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graveyardsmash2020-10-08 08:06 am
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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.
no problem!
It's not my fault that I'm changing! Or that this stuff just doesn't come off... [riiiiiip] ... on it's own!
[A beat followed, shortly, before Envy realized what they'd just done by tearing off the rest of their arm's shed skin, and they stumbled back, clinging to their arm.]
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
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[Giorno shoots up out of his chair quickly enough that it knocks backwards against the railing with a loud clang, halfway across the space between them before he's aware his feet are moving.]
What are you screaming about, it's just skin! Here, put it down, let me look at your arm—
[It absolutely does not occur to him that his bedside manner sucks right now, but honestly he'd just like Envy to stop screaming. It's just skin, gosh.]
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[Rather than offer their arm, Envy doesn't offer their arm; instead they just hold it close to their body. Nevertheless, it's apparent from what can be seen that it was just the dead skin that was torn off.]
It was just sudden is all! I don't need help!
[Envy is used to feeling pain; they've been shot, burned, everything. But they're not used to pain lingering, so even something as minor as this is enough to leave them shaking.]
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[Even so, he can tell that Envy is lying. The way they shake is as clear a giveaway as if they were holding a sign. He can't know why this pain is different, but he knows the brushoff is a deflection.]
[Fine. So, now what?]
All right. You don't need help. What do you need? Because this isn't going to stop happening soon, not for either of us.
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[Envy stared, caught in mid-sentence. They had no answer for Giorno, and the longer they were silent, that fact became more and more apparent.]
...Fine.
[They snarled, and... held out their arm. Aside from some freshly made shallow scars where Envy had torn the skin free, there were no injuries however, just fresh, sensitive scaly skin.]