TEST DRIVE MEME

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TEST DRIVE MEME: JANUARY

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

Re: 2

[tinypebble]

[ At least he's tiny and weak, so he's a pretty non-threatening monster. ]

Yes. I was human before I came here. Mostly.

[ 'Mostly' because his mind was so torn apart that he had thought of himself more as a 'nothing' than a 'human'. ]

[unehelichkind]

[ Tiny people have their own strengths. Camus is evidence of that.

He frowns at the 'mostly' in total confusion. ]

What do you mean with mostly?

[tinypebble]

[ Personally, Haru doesn't consider himself that strong in any department. ]

I mean I wasn't that much of a person.

[unehelichkind]

[ He wasn’t much of a person...what does that mean? ]

You look like a person to me.

[tinypebble]

It has nothing to do with how you look, it's an inside thing.

[ It's not a pleasant story here. ]

[unehelichkind]

[ He just frowns… He really doesn’t get it. He knows he’s not the smartest person around but… ]

I don’t get it.

[tinypebble]

If you've never been brainwashed I guess it's hard to get.

[ Sorry, he's not subtle. ]

[unehelichkind]

Brain...washed...?

[ Look is that even a thing in his time? Well, probably to some extent but is it called that yet?< Because he's imagining someone literally washing a brain and that just can't be healthy. ]

[tinypebble]

What, you don't know what it means? Lucky you.

[ He sure wishes he didn't. Especially first hand. ]

[unehelichkind]

Uh...it doesn't sound good for the brain.

[tinypebble]

Of course it isn't, they mess with your head until you forget who you are so they can put fake memories in it.

[unehelichkind]

That's mean. Did that happen to you?

[ Going by implications? ]

[tinypebble]

What tipped you off?

[ Rude. ]

Most of my life. I didn't know who I really was until I came here and they couldn't feed me drugs anymore.

[unehelichkind]

[ Ed doesn't really mind rude. ]

Just a guess.

That sucks. I mean, that they did that. It's good that they're unable to continue.

[tinypebble]

Yeah. Whatever, it's not like that solves all my problems.

[unehelichkind]

I didn't think so, but at least it solves that one?

[tinypebble]

I've got a thousand more though, but I guess.

[unehelichkind]

Mmh, I don't really get it but wouldn't it be good to talk about it to someone?

[tinypebble]

Didn't we just do that?

[unehelichkind]

Yeah, but I mean, more in-depth, that sort of talk.

[tinypebble]

Are you a psychologist?

[unehelichkind]

[ That is a term he knows. ]

No, I'm not. I'm a student in things like politics and stuff.

[ He doesn't care much for politics though he knows he needs to learn. ]

[tinypebble]

Not anymore.

[ That sounds stuffy, anyway. He thinks of his own 'school time' for a moment. ]

[unehelichkind]

Well.... I suppose that's fine, at least for a while.

[tinypebble]

It might be much longer than a while. No one can predict how long someone stays.