graveyardsmash | Test drive meme: January

TEST DRIVE MEME: ~~NOVEMBER~~ JANUARY

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.

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[The young man crouched over Hozuki's prone body doesn't seem deterred in the slightest. Instead, the finger that's been inching closer and closer with the intent of, apparently, booping Hozuki on the horn, remains in motion.]

Oh, hello!

[Yeah, this guy is immune to death glares. Actually, if we're getting into JRPG mechanics, he probably absorbs them.]

[Boop.

The stinging pain across his body and cold stiffness from the winter sea doesn't seem to inhibit his speed, a hand with slightly clawed nails snapping out to try and grab the offending male's wrist.]

Ugh..

Who are you?

[If it were possible for those furrowed brows to narrow even more, they would. Despite how quickly his hand had moved, once he started waking up he rose with a pained sluggishness, propping himself up on one arm. Apparently, he's littered with scrapes and cuts from the arrival.

Iit's the middle of winter and he's soaking wet with seawater, it's amazing there's any form of composure here.]

[His free arm shoots up into the air, like he's raising his hand in class.]

Flat Escardos!

[Nothing strange happens, so that's apparently his name.]

Who are you? You have a horn! Does that mean you're some manner of demon? Is this Hell? I didn't think that was an actual place and I wasn't trying to get there, but you never know how things are going to turn out.

[A near miss, next time perhaps. For now, the sleepy beast seems to be busy waking themselves up and pulling himself into a sitting position. Sharp eyes glance over the male introducing himself.

Wait. It's a mortal and his horn is exposed. The sluggish demon is surprisingly quick to jump back to normality, putting on an air of cool-headedness.]

Ah- I am Hozuki. [The name is a little more ominous written out in Japanese, using the symbols for Chou and Demon Fire.] I don't know where we are...

[His eyes scan over the surroundings, admittedly not picking up much detail thanks to the heavy fog around the beach. Conveniently skipping the demon question.]

This doesn't look like any of the hells, so it seems not. [Something clicks.] ... Are you saying you don't know where we are either?

Absolutely no idea!

[He leans even closer, squinting. This definitely counts as "uncomfortably close.]

You're certain you're a demon?

[Because demons should be capable of magic. Real magic, one would think, not magecraft, which means he should be seeing at least something.]

[Great, he's not useful at all.

A hand darts over, one finger posed between the two of them as if to stop the male from leaning any closer while Hozuki leans back, yet more flat glares coming his way.]

I never said I was one. Could you not lean so close?

[If he doesn't, that pointing warning finger will soon turn into a punching fist.

In the meantime, the demon starts to stand, 'dusting' the sand off his yukata and fishing around for his pipe... then scowling even more when it's not there.] Tch-

What do you know about demons, anyway?

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