MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY

[maskormods]

T E S T D R I V E M E M E

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 someone else's thread, either!

And remember there's only one rule in Test Drive Meme Club: HAVE FUN ON THE TEST DRIVE MEME!

01.The city of Heropa is what one might expect from a small, bright and cheery place, where locals are friendly enough and local shop owners might offer a free drink to welcome you to their fair city.

Today is the now-annual balloon festival. After a few (highly illegal) incidents during the one held in the Falls, Heropa has heroically stepped forward to take over the event. From dawn until well past midnight, imPorts and natives alive can pay a small fee to ride in a beautifully colorful hot air balloon solo or in pairs. There is also wonderful amount of fried food, games, and face-painting for the whole family.

If this seems all a little too innocent and non-competitive, don't worry. This is America. ImPorts are welcome to sign up for the balloon race! For a small fee, each contestant will be randomly paired with another imPort and rented a hot air balloon and instruction manual. It's a there and back again, 50 mile race, the winner of which gets their very own jet pack for future flying needs! While technically using powers or other means of giving your team an edge isn't allowed, who pays attention to technicalities? Just try not to kill anyone.

02. De Chima, Virginia, is a large city with a healthy economy, with large numbers of citizens waiting to be awed by your very presence. Look at you! Organic wonder! Those words have meaning here. Science and technology are the lifeblood of this city, so you're likely to come across a good many locals taking your picture with the newest of devices or recently published PLoS papers. The imPort craze remains high here, and you may find yourself cornered by overzealous imPort fans, media wannabes and opportunists alike, shoving cameras in your face. If you let yourself get cornered, beware! Anything from personal questions about romantic chances to bedroom habits to dietary queries might be come up!

De Chima is hosting a Festival of Fire, and that means that every night for memorial day weekend the sky is lighting up with every type of firework you can imagine. The gearheads in De Chima have taken it to a whole new level, though. They've created SmartWorks - fireworks that do things that otherwise would seem almost magical. Turn into a flock of birds, or a giant fist pumping robot. Even a dragon.

Uh oh - those fireworks may not be the most in control, though, and one of those sparking, fizzing creatures is heading straight for that crowd...

03. Maurtia Falls, Pennsylvania has carried a reputation for ups and downs ever since imPorts began reappearing again, just those few years prior. Several imPort heroes have put focused efforts into cleaning up the streets of this somewhat infamous city, while a handful of others had swooped in to help the criminal industry thrive. More so here than the streets of any other imPort city, the battle between good and evil looks more like a war of escalation than a heroic tale, even with Ambassador Padme and imPort Mayor Baelish gracing the headlines. Everything from the classic bank heist to brutal bloodbaths can happen around the corner. You have to keep your eyes open and your mind sharp when you live in Maurtia Falls, and hostility against imPorts can spike. The emergence of locals with superpowers is hardly helping... #THANKS TONY STARK, #ya muffin.

But take a breather on the outskirts of the city, where the Pennsylvania woods touch metropolitan suburbia. Take a look at those old government, bunker-style buildings being reclaimed by nature. There you will find a tradition of "hunting" the "wolf", where fun-seekers get together for a night and play a game of elaborate tag with a man or woman dressed up in their most favorite canine fursona. If you're up for a bit of fun, remember! This game is played in pairs. You'll be situated with another equally matched player -- so, an imPort -- and together you will try to complete the game's mission: find the wolf! There are countless abandoned buildings and the woods themselves to check out.

Funny thing, though, as you wander through one of the old two-story, stripped buildings, there's a lot of... Really authentic blood smeared around the walls. It even smells like blood. Don't taste it -- just in case. Who knows what kind of toxins are in that kind of paint! Much be a lot of copper. Either way, it's unnerving, and you kind of remember a conversation overheard by a couple of locals playing the hunt not fifteen minutes ago, about how Stella "the wolf" cancelled on them last minute, so the hunt is called off. They were trying to find the other groups, but weren't having any luck.

Then you turn a corner and look down the stairs.

04. Nonah, North Carolina, is the liveliest of all cities; loud, busy and there's always some kind of energy in the air that gets everyone buzzing with excitement.

A new temporary exhibit in the Nonah museum has opened up, paired with free entrance! Come one, come all, to the… wax museum? Maybe this wasn’t the best idea, actually. Housed inside the exhibit are the wax-works of dozens of very talented artists, who have taken to making wax replicas of various historical and political figures… as well as a few imPorts here and there! Ambassadors of the past and present, Senator Mitchell Hundred, and…

You?

How’d they manage to get a wax figure of you so quickly?