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

[doctorize]

Yeah. [... Something like that.] I'm surprised to see that you did as well.

[He was certain--no, knows for a fact that she was very dead by the time the building burned down. But to be fair, he also died, and he certainly doesn't look it now.

The formerly armed human is saying something angry and reaching for his gun that was knocked out of his hands, but Danny casually kicks it out of his reach and closer to himself and Cathy.]

Do you mind? Go bother someone else if you don't want to end up on the other end of your own weapon.

[This is accompanied by a slight smile that makes his fangs a little more prominent to the human here when he looks at them, and that seems to spook them into running off for now.

And then Danny offers a hand to Cathy to help her back on her feet, should she accept it.]

[sinsation]

[Cathy gives the gun a good stare as it slides across the sand to her side, vaguely wondering the logistics of trying to shoot it with one hand. She isn't afraid of guns by any means, even after the situation with Ray and all, but she must confess that this whole scene has put a bitter taste in her mouth. She's glad the man is sent running; maybe Danny has a certain eyeball-associated reputation in this place as well.

She remains sitting for a moment, frowning at his words. She doesn't recall ever leaving, and unless Gray or Danny came back down to get her after they took care of Zack and Ray, well...

She isn't sure if she made it out at all.]

...yeah.

[Cathy carefully brings herself to her feet after ditching her heels and taking Danny's hand. If she didn't make it out, then how can she be here with Danny now? Unless they both...]

Where are we?

[doctorize]

Well, currently we are on a beach, but to be more specific, we're in a place called Vandare, in Ryslig.

[There's a pause, before he adds.]

And at the moment, you and I are the only two people from the building here, last I checked.

[Zack and Rachel were here once before too, but he'll hold off on giving that information for now.]

[sinsation]

[Fine, Danny, keep Rachel all to yourself. It's fine. Cathy won't care.

His words are met with a series of bewildered blinks, though, and it's now that Cathy finally gets a better look around at the place. In one direction, there's ocean for miles, and in the other, she can see faint town lights. She's never heard of either of these places.]

Did we... [She hesitates to call the deaths of their sacrifices a "win" of any sort.]

What about Gray? He finished them off, then? They...

[But did she really make it out, did she really? Did she die? She can't remember. She was too numb to remember.]

[doctorize]

[There's a long pause, before Danny's hands drop to the side in reluctance. There's not much use in lying to Cathy too much, she's always been quick to tell when Danny is lying or hiding something after talking long enough with him, and at least this much he is willing to say.]

... escaped. Both of them. I saw them leave myself.

[And even after having lived with this information for more than a year now, he's still bitter when he says it.]

But they're not here. Neither is the Reverend... I don't know if he made it out of the building too. He didn't go with them.