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

[naturallywavy]

<sub>[ Everything just keeps weirder and weirder. Gintoki freezes when he hears another voice and he turns his head to the skies, crimson eyes tracing over the area and then he sees it.
Probably the biggest wasp he had ever seen.

Gintoki has dealt with aliens— alien cockroaches that were about Karamatsu's size. Hell, he's even dealt with.. weird.. yakuza alien wasps that are Karamatsu's size. They weren't as buggy, though. Less limbs. Less flashy, of course, so this is a big nope on Gintoki's part. He hates bugs.

What do you do when there's a big bug in your house? You use your shoe. For some reason, that's Gin's thought too. ]</sub>

AHHHHHHHH!
_{[ off the boot goes. It goes flying, hopefully hitting Karamatsu in the back of his head.
As for Gintoki, well. He's running away, one barefoot, one boot. You may want to return that. ]}

[karappo]

Gbeh-!!

[Karamatsu gets struck with the boot head on, an impact that knocks him forward, nearly into the human in front of him. That human, meanwhile, has deemed this situation too risky now that a monster has shown up and is running in the opposite direction, leaving Karamatsu standing there clutching his head.

...then he wheels around to yell at a fleeing Gintoki with his face red, his antennae ramrod straight in anger.]

What the hell was that for!?

[naturallywavy]

<sub>[ Somewhere in the back of his mind, Gintoki hears a small, tiny voice.. telling him to go back and talk to the giant.. waap.. guy. His pace slows and he's a good distance away from Karamatsu. Maybe he could.. talk about where he is, and how he could leave. After all, he's probably native here, right? Though, Gin hadn't ever seen an Amanto so flashy before. Was he even an Amanto? Was Gin even in Edo at this point? It didn't appear so.

He decides to give the wasp a chance, so he looks over his shoulder and actually stops, intending to run back to Karamatsu. Though, Gin sees him again, and feels his stomach twist uncomfortably.

So.. he just cups his hands around his mouth and yells, speaking in a more polite manner: ]</sub>

I'm so sorry! We are just going to have to t-talk like this! You've just got too many limbs!
_{[ yeah.. a safe distance away. ]}

[karappo]

[Gin this is......difficult. You're lucky Karamatsu's hearing is just slightly better than it was now that he's got bigger ears, but it's not like- say- a were's.]

I c-can't help the amount of limbs that I have, you know! I am not going to hurt you!

[naturallywavy]

_{[ Huh. Not going to hurt him, eh? He can't help the way he is? Gintoki gets it, and he feels a little bit relieved.
And yet: ]}

I have a pretty strict contract! I agreed to no M*thra parodies! It just isn't going to work out between us!

_{[ ?????
ok now he's just kind of fucking around.. ]}

[karappo]

M*thra? What is M*thra now!? I am being serious here!

[This guy...]

[naturallywavy]

<sub>[ Man, this guy is persistent.
And Gintoki really.. he shouldn't push away somebody offering to help in a place that he really needs some answers to.

He falls quiet for a second, then curves his hands over his mouth again. ]</sub>

Oi! Do you possibly know where we are at!? You don't have a nest or anything around here, right? There's not a territorial queen I should be worried about, right?

[karappo]

[....ah.]

It is a long story! I can assure you that I will not harm you, but I would suggest you come with me to speak instead of shouting your intentions! Not everyone around here is as friendly as I, as you can already see!

[naturallywavy]

EEHHH? WHAT DID YOU SAY?
_{[ shit... ]}

[karappo]

I SAID- YOU SHOULD COME SPEAK WITH ME SO WE DO NOT HAVE TO SHOUT LIKE THIS!!

[naturallywavy]

ARE YOU SAYING COME "TAKE A LEAK WITH ME!?" IS THIS REALLY APPROPRIATE!? TAKE YOUR OWN DAMN LEAK ON YOUR OWN! I DON'T WANNA SEE YOUR BUG B*LLS!
_{[ he probably 1000000% understood Karamatsu, he's just...
analyzing Karamatsu's personality.. in a very Gintoki way. ]}

[karappo]

[..................]



THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID AT ALL!!

[naturallywavy]

_{[ maaaan. This guy is an absolute shmuck. Gintoki feels embarrassed for even feeling slightly threatened by him. Karamatsu might notice that somewhere in this process, he has inched a little bit closer to him. ]}

If you're embarrassed, I can look away. You don't want to keep all of that pent up in your buggy... thing.
_{[ He.. doesn't even know how all of this works. ]}

—It's just not a great idea to hold it!

[karappo]

Y- no! You are missing the entire point of what I've been saying!

[...]

Are you going to run away if I just come to you instead?

[naturallywavy]

_{[ Man, okay. This guy really wants to be helpful. Gintoki groans, exasperated already, it's obvious he doesn't want to deal with this, but slowly, he begins to re-approach Karamatsu. ]}

I don't think I've ever seen a more persistent bug in my entire life. ...Ah, okay, maybe not. There was a fly who was really trying to leave the bathroom window when I was taking a dump at JUMPFesta. He was probably in heat and wanted to screw some fly-girl before he died in the 24 hours of his life span. I mean, if I had only that long to live, I'd be trying to screw something too.

_{[ He stops, still a distance from Karamatsu, but it's enough where they can talk normally. He crosses his arms. ]}

Is this better?

[karappo]

[It's more like Karamatsu is worried he'll get himself killed directly with the way he's acting. That, and he'd like for him to get close enough so he can throw his shoe back at him.

Okay maybe not. ...but also maybe.

Also what the hell are you even talking about Gin...]

Yes. I am not a bug, though. At least not in a literal sense. I am a Faerie.

[naturallywavy]

_{[ flatly: ]}

A Faerie.
_{[ that's it, that's the tag. ]}

[karappo]

[You know he could still eat you and end this quickly, Gin.]

.....yes.

[naturallywavy]

Where the hell is your magic dust? Faeries aren't faeries without magic dust, oi.
Make me fly, T*nkerbell. I don't think I have any happy thoughts left in me unless
Ketsuno Ana's ketsunoana counts for something.

_{[ Is he mocking him or challenging him? A little of both. ]}

[karappo]

[Karamatsu's antennae twitch, and he lifts one of his hands and rubs his fingers together. A shimmery blue dust falls between them.]

I do not think you would enjoy me using my magic on you.

[No seriously, he means it.]

[naturallywavy]

_{[ Oh. It's shimmery. And shiny. Okay, you've got his attention.. kind of. ]}
So it can't make me fly like a Super Saiyan?
_{[ is that what you're saying.. ]}

[karappo]

Not that I am aware.

[Maybe he can?? But this stuff is...unpredictable. He doesn't know what all it can do yet.]

[naturallywavy]

—And if I don't believe in you anymore, you'll drop down dead?
_{[ why does he sound.. almost hopeful.. ]}

[karappo]

...I do not...think so.

[He actually doesn't know and now you've got him worrying about it??]

[naturallywavy]

_{[ Wow, talk about an identity crisis. ]}
... Alright, D*ckerbell. So what makes you a faerie anyway instead of a giant bug? Right now, I'm not really convinced. No magic flying dust? No believe-immortality? Seriously. You're all wasped up— I mean, washed up.
_{[ what's d*ckerbell.. ]}