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TDM: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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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What's up, Foggy Baby?

[Maya has found herself in Ryslig, once again, with absolutely no memory of leaving. But this time? This time is different. This time feels different. The fog rolls in as it normally does and leaves the new children of the fog on the beach, and normally this would be no problem for Maya, who has not had a fog form.

Until now.

There's an eerie singing coming from past some rocks, each sound fairly short and staccato as Maya, much bigger than before, tries to pull herself up the craggy rocks she seems to be beached on.

She has no legs! A big, blubbery body, sure, but one with no legs, that's stuck on those rocks. And even if she could pull herself up-- where would she go, then? But worst of all is this terrible second mouth. It's actually almost like her body is being eaten up by the lower half, the full mouth shape of an orca taking form of her belly. The part of her belly where the white markings would match an orca's mouth has become a lower jaw, revealing a long tongue and sharp teeth. The tongue periodically licks at the jaw, or just kind of hangs out, occasionally getting a shocked noise from Maya.

A daring human approaches to see what's going on, but when they catch sight of Maya from the top of the rocks- a shadowy giant woman with a glowing face, singing eerie noises while she pulls at the rocks-- that human loses their bravery and runs for their life (rightfully), kicking stones all the way.

And that is finally enough to prove to Maya her situation right now... Is pretty hopeless. Her mouth turns into a perfect upturned C before she starts sobbing, laying over top of rocks that she can't care are uncomfortable right now. (At least they keep that belly mouth mostly shut.) She quickly notices though-]

I can't even cry right anymore!

[As her sounds are all mixed up with dolphin clicks and whistly, sing-song noises. It doesn't even sound like a lament as much as it does.. A mess. It is fairly loud, though.]

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[It is really loud, loud enough for Dandy to hear it even before he gets out of his vehicle, he grimaces when he pulls up and parks his hunk of junk. He just wanted to have a good, fun time at the beach, that's all. Is it really that much to ask? It's not very often he gets to spend fog days all normal, a little celebratory relaxation would've been exactly what he needed.

But no, he somehow made it to the crying convention and...well...there's not much he can do. As much as he wants to throw a fit, Dandy's always been too soft for his own good, people are allowed to cry.

Damn it...and it's not like he can just ignore it, either. His only other option is to attempt some kind of peptalk and hope it works.]

HEY!! [The fog's so thick, he's not even sure who he's shouting at.] You think you can just come here and challenge me to some kinda...click off?! I'll have you know I am the KING of clicking, baby!!

[Dumb distractions count as a peptalk, right?]

[The crying stops instantly, though, when Maya hears a familiar shitty voice cut through the fog. There's only one person that... ridiculous, that would make something like this into a fight.

There's a clattering of rocks as Maya slips, trying to sit up again-- and then does actually manage to sit up. Easy there. Man, moving a body this large is hard.]

Dandy?

[She says finally, after that pause. Her voice warbles like she's speaking underwater, or like she's straight out of Splatoon.]

Is that you?

[It's not everyday the mysterious voice knows his name. Dandy runs his hands down his face, already not liking where this is going, but trots further into the fog anyhow to see what's up.

...He's not digging this scene.]

I am way too tired for this crap right now...

[It occurs to Maya as she hears Dandy's footsteps that Dandy... might not actually be very happy to see her like this. Suddenly fretful, she warbles--]

No! You don't have to come down!

[As she attempts to scramble back-- and then, when that isn't proving to be a quick solution, leans forward as though to push more rocks in the way or something?? what is she trying to accomplish here-]

[He is NOT in the mood for mind games, either!!]

Ooohhhh no!! Don't you know the moment you tell someone not to do somethin', they're more likely to do it?! I'm comin' over- MOVE IT, ROCKS!!

[Any rocks Maya's tried to pile up get kicked out of the way. ...Unless they're too large, then they get kicked and all Dandy accomplishes is smashing his foot. After a few choice words are shouted, he walks around them and finally comes face to faces with...whatever it is he's looking at here.]

...huh?

[Maya's wall-building efforts are less than satisfactory, unfortunately for her, so Dandy's path is pretty easily cleared. And that sight waiting for him is a mermaid eight feet long, inky black like the sea, with a tail like a whole killer whale around her hips. Her hair is still tousled by the sea, and there are new eyespots now, bright against her face and hair as a decoy.

But even with those bizzarre eyes, Maya still manages to look sheepish, half-folding into herself as she bubbles out a-]

Hi.

[Ah yes, a demon who vaguely looks like his girlfriend he hasn't seen in months.

Just what he was hoping to see.]

So...this isn't how I was expecting this to go down...

[A part of him isn't even sure this is real, which is probably why he's not filled with the usual rush of emotions he felt when they last reunited. The fog's been really crazy lately, he wouldn't be surprised if this was just some sort of HORRIBLE hallucination created to mess with him.

This is what he gets for trying to sue the fog god.

Still, he's willing to give this a shot that it's real, it's the only thing keeping him from walking away right now.]

Oh man, I know, right?

[complains Maya in that sing-songy warble, the groan of annoyance she tries to make only coming out as a phiuuuuwee-k-ck-ck-ck! of a whale whistle and click.]

This is all wrong... This has never happened! Ever!

[And then, as something occurs to her, she moves closer to inspect Dandy, reaching out a hand to touch him but stopping short.]

Are you alright? I didn't leave a long time again, did I? Have you been okay??

[As if she isn't... a giant demon.]

[If he didn't deal with giant aliens before, this might startle him a little. Obviously it doesn't, he's way too chill when that large hand comes his way, doesn't even flinch despite her not even touching him.

He sticks his hands in the pockets of his trunks, head tilting back and forth as his brain tries to calculate the situation properly. This might take awhile.]

No clue- Couple months? Give or take... Seems to be the pattern. [He waves it off, like it's no big deal. It is, though. It's the biggest deal. If this is real, then...Maya's back.] If it helps, you aren't the only one who pulled a disappearing act.

--You disappeared, too?!

[Crazy!!]

The fog really is a fickle mistress...

[She says, as though that's totally the case and makes sense. The quartet of eyes blink, even though only one set of them can see.]

Um, but, are you okay?

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