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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.

Unfortunately, tragedy has struck today. It seems like the entire Heropa PD is parked out of a local, popular grocery chain. A huge crowd is amassed in the parking lot despite the best efforts of officers to get them to leave. They whisper about excitement and shame, and you don't have to ask if you just listen in a bit...

"What do you think he'll do to the employees? He sounded so serious..." "He really wants that pussy, huh?" "If I left my man for cheating on me, I'd take the damn cat, too!" "How does he think taking her and her coworkers hostage is gonna make her change her mind about him being a bad boyfriend?" "My wife is pregnant, please - if I don't get her favorite deli sub I might as well not go home!"

Domestic disputes! Tragic. The police aren't too sure how to handle this hostage situation, claiming the man only has a box cutter and isn't actually waving it around at the moment, but...are you an imPort? They'd really appreciate the help, okay. Get in there and counsel the unhappy couple. Or not!

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. 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, a company that manufactures tech-based educational toys—"Where Science Meets Fun!"—is running a demo of its latest project, Quincy the QuizBot. Filled with information taken from the curricula of many grade levels, Quincy is whirring through the streets to conduct pop quizzes! Answer a question right, win a prize, ranging from a coupon for a free soda at the local fast food joint to a $100 gift card, based on difficulty!

Except...something's gone wrong with Quincy's programming. An hour or two into the demo session, he starts to approach passersby and demand answers. "WHAT IS THE SQUARE ROOT OF 47284? CAN YOU LIST THE PHARAOHS OF EGYPT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER? ANSWER-ANSWER-ANSWER-ANSWER!"

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.

Despite the weird constant hum and the creepy cultish bingo, Jeopardy is usually a pretty calm place. A safe place. But not today. Today, someone has released a couple hundred tiny praying-mantis-like robots into the city, and the place is in chaos. Shops are closed up early because though these little destructive creatures don't have bullets, they do have some weird arm appendages that like to just crunch everything in existence. Like a locus swarm of cockatoos, anything made of wood or plastic is being crunched up and left for scrap. But at less than six inches high apiece, rounding them up is proving extremely difficult. Luckily, the mayor in her wisdom is giving out titanium nets to any imPort who wants to help round up the trouble makers. And, in the spirit of the city, she's offering the imPort that catches the most robots a free meal for two in the swanky Radiation Galley - Jeopardy's top tier, five star restaurant.

Get catchin', imPorts!

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[Heropa]

"An imPort, there's an imPort!"

A round of applause arose, coupled with sighs of relief. The heroes would know how to handle this situation and one just happened to appear! Forget the whole matter of their holding a piece of paper (a grocery list) and looking only mildly sleepy.

What a hero she was, as well: Standing at a mighty 5'2'', the black-tailed, horned woman dressed as if prepared for a Renaissance Faire was unceremoniously shoved to the front of the crowd amid those cheers, stumbling on her boots before she righted herself. After she tucked away her shopping list, she sighed and made a show of straightening out the way her feathered cap rest atop her head, causing many hair beads and tiny bells to jingle.

"...I came as soon as I could!" She was a bard. Please. She's got the bullshit game down.

"But I'll need a volunteer to go in with me. There is no 'I' in team, now is there darlings? No, no." After sticking a leg out to make that first step theatrical, she moved for the shop entrance with purpose. Stocking up on tea and yogurt would come later, she guessed.

"But they'll have to keep up! There's lives at stake!"

[Maurtia Falls]

Regular humans in costumes. Well, what did you expect when this world idolized superheroes? It was no skin off Madhuri's back to apprehend, give a sound talking to, and send them on their way if they haven't done anything to warrant a sheriff. So here we go again with Mister Mars, who is snatching a purse and laughing in old lady faces.

Well, that's not nice.

But it's when he starts floating that drives the tiefling to start and quickly reach for the whip that's tucked into her beltline.

"Ohhh no you don't! Dear, we need to have a little talk!"

She whirled it 'round and sent the popper and fall to wind around an ankle. Surely this person is strapped to some sort of stage line or maybe has helium somehow magically tucked into their trousers. But his lift does not end there, as the bard isn't the heaviest person on any planet.

Her boots lift off, and she began going up with Mister Mars. Dumbfounded, she held on tight and began her impromptu flying journey.

Okay, she had to think of something...! No pressure, of course.

"Hup!"

It's nothing for All Might to transform as soon as he sees a villanous character, but he backs off a little when someone else seemingly has it in hand. Even pulling a whip out from her belt- what a good support item, he thinks.

However, when all doesn't go as planned, All Might leaps after the floating duo with all his might (ha ha), managing to grasp onto Madhuri's leg with one arm and hanging on to a decorative gargoyle for dear life with the other.

"Everything... is okay... because I am here!" he grunts out, but oh, what a precarious position to be in. "I'll pull you both down!"

Oh dear. She always was told and believed she had legs of steel, but they were being put to the test. Guy at the ankle, all attached to the poor gargoyle that was grimacing its entire life for this moment. This would make papers for sure, but she wasn't sure she wanted something like this to be a part of her legacy.

Oh well. She'd been in worse.

"Forget about me, Ser! Mister Mars! You need to get hold of Mister Mars!"

"Are you able to get to the ground safely?" All Might grunts out. "Or to the top of this building? If so, I can grab this terrifying villain and find some way to get down ourselves. If not, I can assist you down THEN take care of the villain."

Likely by grabbing hold of the whip around the villain's leg and punching the air- that was usually enough to counteract anyone else's Quirk.

"I can!" The gentleman seemed to have things under control. He also seemed to not skip arm, leg, body, neck and butt day.

"You head on first! I need to break contact!"

Easy enough. She could just magic her way out of this and curse the fact that her Immovable Rod didn't come through the portal with her. She prepared by yanking down the cord to try and pass it to All Might.

All Might grabs onto the cord, letting go of her and the gargoyle just before it crumbles, trusting that this other hero can take care of herself.

"Splendid! Kentucky... SMASH!" And with that, All Might punches the air as hard as he can with his free hand, breaking whatever seems to be keeping Mister Mars afloat, and they both go flying towards the ground, making a small crater upon impact. Thankfully, All Might seems unhurt, and the villain is plenty dazed.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a teenager dressed in a ridiculous red tracksuit, yellow goggles, and crimson scarf with a metal guitar case on her back rocketing towards Mister Mars at highly inadvisable speeds!

Without so much as glancing at Madhuri, "King Crimson" tackles the villain, plummeting downwards as she wraps him up in crimson twine. He's tied to a fire hydrant in a matter of a few seconds... but Madhuri, still riding the momentum from when the vigilante pulled Mister Mars down, is still midair.

Momentarily.

"King Crimson," realizing her mistake, wastes not a moment. "Crap crap crap crap don't worry I'll catch you!" she yells as she rushes towards Madhuri, opening her arms to stop her fall.

Ohhh, ohh dear. She hoped this wasn't another civilian trying to play hero, because this was going to get very awkward very quickly. But this person seemed to have a plan, and Mister Mars would find his gravity in short order with the aid of some twine.

The problem was gravity, and she was without the Rod. A hand clapped to the top of her hat to keep it firmly atop her head as she had a brand new problem. She wasn't itching for a faerie tale death by dashing across the stones! Her spare hand fought to weave, call something forth. But this world had a problem involving tearing holes in space and time: It didn't like it very much.

She was still working some sort of symbol when she landed hard into the arms of a waiting King.

To "King Crimson's" credit, she's too focused on making sure that Madhuri doesn't die to so much as blink at the fully-grown tiefling woman landing in her arms. She handles Madhuri as if she's as light as a feather, gently putting her back on the ground. "Damn, that was close. Are you okay? I-"

Then police sirens begin wailing from a block or so away, and "King Crimson" freezes, her VIGILANTE peeking out of her sleeve just enough to give Madhuri an idea why she has such an adverse reaction to officers of the law.

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