graveyardsmash | TEST DRIVE MEME: MAY/JUNE

TDM: MAY/JUNE

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

[The good news is the person Chihiro falls into is incredibly soft, as if there's a thick layer of fur underneath all those clothes, making him some sort of giant walking pillow. Sadly, that's all the good news, because his expression isn't nearly as soft. Instead it's a very toothy, snarly dog face, the kind one might expect on a komainu statue, only instead this animal is very much alive and has his entire attention on whoever the hell just bumped into him.

Some people, seriously.]

How unfortunate for you, your legs don't appear to be working.

[His gaze is...intense, despite how calm his voice sounds, and he seems to be sizing Chihiro up by the way his eyes keep going up and down. Studying almost.]

If you're challenging me, then your confidence is phenomenal, well done!!

C-challenge? No, I-

[Being called confident is one thing...it's unexpected and has the immediate affect of causing color to rise to Chihiro's cheeks. Not that he has much opportunity to dwell on it when a terrifying beast of a creature is staring down at him. Oh, he could probably swallow him in one bite if he wanted...

Chihiro staggers a step or two backwards in the sand, visibly overwhelmed as he tries to figure out what to even do in a situation like this.]

I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to run into you...

[Oh, that's...kind of pathetic.

Almost too pathetic.

The kind of pathetic that can't be real, like he's trying to bring his guard down or something. HA!! What a sneaky plan, Hakai almost loves it.]

Are you certain? Not even a...tiny challenge?

[He's big, he's snarly looking, but even he can't stop his long fluffy tail from wagging just a little. He's practically waiting for some sort of surprise attack, the thought that he's perhaps confusing some poor, helpless human doesn't even cross his mind.

Welcome to Ryslig, let's FIGHT.]

[DOES HE HAVE TO, THOUGH...]

Well, um...

[He's so scary, but...Chihiro doesn't miss the way his tail is wagging, like an over-excited dog just waiting for him to say the magic words "we're going for a ride" or "someone's here". But instead, the magic words are "I want to challenge you", or something.]

What...kind of challenge do you mean?

[Please don't say fight.]

[That tail starts to wag even faster, if only because there appears to be a slight chance he'll actually get what he wants. And he never gets what he wants, it's like the majority of the population isn't some sort of centuries-year old warrior of some kind.]

DESTRUCTIVE BATTLE TO THE DEATH!!

[He screams. Hakai literally holds up two fists and shakes them violently as he bellows as hard as his pathetic mortal lungs will let him, only to suddenly quiet down again and fold his arms back where they belong.]

And then perhaps a quick lunch. Balanced nutrition is the greatest challenge of all.

[OH my god, okay, Hakai if you want to deal with Chihiro properly you'll have to do it with a bit less screaming...assuming you don't want him to be cowering the whole time, his hands lifted up to briefly cover his face from how badly that startled him. At least it wasn't enough to make him fall over this time, but still.

Chihiro peers up at him through his fingertips after a tense moment of silence following his comment about lunch, trying his best to keep his knees from quaking.]

I...I think I can only do...the lunch part. I'm sorry.

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