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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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"Well if it isn't everyone's favorite criminal," Lumina sing-song'd, swaying back and forth on her perch. "Everyone, this is Fang," she directed this at the crowd who had been taking pictures of her. "She's a desert bandit. Isn't that mysteeeerious."

Lumina snickered to herself at this as a wave of 'ooohs' and 'neats' washed over the crowd. And then her silver eyes flicked back to Fang herself.

"They're gonna want to take your picture now, you realize." And then a shrug. "And I haven't done anything, thank you. I am as innocent as the breeze."

Predictably, cameras begin to flash. Fang scowls, covers her eyes, and snaps out:

"Enough of that! Leave off. Go find someone else to bother." She wasn't even a criminal, far as she was concerned. She was a treasure hunter. There was a difference. (There wasn't.)

The crowd backs up at that, but doesn't dissipate entirely. It makes Fang sigh, huffily, before she returns her attention to Lumina. "If you aren't responsible, who's to blame for this? And what are you doing here? Don't you get enough of being a pain in the ass back home?"

Lumina covers her mouth with her hand in a false show of attempting to hide her laughter as the crowd sort of does what Fang wants. It's a shame more people are being attracted by the shouting though, so even more pictures were being taken.

"Hmm," Lumina drops off the light, vanishing into a swirl of light and reappearing with a little 'omph' a few feet in front of Fang. "You really think I could manage something like this, Fang? Thanks! I always thought you just considered me a pest." She accents the last word, and illicits some boos from her newly acquired children-fans scattered through the crowd.

She holds up her wrist to Fang then, to show the tattoo she had there. "I have no idea who did this, but I got sucked in just like you did."

Fang pays Lumina's fanclub little mind. The girl was a menace, for the most part. Her years with Vanille and Lumina in Luxerion had taught her that much.

But Lumina wasn't really malicious either. Bratty, but not deliberately cruel. Not most of the time anyway, and so Fang has the sense that she's at least being honest right now. "I don't put anything past you." She puts a hand to her forehead after that, though.

"What a mess...if you haven't done it, I wonder who did. Have you seen anyone else?" She means Vanille, but given the situation, she wouldn't be surprised if any of the others had somehow gotten trapped here. She tries not to think of what that might mean for Nova Chrysalia.

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