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

[nolemon]

I got plenty of proteins before that! I just finally hit my growth spurt.

[No, Saionji, no you didn't. 'All candy' is not a good diet even if you have a high metabolism.]

1/2

[nidad]

Then congratulations are in order! For your body to have surpassed its earlier limitations, you must have worked...hard...

[....................]

2/2

[nidad]

SAIONJI! YOU'RE ALIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!

[nolemon]

[Ugh. Ugh. There are many things that she doesn't want to be reminded of--

Her cat-like ears pin down. She forgot how loud he could be. Still, she puffs out her chest a little. At least someone is in awe of her new physical form at least!]

Yes, yes, I know I am. No thanks to that shitty woman.

[Ugh. Tsumiki. Ugh.]

I'd make a joke about having nine lives but that would be too much for even me.

[nidad]

I see, I see...so you, too, have found your body altered in this place...

[He's run into enough of their group by now to know the score, and he meets the mobility of her ears more with curiosity than alarm.]

What have you become, Saionji? A cat of some sort? I guess that would mean you depend mainly on meat in your diet.

[nolemon]

I arrived with Mioda, Nee-san, and the princess. We all have... Though I haven't sen Mioda or the princess in a while.

[She yawns a little, nodding.]

Yeah, that's right. Tanaka said they were...manticores? It sucks having to eat that much, though. Red meat is for westerners.

[nidad]

So Mioda, Koizumi, and Sonia are also here...good, good.

[The more of them there are, and the more they stick together, the easier it will be for him to keep tabs on their welfare.]

Is it truly out of the question to supplement the required human diet with fish? There are important fats in fish that I don't think you should ignore, particularly as one with feline attributes.

[nolemon]

Like I said, I haven't seen two of them in months. I'm not sure if they're still here but Nee-san is still around.

[Though... Maybe if all their class were here it'd be better. Sixteen of the most brilliant minds in all the world... (Not that Saionji would call them brilliant.)]

Believe me, I've tried. I mean, I can eat other things but ignoring the human part... It's asking for trouble.

[nidad]

That doesn't make sense. Humans and many animals are made of the same building blocks of muscles, bone, and skin, so substituting with, say, pig shouldn't make any nutritional difference.

[They make replacement heart valves out of pig hearts, don't they?]

Gnngh, but still, I won't doubt your word. This isn't something you would lie about, Saionji.

[nolemon]

I don't think this is a nutritional thing, Nidai. Hell, some of us can't even eat real food anymore. Tanaka eats souls.

[Oh and Sonia could only drink blood. She's pretty sure Ibuki couldn't eat either...]

It's not because if I could just eat fish and rice and candy, I'd be fine with that.

[nidad]

Well, I imagined eating souls would deliver some kind of energy equivalent to food calories to those of that category. But if it's not to provide nutrients to the body, then what the hell is the purpose of eating? What need is it sating?

[Saionji halp, why this? The science, where is it?]

[nolemon]

I don't even know. It's dumb.

[It's so dumb. Like, even back on the island... The killing was dumb in the sense that it was mindless violence but. Well. It's easier to imagine some sadistic asshole forcing people to kill each other. This? This was different.]

Maybe it could be some symbolic thing.. Since we're 'monsters'. Though, that sounds like something out of a stupid anime or manga. [Beat.] Not that I'd know that firsthand, of course.

[nidad]

Hrrrmmmm... There could be something to that.

[He sticks his finger in his ear and twists it around to dig the wax out.]

After all, monsters and gods are often the same sort of beings in stories, and most offerings to gods are completely symbolic. [He brightens.] A sound theory, Saionji! Wahaha!

[nolemon]

Well, it's the only thing that makes any sense in this damn place... Besides, the supernatural did appear a lot in kabuki.

[Woah. Thank you, Nidai.]

At least it's not that island.

[Strangers are one thing...]

[nidad]

...Yeah. If the same thing had happened there, and all of us had been forced to turn on each other to eat...

[...Because that would neeeeeeeever happen, right? Hahaha.]

But if Monokuma's aim really was to drive us to despair, I don't think that motive would have been effective. Fighting to stay alive...to live another day, and keep struggling... Isn't that a cause worthy of risking one's life, no matter what form that life takes?

[Like if, because of reasons, one were turned into a soda-dispensing, laser-resistant robot?]

[nolemon]

I'd say we wouldn't have survived months like that back there.

[...She's not going to say anything more than that.]

Monokuma's goal wasn't exactly that... [Back into despair, maybe. Though, she's not sure she's the one to break the terrorist news to Nidai.] You know? I wouldn't put it into those words exactly but I agree. I'm not going to just let myself die just because I can't do what's needed.

[nidad]

YEAH!! That's the spirit, Saionji!

[HE'S SO! PUMPED!!]

And as a team manager, I'll do everything in my power to make sure every one of us CAN do what's needed! I've decided once again! I'LL SUPPORT YOU ALLLLLLLLL!!

[Oh god was that strictly necessary, Nidai, people are looking.]

[nolemon]

[Ow, ow. She physically winces at that. Volume, plz.]

Yes, yes... We thank you for your talent, Nidai.

[Beat.]

But can you not yell so much? You might break Nee-san's eardrums next time you meet her if you do that.

[nidad]

Ah, my bad, Saionji. I apologize. Sometimes, my manly spirit just overflows...! But I'll try to keep it in check from now on.

[YOU MUST BE SWIFT AS THE COURSING RIVER, WITH ALL THE FORCE OF A GREAT TYPHOON...]

Have you all been doing well while you've been here? I haven't seen Koizumi yet.

[nolemon]

I sure as hell hope you don't become a minotaur, then...

[He'd deafen himself and then he'd just yell even more.]

The yakuza found a castle so at least we've got a roof over our head. Tanaka looks like he's built a cult and Nee-san took it upon herself to help feed the idiot masses. I've even found a slave! [She means she found someone who probably would date her.]

So, yes, I think we're doing alright.

[nidad]

Fufufu...truly, it does my heart good to hear that. To know my classmates are doing so well...!

[He turns his face up towards the sky, fist clenched before his chest, but stops himself.]

Right, I said I'd contain myself. [He sniffs manfully. Also, grossly. There may be something glistening at the corner of his eye.] Everyone...I'm so proud of your accomplishments...!

[nolemon]

[Ewwww.]

Hold yourself together! It's not like we conquered Ryslig or anyhing yet.

[nidad]

If that's our group's aim, then I'm ready to give each of you my all! A manager's job is to make the impossible possible!

[Somewhere, somewhen, someone starts to play "Eye of the Tiger."]

...But, uh, what is a Ryslig, exactly?

[nolemon]

It's not a ting, it's the name of this place.

[...Nidai, please.]

Don't tell me you'd actually support us if we decided to just take this place over.

[nidad]

Of course I would! It's also a manager's job to let their athletes achieve their goals!

[He cracks his neck casually.]

I don't know what any of you would want with a conquered world, but I'm sure the striving would do everyone good, in their own fashion.