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

[bouncingback]

I guess? I'm from a continent.

[Some people might say that the US is the center of the world, but North America certainly isn't the only continent on it. It's a weird question that sounds as if he's only familiar with one. Secluded much?

He could just have a weird way of phrasing it.]

If you know more about this place than you're letting on I'd appreciate being caught up to speed.

[It hadn't seemed like he'd known anything else, but maybe he doesn't feel like sharing. People like him tend to be dismissive of people like Johnny. He's used to it. Stodginess deflects enthusiasm.]

[cannotabideamystery]

[Now the kid was implying there was more than one continent? That seemed rather incredulous. Just how large was the world to accommodate more than one continent? No map Daud had ever seen showed more than one large land mass set far away from the islands that it dwarfed. If there was more than one... Daud could not imagine where it would be hiding much less how long it would take to get to it. Pandyssia took long enough to reach as it was.

Daud shook his head, mostly to clear it from its stray thoughts but it also served well enough as an answer to the kid's demand.]

I don't recognize the area.

[He had traveled the isles for a while in his youth, but not everywhere. Certainly he had spent most of his time on or around Gristol and therefore knew the most about the larger island of the empire. It's capital had, eventually, served him well as a hunting ground. But this place was not somewhere he had traveled nor looked familiar enough to guess based on his personal knowledge of the region or from what he had read of in his numerous books over the years.]

Pandyssia is as good a guess as any. [A pause and then, with the faintest hint of amusement:] The Overseers say that those from the Far Continent are blasphemous creatures, sub-human and foul practitioners of dark rituals and black magic.

[If only Johnny knew what Daud thought of the Overseers and their zealous religion. Least to say, he was not exactly high on the list of favorites when it came to the Overseers; he was considered a dark practitioner of black magic himself, wanted for worshipping the dread Outsider and using His dark gifts for horrible crimes. Technically, they were not wrong.]

[bouncingback]

Oooooh-kay.

[They're definitely not on the same page here. This guy sounds like he's from some place or maybe even world that Johnny isn't familiar with. Another planet? That's not unheard of in his universe. He's just not normally the sort of guy that gets these kind of contacts.]

Well. Maybe we're talking about a different Far Continent. I promise I've never practiced black magic. [He doesn't say anything about the other accusations, partially for comedic effect and partially because some people might argue he falls into those other categories. Honestly it depends on who you ask.]

I think we can both at least agree that we have no idea where we are. That's as good a starting point as any.