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

Inosuke Hashibira | Kimetsu no Yaiba

[pignacious]

[One]

[There seems to be a body lying motionless on the beach. It's a common place to find new arrivals to Ryslig, but it looks like this may not actually be a newcomer. After all, newcomers are human and this man (boy?? he is rather short...) seems to have the head of a boar.

He lies perfectly still until someone approaches, at which point, one of his hands will shoot out lightning fast to try to grab a their ankle.]

Ha HA!!

[Was this a trap???]


[Two]

GAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!

[It's not exactly clear what's going on, but Bavanites are scattering in every direction. At the center of the hubbub, pamphlets are flying in every direction. A rather underdressed young man is throwing them every which way in what seems to be a great big tantrum over...something. It looks like there's no end in sight until a taxi putters by, at which point the tantrum comes to an abrupt end as the young man recoils and starts to shake.]

Wha--.... what...

[Pamphlets continue to rain down around him as he points at the taxi in horror.]

One

[fireclock]

[Boar head notwithstanding, some people might be completely oblivious to motionless bodies on the beach if they don't happen to be in said people's direct line of sight and if said people just never bothered to look down.

That being the case, Polnareff is completely unprepared when something suddenly reaches out and grabs his ankle!]

What? Where did you---You were hiding under the sand! Lurking like a coward and waiting to attack!

[He reels back he noisily expounds on his terrible and completely unavoidable predicament, then grits his teeth and quickly aims a kick a the thing that's latched itself onto him.]

[Was this a trap????]

[pignacious]

[Inosuke lets go long enough to roll away and jump to his feet, the movement unsettling and almost unnatural-looking. He laughs raucously the entire time, which makes it seem almost like he did it just to play a joke on the next passer-by, except as soon as he makes it to his feet, he lowers his stance and puts his head down like a boar ready to charge.]

I'm not a coward, you're just weak! You're barely even worth fighting!

[His voice is definitely louder than it needs to be and somewhat hoarse as if he's been yelling like this for far too long. It's also worth noting that the boar head's mouth doesn't move at all.]