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

[pixiecopper]

[Unfortunately for Jessica, Tayler doesn't go for the bait, rather caring more for the obviously distressed lady than the water bottle spilling out onto the sidewalk.]

Mrs Fletcher, are you all right?

[She reaches for her gently because she can't quite tell if she's just panicking or if she is going to fall off the bench.]

[furnidents]

[Well, so much for that. It doesn't look like she'll be saved in the nick of time by Amos, Seth or any of the other police she's come across.]

Yes. Well, no. No - how am I supposed to accept that I've been brought to this place against my will, having no knowledge of where it is, and accept the fact that I'm either going to turn into a monster and eat people or be eaten myself?!

[Strategy is gone, all that is left is incredulousness and righteous anger.]

[pixiecopper]

[Tayler winces a little, though more in sympathy than in fear or pain at the turn of Jessica's voice.]

I know, it's a lot and it's horrible and it's really hard to get your head around. Believe me, I actually threw up when I found out. I wish I had something better tell you, I really do.

[furnidents]

But-but surely people have revolted, fought against all of this? Found some way around it all. This place cannot exist - it must be a dream, a terrible terrible dream. [Even as she says it she knows she's wrong and as much as she hopes she'll wake up on the train going to New York, she won't. This was real.

Her next words are weak, she's running out of straws to grasp at.]

Is there any way out of here? Anyone to protest all of this to?

[pixiecopper]

[With her wings folded flat down against her back, Tayler settles onto the bench beside Jessica with a deep, apologetic sigh.]

I wish there was. But since we have no control of the changes and if we try to hunger strike we lose all control of ourselves, it's hard to stage any kind of civil unrest. But we're doing what we can. We're trying to learn more about the creatures that call themselves gods who claim to have brought us here. It's hard, but it's all we can do.

[furnidents]

"Lose control of ourselves." What exactly do you mean by that? [She hates to ask and dreads the answer but she needs to know.]

Gods. And just who are these gods?

[pixiecopper]

[Tayler's hands move in a sort of helpless gesticulation of distress. She doesn't want to talk about it any more than Jessica wants to hear about it, but she also knows that the woman needs this information now rather than later.]

It's a bit like... when a dog gets rabies. Normally sweet, well behaved house pet and then his brain goes to jelly and he gets vicious, bites and kills anything he can get his teeth into. It's like that. Not pretty.

[Her tone as she finishes is genuinely nauseated and perhaps Jessica can hear in her voice or see in the faraway look in her eyes that she's seen this first hand, been on the scene for the breakdown of consciousness of another person.]

It's hard to say really who or what they are, but there are a handful of them, two or three or four depending on the day, and nobody can really see them except maybe their acolytes and I haven't been daring enough yet to pretend to drink the koolaid to get behind enemy lines because I think they have some kind of mind control and I'm not about to go in until I'm sure I can come back out, right? But from what I can tell, they've got some serious magic, too, and the locals worship them as actual gods, as in part of their religion. Not that that means I think they're immortal or anything. Though I guess that's not impossible, we're kind of immortal now, too, in a way.

[furnidents]

So, what you are telling me is is that if we don't eat, we go "rabid". And there is only one food source that will prevent this. [Her tone is serious now, almost deadly serious. Though she can still hope this is some elaborate prank or a nightmare, the fact is is that she is here, likely to stay, and will need to learn the laws of the land to survive and minimize the damage to herself and others.]

We can't even agree on the number of "gods" here? [This is getting foolish.]

Immortal? Us? And why don't you think the so called gods here are immortal? [Perhaps there is information that can be used here, somehow.]