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TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER

Welcome to the Ryslig Test Drive Meme! Below are a few prompts to get you started, but you may make up any prompt you desire! Please take a look at the navigation page for rules, setting information, and links to reserves and apps. Have fun!

SCENARIO ONE

You wake up on the beach thoroughly drenched with your mouth full of sand. The salt water causes various cuts and scrapes on your skin to sting and the sand isn't helping. The air is slightly humid, ruining any feeling of refreshment you might have gotten from your dip in the ocean. There are lights in the distance but the unfriendly scent of gunpowder fills the air. If you're lucky, you're alone. If not, you might find yourself staring up into a pair of monstrous eyes or down the barrel of a local's shotgun.

SCENARIO TWO

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 THREE

"Seek us out," the voice whispers in your head, and before you have time to question it you've found yourself in someplace entirely alien. Maybe it's the Fog God's ghostly town of Dyster, where exultant followers dance around bonfires and sing their praises to the skies above. Maybe it's the Fourth God's arcade, with small robots wheeling about amidst the lights and colors of old pinball machines. Only one thing is certain: you are not alone, in this sacred place.

SCENARIO FOUR

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.

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[sand. wet sand everywhere. in places Pearl did not even know she had. and what is this gasping for air, this coughing? since when had she needed to do that?

she rolls onto her back, staring up at the darkened sky. something doesn't feel right. in fact, a lot of things don't feel right, but she's in too much of daze to really figure out what those things are.

that's when she hears a familiar sound, one that makes her go cold, for some reason. again, weird. she begins pushing herself up to her feet, and that is when she sees Jasper. immediately, she gets to wobbling feet, her hand going to her forehead and...

and. nothing. nothing happens!]

What the... Where's my gem?!

[That voice causes Jasper's eyes to jerk immediately in Pearl's direction, where they widen upon seeing her. She gathers her legs up under her quickly and forces herself to stand on shaking legs. It isn't an easy task. (Why is her body so heavy?)

She glares at the smaller gem through matted beige hair. Clearly she has something to do with them being here, she and that stunted abomination that is Rose Quartz.]

You.

[It feels like she's said this a lot lately, but she doesn't let that stop her now. Raising a heavy arm, she points a finger at her enemy.]

What did you do?

Me? [Pearl barks out indignantly, covering her forehead with one hand. she can't let Jasper see that her gem is gone. but where is it? and, if it was broken, why hadn't she gone into healing mode? how was she still here, barely standing?] You're obviously the one behind this... this!

[she uses her free hand to gesture vaguely to the beach around them. it was not a familiar beach, not Beach City]

This?

[Jasper makes a half-hearted gesture at the beach. She doesn't know about the area - it's not like she memorized every location on Earth. Her change in form is the most important issue.]

Look at me, you little defect. Why would I have--

[She takes a step forward and suddenly she's on her knees again, growling in frustration. Worse, there's something pounding under the flesh of her chest, under the... whatever the inner support structure of a human is called. Bones? The former gem reaches one large hand up to grasp at the front of her uniform as if she might be able to feel what it is.]

[Pearl takes a step back. well, if she can't summon her weapon, she could at least find something like it. like... this stick? it was long and slender, but it probably couldn't do any real damage. Jasper would probably break it. so she leaves it for now]

I don't know what you're trying to pull here, but I insist you return me back to Beach City immediately! [and give me back my gem, she wants to say. but Pearl is still doesn't want Jasper to find out that she doesn't have it]

[That she'd even believed this Pearl capable of bringing her here sounds laughable now. And the fact that she thinks Jasper might be able to undo whatever's been done... well, that gets the larger gem laughing in earnest.

There's not any real mirth to it, of course. It's a heartless chuckle, broken up by forced breaths as she doesn't trust her body to take them automatically yet.]

Alright.

[She stands again, more stable this time, and holds out both hands.]

I'll pick you up and toss you back into the ocean. Maybe you can find your way there if you swim long enough.

[Pearl scowls, but seems to come to the conclusion that this is not Jasper's doing. if she had been the one behind this, she would probably be gloating now. and... she is not. she looks shaky, unsure, and that worries the shorter gem.

she finally drops her hand, crosses her arms and looks around. where even are they?] If you don't know where we are, we should probably find someone to tell us what's going on.

We?

[Jasper snorts at that, then seems appalled by the sound that came out of her nose and promptly covers it with one hand. That only partly helps with the smells she's been assaulted with too. How has Pearl dealt with having such a large nose all the time anyway? Did it even function before now?]

What makes you think-- [Ugh, no. She sounds even more ridiculous with her nose covered. How does that even work? She lets her hand fall back at her side.] What makes you think I'd want to go anywhere with you?

First of all.

[Pearl's eyes shift to look Jasper up and down. it's then that she notices her nose, and the lack of a gem there. okay, so they were on equal footing. that... well, it wasn't good, but Pearl feels a little better knowing that it isn't just her gem that's gone]

I don't trust you. I don't think you should be wandering around a place, gemless, and alone, especially if you don't know how you wound up here. You don't, right? [she narrows her eyes here, as though she were daring Jasper to lie to her]

Edited 2016-09-12 05:48 (UTC)

Neither do you.

[Her original reaction proved that much. Jasper's lips curl into a sneer. She's not the only gemless one here.]

You think I trust you? If you're trying to show concern then you can shove it. I'm not going anywhere with a crystal gem.

[Work with a pearl, especially this pearl, as an equal? Forget it. And this one is worthless without her abilities. Even as a human, Jasper could probably crush her with her bare hands. There's barely anything to her.]

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