TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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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.

Comments

[hogback]

"No, it will be." Adam is very sure, because things always turn out the way he wants them to.

He looks down at the top of Mr. Speedwagon's tophat. What an odd question.

"It's 2018. What year do you think it is?"

[speedweed]

Poor kid will learn one day, maybe. If Speedwagon's assumptions are correct, which they absolutely are not, given who this kid is.

He's slowing his pace until he's stopped, slowly blinking as his mind is already calculating how far in the future that is.

That's. A lot.

Right, keep walking. Deep breaths.

"It was 1889 last time I had heard."

[hogback]

That shocks Adam to hear. Not many things do, but that does.

With awe, "Are you a time traveler??"

Wait. Oh no.

"...Am I a time traveler?" It would be just like him to accidentally find a way to travel through time.

[speedweed]

Perhaps it'd explain Speedwagon's odd choice in clothing. Either way, he's frowning to himself as he contemplates the answer, continuing to move towards those lights.

Could it be this place they don't know the location or name of yet? It could be possible, that's the only common factor in this situation that he can find.

"As absolutely insane as it may sound, I don't think either of us are the time traveler in this place. There may be someone or something else to blame for us being in the same place at the same time. Not that I have a clue as to what or who it may be." A place can't be sentient after all, right? That's just absolutely ridiculous.

[hogback]

Adam's heart sinks into his stomach. He doesn't like dealing with things he doesn't understand or can't control. And this place is starting to seem too big for him to deal with properly.

"Do you mean... We won't be able to get back to Tadfield from here?"

[speedweed]

"Unfortunately that would seem the case." Of course it would be, why doesn't he have the answers he desperately wished he did?

He's sighing a bit, slowing his steps just a little more.

"Perhaps there's a way out of this mess, but I wouldn't know unless we ask someone where those lights are?"