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graveyardsmash2020-06-12 08:19 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME: 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.
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I'd like that. Yeah. Let me know your cashbox email or something so I can pay you back later.
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[ Which, to Fran, isn't terribly long. But it sure feels like it.
With a short nod, the kelpie's back on their feet, lifting off the chair and making to head back into the bar. ]
You can shout me the next one, if we happen to meet again!
[ And, given a few minutes, they're back with another pint glass of whatever beer was on tap, and a second plate of chips for him! A cheeky grin. ]
Here we go... Now, I don't believe I've gotten your name, yet?
[I only used human icons, shh]
[He watches Fran go then greets his reappearance with a big grin.]
Peter Martin. You are...?
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Ah, Fran Baiseal, though simply Fran will do! Please, eat up... It's perhaps lucky you found me instead of some random local. The people here don't always take so well to... outsiders?
Is this very much like the world you came from?
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[He puts another fry in his mouth.]
Outsiders. You mean foreigners or non-humans?
[Though of course he looks human enough now. He rubs his ear and the bridge of his nose thoughtfully.]
Maybe they think there's a wrong kind of human? I'm not human, though this place seems to disagree.
[He's too busy with his own thoughts to answer the question.]
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[ It's... a bit unfortunate, but the once-nymph is more than familiar with arriving as a non-human. Even if it's changed a little over time. ]
Me neither- though I suppose that seems pretty obvious now, I didn't always look like this! I arrived in a very similar way to you, probably... But I kept my horns and my eyes. Even if I couldn't see as well after.
[ But, moving on- ]
It's kindof hard to explain, but after a month, everyone here starts... turning into some form of 'monster', as we seem to have called ourselves. Or what they call us.
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So we don't turn back to ourselves? How do we get out? When do we leave?
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[ There's the sympathetic look again. ]
There's... uhm... No way out, as far as I know. Some monsters just disappear eventually.
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No, there's a way out. You must not know it yet.
[Be confident!]
There's...there's a way out.
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But we've been here years without finding one. So, just be prepared to be a bit patient!
[ h e l p i n g?
Maybe, but they're doing what they can to still be supportive in the face of surpreme optimism. ]
For what it's worth, things aren't too bad here?
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[So he's stuck here.]
I had plans.
This doesn't look like a bad place to vacation but...
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We kinda make do.
[ Never is easy. It's probably one of the hardest things to explain about coming here. ]
I get it though... Hardly your first pick, after all.
But it's not... Soo bad?
[ They're trying to make it sound nice, at least.]
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I'm going to lose everything I worked for.
[He eats a fry straight from the plate, no hands. Might as well.]
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There may be... More you can do here?
[ It's not much, but maybe it's something. ]
What did you do before coming here?
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[He may be saved!]
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[ Easier to show than explain, Fran pulls out their own box. ]
From what I know, they're constantly trying to improve them!