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etcelsior2018-06-24 11:50 am
maskormods) wrote in etcelsior2018-06-24 11:50 am
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SEAS THE DAY
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.
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No feeling guilty! You've been stuck in the Crystal for so long and it's not like we can do anything about being here right now!
[pushing the guilt and the fatalistic thoughts down, prompto will be the heart and cheerful side to their otherwise tragic fate]
And the Astrals can't expect you to try on an empty stomach anyway, right?
[he smiles]
You wanna fish, we can fish.
[noctis deserves it.]
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I never thought I'd see the day! But how long will it take before you start groaning about how bored you are?
[ He lets out a laugh and pats Prompto on the back, heading away from the seaside. ]
No, I'm not going to do that to you. We'll get something to eat from someone who knows how to cook. I'll hold you to it later, though.
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[the pat on the back has him starting to walk again, excited in the fact that, at the very least, they have this, and they can be together despite the grim circumstances with which they left their world with.]
...there might've been a stand going up that way. Dunno if they'll take gil though. Don't think being royalty means anything to these people either.
[maybe they'll have to........steal]
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Well, doesn't that sound familiar? Who knows, maybe someone will have some beasts we can hunt to make a little money to eat.
[ Or, more likely, they'll wash dishes. At least dealing with a new currency in another world makes sense, who even knows why Insomnia doesn't use the same money as the rest of the damn country. ]
We won't know if we don't ask.
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Could really do anything for daggerquill rice right about now.
[his tummy grumbles despite himself, and he laughs sheepishly. sure, they've been out on the road for weeks together, so they had to endure a lot of embarrassing moments altogether from the four of them being around each other so much.]
[but again, noctis feels like on a different level, currently, what with the crystal creating a gap in their time.]
Or just about anything.
[they approach a small stall-like bar on the side of the road. prompto has no idea what it may be for, but the smell of cooked food is definitely wafting in the air.]
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[ And so it probably goes, as they march off into the sunset to try to talk a food truck into giving them free food. ]