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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

[siriusly]

Manabu's eyes winced. Yeah, yeah...he may have been jumping the gun, but...

"I-it's all well and fine if nobody home has to worry about me," he explained, his expression pinched with worry. "But if I go back and I can't do my job, that's! That's pretty bad..." He slumped back in the seat, rubbing the side of his head where he was struck.

"I mean, I guess it all sounds pretty bad, but still..."

He wasn't some genius, he was just a regular guy. It was hard to wrap his head around this sort of thing! "One weird time loop was bad enough..."

[kanadian]

"Only one? You've been through something like this before? How did you --" cope? Manage? Kaidan wasn't exactly adept at this -- in fact, he was entirely out of his mind with how incompetent he felt.

Then again, this is a guy who was getting promoted to high-ranks in the middle of the galactic eradication, he was already doing everything he could to stay above water, but this was apparently the last weight, he couldn't handle much more than that. He frowned, and shook his head. "I mean, this place isn't bad, and you won't -- you'll go home the same as you were, as far as I know?"

It was a small comfort, of course. Kaidan hadn't been through nearly so much that it was a worry, but give it a year or two, and he'll be thinking it too. After all, he didn't want to be that old a soldier when he finally got back to his real fight.

"I'm not an expert, though, I've never gone home myself."

[siriusly]

When Manabu looked up to reply to that half-finished remark, he stopped short as well. The manner around that guy was...well, not really sad, but somber enough. That was probably eight months of uncertainty, if he was being honest about it; Manabu had no real reason to doubt just yet.

Except for the part where the conversation began with getting smacked.

He tried to smile, and it come out a bit crooked. "There's a spot along the Galaxy Railways where time can distort," he said. "Sometimes trains get stuck in a bubble of the past. It happened to me on the day I went to join the SDF."

[kanadian]

"The, uh, Galaxy Railways?" he asked, his voice sounding more and more interested by the minute. Well, he was used to space, that was kind of his thing, so when he leaned forward in interest, it was because that was a lot more like home than he'd heard from a lot of people. Anyone who'd been to space was someone Kaidan was interested in knowing in no small measure.

"You mean space? Are you -- some kind of..." he paused, and looked down, like he was looking for something -- looking for the right words. "What did they call them..."

"Astronaut?"

[siriusly]

In contrast, Manabu leaned away, but only after a moment to realize that he ought to. And for that, and the astronaut remark, he chuckled weakly.

"No, not like that. The SDF protects the railways, so it's kind of like...like a mix of military and police, I guess. I'm not sure what would explain it best to you..."

[kanadian]

Oh. Well that made perfect sense to Kaidan, and he nodded. "So, what are the railways? Are they your... travel lines? I assume that it is in space, right?"

He sounded more interested than anything else. Then again, Space. And space cops, on top of that? It was hard not to be a little bit interested. "I'm, ah, not quite the same, but... I'm a member of the Alliance Military." And a council spectre, but that probably wouldn't mean much to him, would it?