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

[suggesting]

[ Hello shrugger. ]

Still. I could- it gets out of control.

[ She distracts herself for a moment with a guy passing by. ]

People don't mean their words. [ So yeah, sure it sucks to be her. ]

Wings would be cooler.

[valr]

I'm almost a millenium old. [There's a reason she stopped trying to befriend mortals.] The wings don't really make up for shit.

[There's always downsides, always compromises. She doesn't see the point in throwing a pity party, not when it won't change anything.]

[suggesting]

Oh.

[ She slips, but it's just a word. ]

Can't go...ordering people around.

[ That would be one hell of a power trip. Been there, done that, everyone died. ]

[valr]

Then don't.

[She knows it's not that simple, but sometimes you've gotta narrow down the focus to a really, really specific goal.]

Learn to control it.

[suggesting]

[ L e S i g h ]

Gee, thanks. I don't even know what this is.

[ Eh, she's starting to slip. She turns to a woman that's passing by. ]

Run a lap around the block. [ And as she starts running, she sighs. ]

[valr]

Are you trying to prove a point?

[Because if she is, Kara isn't impressed.]

[suggesting]

It can be addictive.

[ Not that she's trying to excuse herself...or is she? She quickly fishes out her cellphone and starts texting. Yes, this is going to solve everything.

Next thing you know, Kara, she's putting this in front of your face. ]

I'm Marion. I can't say anything that sounds like an order without making it compulsion. Not sure if it works on Vakyries, but boy, do I want to stay on your good side.

Tell me more about you? While we walk away from the car crash?

[valr]

So's killing people.

[And you don't see her doing it more often than she strictly has to.

The typed response earns a raised eyebrow, but she reads it, then starts walking with the assumption that Marion will keep up.]

First, I don't have a good side. [So she doesn't need to worry about that.] Second, what do you wanna know, 'cause as I said. Millenium. There's a lotta history there.

[suggesting]

[ She gives her a WHAT stare, but then it clicks. Valkyrie = Death.

And sure she is following. And typing. ]

I'm going to stick to text for a little while anyway. And I want to know if there are more people like you in your world, if we are really in a different world.

[ She thinks for a moment before adding something. ]

There are other weird people back home, but everyone is mostly trying to kill each other. No superheroes, no big government organization tagging everyone. Just a lot of killing/dead weirdos.

[ Every time she thinks of the murderous weirdos she feels a little better about her murderous weirdo stage. ]

[valr]

[Her first response to the text is another shrug, since that's a - big topic, but she'll try to condense it.]

This is another world, don't ask me how, 'cause fuck if I know. You're better off asking a scientist. [Since she's pretty sure that's what is behind this, rather than anything supernatural.] Back home we've got all sorts, most of the mythology that humans have comes from somewhere. Used to be that we kept ourselves secret, but that changed a few years ago. The humans are still learning to cope.

[She's still not sure how she feels about all that, but it's not like anyone asked her opinion.]

[suggesting]

Myths?

[ She stops for a moment, and then sprints to keep up. ]

You got any about someone like me? Who isn't a siren? I could totally live a thousand years, or at least I could spend half of them trying to figure this thing out.

[valr]

Things like succubuses have powers of persuasian, but you'd probably notice if you were one of those.

[And a look, just in case this is where Marion wants to reveal that actually, she does steal people's energy if she has sex with them.]

All the ones I can think of off the top of my head are based on seduction.

[suggesting]

Hmm. No? I can make people love me but- not seduction.

[ She's actually pretty bad at that. So Marion just shrugs, because that has worked so far. ]

What's your name?

[valr]

Classifying and keeping track ain't my job, but I'll think on it, see what I can remember.

[Usually any involvement she has with other supernatural creatures is either at parties, or when she's playing bounty hunter for the council.]

Kara.

[suggesting]

Okay.

[ She just keep to herself for a moment there as they walk aimlessly. ]

Thanks, Kara. For talking to me.