Test drive meme: November

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TEST DRIVE MEME: NOVEMBER

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

[fretless]

[As he'd gone on his tirade, Ibuki - in her travel form, no less - was actually a very willing audience, even sitting back on her haunches as one would expect from a fox!
Keeping herself nearby as he rambled on seemingly to himself, tail wagging, ears perked, and everything.

In fact, for a moment, it's debatable whether or not this is just...
A normal fox.

At least until he asks what he's sure is a rhetorical question, getting a tilt of her tiny fox head.]

Oh, I dunno... Ibuki would love to talk stuff like that! Or, well, um -
Music parts, anyway.

Could we do that?

[lestatusquo]

[Au contraire, Liam readily assumed that this was no ordinary fox! He's fresh out of a school wherein one of the resident wavers was a small, magical cat! Who is he to question the monstrous nature of a fox adorned with punk jewelry? If she had been a normal fox, it would have simply been all the more reminder of - as much as he loves animals, he swears! - yet another of his least favorite things about them:

They are such callous listeners.

...Don't take his speaking to you with his eyes skating up and around yours proper - the intermittent rolls, or chill-checking looks aside, or surveying the tip of your snout - badly, by the way, Ibuki. A monster develops habits when he's used to being able to utterly entrance people with a maintained stare. What a cheap way to draw others into your mystery!

He appreciates your listening, as evidenced by... another flick of his eyes aside, and a sink into a bit of a grumbling sigh of resignation...?]

As... altruistic of an offer as that is, don't worry about me. I don't need your pity.

[And another lift of his eyes into a semi-roll, as his voice swells somewhat.]

I'm resigned to my new fate! I'm prepared for every philosophical opinion and iota of knowledge on all things actually meaningful I've amassed over centuries dead to be overlooked because monsters just see a brute with organs hanging out of his teeth!

[He looks back down to her - eyes... semi-crossed as he grimaces.

Apparently around the intenstines!

Which he knows are there! But is not doing anything about!]

I don't suppose you're aware of all the werebear musicians who've been primarily responsible for pushing the envelope on modern indie electroclash and post-prog as we know it?

[Despite the... additional layer of grumble, it was meant as a rhetorical question, not a gatekeeping one.

Because of course you don't know, surely.

No one knows!]

[fretless]

It's not pity! Ibuki means every word! She's talked to people with waaaaaay worse things hanging out of their teeth, before!!
Plus it's super nice to meet a bear that doesn't want me to kill my friends, for once!

[Forget that she's actually met like, two werebears before - they don't count because one disappeared and the others didn't maintain contact.
Her memory span is that of a gnat and people need to accept this.

That said, she even pads forward, her snout scrunching up a bit at what he follows that up with.]

Not any werebear ones, no, but Ibuki totally gets what you're talking about... you're not tellin' me that's spread across universes now too, are you!?
Ibuki's all for experimentation and going against the mainstream in her music, but some genres really just gotta learn to stay in their lane, sometimes...!

[That's followed with a flick of her paw, as if that gesture actually... adds something meaningful...]

What's it like here, with the werebears??