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

[alwaysbeton]

Hmm, too right. New Locks may be called for. [he reaches behind him into a simple black oilcloth satchel, retrieving a collapsible umbrella and popping it open. The figure cancels his transformation.

A flash of light, and there's a young man in a lab coat standing there. The most immediately noticeable detail is the white streak through his hair.]

Warren Statesman, at your service.

[purestambition]

[The name tingles a bit of familiarity in the back of her mind. She knows at least enough of where to connect it to, and that leaves her on her guard. Enough at least, that she doesn't budge an inch, because she otherwise chooses to not show anymore tension than she already is.]

Besides being illegal, stalking is a bad way to get acquainted with someone. It may lead to some... misunderstandings.

[And at that, her grip does tighten on the case before her, just slightly.]

[alwaysbeton]

[he half raises an eyebrow, smirking.]

Oh? It seems like you've misunderstood my purpose here. I'm on assignment - you have nothing to do with it. [never mind what that assignment is.]

[purestambition]

[She does the same. She isn't smirking.]

Quite the coincidence, then.

[Particularly considering she, too, had a transformation ability. But... there was no need for him to know that.

Unless he did.

Which could be troublesome, if the name comes from where she thinks it does.]

Assignment from whom?

[Not that she had much business to be asking, but like that's the sort of thing that will stop her. And if she is right... well.

She was damned well going to pry.]