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etcelsior2018-12-15 11:19 am
maskormods) wrote in etcelsior2018-12-15 11:19 am
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walking in a winter wonderland
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.
Although even Florida can get chilly during the winter, a relative heat wave is sweeping through, resulting in an impromptu Beach Body Competition sponsored by a local gym. ImPorts who are the buffest of the buff all the way down to the super skinniest (competing in separate weight classes, of course) are likely to be urged to join in for some fun in the sun and the extra attention they garner from native fans.
Those who just aren't interested in competing might be called in to judge another competition down the beach: a youth sand-sculpting contest! Only one team can walk away with the grand prize of a laser tag package, but can you bring yourself to be harsh on those wide, hopeful eyes?
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.
With Christmas coming, the producers behind a guerilla new reality show are hard at work getting new footage—starring you! Areas of the city with the most foot traffic have been absolutely blanketed in mistletoe. If you happen to pass beneath a sprig, you might find a small camera crew jumping out of nowhere, urging you to give the person next to you a smooch—and thanks to the strange radio waves coming out of the unit on the executive producer's wrist, you'll feel a little compelled to do so!
...except the compulsion isn't that strong, so those who don't kiss on the first meet can easily break out of it. Your next choice: give the camera crew a piece of your mind, or ask the would-be kissee out for coffee? They are pretty cute...
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. 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...
The downtown mall is tilting the balance solidly toward welcoming to imPorts with a Winter Welcome Festival. All the storefronts and many temporary kiosks occupied by local vendors are holding special sales, and newly arrived imPorts are given a coupon book to make the most of them. The food court has some free goodies for participants to mix and mingle.
Unfortunately, a local rogue with the alias of Klone Kringle is here to spoil the fun. After a small boom echoes throughout the mall, everything dissolves into chaos as dozens of copies of a man dressed in a polyester Santa Claus costume begin looting the retailers! The guns they wield that shoot snow and ice might not be lethal, but they can certainly slow you down (and give you a cold). Will you be the hero and help take down Kringle(s), or will you seize the opportunity to do some theft of your own?
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.
Thanksgiving and Hanukkah have passed, Christmas and New Year's Eve are coming up, but what about holidays from home? This weekend, the Nonah Cultural Center is hosting a one-day event during which attendees can share stories of their traditions and celebrations (whether they are related to winter holidays or completely different ones) and sharing them with others, either on a small stage with a microphone or in individual recording booths, so that these tales of cultural traditions can be preserved for others to learn about. ImPorts from worlds that are not variants of Earth are particularly encouraged to attend. Small refreshment tables will also be open to those who speak.
05. Jeopardy, Nevada by all rights shouldn't exist. A glowing neon city smack in the middle of the desert, the only reason it's still here is that the central nuclear power plant has tapped half a mile down into a subterranean lake for its water supply. So though the desert around it may be barren, the occupants of this small city are happily self sufficient. Those weird figures you see out of the corner of your eyes? Don't worry too much. Probably just weird radiation after effects. Jeopardy has a lot of those.
Saturnalia is just around the corner and Jeopardy is in full festive swing! The seven-day marathon of festivities includes a parade, with a ((cw: arachnophobia)) very special float from the Web Mistress's church; a day long city-wide paintball game; an attempt to break the world record for largest bingo game with everyone playing in dead silence; and a feast!
The final feast, of course, comes with the main event: ritual sacrifice. Of course, no one actually wants to do anything quite so base, in 2018, so the sacrifice is more metaphorical than actual: the kids of North Jeopardy High have spent three months building a giant chocolate Santa tied up in ropes to be slaughtered and fed to the city at large! Bon appetit!
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It's okay, I'm fine.
[ And then she's more than happy with his response to her, and she gives a confident smile in return as she summons her Keyblade. She has no real stance or form with it — in fact, she copies the way Sora's holding it, out of instinct (she did spend a long time in his heart, after all). But she looks as ready as she'll ever be. ]
Yeah! Let's get him while he's distracted! C'mon!
[ She's eager. And she's running off at him. Sora you should probably supervise. ]
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Sora takes a second to watch her call up Keyblade like she's been doing it all her life and can't help but feel a little bit of pride as she takes off before-
Oh no.
Oh dear this was perhaps not a very sensible plan.
Oh geez there's another Santa coming out of that broken window over there.]
Stop!
[He's not calling to Kairi, he's throwing a spell at the other goon before he gets any dumb ideas about using his freeze gun on her.]
Watch out, there's a whole bunch of 'em!
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So once she turns back toward him, he's already coming down on her with his gun, and it's all she can do to bring her Keyblade between her and him, and use all of her (admittedly little) strength to keep it from smacking right into her.
She's not at all strong enough to hold this for long, though, and she's slowly being pushed down to one knee as she tries to keep this blocking up. ]
S-Sora!
[ They ....... may or may not need to work on their teamwork. ]
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Satisfied that the guy he’s Stopped isn’t going anywhere, Sora turns to Kairi to see how she’s doing and gets the unpleasant surprise of seeing her taking the brunt of the Santa clone’s attack.]
Kairi!
[He runs full pelt towards her, Keyblade drawn and at the ready- he’s not sure if he should launch a
Fire spell, that might be overkill. Or literal kill, this isn’t a heartless after all, it’s a real person and that costume looks flammable.
But he does fire off a Strike Raid.]
Leave her alone, creep!
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Her arms fall to her sides like a great weight has been lifted, and then she stands up after a moment. ]
Thanks ... I think I'll stick by you instead.
[ Running off like that was a bad idea. It's safer close to him. Learned her lesson, she did. She's realizing what it's like to be in a fight and how different it is from how it looks. Sora and Riku have always made it look easy.
And she goes over next to him, readying her Keyblade as she spots another Santa off in the distance coming to join the fray. ]
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[He's standing slightly in front of her, instinctively placing himself between her and the other Santas he can see to act as a shield for any future attacks that might come her way. It's not that he doesn't believe in her strength, it's just that he would see himself get hurt a thousand times before anyone harms Kairi.
That new Santa's coming towards them at speed, so Sora raises his Keyblade a little and spreads his feet before he launches a Blizzard.
Or tries to. Nothing happens.
Santa's getting closer and Sora's not about to let him get the jump on them. New plan.]
Let's rush him. Stay close!
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It's a little strange to her when he clearly tries to do something — cast a spell? — and nothing happens, but this isn't the time to be questioning that. So instead, she follows his commands and his lead, nodding instinctively. ]
Got it!
[ And she moves to be more by his side, rather than behind him, because if they're going to rush him, then she's going to go in beside him. Whenever he starts rushing, she will too. ]
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[Sora's trying not to let his unexpected magical impotence rattle him. It's weird, he should have way more left in the tank than that, it seems weird that his magic would just peter out like that.
Oh well, he doesn't have time to think about that. There's a Santa to take out and Kairi to
babysitlook after.]You know. Just like how we used to double team Wakka back on the island.
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That'll be easy. Let's get him!
[ And she'll go ahead and execute her half of the plan, trusting that Sora will be right there with his, moving in and swiping downward at the man's legs with her Keyblade and all her strength. Luckily the legs are an easy target, especially for someone rushing toward them himself, so it works out just like it needs to. His balance didn't stand a chance! ]