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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.

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[Having been eying the arcade with a similarly underwhelmed air, Asaka's overhearing of the somewhat brash remark turns her attention to the one who said it, and she purses her lips a bit before running a hand over the pinball machine herself.]

I'm not sure I'd say it like that, but it's not a domain fit for a god. Shouldn't a being with the kind of power they say they have show it in their domain?

[She sounds thoughtful, more than anything. If she joins either of these sides, she wants the promises that have been whispered in her dreams held to, especially the ones about leaving this place.]

Maybe they aren't as powerful as they say.

[Well, this one had enough power to at least pull her here without asking, but that only gives Raynie less reasons to trust it. "Seek us out", yeah right. The only thing she wants to seek is the exit.

When she speaks again, frustration is etched into every word.]

But hey, nothing else about this place makes sense, so why not a god's domain with little mechanicals and -

[She prods the pinball machine again, not very gently. The flipper swat the ball before it falls down.]

I don't even know what that is.

Then the ones following them should be prepared for a shock. [Asaka makes the remark a little imperiously, dropping her hand from the machine and glancing over to the little robots as if making sure they're not somehow being overheard. These gods don't seem to give much of a reason to follow past their promises, unless these people have just taken up with this one because he isn't the Fog God.

The word "mechanicals" makes Asaka frown a little in her own confusion, but it's obvious enough that she's referring to the robots that it doesn't bear remarking on. The pinball machine, however, is a stranger thing to not know, and Asaka takes a step up to it with the air of someone who's at least familiar with the cabinet, if not experienced.]

It's a pinball machine. They're not as popular as they used to be, but given the rest of the technology here, I'm surprised they even have this. If he's trying for a spectacle, though, the robots would be much more impressive to focus on.

No kidding.

[One final swat at the pinball machine before turning away. It's pretty repetitive; Raynie doesn't get why they would be popular in the first place. This land is far more advanced than she used to... except when it came to those machines. The lack of magic may be the reason, but if they made horseless carriages you'd think they'd come up with some form of thaumatech, too.]

I beat bigger things than those "robots".

It's not a matter of size, but technology. Robots are more complex than a pinball machine, and by this peninsula's standards? It would probably be a pipe dream to see even something like those. Spectacles are about showcasing the unexpected.

[Asaka makes the point as if it's obvious, and with the engaged tone of one who's considered what would make a good spectacle a bit more thoroughly than is maybe necessary. Still, they are a little underwhelming size-wise, and she looks one up and down for a moment before continuing.]

I wonder if they have any more specialised models than those.

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