etcelsior | 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.

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[ New arrivals normally meant new people. Interesting new people, for the most part. Most of them looked confused, or even a little perplexed. Either by the technology (or the lack of, in Kaidan's case) or the fact that they were still processing the whole "trapped in an alternate universe" thing.

People acting crazy in the streets was something else entirely. What was normal was a certain Major's extremely judgmental squint from the sidewalk across the street. It lasted a good few minutes, before he finally got fed up with watching the poor guy, and started to feel bad for him. After all, what if he was...another robot? A dinosaur? Who knew. He kept figuring out that people were different, when they showed up here -- or some of them were. He finally crossed the street, moving with a lot more purpose than was probably appropriate.

He literally had just taken it on himself to help a guy out who was staring at his fingers like life's mysteries could be found there.

That was probably presumptuous. He also didn't care. Much. ]

You might need to put your arm down before it goes numb.

[ In lieu of introducing himself to a stranger, of course. ]

[ He practically jumps when he hears someone talking to him. Really, he should have expected someone to say something. After all, most humans wouldn't be acting like this. What he didn't expect was one Major Kaidan Alenko. One of the original Normandy crew, and thus, one of his closer friends (not that he had such a giant list of friends, but that's beside the point). Who was supposed to be in a hospital somewhere on the Citadel.

But then again, Garrus also wasn't supposed to be in a human body 150 years into the past, so really, as humans might say: water under the bridge (that was the right term, right? ]

Kaidan!

[ He raises his eyebrows, and gives his best smile. Which is a lot more difficult to do than one might think (especially if said individual is used to mandibles). ]

I'd say it's good to see you, but I'm still trying to work out the whole "five fingers" thing.

[ And the expression thing. And... he could deal with the rest. Once he got used to the whole human body. ]

[ He wasn't expecting to be recognized. Actually, he wasn't expecting to kind of (?) recognize the voice, either. It wasn't quite there, and it took him a long few minutes.

First, he had to wonder if this was someone from his future? Some people came from the future -- did he know if they'd beaten the reapers? If Earth was safe? Should he ask his name before he asked about the future?

But no, that voice... it wasn't quite right. It was like he was hearing half of it -- which means it still took him a few minutes of blank staring, before things finally caught up to him.

It kind of sounded like Garrus. If Garrus was suddenly a much tinier, much fleshier human being with half of his voice.

And more fingers. ]

Garrus?

[ He was going to need a minute to process this. Finally, after a long few minutes, he finally smiles back. A lot more natural than the Turian, but then again... was he really Turian right about now? ]

Oh -- when did you get here? What are you -- what happened?

sure, jan

Combobreaker! (03)

major alenko why do humans have so many fingers?

because humans are greedy and need more