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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.
Dr. Saira Bellum | Carmen Sandiego (2019)
[The most distressing thing about this change of scenery is not the fact that she's been separated from the rest of the faculty at VILE, but rather, the fact that she does not have any access to the technology she normally would have. Yes, returning to VILE will obviously be a top priority, but how is she to even reach out to them without the proper communication systems she had? And how is she even supposed to ensure that it is secure?
Dr. Bellum has already wandered into Vandare and picked up one of the laptops, but the locals provide little help in terms of understanding the technology. Any and all questioning tends to result in a dead end--usually accompanied by mumbling and shoving unrelated pamphlets into her gloved hands.]
This is all very interesting, but I would appreciate if you could point me in the direction of some form of technology that does not predate the invention of the World Wide Web.
[Eventually, she gives up and decides instead to sit in a local cafe and attempt to disassemble the laptop. Perhaps this way, she can understand the inner workings and rewire it for her own purposes. She's done more with less in the past, after all. Eventually, she becomes aware of someone watching her work. Regardless of whether or not they appear monstrous in nature, she snaps at them--]
You, there. Make yourself useful and find me some copper.
ii. network post | un: < Ω >
I find it perplexing that so many of the monsters brought here bemoan their current condition. You have become more powerful than you could have ever been as humans, and yet, you continue to be caught up on the fact that you must kill human beings to survive.
Is it not necessary for a snake to eat mice to live? For the lion to hunt the antelope? A mouse suffers the same pain and agony as a human would, and yet, we hardly blink twice at the snake. These are necessary evils to keep these animals alive, and, in our case, for us to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be. These lives are not important in the long run.
And if you still are not happy, you could bother spending that same energy you use to complain to change your attitude or your circumstances.
iii. wildcard
[just do what you want idk. talk to me @
ii <psydekick>
< Ω >
Regardless, I simply aim to tell the truth.
<psydekick>
Did you win "most honest" or "most straightforward"?
< Ω >
[ """company""" ]
Regardless. The point still stands.
<psydekick>
Your point about being a people-eater or about being a big downer?
<juno>
<psydekick>
<CCC-REDHORSE> here with the nonsense i am,
I don't get it either because a lot of people get upset about the eating part more than the killing part??
Why's the eating part the bad one!! [IT'S BUGGING HER]
< Ω >
People hardly get upset at livestock being slaughtered to be put on their plates--usually, they only see the steak at the end without looking into the eyes of the calf.
Unless they're vegan. That's a different topic entirely.
<CCC-REDHORSE>
They get weird about cooking food too now, which is kinda gross! It's okay to eat some things without cooking but not all the things!!
What's a vegan? [reira no]
< Ω >
A vegan is someone who does not eat any sort of meat or animal products, in the attempt of eating "cruelty free". However, the fact is that they often need to eat nutritional supplements to actually function.
I suppose, with enough research, one could make a suitable "human flesh" substitute that would satisfy one's hunger, but not all monsters need to eat human flesh to subsist, after all. But obviously they aren't bothered enough to put in the effort in the first place.
no subject
Maybe? I don't know I think some monsters said they still feel hungry if they don't hunt things properly...
There's still the ones that have to eat energy and souls too so they might as well just use the bodies from that at least :0
i: who needs cash?
She turns to the stranger speaking to her with furrowed brows, just sortof looking past/through her. ]
Do I look like I'm made of money?
[ She's still a bit drenched from the ocean, and sipping at the cafe's free water.
Also, money? What else would copper be used for! ]
It's not exactly going to by lying around, you know.
no subject
[She doesn't even look up at the sound of the kid's voice, and therefore doesn't see that Toph is blind. She gestures vaguely towards a nearby lamp, still tweaking a bit of circuitry.]
Like a light bulb. Older light bulbs use copper filament. Or generic electrical wiring, if you strip off the rubber, is generally made of copper. When you're working with limited resources, you learn to use all that you can.
[Even if she isn't used to working under these circumstances--still, she has to start somewhere.]
no subject
[ The word isn't even familiar to her, so her first assumption is, of course, that this stranger is a little weird. The gesture is also lost on her, of course. ]
What's a light bulb, though? Some sortof... plant light?
[ Because, you know, it must be like a flower bulb, or something? That's the only way the term clicks to her. ]
< Aquila'sShadow >
People aren't animals, that's the difference. Besides, its closer to a snake eating another snake than a mouse. Even if our form changes, we're still people just like them.
< Ω >
Let me ask you this--if your form changes entirely, then what makes you a human? I am curious to hear your own thoughts on this.