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

[applol]

[Ryuk meanwhile is attempting to snag another pamphlet. It's not that he thought they were going to be useful, or that he really even intended to read them. It's just that there seemed to be an entire set and if there was he wanted all of them. The only downside is he already looks a good way into becoming a monster, and that makes people a little more reluctant to deal with him, never mind give him anything.

This isn't stopping him from trying though - up until some hooded little thing shuffles up and speaks up suddenly, and Ryuk swivels bit by bit to actually look at who addressed him.

Hey he knows that voice! It's a dead guy!]

Yeah, that's right.

[For his efforts, or perhaps just for existing, or maybe for being dressed like that when for all Ryuk knows it's a nice warm day out, L gets a snaggle-toothed grin.]

If you're counting new people, there's a whole lot of us over that way.

[One bony finger rises to point in the vaguest direction of what looks awfully like a pastry shop. There are indeed lots of new faces over there.]

Hey, why are you dressed like that? It's nice out!

[hearthebell]

[L was always bold to a fault, when it came to approaching risky people with questionable motives. Maybe it was part of the job and one of the things that allowed him to be lethally effective in his work, but it's just as likely that this tendency also led to his untimely death. Ryuk remembers that death; L does not, though he's aware of it courtesy of Mello filling him in.

Just because his death hasn't occurred in his home world, however, doesn't mean it hasn't left him cold with a stillness in his chest cavity in Ryslig. Being a vampire means being undead, and the cloaked and covered figure standing before Ryuk is very much deceased even though he's still walking and speaking like a living person. L has always had a way of making such things appear as odd pantomime, but it's truer now than ever.

He stares unblinking at the shinigami turned something like human, gaze snapping only briefly to the crowd he indicates before returning firmly to Ryuk.]

I've counted, and I'm sure I'll speak with them another time. As for this moment, however, I am speaking with you.

[It's his stiff, cordial way of saying that he's not going to be shaken off so easily. The pastry shop, likewise, gets little interest; L stopped being able to taste sweet things long ago.]

It's because I'm a vampire and the sun and I do not get along. Where you're from, what is it like? Are there many others who look like you, or at least share the name of your species?

[L is all too happy to turn this into twenty questions.]

[applol]

That's a lot of people to question. You doing surveys or something? Are there prizes?

[There's none of the convoluted mental gymnastics and effort needed when dealing with Ryuk; others might be a challenge to the intellect, but for all his outlandish appearance, the spindly being seems fairly average. An easy target to get information out of.

Except he's never had a good solid shot at talking to L before and he too is curious. And the obvious is always appearance. 'Vampire' huh. That would explain the paleness (and Ryuk rather approved of that particular shade of warmed over death), and he supposed all the clothing. But what would happen if exposed to sunlight?]

So would you like... burst into flames or turn to dust?

[That sure is sudden keen interest, but he's making no move whatsoever to actually find out for himself by trying to yank off those protective clothes. That was a bit more involved than he really preferred getting.]

Huh, back there? [He rubs his chin slowly, expression thoughtful. He's getting better at these human gestures!] Dusty. Boring. Full of dull uninteresting things. No, yes.

[That should cover it all!]

This place is far more interesting. Can you handle crucifixes and garlic?

[hearthebell]

Surveys? Something like that.

[It's mercifully simple, and a pretty easy and plausible explanation at that. Though L grows bored and restless fairly easily, he's found that in situations like this, when he's offered a simple solution, it's better to take it rather than weaving something more complex and exciting at the risk of catastrophic failure. More or less, he is conducting a survey, anyway; just an ongoing and highly detailed one.

At Ryuk's curiosity, the arm's length of distance that L has carefully maintained since the conversation started is probably a hair more noticeable. Though his approaches are bold, his mannerisms can be vaguely skittish, as though he is hyper-aware of the potential for others to attempt to reach out and hurt him.]

It would be very painful, and I would burn. I've always been relatively indifferent to both of those things, and that has not changed so far.

[The answers are clipped, short, to-the-point. He doesn't elaborate. He doesn't want this being to see it as a challenge or a point of intrigue; he would far prefer to move on before any temptation to snatch away his hood and umbrella does strike.]

Many new arrivals are confused. Distraught, even. You are uncommonly relaxed about this.

[applol]

[It's probably a good thing he doesn't actually try to pull any of that off and find out for himself. Possibly this odd figure knows what personal space means! But more likely there's another, more simple answer.]

Guess that's a good reason for the weird getup.

[As if gothic fetishwear wasn't weird or something, but maybe where he's from feathers bones and skulls are perfectly ordinary decorations! It's probably a good thing crosses and garlic aren't a problem. Religion wasn't huge as far as he knew but anyone could have one, and garlic was just everywhere.]

Huh yeah, I guess. It's not very scary to turn into a human, and there's lots of new interesting things to watch. Probably for you guys turning into something else is something to freak out about, and killing's some horrible thing but when you're not human to start with it doesn't matter. Don't like walking everywhere though. So far that's it.

[Shrug. Cannibalism sounded a little odd but he'd give it a go, and killing? He literally lived for that.]

[hearthebell]

[It's absolutely for the best. Even as a scrawny and frail-looking human, L wasn't the type to fold hopelessly and helplessly if he was on the receiving end of any sudden attack. Now, even though he's a vampire and much more powerful, he retains the same attitude toward personal space he did back home, only he has a lot more than some incidental martial-arts skills to back it up. He dislikes initiating violence, but putting him in a position to resort to self-defense means that all bets are off.

He quirks one of his hairless brows at the "weird getup" comment, gaze lingering on Ryuk and squinting slightly. He knows for a fact that he hasn't seen the man before, but the way the former-Shinigami looks at him makes him wonder if that's mutual.]

That name, that the other members of your species who do not look like you share? What is it? Now that you've mentioned that killing doesn't matter to you, I'm admittedly very curious.

[applol]

You don't look like the rest of your, uh 'species'.

[Ryuk pointedly looks around - at all the humans who look rather different from one another. Some round, some not, some different colors than others..]

You used to everyone being identical? Clones or something?

[He WILL get around to the other part but first things first. Did L just see the entirety of the world differently than he did? Humans didn't exactly blend in to one another like apples in a basket or something. Was there something he'd missed for his entire life?]

[hearthebell]

[L fixes Ryuk with a cold, unimpressed stare. He's always been good at affecting it, and that hasn't changed now that he's made the transition from human to undead bloodsucker.]

Don't be dense. If you're playing at it, stop now. Everyone looks different, but it's in the details. There are commonalities most humans share. Skeletons all look the same. You're wearing enough representations of them, you should know that very well.

[A cursory glance at Ryuk's clothes before his dark eyes flick back to the pale, grinning face.]

Did you forget my question already? I dislike repeating myself, but I can make an exception in this case.

[applol]

[The grin is still there, but his tone changes, less curious and more annoyed. There are many things he doesn't have to put up with, and this guy is one of many. He might not be Light's ally, but that didn't mean he was anyone else's either.]

You want answers from me, you better be nicer about it. I'm not getting anything out of this but a headache right now. You humans think everything revolves around you and what you want. It doesn't work that way.

[And he wasn't obliged to hang around either, L did not have the death note. Would he?

... Probably not. But it wasn't an impossibility.]

[hearthebell]

[L has always disliked it when others dismiss him, for his youth or his slovenly appearance or any number of other factors that work against him and clash with preconceived notions of authority. He's used to it, of course, but that makes it no less annoying. Especially now that there isn't a Watari and a screen to hide behind while he makes his hard-hitting points and observations..]

I'm not a human.

[He says so like someone who never thought of himself as such, even though a Death Note could and did kill him in the end.]

Isn't that how it works? I can't say I've ever seen evidence to suggest otherwise.