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Ryslig Helpers ([personal profile] ryslighelpers) wrote in [community profile] graveyardsmash2020-09-11 10:03 am
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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.


cartoongiraffe: (surprise)

[personal profile] cartoongiraffe 2020-09-15 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
You haven't...that's right, you can't have known that...

[Sigh.]

This is going to sound daft, but she's a supercomputer and an assistant, kind of like a physical Alexa that they use in the Good Place. They have them in the Bad Place too, but they are deeply, deeply unhelpful there.

I have never known any, but I'm willing to accept that.
bullschistartist: (smol smol smol)

[personal profile] bullschistartist 2020-09-15 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, not daft at all. Why not have a supercomputer that's also an Alexa rip-off in heaven? At this point, that might as well happen.

[ tara says completely seriously - why not have some sort of omniscient assistant-woman? ]

I mean, good, because you sound at least as crazy as I do. So - no, I don't think this is your Bad Place. Definitely not your Bad Place, either. I'm betting on some kind of practical joke.
cartoongiraffe: (patient)

[personal profile] cartoongiraffe 2020-09-15 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It is what it is.

Really? It is a relief to think so. Could it be a practical joke from a demon- though I don't think demon is quite correct and besides it's sort of a slur... you understand what I mean, though?
bullschistartist: (smokin)

[personal profile] bullschistartist 2020-09-20 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
A slur? Have you been getting cozy with demons that apparently exist?

[ this conversation couldn't get any more wild. next time, tara will have to make up a drinking game. ]
cartoongiraffe: (patient)

[personal profile] cartoongiraffe 2020-09-20 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't call it getting cozy, but I suppose Michael is sort of a friend...oh I see what you mean.

[She tilts her head.]

I have been in "the bad place." As hard as that might be to believe. I know it seems hard because, well...[just look at Tahani.]