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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

It's like you've never heard of a codename before. I've never had any use for that name they tried to start me off with in the first place. Nyoka ya Mpembe served its purpose, but it doesn't quite work for me anymore.

[He's still using 'whitemamba' as a username on the network, though.

He waves a hand vaguely.]

Ryslig. Vandare. The beach. My turf. Take your pick. It's not exactly the sort of place anyone'd want to wake up, but it isn't like there's much we can do about it.

[Although he seems to be doing pretty well for himself, despite all the fishiness.]

Don't be a smart-ass. The question was whether you ended up with an outfit that assigned codenames, or you're a merc that picked your own.

[and indirectly, whether whoever named you had a sick sense of humor, or you still have daddy issues.]

I'll go ahead and ask the obvious question of 'why are you twenty years older and part fish', too.

I was the leader of a particularly elite special forces unit, so you decide.

[He's just... not going to mention that the whole codename thing was reinstated under his command. Or what the unit was in the first place.]

I'm older because it's been a bloody long time since I got the hell out of there. And the fish thing is the 'fun' thing about this place.

[Isn't the best part of new people showing up getting to tell them what's going to happen?]

Next time the fog rolls around, you're going to change too.

That doesn't answer why you're not twelve years old. Is it some kind of parasite in the fog?

...Because I grew up? Look, there's not much in the way of logic deciding how we get here. Maybe I should be asking why you aren't much older.

[Not why he's not dead, though, because Liquid was dead before he came here, so he knows that's an entire possibility.]

What do you mean there's no logic in how we get here?

Look, unless you're telling me I accidentally time-traveled in my sleep, you're the one that's out of place.

I mean there's no bloody logic. The Fog God doesn't decide 'oh I'll make sure to take my playthings from around the same place and the same time' or anything like that. Hell if I know what her damn motives are anyway.

[He doesn't care for any of the gods around here, clearly.]

Time traveled, space traveled, hell, I don't even know where this is relative to anything else. It's just. [He waves his arms.] Here.

[have a long, disbelieving silence.]

You're... saying we're not even on Earth.

[Yeah, he expected something like that. Wasn't like he really believed much of it at first himself. But disbelieving wouldn't have done him much good anyway.]

If it's Earth, it's not the one we know. You get used to it, eventually.

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