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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. It seems like the entire Heropa PD is parked out of a local, popular grocery chain. A huge crowd is amassed in the parking lot despite the best efforts of officers to get them to leave. They whisper about excitement and shame, and you don't have to ask if you just listen in a bit...

"What do you think he'll do to the employees? He sounded so serious..." "He really wants that pussy, huh?" "If I left my man for cheating on me, I'd take the damn cat, too!" "How does he think taking her and her coworkers hostage is gonna make her change her mind about him being a bad boyfriend?" "My wife is pregnant, please - if I don't get her favorite deli sub I might as well not go home!"

Domestic disputes! Tragic. The police aren't too sure how to handle this hostage situation, claiming the man only has a box cutter and isn't actually waving it around at the moment, but...are you an imPort? They'd really appreciate the help, okay. Get in there and counsel the unhappy couple. Or not!

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?

Spring has sprung, and 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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[Yurio looks from Yosuke to the crowd around him...and there's a moment where he very seriously considers just shoving past the crowd, walking away, and leaving the older kid to his fate, but it didn't feel right doing that when he's already started trying to help.

He sighs heavily.]

Cover your ears and I can deal with it.

[Hey don't be mean. With Yosuke's luck they'd try to like strip him bare or something. It's the sort of thing he wouldn't put past a group like this.]

Uh, okay?

[He looks thoroughly confused but he complies and puts his hands over his ears to comply. Well whatever you're going to do dude go for it.]

[Yuri frowns until he's satisfied that Yosuke's covered his ears well enough, and then he turns to the crowd of fans and media with a sharp-edged grin.]

Okay, time for all of you to GET LOST!!

[The last two words reverberate in an alarming, unnatural way, setting a chill in the air and down the spines of anyone unfortunate enough to hear it. The crowd begins to thin out quickly as soon as the sound leaves his mouth.]

[If asked he would totally say he knew that was going to happen. The look on his face though...the pure awe as the crowd begins to disperse in more than just ones and twos but in whole chunks oh yeah that's amazing. Probably up there on the awesome scale with Naoto's deductive skills and Souji's ability to just take everything in stride and keep them all moving no matter how bad it looks in that moment.]

[Slowly his hands slide down from his ears to hang limply at his sides.]

Dude...that... was awesome! How did you do that?

[He is bouncing a little seeming almost a little too much like an over-excited puppy right then. He'd apologize but that was really cool even by his city boy I've seen everything standards.]

[Yuri falters for a moment, surprised at how excited Yosuke is. It's a fearsome power, and he's used to people reacting to it that way instead, treating it like something monstrous to be feared. Then again, he's never thought ahead to ask someone to cover their ears first.]

I—uh. I just put my feeling into it. It's one of the powers I got when I came here.

[Well that did probably help some, but details. Also he was pretty much just as enthusiastic about his partner awakening his persona. Strange powers are something he kind of doesn't get all worked up about - at least not in a bad way.]

What can you do with the others?

[Cause all he got was some extra crazy speed and a weird random luck manipulation which he has no idea how that works. Thank you file for having useless information like that in it.]

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