MARCH 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 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.

Comments

[cryogenics]

Everyone. I'm not following either of them, and neither are a few people I know. We were still effected.

[He wished he was safe from that kind of thing. Maybe the mountain god would have been able to help them.]

[neversurrender]

Effected? They've controlled you before?

[His stomach churns at the thought. Late again, another chance to help his friend missed. His hands curl absently into fists.]

[cryogenics]

Yeah. It was-I'm okay.

[Nothing to worry about. He didn't want to talk about it.

Time for a subject change.]

There's more than the gods to worry about here.

[neversurrender]

[He looks like he wants to press the subject but he refrains. Steve isn't sure quite where they stand and he doesn't want to ruin what they have going right now by pushing Bucky on a topic he's not ready to speak on.]

I assume what you're talking about has something to do with this? [He holds up the pamphlet titled "How to Deal With Changes".]

[cryogenics]

[The subject change had nothing to do with Steve and everything to do with Bucky not wanting to relive what he'd done. Nothing about it had been fair and he still blamed himself.]

Yeah. It happens to everyone. We all become monsters.

[neversurrender]

[It's almost funny how casually Bucky says it. 'We all become monsters' as if it's just a matter of fact in this place. Which it is, but Steve still can't manage to wrap his head around it entirely. He rebels at the very thought of turning into something monstrous. He wonders if this is how Bruce feels.]

And yet the locals seem pretty friendly. Shouldn't they be afraid of us?

[cryogenics]

[He snorted.]

They're only nice now because they don't want you to eat them later.

[Shit. That was not the way he'd wanted to break that part of the news to Steve. Not that there was ever a good way to say 'by the way, you'll eventually have to eat people'. He sucked in a breath.]

Then later they'll chase you with a shotgun.

[neversurrender]

[He goes still, eyes darting to Bucky's as if he's expecting a punchline. It has to be a joke right?

After a period of silence he clears his throat and looks away.]

That's not funny.

[But his stomach clenches because deep down he knows Bucky isn't joking. It's just not something he can thin about right now.]

[cryogenics]

It's not supposed to be.

It's- [He took a deep breath.] It happens to each of us, in different ways. Energy, blood, meat, souls. [Maybe there were others, but he was only familiar with a few.]

[neversurrender]

There's no way to stop it? There has to be other ways to...to feed.

[And if there were wouldn't everyone already know about it? He's dismissing ideas as they come to him but he can't help but voice them in the hopes that he's wrong. That there's some loop hole Bucky hasn't told him about yet.]

[cryogenics]

[He shook his head.] If you don't eat properly for too long, you lose control.

We can eat other things, but... [But it didn't help. They would still be hungry.]

[neversurrender]

Have...you...? [The words come out slow and stilted almost before he realizes what he's asking. He can't make himself look at Bucky and he hates that, but he's afraid what he might see in his friend's face.]

[cryogenics]

[He hesitated, looking down at the ground for a second. It was a hard question to be asked, and he missed the days when he could tell someone 'no, I haven't eaten anybody' to reassure them.]

Yeah. I have. It's not easy. [He felt it was important for Steve to understand that Bucky didn't enjoy the things he had to do to survive here. He didn't enjoy hurting people.]

[neversurrender]

[The hesitation tells him all that he needs to know, but it doesn't prepare him to hear it coming from Bucky's mouth.]

I would be more worried if it was. [Something like that should never be easy. It's the sort of thing that should haunt you. And the fact that Bucky has gone that far...been taken over by instincts and urges that should have never been his own, it makes Steve feel sick. HYDRA spent decades turning Bucky into a monster and now this place is trying to finish the job.]

[cryogenics]

Me, too.

[Nothing was easy in this place. But he managed. He survived, and he did what he could to hurt as few people as possible.]

Do you- [He took a deep breath.] I have an apartment. If you wanted to get off the streets.

[neversurrender]

[The switch in topic comes as a relief. Steve thinks that it should be harder to just move on from the knowledge he's just gained, but the fact is, he doesn't know what to do with this information. Does he blame Bucky? No, he doesn't. And the only reason to draw it out longer is there is more to learn about it. But something tells Steve there isn't.]

Yeah, that would be good. [He attempts a smile.] I don't want to risk being accosted by anymore natives with pamphlets. Lead the way.

[cryogenics]

[Bucky nodded, gesturing for Steve to follow him as he led the way down the street.]

You might be accosted by animals instead. [That. Might not have come out quite like he intended it to.] I have pets. [And Buddy got excited when there were visitors. Bucky also thought the dog had been fond of Steve before.]

[neversurrender]

[Steve's expression clears and a grin breaks out across his face.]

Pets? How many are we talking here? You're not running a zoo out of your apartment are you?

[cryogenics]

Only two. A dog and a cat. Buddy gets excited when there are visitors.

[It meant more people for Buddy to love on. The dog might have slight abandonment issues, after Grant's disappearance a few months back. It was part of why Bucky tried so hard to be good to Buddy and Sazha.]

Sazha likes lying on your face when you sleep. My face. [And Steve's, when he'd been there before.]

[neversurrender]

[Pets were never something Steve could have growing up, what with his asthma and other ailments. Even after coming out of the ice Steve spends too much time on missions and Avengers business to be able to care for a pet. But he likes the idea that Bucky has them. That he's not completely alone here.]

Your own personal sleep mask. Fur-balls included.

[cryogenics]

Yeah. She likes being close.

[Both animals did. That was part of why he usually let them sleep in the bed with him.]

I found her on the streets. [Or, more accurately, Sazha had found him and wouldn't leave him alone until he took her home.]

[neversurrender]

[Steve smiles, thinking suddenly of how they had met. Bucky had happened across him being bullied by two bigger, older kids in an alley and had stepped in before Steve could get the crud beat out of him. He almost wants to mention it, but without knowing whether Bucky remembers it, he refrains.]

You always had a thing for strays.

[cryogenics]

I guess some things never change.

[He didn't remember how he met Steve. It was missing still, along with the memories of his family and his childhood, and a lot of the things from before the war. But he could remember that Steve was important to him, even more important now, and that was better than nothing.]

What's the last thing you remember, from before ending up here?