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HOT DOG FRENCH FRIES COME ON BABY TELL ME YOUR LIES
T E S T D R I V E M E M E
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 ON THE TEST DRIVE MEME!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. Today is even friendlier, as the Florida city is experiencing a dip in the temperature that allows it to feel more like autumn -- why, at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, people might start breaking out their winter coats soon!
With a certain spooky holiday coming up, the city's main hospital has gotten in the spirit by setting up a Happy Hallow-Vein blood drive at a local block party. Maybe you've stumbled by and had your attention captured by a bunch of phlebotomists dressed up like Dracula, or maybe you volunteered your services as a celebrity imPort, here to encourage others to donate today! Either way, consider donating and then enjoying some fried Oreos and lemonade at the street fair. Gotta top off those fluids, after all!
Oh, but if you're an imPort, you might have to fill out a few extra forms... they have to watch out for alien blood, after all, and you might just run into a couple of people wondering if they can get your powers from your blood.
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! Those words have meaning here. 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 or recently published PLoS papers. 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. Some of them MAY ask if you personally know the De Chima Ambassador, Sam Merlotte. Beware if you answer in the affirmative; anything from personal questions about romantic chances to bedroom habits to dietary queries might come up!
In this spooky month of October, special effects companies are doing a limited-time outdoors expo to really show off their stuff! You may see terribly convincing lizardpeople, zombies, monsters, elves and aliens in your midst, delighting in peeling synthetic skin off to reveal horrifying makeup beneath the masks and occasionally ducking away to perform a little last-minute costume maintenance. The kids are agog and aghast at what’s surrounding them, and if you, imPort, happen to be a little less than human, you might get children and adults alike yanking on your ears, tails, and other non-human characteristics while marveling, “Amazing! How do they make it look so real?”
The rest of the expo is spent showing off holograms of explosions, entirely too many smoke machines, demonstrations of stuntmen on bungees, and more! Guests are welcome to get their faces done up as the mythical being of their choice or, for the truly daring, to try their hand at a stunt or two themselves.
03. Maurtia Falls, Pennsylvania has carried a reputation for ups and downs ever since imPorts began reappearing again, just those few years prior. Several imPort heroes have put focused efforts into cleaning up the streets of this somewhat infamous city, while a handful of others had 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 -- but that war waging is taking a turning tide thanks to the order and regulation established by Ambassador Petyr Baelish. Locals know him best for his library and his hardline on containing the criminal element. Trustworthy guy, they'll tell you. But one man's leadership isn't enough to clean up a troubled city in a year's time; everything from the classic bank heist to brutal bloodbaths can happen around the corner. You have to keep your eyes open and your mind sharp when you live in Maurtia Falls.
Infuriated by the reappearance of some members of this old imPort team, you might run into a few gangmembers spoiling for a fight with any imPort they can get their hands on. You can see them striding angrily down the street, giving innocent people the stinkeye and glancing at everyone's wrists. Eventually, they come across a poor soul that simply has a very distinct aesthetic - look, they just like cyberpunk! - and, having mistaken them for an imPort, drag her into the shadows for what they feel is a well-deserved beat down.
What do you do, imPort? Do you save her? Do you run away to avoid capture yourself? Or, you little villain you, do you go in and beat them up so you can take her purse? It's easy to see that she's carrying an awful lot of money on her!
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. Today, much of that excitement centers around tryouts for The Sing-le Long, the hottest new singing competition/dating show to hit the airwaves! Held in the outdoor ampitheater of a local park, the lines for tryouts are somewhat disorganized, winding around into the audience area—you might come to take a look and find yourself accidentally onstage! Or maybe the tryout coordinators spotted an imPort and bumped you to the front of the line. Either way, prepare to belt out a song and list your turn-ons afterward!
Outside the park, you're still likely to attract attention. Natives may gather around new arrivals and ask both personal and broad questions about life as an imPort, what they are looking forward to, if they're looking for a sidekick. A few restaurants will offer a free appetizer (with the purchase of an entree), and you may be offered product samples from local businesses! Just be sure to speak to an agent before signing any endorsement deals.
Linda Belcher | Bob's Burgers
"Blood, blood, bloooooood! C'mon and gimme your blood, yeah!"
They'd asked for her help and Linda was going to give it her full 110% enthusiasm for such a good cause. Her enthusiasm just happens to take the form of her singing and shaking little jack-o-lantern shaped maracas in front of the sign up booth. It's not a subtle song and dance number, either. Linda isn't one to just do it off to the side. She will be stepping up in front of people, blocking their path, and just really making sure everyone knows what today is about.
"Whose got blood? You! You got it, I want it, let's do it! Blood time, oooo, spooky time! Yay!"
N O N A H
"Oh, no. Ha! I'm already married. Silly."
Of course she was here. She'd mostly come to just watch other people fall in musical love together, hands clasped over her heart and she swooned along with the romance of it all. And maybe sing a little number about love and finding love and how great is love, right guys? But when the mike got put in her hands they started asking her about what kind of guy she was looking for here, and that needed to be dealt with before her break out song.
"I wish Bobby was here to see- he'd be so good up on stage with me! A little love duet, right? That's what everyone's looking for. Just a happy little love. How about you, honey, have you found your little song bird yet?"
The interviewer was clearly not ready to become the interviewee. They'll be looking for a nearby imPort to shove Linda's sudden, very honestly concerned, questions off on. Lucky you?
R A N D O M
Mix it up! Start a scenario and Linda will reply.
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD (Heropa)
And yet, it was unmistakably her mother- putting her all into everything, as usual, and before Tina could stop herself, she ran towards her mother.
"MOM! MOM!" And with that, Linda would find a teary-eyed teenager practically clinging to her.
FIRST BORN
That the rest of her family hadn't just 'not arrived yet' but, in fact, for the most part simply weren't here hadn't dawned on Linda yet. Of course they'd be here. They were the perfect happy family, she just needed to help out and wait while they filed in.
So it's not with surprise or overwhelming gratitude that Linda drops the maracas and kneels down to wrap her daughter in a big old Linda hug. It's just with the same level of concern she'd always show when Tina was upset.
"No one's really gonna eat the blood, baby. It's just a little fun to get people coming in. Like a play- a blood play. For people."
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"Well, I'd hope people wouldn't want to eat blood, except if they were vampires but I'm not sure we have any real vampires here... oh, God. I'm so happy to see you."
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Her daughter this enthusiastic to spend time with her? It brings a tear to her eye. And maybe a few more to Tina's as Linda squeezes her extra, extra tight for a long moment then lets her go with a mwah sound, dramatically kissing the top of her head.
"You wanna be a little dracula, honey? Help mommy out?"
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"Okay. Watch this."
And she does a spell, lighting the pumpkin up with a glow that seems to come from within it, drawing a few stares and oohs-and-ahhs from the watching crowd.
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"My little Hocuc Pocus girl! Oh, oh, do another one, sweetie. Let that magic fly!"
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"Okay, uhm... I haven't had as much practice with this one yet, but..." She squints at a nearby puddle, brows furrowed in concentration as she tries to change it into ice. However, the puddle briefly gets a film of ice before melting right away. "... I'm still learning."
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Only lasted a moment? Please. You'd think Tina had just turned the whole crowd into gold for how happy Linda is right now. And the fact her husband wasn't here yet to capture the moment wasn't going to stop her from getting it all on film. She grabbed a random passerby- possibly someone still woozy from getting blood taken- and flailed her free hand in Tina's general direction.
"Go again, honey. Get a picture of my Tina, okay? She's all powered up!"
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Tina takes a deep breath, the enthusiasm and gestures of pride from Linda all of a sudden making her want to burst into tears. 5 months without her family had been too long, and now here mom was here and real and wanting to take pictures of her and it was something so normal and so right in this complicated world.
"I'll try again." Tina squints in concentration as the passerby starts filming with a shrug. "Come on..." This time, a piece of ice about the size of a standard ice cube forms.
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It was the noise of pure joy at her daughter going out and making friends. She'd always been such a closed off little oyster, waiting to bloom. Linda clutched the passerby in a deep, happy hug as Tina did her magic again, physically unable to contain this level of pride.
"C'mon, baby. Let's go take these new talents on a test drive. Here ya go."
Passerby, now holding 'no sudden movements, no shiny objects' still as Linda rambled on, was now handed the maracas.
"You just keep bringing in people to the blood drive, 'kay? Me and Tina got places to go."
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"I have so much I need to show you... there's so many people you need to meet... I've been here for 5 months," she finally bursts out, "and I've missed you so much."
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Poor bystander. They are hold maracas and their weak attempts to pass them back are being ignored as Linda pushes Tina back slightly, holding on tight to her shoulders, so she can look into those glasses-covered eyes.
"Watcha talking about, baby? You were right at the restaurant. You borrowed my clothes for Halloween this year. Did you have a bad day dream?"
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"... I know it's hard to believe, but time works differently here. You never knew I was gone back home, though... that's... that's a relief."
Heropa
Though he does tap his little foot to the beat of the dancing woman's tune.
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Linda is going to hip wiggle and maraca shake her way over, making little 'oh-oh, ho!' sounds with each step.
"Get into the grove and give some guts! Hope in the chair, guy!"
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"Nooo, no. I like to keep my guts on the inside o' me, thank you."
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This is a lie. As a mother and person that had been stuck by needles in her life, she knows it's a lie. Which is why her hand/maraca waving increases as she tries to slide over that horrible deception.
"Guts just sounds so much more Halloweeny, yeah? Guts and goblins and gore, ooo!"