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[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.

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Tadashi Hamada | Big Hero 6

[tadeadshi]

03 .

[ He's gotta admit, the tech here is pretty amazing. More refined than anything he was seeing in the lab. It's hard to miss a hover-skateboard that isn't being jet propelled; Tadashi is dead certain Hiro would love those, and not just for the technological endeavors involved. While he's certain this phone he was given could take a picture or video if he played with it enough, touching it was giving him some weird headaches so it stayed safe in his pocket.

Tadashi's still trying to watch a hover-cycle drive by, even as he walks past. Can you blame him, there's a lot to see here! And he half-wonders if he could ever get his hands on one of those. He stops when he's in front of a small store, a smaller bike parked right there in front of him. ]

Whoa... This is... This is something else.

[Look he's not really gonna touch it. He wants to, practically dying to, but he won't. Right this second. He kneels down and focuses pretty intently on trying to look at it without touching it and it's hard. It's so hard to not touch.

Maybe no one will notice faint fingerprints on the chrome. ]

04 .

[ He definitely hears the car before he sees it. He'd been watching the kids because he still wants to figure out those danged skateboards. He glances back at the car, then does a double take when he realizes what's about to happen. ]

HEY!

[ He drops the files and everything else in his hands and takes a breath before lunging to tackle the kids down flat on the street to safety as the cars speed-hover above them. Once the danger's clear and gone, Tadashi lifts his head and rolls off the kids. Carefully helping one sit up, he notices the cuts and bits of road rash the tackling caused and inwardly scolds himself. ]

Hey, you okay?

[ He doesn't notice the kid's skin healing under his fingers or the small crowd gathered around to watch or that he left his files way across the street. ]

wild card

[anything goes! he's not dead!]

o3

[siriusly]

[he's just passing by, really; bikes aren't really anything special, not when you have a career riding a space-faring battle-ready armored train. Manabu's just not got a mind for them, not when he's still trying to puzzle out this ridiculous file he was handed (correction: it was shoved at him).

at this time, though, fate decides he startle to a stop when he hears the bike vendor popping out of his storefront to yell at someone about what will happen if they're putting their grubby mitts on that bike–] Yipe–!!

[-it makes Manabu hitch a step and bump Tadashi.] Ooph, sorry!

[tadeadshi]

[As soon as he hears the door open, Tadashi's up on his feet and has his hands up, palms out and trying to smile.]

Sorry! Was just admir-- Whoa!

[And then he's bumped into and knocked off balance. He reaches to try and steady the other guy but inexplicably finds himself backfisting him out of his way]

Whoa! Okay-- I did not mean to do that!

[siriusly]

Yagh–! [Manabu staggers a few steps forward, but mercifully misses falling over himself and onto bikes; a breath of relief is shared between himself and the vendor.

while Manabu gets his bearings back, Tadashi's getting another earful – about pushing people around, rather than bikes. he winces and speaks up to interject:]

I-it's alright! Really. No harm done! [he tries to smile convincingly, looking a little queasy in spite of it.] Let's not get riled up about it. [and accidentally start pummeling the shit out of him. please?]

03

[microbrobotics]

[ There's a small hoverboard parked not far from that bike, though with its floating panels facing down towards the wall, it probably doesn't look like it hovers at first glance. That hover-bike is way more impressive.

But there's something special about that hoverboard. Mostly in the fact that belongs to a scrawny little teenager inside that shop now, talking his way into buying some soldering equipment. For some reason, shopkeepers are a little bit leery of selling that kind of stuff to a kid who looks closer to twelve than fifteen. But Hiro convinces him in the end, so out he comes with a bag full of promising little boxes. He is already loving this whole "work for Tony Stark and get paid way more money than he knows what to do with" life.

Slinging the bag into his backpack, he twists his way past the parked hoverbike and towards his board. In fact, he nearly bumps into Tadashi as he reaches for it. It's only when he turns to offer a casual "sorry" that he realizes that he recognizes the person standing next to him.

All the blood drains from his face. The bag drops from between his suddenly nerveless fingers, crashing against the ground in what is probably a fatal crack for his new soldering iron. But that's the last thing on his mind here, staring up at his brother like he's seen a ghost. He can't even form words at first. His mouth has gone utterly dry. Is he dreaming? This has to be a dream, right? There's no way - he can't possibly believe that's - ]

Tadashi?

[tadeadshi]

[Working in a small lab with lots of fast moving folks his size got Tadashi pretty much in sync with staying out of people's way. He gave a small wave when the person got past him and got to his feet having fully inspected the bike to his liking but--

It's the bag dropping that got his attention. Tadashi looks down at it, then from the feet upward at the kid who dropped it and-- ]

Hiro?

[ Okay so that's ... One big relief off his mind, Hiro being here and not home where he himself isn't. But that means Hiro's mixed up in all this too. And why does he look like Tadashi just came back from the dead? He bends down a little, nothing but concern on his face. ]

Are you okay?

[microbrobotics]

[ He's too overwhelmed by seeing Tadashi alive again to even wonder why Tadashi is having a surprisingly muted reaction to seeing each other again. Not exactly convincing him that the Tadashi in front of him ISN'T some kind of terrible shapeshifter monster. But - but he finds that he doesn't care. Not really, not when it's been over eight months since he last saw Tadashi alive.

He rushes forward abruptly, putting both arms around his brother and squeezing hard. ]

4; OMG your username made me laugh so hard my mom thought I was crying

[turnsignals]

[ Wasabi hears brakes squealing and a shout from around the corner and instantly heads in that direction. There's a crowd gathered in the middle of the street, so it seems like there was some sort of crash? Or a near-miss, at least. Here on the sidewalk, he can't really see what's going on. But, looking down, he does notice some papers strewn about. One of those files like the one they gave him when he arrived. He bends down to gather them up but freezes when he sees the name and the polaroid attached. ]

No.

[ It can't be. Tadashi's dead. ]

I live to serve through terrible puns

[tadeadshi]

Cooome on. I think you're okay.

[He smiles helping the kid back up to his feet and then his friend. They're on their way with only a few minor scrapes now. Tadashi pats himself down making sure he's in one piece and... Right, he dropped his things. Annnnd then there's the crowd to deal with. Oh boy.]

Uh-- Excuse me! Gotta- get through here-- They're fine! I'm fine, just if I could--

[There, made it and he can get across the street once he gets his breath. Life saving is nerve wracking.]

4. Hope this is fine?

[audiofile]

[ The kid, while lacking a shiny hoverboard like the others on the crosswalk, notices the speeding car about two seconds before hearing Tadashi's shout from across the street. Her eyes go wide as time seems to slow, but before she can make a move she's hitting asphalt and, thankfully, not the hood of some jerk's car.

With a shaky breath she lets out a laugh, not quite registering the tingling scrapes all over her knees or the fact her own file is now scattered all over the intersection. ]

Wow-- talk about close calls!

absolutely! *A*

[tadeadshi]

Phew..

[He looks back to where the cars sped around the next curve and out of sight before looking at the kid. He smiles though, they seem like she's all right. And that's what matters.]

Yeah. And you're okay?

[He's already looking her over for any major injuries poking out anywhere.]

04

[hypnotherapy]

[ Daredevil acts of heroism are something he hardly gives a second thought to, but he does notice the dropped files. Priorities, Magicman. Then again, he's a netnavi, and file-shuffling is his job.

The crowd parts, mostly because he is in some ways exuding an aura of "i don't actually care about you get out of my way" and it's a useful trick to have. ]

You dropped your files. [ He holds them out. ] You humans are strange ones, aren't you.

[ Says the completely ordinary human-looking person. ]

[tadeadshi]

[Tadashi's a little relieved when the crowd starts leaving. Being watched for a presentation or showing his work is one thing, but this crowd had a different atmosphere to it and it made him a little nervous. But he takes his files and looks at the man when he makes the comment about 'humans'.]

... Yeah, I. Guess we are.

4

[icy]

Hey, watch — !

[ Out? Jack alights on the sidewalk at a jog, hurrying over as he drops out of the sky to check on the young man who just played hero. He's glad he did, immensely so, having been a little too far away himself to do anything about it. If he had a pulse, it would be thundering right now.

The kid is already healing, rapid response on that undoubtedly a superpower (thank God), but the guy ... ]

You okay, man? You just saved these kids, did the car get you at all?

[tadeadshi]

[Tadashi sees the kids off and smiles relieved that they're unscathed (if a little shaken up). He rubs at his arms a little, unsure when it got chilly]

I don't think it did, no. I don't feel anythi-whoa. [He finally turned and look at the speaker and ... That is. One pale guy. It definitely throws him off; he should have expected it with everything else he's seen here but wow. He redirects his thoughts back to the question.]

Yeah, I'm fine.

04

[attainment]

[Had he stumbled across the scene even just a few moments sooner, he would have activated his powers and swept the children out of harm's way faster than a person can blink. But someone else -- a normal civilian, judging by outward appearance -- tackled the kids to the ground without a second thought to himself.

A crowd is definitely gathering, but Barnaby knows that doesn't necessarily mean people will get the medical attention they need. For that reason, he urgently pushes his way through, his powersuit serving as a pretty good indicator that he means business.]

Is anyone hurt? [He's hoping he doesn't need to call an ambulance.]

[tadeadshi]

[Tadashi's mostly gotten back to his feet, unknowingly healing some of the more minor scrapes the kids have, when he looks up and sees a mech-suit walking towards them. Okay. That is some serious craftsmanship. He can respect that.

Wait, all right. Kids' safety first, geek second.]

A few bumps, but I think they'll be fine.

04

[braided_icarus]

[He hears the breaks, the yelling. Turns to find some guy leaping up to tackle the kids down. It's almost instinctive to him to help, clapping his hands and creating a large extended arm transmuting up from the ground to redirect the car up above the other couple of kids.

He's well known enough that he's used to the crowds and they know what he's capable of after being around so long as he has. But they still seem interested in the new guy that also helped.

So Ed helps out, elbowing his way through the crowd and telling them to back off after seeing Tadashi helping the other kid up.]

See? All fine. We're okay here.

[After waving most of the crowd away he turns to Tadashi.]

You all right?

[tadeadshi]

[He's grateful for the crowd control even if he's focusing his attention on the kids he helped. When they're mostly okay and on their feet, Tadashi smiles and dusts his hands off. And then he's on his feet, totally fine save some scrapes and tears and smiles gratefully at Ed - probably a little familiar.]

Thanks, they got a little ... [Overbearing? Aggressive? Claustrophobic?] Close.

3.

[iwatobi]

[ Blink blink. Stares. ]

What are you doing?

[ Is this a thief? ]

[tadeadshi]

[ Whoops! He's back on his feet, he wasn't touching anything, nope! ]

Just. Admiring the handiwork here.

04

[totalpacifist]

[X hears the roar of a hover-engine and feels that swoop in the air of maglev maneuvering before he turns to see the car swerve; there's a boy -young man, actually, already tackling the kids to the ground and X stands frozen until he sees him roll over.

And the kids are okay.

He lets out a breath as his servos unlock and he can move again. The papers of his files had started to flutter away and he gathers them as quickly as he can, stuffing them back into the folder and CLANK CLANK CLANKing over to where Tadashi is on the ground with the kids.]

Are you all right? That was incredibly brave! Are the children okay? [He holds out the folder for him to take, trying to check he and the kids for any serious wounds. Looks like just scrapes.]

[tadeadshi]

[There are so many new and wondrous things to see in this place and now they're even walking up to him. Tadashi wishes his brother or his friends were here to see some of this. Something for everyone to geek over.

He takes the files and pushes himself up, only some soreness making him stop here and there.]

I think they'll be fine, just a little shaken up. Thanks, by the way. [He gestures with his folder.]

03

[canarys]

[ She just stepped out of the shop after speaking with the owner about some new parts for her bike, and she sees this...

The look on Tadashi's face brings an amused smile to hers. ]

She's a beauty, isn't she?

[tadeadshi]

[ Whoops, caught red handed! He's picked up his file and stood back up and stepping away from the bike, hands to himself and smiling like he wasn't just getting fingerprints all over it.]

Yeah, she-- She is. I've never seen anything like it.