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Ryslig Helpers ([personal profile] ryslighelpers) wrote in [community profile] graveyardsmash2022-09-09 09:15 am
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TDM: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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.


bugbeverage: (prayin)

[personal profile] bugbeverage 2022-12-04 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well of course!

[He makes a showy little gesture before patting his gut.]

But take it from me, if you get Naga, do not and I repeat, do NOT eat somebody who still has their shoes on. Take 'em off first, those bad boys do NOT digest well. Hooh.
snaptwice: (Hide behind lies from your bible)

[personal profile] snaptwice 2022-12-04 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Useful advice.

[There is another moment where she is quiet, studying him up and down, thinking. Maybe this needn't be a useless conversation. Maybe she can learn some practical things.]

Did changing hurt?
bugbeverage: (prayin)

[personal profile] bugbeverage 2022-12-04 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[It was a valid question. Beetlejuice saw no reason to sugar coat it though. the kid needed to know.]

Oh, yeah, but my transformation was over before I really knew what was happening. Think of it as...the worst sneeze you've ever experienced in your whole life--but a friend of mine changed real slow so...it's different for everybody. When I got these--

[He kicks out a hoof.]

My whole snake end fell off and these babies were underneath so...think of it as losing a tooth but the tooth is half of your body.
snaptwice: but you're dead on arrival (You put me on trial)

[personal profile] snaptwice 2022-12-04 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[At this description, she listens - a lot of intense concentration on her face. She's imagining it, what that would be like, going from two legs, to a lone tail, to hooves. Imagines the pain, the vestigial flesh left behind. The tooth metaphor wins her over.

She inclines her head in what could be some sort of greeting. It's kind of hard to tell.]


I'm Wednesday. Who are you?
bugbeverage: (new meat)

[personal profile] bugbeverage 2022-12-04 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[The way this girl just stands and stares is kinda creepy. Nice!]

Well, Wednesday, you can call me BJ! How long have you been here? I'm coming up on about a year. It's been...quite a year. You change a lot in a year.

[His eyes get kind of far away as he thinks about Felfri.]
snaptwice: (I'm caught between your teeth)

[personal profile] snaptwice 2022-12-04 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Lots more creepy where that came from.]

BJ. Is that short for something?

[She waggles the handful of brochures still in her pale, well-manicured grip.] I just got here. Today. Trying to get the lay of the land.
bugbeverage: (dontlikethis)

[personal profile] bugbeverage 2022-12-04 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but due to...reasons...I can't tell you what! So we'll just stick with BJ. Don't bother trying to get creative and come up with what it stands for because I've heard 'em all and I'm over it. Over it!

[His tone changes and his face brightens up when she mentions she's fresh off the boat. Literally.]

Whayel, lemme be the first to welcome you to Ryslig! It only gets worse from here! And I'm not talking about the bone-twisting transformation you're about to undergo.
snaptwice: but you're dead on arrival (You put me on trial)

[personal profile] snaptwice 2022-12-10 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
[The bristling over his name makes the girl quirk one whole eyebrow...but otherwise, it's with no resistance that she passes the topic by. He doesn't want to go by whatever that name was. Simple.

But as much as he lost her with that tirade, he's brought her right back with the promise of certain misery. Her eyes widen, and she leans in a little bit.]


What's worse than the transformations? Is it really that bad?
bugbeverage: (wellexcuseme)

[personal profile] bugbeverage 2022-12-18 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, recently we all got thrown face-first into a war. Then there was the time we all got taken to the theater dimension where everybody could see a play about all your biggest fuck-ups. Then there was the time I went insane at the fair and tried to eat myself but I'm not sure if that happened to anybody else...but there was the other time I tried to eat myself and others when we all got turned into candy...

[He's counting on his fingers as he recites.]

Oh, and the time we got stranded in the wastelands with no food and had to start eating each other. Huh. Lotta cannibalism going on here I'm noticing.