TDM: MARCH / APRIL

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TDM: MARCH / APRIL

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

[sheathedclaws]

"Or I could stay with you until you hear back from them. I mean, it makes the most sense." He points out before glancing toward the restaurant.

"And we can figure this whole thing out. There have to be some things you can tell me that would at least prove your identity."

[legbreakings]

Jiang Cheng gives him a vaguely irritated look out of narrowed eyes but then he shrugs.

"Fine," he says curtly and starts walking towards the inn where he has booked a room for the night he is staying in town before returning to Lotus Pier. "I'll have to get the laptop. And I don't know how often either Wei Wuxian or Lan Wangji check theirs for new messages so if you have to wait and grow bored, don't complain to me."

It could be a matter of minutes or days, really; the uncertainty is just another thing to hate about this place. They could send Jongdae to harass them in person but that would require first sending a message via laptop to the messenger harpy.

[sheathedclaws]

"I don't think you'll bore me. We can talk while we wait." He follows, catching up to fall into step with him. "Unless you'd be willing to take me to wherever you're actually staying in this place. I haven't been here that long..."

[legbreakings]

Jiang Cheng shoots him an arch look from the corner of his eyes, mouth twisting into a sneer, albeit this one is almost teasing by his standards.

"Ah, so now you suddenly trust this stranger and would follow him home?" he quips. "There is a powerful witch in this land, I bargained with her for a copy of Lotus Pier. It is where I live, but it's quite a distance from the city." Which is why he had not considered taking this Nie Huaisang there but... "If your world has as many differences as Wei Wuxian's even in the details, then showing you my Lotus Pier would drive my point home best."

[sheathedclaws]

"At least it...well I've never actually been there but Jiang-xiong and Wei-xiong used to tell me about it." And he had wanted to visit.

"And admittedly, I still want proof but you're at least closer to something I recognize than anything else I've seen here." He hadn't denied this stranger was a Jiang after all.

"So, that seems the best solution."

[legbreakings]

"At least if you have never been there you won't tell me that it looks all wrong," Jiang Cheng points out. Never mind he had just done that about Nie Huaisang's clothes. That's different.

He takes him quickly to the inn down the street, where he needs to grab his overnight bag and laptop.

"I can't tire anymore but if you are anything like my Nie Huaisang I don't want to deal with hours of your whining, so we will take public transportation part of the way."