Test drive

[theearth]

Scenarios:

> 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!
> It's raining men vi har paraply It's raining, so seek shelter... Or run into someone because your umbrella is blocking your view, or jump into puddles and get everyone else wetter than they should be.
> Grab a coffee or get a letter You're at work, whatever that is; a coffee shop perhaps, or maybe you work for the FBI or as a kindergarten teacher, or something else entirely. Either way, things happen - maybe you only do your job, but maybe the supernatural suddenly impacts you in ways that you didn't plan on...
> 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? Maybe you received something right in the middle of the street, or while riding the bus, at school, or maybe on a date...
> Wildcard/Etc. Make up your own!

Comments

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[hiallmybuddies]

[Jacob was minding his own business. Really. He was just grabbing a coffee today. So when he bumps into someone and spills his latte all over himself, he's quick to brush it off.]

Nah, its fine. I should've been working harder at paying attention, super soldie-

[But before he can finish whatever baffling nickname he's come up with this time, he makes eye contact.

Harry gets the treat of seeing the life of a young man. A normal life. Go to work, go home, pay some bills. A couple interesting things here and there, girlfriend or two. But otherwise, a normal life.

And then he became a purple alien. A thirst for the devastation of humanity grows and grows, along with an increasing friendliness and good will toward everyone. Jacob was planning on bombing a college and give a homeless man a $20 on the very same day.

Jacob steps back a moment after the soulgaze, needing a moment to recover. Was that real?]

[no_love_potions]

[Harry's just as unprepared for the soulgaze as Jacob is, and even as Harry sees those images, Jacob is treated to a few of his own. Not much different, a normal man, hoping for a normal life and marked with a few scars. Loss, fear, pain.

And then something else, something reaching even deeper. The image of a tall man in a black coat, clutching a staff with blazing runes. A man surrounded by fire and death and war--

--and then it's over and Harry's blinking as well, shaking his head.]

What the hell...?

[hiallmybuddies]

[Jacob tries to clear his head for a moment, hoping all of that was just a new echo. If he could learn someone's entire life, it'd be much easier to shapeshift and impersonate them. But glancing up at the other man, its almost immediately clear that something has been communicated between the both of them.]

Wow, did you just get a doozy of a headache too? [He still has his goofy smile plastered on his face, but he's watching for any specific reaction from Mr. Dresden here.]