now don't be rude

[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

[seewhatpowpowthinks]

These things are useful everywhere. I can't imagine food shopping without them anymore. [Another disturbed little giggle.]

Huh? Nah. I mean, there's lots of grenades, but I have to modify them myself for the chomper parts. [She looks a bit distant, shaking her head sadly.]

No one else really seems to get how amazing they are.

[ohmydarlinme]

[ wat. ... oh.. She doesn't want to know. She really doesn't want to know. But she asks anyway. ]

... food shopping...?

[ Actually it's almost a foreign term. Actually going into a building to buy food with money, and not rummaging in abandoned campsites and things. ]

Really?

[ She may be inviting too much information here, but she's kind of curious. And she doesn't want to anger the crazy person. ]

[seewhatpowpowthinks]

Well, yeah! Have you seen the lines at the market? They can take ten, fifteen, twenty minutes! Of just standing around waiting and waiting and waiting...

[Jinx huffs at the very thought of it.]

Toss a grenade in the air and BAM, no more waiting.

[ohmydarlinme]

[ .................wwwaaat. ]

... there'd..be no more people either..! [ See that Clem? There goes the point, flying gracefully overhead. Wave to it! ]

You'd... blow up people just because you had to wait on line...?

[seewhatpowpowthinks]

Well. [Jinx hems and haws.] It does sound kind of bad when you put it that way but I wasn't really saying I'd explode the grenade. [She so would.]

Just toss it up and down a few times and people tend to scatter. No harm no foul, right?

[ohmydarlinme]

[ Y'know, the more Clem looks at the grenade the more she can't help but think how useful something like that would have been for leverage. C'est la vie.

On the other hand, scattering people could lead to harm and foul, but she wasn't going to point that out. ]

I guess not...

[ She eyed the grenade again. ]

So.. what do you use to make it? You said you modify it right?

[seewhatpowpowthinks]

[Jinx shrugs.]

Whatever I can get my hands on. That one...

[She leans over a bit to examine it.]

...I think that was part of a girder for a building I uh...[She giggles.] 'aired out.'

[ohmydarlinme]

[ Clementine eyed the grenade again. ]

A girder... that's the long metal thing they use in construction sites, right...?

[ She's not sure what Jinx meant by 'aired out' though. ]

[seewhatpowpowthinks]

Yup! The ones that keep the whole building up. Once they've been...exploded...it's not all that hard to use the metal for stuff, you know?

Like those. Or bullet casings. Or missiles.

[ohmydarlinme]

[ Okay crazy or not, Jinx seemed to really know her stuff. Clementine is impressed. Also a little intimidated. ]

But you'd need something like this just to blow one of them up, wouldn't you?

[seewhatpowpowthinks]

Sure! I mean, you gotta start somewhere, right?

[She pats the pink minigun currently compacted and hanging off her hip.]

That's what Mr. Powpow's for.

[ohmydarlinme]

[ Clementine glaned at the minigun - something so pink had a male name? or .. well, a 'Mr' attached to it? ]

You named it Mr. Pow Pow?

[ It was so ... cutesy. ]