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

i.

[tothemoon]

[It's true that Appare had been staring-- not for very long, but long enough to warrant a snide remark for sure. He was just a little curious about this person who seemed to be in the same situation, looking... well. Honestly, just about as outlandish as he looked himself. But the comment made to him quickly took priority in his mind, and anything he was going to say to Piers first left it as fast as it came.]

I wouldn't even if I had a camera.

Re: i.

[noencore]

Good answer. I’ve never allowed unsolicited photos before an’ I don’t plan to start now.

[And that seems to be all he cares to say on the matter. He regards the other with some wariness before he sighs and tries to get to his feet.]

If you’re the one that’s brought me here then I’ve gotta bone t’pick with you the size of Hammerlocke.

[tothemoon]

[Appare watches with a flat expression, as Piers starts to get some footing in the sand. The wary accusation makes sense, and if Piers wasn't on the ground himself Appare may have had the same thoughts about him, honestly. Wondering if maybe he had something to do with the sudden kidnapping(?).]

I'm not.

[He answers that simply, before he turns his face to look out towards the vast sea that they had washed up from. No boats in sight..]

I've got the same bone to pick.

[noencore]

Ah.

[Well, that doesn’t do him a fat lot of good, now does it? He frowns looking around at things, trying to wrap his head around what exactly was going on.]

Bit of a sticky situation we’re in, innit?

[What else can he really say. He turns to look in the other direction, towards whatever land the beach sits along, and frowns.]

What do you suppose is beyond the beach?

[tothemoon]

[At the question presented to him, Appare turns his attention to the other direction as well, and he's pretty quick to give Piers an answer.]

Civilization.

[He reaches up with his gloved hand, and points to a small line of what looks like clouds in the distance of the skyline.]

There, look. Though it might look like clouds or fog, the colour is that of polluted air. It's kind of yellow.

There's most likely a town that uses coal fires as their primary source of power. There might be a train station as well, to contribute to that thick of a cloud.

[He's.. from the 1800's so the concept of modern day smog isn't really something he's aware of. But, it is relatively clear out on this side of the peninsula so perhaps he has some idea what he's talking about.

Or it's just rainy over there.]

[noencore]

[Are you kidding, Piers’s entire hometown is indoors. Everything Appare says sounds about as plausible as anything else and he has no reason to doubt or dismiss his point.]

Good as place as any t’start.

[He shrugs and starts heading in that direction. The beach was clearly going to yield them nothing, and he had no desire to stay here any longer. If they could find a town maybe there would be answers for what was going on.]