TEST DRIVE MEME: JUNE

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TDM: 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.

Comments

[darkcharge]

Oh but would he? No doubt happy for you but...

[ A chink in the armor. Vanitas is going to just keep chipping at it if he can. ]

What about himself?

[missingache]

.... I don't know.

[Chip all you want. This is a sore subject for Roxas.]

It's not like we can ask him. Sora's gone.

[darkcharge]

[ "Gone?" ]

Had enough of your little group did he? If that's the case, I can't say that I would blame him.

[ Of course Vanitas knows that this isn't the case. It's just curious wording. ]

[missingache]

He'd never willingly leave!

[Those are fighting words. Roxas grits his teeth and steps closer to the other.]

Sora loves his friends and he didn't want to leave!

[darkcharge]

And yet he did leave didn't he? I guess the love that he has for all of you just wasn't enough.

[ Ha! At least this not!Ventus has a bit of fire to him. ]

[missingache]

[Okay, that's it. Roxas gets right into not!Sora's face with a glare.]

Sora died! So stop saying he left us!

[He hates being here and not able to help find Sora's heart with the others.]

[darkcharge]

[ Oh go ahead! Vanitas isn't intimidated. If anything he just crosses his arms over his chest.

Dead huh? Well Vanitas can't say that he's surprised. ]

I didn't make the initial statement. You did.

[ Twice, actually. ]

[missingache]

You're the one who assumed he just left!

[Though Roxas has an inkling this was done on purpose. Which wasn't important because now he kind of wants to fight.]

[darkcharge]

Again, I repeat, you said he left. How was I supposed to interpret your correct meaning with vague words like "leaving" and "gone?"

[ Oh it absolutely has been done on purpose! ]

[missingache]

..... [Crossing his arm, he huffs.] You just want me to get mad at you.

[darkcharge]

[ And Vanitas laughs. ]

You only figured that out just now? Hmm. Didn't inherit any braincells with that heart and body did you?

[missingache]

I got more braincells than you do. I mean, I'm still around and you weren't when I got my own body.

[So who is the idiot between them.]

[darkcharge]

You don't seem to quite get it. Who says I wanted to be around?

[ Roxas still is. ]

[missingache]

[Roxas opens his mouth, then closes it. Tilting his head as he watches Vanitas.]

Why wouldn't you want to be?

[darkcharge]

Why would I want to be?

[ As, after all, Roxas has pointed out that he's not really wanted. What reasons does Vanitas have for desiring to stick around? ]

[missingache]

I dunno... We accepted Isa, why not you? You'd fit right in.

[Roxas tilts his head the other way, pouting.]

Sora wanted you, and if he's okay with someone, I... would do my best to be friends with that person.

[darkcharge]

So I could what? Prance about with all that Light and act like something I'm not?

[ He's not even remotely like Isa. Vanitas hadn't been part Xehanort at all. He had been there for his own reasons and his own reasons alone.

So no. He wouldn't fit in. Being all helpful and encouraging. No. Thanks. ]

[missingache]

Why would you have to act? You could just be you.

[Leon was grumpy, and so was Auron. Not everyone needed to be sunshine and rainbows to be part of the friend circle.]

I don't prance around.... I don't think I even know how.

[darkcharge]

[ Now he is laughing. ]

Just be me? Oh no. No, that wouldn't do at all. There's no way you'd let me pick fights. Create a little havoc.

[ Snorts. ]

And what of the Unversed? Are you saying that you and yours would let them stroke fear and terror in the hearts of the worlds their on?

[missingache]

Actually, here, that might be a good thing.

[Just saying. Keep yourself safe with fighting.]

..... I don't even know what an Unversed really is, but if you can control them, can't you just make them not do that?

[darkcharge]

No. Just like the Heartless seek the Light, the Unversed are negative emotion given form. They cannot change what they are.

[ Rolling his eyes. That doesn't even answer any of the questions that he had posed. ]

[missingache]

.... [Roxas hums as he thinks before he perks up.]

Can you make them from positive emotions?

[darkcharge]

Are you really that clueless? [ He scoffs. ] Don't bother answering that.

[ And just like that he begins to pace. To circle around Roxas, uncaring of any onlookers. ]

I can't create something that doesn't exist within me. Therefore no. Only negative emotions are made manifest.

[missingache]

[Wooow. Rude. Roxas huffs and watches Vanitas circle.]

You don't know it's not there. You just sound like a scared kid.

[darkcharge]

I've known what I've been missing from the start, of course. It's the truth, not fear.

[ He knows what his fear is like. This isn't that. ]