TEST DRIVE MEME

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TEST DRIVE MEME

Welcome to Ryslig's test drive meme! If you're considering apping here, this is where you can try your characters out in the game's setting. A few things to note: The State of the Game Discussion produced a lot of great suggestions and we now have a post for Plot Suggestions and Monster Questions. The NETWORK VOTE results are in and PRIVATE MESSAGING will be added some time in November. Lots of people have asked good questions on the FAQ, so do take a look. You can only app ONE character per round so choose wisely. Reserve and application dates have been announced. Test drive meme threads can be used for your roleplay sample! Sample scenarios: SCENARIO ONE: You've just been released from the hospital in Vandare and no one really seems to know what to do with you. The locals offer polite advice but don't seem to want to spend a lot of time with you. You and the other new arrivals stick out like sore thumbs, so perhaps one will spot you wandering about town. SCENARIO TWO: You've become hopelessly lost in Lager Woods. Paths don't seem to lead where you remember them leading, and you feel as if you're going around in circles. Childlike giggling can be heard from no direction in particular. Suddenly, you stumble upon another character, who seems to be just as lost as you! Perhaps you can find a way out together. SCENARIO THREE: 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

[antemeridian]

[ Homura inclines her head slightly in response. ]

Perhaps.

[ She waits until he's walked a bit past her before spinning on her heel and making to follow, keeping him in her line of vision. This alleviates at least one concern, and it allows her to settle from on high alert to not-quite-conversational. Might as well try to learn things. ]

I don't suppose you've been hearing the voices too?

[viliorate]

[It's perhaps wise to follow behind him. Kimbley trailing behind other people has a tendency to end badly if the person isn't one of the very few people capable of controlling him, and even then it's a risk to take. Still, he acts for all intents and purposes like he doesn't have a young teenager following behind him with a bow he is entirely confident she knows how to use.

When he walks, he nearly swaggers through the woods, apparently not in the least bit threatened by his current situation.]

...if you mean that laughter, I hear it. But I can't tell where it's coming from.

[antemeridian]

[ ...is he taking this at all seriously? that sort of pride or confidence would be indicative of someone who either knows what they're doing... or is simply very foolish. ]

It doesn't seem to come from any one direction, as far as I can tell. But if you hear it too, then that does eliminate the possibility of it being isolated to either one of us.

[ She's not sure which she would have preferred to be the case, really. ]

[viliorate]

[At least he's not alone in hearing it. That would be a bad sign. They used to call him the mad bomber, but hallucinating would be a step down for him.]

It could be an echo. This is an enclosed enough space that it's possible.

[Though unlikely.

Another possible explanation would be that it's a ghost, and that is one too ridiculous to voice.]

[antemeridian]

Perhaps. [ she demurs, in a manner that rings strongly of please don't insult my intelligence. Still, we're she aware of his thoughts she'd agree with him on the hallucination front.

... Their surroundings look familiar. She pauses. Her eyes trace the frame of a fallen tree, follow where it points to another one. She'd carved a notch in the bark then- and sure enough there it is. ]

There's something going on here.

[viliorate]

[He picks up on the tone and refrains from saying anything hostile about it for the time being. Picking a fight with perhaps the only person who could actually get him out of this damn forest is so stupid even he realizes it.]

We're going around in circles?

[Except Kimbley is almost positive that hey hadn't been.]

[antemeridian]

...It seems so. I've been here before.

[ She scans it, eyes narrowing as she takes her gaze off of the man for the moment. They'd even approached from the same angle as she had before, not like if they'd somehow gotten turned around and ended up doubling back or anything of the sort.

There's no need to say it, but: ]

I was following a linear path.

[viliorate]

[This is beginning to grate on his nerves. What the hell is going on? He doesn't care to voice the thought. He might not have a clue where they are in relation to the town, but there's no possible way they could have circled around the entire forest without a hint at an exit.]

What the hell is going on?