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.

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SOCK OPERA WAS AMAZING

[pinevestigator]

"No way, it's probably back at the Shack! It can't be lost!" That would mean the journal was lost, too, and Dipper didn't even want to think about that. Not knowing that Stan was considering the same thing, he turned his attention to the flowers his great uncle points out.

"Alright. Whatever gets us out of this place quicker," Dipper mumbles, tugging on the brim of his hat in an anxious gesture as he sticks close behind Stan, waiting for him to lead the way.

there's not enough character space in this subject box to express my love for Bipper

[kolus]

“It better be.” He growled, hoping the same for anything else Dipper might have misplaced.

Stan too had lost his share of possessions upon arrival. Two pairs of loaded dice, a marked deck of cards, a handful of smoke bombs… nothing terribly important but his pockets absent content did not go unnoticed. Unfortunately, it did not go unnoticed by anyone else either. The con man made a point of being vocal about his misfortune, having informed the townsfolk through a series of outraged shouts that he had been robbed and taken advantage of in his elderly age. To his delight, their sympathy had proven quite profitable in the end.

“One more thing.” He reached into his pocket and revealed a compass he had purchased in Vandare. Without warning, he tossed it at Dipper. “You’re navigating.”

Maybe keeping the kid engaged would help the anxiety Stan had so far pretended to ignore. The last thing he needed was Dipper to pass out from dehydration with all his nervous sweating or something. That was a thing, wasn’t it?

SAME

[pinevestigator]

Dipper reaches out to catch the compass when he throws it at him, not without fumbling it and nearly dropping the thing before he can finally get an actual grip on it. Well, that was convenient. It makes Dipper wish he had thought of getting a compass himself earlier...not like he really had any money on him to buy one.

Using his sleeve to clean off the glass surface of fingerprints, Dipper holds it out so he can see where the arrow is pointing in the gloom, waiting for it to stop bobbing and settle on a direction. That direction happens to be just past where they're standing, in the direction opposite where Dipper was headed.

Whoops.

"Alright, looks like we're heading this way," He said, still holding the compass flat in his palm as he began to walk.

\o/

[kolus]

Stan held his breath for a moment, eyes wide as he watched Dipper fumble with the compass. Only after he had proven a firm hold of the navigator could Stan breathe easy. For a moment it looked like he was going to drop the damn thing. He sighed and rubbed his temples. Now the kid just had to manage not to lose the compass too.

At Dipper's instruction he nodded and took one last look behind his shoulder before following him further into the forest.

"What do you know about this place?" he asked, curious what the boy had learned in his time here. Ryslig was a new mystery altogether for the both of them. It only made sense to compare information, something he was surprised Dipper had yet to ask. The kid had been all over this sort of thing lately - or was it only his damn secrets he was out to expose?

[pinevestigator]

"I don't know much...but I do know that this place isn't all that different from back home." Dipper says in a bit of a hushed tone, not really sure why he's whispering when- presumably- there's nobody around at the moment to hear them talking. ...Except for those creepy children, maybe.

"There are monsters here." He continued, looking back down at the compass. "But they hide themselves among the humans. The townsfolk don't like them at all, but I think they're pretty aware that they're around."

[kolus]

"Don’t believe everything you hear, kid. A few lousy legends don’t amount to much, let alone prove anything.” Stan rolled his eyes, notably annoyed by the subject.

“They believe in boys with excessive body hair and men that sparkle. What girl doesn't these days?" Even Mabel seemed infatuated by the idea judging by the books her friends brought over. Somehow, there was a market for this crap. It made him wonder how much he could have profited if he had come up with 'The Preteen Wolf Boy' sooner. "Don't tell me you thought that junk was real.”

There was a silent 'please' at the beginning of that.

[pinevestigator]

Dipper doesn't answer for a minute, his face burning as Stan- yet again- tries to brush off the supernatural as just another thing he's cooked up due to an overactive imagination. ..At the same time, he doesn't want to give away those he's encountered so far, regardless of whether or not he'll be believed.

"I know what I saw, Grunkle Stan," He finally says, keeping his eyes on the compass as they walk.

[kolus]

"Yeah? Did you see the red wildflowers you just passed too?" he asked pointedly.

Stan may have agreed that there was a familiar supernatural presents on the peninsula but that was no excuse to go looking any further into it. He knew the path it led a man and it was not one he cared to pursue here. No, he would collect what he needed and then he would leave. It was as simple as that. Until then he would just need to keep Dipper's head down.

[pinevestigator]

At that Dipper stops short, his grip tightening on the compass as he looks around quickly.

"Flowers? Where?" He...actually hadn't been looking too hard at his surroundings, keeping his gaze focused on the compass arrow to make sure it didn't waver.

[kolus]

The only response Dipper would receive was a grunt, his uncle lacking the patience to do anything other than point to the floral nestled between overgrown weeds behind them. However, as keen his eye, Stan had not noticed the red that also painted the foliage around them...

[pinevestigator]

"Hang on. Maybe this isn't..." He mumbles to himself, turning the compass over in his hand to make sure it's still giving directions like it should. "I could have sworn this was the right way.."

[kolus]

Stan crossed his arms and turned away to scan the area. He doubted the compass was the problem but allowed Dipper a moment to tinker with the device.

"Well?" he growled, suddenly standing over the boy. "Do you know how to work that thing or not?"

[pinevestigator]

Dipper jerks, pulling the compass close when Grunkle Stan suddenly growls at him, turning on his heel to face him.

"I know how to use a compass, Grunkle Stan! I just...we've been going around in circles!"

[kolus]

Was there not one thing - just one - that could go right today?

He clenched his fists and took a deep breath. Had he been wrong about the Medicine Wheel? Had he just led them in circles all this time? It was possible that something had interfered with the compass but in such cases the needle had always spun, a more obvious sign of its defect. This was new and clearly frustrating to the man. Instead of a way out he had found a whole new level of hate for colour, something Stan had not known even possible.

"I refuse to be outsmarted by a bunch of trees. You hear that?" Stan shook his fist and shouted at the forest. "No one holds Stan Pines against his will!"

Except maybe that prison in Columbia.

[pinevestigator]

Dipper looked back down at the compass, still pointing steadily north, even though he's certain they'd been through this stretch of the woods already. Probably several times over, by now.

"Okay, look. We're obviously not getting out of here without some help. If we can find someone- a local maybe- we'll be lucky. But otherwise, we're going to have to try to figure out something else."

[kolus]

Stan narrowed his eyes, focused on the distant laughter. "Those little jerks wouldn't be so lucky..."

That made the locals definitely out of the equation.

His shoulders sank and a heavy sigh escaped him as a sign of his defeat. "You're usually cookin' something up." he said, scratching the back of his neck. "Lets hear it, kid. You got any ideas?" He attempts to ask nicely but it doesn’t suit him and he still comes off angry. Just because your uncle is finally willing to listen that doesn't mean he has to be happy about it.

[pinevestigator]

Dipper let out a heavy sigh, looking at the compass one more time before putting it in his pocket for the time being. It wasn't helping them at all, if where they'd ended up had anything to say about it.

"We need to see if we can find someone else. Not those...children we've been hearing, actually someone. Either they're going to be just as lost as we are, or they'll know a way out. Either way, we won't have anything to lose by following someone we find, right?"

[kolus]

He pressed his lips together, noting that Dipper had pocketed his compass.

“What do you figure the odds of that are? If there were anyone else here we would have run into them by now, don’t you think?” He paused to consider their options. Was there something they could have done differently?

“Maybe we should try shouting to get their attention!”