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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 anyone's thread, either!

And remember to have fun!

01. Your memory is hazy and you might feel increasingly frustrated or anxious, or maybe you're excited as soldiers march past, barely glimpsing you. One second you're somewhere underground, the next you're enveloped in blue light, and suddenly you find yourself directly under Flordia sun's bright and burning glare. A female soldier steps toward you with a wide smile on her face and directs you to a car, ready to debrief you. You realize you are not the only one, surrounded by equally confused or eager faces... and you're all sporting a digital tattoo on your wrist.

02. Welcome to Cape Canaveral, where the smell of the ocean is in the air and locals are more than pleased to see new imPorts roaming their streets. They wave, they cheer, they ask for pictures as politely as they can. The more inhuman you look, or if you're wearing a costume, the more likely locals are to approach. Hey, enjoy the moment! The popular malt shop is offering you a free drink if you need it.

03. The technology in this world is certainly something. The cars are clearly modeled after popular 50s cars, but they hover several feet above the ground as they drive down the street. There are digital jukeboxes in restaurants, motorcycles also hover through traffic, advertisements can be seen on a digital projector on the taller buildings. Even kids on skateboards appear to drift a safe ten feet off the ground while playing!

04. Wherever you are, you can hear the loud revving of an engine, distance at first before you finally see it: a hovercar bursting around the corner, going beyond the maximum speed limit and just barely making its sharp turn. It doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon, not with two police cars trailing it... and uh oh. Those skateboarding kids don't have much time to get out of the way as the car comes speeding down the road. You've been brought here for a reason Hero — so you better act fast.

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An allergy? Hmhm...something like that. I can't remember the last time I ate something like this.

[He looks the bread over in his hand, curiously. As a power it might be absolute garbage, but it's still curious - is this person conscious? Can they hear him speaking right now? Can they see, or are they aware somehow of their surroundings?

It's so strange to him. It's not a particularly versatile ability, and yet...]

Although it is an odd gift to receive from a stranger, if you would accept it, then I, Dio, would gladly offer this bread to you.

I would! But...

[Mako puffs her cheeks out sullenly, eyeing the perfectly delicious looking bread.]

If I do, Ryuuko-chan and the others will yell at me and make me listen to the lecture about vans and candy-lying perverts again. Sorry, Mister Dio. Maybe you can exchange it?

Well, I wouldn't tell them.

[But he's wasting his time here, he figures. If he really can't get her to eat it, he might just rip it apart and toss it into a nearby garbage can.]

But it's a power given to me I simply wished to test out. To create bread like this. I couldn't exchange it, as I was the one who created it.

They always find out.

[Because Mako is a shit-liar and a blabbermouth, but that's beside the point. Mako's eyes widen and she bounces on the balls of her feet excitedly.]

Oh, gosh! That's super neat!

Hardly.

[Really? His immediate reaction was someone here has a terrible sense of humor.

If she wants the stupid power she can have it - except he's assuming that's impossible for now, and...it's still a pretty curious ability, despite how terrible he believes it to be. He wants to try and understand it more.]

It isn't particularly versatile, and as I'm incapable of eating bread, it is of no use to me either.

You can't eat bread? That's terrible! What do you eat instead, lots of rice?

[Poor guy...]

You could always sell it!

I suppose I could, couldn't I? But not like this.

[He takes a step over towards the nearest garbage can located in the alley, holding the bread above it.]

No, not this one. I should discard of it now, considering it is of no use to anyone.

But but but! That's a waste! You should never waste food!

And yet neither of us can eat it.

[He keeps it above the can, but he doesn't drop it...]

What would you have me do?

Save it until Ryuuko-chan and the others know you aren't a bad person so I can eat it!

[So never lmao.]

Couldn't you hold onto it instead?

...it should be okay if I don't eat it first and get Sanageyama-senpai to say I can!

[Well, in that case, he's going to pull it away from over the trash. Dio takes several steps closer to Mako to get close enough that he can hand it over, offering the breadr.]

Then the day you can eat this bread is the day we can call one another "friend".

[As if.

But it's a handy little word to use when you want to manipulate people, so he'll gladly use it to that end.]

[You said the magic word.]

REALLY?

Of course.

[He will live to regret this. He mostly uses his friends as pawns to kill Joestars, he doesn't expect any genuine friendship from this arrangement.

Or, well, getting bothered aggressively in the name of friendship.]

I, Dio, wouldn't say it were it untrue.

we're all reponsible here

what did he do to deserve th-oh.............

Yeah. 'Oh'.

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