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graveyardsmash2020-01-10 10:27 am
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JANUARY/FEBRUARY TEST DRIVE
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.
II - 'I love this game', I sob, while going for the troll-response,
Between that and the monsters it's really not surprising that the purple goblin in colourful clothes has no problem approaching this guy from behind. Unwise? God, definitely.
Does she know?? Care?? It is a Mystery.]
Oh! That's good, [she announces, of course referring to that whole bit about being offended (or not).] A lot of people from here aren't really nice, so you probably shouldn't care if they don't like you right away.
Most of them are just scared of monsters though.
[you don't say kid]
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It's the glaring onlookers standing on the sidelines who start more than Higgs at the girl's sudden appearance, though that doesn't mean the man isn't at least a little unnerved behind his masks. This would be the perfect moment for him to jump - to disappear in a shudder of roaring flame, only to reappear behind the girl, looming over her with that chiral, skeleton grin - but without access to the Beach, he's woefully powerless. So he goes with Plan B.
Higgs spreads his arms and steps backwards, rocking back on his heels, projecting his voice through his masks, tone a perfectly smooth, resonant drawl. This is just business as usual, isn't it?]
Well now, I'd say they're just lackin' manners. Wouldn't you agree, darlin'?
[His head tips towards the men, all casual, but there's no missing the threat hiding between the lines.]
It'd be a real shame to have to teach 'em some, and right after you'd gone through all the trouble of makin' excuses for 'em.
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Anyway, the goblin is now Pouting. It's astounding, how threatening and non-threatening all at once a monster kid can be when armed to the teeth but otherwise equipped with an expression more appropriate for small(er) children.]
...I just thought they were scared. [A spoil sport! She kicks at the ground a bit, shrugging.] I don't know what you'd teach them, anyway. Even if a monster is nice, a monster still has to eat, and they know that part doesn't change.
[She's rather fond of talking as if the humans aren't properly there. Arguably, they may as well Not be to her though- it's like she said after all. What they think, doesn't matter. Not really.] That's just a fact.
[....] You're right though, [She ultimately agrees.] They are pretty rude, even if they're scared.
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This is turning into quite the day.
It's the final word the men need to hear before they scatter like cockroaches, trying to shrug off their fear, but just looking like cowards slinking off to lick their wounds. And considering a monster was involved? They really should just be grateful they didn't get swallowed whole.]
So I've heard.
[Inhuman transformations. Cannibalism. The whole shebang. He's heard the whispers. Seen the pamphlets on the ground. It's clear there's more truth in it all than he'd like to admit.]
So, sweetheart, I'm guessin' you were human once too.
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[If Reira has any clue about how Higgs is feeling right now, she sure isn't giving any indications of it. She seems if anything, the very posterchild of some semi-bouncy 11 year old...if such things can even be seen in Higgs' day at least.]
I've also been...a waldgeist, a faerie...and then a kelpie...
[She ticks them off on her fingers like they're meals she's had.] And now I'm a goblin!