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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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A god?

[Peko's shoulders slack, and then she crosses her arms. She's tired, and cold, and of course.]

Then it really is hell. [Of some kind.

She uncrosses her arms and looks down at her hands, and though they sting and are scratched up, they're normal to her-- which, in all honesty, is strange, all things considered.]

How long?

[She isn't really sure what answer she's looking for there-- how long he's been there, or how long until their fate begins.]

I don't think you usually find gods in hell.

[Not that he knows that much about it. Maybe he should be talking to the people he knows who do know. He's still struggling to wrap his head around it being real in the first place, but people he knows and trusts have insisted it is. Ryslig is somewhere else entirely.]

How long for what? How long you'll be here?

[He's not sure if that's what she means, but it's his best guess.]

I don't know. Some people aren't here for long at all, but some people have been here for years. More than two. I haven't heard of anyone being here for three years yet.

...Strange.

[But Peko doesn't react much more than straightening her posture again and dropping her hands.

In her head she's going over how ridiculously familiar this is. Showing up on some deserted island-- well, this one isn't deserted, but-- shit.

How can it all be happening again?]

And when do we begin to change?

The next fog. It's usually at the end of the month.

[She's reacting pretty well, but then again that doesn't seem uncommon here. Most people seem to have better first reactions than he did.]

...I'm going to assume there's no way to leave this place before then, or no other options?

[yeah she's getting real sick of waking up on foreign islands]

None that we know work.

The Fourth God says he wants to help us leave, but there's no real proof he can do that.

Fourth God.

[A sigh.]

There isn't any literature about this, is there?

Not that I know of.

That's probably for the best though. I think the only people who'd be motivated enough to write it would be really biased.

[Peko isn't even trying not to look annoyed.]

...Forgive me. I was just in a very similar situation prior to arriving here.

[She's already a HUNDRED percent done.]

You were?

[HE does look perplexed at that. There are a lot of different places here, many that sound drastically different to his own safe, boring version of Earth.

Finding someone who says she was in a similar situation already is a new one though.]

To put it as simply as I can... Members of my class and I, on our first day of school, were kidnapped to an abandoned chain of islands that may have once been a resort.

That... is exactly why I shouldn't be here.

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