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

[junosteel]

...Yeah. In this world, people need whatever help they can get.

[A dedication to doing good. Juno's tone shifts to be slightly melancholy before he shakes his head and walks in, holding the door open for Ray.

The apartment is...pretty nice, overall, if you ignore the empty cartons of take out scattered about and the empty bottles that have been unceremoniously shoved under the coffee table. Papers and files litter the living room, and Juno makes a small effort to swipe those onto the floor and out of sight. The windowsill hosts a variety of slightly wilted flowers--dahlias, peonies, a bundle of roses in a vase....

He places the bag on the kitchen counter and digs out a few bottles from under a carton of eggs and a bag of bread rolls. He raises a few in suggestion towards Ray.]

Oh, uh. The flowers were, um...I dunno. I just thought it would help liven up.... [He trails off, then snorts.] Whatever. It was a stupid idea. I never was any good at taking care of plants.

[ghoststanning]

[Ray gives Juno a sympathetic smile.]

Aww, I don't think it's stupid! The fact that you try despite not being good at it means that you're willing to learn, right? Besides you seem better than me at growing plants - I'm so bad that I can't even keep a cactus alive!

[junosteel]

[Juno falls quiet for a moment, eyebrows furrowed in thought. He glances towards the plants on the windowsill before responding--]

Huh. Never thought of it that way. [He pauses, then clears his throat.] That's--That's nice of you, I guess.

[Why the hell is this guy being so nice? Does he have an ulterior motive of some sort? What is his plan? Juno takes out another bottle, studying Ray carefully.]

Whiskey, wine, or beer? Pick your poison. Pretty sure I've got some leftover eggrolls in the fridge if you get hungry. If you want, I...guess.

[ghoststanning]

Thanks, and I mean it! One of these days I'm going to try growing plants again myself but I need to find a plant that's more stable than a cactus.

[If that... exists.

Ray's tail wags slightly at the mention of beer, but he ponders this.]

Beer's great, and don't worry about that. I'd feel bad if I started eating your food as well as drinking your beer!

[junosteel]

I heard some people might have more success with the plastic variety.

[Juno raises an eyebrow, but takes out two bottles of beer and makes his way over to Ray. There's still that lingering feeling in his gut that he's being way too trusting, that this guy clearly has it in for him somehow.

...Ugh. If Rita were here, she'd probably say that he was being too prickly and paranoid and just looking for excuses to kick him out and be all sad by himself. Being treated kindly is just...weird. Unfamiliar.

He sits across the couch from Ray, careful to leave some space between them as he uncaps his beer and take a sip.]

If I'm being honest, I'm more of a whiskey lady, myself. Not that I'd turn down any drink with alcohol in it, unless I was getting real bad.