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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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[When Cassandra asks if Rapunzel is with him, Eugene shakes his head-- and sags along with her at her response.]

Oh. Well, yeah. No, that's... that's good.

[Eugene puts his palm to the back of his neck, rubbing it, and makes vague gestures with his other hand, not really looking at Cassandra.]

Wouldn't want her to be stuck in a place like this.

[It's always a bit strange when they reacted in the same way-- which typically happens whenever the topic of discussion involves Rapunzel.]

Yup. We... wouldn't want that.

[And she isn't going to mention that Rapunzel already was stuck in a place like this.]

Look. You're not exactly safe here, I can take you somewhere there isn't going to be people pointing swords and knives at you. Then, we can figure things out.

A-ha. Yeah. Kind of picked up on that unsafe part.

Where are we headed?

[It's an attempt at his usual goodhumoredness, but his voice is pretty tired.]

There's a castle I'm staying at with a few other people. We'll be safe there.

[She sounds pretty tired too, like this was the last thing she expected to have to deal with today.

With that, Cass starts walking. Without a word, she throws the bear pelt over her head, and there's a moment of... rearranging underneath it. And the bear that had scared off some would-be attackers was out once more.

The bear grumbles in a bear way, as if unhappy with this.]

[Exhausted though he may seem, Eugene must be incapable of avoiding the theatrics-- in a much more subdued way than usual, his shoulders lift up and his brow furrows as Cass becomes.... something else. He shakes it off with a shake of his head.]

You really gotta learn to give a guy a warning.

[All the same, he takes a place at Cassandra's side and looks over to look her right in the bear face.]

...But, uh.... Thanks.

[Every day is a whole ordeal in Ryslig, though... that isn't all that different from Corona when Cass thought about it.

The bear thing was new though.

The beast, formerly known as Cassandra, turned her head to regard him and noticed, possibly for the first time, how exhausted he seemed. She couldn't say anything, naturally, but she could reply with a nod of her furry head.

It was literally the least she could do. Of course she would save his dumb life.]

[It would seem that Eugene prefers the lack of words, anyway; he gives a half smile and leans over to ruffle the top of her bear head.]

You know? I think I might like you better this way.

[But he sure isn't gonna let the mood stay like this THANK U]

[It's amusing that he says that. Cassandra preferred the lack of options for conversation too; she had time to think now, plan. There was a lot they would have to go over, in more detail than he probably cared for, but at least the basic facts had been presented. That's one thing.

The fur ruffling is another, and as soon as she feels his hand on her head, the sunbear formerly known as Cassandra was regarding him with a fixed expression; her gaze was fixed, if Eugene had never seen a bear glare at him, he was now. Her lips pulled back, showing a wide assortment of rather white, rather sharp, teeth.

It's a plain message. She may be a bear, but she's still your friend Cassandra, Fitzherbert. And she's also a bear.]

TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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