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

[sylvanguard]

I'm lucky. My keys were still in my hand when I was robbed. I was actually on my way to my apartment when they mugged me.

[moreweaponsthanyou]

That's good. You should probably head home, take a good long soak if you have a bathtub. That used to make me feel better when I've had something upsetting.

[sylvanguard]

And chocolate. Nothing fixes a bad day like chocolate. But your advice pretty good. Thanks again.

[moreweaponsthanyou]

No problem. And here. [Fil digs into his wallet for one of his business cards. His cell phone number is on it, as well as his full name.] Call me if you need something, like if the police wants a witness or something.

[sylvanguard]

Thanks. [She glances at the business card, before tucking it into the pocket of her jeans.]

That's even if I can get ahold of them to report a crime. But I think I can call my laptop good as gone, and my wallet too.

[moreweaponsthanyou]

[Fil winces. He'd feel awful if his own was taken, especially his laptop.]

You could just walk into a station. There's one not too far off from here I think. But yeah, likely the laptop's going be sold off. You had backups of your data I hope?

[sylvanguard]

It was just a personal thing, email, chat. That sort of stuff. I didn't use it for work. Kind of hard to lug it around a national park.

[She frowns at the idea of going into a police station.]

If they are as busy as they seem to be, I'd just waste more time hanging around for someone to take a statement and then be filed away somewhere, completely written off.