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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[ It's been a while since Stan has had to do the whole 'slumming it in scuzzy bars to get by' thing, but he's doing alright. A few cards up his sleeves, some loaded dice, and an escape route and he's good to go.

For once, the riot that starts isn't his fault, but that doesn't stop him from taking advantage of the chaos. He swipes the cash off the table and disappears into the crowd before anyone has a chance to stop him. Just his luck, then, that he ends up alongside the apparent source of the riot - and that Piers and his weird skunk hair are going to be really easy to spot in the crowd. Even so, rather than trying to part ways... ]

What the heck?! I didn't think your singing was that bad!

[Fucking excuse him, if its the one thing in this misbegotten world Piers has legitimate confidence in, it’s his voice. As such, he does not appreciate someone having the audacity to say otherwise.]

[The mic stand that he’s made off with, he holds somewhat between them, not unlike one might hold a tire iron in a street fight.]

Would be a shame if that rotten singin’ alerted the mob. How fast can you run, mate? ‘Cuz, all I gotta do is out run you.

[You think this guy is above throwing the elderly at an angry mob? Do you want to test him, Stan?]

[ A reasonable person would probably decide that he and Piers have something good going on right now, and that aggravating him further would just needlessly complicate things.

But a person capable of that sort of forethought wouldn't have started a fistfight with his brother when the fate of the world was on the line, either, and guess what Stan has definitely done before? ]

Hey! If you think they're gonna be more interested in chasing after me than the guy with skunk hair, be my guest!

[You know, he gets points for infuriating moxy. He did not think the old man would snap back at him like that. He also hates to admit it, but the old codger has a point. Piers sticks out like a sore thumb in this mess. He growls a little before sighing.]

Then it looks like it’s in both our interests t’keep our gobs shut and get the hell out of dodge, innit?

[Insult his hair all you like Stan, he is the proud owner of a Skuntank.]

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