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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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[ Persephone could not possibly give less of a shit about petty crime. That was a mundane concern, and beneath her. What she does give a shit about is that there's a new imPort, absurdly tall, with a shining cascade of dark, dark hair. Oh, the fandom was going to love this. OK, so he's hot, which is a good start, but what's more he looks calmly ready to throw around his power, meaning he's comfortable in doing so. This is worth watching.

She leans against a wall across the street, casually, and pulls a box of cigarettes from the pocket of the golden chain mail hoodie she's wearing. Since she's being subtle, she holds a hand protectively around the other, like one might if they were actually using a lighter. Meanwhile she uses a flare of magenta power directly off a finger to light the smoke in her mouth. If it's worth watching, it's worth a cigarette. ]

Edited (* magental) 2017-04-30 04:50 (UTC)

[ Yes. Tall and handsome with long, cascading hair is definitely the impression Waver Velvet likes to cut. Which is to say, I mean, it's not wrong, but ]

[ The looters seem to have decided this is more trouble than its worth, so Waver is left just grumbling a little irritably and faced with a bunch of broken glass. That was anticlimactic, given that he doesn't seem inclined to pursue. ]

[ Yikes, that is anticlimactic.

But what if like. Somehow a rock hits those punks from the back of the head and then they all turn around and spot this guy??? Hypothetically.

And to be clear: a rock absolutely just hit one of the looters in the back of the head, from an angle that would suggest Waver did it himself. And now the looters are all turning around. And spotting Waver. ]

[ THAT'S NOT VERY FUNNY.

He jerks his head up and looks around, as if trying to figure out who's responsible for that. ]

[ Nobody here but us casually smoking goth rockers who are also entities of divine power crammed into a dying teenager. But she is on the other side of the street and certainly not the direction that the rock could have come from. Hmm!!! ]

[ You and I both know that doesn't mean anything. He gives her a brief look, but obviously, is a little more than occupied with the looters who seem to have been aggravated. Possibly not as aggravated as Waver, though. He turns his attention back to them. ]

Just because there's an opportunity and people are distracted doesn't mean you should take advantage of the chaos! That's the lowest tier of human decency.

[ She'll slip a little deeper into the alley and out of view. It's still a good vantage point. But also, right at the edge of his peripheral vision, there is a glowy tentacley vine slithering back underground as inconspicuously as a glowy tentacley vine can.

Meanwhile, the looters have Many Questions for Waver. Questions such as what his fucking problem is. And if he wants more problems. And why his apparent inability to mind his own hecking business. ]

[ Dealing with the issue at hand, first of all, he supposes. ]

Have you no common decency? Taking advantage of a situation when others are in danger is the lowest of the low. Cowards who try to scavange the bones when they only know they won't get caught.

[ He drops his cigarette butt, stomping it out before shoving his hands in his pockets, legs slightly spread. Pretty cool looking, or something. ]

[ Holy shit what a nerd she thinks to herself. ]

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