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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.
versusnurture: (➵ all the words left unsaid)

quattro; i'm not sure why i didn't tag you with abigail last night i just got too excited ig

[personal profile] versusnurture 2016-05-07 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe the difference is that Abigail has never had power to lose. Maybe that's why she approaches this differently, why her goal is so rarely to outwit. But that's probably not why, in the end. It's probably something totally unrelated, like really not wanting to die.]

[Either way, the end result is this: she sees an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. She's hungry; she could not be hungry. She's alone; she could make an ally.]

[So there he is, cornered in an alley, two men closing in through the alley mouth. And then, all of a sudden, out of a door that wasn't there before (or did she come from above?), there's a girl. Pretty in a plain way, weirdly magnetic, her arms folded tight against her sides as though she's uncertain. Feeling a bit unsafe.]

[The men in the alley mouth hesitate, just for a second. And that's enough — for her to reach out, revealing a flap of skin between her arms and her sides, and snap their necks, once in each slim hand.]

[They crumple to the ground, and she glances down at them with displeasure, then back at Polnareff.]


You hit?
amotekun: (Default)

King T'Challa | MCU (Civil War spoilers possible)

[personal profile] amotekun 2016-05-07 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
ONE
[ The first thing he'd done when he arrived was find clothes. He couldn't very well go around in his Black Panther suit forever. No, he exchanged it for a tailored suit, though not of the fine quality royalty may be used to. Beggars can't be choosers, however, and he had to make do. He makes his way through the crowds, not engaging with anyone or anything, until a pamphlet is shoved into his hands. He stops, reading it, then slowly crumples it up in his fist.

Misinformation will not help him here. ]


THREE: Manticore
[ How cliché. Of course the Black Panther would become... a black panther. The claws come first, then the teeth, then his ears become pointed and dark fur covers his skin. All is somehow expected. Handled. But the hunger? He refuses to debase himself by murdering to survive. Death must be dealt for a reason.

He's gone too long now, though. Waited too far past the time when he should have fed. The madness has overtaken him, and he takes to the streets, wild, wanton, hungry. ]


FOUR
[ Now that he is the master of his needs, he focuses his time on training. Adapting to this new form, and how he can use it to fight those who would murder his kind. The king must protect his people, and he may never see Wakanda again, so for now, these monsters are his people.

He swoops down from the rooftop, large wings taking him gracefully to the ground, where he lands in front of a group of human attackers, claws bared. ]


You will not hurt them anymore.
awesmazings: (☼ from my home)

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[personal profile] awesmazings 2016-05-07 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well guess what, Osomatsu? You're currently approaching one of your fellow newcomers who seems to have pants-pockets that are just as stuffed with pamphlets, more than he honestly knows what to do with.]

Huh?

[He pivots on his heel and looks down at Oso, and then at his outstretched hands with a sympathetic grin, pulling out a paper from each of his overflowing pockets.]

Gosh, sorry...I mean, I got all these, if you want them? But no money or anything...

[And he seems glad to just give them to Oso, no questions asked. It's not like he won't be able to get more if he needs them.]
happysweets: (pic#10068736)

I'M SO GLAD, REALLY

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-07 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She can't really see him, because she hasn't been told to turn around yet, but she's going by the sound of his voice and leaning back into him, almost like a trust fall, hoping he'll wrap his arms around her. Feeling his hands on her shoulder is enough to encourage her that maybe that much will be fine, even if she shouldn't look behind her. This place is so scary, but, if he's here, she can handle it. That's how she rationalizes it to herself for now. ]

Y-yeah, I've seen a couple of them already. It's a little scary...and it's really not a joke? We're gonna turn into monsters, too? But...

[ It just doesn't make any sense. How did they even get here to begin with? And why was this happening? So many questions... ]

So...do you know how to get back? Have you been stuck here longer than I have? It can't be that much longer, I just saw you and Ryuzaki the other day...unless Misa-Misa was knocked out for longer than she thought before ending up here? Aaah, this is so confusing, it's making my head hurt...
starmark: (HUG ☆ this is my noodle he's mine)

[personal profile] starmark 2016-05-07 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got you, Polnareff.

[It's in response to the deathgrip, of course, but this time the words come less gruff, more hushed, softer around the edges. It's not irritation that drives them so much as it is the compulsion to reassure, which isn't so much because he thinks Polnareff doubts him as maybe just that this is one of those things that anyone would need to hear a few times, to get used to it.

He's never had much of a learning curve for these giant upsets in his life, though, has he? Not personally. Something happens and he needs to figure it out in a hurry. Star was no different. This isn't, either.

He can't swoop and soar very well while he's towing the chair, but it's a steady and easy flight up onto a flat, mostly-concealed rooftop where they're away from the mobs, where he can set the wheelchair down and land but still hold on to Polnareff, just in case he's not ready to be deposited back into it yet.

...And maybe also because he's personally not ready to let go yet. Not when Polnareff might disappear if he does, or so some small irrational part of his mind insists.]


Part of this form involves being able to control prey — it's adapted for catching and carrying. So holding you while I fly doesn't feel unnatural. It goes with the instincts, not against them.
aslyfox: (40)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2016-05-07 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, but that's the difficult part to explain. Not so much in terms of complexity, but in being able to acknowledge and accept it. But please, try to humor me.

[ Because it should be very clear that the ears are not fake and that his tone, while gentle and amused, is not a lying one. ]

If I told you that, as soon as you woke here, you were no longer your vessel... and that over some days, you would also succumb to a slow transformation into a creature not seen in our time... what would you say?

[ No pamphlet could ever cover the things that he or the other former tsukumogami had gone through. ]
happysweets: (pic#9226757)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-07 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wow sexist AND racist how dare he?! ]

Who eats a sandwich that's just cheese and mustard?! That's disgusting! Ugh, you're gonna make me totally gag! If you're gonna ask for a sandwich, at least ask for eggs and mayonnaise! Mustard is gross!

You're definitely complaining to the wrong person, though! I'm not a food critic, I'm just a model! Which, if anything, might be the opposite of a food critic!
nameditforhim: (ladies' man)

[personal profile] nameditforhim 2016-05-07 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's happened. It's really happened. He's actually lost his mind. Somehow, in some fit of spiraling genius, his sanity just up and hopped the bus to Schenectady, leaving him bouncing around this madhouse like a jackrabbit on a bender. Because if he didn't know any better, if his ears didn't deceive him, if that tone didn't make him straighten his spine- ]

PEGGY?

[ He's not sure if it's her being here, her looking the way she does from what he can see, or just the fact that ANY OF THIS IS HAPPENING that's crazier but he's utterly distracted by this.

For about a second.

Then he's smiling. Smiling and looking over at the hunters with the smuggest look on his face. Wouldn't you? ]


Eh, fellas? I knew this one before she had actual, physical claws. I'd skedaddle about now if you like your backside unkicked as a general preference.
happysweets: (pic#9226730)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-07 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A-ah! A snake!

[ A bright yellow and red snake with a face, but, a snake nonetheless! How scary! ...A-and it talks! ]

P-please don't eat Misa-Misa, she's just skin and bones, really! No meat whatsoever!
pundulum: (duel me friend)

iv

[personal profile] pundulum 2016-05-07 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, Osomatsu's acting like a baby, so clearly what this situation needs... is a rattle!! A naga's rattle from behind, that is. Jumping in front of a bunch of monster hunters wouldn't work out well for Yuya, but its mesmerizing sound turns them toward him, and it seems they can only stare. Or rather... as long as that tail is going, they won't be able to focus on anything else. A couple of them even drop their weapons, now lying at their feet between them and Osomatsu.

With the way the tail is shaped like a cartoon hand, it probably looks like Yuya is beckoning cutely. But he'll call out to the blubbering guy.]


C'mon! You can get away now!

[Hopefully the hypnosis didn't work on him, too... it should be easier to break since he's a monster, at least. Aren't peaceful solutions great?]
not_just_a_prank: (eager to please)

3- Take a guess. At least ryslig wendigos are 900% fluffier

[personal profile] not_just_a_prank 2016-05-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[These last few weeks, Hannah has been taking it easy, nursing her broken leg and gaining her health back. She's been mostly alone in the hospital, but the interaction with the few nurses there had brought her spirits up. She had spent days... weeks down in the mines by herself, left for dead with no one but the corpse of her sister. Being brought to Ryslig and staying at this hospital was a blessing.

Hannah would have been fine hiding away, but the Fog was coming and Hannah knew she had to go, lest she hurt anyone. So the day the fog had started to roll in, she left, hoping she could see the people who nursed her back to health again as friends, and not future meals.

The changes on Hannah had been unkind, but not entirely so. Her ears were stretching and becoming pointed but with only minimal discomfort. Her nails were bleeding, small growths having started under them to start ripping the nails out of their beds, but while it stung, the process wasn't that painful. What was painful was having her arms and legs stretch out, making her skin go pale and white. Her arms and legs were thin and boney, and Hannah wasn't oblivious to what she was changing to.

She was becoming that thing she saw with Beth, the night when they fell.

Hannah was out looking for a place to stay that morning, rubbing her arms, tracing her fingers on her tattoo when she caught sight of someone in the corner of her eye. She looks up and then she freezes like a deer in the headlights. Sure, the flowers are odd but there was no mistaking her.]


Sam? Sam? Is that you?
lampyris: (kita kita.)

[personal profile] lampyris 2016-05-07 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's a good thing that Hotaru doesn't get surprised or concerned by much. He just nods along with Kogi's explanation, expression one of mild, curious interest.

Once the question is posed to him, Hotaru tilts his head and sighs. ]


Hmmm. So, we're somehow here and different, is what you're saying. I would say that... it may not make a lot of sense, but we have seen some other strange things before, haven't we?
thehangedboy: (25 |)

[personal profile] thehangedboy 2016-05-07 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jake barely spares the webbed hand a glance. He's seen plenty of webbed hands since he showed up but he's never seen anyone he knows, anyone he's missed with such a deep and constant ache like the one with which he's missed his ka-tet.

He skids to a stop next to Eddie, his long legs fold up under him, and he sprawls with his upper body half-flopped over Eddie's back because it's about the closest he can get to a hug. He might be crying. No one can prove anything, because he's forced himself to stop by the time he's given Eddie a good-enough squeeze for his liking and sat back up again.]


H-holy shit, you are. Jesus, Eddie, I thought I'd never see you again. I thought you died.
pundulum: (crap)

[personal profile] pundulum 2016-05-07 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Welp.]

I won't, I won't! I'm not out here to hunt. I'd much rather eat something sweet, anyway!

[See, he's an innocent kid. Even if red and yellow snakes are super poisonous.]
outstandingbalance: (spinembolia clabnum)

3

[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2016-05-07 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[The question posted on the network doesn't stand out too much, but Natasha hasn't seen any answers yet and she doesn't have anything better to do. This kind of question usually comes from new arrivals. There was no reason not to respond.]

Not on me, but I might know where you could get one. What do you need it for?
happysweets: (pic#9226734)

1!

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-07 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
U-uwaah!

[ Misa leaps at the sound of the raspy voice behind her, and the pamphlets go flying around, scattering into the air. She'll have to pick those up later, but when she spins around to see who just startled her... ]

Oh! It's just you, Ryuk! You scared me! Don't sneak up on me like that!

[ As if his spindly and frightening appearance doesn't bother her in the least! If anything, she just sounds more upset that he startled her. ]

Misa-Misa isn't used to seeing you on the ground, though. Are you exercising? Did you go off to get a personal trainer during that whole time when the book was buried? Misa-Misa always thought you could use a little more muscle, and some work on your posture!

[ Rude, Misa. ]
happysweets: (pic#9226728)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-07 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! So like apples, then!

[ That seems to pacify her enough for now! ]

My friend really loves them, so I figured I'd look for her in a place where they might be growing from the trees...but I haven't had any luck so far.
nameditforhim: (piloting)

[personal profile] nameditforhim 2016-05-07 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to be rude, but a man's filing is his own business, I should think. Should someone have one and wish to know what I plan to do with his item I would, of course, provide that information. But suffice to say it's a matter of some importance.
pundulum: (cheerful)

[personal profile] pundulum 2016-05-07 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least she was easy to convince... he'll smile and nod. Apples are pretty good, after all. This isn't the place to look for them, though... and it's pretty likely that whatever pet this is, it didn't come with. Then again, maybe it did, and she just lost it. It doesn't hurt to ask.]

What kind of friend is she?
applol: (Default)

[personal profile] applol 2016-05-07 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well! Some things are exactly the way they should be at least, he'd been beginning to wonder. As pamphlets go flying in every direction, all he can do is grin at her protest.]

Ahh, didn't mean to.

[Really! He's not DELIBERATELY sneaking up on people here! It just sort of happens sometimes, especially when one is invisible. But now that he lacks that particular skill..]

Oh! Yeah, I'm all for the ground now, I lost my wings. Whatever it was that dragged us to this city, it also made me one of you.

[And the last part is a touch sour, as if he finds being human a downgrade. Maybe it is.]

I got a pulse and everything. I guess I make a pretty good looking human, huh? [No. No he really doesn't.] But what's wrong with my posture??
applol: (Default)

hey it's that guy with the notebook!

[personal profile] applol 2016-05-07 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least in spite of being stripped of his shinigami..ness... he's still recognizable. That might be partly due to his clothing, which is still precisely the same. It's a bit grim to be wearing around in Bavan, but with the sort of freaks that city's collecting, what's one more oddball?

When he hears his name of all things though, the lanky ex-shinigami swings around, yellow eyes wide. He knows that voice, and the owner of it was dead as a doornail. He knew that, because he killed Light himself.

... What he sees isn't exactly what he expects by the way his constant jagged grin, once a permanent feature, actually fades on human features to something like surprise and then ... puzzlement.]


Yeah, here I am. And so are you! That's not fair, I lose my wings and you get some?

[This is so rude!]

They look alright I guess, lemme see the other side.

[Wait no this is supposed to be a touching reunion beyond death, not an investigation as to why Light's looking more like a shinigami than the shinigami is!]
awesmazings: (☼ on the marble arch)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2016-05-07 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jimmy skids to a stop next to Jyushimatsu, panting once they're both at the water's edge. He glances from the stranger to the water and back, trying to decide what to do. Was he going to just jump in the water? It's weird enough that it isn't red like back home, but...hm.]

Hey...it's okay! I mean, I don't know what's goin' on either! But- why don't we figure it out together, yeah? We can ask around some more, see if anybody's got some more advice to give us!
slam_poetry: (mask: swinging)

Cassandra Cain | DCU

[personal profile] slam_poetry 2016-05-07 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)

ONE


[When she had arrived, she had been greeted as it seemed all were greeted: with placation by some and hatred from others. In truth, reading each and every one of the villagers made her feel nauseous; all she could see in any of them, regardless of their behavior, was fear. And while she liked being known as competent, fear was not something she wanted others to feel when they looked at her. That was why she kept to herself and spent her nights looking for others, others like her. Others who had, apparently, been cursed by this place. She needed answers; even if she was not much of a detective, she would need some clues before she could do anything about her situation. ]

TWO


[She had followed the shadowy creature into the forest and it had escaped her, much to her frustration. But somehow, somehow she had been turned around. There were voices. Paths didn't seem to go where they had once gone, even moments before. Cassandra wasn't happy, didn't enjoy being toyed with, and she wasn't going to stand for it much longer.]

If you wish to take me, come and fight. I won't play this game much longer.

THREE | HARPY


[She had wondered, since the first person here had been kind enough to explain what happened, which monster she would become. Which inhuman beast she would be. She had seen some of the others, and some of them hadn't seemed... terrible, really. It it was inevitable, she supposed, she could hope that it was at least something that she found appealing. She wasn't sure what might result, but when she found the feathers, she had to swallow an almost manic laugh. Didn't they know she was Batgirl, not one of the Robins?]

FOUR


[She had found the corpse. After all, just because she was no longer human, just because she was no longer in Gotham or Bludhaven, that didn't mean she didn't have a duty to perform, and so she'd been patrolling. And on her patrol, she had found the corps, partially eaten and starting to decay. She was glad of the last, glad that the scent didn't entice her as much as it could have because she was hoping to find the killer... not create another victim.

That was when the hunters came upon her, however, and her feathers bristled in frustration at the interruption. They stilled as she saw what they thought had happened, despite the lack of blood on her clothes or her mouth or her body, and she didn't even make an attempt to talk to them. Instead, she pushed up with powerful legs and attempted to take to the sky to flee...]

happysweets: (pic#9226730)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-05-07 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You lost your wings?! But that's...that's so terrible! It's like locking a bird in a cage, or sticking a mouse on a wheel! Whatever brought us here must be super strong if it was able to do that to you...

[ How scary, if it can tie even Ryuk down. She can't help but wonder... ]

You...haven't seen Rem around, have you?! I've been looking all over for her, but...

[ She might be lost, if the same thing happened to her! And that's no good, Rem is her friend, she can't just leave her alone..! ]

And what do you mean what's wrong with your posture?! You're always slouched over and your arms are always dangling, it's not healthy in the slightest!
outstandingbalance: (pic#6698448)

[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2016-05-07 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't seem like it would be responsible of me to have you go talk to someone if it's not going to work out—if he won't give it to you or if you shouldn't use it.

[Because honestly, god knew what Tony might do with his tools.]