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graveyardsmash2020-09-11 10:03 am
ryslighelpers) wrote in graveyardsmash2020-09-11 10:03 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME: 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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...But she wasn't, and instead she can only widen her eyes in surprise, backing up and putting her hands up in that somewhat-universal gesture of meaning no harm. She grins sheepishly, not thinking about how it shows her sharp teeth.]
Sorry!
[The fins on either side of her head even fan out&mdash somehow looking sheepish, even if fish body language isn't really a thing.]
I, uh, I won't hurt you, I promise!
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And why should I believe you? I have no reason to trust you, and you have no reason to help me.
[It's called stranger danger, Maya.]
...Where is the moon?
[It kind of just comes out of his mouth, even after what he just said, but if she wants to help so badly, she can at least answer something that's been bothering him ever since he got here.]
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[Maya points out! ...But her face falls into confusion at Kafei's question.]
The... moon? It's.... in space?
I mean, I think it is, anyway.
[Who knows how space actually works in Ryslig, but, uh, the moon is sure in the sky.
What a weird question to ask.]
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Somehow that stings more than he thought something like that could; surprisingly, even when people don't have a reason to hurt you, they'll sure...find reasons.]
In space?
...You haven't noticed it getting closer, have you?
[It's pretty hard to miss, last time he saw it anyway.]
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[Though, suddenly Maya's blinking up at the fog-thick sky aa though maybe there could be something wrong with the moon and perhaps it's worth it to check.]
Should it be closer? I mean— wouldn't that be bad??
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[If his tone sounds annoyed, it's probably because he is. Besides...everything else, saying the moon was a huge problem might be an understatement. To find out some people just aren't dealing with it almost seems unfair...]
Where are we exactly? ...And how far away are we from Clock Town?!
[It has to be far, right? If no one's noticed the fucking MOON?]
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I-um, you aren't anywhere near Clock Town. There isnt a Clock Town here.
[Maya finally starts to lower her hands, never really enjoying being the bearer of bad news.]
You're in Bavan. It's a place in a whole other world... Called Ryslig.
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I am not a fool! [It's true, though, his appearance does tend to make people a little more tolerant of his behavior, but at the cost of not a lot of people taking him very seriously, either. His defensiveness feels justified, he has no issue shouting at this otherwise helpful whale woman.] You really can't expect me to believe something that absurd, I haven't even done anything that could cause that to happen!!
[HE JUST WANTED HIS FUCKING MASK BACK.]
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[Maya blurts, even though she's gone and thrown her hands up defensively again. Even against a 'little kid', Maya's a girl of habits.]
Nobody did.
The fog just picks.
[She keeps her hands up, but she attempts a more serious face. Maybe if she furrows her glowing brow, Kafei will know she means what she says!
...it might have also just helped him if literally anyone more serious than Maya had shown up, but alas.]