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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 someone else's thread, either!

And remember to have fun!

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. Some of the locals might thank you for always lending your service to the nation and others might not say anything. In fact, some people might back away from any imPort who quite obviously looks like they aren't from around the neighborhood. Once in a while there's a look of disdain on someone's face and hushed voices. An upset voice wonders aloud: "More of them, when we already know they can't protect us? That's just painting a bigger target on the city's back!" However, they're quickly hushed with a judgmental: "They helped save the cities, and it's the Soviets you should be angry with anyway! The imPorts are here to protect us!"

02. De Chima, Virginia, is a large city with a healthy economy, and though it's quieter, there are just as many citizens awed at your presence. Many people are out and about taking care of their regular business, but that doesn't distract them from crowding you in excitement if you're obviously from a different time or world, or just let it slip that you're a newcomer. Children and young teenagers are especially likely to ask for an autograph and a photo.

Some locals seem less enthused to see you. They never make an approach, but they can be overheard scoffing and muttering something about spies. "How can we trust any of them now?"

03. Maurtia Falls, Pennsylvania, is not as friendly and its citizens tend to go out of their way to avoid walking down the same sidewalk as the more obvious looking imPorts pass through. Local cops say nothing, but they scowl at those imPorts and mutter under their breaths resentfully about "vigilantes". However, not all locals turn the other way seeing imPorts; some of them will offer a polite enough smile and thank them for their help in overthrowing the trespassers. They don't stop to clarify what they mean, though.

04. Nonah, North Carolina, is the liveliest of all cities; loud, busy and there's some kind of energy in the air that gets everyone buzzing with excitement. Anyone who they come to determine an imPort is bombarded with all sorts of offers; job offers, advertising gigs, spokesperson for advocating children stay in school, etc. Anything and everything! You name it. Shops offer discounts for food and clothing, whatever they need. Advertisements are abound for imPorts to make appearances at various, televised celebrations, luring them in with promises of free food, merchandise, and payment.

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[valuemeal]

[ That grin says more than anything else could. It's obviously as hell he's showing off those fangs, and if he's doing that right after Hyunsoo mentioned Yukyun.. well, that can only mean this guy is a vampire from his world but just from some other point in time.

.. one that knows him on top of everything. Probably from a time when Hyunsoo himself is already a vampire, considering he can't exactly imagine any of the vampires at the compound call him "hyung" while he's still like this, no matter the differences in physical age.

Usually he'd argue this point a little more and force Yeong to explain more first, but the thought makes him a little antsy.. Yeong is a vampire, and Hyunsoo sure isn't. And without knowing what Yeong is like and without Yukyun anywhere around right now, it plays into Hyunsoo's natural instinct when it comes to the vampires he meets - aka being wary and scared of all of them. It's just what happens when you're a sheep living among the wolves, no matter how well their leader protects you. ]

Look-- [ His tone sounds a little snappy, sure, but it's not really angry snappy. It's more scared snappy, like he's still contemplating whether he should stand here and explain this or just run away and make a dash for Yukyun's apartement. ]

This place somehow brings in people from different worlds and even different times.. kind of like in movies. [ It's the best explanation he has, alright?! ] That's why I have no clue who you are. I don't remember meeting you.

[ ... ]

Or.. well, yet, I guess.

[ And yet Yeong already gives him an uneasy feeling.. it's destiny, obviously. (Or rather, it's just that Hyunsoo is a natural weenie.) ]

[streetwalking]

[ Color Yeong impressed right now. It's not like Hyunsoo has ever been a stupid man, but he's so used to thinking of him in the most unflattering, ungenerous light possible. It does mean when Hyunsoo manages to place two and two together like this that Yeong is taken a little by surprise.

He raises his brows slowly at Hyunsoo's explanation. It makes as much sense as anything else around here (he guesses, not that it makes that much sense at all to him). At the very least Yeong is willing to go along with that explanation for now until a better one presents itself.

He lowers his brows now and lets his face sink into a neutral expression as he studies Hyunsoo carefully. How much does he even want to tell Hyunsoo? He could be honest, of course, but there's no real benefit of that for him. Hyunsoo will probably agitate him as a human just as much as he did when he was a vampire (possibly even more), but there's no need to start any hostility by mentioning how much they dislike each other. He could use Hyunsoo for now, and for that he needs Hyunsoo to feel at least mildly inclined to help him. ]

Ahh... something that sounds completely impossible... but so does traveling to another world, and...

[ Yeong makes a sweeping gesture around them. Impossible, but here they are. ]

[valuemeal]

It's weird, but it's what's happening.

[ Hyunsoo's death grip on the bag he's holding is slowly starting to ease up a little. It's not like he's completely comfortable with Yeong or anything, but at least that reaction.. well, it's a pretty normal one. It's basically Hyunsoo's reaction to anything that goes on in this place by now. Sure, it's all weird and ridiculous as hell and completely impossible, but once the weird things start piling up, you just make up a seperate category for them in your mind and shove them all in there. And then just never look back at them.

He's a little more used to vampires being a little more scary - even if there's not really due to no vampires aroun Busan being normal, and more that Hyunsoo is so easy and fun to troll that a lot of them can't help but scare the shit out of them at least once.

So compared to that? Well, Yeong is being a lot better to him.. by just not being terrible to him. Low standards.

It's probably the reason why he feels at least a little more confident - or confident enough - to speak further: ]

.. Yukyun is here too. So don't pull anything weird. [ Not that Hyunsoo really has any power to enforce anything himself, he's just a human.. if Yeong jumped him right now, he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. But he knows the threat of the local vampire king is enough to keep most vampires relatively at bay, no matter what kind of vampire Yeong might be. ]