TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER

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TDM: SEPTEMBER

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

[nyahilistic]

I absolutely can, but it's probably not what most people would suggest.

[He glances out toward the ocean.] Maybe if I sit here long enough the tide will drown me, then I can actually answer your question better. [I'm sorry he is this way.]

[violetdisposion]

Okay, you got me there with the exact wording, but, yes, I'd not suggest that in particular.

[...She frowns. Bernadetta's particularly struck because this is the mentality she had before the war started.]

I don't want to talk to a drowned corpse. And if you're going to die there, that's going to take a while, so I sure hope you love baking in the sun, because in worst case you'll live and get a massive sunburn. And me, personally? I'd rather be locking myself away in my room right now. And never leaving it.

In worst case you're on a beach that might have people coming in at any moment to enjoy vacation, so I sure hope you love crowds.

[She huffs. Because she'd hate that! And she turns on her heel, obstinately. She's gonna march right into the dark scary path over there! She'll totally do it!

She is taking the smallest angry steps possible.]

[nyahilistic]

[He's not entirely sure why she thinks throwing a tantrum at him, a complete stranger who is obviously pretty ambivalent to most things, is going to get much of a reaction out of him. He doesn't even know her name.]

[So he lets her throw her little fit, watching her take tiny stamping steps away from him, and he thinks maybe he's a little reminded of Todomatsu. There's no specific fondness attached to this girl in the same way there would be to his brother, little shit though he was, but he leans back and calls out after her.]

You may as well be getting sunburned with me, taking steps that small.

[violetdisposion]

[Fine. She takes bigger steps! She marches right into that path! And she disappears for a bit.

It takes her a good 5 minutes to come rushing back out again screaming.]

Onsecondthoughtthebeachisfinegonnadieonthebeachyepyepyepyepyep!!!!

[She has now crashed onto the beach and is trying to bury herself alive.]

[nyahilistic]

[He's no good at being the older brother type, so he doesn't stop her. He doesn't even completely watch her go, turning back to watch the water and mull over what the fuck situation he'd gotten himself into. Luckily for everyone, Bernadetta comes running back and yeets herself into the sand to play ostrich at the speed of sound before he can get too deep into ruminating over winding up marooned on a beach somewhere without any of his brothers.]

[He turns to look at her slowly.]

...so sunburn it is, then?

[violetdisposion]

[She lifts her head slowly from the sand.]

Flesh. Mountain.

[These two words she says with a terrified glint in her eyes, staring at her companion dead in the eyes like they mean something. And then her arm swings back and points at the path she came from.]

Mountain of flesh!!! B-B-Back there!!!!

[nyahilistic]

[He follows her pointing, blinks, and then looks back to her.]

...so death by flesh mountain, okay. You're pretty adventurous.