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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 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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Nick.

[It comes out surprised, relieved, both that she isn't going to have to fight some stranger for stopping her and that Nick is here. His words don't even sink in beyond that, and she turns enough to gesture back the way she'd come.]

I just woke up back there. I don't remember how I got here.

[Or where here is, but the fact she doesn't remember seems more important right now, like more of an indication of foul play.]

What's going on?

[ He looks like he's going to answer for about half a second, then he stalls out. It's probably a familiar enough expression, more incredulous than secretive. ] It's... kind of a long story.

[ Nick follows her gaze back towards the cars, and for a second he actually considers heading back that way. The locals give a good rundown of the situation, but odds of Trubel listening to the guys who took her "hostage" — well, they've kind of been proven by the fact that she's already skipped out on the welcome tour.

So after a notable pause while he figures out where to start: ] We're in Florida.

[ There you go, all done. No more questions!! ]

Florida?

[Incredulous that that's the answer he's giving right now, as well as just... well, Florida. It really isn't an explanation enough for anything, though, and she still has close to zero patience for Nick's default approach to explaining anything.]

How? Why? [And then she seems to have a moment of some kind of realisation, eyes widening slightly, because if she and Nick were both inexplicably here then maybe:] Is this something to do with--?

Don't— [ He interrupts her quickly, glancing at the passersby as if they'll be listening. Which they aren't, of course. Nick and Trubel are hardly the most interesting imPorts out here. The knee-jerk response probably says more than he'd like it to, and Nick tries to rein it in when he looks back to her. ]

It isn't just us. [ Us being Grimms, of course. It's obvious enough that there are other people who've been taken. ] I don't think it has anything to do with what was going on back in Portland. [ A reluctant pause, then: ] Or our world.

[ The implication's that this world isn't theirs. It's vague, at best. ]

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