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TEST DRIVE MEME: MARCH

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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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Now, now, nowww, Ethaaaannn! [And once again, harder-edged.] ETHAN! [Consciously hearty.] Well!

You said beating, didn't'cha?

[Lucas isn't... actually up for testing that, himself! But durn if any tension added onto all that was there of its own nature already doesn't lend to him keeping his grin and his eyes fixed.

He takes a quick, audible breath.]

You know what else, though! I'm --

[He lets his lungs deflate a little bit. He speaks the next a bit more flatly. Creeping-ly and hoarse. Sure, he might not want do risk a physical fight, but he's not done killing you, motherfucker.]

-- I'm hurt as all hell that you'd just go on and -- [Further tension. His brow furrows, his smile pulls all the tighter, his head ducks, and he gives his hands, with fingers bent, one downward shake in front of him.] -- drop me like that!

You know?!

Lucas, I would drop kick you until you can taste the end of my shoe. Do not tempt me.

[Back at you, bucko. Then again, if he were to need any help, he's up the proverbial creek without a paddle.]

Either we're in some part of Louisiana coastline, or we are shit out of luck.

[What's more, the codex was deader than their chances of getting out of here. They had to work together]

I'm headed inland.

Edited 2017-05-09 02:49 (UTC)

[You make your threats, Holmes, he's gonna... not so much as genuinely grin but sneer and leer at them. Man, if he doesn't want a fight.

Except that what he wants is less a fight, in a traditional sense, and more, well...

And you know what? Lucas'd sure like to think he'd know the Louisiana coastline better than Ethan would, thank you very much, and yet that's someone who's spent disappointingly little time significantly away from Dulvey.

But even all of that aside?

When Ethan says that last bit!

He outwardly-squeezes a laugh as if he's one o' the devil's bath toys - "ah-haaaaaaaaaaaaaa...!"

And then barks out:]

Hope you don't mind if I come with, partner!

You and I both got some recon to do!

[Even the word partner sounded mocking in Lucas' voice. And yet that's what they were, unwilling partners in a strange land that the more they walked inland, the less it looked like the Deep South and more like...Europe?]

Fine, just shut your trap and no funny business, okay? I get enough headaches from you existing.

[If they don't end up murdering each other before their changes, he supposes.]

[A bout of giggling - holy shit, Ethan is actually letting him do it!]

Ohhhw, sure, suuuure! ["Shore, shooooore!"

Hands up a moment again, and a tilt of his head up a bit!] -- You don't got to worry about me, all right?

[Alas for partnerships of convenience -- every step of the way, Lucas is going to be hanging back, as much as he's permitted to. Taking in the scenery (speaking of shores) and interpreting it wound among flares of a nearly competitive brand of anger and disconnected, for-now-in-a-vacuum thoughts of this man's bloody rending burning tearing ripping screaming kicking smearing DEATH.

He's somehow simultaneously gratified with at the moment as a bit of play on its own, in some bizarre, by-design way and acutely not. Not, not, not. This isn't how it's meant to go, and this isn't how it's gonna end.

Still? What genuine amusement he's got going filters into his tone of voice automatically when he speaks. Light. Thinly-bubbling.

He raises his hand, annnnd doesn't wait to be called on.]

...Saaay, uh! [A couple of sharp, smothered coughs.] -- Ethan?

[So much for shutting his trap.]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Agh, now it's my turn to apologize for the time I took! Also let me say I've been loving your Ethan!

wow thank you so much! Lucas is on point five stars

Aghh, I'm /unspeakably/ happy if you approve of the job I'm doing with 'im, and thank you so much!

<3 keep up the amazing work!

Haa, I'll hope to - and the same to you!