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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.

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Hm. I'm not sure. You told me it was because Dio had stolen the body of our ancestor Jonathan that every person with the Joestar birthmark now had a Stand. But since he hasn't awakened in 1939, your Hermit Purple might still be dormant.

Yes, I am. [Matter-of-factly.]

Cut it out. That's not how you respect your grandfather!

[Nevermind he's the one who picked the fight they almost got into to begin with. Let's ignore that.]

...Stole Jonathan's body? That doesn't sound right. Are you sure that's what I meant?

[Was he just making things up to mess with Jotaro and now inadvertently messing with himself??]

Hermit Purple, though. Does it look like yours?

[What a weird name.]

You aren't my grandfather yet. [Crossing his arms over his chest.] That is what you meant. The night your grandmother Erina and mother escaped the sinking ship on their way to America, they thought that Jonathan had taken Dio with him. Instead, Dio took Jonathan's body and slept in a coffin underneath the ocean for a hundred years until some idiots dragged him up. You were sure about it.

[He shakes his head as Star Platinum reappears behind him.] Nothing like it. It's... thorns. Like vines of purple thorns all around your body. You use it to see things far away.

I'm always your grandfather! Even if it's not yet.

As for Dio... I've never heard of anything like that, but if it's something I said in complete honesty, it must be the truth.

[It's hard to believe because it's weird as fuck, but well... He is also fighting thousand year old vampires so, maybe not that bad in comparison.]

It doesn't fight at all? It's just thorns?

[Wow, cheaping out, Stand!!]

Tch, you're annoying. Of course you haven't heard about Dio in 1938, because he's still buried underwater then.

You've used Hermit Purple to fight before. Imagine what thorny ropes under your full control can do. It has more uses than just combat, that's all.

Oi, now you're calling me annoying? What kind of daughter do I have to not even raise her son to be respectful... I'll need to remember to be more careful with that.

[HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE HALF OF IT........]

I guess that sounds useful situationally.

[But it doesn't punch things, like Star Platinum, meaning it is significantly less cooler.]

She's annoying too, just like her old man! [Jotaro is the best at showing he cares about people. Absolutely the best #1.]

But I'll still fight Dio to save her life. That's why we need to get to Egypt.

[Wow don't insult his not-yet-born daughter!! Oh wait, Jotaro's just super tsundere, everything makes sense now.]

...Is she alright? Holly? Did Dio do something...?

[He is the most stoic tsundere.]

When Dio awakened in Jonathan's body, every person with Joestar blood had their Stand unleashed. That includes her.

Stands are formed from your life energy and controlled by your fighting spirit. She's soft and gentle, she has no reason to fight. [He reaches up to grab the brim of his cap, striking a suitably dramatic pose.] If we don't get to Egypt and finish off Dio in time, her Stand will drain all of her life force- she'll die!

[Grandson you are suitably dramatic for this moment, +4 points.]

I see... Being here really does make two bad situations worse. If you don't return to our Earth on time, Holly dies, but if I don't return on time either, then it will never matter, because neither you or Holly will be born!

[Give him a second, he's thinking...]

Tell me, Jotaro. You said I can use my Hermit Purple to see things far away. Do you think that could still apply to the Earth we came from?

[It's in the Joestar blood. What's the point of having dramatic moments if you aren't striking really cool poses during it?]

Good grief... this really is a pain in the ass. [He's not sure why Joseph needs to get back on time, but sure, he'll roll with it.]

It's never showed anything outside of the Earth we were in before. But I don't think you ever tried to look at another universe, either. So we can't rule it out.

If there were something here we could break to make it work...

...

Break?

[Not that he has a problem with breaking things, but...]

Ah, right.

Your Stand. You use it by breaking things. Breaking a camera creates a spirit photo; you broke a jar of sand to create a map of a city.

If there were something with a screen around here we could break, we could try it...

[SLOWLY...

TURNING TO LOOK AT THE TVS...]

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[Follows Jotaro's line of sight. The televisions.]

... I don't have enough money to buy one of those, Jojo.

[UNLIKE RICH GRANDPAPPY JOSEPH.]

So?

You haven't taught me much as my grandfather, but you did teach me one thing: The Joestar family's final plan. [Are you following...]

Hey, it's the final plan when you run out of every other plan! We still have other options!

[Said mostly because wow he does not want to be running around a city he doesn't know well. LAZINESS PREVAILS for now.

Instead, Joseph heads into the electronics store, striding right up to the front desk and grinning. If Jotaro decides to head in with him, he'll hear Joseph trying to talk his way into getting the store manager to giving him the television for free by rite of being a Hero.

And if that doesn't work...

Well, that's when it's time for the final plan.]

[Jotaro does come inside with him.

Is he really arguing this? That he's a Hero?

YARE

YARE

DAZE]

[Some more talking, showing off his tattoo which is obvious proof!! (Erina is going to literally kill him for getting a tattoo, even though it wasn't like he had a choice). And it... seems like it worked!! Actual Smooth Talker Joseph Joestar. There is a reason he goes into real estate later.]

We can't take any of the ones from the window display, but we can take one of the cheaper ones over there.

[In that... discount section. But hey, they're going to be smashing it anyway, right?]

Joestar lesson number one! If you can get your way by talking, you can save your energy for fighting or running later.

[Holy shit, Jotaro can't believe that worked.] ...tch, I hate talking.

[Jamming his hands into his coat pockets. Your grandson isn't much of a talker, Joseph. Then, begrudgingly, he adds:] Good job.

[See, he's not so bad, Jotaro! In fact, now he's deemed himself comfortable enough with Jotaro to throw an arm over his shoulder. Buddy. Pal.]

You can't use your fists for everything, Jojo!

[It's actually kind of funny to call him Jojo, when he's ALSO Jojo. Joseph points towards one of the sadder looking older models of a television.]

That one look good to you?

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Don't call me Jojo.

[Beat.] That's your name, since I can't call you "old man" here. Just call me Jotaro.

[Following Joseph's pointing.] It has a screen, so it should do fine. When you did this in the future, you told me you just grabbed the sides and waited for your Stand to activate. [He... doesn't really know how to explain how to use a Stand. It just happens.]

[Is he pouting? Yeah, kind of.]

I never get to call anyone Jojo. It's not like I can go around saying I, Jojo, or something else stupid. Who would even do that?

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[Anyway, picking up a television and heading out with it. To... whatever, some alley, probably.]

...I just grab the sides and wait?

It wouldn't be that far out of your personality to do that.

[I mean, of the three of them, he's the most likely to have that attitude, right?

He shrugs.] That's all you said in the future.

Call for Hermit Purple.

[WOW, JOTARO. WOW.

Joseph would only do that if it very specifically pissed someone off, he wouldn't do it for no reason.

He settles the TV down somewhere, kneeling in front of it with his hands on either side of it.]

Alright. ...Hermit Purple!

[And well, there it goes. Somehow, it works, and those semi-familiar purple thorned vines are coming from his wrists and entering the television. Nevermind that it shouldn't be possible for him to, and it's kind of weird feeling...]

Do... Do I break it now?!

[It almost seems like he won't need to break it himself, since the television is sparking a little.]

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THIS IS SUCH A GREAT THREAD, do you plan on going through with apping?

IT IS and I'm thinking about it! it'll be my first time playing two characters in anything haha

you should do it ☜ (めヮ め )☜

i want to! are you in the game currently? I'm the Olivier player

I'm the horrible Inumuta player! hello!

inumuta uvu i love our KLK cast I want Jotaro to meet Mama Mankanshoku

jotaros true weakness: being mommed to death.

tsun tsun tsun tsun tsun go away woman you're annoying tsun

i'm in tears at this whole thread.

it is sort of the best. do you know if the jonathan is coming too?

i'm not sure actually

we should make sure he does. TRIPLE JOESTAR

JOJOJOJOJOJO

like the Phantom Blood OP: JOJO. JOJO. JOJO.

i'm laughing because i'm imaging dio being the one to say that now when he sees them all. 1/2

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he'd probably be like FUUUUUUUUUU

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you should do it ☜ (めヮめ )☜