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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.

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Kristoff was too late to protest properly as she handed the file to him, and he flipped it open to give it a curtesy once over. It was the same as his had been. There was her photo, her name, the section that he know listed medical information, the section that listed powers, and so on. In the end, he just huffed and passed it back over.

"You can read, can't you?" He asked, attempting a tone that implied his impatience, rather than his inability. He'd learned to read before he'd found a home in the Valley, and he'd never been particularly good at it. Given that and ages without anything resembling proper practice, and... Well. It wasn't his best skill by a pretty good margin.

Anna could probably read very well, though. She probably owned books and everything. She could read her own file better than he could.

While Anna could be slow on the uptake, she wasn't an idiot. Kristoff had used that tone before and yet she'd still managed to endear herself to him. Whatever his complaint was, there was probably some merit to it. Anyways, this was a whole new world. Anna was going to have to start doing her own lifting sooner or later and this was probably less frightening that Anna was internalizing it to be.

So, she took back the file, demurely, and willed herself to look at the contents. Anna opened the file almost gingerly and had to take a deep breath before she started reading.

"How would they even know that?" she demanded, not of Kristoff but of the area at large.

Skimming down the rest of the text, there were a few vague sounds before her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Chocolate?! REALLY?!!!" Oh she was positively thrilled. But wait. There was more. "Huh. I mean. It's useful. Oh. ...Oh! Okay that is great."

Well, all of that self-muttering doesn't actually tell him much of anything. It does earn her a raised eyebrow on his part, however, and he leans over her shoulder to look at the document again for himself, as if that might help. It didn't, so he finally shrugged and gave in.

"Alright. So what is it? Just chocolate something-or-other?"

Anna looks up, realizing only after the fact that she was talking to herself. It would take a long time before she broke the habit. Too much time alone and Anna didn't have a companion like Sven for her to play off of. Turning to look back at Kristoff, she gave him a big smile.

"Well, apparently! I can turn food into chocolate," Anna led with. "Which is kind of the best power ever, right? Also, it said something about empathy and absorbing the sun. I guess the second of those is why my heart isn't freezing right now?"

Really, she just wanted to get her hands on some food and make chocolate.

He doesn't know if he agrees to her sweets-related powers being the best. He wasn't entirely well-versed in chocolate, but sugary things tended to be a little overindulgent for his tastes, even now that he found them affordable. Empathy, though, and absorbing the sun... So, this time Anna was a leaf-like chocolatier with a talent for empathy. And that last bit implied what, exactly?

A little more wary about the prospect, he cleared his throat and shrugged it off, tucking his fingers into the pockets of his jeans just to have something to do with his hands.

"Well. Lucky for you, there's plenty of sunshine in Florida. I'm pretty sure you fry eggs without a fire, out here."

"It says that it will keep my "medical condition" under control and give me near limitless energy. What does that mean?"

Anna genuinely couldn't imagine having more energy than she already did. In the coming months she'd find that she rarely needed to sleep. There was a whole new world for her to experience and she had the endless time to do so.

For now though, she shrugged. If her heart was kept safe, that was all she could ask for.

"Have you tried going to the beach yet? Supposedly it make the hot weather more bearable."

Anna already had unlimited energy, if anybody cared for Kristoff's opinion on the matter. He was of a similar mind, though, when it came to her health. So long as it kept her from freezing over, the sun was free to lend her as much energy as it would.

That thought actually lead smoothly enough into an answer for her question. He snorted. "Yeah, I've been a couple of times. I keep getting sunburned."

"Bet you wish you had some of Wandering Oaken's sun balm now, don't you?"

Anna grinned a little, clearly finding herself to be rather clever.

For her, that time wasn't even a week ago. Time was a funny thing when people took different paths to get to the same present. She couldn't really imagine that Kristoff had actually been in Florida for months now.

"When we have free time, you should take me to the beach," she informed him, probably sounding like the bossy princess she was. Amending it, she tried to sound a little nicer about it all. "Please? I've never been to one."

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