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

[nolemon]

[Actually she's fairly certain it's going to be a great if (literally) shitty metal song. Ibuki's music is great and even if she'd give terrible advice to anyone? Hiyoko's sure that it'll just make things better.]

Got nothing better to do so, sure. The place is getting boring anyway. We can spruce it up a little. Do we need blood?

[She can catch a few birds.]

[fretless]

Is that even a question, Hiyoko-chan??

[Like, c'mon, she'll never pass a chance to play with (ethically sourced) blood and stuff!
But since Saionji's a big cat, it's okay, right? That's just nature that Ibuki happens to benefit from!]

Oh, oh, but - we gotta save the bones so we can sunbleach them, okay?
There's a lot of stuff we could trick out with those! Like an amp, or a micstand!

[Wait, you can't keep all the bones, Ibuki -]

Or, um... A fan, for your dancing!

[- Yeah, okay, that works.]

[nolemon]

Nah. I knew you'd say yes!

[Because they're bandmates and they know each other! And bird blood is just bird blood.]

Why not all of that! I can keep the feathers and you can have the bones!

[fretless]

Wait, wait - Ibuki didn't hear anything about feathers! She's gonna want feathers too, that's like... the best part of a bird!
Can we split'em fifty-fifty? Half the feathers and bones to each of us!

That way, Ibuki can use them to make some wicked hair accessories! Like the old days of metal, where hair was big, faces were painted, and spandex was all the rage!
Just don't call Ibuki's music hair metal.

[At this point, she rolls onto her stomach so she can hop to her feet, brushing off her shirt a bit before picking up all her paper and scraps.
Or some of them, anyway. There's a good pile of torn up pamphlets that Ibuki seems to have forgotten about. ... Or just doesn't care enough to pick up.]

Where're you gonna get all these bird bits, anyway?
I know Hiyoko-chan is an awesome cat now, but it's not like they're just everywhere... except pigeons, but pigeons are boring and Ibuki's gonna have to put a preemptive ban on boring birds.

[nolemon]

If you insist on sharing, I suppose I can allow you to use half.

[Hey, she can afford that.]

As if. Hair metal isn't really my thing, anyway. I can't dance to it at all!

[Though her tail twitches at the mention of pigeons.]

In Lager Woods, duh.

[fretless]

As if anyone can dance to hair metal... it doesn't even stand a chance against Ibuki's special stylings, right?

[This is where you agree because you're her cool friend that actually likes her music, Saionji.
As for the suggestion of where to get their gore supply...]

Umm.... isn't that place like, super duper dangerous for people who are still people? Like Ibuki?
I mean, Ibuki knows for sure that you'd be okay, since you've got that wicked tail and those claws of yours, but Ibuki's still pretty squishy and non-threatening.

[Not that she's scared or anything!!!
She's just, y'know.

Scared.]

[nolemon]

Right, right! Your music is so amazing.

[She actually is a friend and agrees. Ibuki's music is so cool? The others are cultural idiots.

Hiyoko puffs out her cheeks. Right. Right, she had forgot.]

If you're scared then maybe we can find some in the park. There's probably some song birds.

1/2?

[fretless]

Mhm! You know it!

[And Ibuki's all puffed up with pride. Because of course her music is amazing.
And Saionji's amazing for saying so!!]

But... killing little song birds just so we can make cool stuff out of their little song bird bones...

2/3 i lied

[fretless]

... Sounds totally awesome!!
Ibuki's gonna get a front row seat to wild nature in all its bloody glory!

[That's... punctuated with one of her usual, dumb laughs. Of course.]

And it's totally okay, since you're a cat! It'd just be a cat hunting a couple birds, right?

[fretless]

- Oh, but, but! Ibuki can only allow such senseless acts of violence if it's part of a performance!
So as a rule, you gotta bite the head off of at least one of'em! Preferably the biggest one!
And then you gotta show off your horns, like a real performer!

[Saionji doesn't actually have to do any of that.
In fact, it'd be a miracle if Ibuki remembered making these demands by the time they caught a few birds at all.]

[nolemon]

Is that all? Reenact what that madman did but with a bird?

[Ibuki, cats eat bird heads. She doesn't want to do it front of someone but... Well. She'll forget. Still she can't let her metal cred get away from her!]

Fine!

[Have some horns to prove her metalness.]

[fretless]

Hyahahaaaa~ You know exactly how to get me all riled up, Hiyoko-chan!!
C'mon, c'mon, let's go find some birds to shred!
Maybe Ibuki'll bite a couple, too!

[The horns are just making her more excited!!! Also, yes.
She's not gonna deny the madman thing. Like c'mon, that guy was objectively mad, even his fans know it.

But please don't let her bite any birds, she doesn't have anything to keep her from getting sick.]

[nolemon]

Haha, of course I do! You know what fun it is! As long as you don't eat the best ones, okay? Okay!

[It's practically a compliment, even coming from Saionji. That guy was crazy but he was fun.

Are you kidding? She's not going to because it'd be hilarious.]