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

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[alphaophiuchi]

[ it's not a habit of Draco's that he ever goes out to greet the newbies. But he was out there anyway, so he thought that perhaps he'd do so. See if anyone needed anything, if they just needed a hand up or something like that. Whatever.

[ his tail moves effortlessly against the sand, each tight zig-zagging motion leaving a trail behind him. He's getting better at moving this way, and he's getting better at tasting the air. There's someone just up ahead, and he hurries to fall into 'step' with them, slithering along casually. ]

Are you just walking then? Because there are some directions you might not want to go in.

[sleight_of_fate]

[Okay, Rhys is used to taking a lot of things in stride but that is a lot of snake.

Snake.

Did he hit his head in the water? Well. He's going to be polite anyway. Or try to.

]

Well, my chances in the water didn't look great. I figured at least getting dry and getting to cover were a good plan.

[He looks back in the direction of the tracks that the naga has left.

But I'm definitely open to suggestions. I have no idea where I am and I almost just drowned. I could use a break.

[alphaophiuchi]

[ so much snake. Sorry about that. Draco sort of wishes he weren't this long too, but so be it. At least he's fast. ]

That's true. You probably don't want the water so much.

But I'm not entirely sure you want to approach the humans around here either. They're not...terribly fond of us, you see.

As disconcerting as my appearance is, I assure you, I'm perfectly safe. [ he holds up his hands in a show of surrender, or at least to show that he's unarmed. Not that he needs to be armed with those claws. ]