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MARCH TEST DRIVE MEME

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 MARCH 25th 12:01AM EST.
There is an Enable Me / App this Plz to see what some people are offering or would love to play.
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, and already SOME 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."

Then there's the people who aren't happy to see you at all. Glares and silent, judging stares if you're lucky. Torches and pitchforks attempting to drive you out of the town if you're not. You may need a friend to help you.

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.

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[NO WHY

She just about drops him when he says that, quickly collecting him back into her hold; but her face has gone bright red again.
Maybe she'll get used to this, someday.......]

W-well - just --
Next time, think about exploring closer to the city, okay?

[So he!! Doesn't get lost!! And she doesn't have to save his stupid ass a second time!!
There is only so much schmaltzy, genuine, sweetness her little heart can take!!!]

[Okay, Osomatsu has a point, he guesses. Shocking.]

Well, I feel like what you want might come into play as well, but who am I to question fate?

Yes, they are horses. The only other thing I know about them is that they're aquatic. Aquatic horses.

[But not...seahorses. He thinks. He's pretty sure, anyway.]

I will think about it, do not worry.

[Thinking is not the same as doing, Kara. Also please don't drop him Mahiru, he's not sure he could get back up if you did.]

But I will not be able to stay away from the forest forever. It's too interesting.

At least wait until your first round of changes in that case, stupid...

[HUFF. ... But her blush is already dying down, at least.

And on the horizon, a towering Japanese style castle can be seen - two separate buildings, one low to the ground and expansive, the other tall and foreboding, both surrounded by high, safe walls.

Once they cross through the castle's gates, she puts him on his feet, and waves for him to follow.]

... I stay in the palace. The rest of my friends prefer the keep.

[She waves toward the shorter building, and then the taller one, respectively.
The palace has the distinct sound of animals coming from it, too; and a small, white cat can be seen in one of the windows.]

[Well, he was going to make a comment about Choromatsu being an aquatic horse, but that first comment about what you want coming in to play takes first priority.]

Do you think I wanted to be a sparkly leech? [Osomatsu stops in his tracks, and gives his brother a very sour look.]

If what we wanted came into play, I would've been a big, powerful Oni! One that had magic that could turn guys into gold and make girls go crazy about me! I'd make a kingdom out of money and have servants to bring me gourmet food and magazines, and everyone would refer to me only as "Osomatsu-sama"!

They'd be too scared of my awesome powers to stand up to me, and I'd practically be invincible! [That would be... very scary. Don't let Osomatsu get magical powers.

He clears his throat then, and places his hands on his hips.]

But instead, I'm just a dinky little vampire without any cool powers or anything, and you're just a dumb wolf. That's how life is sometimes.

Edited 2016-03-14 06:18 (UTC)

[It's actually really impressive, and at first he can hardly believe that this was actually where Mahiru lived. No, where he was going to live! It also takes him a moment to regain his footing once she puts him down, but soon enough he's following her again, his gaze tracking the movement of her hand as they head towards the castle.]

A palace...how did you manage to find such a place to stay?

[Gee Osomatsu, he didn't know you felt so strongly about this! Karamatsu nearly runs into him when he stops short, leaning back heavily on his heels before regaining his balance.]

Somehow, I feel as if you have the more preferable form between us, Brother.

[At least Osomatsu doesn't have to eat people, but instead drinks blood. Not favorable, but not quite as unnerving as cannibalism.

His bushy black tail flicks a little, as do his ears as he lifts a paw to rub one of his burly forearms.]

You're closer to a human now, anyway.

Well... It belongs to my friend. He's the Super High School Level Yakuza, so really, this kind of thing is only fitting...
But surprisingly, he actually worked for it.

[Is that a jab toward Kuzuryuu? Probably.]

There's this horse demon called Tikbalang that you can request things from, and if you have enough of his coins, he'll give you a quest to get whatever you asked for.
Where the coins come from, I don't know.

[She steps onto the porch of the palace, and slides the door open as gently as she can; holding it open for him as he follows behind her.]

[ In those few weeks that Minamimoto had known just who the Composer was, he had become an obsession that was all-consuming. Or, rather, it put a face to the obstacles that kept him from taking the role he so desired for himself. He knows that he, not this overgrown house cat, should be the Composer that Shibuya deserves.

And he'd been so close.

When he gets a shot at his foe, he thinks he'll make it slow. It'll be as brutal and humiliating as a getting crunched without even the reprieve of erasure. His yellow-eyed gaze is intensely predatory now, a reflection of the lion he once had been and just how increasingly unstable his Taboo machinations had made him. ]

Better than being caught with my function de-Composed. [ He quirks his eyebrows, realizing with great satisfaction that he wasn't the only one suffering a slight against him. ] I can always integrate with respect to you in my plans, but Shibuya...

Edited (Late night tags make for embarrassing grammar mistakes. ) 2016-03-14 13:00 (UTC)

[Instead of agreeing with Karamatsu and admitting that he does indeed have the better form, he chooses to ignore Karamatsu's correct statements and he starts moving again with his back hunched, looking extremely depressed.]

Ahh... I want to be an Oni. I want to have people cower before me and gimme everything I want.....

[He'd shed a tear right now if he were any more upset.]

[ even if hanbei weren't inclined to chat with new arrivals, it would be hard to ignore anyone quite so soft-spoken. his smile hides his sharp teeth, and his gloves do his claws, but the antlers, tail and scales are all on display for him. ]

"Souza Samonji"... [ as he sounds it out, he recalls just why that name sounded so familiar to him. ah, right– he must be just like the others. ] Of the latter, yes.

However, I couldn't tell you whether or not they were on the peninsula. It would be most efficient to use the network for that.

Yeah! Definitely! Probably when I'm looking a bit better.

[Judai grimaces suddenly and goes to spit in his hand. The force gets the last teeth out.]

Pfheels weid.

[Now the teeth can be cleared up. They're all gone, although new kitten fangs are already trying to slip out of his gums.]

Edited (html hissing) 2016-03-14 08:45 (UTC)

[Haruka stops and turns his head to face the stranger. The steely blue in his eyes extends to the blue skin of his face, set in a cool, emotionless glance.

Looks like another wave of arrivals. Either this new person was actually taking it pretty well like some of the other well-traveled people here, or simply didn't know he was getting into.]

It won't be the same.

[Whatever spirits dwell in his small fishing town were far more benevolent that the gods here, for one. He can't imagine a place worse.]

[A man with blue skin and dark leaves in place of his hair turns to the source of the question. The question about fish is usually Haruka's field of expertise, but alongside familiar fish, there are some that he's never seen before.

The stranger should be concerned about other matters, and as should Haruka, but fish. Important stuff.]

You'd have to skin the fish.

[Though Haruka has yet to encounter any actual bear trout, that ocean is huge and intimidating, and he unfortunately transformed into something not made for swimming.]

But it'd probably taste like meat.

[Ruri ponders, that seems to be a loaded question. A lot of people come from an Earth, just not HER Earth, so she has to think about it.]

"I do not think this is the Earth that I come from, or the one you come from. There is a lot of math in figuring that out that I'm not equipped to handle here, but for now it is called the Ryslig Peninsula. No one has found a way off the Peninsula to check the rest of the planet. As for those, not exactly."

[She ponders again, this other girl doesn't look too bright, and may not grasp the things like mutagens and such, probably believes in magic or something, so Ruri thinks on how to put it.]

"Generally speaking something happens to people that are pulled here and they start to change. I lost my physical form, others take on animalistic features, and others actually reach a point of function without any cardiac function. The pamphlets are basically a warning and hope to prepare you for it with as little damage to the area around you as possible."

im not sure what a treadmill is but if you describe it to me i should be able to point you
theres some big shops around here, especially in bavan, so id start there just as a general thing

alternately you can save up these weird coins we get sometimes and pay the horse guy at the end of the month to buy one from home
at least i think you could, i brought a tree with a house in it here from my world so i dont see why it wouldnt work for something smaller
just watch you dont mess up any quest he gives you or youll get the wrong thing

Oh, that's quite fine. I merely wished to see where things stood here.

[they may (to his disgust) worship other gods here as a worst case scenario, but that didn't matter to Tzekel-Kan. the structure was what was important, the trappings and tools potentially available to him in the future. he needed to know what he was dealing with.]

[She's not exactly trying to listen in on the comment, but with Meenah perched on the lamppost next to that bench, long harpy wings and feathered hair clashing with grey skin, finned ears and orange horns, it's hard not to. And that's a damn refreshing opinion to hear from a new person when most of the time she sees them all freaking out about the whole eating humans thing. Gross, yeah, but to live you have to steal, and that includes stealing time and life from others if you have to.

Intrigued enough to step in at this point, she lets herself slip from the lamppost's top, long bird legs clinging to it and letting her hang upside down, her braids trailing all the way to the ground. Slung along her back is an eye-catching golden trident that she holds onto lightly as she speaks, flashing a smirk filled with sharklike teeth.]

Grotto say, buoy, that ain't the ushoal response people have to this clusterfuck.

[ In the middle of his nightly wanderings, Kid hears the woman's cut-off shriek and bolts towards it. Not for the first time he wonders why he bothers: why head to the source when it will inevitably be some monster or other feeding on a corpse? By the way the scream had ended he already knows that it's too late.

Dressed in form-fitting black with a cape and cowl to obscure most defining features (the slender white bones protruding from his elbows, shoulders, and spinal column can't be hidden), the thief ignores the other half of his mind whispering "No no no no" and leans over the edge of a roof to peer into the alley. His excellent night sight makes good use of the pre-dawn twilight, painting the scene in dark grey and pale yellow monochrome. Though he's performed a similar ritual himself months past, he still sucks in a sharp breath.

Murderer, he hisses. No, that word is too good for them. 'Butcher', yes. That's better. No glowing blue hands or trails of dark smoke at their feet? Not a follower of that god.

Unable to help himself, he takes a seat on the ledge and calls down to them. ]

If you have any respect for the life you just took, you will clean up the body, sir.

[ His voice is cold and hard. At least Kid had buried his man. ]

[Regardless, she's glad to have been asked instead of just treated like a lap specimen -- after all, who asks the rats if they want to be handled? She's touched them herself, mostly when they first appeared, but somebody else touching them (romantic connection or not) is strange.]

Ah. It's mostly instinctual. I can regulate it, if I wish, but. Out of water, the only thing that results in is me being short of breath.

[ Kaito would like to say that he's gotten over his fear of fish thanks to the mer population. However, that would be a lie. As much as he can tolerate certain people and their changes, anything with fins and those flat, staring eyes threatens to send him running for the hills. Fish are the worst kind of creature ever placed on this earth and the magician would like a word with evolution about it.

Hearing rough voices calling out ("Over here!" "Got one!"), Kaito strays from his original path home. Good news rarely followed hearing something like that. The hunch is vindicated as he comes across the hunters surrounding someone on the ground. He can't see them clearly just yet. All he can see is the group, the dark shape of a gun barrel, and Kaito leaps in before he can second-guess himself. ]

Hey! [ he yells, flinging his hand forward. A compressed ball of wind blasts aside one person so they're sent tumbling head over heels. Attention is now on him. ] Pick on someone who can actually fight back, why don't you? Cowards!

Fiora recoils at the other woman's outburst, the slightest inklings of hurt on her face, but that was quickly replaced with frustration as she balled her hands into fists.

"You're one to talk about murderers! I... argh!" She clearly did not have the upper hand here when it came to arguing. Actions spoke louder, anyway, and a whole bunch of people were about to die if she didn't do something. Without another word, she turned and started towards the men in the water. She was going to get them out, as many as she could. You're going to have to work for your feast, Justine.

[When he lost his teeth, he did it all at once. One at a time looks to be like such a chore.]

Is that the last one? Will you be okay?

[Since Light was on the bad end of the violent option, peaceful would be nice. In a physical alteration, he really stands little chance, though he's not a violent person by nature. He uses his brain, his planning skills, his acting, and all manner of other skills before resorting to violence.

Not to say he hasn't thrown the occasional punch. L had an amazing skill of getting under someone's skin.

A hand comes up to his neck, fingers long, something much more human than those that had been around his neck. For now.

Something had changed his mind. The fact it was a case of mistaken identity wasn't likely. Was someone else from the investigation team also here? Someone who might have called him off? Or, had he acted preemptively and realized his mistake? As he had thought before, most of those after him wanted proof, not just his death. Who was this other ...thing working with? Only one other person was so sure of his identity as Kira other than Misa and Ryuk.

Was this another of L's employees?

As close as you should keep your friends, it was important to keep your enemies closer. He and L had been the walking personification of such a trope.

The first step was to not show disgust at his form. That was easy enough to do. It was indeed horrific, but it wasn't disgusting. Fear was fine. Probably, fear was preferred. It wouldn't take much acting for that emotion, as his heart continued to beat a bit too heavily in his chest.]

If you're no longer interested in violence, I would at least be a little more relieved. But I do have one question. Is Kira also known here? I hadn't heard the name since waking up.

[How good was his hearing? Would he notice if Light followed? He didn't have a lot of information to work with.]

Of course this isn't a normal forest. We're in another dimension full of dangerous monsters! I'm really comfortable here to be honest, makes me feel right at home!

_{[Or he would even more so if he had all his omnipotency too. As of right now, he's got.... none.]}

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