PARTY AT MOM'S HOUSE

[maskormods]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping into MASK OR MENACE? Want to dip your toes into the setting and get a feel of whether your character will fit into it? Or maybe you're just cruising and want to play around? Then you've come to the right place!

Pick any of the following scenarios below or feel free to make up your own, but don't be afraid to throw yourself at anyone's thread, either!

And remember to have fun!

01. Your memory is hazy and you might feel increasingly frustrated or anxious, or maybe you're excited as soldiers march past, barely glimpsing you. One second you're somewhere underground, the next you're enveloped in blue light, and suddenly you find yourself directly under Flordia sun's bright and burning glare. A female soldier steps toward you with a wide smile on her face and directs you to a car, ready to debrief you. You realize you are not the only one, surrounded by equally confused or eager faces... and you're all sporting a digital tattoo on your wrist.

02. Welcome to Cape Canaveral, where the smell of the ocean is in the air and locals are more than pleased to see new imPorts roaming their streets. They wave, they cheer, they ask for pictures as politely as they can. The more inhuman you look, or if you're wearing a costume, the more likely locals are to approach. Hey, enjoy the moment! The popular malt shop is offering you a free drink if you need it.

03. The technology in this world is certainly something. The cars are clearly modeled after popular 50s cars, but they hover several feet above the ground as they drive down the street. There are digital jukeboxes in restaurants, motorcycles also hover through traffic, advertisements can be seen on a digital projector on the taller buildings. Even kids on skateboards appear to drift a safe ten feet off the ground while playing!

04. Wherever you are, you can hear the loud revving of an engine, distance at first before you finally see it: a hovercar bursting around the corner, going beyond the maximum speed limit and just barely making its sharp turn. It doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon, not with two police cars trailing it... and uh oh. Those skateboarding kids don't have much time to get out of the way as the car comes speeding down the road. You've been brought here for a reason Hero — so you better act fast.

Comments

[shutterbugged]

[Spider-Man is perched on a rooftop enjoying a coffee-- and quietly sulking over how much less style perching on a rooftop has when there are no skyscrapers in sight-- when he feels the faintest buzz of his spider-sense: not danger per se, but the imminent potential for it. Without further ado, he puts down his drink and sidles down over the edge of the building. The streets are almost deserted, with just a handful of pedestrians on the sidewalk, all of them looking perfectly at ease except for a stressed out looking fellow on the other side of the road.

A very familiar stressed out fellow.]

Doctor Connors?!

[Oh, this isn't good. Spidey knows exactly what happens when stress and Doc Connors get within arms' reach of each other. Immediately, he hops down from the wall and bounds across the street, hoping his very appearance won't be what sends Curt over the edge.]

[reptiledysfunction]

[Thankfully, Spider-Man's appearance has the opposite effect. He's shocked, of course, but he finds himself calming down. Spider-Man's here. Somebody who could stop him if...well, if worst came to worst. He nodded at the hero, trying to show that nope, he wasn't freaking out anymore, he was aokay.]

Spider-Man. I've got to say, I didn't expect to see you here.

[shutterbugged]

I could say the same back atcha, Doc. Did you just get in? [Where "get in" is some form of euphemism for getting drafted from another universe.]

[reptiledysfunction]

If by 'get in' you mean 'was I just kidnapped' then yeah, I got in. [he is more than slightly bitter about that.] How long have you been here?

[shutterbugged]

Here? Just a coupla weeks. But I was in another universe before that-- I mean, another another universe, not my home universe-- agh.

Speaking of which... you don't happen to remember a place called the City, do you?

[reptiledysfunction]

I don't, [he remarked, shaking his head] but Tony Stark mentioned it to me.

[tiny little pause.] Should I remember it?

[shutterbugged]

[He shrugs.] Depends on which universe you're from originally, I guess. How long have we known each other?

[It's not a rhetorical question, the way he asks it.]

[reptiledysfunction]

[Guess what, Spider-Man? Connors is post BND, so that whole knowing you're Peter Parker thing? Doesn't apply any more.]

We've known each other for...well, ages I suppose. Since the lizard first showed up. You've helped me control it for years.

[shutterbugged]

That means you're definitely not the other one, anyway. He wasn't even the Lizard yet when he arrived. [He winces, too late. Not the most tactful gambit for a sort-of first conversation.]

Alternate universe duplicates-- you can get used to anything, believe it or not. On that note, how are you settling in?

[reptiledysfunction]

[Connors just stares, blatantly confused. Alternate universe whaaaat? He plainly gives Spider-Man a 'you must be joking' look. Sorry Peter, his suspension of disbelief is still there...a bit.]

There was another me here before. An alternate universe duplicate of me. [uh huh.] And let me guess, he had a goatee?