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TEST DRIVE : MAY 2016 EDITIOIN

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 MAY 20ST 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.
goldeneyeball: (are you done yet im missing my stories)

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[personal profile] goldeneyeball 2016-05-08 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[JW, who's been lounging at his shitty made-from-scrapwood stand where he's been selling his own venom for chump change, peers over the top of the newspaper and looks--up and up and up. Sheesh, what was this kid going to turn into, a giraffe? He shifts where he sits, his coils mostly hidden in a neat pile behind the wooden counter.]

Who wants t'know?
heymcfly: (a)

see what? |D

[personal profile] heymcfly 2016-05-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ A walking stick.

Did the mob hear that? By the way they run, Marty assumes no. It could have been bad if they did hear by chance, though. He wanted to give the guy a hand, not try and make the mob more angry. Not like red-hair guy was trying to do that on purpose, but still. Marty's not gonna bring it up since they're all running.

After a moment or two, when the crowd is gone, he takes a moment to eyeball the stick, before looking up to the new guy. He is new, right? ]
Do you run into angry mobs a lot, or...?

[ Running into your very own mob was kind of intimidating, and a bit of a hamper on your self esteem. But this dude here was taking it pretty easily. It was hard to imagine such a nice guy having a hard time with angry villagers and airborne weapons. ]
iamthehype: (With her seasons mislead)

[personal profile] iamthehype 2016-05-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[They may be heavily armed, but they're just a collection of vigilante wannabes. Vegeta was raised on battle and bloodshed and wouldn't have made it this far if he was bad at fighting. One human finds this out the hard way, lunging close and then nearly getting their jaw torn off for their trouble. He may not have had this form very long, but he's quickly learned how to use every ounce of strength behind it.]

[Unluckily for one saiyan-turned-wendigo, he doesn't yet know that he also has latent weaknesses. Another human strikes out with a silver knife and barely catches his shoulder-- it's not much, just a scratch, but it burns. Vegeta snarls in surprise and disbelief and rips their arm open in return.]

[He miiight be in over his head. But like hell he's about to back down.]
patchedupjob: (hahaha...ha...h..a...)

Ken Kaneki | Tokyo Ghoul

[personal profile] patchedupjob 2016-05-08 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
1.

[There are a lot of things he doesn't understand. One minute he had been fighting against falling asleep behind the café he now works at, struggling against the last rays of warmth of the setting sun and a still healing fractured arm thanks to yet another rough training session with Touka and Yomo-san. (He still thinks she sometimes just enjoys using it as an excuse to beat him up as a way for her to vent, but that's okay, too. It's good even, because Touka is a really good person deep down no matter what she says and Ken heals really fast now. He also should probably stop thinking like that because it makes him sound like some denying abuse victim rather than a rational person who is honestly fine and...)

...well.

He smiles at himself because he can finally think that way again. Becoming a ghoul, coming to the Antaiku, having nothing worse to worry about than getting into another friendly quarrel with Touka that will inevitably end in letting them both heal and become stronger — Those are all things that he had never even considered still possible just months ago. Things aren't alright, they probably will never really be again, but ...this isn't so bad, now that things have calmed down, either.

Which is why he is still rather out of it as he thanks the friendly human for shoving a cup of cheap vending machine tea into his hands and bringing him a blanket, pampering him in the way concerned strangers sometimes do. Without thinking Ken declines the offered sugar and reaches into his pocket to slip one of his own, custom-made 'sugar cubes' in instead. It's a good thing that his eyepatch is still in place, he thinks, just as it is nice to be treated like a human.

Reaching out to pick up some of the reading materials he has been left with, he takes a sip of his coffee and almost chokes.]



"Ah! This coffee…. It tastes so bland!"



4. A different kind of hunt (please stop trying to convert me)

"…and he will surely also spare you of the terrible fate that awaits all Fog Followers! She who poisons ears and hearts alike, you mustn't-"

[Ken smiles at the man as he tries to egde away from the devout Sun-follower. Or at least that is what they claim to be, for him they just look like a very insistent person who has been talking a lot of religious gibberish nonstop at him for over an hour now.

He tries to nod along without actually agreeing to anything, but they just keep it as a sign to keep going even as his feeble attempts to excuse himself become more and more obvious as what they are.]


No, but I now really need to go, if you could just point me to the next clothes store, my mo- sister has to be waiting by now-….

[Still no stopping or getting away. Ken smiles desperately as he listens to his stomach growl, all too aware that he is wearing an easily recognized as such skirt slung over his shoulders in lack of anything better that could be used as a coat.

Do these people not recognize the word no? ]



X. Wildcard!
[ Choose your own adventure! ]
Edited 2016-05-08 03:45 (UTC)
iamthehype: (Of the weight you pick up)

[personal profile] iamthehype 2016-05-08 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh look, an unwanted peanut gallery from a tiny brat.]

That wouldn't have the same impression. [Sure Vegeta, you throw those papers. You stick it to the man.] Get lost, twerp.

[Yeah no, he doesn't have time for babysitting. He's gotta find a way back home so he can beat the shit out of a bunch of androids.]
neetfreak: (Default)

[personal profile] neetfreak 2016-05-08 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[all those possibilities sound like they are right up Jyushimatsu's alley. pranks, surprise hugs, even borrowing things... maybe he'd find cool things to do after he was done freaking out about it.

why can't he be excited, like this girl? he's usually so happy! maybe he would be happier if he wasn't alone. he looks at his hand again, turning it over a couple times]
I guess it's a little cool. [then tilting his head at the girl] Do you like being a monster?
neetfreak: (slump)

[personal profile] neetfreak 2016-05-08 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[he lands on his ass, because he's a bit too scared for his feet to work properly. first he winds up in some strange town, and then he's alone, and now he's face to face with a real monster! ...actually, Jyushimatsu is more worried about being alone than he is scared of her. he wishes he knew where his brothers were, if they were even here]

...Thank you. [finally, it comes out softly, with Jyushi staring down at his lap. he was trying to get back home. ...but if there were other monsters in the lake, he probably wouldn't have gotten very far, huh?]
neetfreak: (pull)

[personal profile] neetfreak 2016-05-08 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[but what about... Jyushimatsu bites his lower lip as he watches the waves. they don't look safe at all, even though he is fairly athletic. it would be foolish to jump in. then again, he wasn't really known for being the wisest of their brothers.

brothers... where the heck are they? where is he?

after a few moments, he turns his head toward Jimmy and nods, expression still serious]
I was talking to some people, but they kept bringing up monsters! [that doesn't explain how he got to this place]
gopluckyourself: darwin never seen that coming. (today i evolve a arm made out of twig)

[personal profile] gopluckyourself 2016-05-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
The scream makes Beatrice wince, covering an ear with one clawed hand and waving off that apology with irritation. It's too quick, too sincere for Beatrice to be comfortable. She can be judgmental of anyone, anytime, but it's harder when it's someone so apologetic and probably spineless. She studies Lorna for a minute and sighs.

"Yeah, yeah. Calm down, will you? I'm not going to eat you."

Not yet, anyway, though Beatrice privately reserves the right to change her mind if a gun or a knife shows itself. For now it seems safe enough to give the guarantee, especially if it ensures fewer pointless excuses.
That kind of thing is almost always a result of someone local trying to avoid getting eaten. And this girl-- Beatrice squints at her again. On second glance the clothes aren't exactly right, not for this area, and the way she talks makes her sound like a relic from that burned-out husk of a farm town.

"...you aren't from Rota, are you?"
braidtrain: (21)

[personal profile] braidtrain 2016-05-08 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Well clearly, once he's done freaking out about it, she should join him and they should go prank some people! Mabel nods though, spreading out both of her wings.]

Yeah! It's really fun! I was just your average pre-teen girl before, but now I've got feathers and wings, and I can fly! I can turn into a bird too!

[Which she demonstrates immediately, the girl before disappearing with a gala cockatoo sitting on the ground in her place. She lifts one of her little feet and spreads her toes some, crest raising off her head.]

Look how cute I am!
awesmazings: (☼ just like a child again)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2016-05-08 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, uh- my name's Jimmy, Jimmy Two-Shoes!

[Jimmy grins down at JW, even though he's offering him a scowl in return.]

Nice to meet'cha, sir!
awesmazings: (☼ wrapped up in my heart)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2016-05-08 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah! It's weird, huh? I mean...people are acting like that's all strange and stuff...but there's lots of monsters back home.

[Jimmy's own expression is serious, but marginally less so. He looks more confused than anything.]

It's weirder seein' other people like...well, us, I think.
neetfreak: (steal)

[personal profile] neetfreak 2016-05-08 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Waaaah! [she did it! she turned into a bird! Jyushimatsu flails his arms, stuck in between weirded out and awestruck. he wonders what else he can do] A bird, a bird! You are super cute!
goldeneyeball: (yeah yeah)

[personal profile] goldeneyeball 2016-05-08 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Jimmy is awarded with a slow blink. JW darts his forked tongue out to lick his thumb and turn the page of his paper.]

Is that right? Well. I haven't seen any Satans today. So are you buyin' or what?
neetfreak: (squeeze play)

[personal profile] neetfreak 2016-05-08 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[eh? this kid had to deal with monsters near his home? Jyushimatsu wonders where he comes from!]

There aren't any monsters where I live! [sometimes his brothers could be monsters, if he was being honest about that] How do you handle it?
slavedbythebell: (Oh shit boy he die)

[personal profile] slavedbythebell 2016-05-08 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to eat you.

Funny, how that promise brokers absolutely no reassurance whatsoever. If anything, it makes Lorna even more nervous, as evident by the way she fidgets with her skirts, smoothing out the front of her apron with quick, anxious moments.

"I - no, I'm not from this world at all, I'm afraid."

She glances nervously over her shoulder, unable to help but check for any other monsters (people?) creatures that might be lurking somewhere in the dark.

"Were I, perhaps I mightn't be as lost as I am."
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[personal profile] braidtrain 2016-05-08 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[There's even a believable peep from her! Giggling, she puts her foot back down, gesturing at him with her wing.]

Right? And lots of other monsters can do this kinda thing too. Werewolves and bears can turn into dogs and...bears. Manticores can turn into cats. I think even wendigos can turn into little deer. But even ones that can't turn into animals can do cool things. Faeries can make faerie rings that you can teleport through! And nymphs can make plants grow and bloom and that's always so cool to watch!

[This girl is a big advocate of how awesome monsters are. As long as you're ignoring the whole cannibal thing it's pretty sweet!]
gopluckyourself: Put head in toaster. No. (I got too excited for toast.)

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[personal profile] gopluckyourself 2016-05-08 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not like Beatrice is expecting to find anyone she knows in this next wave of new arrivals, but she loves watching the locals awkwardly navigate the old monsters and suck up to the new ones. It doesn't entirely make up for the hunters and general air of fear around the cities, but every bit helps. And the crowd around Poe provides an excellent opportunity for people watching. Look at all of them! So desperate and yet so incredibly unhelpful. You'd think by now they'd understand that the pamphlets were almost all going to end up in the trash.

When the locals around him move on the find their next target Beatrice ambles over, her parasol clutched tightly in one hand. Her curiosity's piqued, and if she's going to be helpful ("helpful") she needs to keep the sun off of her sizable wings. His question about droids is lost on her-- what even is that? Some kind of pet? A dog? But she's spent enough time around people who traveled in space to know what to say to someone who knows enough to ask what planet he's on.
]

They'd just tell you the name of the peninsula you're on. But whatever planet this is it's not one with a... [She snaps her fingers, trying to recall the exact word.] --spaceport. You can't fly out of here.
awesmazings: (☼ without fear)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2016-05-08 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, dang. That's disappointing.

...what's a Satan.]


Buying...? No, sorry...I don't have any money.

[Jimmy tilts his head a little when he sees JW's tongue, stepping a bit closer to the counter.]

...what are you selling?
awesmazings: (☼ is time ☼)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2016-05-08 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Really? None at all?

[Jimmy's brows furrow just a little as he shifts his weight from one foot to the other.]

Well gee...I mean, my best friend is a monster! So's his dad...and pretty much everybody else, so...it's really not that big of a deal.

[Jimmy's smile fades juuust a little, then, because he can tell that Jyushimatsu's...pretty freaked out right now.]

So it's different where you're from?
goldeneyeball: (terrible terrible terrible)

[personal profile] goldeneyeball 2016-05-08 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[No money? NO MONEY!? FEH. Worthless noodle boy! A sour fown crosses JW's face, stretching a bit further back than it would have on a human face. The boy's question kept his attention though. Maybe he just didn't have any cash ON him. Maybe he had some at home.]

Venom. Grade A quality. Great for friends, better for enemies, but what you do with it is your business. Maybe you're sick of this old world and wanna shuffle on off.

[He folds his paper and takes up up a tiny glass vial with something translucent and green inside between his thin scaly fingers.]
slavedbythebell: (So much pearl clutching)

[personal profile] slavedbythebell 2016-05-08 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
It's not the first time Lorna has heard something strange within these woods - unintelligible whispers, disembodied laughter, the sound of footfalls with no identifiable source. It is, however, the first time Lorna has ever heard something call out her name from deep within the dark, and the sound (quiet though it is) startles her so badly that she nearly trips over her own two feet.

"H-Hello?" Her voice is tremulous as she calls out, her wide eyes darting wildly about as she turns in a half-circle, looking all around herself. "Hello? Is someone there?"

She pauses, worrying her lip between her teeth before deciding to muster up all the courage she can in order to force some firmness into her tone.

"I-it isn't right to frighten young ladies this way."

Nailed it.
bioalchemic: (Just what you leave in your wake)

SLAMS INTO

[personal profile] bioalchemic 2016-05-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[It's been more than a month now, here in monster hell, and Russell no longer looks as human as he used to. Red beryl claws and long ears are nothing compared to what's happened to his skin, turned to rocky pyrite and catching the light on crystalline surfaces. He's been trying to lay low, but it's been hard when you're kinda... sparkly.]

[The one cold comfort of this place is that he came here alone. Yes, he misses home, misses the only family he has left, but he wouldn't ever want Fletcher here. Because that would mean he would go through this horrific experience too, and that he'd be in constant danger from humans and monsters alike. It helps to know his brother is safe at home--]

[--oh no. Oh no.]

[For fuck's sake, Ryslig really does just exist to make his life worse. He wants to run to him, make sure he's okay, keep anyone from dragging him into anything dangerous. But how is he supposed to approach Fletcher when he looks like this?]

[Russell moves towards him, stops, and then starts again. He can only hope that he doesn't freak out at the sight of him. Which is unlikely, but here goes nothing.]


Fletcher!

[personal profile] bionomics 2016-05-08 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Is it possible for a teenager to have a heart attack? Anything is possible when there's a shinigami smiling at you with entirely too many teeth. He doesn't quite yelp but the sharp intake of breath and the step back when he gets a good look at Ryuk are proof enough that he was Not Prepared for this. ]

H... he's kind of tall and has short blonde hair...

[ Is it rude to ask what someone is? It's probably definitely rude. ]
happysweets: (pic#9226730)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-08 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe Rem is somewhere around there, then...maybe she beat you to the punch?

[ L-look, she only kills criminals! ...And people who get in the way of Kira's justice, of course, but, still! ]

E-even if I am especially different, still! A special act for the full moon might go really badly, I can't imagine too many people would be so happy to see a werewolf perform a dance...hopefully if I turn into something, I'll still be cute...