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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[goes_all_out]

No one is really that monstrous.

[Wholesome JRPG Protagonist here and ready to debate!]

Your heart is still human, isn't it?

[fractured_white]

[Oh good, his least favorite type of person. Though the native, at least, seems relieved for the chance to break for it as Albedo turns to the interloper.]

My heart? Not quite. Such a thing would require me to have ever been human in the first place, would it not? A weapon born and raised upon the blood of others, a killer by his very nature...what shred of humanity lies within that heart? I was a monster from the moment I was given flesh...or do you mean to proselytize the concept that all posses this concept of a human nature?

[goes_all_out]

[Her smile fades, and the look on her face is one of pity. Who hurt you, strange white-haired guy?]

Do you really think you have to be what you were made to be? Your future is in your own hands!

[fractured_white]

[Many people. Many people hurt him. Not that he'll admit to it outside of showing hatred.]

Oh, I've already spread far beyond the purpose of my existence. Freed from the cage of my creator's intent, yet it doesn't make me any less the beast. Slaughter is written into my very nature, combat into my own blood. I feel no greater joy than while wringing the life from my enemies on the field of battle...still going to say I'm not that monstrous?