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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] etcelsior2015-01-30 02:34 pm

sure, jan


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.

2!

[personal profile] friendshiprocks 2015-01-31 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Holy mess, that guy is pretty. He's so pretty, in fact, that Hime's just kind of BLATANTLY STARING at Legolas as he gets his picture taken.

Because oh my gosh. Hime (or, at least, her fourteen-year-old tastes with her fourteen-year-old brain) is so in love. She likes the look of this long-haired really pretty guy and she can just stare at him forever.

Which is a problem, because Legolas is asking her a question (he's talking to her!!!). Thankfully, Hime manages to gain her composure and responds with an eloquent, perfect rebuttal, guaranteed to make this guy get her attention and think that she's the most wonderful gorgeous princess on Earth.
]

Huh?

[ ...A for effort, buddy. ]
cuor: (For we are not long here)

[personal profile] cuor 2015-01-31 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
[For his part, Legolas look a little concerned. This girl's hair was a shade unusual to mortals, true. Perhaps-]

Do you speak Westron, my lady? The common tongue?

[personal profile] friendshiprocks 2015-01-31 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The common tongue here is English, I'm afraid. You don't need to worry about that, though. [ He looks old-fashioned. Would it make sense if she explained how the translator function works on the communicator, or would it just leave everybody more confused?

Wisely, Hime's decided to wait out and see. But she's still staring at Legolas like he's the best thing in the universe.
]
cuor: (is it breaking free)

[personal profile] cuor 2015-02-01 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Very well. [A second attempt at the question is made.] I had asked if the function of these camras were know to you. I have never before seen their like.

[personal profile] friendshiprocks 2015-02-01 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ So not mentioning the translation function. But cameras! Hime can explain that! ] You use them to record images of yourself or something else. Just point the lens—that's this thing here, [ and then she taps the lens of her communicator, smudging it in the process ] at whatever you want to take a picture of and it'll take a still image or record something.
cuor: (so we better breathe it)

[personal profile] cuor 2015-02-02 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[More questions are raised by her answer than settled.] Then it is a magical device?

[personal profile] friendshiprocks 2015-02-03 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Kind of? I mean, it's really, really advanced technology, but if you wanna think of it as magic, then that's fine by me.