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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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A-Already!? Just where could they be that this could be so common!? Or perhaps it would be the possession of some kind of 'head' on its own?

Perhaps he'd managed to wash ashore in some land which practiced 'shrinking' heads? He had read at least once of such alarming things being common practice elsewhere in the world, so it couldn't be so surprising then could it? The timing then? 'Already'?

...

That isn't important right now! Once again Jonathan forces himself to regain composure, his thoughts whirling through the rush of theories and confusions in but a few seconds. "I assure you, I am quite serious; it is an undead head- 'alive', in the sense of retained thoughts and actions. It would be very dangerous for any to approach them even in this state, so it is absolutely vital that I find them!"

He hasn't even gotten to the part where Dio can fire lasers from his eyes.

"You had a zombie head with you?!" Comes Maya's once again probably-a-little-hammy response. That possibly was nowhere near what Jonathan meant by undead, but she sure is on that road now. A man has shown up already missing a zombie head.

At the very least, though, Maya tries to give some kind of answer after shaking her head. "It's probably not here! I don't think I've ever heard of someone showing up around here with a whole head...!"

The mermaid, with her monstrous man-eating teeth, shudders at the idea of how haunting it must be to be around a zombie head, imagining what terrible kind of place this guy had to come from as if she's forgotten just where they are herself.

"It's an unfortunately long story- at the very least, too long for now," he of course insists without answering the question. He can explain Why he had Dio's head later. When they've found him.

~~TRULY, IT WAS A BIZARRE WORLD,~~

"I would be fairly surprised if you had heard of it happening before at all," Jonathan remarks. "If there were to be even more like Dio at large... ...That would be a horrible matter indeed."

That isn't the point either. "If you haven't seen them however, then that is both fortunate and not- while it is vital that he be located swiftly, it is better that one not have to fight him without due warning."

Which is, of course, why he's got to do so. He at least knows what's up Dio's (missing) sleeves- to throw someone else in blind, well...that would invite tragedy indeed.

"Oh, I don't- um..." Maya frowns a little, browspots knitting together. How does she go about explaining this. "Well, the head you had... it was some other guy's, right? So it's probably... not here at all?"

She suggests, raising her shoulders a little in a shrug. It never really does get easier to explain to new people that they've been sucked up into an alternate dimension, but hey, she's no interdimensional scientist, either.

"Like, you were brought here by the Fog God," Maya continues as best as she's learned. "You're not even in your home world."

He freezes- or at least his thoughts do.

"Not..." Washed away then? No, that isn't what she's saying. The certainty of her words point to something more than 'perhaps you misplaced it in the water', and instead somehow the idea of absolute and utter separation. He doesn't understand it. The abruptness of it.

Gods.

Worlds.

Somewhere between the two points he tries to connect it to something tangible, something he can understand. Various people and countries have their own opinions on gods and the dead, an easy enough matter to draw conclusions upon. One would think plenty could be understandable after the strange adventure he had been upon of course, but in the end there was a fair difference between using the power of sunlight and breath to punch the undead to submission, and the idea of being kidnapped by a god to another realm.

He of course, does not draw that conclusion, and instead- "...Do you mean to say..."

He was dying. He was dying, and awoke without the injuries of his death.

But he also awoke without the power of life he had carried to battle. "...Are we dead?"

TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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maya fey counts as bizzare ok

its true...

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