graveyardsmash | TDM: OCTOBER

TDM: OCTOBER

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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...Oh. Yeah. It kinda did, ha.

[The uncertain frown shifts into a little bit of a smile, a little bit relieving. So this boy appears to be around his age. Maybe a few years older, but somewhere close to there. That's kind of relieving, in a way.]

Couldn't ever hurt to get advice from someone who knows the area better than I do, so I'd say I probably do, and you seem a little less on-edge than, uh...the rest of the people around here.

[So no matter what, the company would be appreciated. He scoots over a bit just so if the other guy wants to sit, he can.]

Nice to meet you, by the way. I'm Dipper. Dipper Pines. What's your name?

I'm Yuya Sakaki! I- Oh- right, I'm not at home so...

[He mumbles the last bit to himself, seeming a bit confused and losing his initial strong opening. But it works, he thinks. Or hopes.]

I only landed here two months ago myself. And as you can see- [He gestures to the very non human things about him, from the shoulder spikes, to the green tinted skin.] They aren't lying, unfortunately.

[Yuya is hesitant, but does actually choose to sit down next to Dipper, only because it would seem rude not to... Right?]

But um, I can... tell you about Ryslig. Er That's the place we're in right now-

[Yuya Sakaki. Sounded Japanese. Was it proper to say -san? -kun? He's not sure. Honorifics are confusing and he never quite learned them properly. But he listens, nodding.]

I've seen enough weird things in my life to believe what they were telling me. An entire town wouldn't be that convinced of monsters existing unless they saw proof for certain. Much less that any person they don't recognize is a monster.

[That kind of paranoia...he felt pretty sympathetic for them, honestly. Anyone they didn't recognize could turn into someone who ate people- man, woman, child, adult, anyone. It was understandably troubling, though he was on the side of scorn.

He looked at the monster-traits of the other boy. Shoulder spikes...green tinted skin. Aha. He studied into the traits pretty well, so he can tell monsters at a glance.]

...I guess you do kinda stick out more. The whole multicolored skin bit that comes with being a goblin is a telltale sign compared to some others.

[He nods.]

Ryslig. Got it. I've got bits and pieces, but I could always use more knowledge.

[Especially if he kept to the plan his brain was creating - which was to create a journal that was from the eyes of a monster. All of these books read as fear-mongering. If people had knowledge from a monster as to what monsters were really like...they might be less fearful and more understanding.

That was what he hoped, at least.]

[Yuya blinked, he hadn't even figured out what he was himself and yet this boy had just guessed it immediately.]

W-wait, how do you know? What monster I am, I mean.

[Admittedly, the boy didn't guess much, because being a monster in general was bad. But if knowing would provide comfort, he'd try it. He also mentally told himself to get back on topic after this...]

Oh! Well, it's because I studied. These books are pretty bias from a human's perspective of monsters, but the traits of various monsters are there and I tried to memorize them. Goblins usually have multicolored skin, spikes, and horns. You've got all of the above, so my bet is that you're a goblin. I could be wrong, but that's what I could figure based on the information I have right now.

[He beams a little. He likes feeling smart, especially about subjects like this.]

...I don't really like the way they put certain things in these books, and it doesn't feel right to only have books written by humans about monsters they hardly know, but I guess that just brings opportunity for someone else to change that.

[That someone being him!]

[Yuya blinked, indeed there were... A lot of pamphlets and books around them.]

When I came here, none of the humans really saw me as anything other than a spectacle. They didn't even tell me about the... Monster thing.

[What was he even getting at with this? Oh yeah-]

A book by monsters, for monsters would be great...

[He says that but he also looks... Sad. Like he's giving up on the notion that he's human just by saying this. But he tries to hide it by looking away.]

...They didn't? I mean, they're not the friendliest with me, but...they're scared. They're scared for good reason. The only reason why I'm not too shaken is because I'm used to a lot of weird things happening to me. So that's also how I caught onto what was going on pretty quick.

[That tone, the hesitance. Dipper catches onto the emotion anyway, and he lets out a little sigh.]

I know it feels like a separation. And no one's eager to call themselves a monster. I'm not, either. But that doesn't make you any less a person. You're still a human being. It's just like adding a layer on top of that. May not want that layer, but we can't help it. So...it's okay to be upset about it.

I probably should be more upset than I am, really.

[It's a weird feeling, being numb to the paranormal. Not many people could relate to that. Grunkle Ford could, but he wasn't here. So Dipper was working on his own plain. And he knew it was odd.]

And they don't think I am too!?

[He hadn't meant to lash out like that, it just sort of happened. He had a habit of doing so under stress, and, well. Yuya was under a lot of it recently.]

I'm... sorry, forget I said anything.

[For one reason or another, the boys words did calm him, a bit. The later ones anyway. And he sat there in thought, Dipper was saying he was used to these things. And whether it was the feeling of needing to belong, or to clarify, Yuya adds his own experiences to that.]

I didn't exactly come from a normal place either. But I was... I thought everything was done, doesn't this just feel like... Like some kind of punishment?

[He... might be sharing more of his personal view than he meant to.]

I never said that.

[Luckily, Dipper is used to high tension. The Weirdpocalypse ensured that, along with just...Gravity Falls in general. He listens, and he shrugs softly.]

I get how you feel. Really. I thought all my weirdness was over, too. I was going to go back to school, live an average life...and then I suddenly wasn't on the bus back home with my sister. I was here. I don't think it's a punishment. It's just something that happened that we have to make the best of. No harm was meant by it, I think. But forces beyond this world usually just don't understand this world. It's complicated.

But looking at it as some kind of punishment for whatever you've done in your life won't help. It'll just drive in the pessimism. Like a hammer to a nail.

[What Dipper says make sense, but Yuya still bristles, both figuratively and literally as the mostly invisible spikes on his arms 'spike up' in anger, as well as his own hair.]

I shouldn't have to deal with it-

[Why was he getting so mad about this, anyways? Did he just not want to hear this? Or was it something else? He bites his own lip to stop himself from talking, because he knows he'll sound like a broken record.]

Look I... I've already been a monster, I didn't want to be one again...

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