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etcelsior2020-03-25 08:22 pm
maskormods) wrote in etcelsior2020-03-25 08:22 pm
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DON'T MESS WITH ME AND MY SQUAD
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.
ImPorts who have been around for a while might notice something a little different this spring. Suddenly, April Fool's Day is the biggest holiday of the season. What's more, locals are acting as if this has always been the case! Could it be an after-effect of last year's dimensional difficulties? Whatever the case, locals are excitedly sharing ideas for this year's fooling, the Live Time channel is running commercials for its annual movie marathon, and the April Fool's Parade is sure to attract big crowds!
The city of Heropa is debuting a brand-new local mascot for the holiday: Jack Inna Box! For the week leading up to April 1, the costumed character will be wandering around downtown Heropa, taking pictures with locals and inviting them to share their best jokes. As part of his civic duty, he's making a point to meet as many new imPorts as possible — including you!
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.
Today in De Chima, there's the unveiling of a brand new invention in the convention centre park! With a simple scan, it will print out your Closest Love Match of the other individuals present, along with your percentage of compatibility and a free coupon to get lunch with your new date if you match 90% or higher!
A little odd that it seems that nearly every couple has 90% or higher, isn't it? What's the probability that the scanner is broken?
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...
Despite the lack of gratitude that's in it for you, you may want to step in once you see a very, very sad supervillain wandering Maurtia Falls' streets. Dressed in a cape that appears to be a large swath of fabric purchased from a nearby sewing store, galaxy-themed leggings and no shirt is a man who runs right into your vicinity before striking a pose and yelling, "Everyone, stop before me and my wrath! I am Mister Mars, and provided you give me what I ask for, nobody needs to get hurt!"
At which point Mister Mars snatches an old woman's purse, loudly laughs in her face, and begins to float upwards. By the time he reaches the height of the tallest building in the area, he's beginning to look slightly panicked as he fails to really be able to move anywhere but up. Meanwhile, the old woman has begun shaking her cane at him and screaming quite an assortment of alarming expletives.
Maybe you should help one or the other out? If not, just lean back and enjoy the show.
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.
Today there's a big lemonade stand on one busy sidewalk, staffed by a group of industrious kids. Aww, isn't it sweet? Wait...is that a cookie stand a little ways down, also run by elementary-to-middle schoolers? Heck, the entire block is full of kid-run mini-businesses — a gathering of pint-sized entrepreneurs! And they have their eyes on you, hero, because as a celebrity imPort, your pockets are full of $$$, right?
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.
April Fool's Day is a big holiday in Jeopardy, too, but an extremely solemn one. All congregants at the Church of the Ancient Web Mistress give up all forms of jokes and comedy for a week in recognition of the way fate spins laughter to brighten the world but, like spiderwebs, it can also be fleeting. If you'd like to know more, the locals are glad to share their pamphlets and invite you to coffee hour. It's okay to enjoy it (just don't smile too widely).
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Now I’m even sorrier for missing it. [He takes a sip of his lemonade, resting the palm of his free hand against the pavement.] What else? Don’t spare me any details, I want to hear about everything you’ve seen.
[He drinks it all in like it’s been a long, long time since he heard—well, anything of the Mighty Nein. Anything of Exandria. The year’s been hard, and harder because he’s been alone all that time. He’s been doing fine, but he could be doing so much better, and now that Yasha is here it’s like he can finally relax.]
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Well... I wasn't there for it, but the others ended up getting into a drinking game. And their wallets got stolen. (If Molly wanted a lot of depth and detail, Yasha is probably the worst person that he could have asked for that from. She's pretty sure most of this happened just after a big stint away from the party.)
And we found a nice family for Kiri to join, and we left her with them. So she would be safe.
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[Although he imagines it's broken Jester's heart a little. She's the one who charged into the swamp to free the little bird, after all.]
Where are we, right now? Just out of Hupperdook, in Shady Creek Run, or in Zadash?
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(Is Yasha supposed to tell him that? Is something going to happen if she lets him know about everything after Hupperdook, like, cosmically speaking? Obviously it is going to hurt him, impact him personally, but will there be greater consequences too? Could... something be done to change it? Yasha doesn't know the details of the fight (let alone that a reckless blood maledict was what did Mollymauk in), but she does know that if it hadn't happened at all he'd still be around.
She's lost in thought over this, staring into her plastic cup of lemonade and rum. It takes a moment for his question to register with her.)
Hmm? Oh– um, we're... just out of Hupperdook. We haven't decided where we're going next.
(She clears her throat.) Where are we right now? I've had a few things explained to me but I still... it's a lot, all at once, you know.