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

[bullschistartist]

Maybe you only know one. I've met a couple. They're pretty dangerous, with the right motivation.

[ she shrugs. it's no skin off her nose if this white-haired old dude believes her or not. ]

Do you have a better idea?

[allaroundwatchdog]

[Race would take offense to being thought of as an old dude if he hasn't had his whole life to get used to it. Having white hair when you're sixteen is great when you're trying to lie about your age to get into the military - not so much when you're 35 and people think you just look really good for a 50 year old.]

A few, but if I knew what it is we have in common, I'd be able to narrow it down.

[He plants his hands on his hips as he thinks, and is displeased but entirely unsurprising to find he's missing both his side-arm and his switchblade.]

Don't suppose you're the kid of a high-profile government scientist? Maybe a foreign dignitary?

[bullschistartist]

[ to be fair, race, tara thinks everyone older than her is old. but yeah - the white hair and military vibes really aren't helping his favor.

she laughs, more out of surprise than anything else, when race asks about her parentage. "a foreign dignitary" - isn't that a bit too close for comfort? ]

Not exactly. I'm pretty normal, all things considered. And it's not like I'm a kid or anything.

[allaroundwatchdog]

[Race is just gonna give Tara a Look.]

[If she says she's not a kid, he'll take her word for it, but that doesn't mean he's not gonna think she's awful small to not be a kid.]

Normal, huh?

[That's another thing he's a little skeptical about. Normal people don't typically find themselves in situations like this.]

So you can't think of any reason terrorists or underground paramilitary groups might have it out for you?

[bullschistartist]

[ it's not her fault she was cursed to be short!! it used to work in her favor when it came to getting folks to let their guards down. don't be mean, race. ]

Super normal.

[ she manages to say it with a straight face. ]

Never pissed off anyone in my life.