KEEP THE MUSIC DOWN

[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 Florida 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

[larker]

[That's not picking on the scapegoat, that's giving a mental/verbal middle finger to an older brother who shanked his baby sibling. Gosh. Whatever, there's more important things going on.]

Ugh same old song and dance? Really? Enjoy your popcorn Luci, I think the End of Days is far off from this place.

[This place is different. Gabriel can feel it. He isn't quite sure an apocalypse would be so easy to bring this time.]

[dissemble]

[The lack of other angels and demons around the place is a dead giveaway that they're no longer in Kansas.]

Looked at your wrist yet?

[larker]

Nope. I most definitely did not look or notice the tattoo there. I was planning on getting a giant one, something fun, and then they went and did that.

[Huffs. Gabriel shrugs, eats some popcorn.]

I remember the last time someone decided to give people tattoos on the wrists. That did not go well.

[dissemble]

[Wow you're not over the Holocaust either? Gabe, you need an intervention or something. Learn to let stuff go.]

We're not people, Gabriel.

[larker]

[Pft, he didn't say he wasn't over it. That was just a giant clusterfuck. It's hard to try and believe in the good some humans can do when they pull that sort of thing out of the ass.]

No, we're not. And yet here we are, in Florida, eating shitty popcorn. Well, yours is shitty. Mine's just fine.

[dissemble]

Shitty popcorn is as good a reason to burn Florida off the face of the world as any.

[Don't tell Luci you're fine with all this. Lies make baby Jesus cry, after all.]

[larker]

No, the price of food and drink in Disney World is the reason to burn Florida into ashes.

[Like Hell is Gabriel okay with this place. He's very disturbed by the amount of power taken to drag not only himself, but Lucifer over to this place.]

[dissemble]

Disney World? [Sometimes Lucifer just doesn't understand you and the way you willingly spend time with these humans.]

[larker]

It's a good place if you want someone to get stuck on a ride with mechanical little things singing "It's a Small World" on repeat for hours on end.

[What!? Get off his back, Luci. Everyone's been once in their lifetime. It's not his fault you got yourself locked up.]

[dissemble]

And they call me evil.

[Actually, yes it is. You and everyone else who didn't have the balls to tell dad what you were really thinking.]

[larker]

[Smirks.] Yeah I tried to get that struck off your record, but it didn't go down very well.

[Hey don't start that Lucifer or Gabriel will (try to) finish it. He gave all his shit up and lived among the humans. Don't pick on the one who didn't choose sides, take that shit out on Michael.]

[dissemble]

You did?

[not picking a side counts as picking a side, bro]

[larker]

[Yeah but that involved picking a side that had nothing to do with the other two sides. Welp, Gabriel is just going to shovel a large handful of sweet popcorn into his mouth, chewing slowly.]

I might not have been listening but they did say humans get given powers here.

[dissemble]

We've been limited too.

[It was like being in the cage all over again.

Someone was going to die for this. More than once.]

[larker]

Yeah it didn't go down too well but I'm telling you now I had nothing to do with the horns being added that... was...

[Wait. Limited? Even that makes Gabriel shut up for a second, eyes squinting.

He'd agree with the sentiment that someone should die, throwing hands up in the air with exasperation.]

Oh come on ! This is undue punishment. I didn't do shit to deserve this place.

[A pause. Okay fine. ]

I didn't do that much shit to deserve this. Jeez.

[dissemble]

[The power limitation lends credence to this being some kind of fundamentally different world. There are very few things which could theoretically do this to him.

Unless-]

Even Michael wouldn't be this foolish.

[larker]

[This was the worst. New world and limited powers. It wasn't right and it wasn't fair. The only slight upside to this was the part where Lucifer would take slightly longer to kill him if he felt the urge.

Great.

Lucifer was right. Michael wouldn't dare and the Winchesters weren't strong enough. Stupid enough perhaps.]

Spit it out already, sheesh! Ain't getting any younger here.

[dissemble]

If this isn't daddy dear or Michael, then someone, somewhere has properly fucked their plans up.

[Lucifer doesn't even question Gabriel's support. He might be overly fond of the monkeys, but he was an archangel all the same- firstborn before all creation and with an ego to match.]

[larker]

[Well okay that's something to think about. Someone or something out there has managed to change dad's design, an odd thought when the being in question is meant to be infallible.

Who in the hell? Gabriel couldn't help but look annoyed. No-one was powerful enough to pull this shit off.]

Oh please. You're trying to say that someone out there managed to throw a giant cosmic wrench in the machine and broke Dad's plan?

[dissemble]

[Daddy isn't infaillible, and saying so got Lucifer kicked out of heaven in the first place.]

We're here, aren't we? [Implying that there shouldn't be a here to be in in the first place. In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth. Aka: everything that was supposed to exist.

This place they were in now wasn't any part of that.]

[larker]

Don't start this again.

[That's the only time Gabriel is going to mutter under his breath, feathers ruffled and then some more. This was the same ideology that started shit in the first place.

That and Lucifer was right. Gabriel didn't even have a counter argument prepared, the archangel opting to flick popcorn at random passersby.]

Are we here? Or should we have laid off the creepy cheese before going to sleep last night? Yes I'm finding it hard to believe right now. I'd rather be stuck in Delaware.

[dissemble]

They'll have a Delaware here too, no doubt.

[His nose wrinkles slightly in disgust. Gabe you may be Lucifer's bro, but wow. Creepy cheese?]

[larker]

That defies the purpose. Ugh. Did you get one of those files they were handing out? I think mine came with some hero worship and a side of awe. As if I'm going to work for the government.

[Yep. Creepy cheese. If it's blue and stinks then it's creepy enough anyone can bear to put it in their mouth.]

[dissemble]

[Lucifer can't remember what he did with the various things he'd been given. Burned them, probably.]

As if you'd work at all. [Pot, kettle.]

[larker]

[Gabriel just rolls his eyes. Now that's just rude, Lucifer.]

I had to take that stupid piece of shit file anyway. They've got my name, bro. It's okay for you, people hear your name and run for their lives. They hear mine? "Oooh show us a miracle," or "Ooooh why does God let bad things in the world happen?" and even "Oh dear please cure 'insert family member here' from 'insert disease here',".