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TDM: JANUARY/FEBRUARY

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 did I-- I dunno!

(Johanna seems annoyed, but she softens a little when she hears the sound of the voice. It's small. Smol. Like a child. All the Tributes seem to have a soft spot for children, unless they were one of the people who trained to kill them. The others, from the poorer districts, really didn't want to kill their fellow children.

So that's Johanna's weakness, apparently.)

How'd you get in? (There's a playful lilt in her voice.)

[So smol,

Well, maybe not super duper small- she's five foot as it turns out, more clear once she actually comes all the way down the stairs. But she's Mostly small and it's the principle of the thing!

She's also blunt as all heck apparently.] I just used a key, [she answers easily.] Umn... ...I guess if you don't know you can't really answer though...

Did you just get in then?

(Definitely the principle of the matter! She is a child for sure. Even if she's a little monstery. Johanna has seen a few of these kinds of people on her way through town. And to be honest? The Capitol had people that had all kinds of surgeries to look like different... things. Cats mouths and pointed ears. Not really anything on the wing-front though. That's new.)

Where'd you get a key? I just heard a voice-- yeah, I just got in. People in the square were trying to help me and I was like fuuuuck that. (Her eyebrows go up at the uuuu part of the word.) You seem okay... are you okay? (Because if you're not, she'll karate chop your ass! Child or not!)

[Wings are cool.

She asked for the wings-

As for the key, Reira holds hers up.] I just asked Elias- um, this is his arcade. It's supposed to be a safe place for people the fog pulls in, [she explains a bit vaguely- before wincing sympathetically.] Mnhhh...yeah, normally when they're doing that...

[It's to Avoid Being Food. But hey.] ..Oh! Yeah, I'm okay! ...Thanks for asking?

...Are...you okay?

[that's not quite what was meant but here they are apparently]

(Jo narrows her eyes a little.) No, I meant like, are you okay, like, good people? Not gonna mug me? I ain't got anything anyway. But I guess also, okay as in ...well?

(She shrugs and wants to continue talking, but the pinball machine starts going on autoplay and the ball bounces around, hitting the bumpers.)

Wow... yeah, I'm okay. I won't hurt you.

[Reira frowns, and ultimately tips her head with some skepticism.] Iiiiiiii don't think you're okay okay...

Why would I mug someone? Stealing's wrong. You even just got here, so it'd be worse?

[She feels like it'd be worse.] ...

Do you need food or something?

[The arcade has...burgers? She can order burgers. ~Priest Perks~]

Well, no, I'm not okay. (She shows off her cuts and bruises, the ones that I forgot about! But she's been through worse so hmmm she forgot too.)

Animals steal from other animals. If you need to do it, you need to do it. But hey, this isn't an ethics lesson, you freakin' asked if I was hungry and hell yes I am.

[Oh yeah those are a thing too.

She more figured this lady was a bit spooked. Which, pretty fair, most people tend to be spooked coming to Ryslig.

In any case, she moves to the prize counter to ring the service bell- like she said, this isn't about ethics. Maybe. Probably. A robot very quickly zips out from the door.] Ummm...

[Wait-] What kind of food do you like?

Uh... (she goes to join the kid near the counter.) ... what is there? I'd eat about anything, really.

(Johanna herself isn't very tall, just at about 5'3", and she angles her head down to get a better look at the kid.) What the hell is even your name, kid? I'm Johanna.

They've got lots of foods..! Well, mostly it's arcade stuff, um...like hotdogs, and nachos, and burgers...

[She trails off, only half aware that introductions are happening.] Oh!

I'm Reira!

Mnh, I guess the food comes with fries too....

I've... never had any of that. A hot dog? (They were probably called something weird in Johanna's version of the future. But one would think that the idea at least lasted-- a meat cylinder! Genius!)

Just get me something you would get. I think you're a good judge of character.

(She winks.)

So kid, Reira, what's going to happen to me?

Hmnnn....

[That's...a lot. If she had it her way, this lady would get to try Everything, because they are clearly missing out.

She therefore closes her eyes and decides-] We're gonna have nachos..! Make sure they're normal ones though okay?

[The robot beeps and disappears. Reira, in the meantime, looks back to Johanna.] Mnh...I guess that depends what you mean? There's the stuff that happens to everyone, but I'm not gonna know what happens just to you...

Normal how? (Johanna's got her head turned sideways a little, wary of what not-normal would be. She's had nachos but they were probably called something else. People in the Capitol ate far past being full, they probably had all the stoner foods.)

Explain it to me like I'm an idiot, because I am. Okay? (She smiles, and somehow it doesn't look like it does not belong there. Johanna was a jerk but her smiles were real.)

They're not made of meat for monsters.

[That's code for People. But she's not going to say that just yet, because Johanna seems nice, and that's a super mean thing to note as a possibility in a safe place.] So it's just beef and things on them.

Nachos are like...chips? But you put meat and beans and cheese on top. They're good but you have to eat them kinda fast or they get all floppy.

Oh I've had those! Yeah.

(Johanna deciphered the code. It wasn't hard. So she's going to start talking super fast or let Reira talk more about food. Oh god. Not even in Panem did they resort to cannibalism. Then again, is that what it's going to be? Johanna takes exactly 4 seconds to finally burst out.)

I'm going to turn into a monster.

[Cool! Great! Then they can soon have tacos and-

Reira blinks, turning back. She doesn't seem surprised by the words so much as the fact that there were words at all.] ...Yeah?

...I guess that means I don't have to explain that part then, so that's good. Um, I'm a monster already, so.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY TEST DRIVE

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