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maskormods) wrote in
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.

3 - THE IRON BULL | dragon age: inquisition
[No, really. That's the first thought in his head, seeing the goddamn flying cars. How do they work? Is it magic? Some kind of mage-powered crap? There doesn't look like there are any glowing runes or sparkles or whatever they use to make shit work.]
[Don't even get him started on the projections and jukeboxes.]
[Trying to turn over a parked car got him nowhere -- except yelled at. Maybe by you. Maybe it was your car. Or maybe you just happened to see a huge, metallic-skinned, horned, man trying to flip a car.]
[Either way, he'll abandon it, in favor of scooping up a skateboard left unattended, and turning it over in broad hands.]
... gotta be some kind of magic crap.
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The bustle, the heat, the people in various states of undress... the humidity and the stink of political corruption behind the gleaming, clean business facades. It reminds him of his beloved Antiva City, truly.
One among the shirtless he did not expect to see is a qunari in little more than trousers and a brace. Not that it is a sight he regrets to see, so long as no converting is going on.]
It may be magic, true, and yet I've seen it handled by children who do not seem to be casting spells - a toy, like a hobble horse, only faster and more dangerous. Would not even the famed black powder of the qunari seem as magic to those who'd never seen or heard of it?