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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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Kotoko-chan? [That sure sounds like his pink haired friend somewhere in the mass of humans handing out pamphlets. Jataro has never been one to ignore his curiosity, so rather than just stand around and wonder if it's her, he starts weaving his way through the crowd in search of her. And when he actually catches sight of the girl...well. It's unmistakable who she is. There are a few adults pushed out of his way (as best as possible) so he can get to the front.]

Kotoko-chan, it is you!

[The mer's fan shaped tail fin is spread out excitedly and the ten smaller fins on his calves are perked up, because this is great?? This is great!!]

Are you reading those things? The adults here wrote them, so they probably were thinking bad things while doing it. Some of them aren't bad though. I like the ones about the bunnyipyips. When did you get here?

Edited (so excited i forgot to pick an icon) 2017-05-13 16:13 (UTC)

[She was amusing herself with the pamphlets, specifically that one she'd just so loudly spoken about, but she snapped out of it immediately when she heard her name called.

...eh? That voice...]

Jataro-kun! No way!

[Yep, absolutely no mistaking that voice! She didn't even exactly care enough to notice his... different... appearance.]

Bunnyipyips sounds totally gross too! [She squeaks and then rolls up the pamphlet to smack the top of Jataro's head.] And there's no "probably", Jataro-kun. Of course they were thinking all sorts of bad things!

[A small sigh.] I just - [She suddenly stops. Suddenly realizing something, she makes a gasp, but it's not exactly a frightened one.] Are those gills?!

[There's a soft sound at the smack, sleeved hands raising to cover the top of his head. Sure, he's still wearing his mask, but that doesn't mean he wants to get hit again!! But of course they're gross too, what was he thinking. He thought maybe the fact that they were bunnies would make them "adorbs" but, as usual, that's just him.]

I guess they would be, since I like them...

[And then he lowers his hands, tilting his head a little at the mention of his gills to full expose them. You could see two or three peeking out before, but he's got a full set of five on each side it seems.]

Uh-huh! I'm a mermaid, so I have gills now. They really work, too! I can breathe underwater and everything!

[Oh Jataro, you've got a lot to learn in the ways of adorbs. At least, in understanding Kotoko's definition.]

That's for sure! You being a fan of something is like... the first sign there's an eww factor!

[Again, she lets out a gasp once he tilts his head. It was amazing! Weird, but amazing! Still, he wasn't completely adorbs or anything, so that amazement wasn't all "good" or anything.]

You? A mermaid, Jataro-kun? I guess you are unexpectedly adorbs under that mask, but! [It was definitely weird to accept. And he was too enthusiastic about it!] What's the point in breathing underwater?

D-don't worry, I'm not a pretty or cute mermaid!

["Unexpectedly adorbs under that mask"?? What in the world is she talking about? He's caught off guard by that, and figures that maybe she's mad that he's going to turn into something nice. But that's definitely not the case!!]

Shingetsu-kun said I'm gonna be a lobster! I'm gonna have an ugly shell and those big, weird antenna and claws that are gonna make it hard to do anything, so I'll probably spill all my paint and my food and be messy and gross all the time...so I'll still be really gross. Really, really gross, and really ugly! My face will be even worse than it is!

[He'll be the ugliest little monster!!]

And I won't make you look at me if something grows up from my head and breaks my mask either. I'll make a new mask, and wear a paper bag or something until it's finished!

Oh but... [Right, she asked a question.] I can swim longer and go down really deep if I can breathe underwater. And I can talk to fish, and fish are underwater...so if I want to talk with them a lot, I'll have to stay under the water for a long time.

[What the heck, Jataro! All of that isn't good at all!]

Eww, eww, eww! Jataro-kun's gonna be sooo gross! [She sounds excited, but really, she's not going to be happy if he's not adorbs. But this is Jataro, so she kind of had to expect that, right?]

You better not! If it comes down to it, I'll make you something super adorbs to wear.

[She listens to his explanation on his abilities, but she doesn't seem all that impressed. Besides, she's still hung up on the other things he just told her. Becoming a lobster? Why a lobster of all things? They don't even taste that good!]

...Who cares about being underwater! Sea creatures are slimy and gross!

B-but it's better if I'm gross! If I'm cute, people won't hate me! Nobody hates you, Kotoko-chan, so that's not good at all for me!

[Be kind to him, Kotoko. Don't make it impossible for people to hate him, how could you do something like that? How could you be so cruel?! And then he adds, a little quietly:]

I care about being underwater...

[He likes his fish friends. Slimy and gross though they are.]

Sheesh, use your head, Jataro-kun! Everyone likes me 'cause I'm super duper adorbs! You need to become adorbs too!

[Sorry, Jataro. She's trying to help in her own way! Or maybe not. She likes seeing him panic about something like this.]

I guess it suits you. [And then suddenly she thinks of something that might just change her mind about the water.] Oh, oh! Can I use you as a surfing board?

I don't want people to like me... [He doesn't want to be adorbs!! But hey, that's a good question. Could she use him as a surfboard...?]

Well, since I can breathe underwater, I guess you could use me as a surfing board. I don't know if I'd be a very good one, since it's not like I'm good at anything else, but all I'd have to do is just stay really still and let you stand on me...

[That probably wouldn't be too hard?]

Geez, speak up, Jataro-kun! Or else I'll think you're adorbs!

[She doesn't exactly mind swimming or anything (despite her questioning Jataro on why he likes the underwater) but who knows what disgusting types of stuff is in the water here.]

Yeah, you wouldn't be a very good surfboard or anything. [She sighs in agreement.] Buuuut I could just sit on your back! That'd be fun, wouldn't it?

Edited (just noticed i missed a (pretty significant) letter in a word omg) 2017-05-17 22:42 (UTC)

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her favorite person to tease!! in all seriousness HYPE

his favorite person to...well no he's p happy being teased by everyone lbr. but kotoko-chan!!!!!!!!!

you're too cute jataro u have to be teased by everyone

if someone isn't teasing him there's something wrong with them, it's fact. also 1/2

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tbh!!

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