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

[antivillainy]

[Yang feels around for the wound in her torso, for the bloody slit in her shirt...and would you look at that? It's gone, all of it. Looks like Raccoon Man was right, she is alive. Apparently this place was nice enough to fix her shirt back up, too--talk about going above and beyond. 10/10, would wash up here post-stabbing again.]

Oh, I get called a monster all the time. [Oh god she's stroking his hand again.] But you don't see me with claws and fur, so that hardly seems fair.

["Kind of weird" is putting it far too lightly... but Juno hasn't gotten to truly see Yang in action just yet. There's plenty of time to correct that weirdness level evaluation.]

[junosteel]

[His fur bristles even more when Yang goes back to stroking his hand. It feels nice, yes, but also

help]

I meant literally, not--I mean, you're going to turn into a monster eventually. Physically. Fun, I know. I can't help you about the other thing.

[He's getting the sneaking suspicion that maybe this person isn't of reputable moral standing if she's going on about being told she'll go to hell or being called a monster.]

Just a question, um--who, uh, exactly are you?

[He doesn't just mean her name, but....]

[antivillainy]

I'm Mr. Yang. [She bats her eyelashes at him in a way that's intended to be playfully flirtatious, but probably comes across more as creepy than anything.] But you can just call me Yang.

[Is she actually flirting with him, or is she just trying to unnerve the poor guy who was kind enough to come to her aid? Yang sure as hell isn't telling. In either case, it's more fun to let him sweat it out.]

Now. Tell me all about this whole monster deal. I am just dying to know more.

[junosteel]

[yeah he's pretty creeped out right now and boy howdy that hand isn't going anywhere huh. he's just gonna. stay like this because it's not like he has a choice, anyways. he coughs, his whiskers twitching in discomfort.]

You treat every detective you meet like this? [Despite the joke, there's definitely a note of discomfort in his voice. Congratulations!]

Uh, monsters. Yeah. Some asshole people call the Fog God brought us here, yadda yadda, everyone who comes here eventually turns into a monster of some sort. You could probably learn a lot more by reading those weird pamphlets people give out whenever new people appear on the peninsula.