graveyardsmash | Test drive meme: November

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

My name is Dr. Daniel Dickens... ah, but sometimes that can be a mouthful for some, so you're welcome to call me Danny if you'd like!

And indeed I'm not a stranger to it, though technically speaking, my right eye isn't very good... in fact, it's not even real, sadly.

[He says, with a slight tap of his fingers against the right side of his face near the aforementioned eye.]

"Oh! How careless of me!"

[Too close! A mistake like that could have cost him dearly with a client!]

"AndthisiswhyIpreferhavingintelfirst R-right Mr. Dicke-- Doctor! Doctor Dickens. I--"

[Better to go with the formality.]

"I-it's nice to see other men of intellect are here."

Indeed! [Just gonna ignore that first part of what you said, pal--] There are only a few of us here that work as doctors, or even as inventors, so I must say that I'm very happy that I have been given the chance to meet you here.

"Ah, yes, though with luck I won't be here long. I really can't afford to stay here. Business back home.. and all that."

[Not that it isn't nice to hear there might be a life he could carve into in this community. His life just already belonged to something else.]

"And what sort of practice do you operate, Dr. Dickens?"

Well, I'm the resident psychiatrist here at the clinic. I do however also have an extensive list of degrees in other aspects of the medical field, should the need to have that information handy arises in the course of treating my patients.

[Like cutting into someone's head to get to the source directly...]

"Oh. That's... nice."

[Flug nods just a tad too eager with feigned politeness. No offense Danny, a certified Mad Scientist just really doesn't do shrinks.]

"That is handy. I know my way around a scalpel myself."

[And taking apart and reconstructing DNA to make the stuff of nightmares... Or 5.0.5.]

"If I do get things running perhaps I could refer my customers to you."

[When fixing something physically just isn't enough.]

"Do you have a business card, by chance?"

As a matter of fact, I do!

[Here, Danny will take one out to pass along to Flug. It's standard business fair information wise, save for an eye drawn in the corner.]

In the meantime, how has your stay been here so far? I hope that you are adjusting well--after all, there is no way of knowing how long you might be here before you are able to return to work back home.

[Honestly with clients who theme their villainy through things like bat wings, spiders and illuminati symbols, an eyeball is a perfectly normal choice to add to a business card to Flug. He pockets it graceously.]

"It's been.. fine. As I've said, most of the people I work with aren't human already, so.."

[He shrugs.]

"No one has really tried to kill, kidnap or eat me yet-- a-as far as I can tell, anyway! Which is a step up from what I'm used to. On some days."

Really? What is it that you're normally used to, if you don't mind my asking?

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