graveyardsmash | TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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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A.

[Kaoru is nothing if not a master of denial, which is why when she wakes up completely drenched and her mouth full of sand while wearing her phantom thief attire, she just instantly assumes it was part of Kokoro's stunts. Also that it went a little wrong, but that's okay, she's had dramatic fainting fits over this kind of thing before.

And then, when she starts to explore and make her way off the beach, because frankly, it's kind of creepy and she hates that... she doesn't completely expect to find herself staring down the barrel of a shotgun. Is this part of an act? It has to be, right? Who would do that kind of thing to her??

So she holds up her hands, smiling like there's absolutely nothing wrong in the world and chuckling.]

Hahaha, I must say! No one's ever managed to get so close to the Happy Phantom Thief—I applaud the skill it must have taken to get me into such a situation—

[Can someone please save her.]

B.

[By now, she's shed the mask that covered her face and perhaps the cape because it was just dirty and likely easier to just replace. Once she found Kokoro, at least. Her clothes don't feel much better, but even Kaoru isn't about to run around the middle of town completely naked with people she doesn't know. Her standards aren't the highest, but still. Even so, Kaoru is still assuming she's in Tokyo and that even the monsters are just costumes or something, so she'll stop them:]

Could you tell me where I am in Tokyo? I believe that I have never seen a place such as this... the architecture is fleetingly odd, hm~?

Hmm? Tokyo?

[Ah- that's something Maya hasn't heard recently; the confused voice of a newbie. But It was just recently, wasn't it? Regardless of the relative time span of her most recent greetings, Maya turns to face her questioner before she's-- kind of blown away by how Kaoru's dressed. Mussed up by the sea as she is, Kaoru still looks--]

So cool...! Your outfit, I mean, you just look so cool!

[Which. Is not an answer to Kaoru's question. But the inky blackness of Maya's skin and those white spots-- do those really look like a costume?]

[Oh wow, this girl has amazing makeup! Kokoro must have gone all out in hiring makeup artists... that's just like her...

Ahh, what a leader they have...]

I am so grateful that you've taken a moment to understand how fleeting such an outfit is. I admit, it usually looks much better... but to know that it hasn't lost its charm is wonderful.

['Fleeting'? That's kind of a weird way to put it. Maya's still quite charmed, though.]

It's pretty amazing! I mean, if kind of reminds me of like-- well--

[She has to voice her suspicion now, before it kills her.]

Are you an idol?!

[IS THIS FATE]

Or are you a real masked thief? Cos either totally works!

I would not say that I am an idol, no... I am merely an actress, as well as a humble guitar player for Hello, Happy World.

[So not quite what Maya may be expecting but close enough.]

I am hardly a masked thief, however. I have seen the Happy Phantom Thief around these parts, but it is a fleeting mystery as to where she could have gone...

[Maya's face falls for all of three seconds- until Kaoru mentions being an actress, which is arguably even cooler than being an idol to someone who watches as much toku as Maya does.

...And then Kaoru mentions the Happy Phantom Thief. That, and Tokyo--]

Wait-- you don't know where you are, do you?

[She asks, that once-excited face now falls again into a concerned frown, brows knitted and hand to her face.]

[It's bad enough when the locals threaten anyone who hasn't begun to change yet. Actually, "bad" is kind of an understatement, isn't it? "Heinous" is more like it. Marco's patience for the sight certainly diminishes with each cycle of newcomers that he goes through, and it'll dip into the negatives in no time if this keeps up.

Back to the point - that is bad enough. But when they hold a shotgun to someone who doesn't even understand the situation yet... That goes beyond heinous.

Marco places a stern hand on the human's shoulder. He doesn't have the most threatening presence, but he is still a monster, so chances are this is an unwelcome surprise.]

You should leave.

[Kaoru's surprise is apparent when Marco intervenes and puts his hand on the guy's shoulder, but the only thing she can think is wow, that's amazing makeup!

But even so, her gaze darts between the two as the guy's face pales and he tries to shrug off Marco's hand.]

Or what? [He hisses, even though he knows the answer. Meanwhile, in Kaoruland:]

Now, now... surely there must be something that we can do without the gun... your performances are brilliant, after all.

[Performances? Marco looks... puzzled. But, uh, he has to focus on what he's doing here.]

Or, well - [Okay, he's trying to focus, but he can't help glancing at the - magician?? Zorro cosplayer?? The getup kind of reminds him of Kaito Kid, actually - now and then.] - As-- As much as I hate it, I may have to get a little rough.

[All things considered, calling what Marco is doing a "performance" may not be all that inaccurate.]

TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

Kaoru Seta | Bang Dream | ota lol

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holy shit kaoru (also A)

hakanai~

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