TEST DRIVE : MAY 2016 EDITIOIN

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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 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

[awesmazings]

Well...it would be neat to have some cool snake-guy venom...

[Not that he knows what he'd do with it.]

I don't really have anything to trade either, though...I sorta just got here!

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW's grin promptly deflates and he yanks up the newspaper again to bury his nose in it.]}

I see. Still on the menu then. Good luck with that.

_{[The only thing keeping him from taking advantage of such a wide-eyed newbie is the goofy-looking lump about halfway down the length of JW's coils.]}

[awesmazings]

...thanks!

[Jimmy.]

I guess you've been here a while then, huh?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[The naga's eyes slowly appear over the top of the newspaper again. Is this kid for real? He has to admit now he's morbidly curious.]}

Long enough.

_{[To illustrate, JW lifts the tip of his tail so that it's visible over the makeshift counter. It's a snake joke.]}

[awesmazings]

[Jimmy snickers, pushing his hands into his pockets.]

Sure looks that way!

What's your name? Orrr am I just gonna hafta call you snake-man?

[goldeneyeball]

I've been called worse.

_{[You can't be too ready to make friends in this place. He's also feeling particularly catty and wants to see just how badly this weird kid wants to know.]}

[awesmazings]

Well yeah...I guess it's not so bad, since a snake-man is kinda what you are already.

[SO...snake-man until further notice, then.]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW lifts a brow. Real points for originality there. Something occurs to him then and he decides to go on ahead and blurt it out.]}

You'll probably turn into a manticore.

[awesmazings]

A...manticore?

[Oh shoot, he hasn't seen one of those in a while.]

Why's that?

[goldeneyeball]

Because you're too nosy for your own good. Don't you know how things work around here?

[awesmazings]

Well, lesse...everybody here turns into a monster or something eventually and that's a bad thing, for some reason? Is that right?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[The snake-man's scaly brows lifted. Oh wow this kid must be FRESH out of the water.]}

Okay. Pop quiz time. What's your favorite food?

[awesmazings]

My favorite? ...uuuh...chocolate, I guess.

Why?

[goldeneyeball]

Not anymore it isn't!

[awesmazings]

[.../squint]

Iiii...I'm pretty sure it is?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[The salessnake peels his lips back to show off his fangs.]}

What do you think I eat with these? Popsicles? You're a monster, kid! I don't know what that word means where you're from, but here it means a bonafied man-eating terror of the night!

[awesmazings]

[Where Jimmy's from, there aren't really any men to eat, if that answers his question.]

Well...yeah, but...I thought snakes ate stuff like rabbits and frogs?

[goldeneyeball]

Snakes do. Monsters eat people.

[awesmazings]

[BUT YOU'RE A MONSTER...WHO IS A SNAKE...]

They have to?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW knows there are monsters who don't necessarily feed on flesh but...he can't be bothered to specify.]}

In a nutshell, yeah. So get ready.

[awesmazings]

[Yeesh.]

G-geeze, that's kinda...

[...]

...do...you have trouble with it?

[goldeneyeball]

Me? Hardly. I'm stealthy like a shadow and my bite is quick as lightning.

_{[That lump in his coils is a vacuum salesman who absolutely refused to leave JW alone.]}

[awesmazings]

[Jimmy pauses, leaning over so he can look at JW's snake half again.]

No, I mean like...do you have trouble with it personally?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW drops his chin into his hand and rolls his eyes so that he can look at something else and not look bothered. WHICH HE ISN'T.]}

Oh, everybody does at first but it's you or them.

[awesmazings]

There's gotta be something else, though! I mean, I...I couldn't...

[Kill somebody. Not now, not ever.]