to himself though. Which isn't the best idea since the wings don't exactly make for a 'typical' wendigo.]

[chosenofthunder]

Ha. Right. That was probably a stupid question, considering how old you seem to be...

[blurspot]

[Now look here pal-] ....7.

[There is a frown now.] Why would it be stupid because of that.. ..?

[WORD YOUR ANSWER WISELY.]

[chosenofthunder]

[Okay maybe he's starting to really feel that paralyzing stare a bit now.]

Well I can't expect you to have all the answers right? There has to be other ways to get really detailed info around here I'm sure.

[He really does mean well with that, he does. So no offense intended.]

[soft_focus]

[POOR CHOICE.]

...I gave you the answer though. ...being 7 doesn't mean I'm wrong.

[chosenofthunder]

[Okay back up, back up. Slow down there little wendigo.]

Woah wait... that not what I'm saying! I can see that you're a 'wendigo', but that doesn't tell me anything else about what it is other than that you vaguely remind me of my Sawsbuck from back home.

[blurspot]

[...........] ...That's why you ask for more then. [This is totally your fault ok, totally.

...Uh.] ...Is that a 'deer'..?

[chosenofthunder]

[What's a deer?]

Uh.... maybe? We only have Pokemon back where I come from.

[blurspot]

[Staaaaaaaaaaare.]

...I've never heard of those.

...Are they like duel monsters.. ..? [....N....o?]

[chosenofthunder]

[Touya's stare back is just as blank. Laughably blank.]

I don't think so....? What are duel monsters?

[blurspot]

[There's some shuffling as he digs into his pocket...

Annnnd fans out a deck of cards for Touya to look at.

...Well. In his defense there can be seen a resemblance in some ways, here.]

[chosenofthunder]

[Curiously he does indeed examine the cards, specifically the monster cards.]

So it's a card game you play from where you come from!

[Touya ponders over his words to try and figure out how best to answer.]

Well you think of it this way... Pokemon are living and breathing monsters with magical powers. They're everywhere in my world, no matter where you go.

Trainers like me catch a team of them and battle other trainers or wild Pokemon. That's how we have fun and make friends.

[So like dueling?]

[soft_focus]

[Like....Dueling without cards???]

...If they're real and... ...not like we are, why are they still called 'monsters'..?

[He has a point, considering the very definition of a 'monster'.]

[chosenofthunder]

.........

[Uh... give Touya moment to think about that because he totally wasn't expecting that sort of question.

The natives here are scared of the monsters they become for good reason.]

Saying that Pokemon stands for "Pocket Monsters" doesn't really help does it?

[soft_focus]

[........

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...So it was to sound 'cool'...

[chosenofthunder]

I don't know. Maybe...

But if it is then that's just how we do things.

[Pokemon can still be dangerous, but overall they don't really fit the formal definition of a 'monster' do they? This is why you don't question that world's logic, it gets weird and nonsensical over time.]

[blurspot]

[That's just more confusing. Reira puts his cards away, staring at the other.]

...But why?

[chosenofthunder]

[Just because he's the champion of his region doesn't make him a professor on the subject.]

I'm not an expert, so I don't know. I'm just like any other person that left home to start their journey as a Pokemon trainer.

[Consider it a ingrained tradition, or a lifestyle. Touya may be twice as old as Reira, but that's still a small amount of life experience.]

[soft_focus]

[????

?????] ...A journey?