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WILL YOU HELP SAVE THE WORLD?

Mask or Menace is a panfandom urban 'superhero' genre DWRP game, where heroes, villains, and everyone in between seek to survive and thrive in a world loosely parallel to our own.

fridgeflower

[ Laurie's always hated public speaking, but she's gotten loads better at it. The Network's made addressing a wide group of people much easier, but official addresses…? Things that have weight still feel… Well. Weighty.

Plus, the reason for this address is a dwindling personal circle, more people vanishing. Inevitable but always painful.

So here sits Laurie, costumed in her yellow-and-white superhero getup, looking subdued but friendly. (That's what she's going for, at least.) She's accompanied by Josh Foley. Josh is looking tired and stressed, but relatively resolute, also dressed in shades of gold and white. ]

Hello, everyone. I'm Laurie Collins, also known as Wallflower, and I'm here with a word about the Justice League, one of the superhero organizations set up in this world by imPorts.

We've recently had several prominent members exPort, leaving Josh and I as senior staff and leaving a considerable gap in our lineup. As such, we're seeking new members. If you'd like to be a hero, understanding the risks and all that may be involved… We'd like to work with you.

[ Josh clears his throat, casting a quick glance to Laurie. He wasn’t a full member to begin with and this promotion has him both heartbroken and uneasy. ]

Jaime was one of the first people here who really made me feel like this place could be a home. There’s a chance that all of this means something worse is coming. If my experience has taught me anything it’s that we need to band together to protect ourselves and the world and people we love. [ there is - maybe too telling a look to Laurie before he looks back at the camera. ] Uh… So, we’ll probably start doing interviews and tryouts in a few weeks.

[ Laurie nods, resuming the light smile that had slipped at mention of a vanished friend, one of the best. Bring it to a close. ]

In the meantime, please feel free to ask us any questions here or to let us know you’re interested. It never hurts to have a count before we get things rolling.

We’ll be looking to welcome all levels of experience, whether you come from a world with similar hero groups or whether this is a brand-new reality for you. We’ve got training facilities on-hand and a desire to not only protect the worlds we touch, but to foster the growth of super-powered individuals in as safe and experienced an environment as possible.

Thank you.

hot_handed

HEY, BASTARDS!!!

[The video shows Katsuki standing somewhere in Maurtia Falls with his free hand splayed out and twitching an infuriated scowl on his face as a vein throbs against his forehead. The first thing he did as soon as he got back was start to head home, but he has a question.]

The psychos in the lab coats and Porter thought it would be a good idea to give me some kinda new shitty healing quir-power, and it's bullshit! The fuck is wrong with 'em?! What if I blow someone up on accident instead of on purpose?! So I was wondering-

WHICH OF YA LOSERS ARE GOOD AT HEALING OR WHATEVER!!!

goldtoxicity

Hey, so - calling all healers! Or, like... medically inclined ImPorts?

My job's lookin' to open up a new internship program for anybody with healing powers or supersmarts or whatever. [ he clearly does not have one of these powers. ] Their thinking is, like, working together we can really advance medical tech and knowhow here. It's a great place to work. They don't care if you get busy with heroism or whatever. They pay crazy well, too.

[ he snaps his fingers into fingerguns. ]

I've also got loads of experience with mastery over healing techniques, and like, a few PhDs worth of medical knowledge in my head, so if you need a mentor in medicine or some first aid, I'm your guy! I've also kinda never really hung out with another healer, who wasn't like, vaguely evil or like a million years old - so it'd be cool to compare notes?

passfail

So, what's Black Friday, anyway? Is this some American day of remembrance for a tragedy I don't know about?

And before any of you decide to get cute about it:

1. I'm not from the US, and I'd never been before arriving here

2. I tried searching for the same information about Columbus Day and got what I'm pretty sure are all the same sales advertisements I'm seeing now only with fewer birds

pillz

[some might be overwhelmed by the existential crisis that's laid siege to their doors with evidence of other dimensions, evidence of other lives. but others are feeling somewhat cavalier about the whole thing.]

hey fam.

sounds like total meltdown is in fashion right now, and i get it. bodies in space. too many bodies, too much space. but i gotta assume somebody out there is feeling some morbid curiosity. half of you are spies, robot scientists, or god-punching vigilantes, right? you've crushed lemonade out of comets. you're the universe in ecstatic goddamn motion. or something.

text me your name and a mugshot & i'll let you what you was in the other world in a quick and dirty 3 lines

[ooc: all responses will be icly derived from a few days of kavinsky's access to the network and his

f2020 alternate persona's notes. let me know via narration if your character was off-network/unknown.]

goldtoxicity

Look, uh...

[ he's in his office at work, because when he doesn't know what to do he does one of two things - parties, or throws himself into whatever he can to distract himself. he scratches the side of his head with his pencil, frowning. ]

I've been thinkin' about this all week, and its gonna eat at me if I don't ask. Just for my own peace of mind.

So, like, the world I come from isn't too different from this one. It's - actually worse, in like, pretty much every way. And there was this thing that happened - kind of pretty much exactly what people are tellin' me went down in the month most of us can't remember. Alternate universe, everybody's kinda their worst self. Only at the end of that... When things got put back to normal, they were ten times worse.

[ he taps the pencil against his desk instead of going on. he doesn't want to say "no more imports" in case somethings still weird enough in the air to make it true. ]

I guess there's no easy way to ask this, so I'm just gonna ask... did anybody lose their powers? O-Or come back looking or feeling, like, different. Or, just...

[ he flounders for words, then sighs. the pencil stops tapping against the desk. ]

Just quite whole, I guess. I know we're missing the tattoos and some of the lingo changed, but uh... if everybody wants to go run a test on their abilities to make sure all that's still there, that'd make me feel a lot better.

curriculum_fictae

[ The feed opens to show a rather stiff looking man in his early thirties (late twenties?). Copper red hair, broad shouldered and soft-faced, wearing a rather threadbare grey jumper. He seems a bit nervous? And his eyes stare down at the sheaf of papers he keeps shuffling in front of him. Someone is reading off a script.

(There's something odd about him. Something off. It's not unusual for someone with that hair colour to be pale, but he seems nearly grey in spots, trailing off into transparency around the edges. At least for a moment. And then you blink, and he's an entirely normal person blinking at you with his dull brown eyes.) ]

Hullo, ah. My name is Martin Blackwood and - and I'm an Archive Assistant at the Magnus Institute, London.

[ His accent is rather more Mancunian rather than Londoner, but either way, he's obviously from the UK, if you're the sort to recognise that kind of thing. ]

I've just arrived here with - with Jon Sims, who's the Head Archivist at the same Institute. And ... we'd like very much to keep up the work that we'd done back home. It's, ah.

[ He flushes darkly. ]

Well we don't exactly have a choice is the thing. So.

I-if you have any unusual or supernatural stories from home or - or otherwise, I would be very grateful if you would agree to tell them to us. Text is more or less required? Though if you would like, I'm willing to take your statement in person and write it down for Jon later. Just. Ah. Don't give it to him directly, or there will be um. Side effects.

I'm happy to provide more details on how they'll be used upon request, of course. But honestly, they won't go past me and Jon.

[ Because Jon's going to eat them, of course. ]

PRIVATE: Locked from Jon

And ... er, while I've got you here. Ah.

[ He gulps in a breath, looking even more nervous somehow. ]

Does anyone know of any good therapists around here? One that specialises in the supernatural, perhaps...?

modormenace

On September 7th 2020, all characters were transported to an alternate dimension for September's Fractured World mod plot. Action taking place in the setting of this event can be found on f2020.

Feel free to tag this entry with your character's community tag to indicate you participated in the Fractured World this month and provide yourself a link back to those events!

THE FRACTURED WORLD

OOC PLOTTING POST

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goldtoxicity

I've got an important question: does anyone know to crochet?

I made a promise and I need to make good on that promise which means I gotta start producing some quality doilies before Christmas.

In exchange I'll, uh... I dunno. We can hash that out when we get there?

goldtoxicity

[ he's clearly in his office at the hospital, with the little clacky balls and the shittons of heavy textbooks in the background. it looks kind of refined, even if josh is sitting with his feet up on his desk and holding his phone loosely in one hand. ]

Soooo... I've been thinking of like, normal, responsible adult things to do on a weekend that are good for everybody annnnnd barbeques seem to be like the standard good time. So I bought a barbeque and the weather is looking good this weekend, so howsabout it? I'll supply the meat, and like, some veggie options but you're in charge of your own booze.

[ a pause, he points at the screen and squints thoughtfully. ]

... Unless you're not old enough to drink. [he draws his hand back. ] Then no booze for you. And I'll know, don't try to sneak it. I'll just get some sparkling lemonade for you or something.

[ he flicks the clacky balls to get them going. ]

Everybody's invited, especially you newbies. It sucks to be new and know nobody, and like, the Swear-Ins are great but I'm not super into the expectation to sign up. I'm Josh, by the way, Josh Foley. I'm "unsettled" [ heavy airquotes" ] And I work in De Chima General, I'm a healer, and I think that about covers it? Lemme know if you're interested and I'll send you an invite with my address.

fridgeflower

Hello.

I've been assigned a very important task that I now realize I'm very ill-prepared for, having lived a life of quiet and pathetic solitude.

Please help:

1. Party game suggestions?
2. Venue recommendations?
3. Cocktail + mocktail recipes?
4. Public speaking tips?
5. Dance instruction maybe????

Thank you.

vociferates

[Here's Hizashi, firing off enthusiastic finger guns at the camera, once again. Honestly it doesn't really seem like he stops moving the whole video, as he talks as much with his hands as he does his mouth.]

Heeeeeeeeey there listeners! Hope everyone's hanging in there and keeping your noses out of trouble! Looks like there might be a little bit of an uptick in media attention thanks to this new popularity contest gig but that's not what I'm here to talk to you about!

Got a little problem I was hoping some more tech-inclined of you out there could solve for me! My Quirk's called Voice. [he pauses, pursing his lips and then leans in towards the screen.] You know, superpower or whatever it gets commonly called here. I've got crazy pitch and volume and all that jazz but it's hard to direct without causing serious damage unintentionally without my support gear!

[he inserts a shrug here, dramatic, exaggerated.] So what I'm looking for is someone who can help me out and fashion me something similar! Not really digging going through more traditional channels for this you dig? I've got rough sketches and can talk to you about what it needs to do.

[He flashes a couple of these sketches on the screen - he is clearly not an artist but they are at least usable - and he at least includes an actual photograph of the gear around his neck shown here.]

Hit me up if you've got the means, and we can talk about payment, yo!

onederfulhero

[Toshinori's had this post percolating in his head for a while, but he's been hesitant to talk about it, not in the least because he's sure Midoriya, Momoyao and Present Mic would know right away that it was him and would (rightfully) be upset he didn't talk to them first. Heck, anyone he's told his story to might be able to piece it together.

But he has to know, and wants to hear the perspectives of people for whom he isn't All Might. So here he goes.]

I know there are some people here who come from worlds where superheroes are common, so you may know best how to answer this, but then again anybody from any world might have some insight.

Say that, back in your world, you were a great hero. Your life was dedicated to saving people, you loved to do it, and it was all you could ever see yourself doing.

Except something happens, your body just isn't strong enough to support your heroism any longer, and then you have to retire.

What do you do? How do you spend your time when you didn't plan on giving up the proverbial cape so soon? How do you still feel useful?

goldtoxicity

Sooooo...

Here's a question. What's the weirdest thing one of your fans has ever done? Or, like, the weirdest piece of content you've ever found?

Because I just found there are bwitter accounts dedicated to trying to prove I'm not actually dating my girlfriend? I thought it was a joke but they're in like, a flame war with someone whose really into it... Like, I know I shouldn't be reading it, but I just can't look away.

[ oh, right, wait, also need to be responsible. ]

Oh, right, almost forgot. Hi, I'm Josh Foley. I work at De Chima General. If you've got weird medical needs or something you need fixed, I'm your dude.

helpdesk_hero

[Remember that dude that was rambling only a few weeks ago about doing stuff for young imPorts? Do you recognize his face enough to recognize him in the eleven year old who has stolen a hoodie from a housemate. Which has its hood pulled up. Which mostly, but doesn't completely, hide the pale yellow feathers over the top of his head. No, he will not be talking about those, thanks.]

So, when I said I wanted to help young imPorts, this wasn't what I meant.

Does, uh, anyone have a step-stool for a kitchen? Or who is willing to run out and get one for me? I need to make dinner but I am having issues reaching some of the pantry like this.

[He holds the camera a bit further away so he can be seen in relation to the counter in the kitchen. He wasn't a TALL eleven year old, okay? His growth spurt was when he was fourteen and right now he's only about four and a half feet and there are some annoyances here.]

And don't make any jokes. I may be in a kid's body, but I'm still capable of getting pay back.

Also, does anyone know what the FUCK is going on?

[Please don't lecture him for his language.]

I just want to make pasta primavera for dinner.

[And he definitely has that bit of whining that pre-teens get when they're told to do something they don't want to do.]

goldtoxicity

( memories. warning for violence, body horror, medical horror. )

Hey. [ he shifts uncomfortably in his seat. ] I know things suck right now, but like, remember that your worst moments? They might be part of you, but they aren't like... all of you. So long as you don't let them be everything. Your past doesn't need to define your future, y'know...?

[ he rubs the back of his neck. ]

I figure... we could all use somebody saying that right now.

everduring

Hello, everyone. In case you're new here, let me reintroduce myself. I'm Dr. Eli Ever, a neuroscientist with the United States Department of Health and Human Services and an imPort, like you.

[ With such a friendly face! Which is why this is a video post, rather than text. ]

I'd like to speak with you today about the recent multiversal disturbance and the even more recent dissociative affliction experienced by a portion of you. If you're willing and you were affected by either or both of these phenomena, I'd appreciate it if you'd describe your experience and answer a few questions for me.

This isn't a formal survey or study, by any means. Just a conversation, really. I wasn't affected by either event, myself, so I'd like to get a better grasp of the situation from those who were. I hope that this will help me to better serve the imPort community in the days ahead.

I also want to make clear that I'm not a psychiatric doctor. As a neuroscientist, I study brain function, not behavior. I'm not here to provide therapy, but to search for links in symptoms that can paint a picture about how these traumatic events affect overall brain structure, and how to proceed with treatment from there.

We, as imPorts, suffer from unique circumstances that rarely affect the native population, and therefore the conditions that affect us are both underdiagnosed and undertreated. I'm doing my part to correct that disparity, and I hope our conversations can provide insight toward that end.

sidearmed

One of my roommates mentioned that you can change jobs — find something new, if the one you're assigned isn't working out.

[ Bucky has been giving a couple of lectures a week, regular as clockwork, but they're beginning to get under his skin. He wonders if that was the point or just a side effect. ]

If that's true ... how does a guy go about looking for decent employment? In case anyone is interested, I'm decent with weapons, combat, and working on vehicles made before, say, 1950.

codeoracle

I never really gave a lot of thought to it. I never thought I'd still be here at this point...and back home I was still fifteen--almost sixteen.

[She's just inside the camera's field of vision, off to one side. She's on her bed, leaning against the headboard, a large stuffed narwhal gripped tight to her chest.]

But I'm going to be an adult in nine days. I know it's just some arbitrary thing, that being eighteen doesn't make us any more adult than we were the day before...It's just weird. We--my friends and I--were so focused on the fact that adults we knew being terrible that I never thought about what I'd do as an adult.

How can I be better than the adults I knew? Can I be...?

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