graveyardsmash | JANUARY/FEBRUARY TEST DRIVE

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ She at least has the good sense not to shoot back an, "Obviously." ]

Oh right, those pamphlets! [ Rey still has some tucked into her belt. She pulls them out now to read the titles. ]

"Bunnyipyips and You." "What to Expect When You're Expecting... To Turn Into A Monster." What could that mean?

Wow... That is... Not helpful at all.

[ Oh how little she knows. The phrase yip-yip sounds familiar though. ]

Haven't seen a bunyipyip before. Maybe it's some kind of flying bisonrabbit?

I wouldn't know what those are, either.

[ The pamphlets are full of fanciful illustrations, but they don't seem very realistic to Rey. ]

Is a bisonrabbit large enough to ride?

Don't know, never met one. Flying bison are large enough to ride though! They're pretty neat.

[ She already misses Appa... He was nice. ]

What did you use to get around where you're from? Aside from airships.

[ Rey keeps flipping through the pages of the pamphlet on bunyipyips, hoping there will be some kind of helpful illustration. ]

We'd ride speeders or swoop bikes. I had one on Jakku that I built out of spare parts. Some of the scavengers ride Luggabeasts or Happabores. I think it varies from planet to planet, but speeders and bikes are pretty commonplace.

[ At this point, she's not even sure what to ask about first. She's never heard of ANY of those things before. Except bikes, at least. And only kindof. ]

Speeders? Very simple name, right to the point. I take it they go fast?

[ There's a little bit of sarcasm in her voice, unable to help but tease the name. ]

That's about the gist of it, yeah.

[ She knows it sounds obvious. A bit like naming a planet "Earth." ]

Swoops go even faster than speeders. They're basically just an engine with a seat. Podracers are the worst of them all. That's a sport, and it's one of the most dangerous ones in the galaxy.

Sounds dangerous... And fun! Did you do any of that?

[ Her excitement makes it clear where Toph's interests lie. Most dangerous sport? Sounds like her kinda thing.

If she could race. ]

N-no. I'm too big to fit in a podracer. And besides, it was never all that popular on Jakku.

[ They're more concerned with just eking out survival. ]

Oh-... Less fun.

[ She shrugs a bit, hoping that Rey's actually looking her way to see the gesture. ]

Does it look like anyone's home?

JANUARY/FEBRUARY TEST DRIVE

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

Did you wanna wrap/cut for March stuff?