graveyardsmash | TEST DRIVE MEME: SEPTEMBER

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.

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Thank God. I hate that team bullshit.

[ she crosses her arms, watching joey survey himself. had he really not noticed that he was - well, furry now? christ. whatever supervillain they're dealing with has carved out one hell of a niche for themselves with this one.

when joey reveals that slade is here, though - her expression changes entirely. of course. tara can't just be done with him and move on with her life. you know, that thing she was obviously trying to do when she agreed to join addie's little revenge plan. ]

....Peachy. Shouldn't he still be in Arkham? I know the place is a revolving door, but jeez.

[Oh thank Christ, that went way better than he was expecting it to. He's pretty used to the women in his life getting stabby when something happens to set them off, and he doesn't know Tara well enough to know where she falls on the sliding scale of retaliatory violence.]

[He relaxes a little, only for Tara's next question to make him tense right back up again.]

/....Yeah, about that. We've all been grabbed from different points in time. From the sound of things, me and Pop are way ahead of you. For us, the Arkham thing was months ago./

[ listen, joey - beggars can't be choosers, and tara has people way higher on her shitlist than you. plus, she doesn't have anything to be stabby with currently. ]

Great. So I got grabbed from what - my lowest point in recent history? Please tell me you and Slade were grabbed from somewhere way worse. Or, at least he was.

[ she really doesn't have much ill will towards joey. he's...y'know. harmless. ]

[Wow, Joey just does not have any good news to give Tara.]

/It's hard to say. I mean, he's not exactly a happy person, so most points are probably low points for him./

[His dad's life actually kind of sound miserable when he puts it like that, but it's a little hard to have sympathy for someone whose misery is almost entirely of their own making.]

Stop sweet-talking me by talking about your dad's capacity for endless suffering.

[ jeez, joey. suck-up much? ]

And where are you coming from? I'm assuming you haven't exactly heard from me in your recently.

/A lot has happened since the last time we saw each other, yeah./

[It's such a massive understatement that it almost feels like a lie.]

/Last thing I remember before getting Spirited Away was Pop ducking out right before Christmas dinner, which, y'know, typical./

[It was a dick move, yeah, but an entirely unsurprising dick move.]

/I still need to get on his case about that. I've been so busy with the whole existential-crisis thing that I haven't gotten around to chewing him out yet. Don't worry, though. It's on the docket./

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