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graveyardsmash2020-05-08 05:52 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME: MAY/JUNE
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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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[The incredibly valuable input of a dog who was once mistaken for a werewolf. She's truly a legend.]
It used to just be a breastaurant- [the amusement in her voice when she says that word is palpable] -but he got all weird about it one day and changed everything. Not that I'm complaining.
[She puts her hand to her chin as she contemplates, putting down the glass on a napkin on the bar. She never misses a chance to ask QT or Dandy about their experiences among the stars.]
Though... I guess a mermaid performance isn't as cool to someone who's seen so many aliens.
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Oh. Why am I not surprised...
[The bar was intended to be a BooBies all along. Though, it's strange to hear Maya say he "got all weird" and changed it...since when does that happen, especially to the cool and confident Dandy?]
And, well...I don't know if I'd say that. Sure, we've been to a lot of planets and have seen all manner of aliens, but...we've never been to a planet like this one. And not for this long, either.
[There's something to be said about it, as awful as the place is...]
Normally what happens is I send Meow and Dandy down to the planet's surface to find an alien to bring in for registration, which never happens by the way, and they end up getting distracted or in trouble until they either manage to make it back on their own or I have to go down and find them.
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Yeah, that sounds like Dandy. He definitely likes to make himself sound cooler when he tells the story, though.
[She crosses one leg and leans onto her lap, eager to listen more.]
So you're the brains of the operation, huh?
[That explains some things.]
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[QT seems very sure of that fact. He is, after all, the only reason they ever got anywhere.]
I'm both what kept the ship clean and operational as well as our space navigator. Those two would have been constantly lost without me.
[Though...he looks back down at the broom an sighs, his ears swiveling back.]
Of course...it's not like all of that really applies these days. Except the cleaning part. Seriously, does Dandy expect things to just clean themselves...?
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It's okay. When I came back, his room was a total mess. But if you yell at him enough, he gets too annoyed not to do something about it.
[But Maya's quite pleased despite what she's saying, absolutely beaming at QT.]
You really are his best friend, huh? And the backbone of the Aloha Oe, it sounds like.
[is the whole crew this easy to butter up]
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He is an out of date model, after all.]
Tell me something I don't know.
[His tail flicks from one side to the other.]
A-and, well...I would say we've formed quite the comraderie in the time we've known each other, yes.
[They're best friends.]
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Maya can't help but smile at QT's reaction, though. Boys are so stubborn about this kind of thing...]
I dunno if I know anything his best friend doesn't.
[Beyond a certain memory... and the events of the past three years.]
...Wait, how long have you known each other, anyway?
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[Sounds a little...pathetic, now that he's said it out loud.
Also I can't remember if they said a specific time frame for how long they've been together I'm so sorry-]
And I guess he needed a better navigation system, but that was probably more of a bonus he wasn't expecting than anything else.
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Still, again, her goal is to butter him up so she can say she's friends with a robot and she isn't lying when she says-]
That's pretty impressive. Even if you're an old model, you still managed to keep up and navigate for everybody. Robots from the future are really no joke...
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Oh, well...I'm glad you think so, Miss Maya!
[Is he blushing? Probably...yet another Human Thing he's not yet used to, but he can't help it if she's going to heap on the praise like that. Maya is the only person here who deserves rights as far as he's concerned.
At least until he's known her a bit longer and realizes she's a MENACE.]
Speaking of that, though...how exactly did you and Dandy end up meeting? Usually girls don't want to be around him for more than a few minutes.
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Yeah, that's what I've heard.
Um... Well, when I first showed up here, I kind of fell from the sky. My best friend Nick was here with me, but we got separated, and I guess he got sent back home.
[She has no idea, of course, that it was a fourth-wall type deal, and that there were others that only appeared for the night.]
It was soaking wet raining that night and we all fell from the sky like lightning, just like you washed up on the beach, and there weren't a lot of businesses open, so I tried to find shelter under the overhang out there, and it just so happened Dandy was inside.
He was living in this manor with some of our friends that aren't here anymore, and dragged his whole dolphin butt home in the rain because the Aloha Oe wasn't here yet. But once we were there, he gave me some clothes and everyone else let me stay, and we've been friends since then.
[For Maya, it was that simple. She just decided she wanted to be his friend, and that was that.]
He kept saying someone was gonna end up eating me, but it's been three years and I'm still safe.
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I see...sounds like he tried to act all tough, but you saw through it right away.
[As is the case with most people.]
Though he was probably just trying to impress you more than anything else.
it was worth it
[She even laughs about it. At this point, it's just a memory of one of the many dumbass things he's done. At least QT can rest assured she's not unaware of it.]
He's such a showoff though, right? Especially with the bar.
[She can only imagine what kind of trouble they've gotten into in space because of it.]
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He's always been that way. Though to be honest, I'm surprised he went through with the whole process of buying and running a bar himself. That's usually far outside both his pay grade and interest in actual work.
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[. . . very comparable. Mana works in mysterious ways.]
I guess without aliens to hunt, he just had to find something else to do.
[She's also... not entirely sure how much of the work he does himself. She's not sure she should check the papers on this building. Seems....... risky.]
But I wouldn't worry too much. He's still the same old Dandy you know, and it seems like he really missed you.
[because Maya has already assumed that's why QT's asked these backhanded questions-]
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QT can't quite look at Maya directly when she tells him that. It's...embarrassing, and he hates that he can even feel the embarrassment, much less the color rising to his cheeks]
Y-yeah, well...he's lucky I ended up stranded on this planet too. He's a total mess without me around!
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[Maya may be teasing, but she does get the feeling. She really misses Phoenix, too, after all.]
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[Maya doesn't really get it herself. Sure, she doesn't want to be the one cleaning the bar, but she doesn't want to live in FILTH either..]
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[QT doesn't want to admit either that his form as a manticore very strongly resembles him, too.]
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But I guess you can't really anticipate something like that. They are aliens, after all...
[She's really in awe. SHE wants to see aliens!!! Well, monsters are kind of alien-like, but it isn't the same!!]