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maskormods) wrote in etcelsior2019-12-20 12:35 pm
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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.
Although even Florida can get chilly during the winter, they won't let that spoil the fun. It's not beach weather, but it's time for a palm tree decorating contest to bring everyone into the holiday spirit! Note that isn't technically Christmas decorating. Pick a theme, any theme, from holidays to puppies to capitalism and have at. The natives will judge and vote for their favorite- so really, there's nothing wrong with a little pandering. The winner will get both the honor of having defeated their rivals, and a free lifetime supply of Italian frozen ice and hot dogs from the sponsoring local stand.
Those who just aren't interested in competing might be called in to judge another competition down the beach: a youth sand-sculpting contest! Only one team can walk away with the grand prize of a laser tag package, but can you bring yourself to be harsh on those wide, hopeful eyes?
Speaking of that Italian ice, there are some free samples being offered to tempt you into competing for the prize. And, shocking to no experienced imPort, someone has meddled with it just a bit. Each of the three flavors will have a different effect and, fates help us, they can be stacked, though the effects only last about an hour. Strawberry with fill you with team spirit, encouraging you to decorate a tree in a group or spontaneously form a new rock group. Even those that usually Only Work Alone will want to form a team. Lemon will spike your competitive nature. You're not just going to win, you are going to wave the severed heads of your competitors before their weeping mothers-, er, that is, win by a lot. Finally, lime flavor with up your silliness factor. Everything's fun and happy at the Holiday season, right? Why not pull a prank or two while you're here, or just enjoy a nice knock-knock joke with friends. Hopefully you didn't get that lemon-lime mix and now must pull the most epic prank ever or show that you are the single happiest person on this or any other world. That could get complicated.
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.
With Christmas coming, the producers behind a guerilla new reality show are hard at work getting new footage—starring you! Areas of the city with the most foot traffic have been absolutely blanketed in mistletoe. If you happen to pass beneath a sprig, you might find a small camera crew jumping out of nowhere, urging you to give the person next to you a smooch—and thanks to the strange radio waves coming out of the unit on the executive producer's wrist, you'll feel a little compelled to do so!
...except the compulsion isn't that strong, so those who don't kiss on the first meet can easily break out of it. Your next choice: give the camera crew a piece of your mind, or ask the would-be kissee out for coffee? They are pretty cute...
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...
The downtown mall is tilting the balance solidly toward welcoming to imPorts with a Winter Welcome Festival. All the storefronts and many temporary kiosks occupied by local vendors are holding special sales, and newly arrived imPorts are given a coupon book to make the most of them. The food court has some free goodies for participants to mix and mingle.
Unfortunately, a local rogue with the alias of Klone Kringle is here to spoil the fun. After a small boom echoes throughout the mall, everything dissolves into chaos as dozens of copies of a man dressed in a polyester Santa Claus costume begin looting the retailers! The guns they wield that shoot snow and ice might not be lethal, but they can certainly slow you down (and give you a cold). Will you be the hero and help take down Kringle(s), or will you seize the opportunity to do some theft of your own?
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.
Although Nonah sees milder winters than some imPort cities, it's strangely snowy today, with icicles hanging everywhere. They definitely weren't there this morning, and no storm has passed through, so what gives? A downtown disturbance makes it clear: a would-be supervillain calling himself THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN has attacked. Is he some kind of mutant, a scientifically modified human, or is there just a lot of arctic-tech stuffed into his snowsuit? Whatever its source, he's spraying ice and snow far and wide from his hands, turning the area into a winter wonderland and absolutely ruining sales for local businesses that depend on foot traffic! Also, some citizens have been frozen in blocks of ice. That's bad.
Come, heroes, and defeat this icy menace! That, or build a really cool snowman. It's your call.
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.
Saturnalia is just around the corner and Jeopardy is in full festive swing! The seven-day marathon of festivities includes a parade, with a ((cw: arachnophobia)) very special float from the Web Mistress's church; a day long city-wide paintball game; an attempt to break the world record for largest bingo game with everyone playing in dead silence; and a feast!
Usually the feast focuses on the symbolic ritual sacrifice of a giant chocolate Santa Claus, but this year is a little different. In an effort to display their gratitude for imPorts keeping their city from being ground zero of the apocalypse, they are making an entirely different set of effigies: you! Instead of one Big Chocolate Santa there are over a hundred 1/6th scale chocolate humans, each lovingly recreated in the visage of their favourite imports. Whether or not that loving visage is accurate may be up for debate, but... Hey, want to eat a chocolate rendition of your own head? Now you can!
stanley uris | it (2017)
[ there's a child seemingly admiring the display of chocolate heads. it's a kid's dream, right? a massive supply of sweets?
but if one were to go closer, one might notice that this particular kid lacks the sort of boundless, sugar-fueled glee one might expect. instead, he stands stiff and straight, shoulders squared in too-perfect posture and hands at his side like he doesn't really know what to do with them. there are strange, half-healed wounds on either side of his face, almost like jagged teeth marks.
but injuries aside, he looks more like he'd gotten distracted on the way to his nine-to-five job of thirty years than anything.]
I hate this.
[ perhaps he's noticed he's no longer alone, or perhaps not. his eyes are trained on what is, apparently, supposed to be him — his distant, sour expression is mirrored in chocolate.
it scares him. he half-expects them all to come alive, and he finally has to avert his eyes. ]
I don't want to be here anymore.
[ here with the creepy chocolate, yes, but also here on a much broader scale. he wants to go home. ]
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This is stupid. Superpowers aren't real.
text; un: Julian Delphiki | Bean
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[ what stan means to say is, "no, i don't want to ask, because i know i won't like the answer i get."
but he doesn't divulge that much through text. it's stupid, he reiterates to himself. he's been here all of three hours so far and he already knows that no matter what he says, he's only going to be told that yes, it's real. there are powers. you can't go home. and so on and so forth.
but... he still can't resist asking something. ]
What kind of power would that even be?
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[ Apollo is strange, and that's before you even get into his love of Doris Day music. ]
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Have you seen him do that stuff?
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[ Because Bean is a paranoid bitch. As soon as he moved into Apollo's house he rigged the place with cameras. He sends a video file, showing a bright spot of light in the figure of a muscular man with white hair flying towards the house, then opening a window and going inside. ]
He also refuses to use the front door for some reason.
jeopardy
But then he catches sight of a familiar head of curls, and a boy who looks more like a forty-year-old man on the way to work than a thirteen-year-old kid, and Richie’s entire day is suddenly much, much better. Even barring, yanno, the fact that there are tiny chocolate renditions of himself and other imPorts staring at him. Just not gonna look at those!]
Stan! Stanley! [Racing up to Stan with a half-eaten rendition of a guy with horns and a tail and a wild coat.] Stan the Man, what took you so long? Did you finally clean up with a grandma in Florida or something?
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No! [ he sounds like he can't believe that richie would even dream of making jokes at a time like this. ] I was kidnapped, Richie! And so were you! How are you eating chocolate like — like everything's normal?
[ as thoroughly upset as he sounds right now, he's actually really, really happy to see richie. ]
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Coziest kidnapping ever, then. [It also helps that there’s no such thing as Derry in this world. He knows. He checked.] They offered! The fuck was I gonna do, say no to free chocolate? All you have to do is not look at it, and it tastes the same as regular, non-creepy chocolate.
[Another bite.]
What the shit are you even doing in Jeopardy, anyway? It’s fucking Creepsville out here.
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I don't know. I don't know anything about this place. I was trying to find a way home.
[ none of these town names mean anything to stan. they are all, currently, Creepsville with a capital C. ]
Is it just us?
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[The tone is as gentle as Richie can ever hope to be, but firm too. Three months in this shit-ass world have drilled that lesson in fast, but then again he is a little biased. He’s always wanted to get out of Derry, and you can’t get further from Derry than a different universe.]
We’re here until the Porter decides it’s sick of us. [And if it’s not sick of Richie yet, then it wouldn’t get sick of Stan either.] But the good news is, Eddie’s here too. He’s just doing some costume model shit right now.