Test Drive Meme

[scramasax]

HEL-LO, EARTH'S NEW HEROES.

Test Drive Meme!

Scenarios:

> Cleanup of downtown Locke City still has a ways to go. It looks like that shop you were planning on another trip to this week is closed for the time being. Or the entire block is trashed and you'll be needing an alternate route to work. Or your workplace is trashed, if not some real estate you had in the area, and you'll be needing a helping hand - or are trying to offer one!
> Help, help, I've been robbed - your bag or wallet's just been snatched, or is in the process of being snatched. Catch the snatcher or rough them up - you may or may not be surprised, if you come to blows or a chase, to find on throwing a punch that they're much quicker and/or sturdier than you'd have expected. Maybe someone will dive in to back you up.
> Monster encounter! The above or you were robbed (or, for all you could tell, misplaced something) a while ago, and one of the objects you lost seems to have come back to you, if not the way you recognize it. Ayup, getting backup might be a good idea.
> Transportation/travel. You're at an airport or train station, whether to escape or take a tour to a strange-events hotspot, or plain go on an innocent vacation. Mix up your bags or timetables, grab a pre-ride snack, chat up those with the same destination, get or give directions, find yourself receiving an ill-timed item Echo in front of security - whatever you can think up!
> Say - is that one of those superhumans you've spied on the street? Yes, I do believe it is - you've seen them on the news/read about them, that or their looks give them away! Go on and ask questions of them, be it for serious answers or an autograph, depending on who you are.
> ...And it looks like you're a superhuman yourself. Looks like that hollowed-out feeling you got was followed by a mutation, or some strange thing in your brain. How're you going to come to grips with it?
> Wildcard/Etc. Make up your own!

Prompts suggested by Alec and Zero.

Comments

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[disembiggen]

Come on! Shrink! Back to normal! Undo! Revert! Smallify!

[Kamala is having some trouble with her recently-acquired superpowers. Specifically with the fact that her right arm is currently the size of the rest of her body put together. At some point along the way of trying, in vain, to make it go back to its original size, she notices she's being watched]

Oh, no. Don't panic! Nothing you are seeing is real! This is all an elaborate hallucination!

[mistcaller]

[Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Keep it cool, keep it cool.]

I don't think those things would tell you that they are. Are you okay? Did you do that on purpose? Do you think any of that'll make it normal again?

[Not a trace of panic here, Kamala. Just wide-eyed fascination. It looks like something out of those movies her mom doesn't like her watching. Kind of awesome, really.]

[disembiggen]

"I have no idea" is a pretty good answer to all three of those questions. The thing they don't tell you about getting super powers is how they don't come with an instruction manual.

[mistcaller]

She approaches with at least a little caution. She's excited, not stupid.

"Does it hurt?" Oh. Maybe she should try and help, too. "What were you doing when it happened? Maybe doing the opposite will change it back."