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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] etcelsior2017-03-25 09:16 pm

THE GREATEST POWER OF ALL



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?

    Unfortunately, tragedy has struck today. Outside a local 24/7 diner featuring waffles and other breakfast food, a large crowd has gathered while several fire trucks keep a steady stream on it and the buildings nearby. The diner is obviously destined to burn, and its waitresses, in bright yellow, stand outside watching with no small amount of worry reflected in their eyes. One of them complains, again, that she'd left her purse inside - and now a good $100 is going up in flames. For what? Won't somebody help her out, at all? The police are so inept! Just the worst!

    The windows burst and, clear as day, one can see an alligator trapped inside the entrance, trying to make its way out but dissuaded by a patch of fire in front of the door. EMS and crowd alike gasp and wonder aloud, what can they do? Will no one save this poor Florida swamp cat?

    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?

    It's not quite spring yet, but already flowers are popping up—in the form of seven-foot sentient musclebound daisies! A local criminal known as Flower Power has set them on the city, and they're going on a rampage, but a number of citizens have taken advantage. Do you go after the bushwhacking blossoms or the local looters?

    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.

    Natives may gather around new arrivals and ask both personal and broad questions about life as an imPort, what they are looking forward to, what their favorite article of underwear is. A few night clubs offer free entrance - just this once! And they are bound to notice that a man has taken up a spot in a local street, eating pancakes off of a fold out table and holding up traffic. Many people are taking pictures and more interested in whether or not this is performance art than ushering him out of the way. He does have an extra chair and table, however, and will welcome and feed company, especially imPorts.

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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-03 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's completely butchering it, but he has a feeling it's on purpose. Which is annoying. But it's better than other nicknames he's been given like "liability" and "target practice." ]

The galaxy I'm from has humans, and at least 250 other known sentient species. And you're all weird looking.

[ To a droid, no one particular race is more "attractive" than another. ]
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-03 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... a lot of sentient species. Like a lot. How people even communicate? We humans alone have too many languages.
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-03 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
There are protocol droids for the purpose of negotiating between species who can't communicate with each other. I know at least two dozen myself.
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-03 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
So what, like translators?

[ It makes sense, she supposes. Only not really, because the entire concept is way too bizarre for her to grasp right away. ]

Annnnnnd I take it you're not a protocol droid, are you?
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-03 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Apparently most organic species stopped finding it necessary to learn different languages themselves if they had a translator.

I'm a security droid, specifically the enforcer model.
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-03 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, they should at least learn the more common ones, right? Or the ones they use the most...

[ Easier said than done, she knows. ]

That makes sense. So you punch things into order, cool.
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-03 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If you could have someone speak every known language for you, would you still learn it yourself?

If the situation calls for it. I have been specifically reprogrammed to be less violent than my original programming dictated.

[ So that whole mess with the plants was on the "less violent" side. ]
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-03 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Duh, yeah!

[ Trust nobody, not even the robot butler. ]

Why? That sucks. Programmed self-restraint sounds horrible.
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-03 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

[Which doesn't make sense to him. But humans aren't very logical.]

Sometimes a situation calls for more restraint than I was originally intended for. The plants I had destroyed weren't sentient. Would you still have recorded what happened if instead of plants, they were humans?
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[personal profile] jeaniegrey 2017-04-03 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a mover apparently.

[ She wondered if it might have been a joke at first what with her telekinesis and all but, no, she's a mover. How about that. ]

I'm guessing there's an attempt to be funny in there somewhere. What about you?

[ Hopefully it isn't anything along the lines of being a professional spoon bender or something. ]
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[personal profile] wayschway 2017-04-03 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...You've been here for half a year?! How-no never mind.

[ He just groans and rubs his temples. Of course it's this. Of Course. ]

More time travel crap then.
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[personal profile] trouvaille 2017-04-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a question of etiquette and aesthetic, ( a bit primly, still steering asher in the direction of she-hasn't-decided-yet. somewhere. he doesn't smell like he should be in an enclosed space, so probably somewhere with outdoor seating... ) I for one have never seen one I would be particularly thrilled to get an unsolicited picture of in my inbox, and I've seen a few.

( is this really the best possible introduction to modern living.

... sure, why not. )


And there have to be better ways to get women into bed than 'look! I have genitals!' -- congratulations, sir, so does everyone else, what else've you got?
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[personal profile] aboveand 2017-04-04 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, watch your mouth or mom'll have my head.

[The words come out almost automatically, Terry instead stuck on the rest of Matt's statement. ..."Again"?

Another question to be stored away for just a little longer. The pizza place in question was right up ahead; one of your no-frills pizza joints with minimal seating since most of its orders were take out or delivery. Once inside, Terry hands Matt a twenty--seriously cash is still kind of weird to him but when in Rome or whatever.
]

Go nuts just this once. And only because you were just basically kidnapped across dimensions. Seriously, mom will kill me if I don't at least sort of watch out for you.

[Not that he needed to hear his mom tell him that in the back of his mind. The second he saw Matt come out from under that car, he planned on keeping an eye on his baby bro.]
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-04 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ There is a moment of silence and then... ]

Uh, yeah? But from a distance. I'm not stupid.
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[personal profile] aboveand 2017-04-04 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
On the other hand, Terry was quite comfortable in keeping up the charade until they were out of sight from the crowd smart enough not to follow them. Though his disguise was done on the fly, no makeup or a way to disguise his face, he carried himself differently, his face the picture of stoicism. His job as Mr. Wayne's personal gopher made him all too familiar with the body language of an actual professional chaffeur and it was child's play to replicate. Besides, put enough confidence behind something and people were prone to believe you.

Once clear, Terry's body language relaxed and he smiled an easy smile at the co-founder of the Justice League.

"Are you kidding? One of the very first questions some rando asked me was 'boxers or briefs'? Like not a 'hi,' not a 'hello,' not a 'what's your name'? Just straight to asking about my underwear!" Terry blushed as he realized he had gotten terribly, terribly off topic. He couldn't believe he was talking about that to Wonder Woman. He coughed into his fist. "What I was getting at was that you handled it a lot better than I did."

Thankfully for the "rando" Terry hadn't actually punched him, but he had let a lot of colorful language his mother would kill him for fly.

"I'm Terry. McGinnis." He shook the extended hand. "It's an honor to meet you, ma'am."
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-04 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Even that time he stepped right through them?? Yikes. ]

I would find that unsettling, if I was an organic. Have you considered speaking to someone about a mental behavior analysis?
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-04 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shock sells, baby. ]

Why, because I wouldn't want to fight the big scary robot stomping on poor little humans? Besides, I would have video evidence. You'd be in deep shit, robosir.
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-04 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
What do you think would happen to me, if I had killed "criminal" humans instead of non-sentient plants?

[ Because "video evidence" and "you'd be in deep shit" sound like they'd essentially... arrest him? ]
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-04 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly? I don't know. Irrational fear and prejudice?

Well, it's hard to tell. I suppose that if you were stomping on some baddies I wouldn't report you.
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-04 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know either. Maybe I would be arrested, maybe I would be called a hero. In both cases, it's not something I've ever had happen to me before.

[ A pause. ]

Would you consider me, right now, your equal?
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-04 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Eeeeeeeeeeh.

[ Vague hand motions. ]

You're alright. I don't care very much what you do, so I guess? Equals, whatever. Or what, just because you're all bits and bolts should I consider you less or more? That's stupid.
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-04 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
...

[ Except, that's kind of a big deal, and he's actually at a loss for what to say here. Finally, he does speak up. ]

I never asked your name.
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-04 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Crowley!

[ And she's totally extending a hand, because fuck it, robot handshakes. ]
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[personal profile] reexamined 2017-04-04 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
My hands are two-point-three times bigger than yours.

[ But he holds out his hand anyway, kind of just expecting her to know what to do with it. It's awkward enough with how much bigger his hand is than have him also try to figure out how this is going to work. If only he knew about fist bumps. ]
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[personal profile] sideless 2017-04-04 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, details.

[ She holds a couple of his fingers and shakes them. Problem solved. ]

So what do you do when you're not stepping on living plants?

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