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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.

Comments

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[totalpacifist]

[Well, this is definitely an unthreatening face, at any rate. X is used to seeing a wide variety of people, but they're usually artificial; this many people who seem to be more organic than not who look so strange is definitely a novel experience for him.

Feferi nudges X and asks him- something about fishing and it takes his processor a second to catch up. He'd been pretty deep in thought.] I- well, yeah, I guess you could say so. Most of us have, right?

[fishingforpuns]

See, I thought so too! They netted quite a lot of us, didn't they?

[She grins, pleased at least someone gets how relevant her pun is to this situation.]

You know, you're meant to give your name back when people give you theirs.

[totalpacifist]

Oh! Geez, you're right. I'm sorry, that was rude of me; I'm X. [is she

are those fishing puns is she making like water or fish puns at him

should he play along???] I'm just still kind of reeling at everything that's happened. [nailed it]

[fishingforpuns]

[Feferi giggles. Watery puns are the best thing and why do more people not make them??? And it was a good pun and one she should have made herself!]

I suppose I can let you off the hook, just this once!

[More seriously-]

It is all very strange. Why do they need so many of us?

[totalpacifist]

I really don't know. There's all this talk about war, and heroism and...honestly, it seems like a lot of smoke for not a whole lot of fire. You know? [X thumbs the edge of his own dossier nervously.] It makes me a little nervous, if I'm honest.

[fishingforpuns]

I don't understand why you'd be nervous about it, but it is a little concherning. This seems like a very silly way to build an army! You want people who have a better reason to fight for you than just "otherwise you're stranded here". And if you went the other way, they're not making us nearly afraid enough!

[It's just a bad way to run an empire, okay? The armies of trollkind run on basically everyone being more afraid of the Empress and all the other highbloods than anyone else out there! And that's still a very bad way of doing it, in Feferi's opinion.]

[totalpacifist]

Your...big concern is that they're not motivating us properly? [Because X is concerned about the interdimensional travel and the possible time discrepancies and- well, they did say that fighting was optional. And this actually looks to be one war he can sit out.]

[fishingforpuns]

Right now, yes. There isn't much point worrying about the future too much until we can actually do something about it.

[Also, it irritates her, on a practical level. She's genuinely puzzled as to what else to be worried about.]

[totalpacifist]

[NOT WORRYING ABOUT THE FUTURE??? The concept boggles the mind. Or just his mind anyway.] I guess you have a point...better to be focused on the immediate problems at hand.

Though they make sure people can get settled in comfortably, at least. That's pretty generous. Free housing, immediate employment...

[fishingforpuns]

[Try being dead! It makes the future pretty irrelevant.]

I don't know if it's generous, not really. It's their fault we're here! So it's the least that I would expect from them.

[She smiles.]

I have to go to school, they said. Apart from the name, I have no idea what a school is. Unless it means I get to go swimming a lot?

[Okay, so probably not, but it's not making much sense to her.]

[totalpacifist]

[Well- but- okay so it's sort of their fault, but X was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.] A school's a place of learning; usually the compulsory kind is for children and teenagers. They probably want you to get a general education as it applies here.