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Ryslig Helpers ([personal profile] ryslighelpers) wrote in [community profile] graveyardsmash2022-03-12 09:40 am
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TDM: MARCH/APRIL

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 in a dark ditch, the sky cloudy overhead. Dirt cakes into your cuts and scrapes. The air is clammy and damp, and it smells like rain.

You’re in a grave. And when you sit up to inspect the tombstone marking your spot, it has your name on it. Maybe the graves next to you have the names of familiar friends, family, acquaintances. Not all of them are open like yours are. RIP.

There’s a light dancing in the distance, and you hear the jingle-jangle of heavy keys, or worse still, the gravekeeper’s massive pitchfork or shovel. If you're lucky, you can sneak out beyond his notice, and get out alone. If not - you might find yourself on the wrong end of a shovel’s swing, or worse yet, tripping headfirst in front of a pair of monstrous eyes.

SCENARIO TWO

You've stumbled your way out of the graveyard, and you're promptly besieged by the overwhelming sights and sounds of the city. Cars honk at you to get out of the street, and strangers try not to look in your direction for too long. They see your dirty clothes and scraped faces, and pretend to busy themselves with something else. Rarely, a look of pity is cast your way.

But some people try to reach out. Enterprising citizens and those that hope to curry favor with the newcomers pass out new clothes and bundles of food, asking if you have a place to stay the night, wondering about the details of the world you came from. Some are even handing out pamphlets which vary in how helpful they are--"What To Expect When You're Expecting (To Turn Into A Monster)", "Wolpertinger: Fact or Fiction?", "100% ACCURATE MONSTER QUIZ ASSESSMENT: GUARANTEED TO PREDICT YOUR MONSTER!", and "Ryslig Law In A Nutshell".

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? Does it fit you, or does it feel incongruous with your nature? 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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[personal profile] ripshitriot 2022-03-14 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)

[Well, the las certainly looks less human from the front than she did from the back, but she's still lady-shaped, nonthreatening, and complimenting her so Faye isn't about to complain.]

I'm starting to think it's stamped on my forehead, but yeah.

[Don't blush, don't blush, don't blush.]

Solid opening sales pitch. Catchy name. Sure, I'm sold.

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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2022-03-15 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the not knowing where anything is but still being a human kind of gives it away.

[But Maya just smiles and gestures with a nod to a nearby sign— with... her on it.]

C'mon, it's close by, too. I'll even comp your first drink! As long as you promise to be a repeat customer.

[She starts setting off regardless. Guess Faye better keep up!]
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[personal profile] ripshitriot 2022-03-15 04:14 am (UTC)(link)

[Pouts!!! Oh hey that's... her face, on a sign. Huh.]

So Who's Nai'a then?

[She steps fast to catch up, not too hard considering her legs are longer.]

If the beer's all right and it's not a sausagefest no reason for me to not be a repeat.

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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2022-03-15 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Dandy tells me it means dolphin in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. Which makes sense, because he's a dolphin, and I'm an orca. Which Giorno told me is close enough to being like a dolphin.

[She talks over her shoulder, quite familiar with the way back to the bar from here.]

And... I'd like to say we have a pretty mixed bag here.
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[personal profile] ripshitriot 2022-03-15 04:45 am (UTC)(link)

Huh. Is he from Hawai'i? Like, the real Hawai'i?

[Are there people who live on original earth again????? She didn't think so but there's a lot she doesn't know.]

Okay, I get it, the black and white markings... I mean, I've never seen an Orca, but I've seen recreated pictures.

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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2022-03-15 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
I—

[Maya stops mid stride, frowning slightly as she thinks—]

I... think he's from Japan actually. Or from space? He's Japanese and from space.

[She returns to walking.]

But he's been to Hawai'i, apparently. He's from the future.

[very casual.]
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[personal profile] ripshitriot 2022-03-22 07:22 am (UTC)(link)

[She has to bite back the instinctual response of the real Japan? So that she doesn't sound like a broken record. From space makes sense, at least.]

Sure, from space, let's go with that. If by "from the future" you mean a place with actual technology, unlike this shithole, then I would love to commiserate.

Edited (i can spell) 2022-03-22 07:22 (UTC)
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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2022-03-22 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeaaah, most people are from the future of this place. It's kinda stuck in the past, right?

But I mean the future-future. Like way after 2019. That's when I showed up here from my world.