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

[chimerad]

o1.

Gih–!

[Zelgadis is not used to feeling so keenly; that's why when he's bumped into he has to hop a few steps ahead to keep his balance. that's also why his hair is practically standing on-end with a fresh case of heebie-jeebies (considering how his hair always looks, though, who would notice?)

balance restored, he can spin on his heel and gawk around for the source of this affront, already feeling his face heat up with embarrassment. he was careless yet again; his self-assumed lone-warrior-with-a-cold-gaze-to-match-his-cold-heart dignity can't take much more of this place.

so, naturally, it gets worse: there's a poor girl feeling around on the ground for...something. Zel, what did you do while you were busy poking at your cuticles?]

Uh– [clearing his throat.] Sorry, did you...drop something? [WHAT A GREAT QUESTION, BUDDY. GOOD JOB.]

[drowns]

[She thinks she's grabbed hold of her glasses, but it's no good, and in her half-distracted search she barely even registers the man that bumped into her. She's too frazzled to think straight right now.

But when he speaks up she looks up, squinting hard at him. Everything is a blurry haze, as if she's underwater.] Ah, um...yes. My glasses -- I can't seem to find them anywhere.

[chimerad]

Huh?

[he looks down past her.] Oh, then they fell off... [obviously.

he shifts his weight to move his foot out of her searching hand's way, doing so, he hears a gentle scraping along the concrete and freezes in place, worried setting his weight down is going to cause more disaster.]

Is that...?

[drowns]

Oh!

[The sound catches her attention, and she looks from both the man to her glasses in turn. Her hands raise up — a hold it! gesture.] Please, don't move! They're under your feet, ah...

[She grabs them, quickly, and after making sure the lenses haven't cracked or an arm hasn't been damaged, she says:] Thank you. I'm terribly sorry, for running into you. [Glasses retrieved, she stands back up.] I wasn't paying attention.

[chimerad]

[Zel had, without thinking, extended a hand once he'd been sure he was safe enough to put both feet on the ground. to help her up, and all. but she was quite capable of that on her own, something he noticed almost a little too late.]



[he snaps his hand back to himself, scratching at the back of his neck like he meant to all along.]

It's nothing. I wasn't really, either. So forget about it.

[drowns]

[She nods...but ah, has she embarrassed him? She's not sure why that would be, but...]

Have you only just arrived as well? You don't look like one of the natives.

[chimerad]

Yeah... [he's staring off down the street.

a beat. he looks back.] Just arrived, that is. It seems to be a trend.

[drowns]

Yes...I've noticed that. How unusual...and the people here seem to avoid us. [And it's honestly weirding her out a little.

She makes a little noise of surprise, as if only just realizing something.] I'm terribly sorry; I haven't introduced myself. [She was being rude...no matter how uneasy she was by this place, that wasn't acceptable.] My name is Mitsuki Ishikawa. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[chimerad]

[introductions weren't at all on his mind; he looks surprised by hers. he blinks.

...oh.]

...Zelgadis. [he nods slightly.] Zelgadis Greywords. And... [glancing away.] They're making a point of not giving good reasons for avoiding people. Especially... [he starts looking down at his hand, still boggling over human flesh.] ...when they look barely different.

[drowns]

It's good to meet you, Mr. Greywords.

[She dips her head, briefly, and then at his next words, she frowns so deeply in thought it creates a wrinkle between her eyes.] That's what I've noticed too. I'm trying to figure out why. Perhaps there are others who washed up here in the same way, that have been here longer? They may have some insight.

[chimerad]

"They" aren't being very easy to spot around here, unless I'm missing something. [he frowns, his nose crinkling a little.] Even the oddest-looking people can be perfectly at home in places like this, I bet.

Mystery fogs... [he looks over his shoulder.] And something negating any sense of magic? None of it's any good.

[drowns]

[Magic? It's like a lightbulb goes off above her head.]

Magic...? Do you mean to say you can normally use magic?

[Because it's not like she can normally. At all. Just your run of the mill average kid here.]

[chimerad]

[Zel, maybe not sensing magic means nobody gets magic here? did you only just think of that now? yeah?

he's a sorcerer, not a detective.

a touch awkward:] Ye-yeah...That is, it's not uncommon, where I'm from, even if most people don't practice. I figure this was someplace past the old Mazoku barrier, so the rules can be entirely different here for all I know.