TEST DRIVE MEME

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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.

Comments

[codeforhope]

[Chihiro blinks, watching Shigeo as he walks over to the machine. He can't help but assume he's probably joking since he doesn't know why a strength tester would need to say something like that...but Chihiro doesn't really know, either.]

I'm not sure...it...it sounded closer than that. Like someone was whispering in my ear.

[hyaku]

[Shigeo's smile falters then and he gives another nod, because that's how it was for him too.. kind of weird that they'd be tempted to go here when the voices sounded so close, huh?]

It might have been someone closer, then. But I haven't heard it since I came in here, either.

[If only his Master was here to help him out, he'd probably know exactly where that voice was coming from because of his stronger ESP--]

...I think I might know what that voice is coming from.

[After saying that, Shigeo starts to move around the room. Checking behind arcade machines, underneath them.. he's not explaining anything off the bat either while he does this so uh sorry if he's not making any sense, Chihiro..]

[codeforhope]

Oh, you do?

[Chihiro takes a small step back to give the stranger some room as he walks, though he can't imagine what it is he's actually looking for, or what he thinks the sound might have come from.]

Do you think it's one of these machines?

[hyaku]

No.

...well, sort of.

[Shigeo checks underneath an old looking air-hockey table as he says that, checking the bottom for anything but only finding dust.]

I think it's a spirit, but I don't know where a spirit would hide in an arcade like this.

[He pulls himself back up and looks around, his eyes falling on... the machine he joked about earlier.]

Ah, maybe it really is that one? I can't feel any spirits around, but maybe it's hiding inside...

[He walks over to it and gives one of it's gloves a small push, which causes the machine to rather suddenly flicker to life and has him flinch in turn.]

[codeforhope]

A...spirit?

[That is not the kind of response Chihiro was expecting at all. Does that mean it could be a ghost? ...one of those fabled gods?

He shudders to think about it, but before he can do much else, the machine suddenly starting up has Chihiro jumping and edging a bit closer to Shigeo.]

W-what happened?