Test Drive Meme: July

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TEST DRIVE MEME: JULY

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 is making all the cuts and scrapes on your skin 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 on the more informative end of the scale. 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 readers saying they're lies, or pointing out good "jokes."

Then there are 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.

Comments

[missionfail]

[Jasper doesn't even think to be offended because she isn't used to the word 'love' being used to address someone. It's more confusing than anything and she writes it off as some strange human thing - even though the being she's talking to isn't human at all.]

Jasper. [She grumbles the name out, not really caring to exchange names and niceties but at least he's being fairly upfront.]

And I don't care about your nicknames either. Just give me one name and I'll try to care enough not to forget it.

[She doesn't expect that she will forget it, as he's unique looking enough that his name and face should stick with her for a while. Creatures that weren't gems did vary a lot more in appearance, though, so she could see how it would get hard to keep track of everyone after a while.]

[godofnothingness]

[The only time he's been human is a few slow weeks between monster changes. Beyond that, it was something else entirely.

Something that's hard to explain. But he nods, and grins.] Aw, no worrying about if you forget or not then, 'Jasper', [he starts, grinning.] You seem to forget or slip, I'll just have to remind you- the name's Loki. Former god of chaos and free will, not that that sort of thing ever means much here, [He laughs, shrugging.] Just some sort of rodent thing, now. Nice to meet you~

[missionfail]

A god? [Jasper snorts. Gods weren't a gem thing at all.]

Aren't gods supposed to be powerful? You'd think if you were worth worshiping you wouldn't be subject to being turned into monsters like everyone else.

[She couldn't see a Diamond being corrupted like a regular gem, and they're the closest thing her kind got to deities. This guy can't be any better than her.]

Lowkey, huh? Chaos is overrated.

[godofnothingness]

Heh! Normally yeah, I think the prick cheated if you ask me- between passing my power willingly to humanity to stay alive, and letting myself get remade and all....

...Got myself caught in between there- couldn't have done anything if I tried, [He adds. It'd be a bit as though a diamond were snatched up while in the middle of stasis, if such a thing could even be comprehended.

If shattering could be, after all...

Still.] Depends on what your definition of Chaos is, if you ask me though. 'Chaos' at the core is 'nothing'- the void that brings everything and anything into existence.

Without chaos....there wouldn't be anything else, right?

[missionfail]

[As Loki is talking, Jasper glances not so stealthily from one side to the other. The regular townspeople seem to be purposefully ignoring them for now, which is a good thing. They know better than to get between a monster and a potential monster. It also means no one else will notice when she shoves a muffin into her mouth.]

Hmmph. Awh donneed--

[She stops herself, since apparently talking and eating at the same time isn't going to happen. Stupid human limitations. (Not that gems can really talk with their mouth full either, but most don't even bother indulging.)

Swallowing much too large a bite, the former gem has to take another moment to cough and clear her throat.]

... I don't need to hear you go on about the subject.

[godofnothingness]

[There is, remarkably, no comment on the shenanigans at hand as Jasper discovers how muffins and eating works. Loki just waits, and after a moment grins.]

You don't need to, love- already finished! Muffin taste decent?