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]

That sounds pretty busy.

[Teacher, writer, detective... had Jessica been a young woman, Ryuk would be skeptical about all of that. But he supposed she must be well past middle age.. humans could probably do all that with time to spare by then!

It's almost but not quite dealing with a more cheerful wrong-gendered and old Light. She seemed like she might be as smart. What would she have done with the Death Note? What sort of scenarios could a mystery writer come up with to baffle police??]

Uh, honestly I wasn't paying attention much. I think there's a sun god.. a moon god.. and a fog god. That last one everyone blames for us being here!

[That's not quite right but the general gist of it is there. Ryuk really hadn't been paying attention, that was for other people.]

I'm not from Japan but I spent a lot of time there recently. I don't think it's much of a trick, this whole place. There's way too many people in on it, and the more people are in a plot the more things go wrong.

[He'd seen that recently too. But it had been fun right through the end.]

I think ... the thing for it is ... "paranormal" or something. Y'know. Aliens, or hocus pocus stuff. Humans don't have enough resources to make a city that big, stuff it full of other humans, and get EVERYONE singing the same tune.

[There's little airquotes with clawed fingers and everything.]

[furnidents]

[ooc: apologies, my new job took over the past few days!]

Well, I was retired but that life just didn't suit me. [Another smile.]

Sun and moon, yes, those make sense for gods. But fog? That's a new one. I'm not even sure the Greeks or the Romans had a god for fog. So that one is the one to blame for all of this? [Curioser and curioser.]

Ah, my apologies. [Can't win them all. Still, she was close.] And you are absolutely right. The more people, the more convoluted and the more things can go wrong, the sort of thing you hope for as a detective but not as a writer when you are plotting your next book.

Mm. [While she's not one for paranormal or aliens, she's learned too much in the past day to dismiss such things as easily as she once did.] I admit that there is more going on here than anything I can guess. But - I think with some hard work we might be able to sort this all out.

[How's that for optimism for you?]

Now tell me: what precisely do you mean by "everyone singing the same tune"?