TDM: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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TDM: SEPTEMBER/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

(CW: Human remains)

When you awaken, you are hit with an immediate feeling of motion. A bobbing, if you will, or perhaps more of a rocking. You take a deep breath through your nose and take note of salt, along with the pungent scent of rotting wood. Creaking sounds echo all around you. Sitting up, you find yourself locking eyes with a skull.

An entire human skeleton is positioned across from you, resting limply against a pillar. Surveying the rest of your surroundings, you soon realize that you're below deck on an old, dilapidated ship. A ship that's on the move. The crew must have suffered a terrible fate, strewn as they all are across the floor. With their ripped poofy shirts, sheathed cutlasses and jaunty feathered hats, they seem to scream one word at you. "Pirates". ...Ooh, is that an abandoned bottle of rum? And a treasure chest? Surely they won't mind if you help yourself. They're dead, after all!

Once you've ascended the creaky steps, you find yourself on the deck of this vast, once proud vessel. A tattered Jolly Roger flaps overhead. Thick fog obscures most of the ocean surrounding you, but what's that straight ahead? Land ho! The ship's about to make port, and a crowd of curious onlookers has already gathered on the docks to stare up at this spooky new arrival. They appear apprehensive, perhaps even fearful, as if they haven't seen a ship come in for a long time. Will they hold you accountable for what happened to the skeleton crew? Will they praise you for 'ridding' them of pirates and allow you to keep the booty? There's no way to know just yet. Perhaps you'd best hide and find a way to disembark without being seen. Or perhaps there's someone else to be found here on this ship who suffered the same fate; someone who has a better idea of what to do.

SCENARIO TWO

You've stumbled your way into a city, and you're promptly besieged by the overwhelming sights and sounds. 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 lost expression and your clothes- so different from their own- 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. A hefty laptop may be handed to you, with words of a ‘network’ used for communication. Wonder what that’s about? Then there’s the very confusing pamphlet stuffed within: "What To Expect When You're Expecting (To Turn Into A Monster)”. They may direct you to an organisation known as the Lighthouse, their members most prominently found at the 38-8 apartments and the Lighthouse Church. Or perhaps, if you're injured, they'll refer you to the Crowe Clinic instead. Unfortunately, the directions you're given are so very complicated that you lose your way in the streets after two left turns, a right and a left at the soup kitchen.

Take care when asking for more help. 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

Now that you've found a moment of peace, you open up the mysterious device that's been handed to you. Perhaps you'll recognize it as some sort of laptop, albeit an old and clunky one. Or perhaps you'll be astounded by this curious feat of technology, which is unlike anything you've ever seen before. Regardless, the moment the lid is propped open to reveal the screen and the keyboard within, you gain your first glimpse of the network.

Perhaps you'll want to choose a username and write your very first message, posing the pressing question that's on your mind at this very moment. The lettered buttons click and clack awkwardly beneath your fingertips as you type.

However, you may instead want to respond to today's most popular message.

WELCOME TO RSDOS. PRESS F1 TO COMPOSE POST. *** TODAY’S TOP POST *** 018.07.154.55 <JUSTSOMEGUY> Let's play Two Truths, One Lie! It's real easy! You just post three statements about yourself, and the rest of us have to guess the lie. It'll be fun! And you get to be a liar liar without your pants catching fire for a bit.

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.

Comments

[seacub]

[Excuse him he can't help but wonder now if laptop camera hacking IS a thing after all.

...And then they keep going and well. Mm.] I see.

Well, it's still just a username.

It's the title of a CD. The lie is something from the other three.

[panpiping]

oh
well



hmmmmmmmmmm

sleeping in a piano sounds scary...
can that be the lie?

[seacub]

It isn't!

It's not too scary. A grand piano has a lot of space.

It just isn't very soft.

But it does smell nice.

[panpiping]

smelling nice DOES sound good...

can the top stay open?
can we take it off?
no more top, please!

[seacub]

It could, but it's fairly easy to push up if it's closed.

It makes things pretty secure actually. And no one expects someone to be there, so no one is looking for somekne there.

I think if you can sleep in a bed- one that smells nice- that's probably better though.

[panpiping]

I don't want it
shutting the lid means...
......

I like making cozy nests out of scarves!!! like a very
BIG
s t r a n g e
bird

[seacub]

[Between the mentions of fey, and this, he has a feeling this person isn't human.


....It sort of feels like Foo, but different. Neat.]

Okay, that sounds pretty nice actually.

I think using blankets might be better, but that's because of how cold it is.

[panpiping]

it's true, it's true!!
it's really cold here
if you stay outside
or are in unhappy insides

oh!!!!!
but there's nothing to stop us
from USING blankets
even if our nest isn't made of them

or...
scarves so big they're almost blankets...
scarves for GIANTS

[seacub]

Those would work too!

I think finding the blankets might be easier though. If we find scarves that big though we can definitely use them.

[panpiping]

great!!!

but
you never know
monsters are common here, and not just secretly!
lots of clothes for monsters
monsters can be BIG
and cold...

:( warm the monsters!!!!!

[seacub]

A lot seem furred at least, but that probably wouldn't be enough to stay warm, that's true.

Actually, one of them is even susceptible to the cold according to someone I asked about them.

[panpiping]

!!!! oh no!
we should definitely make sure they have scarves
what kind of monster is it?

[seacub]

Let me check.

I think 'Manticore'?

'Cat like' monsters.

[panpiping]

no

[seacub]

Uh...

No?

[panpiping]

no!!
I can't give them any scarves!
it's too scary!!!!

[seacub]

Oh!

It's alright, there's ways to give people stuff without ever seeing them!

I used to do that all the time.

[panpiping]

hmmm
if I can't see them
it will probably be okay!!!

I've mostly given people headaches...
they usually come to me
to have something taken away!

so you'll be the expert here
teach me your ways, little human

[seacub]

[Interesting! Well!]

I'll do my best.

The first thing to do when we do that, is to find out how good you are at hiding in general- what kinds of places can you fit in?

For now, we still need to actually get the scarves, if we want to deliver them to anyone.

[panpiping]

all kinds of places!!!!
but even then, I'm not good at hiding
I like to be LOUD!!

that's true, that's true!
or make the scarves
people do that!

[seacub]

Haha.

You might have to trust a 'drop off' then- leaving something there, and then going somewhere else to let them pick it up.

We could knit them, yeah. That might be harder though, I don't know how to knit.

[panpiping]

............neither do I

[seacub]

I guess we aren't knitting the scarves then!

That's alright.

We still have to find a way to buy everything though.

[panpiping]

guess not!!!!

ohhh right...money
Poe always takes care of that stuff!!
the bartering is up to me

[seacub]

I don't have money either.

We might have to wait to buy scarves too then.

They'll be cheaper than a piano though!