test drive meme!

[sucrosity]

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.

Comments

[truthcharted]

That would have been nice to know to start with! Dammit! [The report of the pistol echoes out again, as he blows a chunk out of a branch, missing another bird by inches.]

Some of us have ways to deal with things even without past-life bullshit, you know!

[seed_of_memory]

[Fate grit her teeth. She used a firearm herself, so she wasn't exactly one to criticize. However...]

Learn when you're outmatched! Just get the hell out of here!

[of course, she was distracted to a degree herself, leaving her unaware of the dog-vermini approaching her from the side...]

[truthcharted]

[He opens his mouth to reply, but he sees the dog coming first, paws bearing opposable thumbs that really shouldn't be there, and more importantly bearing down on the young woman from a direction she's not watching.

He steps forward, within reach if he uses the stick... but he'll break it. Although, it's probably fixable... maybe. Or, hopefully, it's stronger than it looks. He's banking on the second solution, and praying with all his might that the thing holds as he swings for the fences, cylindrical blue end coming in to make contact.]

Like hell I will!

[Just before it hits, the sensation of his world falling out from under him hits again, this time accompanied by a weird sensation of exertion in his chest, and the end of the staff glowing blue, adding in a light tone, Break Impulse. The head catches the dog and starts to carry it, before the effect takes hold, and it's blown quite a distance away.]

Huh. I guess I'm just supposed to guess until it works. I can do that. [Kevin grins grimly, settling in for a fight where he stands.]

[seed_of_memory]

[that... that left Fuyuka standing there, wide eyed for the moment. She narrowed her gaze, staring at Kevin before tracing her eyes over his staff]

Intelligent device detected

[she pursed her lips as Bardiche spoke. That clinched it]

... You have the same sort of weapon as I do.