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Ryslig Helpers ([personal profile] ryslighelpers) wrote in [community profile] graveyardsmash2016-09-08 10:56 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME

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.

idunnosurfing: (how I'm just dying to be him?)

well now he has a new feathered friend!

[personal profile] idunnosurfing 2016-09-20 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
So he's new--well, at least he isn't a native liable to try to murder Percy, but it also means neither of them is safe here.

Well, so much for a day at the beach.

"Unfortunately, yes," he says, frowning. "Listen, there's something I need to explain to you, but it's not going to be easy to hear, so I want to make sure you're okay first. Does anything hurt or feel numb? I know some basic field medicine, which should get you as far as an actual doctor."

Nothing looks obviously broken or anything, the guy at least isn't missing an eye or bleeding profusely, but he's probably also full of adrenaline and was just doused in cold water and might not be feeling anything yet.

"If you can't walk, I can carry you on my back instead of in my talons," he adds with a sheepish smile. "Sorry if I made you feel like a trout, by the way. I wasn't really thinking about it, I just didn't want you to drown."
shunshinoshishi: Eddie Peng (Shisui: laugh)

\o/ !

[personal profile] shunshinoshishi 2016-09-22 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
That has Shisui laughing despite himself. I just didn't want you to drown. No shit. His very name was his own epitaph, and-- yeah. He's laughing some more until he sputters out the last remaining bits of sand.

"You probably wouldn't have been able to avoid it even if you tried," he says, making to stand and immediately feeling a sort of run-over-twice-by-a-large-bus sort of pain in places he's almost forgotten he had. "I believe I drowned before I got here." He's quite sure he was still alive by the time he hit the water, so it wasn't the poison that killed him. "It's sort of like my destiny or something. I really don't know what my parents were thinking when they named me."

It was easier to make light of a situation. He'd found that that approach seemed to always work calm him down enough to process everything objectively.

And right now, as he proceeds to demonstrate, Shisui discovers that he is quite able to walk.
Edited 2016-09-22 08:10 (UTC)
idunnosurfing: (like you just can't win)

Re: \o/ !

[personal profile] idunnosurfing 2016-09-27 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, good--so the guy can stand, at least, and has the presence of mind to laugh. That's better than the alternative, anyway. Percy responds with a chuckle of his own, but pushes to his feet when he sees Shisui try to stand and holds out his arms to catch him, just in case he loses his footing.

"I kind of know what you mean," he offers, giving a weak smile. "I was the hero of a prophecy back home. Very long story. But if it helps any, I have known people who say they came here after their death. That's not what happened to me, but it's not unheard of."

When Shisui takes a step, Percy follows, arm still extended to catch him if he loses his footing. "Are you still feeling it? Your death, I mean. You can lean on me if you need to."