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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

[gluestick]

[Newt smiles over at him, amused. Newt had panicked, sure, but he dealt with it a lot better than the other Gladers. Was a bit more logical in it all. He'd had a weapon, could protect himself if he really needed to. But all they'd done was drop him off in front of Kanaya's house without answering any of his questions.

Alby, dude, you straight up knocked Newt off his feet. What you did was worse. Newt's used to being swept up around him, but that's taking it a little far.]

Yeah, they've got housing in three cities for imPorts. It's really for the ones who register, but my roommates didn't kick me out when I decided not to. When I showed up I was the only guy in a house of girls. Talk about a bloody culture shock. But with Tommy and Min and Grey, it's about even now. Bit of a tight fit, though.

[Since they just shoved all the Gladers + 1 mute assassin into Newt's room nbd]

[tetchiness]

[ this is all greek to alby, who didn't stick around long enough to learn what an imPort was or what registering was or pretty much anything else, so he mostly just gives newt his trademark half-annoyed-half-curious face as they make their way down the sunny street. one thing does catch his attention, though. ]

Who's Grey? [ tweedledee and tweedledumb he at least recognizes. the two of them got real chummy before he had made his unfortunate exit from the glader's lives. ] You're gonna have to explain all this klunk eventually. What the hell is "register"?

And I don't give a shuck if they've got some stupid assignment, I'm staying by you. [ he doesn't even bother asking. newt he'll sleep in your backyard if he has to. ]

[gluestick]

Some shank Tommy adopted when he got here, he's a real good guy. [Newt chuckles.] Here we are, the Greenie questions. Knew it was only a matter of time before you got to 'em. If you'd stuck around long enough, you would've learned most of this, ya know.

[He's just giving him shit for the hell of it, and the smile is proof of it.] Government wants all the imPorts comin' in to register with them and be superheroes or some klunk. You get all kinds of benefits if you register - housing, jobs, monthly allowances. It's real nice if you wanna pledge allegiance to a government you know nothin' about.

[He doesn't even mention that none of the Gladers have. It's obvious enough that they wouldn't.]

As for living arrangements- we've been saving up to move out of the government housing cause Minho refuses to live in it on a permanent basis, the stubborn slinthead. But til then I think I've still got some space on my floor for ya.

[tetchiness]

[ alby rolls his eyes with a force he's more or less perfected, and gives newt a dirty look, but he doesn't really mean it, either. they've been over this: it was terrible and alby was not about to get kidnapped again. he had just gotten his memories back, and for as much as he'd like to get rid of the barely there ones he remembers from the changing, he's not going to lose them again.

alby listens to his speech and it's all still making no sense, but, whatever. alby's not planning on "registering" anyway. the last sentence puts a bad taste in his mouth. still, there's at least something in there that caught his attention. ] Superheroes--that's what all that was about? I'm not gonna run 'round in a shucking cape.

[ though, that information is really interesting, and he pauses to look at newt, a little differently. newt the superhero. he doesn't remember much about superheroes--faint memories of klunkheads wearing their undies outside of their pants, but. ] Do you have those?

[gluestick]

Capes? You're seriously askin' me if I dress up like a superhero?

[Newt grins, shaking his head. It's always like this with them. Alby's managed to get him back to a good place in just a few minutes again, and he's grateful for it. It lets him ignore all the things he'd rather not think about, things he can focus on later once he's let Alby settle properly.]

Nah, but I do have powers. You do too - they list 'em in that file you dropped. Not everybody does the whole secret identity thing - think it's bloody pointless if you ask me - but there's a whole lot of heroics goin' on around here most of the time, masked or not.

You didn't look at the file at all before you bolted? I wanna know what yours are. See if the Porter had a buggin' awful sense of humor with yours too.

[tetchiness]

I'm asking about the superpowers, shuckface. [ alby huffs a little, embarrassed, because of course he didn't think newt would be the type to wear a cape. (minho, though: minho he could see it happening.) but, he thinks newt's probably already got some kind of superpower beyond whatever this shucked up place has given him, considering the honestly supernatural speed at which he can calm alby down when he's all riled up, so whatever he has is kind of moot, but he's still interested.

alby snorts. ] Nah. Figured it was just a bunch of WICKED klunk. [ he dropped it and ran, and he's only a tiny bit ashamed about it. eventually, his curiosity gets the better of him, though, and alby squints at him a bit, sizing newt up. ] You really...go 'round saving people?

[ well, okay, color him a little proud. just a little, and his thumb strokes over the top of his hand again. ] That's pretty cool, shank. None of it's gone to your head, huh?

[gluestick]

I don't blame ya, honestly. I didn't bother to even give the buggin' thing a read until Minho found me and told me to. [And he'd had a good laugh at Newt's expense once he had. Adhesive, what a stupid power. But it'd proved incredibly useful, actually, once Newt had gotten a chance to properly use it.

Newt shrugs, looking down towards the ground, a little flustered by the praise. Stupid.]

What else am I gonna do? Sit around and watch people suffer and not do anything about it? Only a shuck coward would so somethin' like that. If you've got the means to help, you have to help, that's all there is to it.