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TEST DRIVE MEME

Scenarios:

> Hometown Hustle - Are you still recovering from Locke City's recent Alien Invasion? Are these murders in Vegas really getting you down? Or are you excited, for one reason or another?
> 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! There's a Vermini infestation going around in Las Vegas that may present itself in either of two forms. One is swarms of little black... insects? Tiny little wingless people-shaped ugly fairy things? The second is animals with a nose for the Numbered and an aggressive streak with some distinct mutations - you might find a lizard with disturbingly human ears, a bird with teeth, etc.
> 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Victims don't get crowds together to murder someone that hasn't just tried to harm them. Whether he meant to do it or not, it's his fault, and justice needs to be served. Which makes him my problem. I don't like problems. They're time-consuming, and they involve a lot of paperwork. And they typically mean a life has to end, beyond the ones that have already been affected.

In the end, what are we? We're people that can't live in the present. The world has seen fit to bless us with these connections to other selves. Guess what? That makes us freaks. Every last one of us. You, me, your boyfriend, all of us. Freak camp is a mild word for what could happen to us.

I know all of your help was instrumental in protecting Locke City from that snake, a few months back. But the truth is, people are afraid. It's human nature to be scared of something you don't understand, and there's literally no way to make sense of us. We get powers and memories out of thin air. We're the average person's worst nightmare, and when stories of things like that hit the news, it doesn't get any better.

I... I knew him! He wasn't like that! He was better than that! If whatever happened to him was anyone's fault, it was his previous self's...

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I... I have to believe we're separate from them! Or else...

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And he is not my boyfriend! Why do people keep saying that?! I don't even like guys!

[Ah, the crux of the matter. Kevin's tone softens somewhat.]

I understand that. I want to believe that, too. Arresting someone because some other person on a distant world was a murderer isn't really in my playbook. You were a person, before you got these numbers, this connection. I don't think that it's something that changes a person inherently. It has to be something you don't question, that you just accept. That's where the problem is.

But our world - my bosses included - don't necessarily think that way. If someone's dangerous, then even if they're not necessarily dangerous where I can see them, they're under surveillance pending being taken into custody. That, unfortunately, is in my playbook. And if all of this gets out of hand, we're going to have a lot of people to take in. I'm hoping that doesn't happen - especially considering it might get me taken in, too.

...Sorry about the boyfriend thing, by the way. It's kind of a default reaction to something like this. But boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend, sister, whatever... the point stands. All of us have to be aware of what we're doing, now. This is more than just you, or I.

Then if you're gonna expect US to play nice, you need to do what you can and tell those guys in charge the truth.

What truth is that? That people are worried about losing themselves to their pasts? That there are people that can incite riots, or control minds, or make magical staves wholesale, or shoot massive death lasers? If I tell them those things, they're going to try and suppress everyone because the potential that the rest of us will turn out the same way is too high. As things are now, we still have some of our autonomy to decide what's okay and what isn't. Believe me, I'm taking notes.

It's going to be give and take for a while. I can make recommendations, but I'm not senior enough to really do anything with any authority. Sorry, but that's just the way it goes.

So who exactly is gonna be giving in all of this? From the way you're describing it, we're the ones who're gonna be doing it all.

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