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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.

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A. Transportation - City Bus

[Life may have been turned upside down for millions of people over the last few weeks, but let's be real - just because the world is suddenly a comic book doesn't mean you get the day off of school. The only difference is, now you have to catch the bus an hour earlier because of the detours. Thanks a lot, heroes.

So begins this otherwise normal day for Ian Handlon, 15, junior at LCHS and perfectly normal human being, thank you very much. The bus is pretty crowded at this time of day, so he's standing, with one arm wrapped around a vertical railing and the other precariously balancing a large, open textbook. Maybe some folks are worried about aliens or monsters or terrorists or whatever, but right now Ian's mind is singularly focused on passing his midterms.

... Or at least, he's trying to focus. But a rush hour bus is not exactly an ideal cramming location, and he's getting distracted pretty easily, glancing around at people and listening in on their conversations...]

B. Wildcard

[Ian is most easily found at the high school, where he's one of the smallest kids in the junior class; he tries his best to stay under the radar, but as a 90-pound weakling he would make an easy target for bully types. He's in several AP classes. Probably has a group he sits with at lunch, if you want to be in said group, but even there he's relatively quiet and often trying to study for some class or other. (Not very effectively, since lol loud cafeteria and also friends.) Also, he kinda dresses like he shops at Goodwill.]

[Usually riding the bus to school would have been something she avoided--she could just as easily walk to Starling when she lived with her parents--but usually, when she did choose to, like on a rainy day, the cabin was usually fairly clear. But with so many people displaced, the large number of detours and the even larger number of people flocking to Locke to catch a glimpse of the new super heroes, things were a bit crowded.

Much like Ian, Luci was standing, and, also much like the other blond, she had a book in her hand, the other grasping a hanging rope handle. So when the bus came to a rather abrupt stop and those standing in the cabin were jostled, she was no different, flung forward a bit with a start and knocking into the boy. Trying to stop it only caused her to drop her book as well.]

Sorry!

[English Literature. Possibly one of the most boring classes LCHS offers. Honestly, who cares why dead authors picked the exact words they did? Maybe it'd be better with a different teacher, but Mr. Sternbaum barely pays attention to his students at all.

Which is possibly for the best, as Louise (a senior) is distracted today. The focus of this distraction appears to be her backpack, or possibly the bolero jacket draped over it, which is dominated by a large snowflake emblem. She keeps glancing at it, sometimes with a worried or puzzled expression.]

[OOC visual note: Louise's hair is brown and worn loose, and her skin is darker than the icons indicate; exactly how much is outside my ability to say, but she's got an Inuit grandfather.]

Test Drive Meme

Ian Handlon (Ivan | Golden Sun)

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