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

[arpeggriko]

Eh?

[Riko's still recovering from the sudden approach by that woman, holding onto her blanket like she isn't sure what to do with it. She reaches into her own and pulls out a similar pamphlet, though one with writing that's slightly different.]

..."So you're becoming a Fur Bearing Trout"...?

[nandemonai]

[Maki reads her own] "Monster Hunger and You." [??????

after wrapping the blanket around herself and over her head, she starts reading through the pamphlet more carefully, out loud]

"So you're new to Ryslig. Welcome, stranger from another world!" [Maki eyes Riko, then goes back to the pamphlet and continues on. there's information on the town, the people, and places of interest. then she gets to the next paragraph]

"This may come as a surprise to you, but your arrival is no accident. It was carefully planned and coordinated by the Fog God..."

[arpeggriko]

Fog God?

[Okay, this is turning into a lot of echoing words, but Riko can't really help herself. It just sounds so...absurd that she doesn't really have anything better to say about it.]

This place...claims to be a whole different world? How is that possible?

[nandemonai]

It can't be possible. [Maki's not going to believe it until she has actual proof. though... she's never heard of Ryslig before, and she's done a bit of traveling.

she reads a bit more, eyes quickly scanning over the text until she comes to something that makes her pause. she reads it a second time, then a third time, then gulps and reads it out loud]

"Now that you're here, you will begin to change into a monster..." [no way. this pamphlet is full of nonsense! but then... why does Maki feel scared by those words? she thinks about the crowd with the gun, and how they had said they found a monster]

[arpeggriko]

[...]

That...surely isn't meant literally.

Right?

[nandemonai]

It can't be.

[Maki moves to toss the pamphlet into the nearest trashcan, but then thinks better of it. even amid the nonsense, there was some useful information in it]

Maybe we should... try talking to someone.