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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

[What. Just... what.]

I... see.

[So she'd wound up somewhere dangerous. She's not sure what she'd expected, honestly. On a strange beach at night in the middle of nowhere, with the possibility that the town that had been here was another necrohol... even with him here, her wariness doesn't dissipate.]

Company would be appreciated, if it is not an inconvenience. My name is Amalia.

[It slides off her tongue just as if it were her real name.]

Amalia is a lovely name. Very European. [He steps forward, leaving the cats to their fun. They'd find their way home as they always did.]

My name is Kira Yoshikage, I'm thirty three years old, unmarried, and I used to work as a business man in a small town called Morioh in the country of Japan. [He walks towards her as he talks, his gaze seeking out her hands. That's the most important part of a girl after all. Although, taking one of the Fog God's newest toys would probably bring more harm than good in the long run. He should stick to the regular villagers... It's a shame. She's very pretty.]

I've unfortunately been here for two months. But... you inevitably get used to it. I suppose. I imagine it just depends on who you run into when you first start out. You've met me, so you're lucky. [He approaches her and offers a smile, sharp fangs gleaming in the dim light] All women who meet me are.

[He gestures for her to follow.] Vandare is this way. Towards the docks and then the city. It isn't terribly far.

[And follow she does. She can't stop herself from twisting the ring on her left hand, a gesture she thought she'd matured out of. "All the women," he says. She's dealt with worse, though she has to remind herself that she's weaponless and (assumedly) magickless against an unknown foe. So be it. She'll try to mentally map the route as she goes along with him.]

A pleasure, Mr. Yoshikage. [The name is strange on her tongue. She hopes she doesn't mangle it too badly.] What manner of city is Vandare?

[He needs to get used to saying his name in reverse or this is just going to keep happening... Well. No matter.]

Vandare is a port town that has recently gone through an economic boom. So while it deals with success in some areas, other parts struggle. Typical in situations like that. One section flurishes and the rest is left to decay. So most who arrive head to the next town over, Bavan. It's much larger and has more to offer. But this as good a place to any to start.

It's very western... very different from my own home. All of us that washed up here come from different times and places. Your garments aren't something I recognize from a period in history. So perhaps you come from a magical realm like my fr--acquaintance? If so you may find it jarring. I know he did.

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