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TEST DRIVE MEME: MAY

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 of the natives are trying to get on your good side with 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? 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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[Looking directly at him might be a little hard, since Nagisa's still hiding because he's an asshole. He COULD come out and have a proper face-to-face conversation, but playing Cheshire Cat in a nearby tree is a lot more fun. Spooky voice is just more appropriate for the setting, you know?]

"Here" is Dyster, the Fog God's realm. But the only people who can come here are her followers and their guests. It should be impossible to get here without a key.

[Curiouser and curiouser.]

I wonder... [A thoughtful pause.] Hmm...was it a woman's voice you heard?

Dyster, huh...

[Jimmy looks briefly around where he's standing, as if he's looking for the source of the voice speaking to him. Really, he's just trying to get a better look at where he is.

He takes a few steps forward.]

Say, how'd you know?

Well, like I said, this is the Fog God's realm. And for all intents and purposes, the Fog God is a woman.

[Sort of. In as much as fog can have a gender.]

If one of her followers didn't bring you here, then there's really only one explanation... Hup!!

[With that, Nagisa finally swings down out of the tree with the use of his back vines, landing firmly on his weirdly talon-like root feet. He straightens up, sweeping his bangs back off his face as he does so and looking directly at Jimmy.]

She must have given you a direct invitation and brought you here herself.

[Nagisa's sudden appearance is surprising, and it causes Jimmy to take a quick step back to give the Nymph room to stand. He's immediately impressed, though. Nice sticking the landing, there.]

Woooah...yeah nah, I came here by myself! Does that mean she needs me for something?

[He folds his bark-covered arms over his chest, looking thoughtful.]

Well, she's always looking for more followers. But...if she needs you for something specific, I wouldn't know what it is. You'd have to ask her yourself.

[Followers? Gee, that doesn't sound ominous or like something Jimmy should be worried about at all.]

Gee, really? Well how am I sposed to ask her if I can't find her?

[Definitely not ominous at all.]

To tell you the truth, there's not much point in looking for her. I'm not sure if she actually has a physical presence, other than the fog. You just kind of...start talking to her and sometimes she answers.

[You just gotta talk to the air and hope she's listening.]

[That sounds a little crazy, forget ominous...but you know who else is crazy?]

Like an echo?

[He's in good company then!]

Mmm..not exactly. It's more like...having a conversation with a ghost. Or an invisible person.

Oooh...that's awesome! I've talked to ghosts before, they're pretty cool!

[But she's not a ghost...]

So you've talked to her before? What'd she say? Did she have something she wanted you to do?

Ah, well...then you have an idea what to expect.

[She's really not, but...it's close enough. Nagisa nods.]

I've spoken to her a few times. I'm one of her followers, so it would be weird if we'd never spoken at all. She did have something specific she wanted me to do once, though. But it's a task I've already completed. It wasn't a long term mission or anything. And I can only assume she will have more tasks for me as time goes on, but at the moment, there's nothing special she wants me to do.

Huuh...so I guess she must have lots of people following her, if she's talking to folks in their heads and asking them to go places...I mean, I didn't hear about anyone like this when I first got here! At least, not until just now.

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oops sorry I forgot Nagisa was hidden still

it's okay friend

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