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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.

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Big, scary, man-sized buggers, look just about how you'd think something called a lobstrosity would look like. Like to say 'did-a-chick' and 'dod-a-chock' and the like. Also, they eat people.

On the other hand, they taste really good if you get the shells open and roast 'em.

[She shrugs.] I dunno how you got here, but I went through a door.

[Yeah, no, he's not making any headway into getting all this sand off. It's just going to keep clinging to his skin and his clothes until the day he dies, like glitter only considerably less fabulous-looking.]

What kind of door are we talking about here? The regular kind, or -

[He gestures with his hand, his finger spinning in a small circle as he whistles the most memorable part of the Doctor Who theme-song.]

[Sadly, even though it's aired in Britain by Susannah's time, Doctor Who won't come to American PBS stations for a good eight years after she last saw New York.]

The kind that stands in the middle of nowhere and when you look at the other side, it's not there.

[Yep, that sure sounds like a rift in space-time to him.]

I don't suppose this portal- sorry, this door- is still open by any chance?

[He places a hand flat against the small of his back, one eye wincing shut as he pops a few kinks out of his spine.]

[Susannah takes a look around, just to make sure.]

Sorry, hon. It's gone.

Welp.

[Undeterred, Ford puts his hands on his hips, takes a short look around, then turns his attention back to Susannah. He smiles.]

Seeing as I'm stuck here for the foreseeable future, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to introduce myself.

[He sticks out a hand, offering it to Susannah to shake.]

Greetings. My name is Dr. Stanford Pines.

...Do people in your universe say "greetings?" I have no idea what the appropriate level of formality is here.

[She takes the hand.] Susannah Dean. Missus, [she adds after a moment because she and Eddie never did have proper wedding rings. Technically they didn't have a proper wedding, although she suspects that Roland as dinh and gunslinger both probably had the power to marry them in a legal fashion.]

It's a bit formal, but yes. We say 'greetings,' Dr. Pine.

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