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

[restinglichface]

[Understatement of the century.]

What, not a fan of the new me? Lucy, I'm hurt.

[Best prepare yourself, Lucretia, cause this wendigo is coming right in for the hug. It's been months since she's seen the other woman she's always considered one of her best friends, alright. Let the elf have this.]

Fuck, it's good to see you. You must be from the future or somethin', right? After we took out the Hunger? Taako told me all about it, but Bar and I are a little bit behind you.

[ballercookie]

[Lucretia freezes in place.] ... Taako told you? And you don't hate me? [Look. Considering everything her voidfish gambit had done to him, Taako was probably the least likely person to give an unbiased account of everything. Not that even an unbiased account would make her sound any good.

After a moment, though, she stiffly hugs Lup back.]

[restinglichface]

[Stiff or not, Lup takes her time with the hug, not quite letting go of Lucretia, but at least pulling away enough that she can catch the other woman's eye when she speaks again.

It's true that Taako's account of what had gone on was likely all in his own favor, but come on. Lup's never been afraid of forming her own opinions, even when they conflict against his.]

Me? Hating you? Now that sounds real fake. [She finally lets her arms drop, stepping back just enough that she can give Lucretia a proper look. Touched by time, of course, but still so untouched by Ryslig. That's bound to change.]

Can't say I'm a fan of everything that went down, but I couldn't ever hate you.

[ballercookie]

[She should have known. Lup hadn't hated her before either, when she'd been freed from Taako's umbrella just in time for the last fight with the hunger. But-- it was hard sometimes to know, you know.]

Yeah, I made some dumb-ass choices back then. I don't know if I'd have done anything differently, though.

[Which is kind of unfortunate and probably why Taako's probably still mad at her.]

[restinglichface]

[MMMMMMMM not the most reassuring thing to say, but considering this Lup hasn't lived through her umbrella years, she isn't quite as testy about it as she would eventually be.]

Dumb-ass choices also sound pretty on point with our brand, but maybe like, don't erase our fam's memory again. I don't think Bar an' Koko are gonna be quite as forgiving next time. We'd appreciate it next time some big vore monster comes calling.