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

[deadwenwalking]

Oh. Yes?

[Technically he's a "puppet". But mostly human. Mortal in the sense that he can die. It's not something he usually bothers explaining to strangers.]

I'm alive. Whatever you want to call me is fine.

[He's not a monster yet, despite appearances. In fact he feels weaker here than he did in his own world. More "normal".]

[cartoongiraffe]

Ohhh.

[How to tactfully tell this man he's probably dead? But then is he really?]

I am most likely dead. Was dead? But now I'm here and it's very quaint but confusing. Have you managed to gather any kind of idea of where we are or what this is? -I know you probably haven't. Why would you be asking questions, then?

[Pull yourself together, you're blathering. She hears the voice of her mother.]

Perhaps we could divide up the questioning and share what we learn?

[deadwenwalking]

[He frowns at that, eyes downward as he tries to bring to mind exactly what he was doing before he arrived here.]

I don't think I died...

[It's very difficult to get the drop on Wen Ning. He's more then likely to notice an arrow or any other sort of projectile headed his way before it hits him, but he isn't infallible.]

I don't think you'll find I have many answers, either...

[He gathers the pamphlets up in a bundle and holds them out to her.] People just keep giving me these.