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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.
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How many types of monster are there? What determines what kind of monster one will turn out to be?
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[ Because he had bad news. Like, again. ]
But as far as I can tell, nothin'. There's people like me, where the type of monster I ended up as made sense. And then I also know a real sweetheart of a guy who ended up with the horns-and-fire deal.
I figure it's whatever's going to jerk us around. But some of the pamphlets list a bunch of them. You got any like that?
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"Axe Thief Axehounds"... "Fur Bearing Trout"... I have never heard of monsters such as these.
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That one, though --
[ He indicated one leaflet with at least some of the resident monster types listed. Of course, they were also accompanied by extremely blurry photograph reprints. ]
That one's got a couple. Naga, Manticore, Lich. They ring any bells for ya? I don't know why the photos always look like someone was shakin' the camera. Maybe it's a stylistic thing.
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[ She was the Leader of Heven's Hunt for centuries. She's seen a lot of beasts and monsters.
One photo catches her eye, and her entire demeanor changes in an instant, becoming overcome with something that might be rage, might be shock, is probably indignation. ]
There are Angels here?!
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[ Now that was an interesting reaction, though of course he had no fucking idea of the reason behind it. ]
Ain't met that many of 'em, and I don't know if there's any at the moment. I take it they've got some personal significance.
[ Maybe she was like... super Catholic. ]
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[ Which is about all she feels like sharing at the moment. Sorry, Majima, that trauma is a bit too personal for a first meeting. But maybe, just maybe, these Nephilim are not anything like the Angels she knows. The Angels who raised her, tormented her, praised her, then cast her out without a second thought.
She forces herself to stop staring at the blurry photo of the Nephilim, searching for some change in conversation topic. ]
How long does it take, before one becomes a monster?
hey do you want to wrap this thread up?
It starts when the next fog rolls in. Couple weeks, usually. Maybe a month at most.
sure! we can do more with them now that Angela's in game.
I see.
[ She really ought to be going. She has work to do, and only a month to do it. ]
I think you for your time, Majima. Until we meet again.
[ She inclines her head, and turns to go. ]