Welcome to Ryslig's test drive meme! If you're considering apping here, this is where you can try your characters out in the game's setting. A few things to note:
Lots of people have asked good questions on the FAQ, so do take a look.
You can only app ONE character per round so choose wisely.
Test drive meme threads can be used for your roleplay sample!
NEW! Players with characters already in the game can earn up to a maximum of 3 coins by replying to potential character threads! You will need to have your normal 20 comment AC in the game. You cannot use this to go over the bonus 10 coins per month total, but you can use it if you are missing some threads to reach that coin total. Same rules as normal bonuses apply.
Sample scenarios:
SCENARIO ONE: So you've just arrived, fresh out of the hospital, and already the natives are trying to get on your good side. 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 great pamphlets. There's even some detailing certain monsters, and the changes they go through.
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.
SCENARIO TWO: You've become hopelessly lost in Lager Woods. Paths don't seem to lead where you remember them leading, and you feel as if you're going around in circles. Childlike giggling can be heard from no direction in particular. Suddenly, you stumble upon another character, who seems to be just as lost as you! Perhaps you can find a way out together.
SCENARIO THREE: You've heard about the fog, but you've never seen it before. Now, the mist surrounds you. Barely able to see before you, you need to get home - and fast. It's far too dangerous in this situation.
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? NOTE: Feel free to pick any monster type for this prompt, but note that you may not get the same one in game.
[Someday there's going to be a conversation on what are, and are not, usable weapons for fighting demons and dark gods, and the appropriate time and place for some tools.]
[Kain has a couple beats processing that. He wants to be surprised. He really does. He'd love to. But after a couple of robots and an Eidolon, that button in his head is just...broken.]
[Instead it's just a good thing he has enough self-control and sense to not say anything about having eaten dove and pigeon type birds before.]
[It adds another beat for him to move on to the faint sympathy recognition that yet again, the fog god has shoved someone into a foreign body.]
That's the Fog God's doing as well - she turns anyone that wasn't human before into one when they arrive.
...That... would be the other problem you'll be facing. Turning you human was the first part of what will be some form of other transformation; what the local people wrote on it and have been giving is distorted, but not entirely wrong.
It's okay. According to physics, two trainwrecks cancel one another out.
[...And that is a mix of dragoon "has always kind of gone more dragon than is healthy" and his ego finding that a reason to grow three sizes that day, even if he's got enough control to not let that be visible.]
My order may have drawn on the power of dragons, but we were mortal ourselves.
[It's ... something that Kain wouldn't actually mind going home like this.]
[He glances down at the pamphlet, tilting his head; he hasn't seen one of those, but it's less outlandish than the weird squid-headed bat-winged things they'd come up with before, and he's unfamiliar enough with the range of local wildlife to not realize a total hoax. Being from a world with a mostly alien and sometimes very weird ecosystem is hard. Which means he's connecting it to some of the fish-people and ... just guessing that's a local variety of fish.]
[So he's giving a thoughtful nod.]
No-one so far has changed completely like that save for short times, but I've seen others that were part fish after their transformations.
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Though my form has been twisted and changed, my heart does not forget. I am one whose Crimson Breast is dyed in sin -- a Luzon bleeding heart dove.
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[Kain has a couple beats processing that. He wants to be surprised. He really does. He'd love to. But after a couple of robots and an Eidolon, that button in his head is just...broken.]
[Instead it's just a good thing he has enough self-control and sense to not say anything about having eaten dove and pigeon type birds before.]
[It adds another beat for him to move on to the faint sympathy recognition that yet again, the fog god has shoved someone into a foreign body.]
That's the Fog God's doing as well - she turns anyone that wasn't human before into one when they arrive.
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....You know this is the asshole who is a trainwreck at normal social interaction half the time
...That... would be the other problem you'll be facing. Turning you human was the first part of what will be some form of other transformation; what the local people wrote on it and have been giving is distorted, but not entirely wrong.
It's okay. According to physics, two trainwrecks cancel one another out.
The... Drake of the Heavens was once but a mere mortal?
[His eyes land on the "Fur Bearing Trout" pamphlet]
So I too could become this... this silver being cloaked in the hide of land?!
APPARENTLY IT WORKS FOR IDIOT DRAGOONS AND DELUSIONAL BIRDS TOO
My order may have drawn on the power of dragons, but we were mortal ourselves.
[It's ... something that Kain wouldn't actually mind going home like this.]
[He glances down at the pamphlet, tilting his head; he hasn't seen one of those, but it's less outlandish than the weird squid-headed bat-winged things they'd come up with before, and he's unfamiliar enough with the range of local wildlife to not realize a total hoax.
Being from a world with a mostly alien and sometimes very weird ecosystem is hard.Which means he's connecting it to some of the fish-people and ... just guessing that's a local variety of fish.][So he's giving a thoughtful nod.]
No-one so far has changed completely like that save for short times, but I've seen others that were part fish after their transformations.