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.

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Totoko Yowai | Osomatsu-san

[mermaidol]

one;

[When Totoko tries to open her eyes, they're so crusted over with saltwater and sand that she wants to cry. Her mouth stings, and a cut sitting squarely in the corner of her lips makes her yelp out in pain as she spits sand. Of course, crying out just agitates it again, and...

Well, soon enough there's a wailing girl with seaweed in her hair waving her arms about with no cares as to who she alerts of her presence. In fact, as confused and alarmed as Totoko is, the more people to come and bring her to safety and pamper her the better, in her opinion. The foreboding atmosphere goes totally over her head.]

Heeeeee-eeeeeeeey! Somebody! I'm hurt, I'm hurt! Please, help!

[...She's a little bruised, at most.]

two;

[She was so wrong about this place.

Some bumps and scrapes are totally worth it to be treated like this. Sure, the literature they're offering seems kind of creepy and occult (she'll be avoiding that, thank you), and she has to wonder about what holds up as 'normal' in this town when they're worried about strangers eating them, but Totoko has put up with worse.

Years of Matsuno's, for example.

Oh yeah, it's all worth it to be treated like a princess.]

I definitely, definitely won't eat you if you can find me something warm and sweet to drink!

One!

[goes_all_out]

[Fiora hears the cries for help and comes running. How could she ignore an obviously scared girl in distress!]

Hey, it's all right! I can take you somewhere to get you all cleaned up, yeah?

[mermaidol]

[Thank goodness! A friendly sounding voice.

Friendly means a better chance of coercing them into carrying her. Of course, her usual self-serving attitude is a little dampened by the confusion of washing up on an unknown shore.]

Thank you... I don't really understand what's happened.

[She stretches up a hand towards Fiora.]

[goes_all_out]

[Oh, no, this poor girl. She seems so sweet and innocent, knowing why she's here makes Fiora's heart ache. But she'll be strong for her sake!

She take's Totoko's hand with her own, covered in blue scales. And are those fins?]

It's... it's all right! I'll do my best to help you, okay? My name's Fiora, what's yours?

im sorry

[mermaidol]

I'm Totoko Yow-

[What...? What... These scales. The fins. The sweet face...Could this be???]

Don't tell me you're trying to make it big as a fish idol too!!

[A RIVAL.]

LMAO

[goes_all_out]

[What.]

A fish... oh, goodness! No, no, I'm a mermaid, a real one! It's... it's a very long story, you see...

[Fret fret fret. She was hoping she wouldn't have to explain this already, that she could at least make sure the poor girl was safe and dry first!]

...What's a fish idol, exactly?

one!

[titularly]

[Things have been.. weird lately. From fighting with brothers to weird kidnappings and everything in between, Osomatsu was feeling oddly stressed out and decided to check out the beach where he heard newcomers were arriving just to see some fresh faces, mostly. He didn't expect to see anyone familiar on the shores so when he heard Totoko's voice, and saw her just a little bit away he has to take a double take. And then a triple take. And then he feels the sting of tears well up in his eyes and before he even realizes it, he's running at her with his arms out wailing like a big baby.]

TOTOKO-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!

[It's been six months since he's seen her last... how could he even live all this time without her...

....also don't mind the fact that he's a manticore now, okay? He's just.. a big cat-man with scorpion tails no big deal.]

oh my god

[mermaidol]

[There's a rule that, in this moment, Totoko has decided is one she should henceforth be living her life by. The rule is this: When in doubt, place blame on a Matsuno.

She flaps her arms about, yelling loudly and secretly very relieved that she's not alone.]

You stupid, stupid garbage!! You soggy, cold taiyaki! You-

[Of course, her initial reaction to that voice is totally derailed when Osomatsu is close enough that she can see him more clearly through the darkness and her own tears.]

Wh-- Wh-!!

[Is that shock? Horror?]

What is up with that hideous costume at a time like this?!

[Ah.]

he is Here also 1/2

[titularly]

["What is up with that hideous costume", she asks. And he almost, almost answers her seriously.. telling her that it's not a costume and that he's turned into an actual monster.

Almost.]

[titularly]

[But this is Totoko-chan we're talking to here, and the last thing he wants to do is have her hate him because he's a gross monster now or become scared of him or cry because she'll no doubt turn into one too. So Osomatsu stops in place and throws on a fake smile, pulling his hands up to mimick a cat as he talks.]

I-I thought it'd be fun to wear this to welcome you here, Totoko-chan! I'm Osonyatsu!

[He turns his wrist a couple of times for good measure.]

G-get it? Osonyatsu? Y'know, like.. nya?

[yes i did just find a way to write that out icly it happened]

two

[neetfreak]

[he hears her voice from across the street, even over the clamor of other noises. there are so many people pushing and shoving, civilians trying to get to the newcomers and warn them about turning into monsters. but Jyushimatsu only focuses on that one voice, it's a voice that he knows well, a voice he sometimes dreams about.

of course, it's Totoko-chan!

but why is she here? she doesn't deserve to be here, in this hellish place! Jyushimatsu spreads his demon wings and soars over the crowd, intending on plucking Totoko from the sea of bodies and carrying her away.

his plan looks a lot cleaner in his head. when Jyushimatsu swoops down, he catches on a sudden current that carries him right into a wall. ow.

still, he pops up, as though he didn't just crash, blood trickling down his face, and he heads straight for his childhood sweetheart]

T̲̳ͩ͑ͬ͛ͅȌ̦̬͎̦̣̩̑͝ṰÖ̹̻͉́͛ͥḲ̘͓̹͚̱ͣO͏-̗̟ͭ̅ͅĊ̢ͨ̆̓H̦͗̅ͮA̩̻͡Ñ̘͂͟!̫͙̪͚̱̪͗͠

[Jyushimatsu looks different. he wears primarily black and grey now, aside from the bright yellow bow tied near the tip of his tail... yes, tail. and he has fangs, and two sets of horns, and wings... yep]

thank you. thanks.

[mermaidol]

[The loud thud totally disrupts the atmosphere, and as Jyushi shuffles towards her, people yelp and quickly get out of the way. Totoko, for her part, seems nothing but disdainful of the fact that everyone is suddenly no longer paying attention to her.

Then, of course, she hears him, sees his body and the blood, and positively shrieks. It's less of a frightened shriek, however, and more of a 'I'm very much ready to punch you extremely hard in the face', shriek.]

Back up, back up, back uuuuuuuup!

[No time for a friendly reunion when there's a chance he could get some of that gross messy blood on her.]

thank *you* for totoko

[neetfreak]

[oh, no! Totoko is yelling! well, Jyushimatsu has been around her long enough to know that that is a war-cry. he stops running towards her just in time, holding up his hands]

Totoko-chan! It's me! Jyushimatsu! [he knows he looks scary, but he's still the same, weird Jyushimatsu! sort of!]

bless...

[mermaidol]

[As soon as there's no threat of her clothes getting all dirtied up, she calms down super quickly. Aside from that, to be honest, this isn't the worst sextuplet she could run into.]

Are you here to throw me a welcome party? Oh! And maybe you could explain to me how we got here? And why so many people are in such hideous costumes? Did I somehow sleep in the ocean all the way until Halloween?

[neetfreak]

We got here because the Fog God brought us, I think! [Jyushimatsu doesn't know all the details, he just knows it's the Fog God's fault. how dare the Fog God bring Totoko into all of this, this madness!] And she's turning everyone into monsters!

,, gomen 4 this asshole

[savagesaiyan]

[Vegeta hears a sound midway up the beach and listens closely. Even without his enhanced hearing he can still make out the pitiful screaming and hurries towards it, legs stinging from his cuts and bruises. Once he gets close enough he sees a small woman who seems to be in the same circumstances as him. She doesn't look like a threat and if he's ki-less...]

You there, girl! Did you just die?

[He wonders what someone so whiny could have done to get themselves into hell. Perhaps they were just too weak to live?]