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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 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.

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[ Blondie's telling him to wait? Aw, he's totally earned himself a fistful of coins to the face. Or he would have, if he didn't ask a totally dope question while relying on just the right amount of +SMARTS to pull it off! Damien drops Locksmith Dude's money and flourishes his wrists, lighting his hands on fire with the smuggest smirk he's worn today. ]

The God of Arson has a huge boner for me. We ritualistically boned the fuck down on top of a volcano while using gasoline for lube, and as I ate fistfuls of ghost peppers and reclined naked on a raging dragon once we were all said and done, he blessed me with his favor? I'm his divine chalice. It's a whole thing.

[ also, totally bullshit! ]

I guess a more truthful answer is that I'm the Heir of Hell and I've inherited all these sweet demon powers from my dads. But that's not, like... metal.

[at least prompto's smart enough to keep up with all the bullshit. his expression changes from confused, to curious, to actually properly invested in this.]

What, are you kidding?! Being the Heir of Hell is metal as hell- [pause] uh, yeah!

The only people who can use fire like that where I'm from are royalty. M'best friend gets to play around with magic like that.

[super awesome hands on fire technique]

Do you get to like blast fireballs from your hands if you punch the air with 'em?

[locked bathrooms? keys? who cares]

[ It's metal as Hell a little, he supposes. Damien's more invested in hearing about Blondie's friend, though?! ]

Dude, no way?! Oh, man. If he wants to be legitimized nobility in the Eighth Circle, I'm totally gonna have to vivisect him to assert my dominance. That's dope as fuck! I've never had a rival before!

[ Also, the very idea that his punches can't light the sky on fire??? What a noob. With a laugh and then also a horrible, horrible scream that rocks through his lungs and startles whatever passers by that hadn't already been spooked off by the bleeding corpsey dude, Damien unleashes a barrage of fire into the air with all the strength he can muster. ]

Gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! Eat shit, clouds!

[prompto laughs at that, attention smashed clear away from the conversation momentarily by the fancy trick of punching fireballs towards the clouds. this dude is as loud as they come, but there's something about fire that really seems to give him the permission to do that, in prompto's book.]

[he turns back, way too excited for the shit that had just been going down re: the possible corpse in their midst.]

Oh, yeah! I don't think Noct's gonna wanna be legitimized anywhere. He kinda hates it. But, sure, if I find him here I'll amp him up to having a rival. He's all about being competitive. Maybe a bit unfair that he can use elemancy other than fire, though.

[he will always be team noctis]

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[ Damien seems to decide the clouds have eaten enough shit, and the fires are put out. Woosh. He laughs at the word "unfair". ]

I mean, probably not? I can conjure elements other than fire, too. Like knife. And gun.

[ ... still, he can relate. ]

Honestly, my dads are super Hell-bent on me inheriting the throne, even though there's other shit I wanna do in my life. I can't even talk to them about it? It fucking sucks. Maybe I won't stab your friend if I ever meet him? I'll, like - buy him a beer. Then boil it and dare him to drink it.

Hey, he can do that too!

[i never knew i wanted to draw a parallel of the similarities between damien and noctis wtf]

[he smiles softly at the friendly demeanor shown, and how it's somehow similar to noctis and his role as the king of light and etc prophecy. he hasn't seen noctis in weeks, and there's no telling when he's going to be spat out of the crystal.]

That'd be nice. I hope that when I do find him you get to meet him.

[he offers his hand]

Prompto Argentum. Maybe we can be friends in the meantime, too.

Okay, well. [ Hm. HM. DAMIEN'S SALTY AGAIN,, ]

Okay, well, now he's stepping on my flavor again! I'm gonna burn that boy to a crisp!!

[ okay and also Damien's more of a "hard palm-on-palm slap followed by the most intense and radical fistbump mankind has ever seen" kind of dude, so that's what Prompto gets. handshakes are for wimps and ugly babies??? not for guys who are the most popular characters in their canons, which is true for prompto and definitely definitely true for damien and NOT oz who isn't ANYWHERE NEAR AS COOL AS DAMIEN, ASK ANYONE, OH WAIT YOU CAN'T EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WAS LIT ON FIRE AND SENT TO THE EIGHTH CIRCLE OF HELL SUDDENLY HOW MYSTERIOUS ]

Damien LaVey. I wouldn't say I'd like you to be my "friend" -- [ he totally does, but whatever, his fingers were itching to make some airquotes ] -- but I guess you're about 15% more radical than some of the other dipshits I've dealt with. I like you, loser. You and your probably ugly friend.

[no amount of salt can make prompto salty, so he just laughs at that and smiles big]

Yeah? Sounds like you guys have issues to sort through.

[fistbumps are great -- and prompto should have assumed this was what damien would have been into.]

And I'll have you know, we're very attractive dudes!

[talking out of his ass, but okay! he stands up and straightens]

Y'wanna have that boiling beer challenge?

[ Damien loves having issues to sort through with some flavor-chomping shitdick! Noctis is going to get so beheaded. Prompto calls himself attractive and Damien gives him a not-so-subtle once-over to see if he agrees, but oh, he's distracted from saying what he thinks when they're back on the topic of boiling beer. +2 fun, -1 charm. ]

Buddy, my stomach is literally a furnace. Every beer I drink is a boiling beer challenge. [ But he's bouncing on his feet, still completely dismissing the dead(???) Locksmith guy in favor of being stupid. He's feeling sorta lazy so he wishes he had Miranda's serfs to go procure some booze for him, but on the other hand: robbery? Robbery. Liquor store heist? ]

Quuuuuuuuick question. If you're as rad as I think you are, you're definitely not above doing a few more crimes together, right? You're not... a wimp, are you?

[prompto is the softest boy in the world, so sorry for all these delinquent acts which will never come willingly nor to fruition.]

["crimes" is a big word that prompto doesn't know how he feels about. casually... crosses his arms... in front of his chest.]

Dunno. I've never done any crimes, but I'm not a wimp. We don't need to do any crimes to get some beer though.

[watch all his stats go down. his monster prom date will not succeed.]

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