TIME TO GET READYYYYYY

[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 there's only one rule in Test Drive Meme Club: 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, while others might not say anything -- but if you have something nasty to say, better not say anything at all, right?

In the wake of the recent blackout, neighborhoods are coming together to repair damage done by miscreants and share resources. In one of the commercial areas, retailers are taking advantage of the mild weather to hold a sidewalk sale. New arrivals and long-settled imPorts alike will receive a small discount at most stores, and while a few locals give them envious looks, many are just interested in what they might buy. You could set a trend, hero!

02. De Chima, Virginia, is a large city with a healthy economy, and though it's quieter than Heropa, there are still large numbers of citizens to be awed at your very presence. Look at you! Organic wonder! 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. 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.

Their questions are likely to be fairly mundane, however; get ready for an interview about your taste in romantic partners, personal underwear choices, favorite foods, and more!

03. Maurtia Falls, Pennsylvania has had its ups and downs since imPorts started reappearing. Several imPort heroes have put focused efforts into cleaning up the streets of this somewhat infamous city, while others have 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. That might make the less than warm welcome imPorts are given in the city a little more understandable. The emergence of locals with superpowers is hardly helping. While some of these individuals have turned to crime, many locals seem more inclined to defend their native powered drug dealer than help the non-native hero bring them to justice. Who are you to tell them how to live?

There's still snow on the ground in Maurtia Falls, and some locals have decided to hold an impromptu snowman-sculpting contest. But...wait. That one looks familiar! Some of the snow people are definitely meant to be imPorts, but they aren't exactly flattering likenesses.

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. To be American is to be part of a melting pot, and that there’s more money to be made by the thriving local industries hardly hurts.

Go wander and get your shopping in, folks. Any imPort willing to be interviewed about how their New Year Resolution is going is instantly surrounded by a small gaggle of people.

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[song_of_ice]

They had each been through a great deal of trouble and seen their share of violence. Even Sansa, the one that they never would believe would witness the darkness that existed in the world. There was a weariness about each of them now, a mutual struggle that they could each recognize.

Perhaps in time, he would tell Arya of his struggles as well. It was no great hardship to tell her what was weighing on his mind or that he had died. Much like Sansa, he imagined she'd believe him.

He wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "Not exactly a surprise. It's where Sansa and I are staying. Where you are staying too."

[catchallthecats]

In the time away from her, Arya had come to appreciate her sister. They might never see eye to eye on some things, but at the same time, those differences could be strengths, were strengths on the sheer proof that they both yet lived.

And with all she's seen? The idea of her brother returning from the dead was not something she'd doubt, even if the idea that he would have to die to return wouldn't sit well with her.

"You've been here a while then?" She guessed as much anyways, to have found a place for he and Sansa, and now for her as well. Not that she would complain, it was a relief to know someone who might have even a bit better an idea of what was happening than she did. "Won't Sansa be surprised to see what you've brought home today."

[song_of_ice]

However they treated each other as children, so much time had passed and so much pain had been afflicted on them that they would never behave the same as before. They were family, the only family that they had left. They had to trust each other and stay together.

They each had stories to tell. While he was afraid to tell Sansa the full future waiting for her, there were some things that she and Arya would want to hear. The Boltons were dead and Winterfell was theirs again.

"Not so long, only a month." Or thereabout. "Sansa only recently arrived too." Before that, he had been nothing but alone. The story of his life. "So long as you don't pull her hair, she'll be excited to see you." More than excited. Sansa had been by herself for so long.

[catchallthecats]

"No hair pulling?" She scoffed at the idea, even though she knew that they were both well aware that at this point she'd never do that to her sister, not after everything that had happened to them all.

"Honestly Jon, next you'll be telling me I can't be leaving spiders in her sewing kit." She smiled sideways towards him, feeling a bit more grounded with Jon at her side. "How am I going to show her my affection then?"