sure, jan

[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

[iseegoblins]

You don't need to interfere. It's not your fight here. [The message was telepathic and she had no way of knowing for sure that it'd get to him. If it did get to him she didn't know if he'd react well or with the freakout that sometimes happened. She didn't want anyone else to get involved in this. He was just trying to calm the situation down, he wasn't a threat, and she didn't want to drag him into this.

So, in a way, his gesture worked. The fire that had been surrounding her subsided and she came down to touch the ground. There was no approaching the soldiers though. She wasn't moving from this now standing position. ]

I'm not going with them. Who knows where they're actually taking us. Or what they really want to do with us.

[notasaviour]

[Okay, was that... telepathy? It makes sense, under the circumstances; if that is the Phoenix, it does like telepaths, apparently. And usually mutants, although that's kind of more Billy's thing than it is Teddy's. Huh. Someone from a world pretty near his, or actually his home dimension?

Off topic though; he's no telepath himself, but if he thinks about it hard enough, can he try and get a message back? Man, this is a poor time to be regretting not knowing more about this kind of thing.]

It's not my fight, I just don't want anyone getting hurt. Look, I agree with you, all the soldiers don't make for a friendly welcome. But if we stick together, it'll be pretty hard for them to try anything, right?

[iseegoblins]

Right, yeah, I guess. [ There's distinct uncertainty in her voice. It doesn't matter if people stick together when it comes to the government. Who knew if they had power collars or not. She wasn't sure, at least not yet. Silently she cursed herself for not telepathically scanning everyone's mind to try to find that answer. If they had that kind of technology then all of them were already screwed.

He had a point though. They had to stick together some. Besides, it looked like he at least knew something about mutants if his thoughts were any indication. Maybe she'd poke around his head more later, when it wasn't so important to be focusing elsewhere.

A look of defeat crossed her features and she put her feet completely on the ground and folded her hands over her chest. ]

Alright. [ The soldiers started to back off then, returning to their duties elsewhere and trying to forget about this even happening. The two of them were then left mostly alone. Not completely, people were still watching, but at least there wasn't an outright threat anymore. ]

I'm Jean. Jean Grey.

[notasaviour]

[...Definitely the Phoenix, then.

He supposes he should be more nervous about that, probably, but his boyfriend warps reality on a whim, so he's pretty much used to being around ridiculously powerful mutants.

...and he's staring, isn't he? Oh dear.]

Sorry. Um, Teddy Altman. Hulkling, I guess, like this.

[Because he's green, and kind of hulk-shaped, although it's nothing to do with gamma radiation.]

Are you okay? Apart from the shock of being pulled here like this, I mean. And the scientific experiment thing. That really, really isn't a happy thought.

[It sends him right back to the Cube, and the Warden with his knives and restraints. Thankfully, he's got a lot of practise at putting thoughts like that back out the way again.]