SEAS THE DAY

[maskormods]

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.

Local residents are celebrating summer in full swing at the first-ever Chug Fest. On this sweltering June day, locals are gathered in the largest park downtown, where purveyors of craft sodas, homemade iced teas, astisanal milkshakes and (in the roped-off 21+ section) micro breweries are sharing their finest beverages. Why not quench your thirst, and buy some tasty treats from various food trucks to wash down?

There's just one problem—the tech-based super (...ish) villain team known as The Locksmiths have caused all bathroom ad port-a-john doors to be unopenable, and they're demanding one million dollars in cash before they'll reverse their evil deed! To maintain the anti-unlock field, they're circulating in the crowd, disguised as normal patrons. Do you seek them out to give people some relief, or are you too busy doing a little dance yourself?

02. De Chima, Virginia, is a large city with a healthy economy, with large numbers of citizens waiting to be awed by your very presence. Look at you! Organic wonder! Synthetic wonder! Whatever you might be, 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. If you let yourself get cornered, beware! Anything from personal questions about romantic chances to bedroom habits to dietary queries might be come up! Just be careful about insinuating anything about yourself and the De Chima Ambassador, Baal. A little innuendo will go a long, hard way.

De Chima is a city all about REMAKING YOURSELF. Sometimes it's about remaking a look, or an aesthetic. As part of a promotion for a new FABULOUS television show, one imPort will be giving another imPort a MAKEOVER. So step right up with your imPort victim/volunteer! You have a seemingly endless wardrobe to work with, a pair of scissors, and a Stephora make-up artist on hand. This is a chance for imPorts to redesign their fellow imPort's look to however they'd want it -- just be sure to clarify if you're the heroic SUBJECT to be makeover'd or the fabulous EXPERT who's doing the making over! And remember, it's all being filmed.

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, even with Ambassador Padme and imPort Mayor Baelish gracing the headlines. 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, and hostility against imPorts can spike. The emergence of locals with superpowers is hardly helping... #THANKS TONY STARK, #ya muffin.

In an effort to bring in more tourism to the Falls, a public works project focusing on the canal system has been recently finished! This includes a series of tours through the town, and has brought a new wave of guarded hope to nearby shopkeeps. So far, everything seems to be going as planned, and one can enjoy a nice boat ride down the canal with little issue! Maybe enjoy the nice breeze and bright sunshine, in a town that usually has frequent cloudy skies!

Or maybe, despite the carefulness of the Maurtia Falls Canal Corporation, there's a few snags along the way. As with all new programs, there's bound to be a few loose ends— ranging from boat trouble and a low-stakes rescue needing to be staged to get all passengers on dry land once again, all the way to a careless parent not watching as their child falls into the water below.

04. Nonah, North Carolina, is the liveliest of all cities; loud, busy and there's always some kind of energy in the air that gets everyone buzzing with excitement.

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.

Comments

[fuckhammer]

[ The Locksmith Guy™ wobbles as he sits up, blinking black eyes (as in "extremely puffy and probably irreversibly bruised" black eyes, not "piercing and dark eyes of intense, overwhelming depth", because the colour of his eyes are actually kind of a shitty, bloodshot grey-green) and turning his attention to Molly. There's just as much of a chance that he's only being receptive to all this because of his tremendous, tremendous concussion, but he nods with a dopey grin and, well. That's enough to fool Damien, at least. ]

Dude! [ He shoves Holly in the shoulder as hard as he can, almost angry in his excitement. He's almost always angry in whatever else he's feeling, though, so that's not... saying much. ]

It's like-- it's like you punched his brain into listening, but your voice was your fist and your words were the teeth-shattering impact! Fuck all this bathroom bullshit, I don't care anymore! You've gotta teach me how to do that!

[viciousmaukery]

[Oh, it worked! Probably. Molly just blinks red pupil-less eyes at the guy, a little privately surprised it actually worked. For once. Although the concussion probably helped, he supposes. Anyway—Molly somehow manages not to go sprawling out onto the ground from the shove, because he might be fairly sturdy but it's a hard shove.]

Just watch and learn. [He says this with a grin to Damien, although internally Molly is panicking a little bit. How does he teach people how to charm others the way he does? He has no fucking clue, it's a mystery like literally everything else, and Molly does not want to start poking around in that mystery.] You might not care, but I still do.

[He'd like to pee, thanks.]

So, friend, [he says to poor Locksmith Guy (tm),] in the spirit of cooperation, can you kindly help us get those locks off the bathroom doors?

[If he needs to really sweeten the pot he's got like ten dollars ready to go right here. But he's successfully gotten a new best friend, at least for an hour, so he shouldn't need it.]

[fuckhammer]

[ Locksmith Dude isn't exceptionally helpful, partially because when he opens his mouth to speak he hacks up a splattering of blood that Damien quietly and rather unhelpfully takes a photo of with his phone. Not that that's a bad thing, honestly? He's getting kind of bored, so. Fresh blood stops him from bailing. ]

Some dudes just can't take a pummelling from the Prince of Hell. [ he says it judgmentally. he's judging this guy.

Locksmith Dude tries again, though, blearily pointing one finger at someone else in the crowd who Damien figures is their leader, and the promise of more murder gets him back to his feet. He jumps up, claps Molly on the back and cheerfully pulls out a couple of knives from his pockets. ]

He definitely just said if we kill that guy, we'll get our pissing privileges back. Can we jump straight to arson yet? I'm gonna jump straight to arson, I think.

[viciousmaukery]

[Molly glances sideways at Damien, an eyebrow raising. Yeah, right. If this guy's the Prince of Hell, Molly's the King of Wildemount. He's pretty sure he's not king of anything, anyway, besides blindingly awesome coats.]

He did his very best, I'm sure. [He slips a couple of bills into the man's pocket as thanks and compensation bound up together in one action. Not his fault he's so inept at this he got pummeled by someone looking for a fight.] Are you really going to set him on fire? He's bad at this, let's give him a chance to get worthy of getting set on fire first before we start jumping to arson.

[Molly just feels so bad for these Locksmith people, honestly. Really, this is their big plan? Lock all the bathroom doors? It's just so—stupid.]

All right, if you can't talk, blink once for yes, twice for no. Is that man your leader?

[fuckhammer]

[ The King of Wildemount? Damien's honoured to make your acquaintance, you purple son of a bitch! He knew you were something special! ]

Are you serious? If I didn't burn people just because they were bad at things, I never would have torched that orphanage.

[ He's getting impatient, but fine, we'll listen to the stupid loser plead for his stupid life. Damien taps his finger to his chin in thought and Locksmith Dude just sort of blearily stares at Molly without blinking either way. He smiles? That's something, at least. Concussion's getting worse. These noobs and their concussions. ]

I speak morse code. Long silences mean "burn me".