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

[youngestone]

Yes, yes it is. Why d'you think people are still pressing for more clean up crews? Were you here when the monster thing attacked? Some places still don't have electricity.

[arrowpoint]

No, but I heard about it.

[A pause. He looks up at a nearby crumbling building.]

And yeah, that's kind of why I'm here in the first place.

[youngestone]

To volunteer?

[Killian kind of eyes him warily]

Please tell me you know what you're doing, at least? I mean, any help's great but help that has an idea of what the fuck they're doing's even better.

[arrowpoint]

No, I'm here to work for my uncle, so I'm getting paid... don't worry I know what I'm doing.

[youngestone]

That is not reassuring at all, just so you know. Granted, you didn't say "I'm from the government and I'm hear to help" so you've got that going for you but...

[He snorts]

If you want to start somewhere easier, the bus stop thataway's still closed but it'll be a lot easier--and safer, probably--than messing around with this stuff.

[Killian points off to the south]

[arrowpoint]

Seriously, a bus stop? I went to school for this, chill out.

[A pause as Liam looks down the road.]

Living without a bus for a while might do people some good. Less pollution. A lot of those things use diesel.

[youngestone]

[Oh God above. People like this are why Killian has no desire to go to college]

And you think ten, fifteen cars is better? Not to mention hey! Some people don't have a car and need the bus to get to their job.

[arrowpoint]

Hey, biking and walking are an option, man. They should learn to use their legs.

[A sigh.]

I guess buses are still better than cars, but maybe we can switch them to bio-fuel, like they do in Europe sometimes.

[youngestone]

And the people who can't? Like me until a week or two ago? Or the people who need to haul groceries or small children?

[Just sayin']

You're assuming that America'll spend money on anything that might even possibly smell like Europe because oh my god socialism or communism or whatever it is.

[arrowpoint]

Point taken, but you don't need to worry about that. I'm sure Rain Industries will front a lot of the bill - at least if I have any say in it.

[youngestone]

[Killian snorts]

Assuming whathisface gets out of that cabin he's holed up in or whatever.

[Not a fan? You could say that. Personal attacks'll do that]

[arrowpoint]

Hey, don't knock the cabin, it's beautiful out there!

[Wait whut?]

...You know my uncle?

[youngestone]

...he has family?

[What the fuck]

Yeah, I know him. I've been insulted by him a few times, too.

[arrowpoint]

[He looks insulted at that comment.]

That doesn't surprise me. He can be a real tool sometimes, but he's a good guy.

[youngestone]

He insulted my dead mother. Calling him a "tool" is like calling all this [he gestures to the rubble] a "little clutter". No offense to you, though.

[And okay so it wasn't that he insulted his mother so much as he insulted how Killian is handling everything but it's the same thing in his mind]

But that does explain the biofuel. What hell is biofuel anyway?

[arrowpoint]

[Really? That did seem a little harsh, even for his uncle. Liam figures there must be more to that story.]

Biofuel is like, trash. Plant based foods, stuff that can be composted. It's better for the environment.

[youngestone]

How're cars supposed to run on that?

thank god for wikipedia.

[arrowpoint]

Well, it's not like you shove old fruit into your gas tank. You have to do something to whatever it is you're using, and that varies a little depending upon what type you're going for.

If you're talking biodiesel for buses, you're probably going to start with vegetable oil - but trust me, it's complicated.

[youngestone]

I think I saw something about that on Mythbusters once...used vegetable oil for diesel or something.

[Meh]

It sounds complicated.

[arrowpoint]

Yeah, don't worry about it, you probably wouldn't understand it.

[youngestone]

If that's a crack at my intelligence, try harder. I just don't see the government agreeing to spend money and time on something that might actually be helpful when they can spend it on stupid shit.

[arrowpoint]

I'm just saying you don't seem like the kind of guy to have majored in environmental studies or sciences, if you had no idea how biofuel worked.

[He frowns at the other comment.]

I guess that's a fair point, but we can get it done.

[youngestone]

It sounded like you were calling me an idiot.

[Just saying]

We being your uncle? Or we as in everyone you can convince to suport it?

[The "does Teagan even care enough to try" goes unsaid]

[arrowpoint]

[Kinda was.]

"We" being Rain Industries. I'm sure we can find a way to make it happen. Couldn't hurt to have the community's support though. It would be nice to see more people interested in preserving the natural environment.

[youngestone]

Right now, people're more interested in getting their lives back to normal. Don't be like that one blond jackass and push for people to do more than they already are.

[He's referring to Enjolras, but he doesn't know his name]