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etcelsior2019-01-25 09:32 pm
maskormods) wrote in etcelsior2019-01-25 09:32 pm
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time to put your face on
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.
The current craze sweeping the city and social media is getting people on their feet: the Camp Midnight Challenge! Based on a popular video game, the goal is to get the funkiest, silliest, most eye-catching dance sequence on video—with a twist! Successful completion of this challenge requires getting an imPort to join in a duo dance that incorporates their powers! Swarms of eager teens, tweens and would-be BlueTube stars are out and about on the sidewalk looking for newcomers to join in. If they spot you, you better come up with a good excuse or put your dancing shoes on!
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.
Today in De Chima, there's the unveiling of a brand new invention in the convention centre park! With a simple scan, it will print out your Closest Love Match of the other individuals present, along with your percentage of compatibility and a free coupon to get lunch with your new date if you match 90% or higher!
A little odd that it seems that nearly every couple has 90% or higher, isn't it? What's the probability that the scanner is broken?
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...
Local resistance to superheroes has made the city a popular gathering place for experimental engineers and scientists whose methods are misunderstood by the establishment, aka 'mad scientists.' Today, the latest creation of a former food scientist who used to work for Yell-O Desserts, is rising up in gooshy style!
From the canal that bisects the city rises a giant, gooshy, uh....thing. The blob slowly begins to ooze through town, growing larger as it consumes anything it comes across, absorbing it into its gooey depths. It's slow, but relentless, and doesn't have any obvious weak spots. Will you attempt to fight back and arrest its gelatinous progress, help the slow runners get away or make a break for it yourself? Or maybe see how good a dessert it makes?
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.
This month there's the release of a hot new movie about imPorts themselves, though in order to evade copyright, it seems that the imPorts on screen are simply amalgamations of several different imPorts through the years instead of staying faithful to one true story. They've got everything! Action! Romance! Death! Desire. It's a whole load of hooey, in other words, but it's hooey with a big budget. What this means, however, is that even the newest imPorts are being roped into this red carpet affair. Even if they're simply passing by on the street, an eager reporter may well step up to you, saying, "Oh, are you an imPort? Please, you must come in! No, I insist!"
If you succumb to their pushy ways, you'll find yourself in a gala, likely unprepared and underdressed for the flash of the cameras and an endless torrent of questions about what you want to do here as an imPort, whether or not you feel you'll find love in this place, whether or not you fear an inevitable port-out (despite the fact that you may have just gotten here!) and will be plied with food and, if you're of age, with plenty of booze.
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.
You're in luck! You're just in time for Jeopardy's traditional Valentine's Race!
The premise of the race is simple: hogtie your lover, throw them over your shoulder (or back, if needed), and carry them from the bank of the train station (it's actually not a train station, it's a non-functioning movie set that's been turned into a museum, but it's still called "the train station.") While the tradition says "lover," as long as the person you tie up has consented to it, it's allowed!
At the end of the race, the Mayor gives a short speech about love, and movies, and tradition. She's also baked thousands of Valentine's and heart-themed desserts for all participants and audience members! They just happen to all be... shaped like the actual heart organ, rather than the symbol.
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The clans are still out there. [he says, more to himself than TK-622. He turns his head, his sharp grey eyes boring into TK-622's head.] And... you're learning Mando'a from your brother. Late, but you're learning.
[His mouth twists.]
That's something. Scraps.
[It's something. Canderous had vague plans of reuniting the clans, confessed to Revan. Nothing more than a dream for now, not yet, but someday. Would this be the greatest that they could become again? Merely "somewhere out there", never to reclaim the heights of glory they once did again?]
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There's another here. Boba Fett. Jango's son. He's young. I'm not sure how much he was taught before Jango died. But he might know more as well. [He still didn't know how much, though. Boba hadn't trusted them. Maybe that was changing now, but he still couldn't be entirely sure how much of what he'd been told was lies.]
[He was silent for a long moment.] I don't actually know what Mandalorians are like. [Since it was fairly obvious from the reaction that clones didn't really count.]
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Scraps! Being fed bits of your heritage when you should have had it all from the start. Hah! [he spits, unapologetic. He's itching to hit something, and he scowls down at his hands as he flexes his knuckles.] We made the Republic tremble, once. The entire galaxy shook at our coming. And now this Galactic Empire raises an army of dar'manda, give them numbers like droids, and use them to fight their own battles?
[Cowards. Those soft-bellied fools. He'd had some limited respect for the Republic, after their defeat at their hands. Much more respect for individual warriors, like Carth and Revan. But this wipes all of it away right now. It was worse, in a way, that some of these clones were trained by Mando'ade. He pins down 622 with a gimlet stare, having come to a decision.]
I weep for our future. [he says, serious.] I am in mourning, if this is what we have - for our way of life, for our glory. You deserve to know what the Mandalorians are like. It is your right.
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[But he does have some curiosity, left over from when he was a cadet. He never asked the questions himself, not that he can remember, but others did: why were they who they were? The answer they got basically boiled down to "You're taken from the template because he was good enough." But that didn't say much.]
I want to know. [And maybe, it could tell him what parts of his own thinking were his own, and which were conditioning. If that could ever be pulled apart at all.]
[He doubted it was a reason he was supposed to be curious, by the mandalorian's standards. But his job wasn't to editorialize on that. What he was wouldn't change, but maybe he could figure out what that meant for him.]
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[The old ways. There was something bitter in that admission, the implication that there was now a new way. Canderous once held the past as close to his chest as armor plate, and it enclosed and protected him in equal measures just the same. He's learned to let go of it, but it will have to be pried from his dead body before he lets it go completely. There was the possibility that things had changed in Mandalorian culture in four thousand years, and whatever he says is completely wrong, but does he care? No. If that was the case, then Canderous had even more of a duty to teach him of their ways, as they were.]
The first thing you must know, [he says, choosing his words carefully. Not out of any kind of deceptive self-omission, but rather of honesty.] is that whatever you may have heard, we are not monsters.
[Not the most reassuring words to start to.]
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[So it was only natural that he seemed completely unconcerned to learn that people might think it. Those sorts of assertions were meaningless without trustworthy validation. Some authority with the perspective to see the whole truth.]
I wouldn't trust hearsay and opinion, anyway. [He knew how rampant that could get, even among troopers. With civilians, it got even worse. It was natural to seek a sense of security when you faced the unknown, but you couldn't allow yourself to be tricked like that.]