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

[dealign]

( he glances at andy for just a moment before looking back at his coffee like he just can't resist it. which is a fair assessment; he's really, really glad to be surrounded by this much coffee. to have so much of it at his disposal. )

I've had coffee. ( he answers, just a beat too late. too busy inhaling the scent of this cup. it's freshly ground. ) But it's been a while since I had one like this.

[killtime]

[ Been a while, he says, and it's probably unintentional, but that's the kind of vague phrasing Andy herself uses all the time. Usually when she wants to avoid explaining that she's basically immortal, and usually when "a while" means a couple centuries or so. It makes her pause a little and half-suspect that there's some weird reason he hasn't had — what, normal coffee? In a while.

She might regret asking. ]

Why, you been living under a rock somewhere?

[dealign]

No.

( he takes a sip of his coffee, complete with closing his eyes and letting out a soft ah after swallowing, followed by a smile. this is damn good coffee, all right? he loves the roci, but the coffee from the galley doesn't quite compare. especially not since he broke the coffee maker that one time. )

But I've been in space.

[killtime]

[ Space. Andy doesn't even like using her iPhone. But that's because she's almost seven thousand years old and can't be bothered with things like a touchscreen, let alone humans living in outer space. She still vaguely remembers when humans started figuring out what outer space even was.

Her response is to make a slight face. ]

And they don't have coffee in space?

[dealign]

They do.

( and boy is he glad there's a coffee machine and actual coffee on the roci, but — ) It's not the same. I can do bean paste if I have to, but coffee's important.

( look at him using his words and all instead of drowning himself in the cup still in front of him. )

[killtime]

[ Well, she can't really argue with that. Coffee is the one thing she's living for right now — one step at at time, especially on mornings like this. It's her own fault, but that doesn't mean she can't hate it. All things considered, Andy's being surprisingly sociable. ]

Sounds shitty.

[ She takes a sip of her own coffee. The steam fogs up her shades. ]

What's that make you, some kind of astronaut?