Test Drive Meme: September

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TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER

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

2A

[nobirdsallowed]

[Well, kids in his day didn't do that. In fact, he's sure no one did that. Virgil would wonder why people did that now.]

[Perhaps it's just this kid. Virgil stops and stares at the tween lying in the fountain and wonders, maybe, if it's some kind of very realistic early Halloween mannequin. It only takes a few seconds of concerned onlooking to reach down and pick Bill up by one sleeve, concerned in case this is a not-yet-bloated corpse.]

[hypnagogical]

[He goes limp when Virgil takes his arm, allowing the man to pull him up and out of the fountain. He does look dead -- or, at the very least, not normal.

But the second his head is above water, he gasps, taking in large gulps of the air he's been missing. He cackles and breathes at the same time, squirming in Virgil's grasp.]

[nobirdsallowed]

[Oh fuck! What the hell is that thing. That can't be a normal kid.]

[This place is weird, you know what? Virgil immediately drops the squirming, giggling child and signs a quick 'what the hell?']

[hypnagogical]

[When Virgil lets him go, he makes no effort to catch himself. He drops onto the ground like a bag of wet sand, his laughter dying for only a split second before starting up again in earnest. ]

Oh! Oh! That was fantastic! My eyes are killing me!

[Which makes sense given that he was keeping them open underwater. They're all kinds of bloodshot right now.]

[nobirdsallowed]

[...Yeah seems like one of the weirdos who's been here for a while. Virgil takes a step or two back, staring at the little creep.]

[Asking if the kid is okay feels a bit unnecessary. But he should ask something- he hasn't figured out if the kid gets him or not yet, but he continues to sign.]

What are you doing in a fountain?

[hypnagogical]

[He signs back to Virgil without sitting up or lifting his head. Periodically, his eyelids twitch.]

I'm living life!

[Sure. That explains it.]

[nobirdsallowed]

[Why is this the one guy who knows sign language so far.]

[Virgil makes a very concerned sound in the back of his throat.]

You don't have to sign to me, I can hear. Living life is usually not trying to kill yourself.

cw: suicide

[hypnagogical]

That's where you're wrong, buddy!

[He sits bolt upright.]

Pretty sure everyone who's ever killed themselves did so while they were still alive!

[nobirdsallowed]

[Oh... dear. Virgil makes a face and continues to sign, as if this isn't a conversation he shouldn't bolt from.]

Yes but they weren't trying to stay alive. I heard trying to kill yourself around here is pointless anyway.

[hypnagogical]

Don't worry, chump.

[He starts dusting off his clothing... which doesn't really make sense, because you can't dust off water. ]

I'm not killing myself any time soon. I've got a whole list of stuff to get done before I give that a whirl.

[nobirdsallowed]

[He wonders if this creature has already begun his changes. There's the scariest realization; if Virgil begins acting this nutty, he may well just not be himself. That made it an unfortunate point.]

What kind of monster are you?