TEST DRIVE : MAY 2016 EDITIOIN

[rysligmods]

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.

Comments

[thefuckingbeam]

[The absolute last thing Eddie is expecting—although maybe he should have, because ka—is to hear Jake's voice yelling his name. He jerks, lifting his head from its pathetic rest on a patch of weeds, and wrenches open his eyes from where they're screwed shut.]

Jake? Jake, oh, thank Christ.

[He doesn't even really clock the whole antlers-hooves-and-tail bit. He's too busy flopping back down pathetically.]

Jake, I think I'm dying. Would you look at this?

[He holds up a hand, webbed fingers and all.] I'm turning into the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

[thehangedboy]

[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.

[thefuckingbeam]

[Now is when Eddie's eyes go wide and his jaw hangs open again; Jake is hugging him in the most awkward way possible, and when he cranes his head around to see why, he understands; the poor kid has antlers and ears and fuzzy little deer legs.]

...Holy shit yourself, kid. What happened to you? You're—

[He pauses.] No, no, I didn't die, I'm just fine. I mean, I have gills, but. Hell, Jake, how long have you been here?

[Long enough to have turned into half a deer and be just fine with that, apparently?]

[thehangedboy]

Uh -- almost six months now. A long time. I bet it hasn't been that long for you. I bet you probably didn't even notice I was gone.

Did you -- the last thing I remember is Blaine crashing. Do you remember that? Did you live? Is everyone else --?

[He knows enough about this place by now, and has seen enough even in his time hopping back and forth between New York and Mid-World, to know that time works funny at the best of times. For all he knows this Eddie might not even have made it to Lud yet. It occurs to him that he might have found an Eddie who didn't even remember him and god, he's glad that's not the case.]

[thefuckingbeam]

Six?

[Eddie stares, slack-jawed, up at Jake, then shakes his head.]

Hell, no, I didn't notice, you were right there with me! Not—not in some fucked-up hell-town with deer antlers and hooves and shit.

[He sits up, finally, perhaps because he's realized that he isn't actually dying, and runs a hand through his hair. He cringes; the webbing between his fingers makes it weird.] I remember that, too. It just happened. We're all fine, you, me, Roland, Suze—

[He pauses, and his stomach drops at the realization that the rest of their ka-tet isn't nearby.] Jake, where are they?

[thehangedboy]

Not here.

[There's a sick note in his voice. He's had time to come to terms with it but he knows very well the crushing realization Eddie is in the middle of having now. When he first showed up and realized he was alone it was like a punch in the gut, and even now it sometimes still comes back to ache. As a kid who'd never been homesick before, Jake had it worse than most. He had no immunity built up.]

I've been hoping for months Roland would show up. He always came for me, you know, and now...

[He waves a clawed hand hopelessly.]

But I've got you now and that's more than I ever thought I'd get.

[thefuckingbeam]

Oh.

[It hurts. It goddamn hurts, the realization that Roland isn't here. That his wife isn't here. They haven't been apart for a single day since they met, and now they've been yanked apart without a single thought. It makes him sick in the pit of his stomach, and suddenly he wants to vomit more than anything; he's starting to look a little green around the gills, pun not intended.]

Fuck. Well— [he's struggling bravely against the nausea, and he triumphs enough to sling his arm around Jake's shoulders. Jake is what's important here. He needs to focus on that, and not on the fear churning his gut.] Guess we're in this together, kid. Just you and me. Our own little ka-tet. A sub-ka-tet, if you will.