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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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You could just turn them down...unless your plan really was to gather kindling, because you've done an admirable job at that.

[Sorry Nico, this blue-haired woman has been watching that particular disaster from a short distance, and is making that remark with an amused tilt to the side of her mouth. There's a few pamphlets in one of her hands as well, but it looks like she started turning them down after getting a few of the more ridiculous ones, if the title "How to prevent fur-bearing trout hair loss" is any indicator. After a long look over his crammed pockets, Asaka offers her own papers out with that same amusement.]

If you can do something useful with them, that's more than I've gotten from them so far.

[ when you live in a world where greek myths are real and your dad is the god of the underworld, things like blue hair aren't actually that surprising. it helps that one of his boyfriend's siblings at camp tends to dye hers a vivid shade of green. what he is thrown off by is the way he's addressed so familiarly and he certainly isn't keen on the amusement sparkling in her eyes.

leveling a flat stare at her, he snatches the extra papers if only because he's been given an earful on more than one occasion about littering by satyrs and dryads alike. and after having met the now deceased god pan, nico doesn't want to be held responsible for leaving trash around. regardless of how annoying it might be. and yes, kindling would be nice. he doesn't really have any mythomagic cards to burn this time around. ]

All I need are matches and I definitely can make use of them.

[His attitude only seems to make Asaka's smirk widen more, and she lets him snatch the papers away with no resistance, dropping her hand to her side. However, when he mentions matches, a thoughtful look comes over her face before she reaches down to feel at the pockets of her blazer and skirt.]

I ran into someone handing them out before, but maybe they ran out before you reached them...aha, there we are.

[Flicking a small box of matches out of one pocket, she catches them delicately by a corner on the tip of her finger, letting them spin in place in a needlessly showy fashion for a few moments before bending the digit back a little to drop the box into the palm of her hand.]

Apparently all you need to do to get spares around here is impress them with basic dexterity.

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