June's over? Julying.

[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.

What a month, huh imPorts? Changing ages, mysterious shimmering explosions, and uncomfortable weather. The city of Heropa understands. That is why today the largest local water park is having an imPort appreciation day. The cost of entering is waved- so long as you’re willing to do a power display on the way in for the gathered crowds and kiddies. No explosions or mass destruction, folks, keep it family friendly and hopefully entertaining.

While it might be a drag to be treated a little like a circus freak to get in, the park itself is well worth it when it comes to cooling off and forgetting the horror happening elsewhere in the world. High-tech gadgets are here to improve experience. Water proof robot bar tenders wander around the many slides, floating rivers, and tanning areas (or swim around in the lounging pools) making free whatever you orders, alcoholic or virgin. They’re obedient to a fault, so if you want to waste their time by asking them to shake ice then pour it out fifteen times before putting the vodka in there, feel free. Only the people in line behind you will get annoyed. The robots themselves will just offer fun bar trivia and talk with the flair of a 1920s speakeasy bartender.

But of course it wouldn’t be a day for imPorts without a little bit of a weird twist. They’ve got to get the locals to pay top dollar to come watch everyone swim, after all. Some of those free drinks have an extra special free ingredient, one with random effects. Guess you should have read that size 1 font subsection on the ticketing booth that waives park liability. If you happen to be one of the lucky ones to receive a spiked drink, you’ll experience one of the following effects:

1)Hydrophilia – You couldn’t leave this pool even if you wanted to. Which you don’t. In fact, the idea of getting out of this pool is horrifying to you, who knows what could happen outside of these safe, watery depths? You’ll need to get others to bring you food and make some difficult bathroom choices, but for the next two hours even the threat of death would have trouble getting you out of the water.

2)Buddy system – When you took that final sip of drink your eyes fell on another person and you knew- just knew- that this was meant to be. At least for today. This person, whether you’ve ever met them before and whether they’re a human or an AI or a drink serving robot, is going to be your constant companion for as long as you’re in this water park. Whether they like (or know it) or not.

3)Razzle Dazzle – A purely physical effect. Your hair, skin, and even eyes start shifting colors. Some are more or less normal, bright, bright red hair for instance, while others are just out of this world. A shifting rainbow of Unicorn sparkle colored skin, bright yellow eyes, you name it. Anything you imagine, you could possibly be. At least for the next hour.

4) Safety First – The lamest of the effects, but it does make everything easier for the owner of the park. Rules are there for a reason, kids, no matter how nitpicky they may be. And by America, you are going to make sure everyone is following the rules. No running, no flip flops in the pool, no swimming within half an hour of eating, even some special individual rules that only you would think of must be enforced.


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-- c̨͟o͝͠r͟͞n͏ęr͜҉͞ed̶ ͢b͏͞y͜͏-- c̕ǫ̡҉r͘͡n͟͡e̶̢re͘d̀͏ ̴by ͘th͠͏i̛͟͝n͏g̸͏s̶̢ ͟th̀̕a̶͝t̴̢ ͡use͟d̷͞ ̛t̸̵̢o͏ ͡͝b̛͡e̷̛͞ p͢ȩó͝pl̸͜͜e҉.͘

De Chima is not what it once was. The city is covered by a strange shifting shimmer, and you don't even know how you ended up here, but you did. The sunlight splits into strange rainbow prisms, and everywhere you look things are growing. So quickly that if you stand and watch for more than a few seconds, you can see it growing in real time.

Not just growing. Changing. It isn't just the plants. The animals, the tech, the people, the land - everything is changing, morphing, dissolving. And you're changing, too...

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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.

The protests from earlier in the month have left their toll on Maurtia Falls, as the damage done from the riots are still being painted over, cleaned up, repaired and repaved.

Walking along the streets of the city, if you stick out at all like an ImPort (or even have a visible ImPort tattoo), you’re immediately honed in on by one of the various members of the clean-up crew, who wear bright yellow vests.

“You’re an ImPort, aren’t you?” They’ll say, gruff and slightly accusatory. “Well, help clean this up. You’re the reason this happened.” 

And with that, they’ll shove a vest, a broom, and a dust pan into your hands, before taking off. Maybe they were trying to get out of doing the work themselves in the end.

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. Today, the biggest buzz comes from a tech-cosmetics company, ReNew U, which is offering free tests of its new flagship product. What looks like a can of hair spray actually has the power to temporarily change one's appearance. A spritz to the face could add or remove freckles or provide a new makeup job; a spray to the head might provide not just a new hairstyle but new hair. And going all-over seems to change one's entire body! Of course, it only lasts until someone takes a shower, but why not experiment?

There's just one catch—thanks to the social component of ReNew U, these new looks aren't generating temporary changes out of thin air, they're copying the appearances of others in the area. Got a killer new haircut? So does someone else, thanks! Walk around for a while and you just might meet your doppelganger—so you're going to take a picture together and post it via the special ReNew U app, right? #twins #goodlooks

Comments

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[yellowspeak]

Quick Q
exactly how many of you woe-begotten leeches are just STACKED with fat wads of cash are just sitting on your thumbs
NOT funding a cocktail bar at your giant magic portal machine
because if any of you claim to be DECENT you are officially lying and i expect you to feel bad about it right now

seriously
you yank me by my skivvies away from FREE PANCAKE FRIDAY and are all like HAHA OH WOOPS GUESS UR HERE FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD OF TIME FOR ACTUALLY NO REASON HERE'S 200 BUCKS AND AN IPAD HAVE FUN!!!!
and dont even hand me a crappy college beer?

oh yeah hey thanks for the copious blocks of text about whatever self-contained chaos you got going on, thats pretty cool too i guess
if i wanted my genes to morph any more i'd go bone an x-man or that one scientist that made himself a dinosaur

Actually becoming part dinosaur would be pretty neato
anyone in there verified as a dinosaur now?

[hellrisen02]

Oh, it's you.

You know, I think I hate your world more than this (these) one(s)? Every time I hear something new about it I hate it just a little more.

Anyway I haven't met any dinosaurs here yet, but there's a pretty good chance for it, I imagine.

[yellowspeak]

Wow a racist man of the cloth WHO KNEW
thanks for your incredibly useful input pops
I mean if i somehow to forget hating good ol' earth myself i'll hit u up

[hellrisen02]

It's a charming kind of bigotry, like being called 'moon men' or 'spacenoids'. Promise!

Look, you asked a question, you got an an answer. Maybe one of those Pokémon things could be considered a dinosaur, I don't know.


If you feel like touching that one again.

[yellowspeak]

That's a pretty specific fetish i.......................actually DON'T think i have?
huh
weird
never really wanted to make out with a rat or turnip with eyes
though they keep crankin out those things like every year right? there's gotta be like a fleshlight one or something that i won't have to be too drunk to go "EH...sure"

[hellrisen02]

Casual space racism, or dogs that shit lasers? Either one's a little concerning, honestly.

I don't know and I don't want to know, ask that Archie guy I guess.

Anyway, you have to wait a couple weeks after you get ported in for your free open bar. Look for the Swear In for new imPorts and nab all the free booze you like. Usually.

You still do odd jobs?

[yellowspeak]

i do a lot of jobs regardless of oddity as long as the price is right
and i've got the feeling i ought to be aware of being KNOWN for that by you and whoever else decides to point that out here which um
oops
i probably have gotten decapitated a few too many times to really recall

[hellrisen02]

Handyman, mercenary, what's the difference. At least you're consistent.

Don't sweat it, pal. Fun with timelines and alternate universes, that much should explain it, right? Speaking of your janky world.

[heliophilic]

I'm literally a stack of money stuffed into some clothes. Does that count?

[yellowspeak]

Oh neat
Can i sell you for bum wine??

[heliophilic]

No, because I better be a much classier date than bum wine.

[yellowspeak]

I'll be the judge of THAT
but also if ur more expensive than $200 ur kinda SOL

[heliophilic]

I'll be the judge of THAT

;)

[yellowspeak]

i swear to thanos if ur actually like a 60 year old Florida snowbird with cankles and an air tank I'M GOING TO BE SO MAD AT YOU
but i mean i've never said no to tricking out a hoverround and launching off a dock before
god
text nuance is so WILD isn't it? having to transcribe every thought by hand instead of just s*@!#ing it out of my mouth
and STILL...being censored apparently? do we even HAVE a comics code anymore? why is it here? is this even a funny gag? i hate this almost as much as i hate myself.
at least that's relatable in this.....decade? transposed-decade?
what year is it

[diosauria]

[hello, here is one part dinosaur. in multiple senses of the word; who knows how long it took him to learn how to text.]

Who's asking?

[yellowspeak]

me

[diosauria]

But who ARE you?

And why do you know about dinosaurs?

[yellowspeak]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh because i was in 3rd grade once and that's like all science was ever?

[diosauria]

[people shouldn't... know about dinosaurs, the hot new scientific discovery of the ages, before he gets to brag about them... that's not fucking fair!!]

Shut up. I don't care about your "third grade." I want to know what you know about dinosaurs.

[yellowspeak]

[yellowspeak]

Hahahahaha oh god are you for real?

[yellowspeak]

you think you discovered dinosaurs?
and DIDN'T pass 3rd grade?

[yellowspeak]

FINALLY
someone stupider than me
THERE'S ALWAYS AT LEAST ONE, MA ALWAYS SAID

[yellowspeak]

SO STUPID I DIDNT EVEN NEED TO FORMAT HTML TO PROVE IM SMARTER

[mightyneed]

what is a SKIVVIES explain further VERY LONG PARAGRAPH