Test drive meme: January

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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.

Comments

[noasark]

[Hoping, no. He's not sure what he hopes for if anything- he just knows that something different is occurring, and isn't that just strange?

Noa peers with rapt curiosity, tail swaying back and forth off the edge of the roof.] Manticore, naturally, [He hums.]

Fairly fresh on the scene, aren't you?

[royalpurple]

[What, if anything.... well, if anything, Reiji is mildly surprised this cat didn't make a 'fresh meat' joke, not that it isn't appreciated he didn't.]

Unless there is a form of monster that appears to be an unremarkable human, I'd have a difficult time denying it.

[Which is to say, yes. But also: what was the point of that question, exactly?]

[noasark]

With the right time of day, that could be any 'were', [He hums in response, sitting up to continue.] For that matter, anyone in the midst of changes...no one is the same after all.

But I appreciate honesty...so. [He smiles- small, considering, and somehow not as toothy as it could be.] Welcome to Dyster. What do you intend to so now?

[royalpurple]

[Reiji takes a moment to imagine that condition. He isn't sure how he'd feel about turning into a wolf or something similar not just once, but over and over. After a little bit of consideration, he decides that actually seems even less appealing than just turning into a monster once and staying that way.

Not that he's especially enthusiastic about that prospect in general, but he's working on that.]

Good question.

[Is now a good time to bring up the fact that he was bidden here by a voice in his head? Is there ever a good time for that?

He opts to keep that information to himself, and regards the cat-boy a moment.]

What would you suggest?

[Not that he's going to do whatever comes out of that toothy mouth, to be clear. He just wants to hear what that idea is.]

[noasark]

I could suggest a great many things, [Noa replies, wings half spread in preparation to perhaps take off.] But they would all depend on what you actually want.

Most who come here choose to ally with the Fog God- but that's far from what I would just suggest for everyone, [he emphasizes, eyes shining.] A few might take on a patron's protection- a more distant association, but one that leaves them....neutral, technically...

[He stares down at the teen, narrowing his eyes.] Either way....the Fog God may lead others here but she tends not to force their hand either...