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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

[totalpacifist]

You mean with the hovering? [X glances up at a sedan as it wobbles overhead.] I'm used to that, but the design is very, very strange. Pretty much everything here is strange, even the currency. I'm still not clear on what they expect us to do.

[notasaviour]

Really? They don't hover back home. The shape of them is about right for the 1950s though. The currency's not that strange, but the linked bank account... that's a little too futuristic. [He frowns.] I'd guess they really do want us to do what they said, be heroes, but the registered thing makes me a bit uncomfortable.

[Bad history with that idea, yep.]

[totalpacifist]

Really? [says the guy who was basically registered military property the second he got dug out of the ground] Could I ask you why?

[notasaviour]

It's complicated, but they tried to make us all register back home and it got messy fast. The wrong people ended up in charge, and then they knew all about everyone who had registered.

[He'd been against registration then, too.]

They did some bad things. On both sides, to be fair, but the registration side was worse for me.

[totalpacifist]

I'm...I'm very sorry to hear that. If you'd rather not talk about it, please, just ignore me.

[notasaviour]

It wasn't that recent. Don't worry about it.

[Maybe a year or so? Sometimes it's difficult to remember exactly how much time has passed since he joined the Young Avengers.]

But I don't know if it's a comfortable idea, that's all.

[totalpacifist]

Mmm...I can see why it would be a problem for some people. But I think I can also understand the necessity. Especially if it's true about that device that brings us here, about it giving people new powers.

[notasaviour]

But what about the people with families? Or the people with secrets?

[Being an unofficial alien (from outer space) wasn't exactly a secret any more, but it had got him into trouble at the time.]

I think I missed out on that. All of mine seem to be the ones I started with.