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[maskormods]

TEST DRIVE MEME

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 anyone's thread, either!

And remember to have fun!

01. Your memory is hazy and you might feel increasingly frustrated or anxious, or maybe you're excited as soldiers march past, barely glimpsing you. One second you're somewhere underground, the next you're enveloped in blue light, and suddenly you find yourself directly under Flordia sun's bright and burning glare. A female soldier steps toward you with a wide smile on her face and directs you to a car, ready to debrief you. You realize you are not the only one, surrounded by equally confused or eager faces... and you're all sporting a digital tattoo on your wrist.

02. Welcome to Cape Canaveral, where the smell of the ocean is in the air and locals are more than pleased to see new imPorts roaming their streets. They wave, they cheer, they ask for pictures as politely as they can. The more inhuman you look, or if you're wearing a costume, the more likely locals are to approach. Hey, enjoy the moment! The popular malt shop is offering you a free drink if you need it.

03. The technology in this world is certainly something. The cars are clearly modeled after popular 50s cars, but they hover several feet above the ground as they drive down the street. There are digital jukeboxes in restaurants, motorcycles also hover through traffic, advertisements can be seen on a digital projector on the taller buildings. Even kids on skateboards appear to drift a safe ten feet off the ground while playing!

04. Wherever you are, you can hear the loud revving of an engine, distance at first before you finally see it: a hovercar bursting around the corner, going beyond the maximum speed limit and just barely making its sharp turn. It doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon, not with two police cars trailing it... and uh oh. Those skateboarding kids don't have much time to get out of the way as the car comes speeding down the road. You've been brought here for a reason Hero — so you better act fast.

Comments

all the JoJos. Let's make Dio's life hell.

[standsproud]

A map... who carries a map on them? [Sheesh, this guy.] Can't you tell we're by the ocean just from smelling the air?

This is Florida. You can get a boat anywhere here.

[doesthemath]

[A world unevolved. The idea is interesting to her distantly. As a concept. The idea of being human and powerless, however, evokes a feeling of unease in her, one she covers with a smile.]

A shame, but if that wasn't the case, what powers would you choose. Assuming you had the picking of it, of course.

[standsproud]

[Hey, hands off. Eyes off, even. Star Platinum circles around Jotaro in the opposite direction.] That's impossible.

Only Stand users can see other Stands... [His voice trails off. Hamon, AND a Stand user? Moreover, a Stand user that doesn't know he has a Stand. Just like his mother...] You, tell me your name. [It's the weirdest thought, but could this be some long-lost cousin he doesn't know about?]

[getplucky]

[Told you to wait till you have your own grandson disrespect you. Told you, Jo.]

Switzerland in six days? [He's confused, not about the plane (what's a plane) but about the amount of time the man wants to reach Switzerland. A boat would at least take longer than that.]

Sir, pardon me for being abrupt but, reaching Switzerland in six days is improbable!

[doesthemath]

[She nods, glancing back to the cops as they arrest the driver, then to the children who seem to be talking and staring at her. There's no horror in their faces, however. No disgust at what she is. It's unsettling to be so easily accepted by this population.

Wanda turns back to Erik, expression showing some curiosity.]

I'm Scarlet Witch, by the way.

[She's been hero-ing, which means she gives her mutant name, not her given one. There's an implied "And you are?" in her tone.]

A Joestar family reunion staring JoJos. special guest Dio.

[getplucky]

[Jonathan isn't one to be easily frustrated with others, if he has a goal in mind he's gonna get there somehow. Even if it means potentially losing your fingers in a knife fight...]

Well, that is true. But there are only so many ships that will take me to New York and I'm looking for a woman by the name of Erina. She's probably in a port city waiting for me by now.

[trickstar]

Joseph Joestar. Your turn.

[GET BACK HERE, GHOST. LET HIM POKE YOU.]

[diociopath]

[He's so glad. The idea of Jonathan showing up in the midst of his whole "save the world" phase would have been unfortunate; he'd have to kill him again, and that would be such a waste. Necessary, sure, and he wouldn't hesitate - but still a waste.]

It's good to see you again, Jojo. You're looking well.

[Considering he was a severed head last time.]

Hopefully you weren't in the middle of anything, considering how abrupt being brought here can be...it's quite a nuisance.

sorry your descendants got more delinquent-y as time went on, gentleman JoJo

[standsproud]

[Erina? That was the name of... no, nevermind, that's just a weird coincidence.] You want to take a boat to New York? Gimme a break... you're really going all-in on the old-time factor, aren't you.

If you really need to find this lady so badly, just call her telephone number.

[standsproud]

[THE FUCK.

Jotaro's eyes widen, and then he grimaces. Star Platinum, meanwhile, stops avoiding Joseph...

...and aims one hell of a punch at the punk's stomach.] You idiot! If you're going to steal someone's name, don't try and pull one over on their family!

I'm Jotaro Kujo. Joseph Joestar is my grandfather. So, I won't be fooled by a pathetic trick like that!

[getplucky]

You're looking well yourself, Dio. [And different... did you get taller? Have you been working out? Jeeze Dio where does this pseudo sibling rivalry end? He's a little bit concerned about the difference- Dio have you been eating people like a JoJo eats bread?? Jonathan can only pray that it's the good kind of change, the change that involves not killing people.]

Though you have changed as well. [It's a comment that is the equivalent to asking someone if they've changed their wardrobe or gotten a new haircut. Though both are apparently true in Dio's case, the comment is still necessary for Jonathan. Necessary to determine if Dio is truly a changed man.]

In the middle of something? [a pause.] Oh! Erina... I have to find Erina!

[biotically]

I'd try to forward them the compliment, but I'm afraid I wouldn't know where to start. There are a lot of us out there. [ It's a little wry and, after the shake, he rubbed at the back of his neck. A little hesitantly. She was calm, most people would pick up -- or point out -- the fact that he was a human spectre. That in of itself was unusual. ]

How long have you been here? Any burning questions?

well that's what he gets for not being able to be alive enough to be a proud grandpa

[getplucky]

Telephone number? [He is so confused, Erina isn't some kind of number you dumb punk. I mean-] She has no such thing, and I am not sure of the address we're staying at for our honeymoon... we just got married, you see?

yeah JoJo you fucked up by going and dying what's up with that

[standsproud]

Congratulations.

Even if you get to New York City, if you don't know anything about where she is you'll never find her. There are [how many people is it, these days? Bah, it doesn't matter] millions of people in a city like that. You can't go around knocking on everyone's door.

[trickstar]

[WOAH OKAY MAN, calm down, christ on a cracker.

Joseph takes the punch because wow that thing is fast, and that REALLY HURTS, stop hurting your grandpa, Jotaro.]

You'd punch people for just saying their name?!

[Wait. ...Grandfather?!]

Woah- woah woah! No way, you're my age, you can't be my grandson! I haven't even settled down with a girl yet! And what kind of grandson would I have that doesn't keep the Joestar name?!

Dio. That's what's up with that.

[getplucky]

Millions?

[Oh. Well, this is really a different kind of world then. And then it dawns on him that he, Jonathan Joestar left his loving wife all alone in some strange New York. How ungentlemanly of him.]

How could I have left Erina alone like this! There... there has to be something I can do!

[recur]

[ Tamsin's nose scrunches in that way that's either a) about hayfever, or b) thoughtful, though at this angle it looks more like she's scrutinizing the chocolate chip ratio in her mint choc-chip. ]

Please say that's a rhetorical grandma. I don't think I could take any soul-burdening over ice cream.

... seikon no qwaser, oh no

[lyingheart]

...

[ Annie keeps wondering when it is she'll stop being freaked out by the really creepy things people can do. Given power, or power from before, that was certainly something to witness.

Not today, apparently, but she's... going to pretend she doesn't just look shocked and school her expression back to neutrality. ]

Planning to put the pole back in place? You managed to prevent one accident... at the cost of another. Idiot.

[standsproud]

[Star Platinum looks pissed. As much as a ghost can look pissed. Mostly because Jotaro looks pissed too.] And you're my age, so you can't be my grandfather; he's an old geezer!

His daughter, Holly Joestar, moved to Japan and married Sadao Kujo, a musician. I have my father's name, but... [yanking back the collar of his jacket and turning to show the star-shaped birthmark] my grandfather's blood!

So tell me who you really are, asshole!

Re: Clementine | The Walking Dead

[transgressed]

[Florida was not so terrible, now that she'd found at least a couple of her friends (figuring out how the hell they were supposed to get out of Florida would, as Lightning had said, have to wait.) It was muggy as hell, and people keep trying to take pictures, but it's marginally less creepy now that she knows what's going on. Sort of.

In the meanwhile, she's trying to keep out of sight and out of mind, but she kind of draws attention, and has slipped out of the malt shop as inconspicuously as she can, right before she bumps into the kid.

The kid looks spooked.]

Hey, munchkin. Running from the cops? [It's a joke.]

[trickstar]

It may be improbable... But it's not impossible! And I have to, or I'll die!

fucking Dio. what an asshole amirite

[standsproud]

[Shrug.] Take a plane to New York. Try your luck, if you want.

[He starts walking away. It's obvious he can't help this guy any more than he already has.] But if she's anything like Erina Joestar, she'll be just fine.

Yes. wait no. cries for Dio.

[getplucky]

[He doesn't feel defeated yet. Although he still has absolutely no idea how to get to New York, he'll find another way. Maybe some other stranger will be kind enough to help him.] Wait! You know Erina? Erina Joestar, you've met her? That's- that's who I'm looking for!

[He pauses as he realizes he hasn't introduced himself to the stranger.] I'm sorry, I never gave you an introduction.

My name is Jonathan Joestar

[lyingheart]

[ She pauses when he mentions her being right. Knowing they looked for her... Annie won't analyze why that makes her chin tuck down toward her chest. Doesn't want to think about it. Doesn't want to think about so many things, from when she'd needed to lie every day, when she'd failed to isolate herself well enough.

You were right. About the system. ]

Then keep a critical eye on this one. Corruption isn't always as obvious as back home. The things you'd think to be frightened of...

[ She glances back, expression inscrutable. She's tired. Tired of reminders of the things that will never change, and the memories and burdens that she won't decry, not even after death, if death is what's coming for her before the rest. ]

There's so much more in this place than you've ever been taught to handle. Be careful what you trust.

[ And don't, under any circumstance, trust Annie. She'd say the same for the adults of the Scouting Legion here, but she doesn't know his relationship to them, or that he'd have one. Wouldn't want to point out that they fail to thrive or survive as viable people seeking to make that difference. That they isolate and remember what has been, and not enough of what might be.

Of course, only from her outside perspective, and that may or may not be right. Annie's not interested in having any closer read on the situation. She has her own pursuits and necessities driving her in this place. ]

I hope I was right about you, too, Marlowe. On more than the being an idiot.

[ Since that's... definitely still her opinion too whoops

#female-titan-judging-you-problems

#like-annie-can-ever-really-talk-right ]

[getplucky]

[Oh no! This man is going to die if he doesn't get to Switzerland!! Jojo knows the feeling though. Maybe this man is also sick like his father once was. If you didn't want his help before, Joseph, you're definitely getting it now.] You'll die? Please, let me help you! A dying man can't take the journey alone!