TDM: AUGUST/SEPTEMBER

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TDM: AUGUST/SEPTEMBER

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 unpleasant taste and texture. The salt water is making all the cuts and scrapes on your skin sting and the sand isn't helping; it's coarse and rough. The air is slightly humid, thick and heavy, ruining any feeling of refreshment you might have gotten from your dip in the ocean. Your muscles ache with exhaustion. How did you get here? You don't remember.

There are lights in the distance, a city twinkling reassuringly on the horizon. Perhaps there is help there. Perhaps someone can tell you where you are, and how you got there. Perhaps, if you stumble to your feet, clothes heavy with seawater, and stagger in that direction, you might find clues to just what is going on.

Or, perhaps, you might walk directly into one of the many bear traps that are scattered around this beach, hidden beneath sand and seaweed, waiting for an unwary monster-to-be. Not everyone in this peninsula wants you in their home.

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> I HAVE RUN OUT OF FUN PROMPTS, PLEASE ADVISE

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

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[toaflame]

You and everyone else.

[Comes a voice from nearby, and as it turns out, the street isn't so empty as Kaneki thought.

There is a monster above. Watching.

A large cat, as a matter of fact. A lion, or tiger, or more accurately something between the two, is laying on the edge of the rooftop overlooking where Kaneki has hidden himself. He happened to notice him duck down this way from above while doing his usual delivery route for 8/12, and it's hard to miss the fact he's bloodied. That it's paint excuse won't fly when he can smell it from here.

But he doesn't call attention to it just yet. Instead he watches, his tail draped over the lip of the roof. The only thing distinguishing him from being a full-on cat man are the massive wings on his back, which are currently folded against his shoulders.]

Maybe you'll be gone in a month, if you're lucky. Some people just disappear fast, here.

[anthropophagite]

[ things Kaneki is not prepared for: any of whatever the hell is happening right now. He is not prepared for a sudden voice from above, he is not prepared for a giant talking lion/tiger, he is not prepared for wings... honestly, he is probably the most unprepared person in the whole world right now.

And he does what most unprepared people would do in this situation, which is to quickly scoot away from the wall before this giant cat jumps on him. At least he is keeping eye contact. But then again, he wants to make sure he won't be killed, so it's better not to look away.

Kaneki swallows dryly and presses the laptop harder against his own chest.

Right. So this is one of the monsters he was told about. A monster Kaneki himself could end up becoming. ]

... disappear? Where to? [ that's actually really worrisome as well! Can this place get any worse it can ]

[toaflame]

[Adrian's intent isn't to scare him, really, though he knows that just...hanging out above him like this is probably awfully suspicious. He just found it easier to land up here after flying over the city than dropping down to Kaneki's level, and he probably would have been suspicious even then. Nevertheless, he stays put up where he is, not leaving, but not getting any closer than he already is either.]

Some people say you go back home. Others believe it's the Sea of Stars or some bullshit. None of us really know.

[You could just die, for all he knows. Disappear into the void, and that's just that. It's not something he really likes to think about if he can help it.]

[anthropophagite]

[ it's not Adrian's fault,really. Kaneki is just freaked out by everything going on and any sort of creature would be suspicious and scary to him. Ken does appreciate the distance though! If Adrian had slowly approached, kaneki would feel like something bad was about to happen.

Well, he still does. ]

Sea of stars?

[ he would rather go home. But the uncertainty of what actually happens also makes kaneki nervous ]

Is there are way to go back home?

[toaflame]

Yeah. Don't worry 'bout that.

[Like, he will explain if Kaneki asks, but he's not sure he needs to know right now. It wouldn't make much sense to him anyway, because Adrian would be horrible at explaining it.]

Not on your own. You try to leave, you just get turned back around and end up here again.

[anthropophagite]

[ Adrian, right now he is worrying about everything. Although it is true, there is so much already going on, so maybe just get the basics of the place.

Like how to get out of here, except apparently he can't ]

How long are we meant to stay here, then? [ what is even the point ]

[toaflame]

Good question. [He huffs, his long tail flicking from one side to the other.] Nobody knows. Since you're here at all, you better just expect it to be a long while.

[Could be permanent! Could just be a couple months. Kaneki has to hope he's in the latter camp.

And the point, well...that's the best part. Adrian isn't sure there really is one.]

[anthropophagite]

[ how long is a long time? Kaneki is afraid to ask, so he doesn't. In a way, he already knows the answer - the way the general population seems to just accept there are monsters hanging around and are even prepared to give them a hand is a big giveaway ]

Why... why are we being brought here? And turned into these--- things? [ kaneki looks up at Adrian. he doesn't mean to offend that was pretty offensive, though but he can't wrap his head around it ]

Why me?

[toaflame]

[Adrian grumbles, a low almost-growl in his chest. For a moment he's quiet otherwise, because there's really no good answer he can give. At least, not one Kaneki would be happy hearing.]

S'like I said before. You and everyone else is askin' themselves the same thing. Why you, why me...there's no real rhyme or reason for it.

The Fog just reaches out...and grabs people at random. Whoever gets unlucky enough to get caught, that's who ends up here.

[anthropophagite]

[ no reason? So they are turned into monsters and told to eat people for no reason?

(It's not like kaneki knows why he was turned into a ghoul either. But that's why he keeps pretending it was all a medical mistake.) ]

Is there a way to stop it? [ the whole people eating thing. He doesn't want to turn into a monster, but it's the people eating that gets to him ]

[toaflame]

No. [He wouldn't lie about that, especially not to a newcomer. No matter how much it sucks to be the bearer of bad news.] And I don't recommend puttin' it off, either. Trust me.

[He grumbles, his ears falling back.]

You'd rather be in control of it than frenzy on somebody.

[anthropophagite]

[ noy putting it off.

Kaneki imagines it means exactly the same thing it means for a ghoul to starve. In other words, they can not fight it or stop it. Hunger will take over. ]

Then- are there ways you can avoid hurting people? [ cemeteries, morgues, suicides, accidental deaths? ]

[toaflame]

[He's glad you asked!!]

There's a soup kitchen. Monsters volunteer to hunt for other monsters and donate what they can't eat for others who can't hunt. That's really the only place I can point you towards, unless...I dunno. You can find somebody who's willin' to share their kills with you.

[Kindof like how he and Rosso can share, because Rosso eats the bones whereas Adrian typically doesn't.]