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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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[Fuyuhiko keeps his eyes forward as he leads her away from the beach. Like he's some kind of modern, furry Orpheus and Peko is his Eurydice. There's a city a little ways away (though it's probably just weird blobs for Peko), but he heads in the opposite direction. Wherever their destination is, it doesn't seem to be nearby.]

[Why couldn't he have been like a normal werewolf and gotten bigger at night. Then he could carry her to the castle. Which would not only be easier on her, but also make him look super manly and capable. A win-win for everyone.]

[But no, the best he can do is hold her hand. And his hold tightens slightly when she next speaks. He can't help but feel another pang of guilt at that admission. Nekomaru was right...she really would have been disappointed if he'd thrown away his life after she saved it. Why hadn't he cherished it from the start?]

I'm...glad too. [There's more he wants to say, more that he should say but, as usual, he can't bring himself to be so open with his feelings. Some day, though...some day he'll be able to do that. But right now, he has to focus on the fact that his answer really wasn't all that specific, now was it? He can, at least, clarify what he's glad about.] That you're alive, I mean. Not that I'm-- er. [Shit.] I mean, I'm glad I'm alive too but...not as much as I am about you.

[Definitely not looking back now, because he can feel the heat rising in his cheeks.]

[If there's anyone Fuyuhiko should be thanking for the fact that Peko stays quiet and does not protest against anything he says, it's Hinata. Without his words, Peko may still have been the person she pretended to be on the stands, lost in the cloud of her own devotion.

She isn't 100% divorced from her ideals now, far from it, but it's because of Hinata that the skies had begun to clear for her.

Peko doesn't protest or assert that anything Fuyuhiko says is strange. She keeps her eyes on him, letting him lead, and though she doesn't let down her guard, she lets him be her sight. She should at least give him that amount of trust.

...Besides, as much as Fuyuhiko isn't proud of his new form, the fact that it's cute and fluffy... is actually kind of comforting to Peko.

Not that she's going to say that out loud.

Ever.

What she does say is--]

...Thank you.

[In an almost breathless voice, smiling at the ground for a moment and swallowing back the emotions that rise at the things he says. Now is not the time to acknowledge the swelling of her heart at the idea that she can be back on the equal ground of friendship with her childhood companion, though god damn if she doesn't feel it.

She doesn't deserve this, but she won't reject it.]

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