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graveyardsmash2020-01-10 10:27 am
ryslighelpers) wrote in 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.
<CCC-REDHORSE>
But there's also monsters that eat souls or eat their energy! ...but that's sometimes worse because you have to drown them or hurt them just to get it... :[
<daniel>
He's not sure if the voice belongs to Alexander or himself. ]
how do you know which method to use?
<CCC-REDHORSE>
Instinct I guess? When I was a kelpie I had to drown them, but as a goblin I just use a spell...
(I like the spell better because drowning takes a lot of time I'd keep feeling their feelings and I didn't like it...)
Um
If you just eat meat though you can cook it!!
Or even make things like tea!! So hopefully you can do that instead.
<daniel>
feasting upon human flesh
makes my stomach churn. perhaps i should change the subject. did you say you changed forms twice?
<CCC-REDHORSE>
oh
Yeah a lot of people say that even though they're ok with killing, they're not ok with that part.... [She's just a little confused because, one seems a lot worse!]
Um! Yeah! I asked Mana because even though she can't make you a human forever, she can change what you got turned into...
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Um, I think it sometimes helps to eat with others though, so that it doesn't feel as extra bad. Like at a table, all cooked and stuff.
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honestly, that makes it worse.
<CCC-REDHORSE>
You get to have things like veggies and rice and fish and soup and it's at a nice table with your friends and stuff instead of eating just gross things in the dark somewhere :[[
<daniel>
<CCC-REDHORSE>
Who are those guys anyway??
It's not about being normal though I think. Just about having something that isn't being a monster.
Just because something made you have to eat stuff doesn't mean you should have to do it like one. I think it would just making being a monster normal if you did that.
<daniel>
in any case, perhaps i'll feel differently once i develop my appetite. but there's something particularly monstrous about pretending you're not a monster.