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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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"Could be!" calls Claude from his perch on a nearby piece of driftwood. He wrings out his cloak, watching the man with the pamphlets hurry off to the next castaway before turning back to Laios.

"There are definitely mermen around, and this seems to be a pretty eat-or-be-eaten place from what I can tell, but I don't know if anyone tries eating the monsters instead of the other way around. Or if the monsters try eating each other, I guess."

He stands up, ineffectually trying to dust some of the caked-on sand off of himself as he ambles over to the other man. "You don't seem too worried about that, though." If he didn't know better, he'd almost say the guy sounded sort of intrigued. Not that he's judging. This whole thing is too weird for him not to be curious, as morbid as it all is.

[ Laios turned toward the sound of the man's voice, still holding the little pile of pamphlets. ]

Well, everyone knows that monsters will eat humans if they get the opportunity. Except for the monsters that don't directly feed on them, of course.

But humans aren't as keen on eating monsters, you know? [ At least not where he was from. ] I'm surprised someone went to the trouble of putting together such a specialized guide.

[ Laios seemed cordial enough. Friendly, even. Everything was fine. ]

It's a brave new world, I guess. Literally. [ Claude shrugs, waving a hand. ] Are monsters all that common where you come from? We've got some back where I was, but they're usually pretty few and far between, and they're nothing like the ones wandering around here.

No, not at all -- in fact, outside of dungeons, it's pretty rare to see one. But I've definitely held of creatures like these before.

[ He shuffled the pamphlets around, flipping to one with a cover of a cartoon sticky horse on the front. ]

Kelpies that can take human form... I can see how that'd be tricky to deal with.

Dungeons, huh? [ Did that mean monsters were kept in captivity where this guy came from? He guesses it's not all that outlandish - the Adrestian Empire apparently had a whole battalion of them in reserve, and they had to have been keeping them somewhere. ]

Kelpies are the water horses, right? [ he asks, thinking back to his own reading on the subject. ] Seems like all the monsters here are actually humans who've been transformed by one of the gods of this place, so most of them keep at least a human-like shape. I take it that's not the case with the ones you're familiar with?

[ He carefully leaves out whether or not Fódlan's monsters are the same, what with not knowing anything for sure and not wanting to spill what he does know too early and to just anyone. ]

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