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

[hantale]

[The short laugh that escapes afterwards makes it fairly clear what the kelpie's thoughts are, though he passes the boy an apologetic look and nods either way.]

I know, but you're far prettier than you give yourself credit for... But, lets not dwell on that, you've just gotten here, there must still be quiet a bit on your mind.

[Shh, no need to apologize, he had kind of been provoking that flustered reaction anyway.]

So what's your plan, for now? Given this new situation.

[halfface]

( Something about this makes him feel kind of like an impostor. A few years ago, he would definitely be confident in his looks. Now, whatever is left of him -- no matter how much he hates that, too -- is still nothing compared to the hideousness he's hiding.

Yeah, let's not dwell on that. )

I guess I'll make my way to the Hestia's Place you mentioned. From there I'll have to wing it. I had a goal back home, but here...I don't know what marker I should be heading towards.

[hantale]

[This poor boy may find, soon, that folks around here don't find that hideousness quite as bad as people back home do.

He gives a sage little nod, shifting off their seat and standing up once more, even offering a hand to help the taller boy up.]

You humans are strange like that. Why not just float, and enjoy yourselves? [Aside from when that isn't an option. of course.] I'm heading in the same direction if you'd like to tag along, and part ways once we near Bavan.

[halfface]

( Wight thinks for a minute. Well, there were a lot of reasons to keep moving forward back then -- even if back then was only a few hours ago in his mind. Here, maybe it makes more sense to be aimless.

...No, if it's human to keep striving toward some goal to accomplish, he'd like to hang onto that. He takes the hand and stands up, suddenly more unsure than ever of what purpose he can ever potentially find here. )

If you can show it to me, that would be nice. I have a map, and, and of course I can read it, but nothing here is familiar yet. ( Even zones he had never been to back home, there was some knowledge there being part of the military. ) I promise I won't be so useless eventually, but you know...it's my first day, and all.

[hantale]

Of course I can~ As you can see, about... uh, there. [He points to the dot of his treehouse on the map, south of the city, but to the side of the path they'd take.] I can travel with you until we're almost there, then just detour a bit near the end. You can't miss the city once you're near it.

[No really, it's like, gigantic. It's basically old new york.]

And hey, you're doing really well so far. When I first arrived, I was so scared I ran right out the city and into the farmlands before I even slowed down!

[He also arrived in a giant flesh hospital that was trying to eat him, so... you know, minor circumstantial differences. But he omitted that to make it sound more comforting.

And with that, he's on his way, gently tugging the boy along for the first minute, then letting him decide whether or not he wants to keep those hands held.]

[halfface]

( Don't worry. Wight's brand of fear is panicked shaking and breaking down quietly. So whenever he holes up alone he'll...probably have a little internal meltdown.

A flesh hospital might at least be a distraction.

Wight's eyes absorb the map closely, committing certain things to memory very quickly. ) That shouldn't be too far. I'm used to walking, anyway. ( Ah yes, a world without vehicles. )

But I assume you are too, considering you're sort of a wanderer, right? ( It would be a blessing to not talk about himself right now. ) What was the place you came from like? Different f-from this place?

[hantale]

[Ah, good, a fellow walker~ Though, admittedly, whenever he's in a rush, the kelpie has a tendency to just turn into a horse anyway. That's a good deal faster.]

Mhm, not just sort of, that's all I was!... Though, this land isn't very large, so I've ended up settling into a home of sorts anyway. [He's happy to keep answering questions, so long as Wight can keep asking them.]

Ah-. I'm never quite sure how to describe it. It was a touch unforgiving, far more so than here... But, also quite fantastic in nature. [He means that in the more literal sense.] Elves, spirits, anima, magic, nymphs, humans, angels, demons. It was a very... uh, eventful land. Always something new and interesting to watch. Though this place is far more advanced, in terms of technology.

[How do you explain that you come from a Fantasy world without really understanding the trope?]