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.
[Terezi's odd appearance doesn't ruffle Shulk. One of the representative sentient races of Bionis is pure animal after all. Though, the Nopon are certainly more of the cuddly variety than this girl. Her behavior is just as eccentric and intriguing however, and Shulk regards the pamphlets in his hands curiously, almost as if he's considering licking them himself. A cursory swipe of his thumb over the raised ink tells him they're average printed paper unfortunately, and he shakes his head. He does wonder if there's some sort of mechanism in her tongue that lets her glean meaning from the ink. Somehow. maybe she's just weird.]
Do you understand what these articles are trying to tell us?
[Shulk turns his head away from the smudged, sticky paper which just ends up smearing on his cheek and ear instead. Thanks, strange girl.]
Agh-! I-I see it! It's...[well, it's a very wobbly blob of ink that could be a gargoyle] Super cool.
[He moves away from the slobbery leaflets a little, scrubbing at his face with his sleeve. ]
I'm not sure I like any of this. They don't really say why or how these transformations happen. [And then there's the bit about eating people. It was very prominent in fact and --- he blinks at the nickname.] It's Shulk, by the way.
[Shulk. Shulk. It sounds a little bit like chalk. Terezi wishes she had some right now. Maybe she could figure out more if she could write. And draw all over things. The buildings here are so drab. Mostly just browns and greys. They could use some color.]
I'm Terezi. I don't know where this is, but it smells and tastes so interesting! I've never been around so many of you humans before, this is exciting!
[If Shulk could read minds he'd agree with that sentiment. The atmosphere here is dull and oppressive, like the weight of some great tragedy is bearing down on it. But it sounds like he has an ally now, and that makes it a little better. He nods, smiling.]
It's nice to meet you, Terezi. If only the circumstances were different.
[His smile fades as he presses a hand to his chin.]
Though, if you're not from here, and have never met a Homs before then...Where are you from?
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[Shulk is taken aback by her response. Alternia? Planet Alternia? He'd...heard of planets but space travel is impossible, isn't it? Earth is also an unfamiliar name. He shakes his head.]
No, I'm from Bionis. [Actually, he's not sure if a dormant titan in an endless sea counts as a planet but.] I've never heard of either of those places. Can you travel across worlds?
[So that makes him some kind of human subspecies from another planet? There's more than one kind of human? He does smell a little different from the likes of John and Dave.]
If you mean space travel, then yes, trolls have achieved space travel.
[In fact, all of the adults are in space. Or more accurately, their dead corpses are in space aside for the Empress, who would be the only one to survive the Vast Glub. Terezi didn't know where she was and it annoyed her. Terezi didn't like not knowing things.]
The Earth humans did it too, but they suck at it. The point is, they are able to do it if they try hard enough.
[Human space technology is ridiculously primitive compared to that of the troll race. But Terezi supposes this isn't their fault. Humans are silly things and they are also a much younger race.]
If you mean travel across dimensions and time, then the answer is sort of, but that requires lengthy boring explanations of highly complex shenanigans that I don't have the patience, incentive, or chalk to explain. That, and it gives me a headache.
[Shulk is more than a tad starry-eyed when she says this. Space travel, how incredible! The trolls must be as advanced as the High Entia and Machina, maybe even more so! Perhaps Terezi could help him with something, in that case... The mentions of time and dimensions is interesting too, though he can't quite fathom how that would work. Though the ability to move through time...He'd definitely have to find some chalk for her later, the diagrams the explanation requires must be absurdly complex. The idea delights him.]
That's amazing! [He smiles.] I'm sure if you shared that technology with the humans, you could accomplish so much together.
[And then, another thought flashes to his mind. If this was not the world of Bionis and Mechonis, then maybe...] Did you travel through space to arrive here? On an expedition, I mean?
[It would definitely explain why she's unfamiliar with the area. And why she seems to be reacting more with intrigue than confusion.]
I assume that space travel must have been involved. It may not have been space travel of a willing sort, though. I must have been unconscious the whole time!
[Who brought her here? Was it Gamzee? It was goddamn Gamzee, wasn't it?]
As for technology sharing, that is a nice thought, but circumstances partially foreseen have put that possibility to a grinding halt.
[ Oh. That didn't bode well. His situation was strange enough but hers sounded like sabotage. He steps closer, mouth drawn into a frown, looking her over for injuries. It's hard to determine anything significant when there's small injuries similar to his own littering her frame. Those same cuts and scratches, they...they couldn't be coincidence, and yet...]
Whoever did this didn't hurt you, did they?
[Yes, she was traveling and someone interfered. That must have been it. And she called humans "primitive" so it couldn't have been one of them, nor the people here.]
Hurt me? You mean these scratches? I've had worse.
[Terezi doesn't care about the scratches and cuts. She hardly noticed them at all. She's not actually sure if she was going somewhere or if someone actually knocked her out and dragged her here. There was no evidence saying that was the case.
There was also no evidence saying that wasn't the case either.]
And we will be able to find them, and we should! Kidnapping is a crime and the perpetrators must be brought to justice!
[Well, if she says so, Shulk won't argue. He backs off a bit. At this juncture, the minor injuries were clues, but little more. Especially considering their dubious origin.]
I couldn't agree more. [And what better way to start an investigation than asking the victim some crucial questions? Shulk's hand cups his chin.] Do you remember what you were doing before you were brought here?
Well! I was about to kill Vriska, but then John showed up out of literally nowhere and punched her in the face before I could! Then he decided to be a huge dork about it and wouldn't show me his dumb scarf even though it had instructions written by me in my blood all over it!
Hold on, I'm not sure I'm following...! [Shulk tries to untangle everything thrown to him in that string of words, but it's a lot of work.] So you were trying to...kill someone?
[Shulk grimaces. That's, well, that could be bad. Punching is decidedly less violent though, cheers to whoever this John fellow is.]
And you'd given him instructions to do that? To stop you, I mean. [Or maybe the instructions were unrelated. Putting them on a scarf in blood sounded far from practical anyway. Hopefully that scarf wasn't red.]
My choices at the time were to either kill her or let her go face a world destroying barkbeast that she helped create for the sole purpose of inflating her ego. Said barkbeast would follow her sparkly fairy scent back to our hideout and kill us. He would then carry our bloodied corpses back with him to taunt her, and after a difficult battle, kill her. Probably. The visions were unclear.
I had also mistakenly believed she was criminal behind the mass murder of our friends. In truth, she was only responsible for one of them.
[SHRUG. You can't win 'em all.]
It's not like I made the decision lightly! We had a dramatic confrontation about it and everything! I...didn't want to kill her.
[Despite her grin, she sounds sad at that. Despite their history and the antagonism between them, the decision to kill Vriska was not an easy one for her to make.]
But I guess some future me regretted it and told John to stop it since he had somehow gotten time and space hopping shenanigan magic or something. So it was me, but also not me, that told John to stop the execution! She must have been really desperate, if she was leaving the task to John of all people! That dork wouldn't tell me anything else though. Which is stupid, I have every right to know what a future alternate timeline me was thinking.
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A cursory swipe of his thumb over the raised ink tells him they're average printed paper unfortunately, and he shakes his head. He does wonder if there's some sort of mechanism in her tongue that lets her glean meaning from the ink. Somehow. maybe she's just weird.]
Do you understand what these articles are trying to tell us?
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It's both really.]I certainly do! They say we're gonna turn into things and become super cool.
[And also eat people? Maybe?]
Like this one! I wanna be this one!
[She pushes a pamphlet about gargoyles in the human's face. It's covered with extra slobber, as if she had licked it multiple times. (She did.)]
Which one do you like best, Mr. Raspberry Lemonade?
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Agh-! I-I see it! It's...[well, it's a very wobbly blob of ink that could be a gargoyle] Super cool.
[He moves away from the slobbery leaflets a little, scrubbing at his face with his sleeve. ]
I'm not sure I like any of this. They don't really say why or how these transformations happen. [And then there's the bit about eating people. It was very prominent in fact and --- he blinks at the nickname.] It's Shulk, by the way.
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I'm Terezi. I don't know where this is, but it smells and tastes so interesting! I've never been around so many of you humans before, this is exciting!
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It's nice to meet you, Terezi. If only the circumstances were different.
[His smile fades as he presses a hand to his chin.]
Though, if you're not from here, and have never met a Homs before then...Where are you from?
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I am a troll from the planet Alternia! And you must be from Earth, right?
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Mr.Raspberry Lemonade the Homie lAUGHS][Shulk is taken aback by her response. Alternia? Planet Alternia? He'd...heard of planets but space travel is impossible, isn't it? Earth is also an unfamiliar name. He shakes his head.]
No, I'm from Bionis. [Actually, he's not sure if a dormant titan in an endless sea counts as a planet but.] I've never heard of either of those places. Can you travel across worlds?
[Troll technology must be amazing, if so.]
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If you mean space travel, then yes, trolls have achieved space travel.
[In fact, all of the adults are in space. Or more accurately, their dead corpses are in space aside for the Empress, who would be the only one to survive the Vast Glub. Terezi didn't know where she was and it annoyed her. Terezi didn't like not knowing things.]
The Earth humans did it too, but they suck at it. The point is, they are able to do it if they try hard enough.
[Human space technology is ridiculously primitive compared to that of the troll race. But Terezi supposes this isn't their fault. Humans are silly things and they are also a much younger race.]
If you mean travel across dimensions and time, then the answer is sort of, but that requires lengthy boring explanations of highly complex shenanigans that I don't have the patience, incentive, or chalk to explain. That, and it gives me a headache.
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The mentions of time and dimensions is interesting too, though he can't quite fathom how that would work. Though the ability to move through time...He'd definitely have to find some chalk for her later, the diagrams the explanation requires must be absurdly complex. The idea delights him.]
That's amazing! [He smiles.] I'm sure if you shared that technology with the humans, you could accomplish so much together.
[And then, another thought flashes to his mind. If this was not the world of Bionis and Mechonis, then maybe...] Did you travel through space to arrive here? On an expedition, I mean?
[It would definitely explain why she's unfamiliar with the area. And why she seems to be reacting more with intrigue than confusion.]
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[Who brought her here? Was it Gamzee? It was goddamn Gamzee, wasn't it?]
As for technology sharing, that is a nice thought, but circumstances partially foreseen have put that possibility to a grinding halt.
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Whoever did this didn't hurt you, did they?
[Yes, she was traveling and someone interfered. That must have been it. And she called humans "primitive" so it couldn't have been one of them, nor the people here.]
Do you think we'd be able find them?
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[Terezi doesn't care about the scratches and cuts. She hardly noticed them at all. She's not actually sure if she was going somewhere or if someone actually knocked her out and dragged her here. There was no evidence saying that was the case.
There was also no evidence saying that wasn't the case either.]
And we will be able to find them, and we should! Kidnapping is a crime and the perpetrators must be brought to justice!
no subject
I couldn't agree more. [And what better way to start an investigation than asking the victim some crucial questions? Shulk's hand cups his chin.] Do you remember what you were doing before you were brought here?
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Well! I was about to kill Vriska, but then John showed up out of literally nowhere and punched her in the face before I could! Then he decided to be a huge dork about it and wouldn't show me his dumb scarf even though it had instructions written by me in my blood all over it!
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Hold on, I'm not sure I'm following...! [Shulk tries to untangle everything thrown to him in that string of words, but it's a lot of work.] So you were trying to...kill someone?
[Shulk grimaces. That's, well, that could be bad. Punching is decidedly less violent though, cheers to whoever this John fellow is.]
And you'd given him instructions to do that? To stop you, I mean. [Or maybe the instructions were unrelated. Putting them on a scarf in blood sounded far from practical anyway. Hopefully that scarf wasn't red.]
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My choices at the time were to either kill her or let her go face a world destroying barkbeast that she helped create for the sole purpose of inflating her ego. Said barkbeast would follow her sparkly fairy scent back to our hideout and kill us. He would then carry our bloodied corpses back with him to taunt her, and after a difficult battle, kill her. Probably. The visions were unclear.
I had also mistakenly believed she was criminal behind the mass murder of our friends. In truth, she was only responsible for one of them.
[SHRUG. You can't win 'em all.]
It's not like I made the decision lightly! We had a dramatic confrontation about it and everything! I...didn't want to kill her.
[Despite her grin, she sounds sad at that. Despite their history and the antagonism between them, the decision to kill Vriska was not an easy one for her to make.]
But I guess some future me regretted it and told John to stop it since he had somehow gotten time and space hopping shenanigan magic or something. So it was me, but also not me, that told John to stop the execution! She must have been really desperate, if she was leaving the task to John of all people! That dork wouldn't tell me anything else though. Which is stupid, I have every right to know what a future alternate timeline me was thinking.
Enough about that though! What about you?
[Were you kidnapped by, say, a juggalo?]