TEST DRIVE MEME

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TEST DRIVE MEME: MARCH

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

[maledictus_semper]

I'm just wondering what I'll end up transforming into. Do you know how this process happens?

[Ardyn isn't a stranger to becoming a monster, since he had lived with monsters inside him for years, yet this was different. It seemed you couldn't hide all your monster features and summon your powers at will. This place was very different. It made Ardyn uneasy knowing that some higher power had control over you within this monster-filled world. He liked being the one in charge.]

I suppose there is no way to halt this process?

[girl_at_the_window]

If there is, I ain't heard aught about it. And I'd guess it'd be pretty well-known if there was. That's the kind of knowledge people'd kill for.

It just... happens. The fog comes in, and you start changin'. Can't guess what you'll be ere then.

[maledictus_semper]

The...fog? Would you care to clarify what that is? Or, rather, what it does when it rolls in?

[Since all these things were new to him, albeit, very odd. Fog that makes you change? Ardyn didn't like that one bit. He wanted to be who he was now, not some obscene monstrosity. Also, she mentioned him being something but she didn't know what exactly. Oh joy.]

[girl_at_the_window]

It's fog, is all. Rolls in 'bout once a month, and everythin' goes to shit for everyone who ain't been here more'n a few months.

[maledictus_semper]

I suppose there is no way to keep out of this fog's way?

[A ship that could take people away or an air ship to rise above the clouds? A man could dream of many ways to escape becoming a monster.]

[girl_at_the_window]

I don't know if that'd help. It don't have to touch you or aught, it's more like... a sign, do ya ken? Tells you it's time.

[maledictus_semper]

Unstoppable then. What a pity. It seems we're all doomed to become monsters within this place.

[He was trapped it seemed in this world. At least, until he found a way out of this hell. He had to get back home to Eos. The Empire needed him. He had to fulfil his own agenda too; ending the line of the Lucis Caelum kings.]

Has anyone ever escaped from here and gone back to their own world?

[girl_at_the_window]

[She shrugs again.] Hell if I know. There's people who've died or gone missin', and there's those who'll tell you they went home, but I ain't seen a scrap of proof for it.