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etcelsior2019-02-22 05:41 pm
maskormods) wrote in etcelsior2019-02-22 05:41 pm
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get ya butt over here
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.
As you walk around, you'll notice that all of the printed words on sign shops, newspapers, etc., are all backwards. That's thanks to a powered individual's idea of a joke -- inconvenience everyone by switching letters around. Every street sign, every storefront lettering ... it's rather strange.
The effects will only last a day, but will you try to figure out what's going on? Ignore it? Or maybe catch the individual in the act again and stop them?
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.
Want to try out one of the newest wonders of technology? Put on a pair of AirWalker boots, manufactured by CloudCo Engineering! These pieces of footwear are clunky, but they do exactly as they're named. Put them on, and you can climb up into the sky like you're stepping on invisible stairs! Of course, climbing down again isn't so easy, and there have been reports of people panicking as they find themselves stepping higher and farther away from the sidewalk demo kiosk! Will you help them, hero, or are you the one in need?
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...
Enter THE BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN, an apparent Starkian metahuman who will boogie woogie bugle boy you down to company nine. Trumpet in hand, lips blue with determination and maybe a little power amping, he's directing his apocalyptic sound waves at Maurtia Falls First National Bank. A thunderous boom explodes, an earthquake of a noise, and the bricked storefront of that bank crumbles. The facade is obliterated, the bank interior exposed. It's not hard to put this one together, hero: bad guy and a bank, and the innocent civilians he doesn't seem to notice before the path of his sound and fury.
But you notice. You notice the screaming little boy who got separated from his father, you notice the little dog who was walking with its owner along the outside of the street now fleeing without human accompaniment. You noticed some of the brick debris blown off the building facade is now tumbling back to earth -- and right at you.
Boogie Woogie Man takes another breath.
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, in a downtown park, a huge crowd is attempting to set a Guinness record for the largest number of people playing a game of Truth or Dare at once. If you're just passing by and aren't interested in games, better walk fast, because you're likely to get pulled in to join. But there's one catch—a local metahuman is using their power of compulsion to make it extremely difficult to say no to answering a truth or performing a dare! But maybe you'll get lucky and won't receive one you don't want to do?
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.
Despite the weird constant hum and the creepy cultish bingo, Jeopardy is usually a pretty calm place. A safe place. But not today. Today, someone has released a couple hundred tiny praying-mantis-like robots into the city, and the place is in chaos. Shops are closed up early because though these little destructive creatures don't have bullets, they do have some weird arm appendages that like to just crunch everything in existence. Like a locus swarm of cockatoos, anything made of wood or plastic is being crunched up and left for scrap. But at less than six inches high apiece, rounding them up is proving extremely difficult. Luckily, the mayor in her wisdom is giving out titanium nets to any imPort who wants to help round up the trouble makers. And, in the spirit of the city, she's offering the imPort that catches the most robots a free meal for two in the swanky Radiation Galley - Jeopardy's top tier, five star restaurant.
Get catchin', imPorts!
maurtia falls.... u got his voice good bud im love it
ugh.
he takes the brick, as asked, and hands it over.]
I could just smash him, [he bitches, in an accent that wouldn't be out of place in bristol.] I should just smash him. You have good aim, right? There's not many bricks around here!
[a beat. he looks at the buildings surrounding them, that are all made of bricks.]
...Loose ones, I mean.
ty tyyyyy!
[ Bristol, eh? It cheers him a little, to be under fire alongside a fellow countryman.
Testing the improvised launcher without its ammo, Sherlock ducks again as the next blast hits the building with a pitched wail of sound, fists pressed to his ears. ]
I will keep him distracted, [ he instructs, shaking off the ringing in his ears and stuffing a few more brick chunks into his coat pockets, ] then you flank him and smash that trumpet.
[ Not waiting for assent (who has the time?), he scrambles out from cover to close a bit of distance and fling the hard missile right for the bugler's broad shoulder. Sherlock's aim is true, if a little high: the brick grazes his tender ear in passing, and the next blast goes low with his flinch, scoring a jagged break across the concrete floor instead of through bank employees.
Grabbing his bleeding ear, lowering the trumpet to his side, the man gets another brick properly to the shoulder this time. He swings wide with a snarl, sighting Sherlock as he rabbits with a wave of his handkerchief. Yes, just this way! ]
i rewatched these films for fun recently so im just.. ,, wheeze
as instructed, riptide pops out from behind the car and closes the distance fairly quickly with his long legs. he grabs the trumpet from the man's grip and wrenches it down, using the momentum to jump up and drive his knee into the guy's face. they both go down pretty hard and... look, he didn't manage to smash the trumpet but it's dented and ruined and he certainly smashed the guy's nose. you live long enough and you really do finally pick up ways to kick people in the face.
remaining on top of him, riptide tosses the trumpet aside.]
You're in treble! Ha! Honestly, that's the worst instrument you could've chosen! Tubas are far superior and you may quote me on that.