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

[hamham]

[They'll definitely need you. They probably could have used you before this, to be honest.......

Somehow, even though absolutely none of this is a laughing matter, Nidai's laughing puts him at ease. He can even smile a little, chuckling shortly himself with a shake of his head.]

The others will be better at explaining it than I am in any case.

[Fuyuhiko actually went through all of the island junk so...probably better to hear it from him instead. He's heard it explained three or so times now sure but that doesn't make it any easier to actually tell someone else about it.]

Coming from you, I am honored to receive praise such as that. And not the exact same creature as myself, but that is the idea yes. I am a demon - as I should be - and others have been transformed into demons as well. But there is a large variety of beasts that the Fog God favors, and you have an equal chance of turning into any one of them. Werewolf, Minotaur, Manticore, Vampire, Faerie, Shade, Merman...it's an extensive list.

[Please don't be a Minotaur though. Or maybe you should be a Minotaur. One is enough in the castle but then again if the you were one maybe you could teach Mahiru a thing or two.........]

But you should be prepared either way to turn into something, yes. And brace yourself for said transformation to be painful. Extremely so. We of course have the medical supplies to help combat this as best as possible, but you must rely on yourself to a certain extent to shoulder the pain as well.

[His expression sets firmly after that.]

You should also begin getting used to the idea of killing and consuming humans so that when the time comes, you can.

[nidad]

Killing...humans?

[Extreme pain is one thing. Injury, anguish, even dying doesn't faze him much; Nekomaru works in sports, he's experienced every type and level of pain there is. He's taken high school baseball teams to Koshien. Dismemberment would wring fewer tears out of him.

But the last bit of news, that's something else entirely. Killing and consuming humans...even knowing how Tanaka talks, no matter how Nekomaru tries to slice it, he doesn't see that meaning anything but what it means.]

Hold on, Tanaka. Are you telling me, when we turn into these beasts of yours, we have to...eat people?

[That's possibly the worst thing a man could hear, coming right out of Strawberry House. Of everything he's learned about this place so far, this is the first to turn his gut, the first inkling of dawning horror.

Please tell him he's hearing wrong. Please let this be Tanakaese for "our experiences on the island were so traumatic we've all become criminal delinquents stealing food out of the mouths of poor orphans and extorting widows for money." Nekomaru can deal with that. Nekomaru can deal with most anything, but eating people...]

[hamham]

[He understands...he may have gotten that bread and milk, but he was still feeling the effects of that house when he learned he had to eat people too. And he simply nods in response.]

Yes. I am. Some in a very literal sense, needing to devour their flesh and blood. Some less so, consuming energy and souls instead.

[Unfortunately it's not Tanakaese for anything. If he could steel food from poor orphans and extort widows for money instead of this, he really honestly would. That wouldn't sit as terribly with him as this does.]

And if you refuse and go too long without doing so, the consequences will be dire and end in the deaths of many more than just the one human you require. Possibly other monsters, possibly even your own friends. You will not differentiate between them as you mindlessly seek sustenance.

[Where others might want to wait a day or two for the whole Ryslig spiel about eating and killing and going crazy, Gundam would much rather get it out of the way as soon as possible. Sorry about that.]

...you will not have to suffer this alone, however. Just as with everything else, we'll be here to support you through this matter too.

[But there's...kind of a silver lining? All of this "us" talk definitely doesn't end at just being classmates, or being everyone against the Gods. They've definitely forged some strong bonds here, and Gundam doesn't even need to talk to the others to know they'll extend that bond with their manager. That's said with every ounce of confidence he's put into every other word he's ever spoken.]