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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.

kestreldawn

It seems that having small, sentient companions is rather common here on Earth. Can someone explain why so many people seem to want and/or have them? Especially when they are incredibly small and seem to serve no purpose in terms of protection or strength?

ghoulking

Kanaya has been Ported out. To those who didn’t have the huge pleasure of meeting her, she was a Troll from Alternia and she was one of the few imPorts from the City who were still here. She has helped me and imPorts a lot, to uncover important information and share her own. She was also a good friend, who always helped me from the moment I arrived. [ kaneki doesn’t deal well with loss at all. But he will suck it up right now. ] The City meant a lot to her, in a very bad way. [ it was a traumatizing experience ] And as the last imPorts of the City are slowly leaving and knowledge of that place is fading away, I think she’d want those who are not from there to know about it. Because it matters.

It’s the home of Lachesis, after all, and where it all started. This was all told to me by Kanaya and few other people. Though, if someone wishes to correct me on it, feel free. [ maybe this time someone will be willing to share something? Maybe not. ]

I will call that place “Alpha Universe” and the “Alpha City”. There, Lachesis was in control of a Porter and she ruled the world as she pleased; I can tell you a lot about Lachesis powers, from rewriting history to building new countries, but when you control a machine capable of altering space and time, there is little you can not do. But even all her might and power did not save her world from being bitten away.

She begun to bring imPorts in on 10th October 2008 and at the time she was hidden behind a figure that claimed to be Iron Man. [ Tony Stark, yes ] but once the very same Tony Stark was Ported in, that identity became shaky and eventually Lachesis revealed herself. Her reasoning was always difficult to pin point, but she always did what she's doing here: she brought in people from other universes. There, she used them to do her bidding, whatever it was; in a way, the imPorts were her knights, ether they liked it or not. Unlike like this place, she was much vocal and downright megalomaniac. [ perhaps he shouldn’t be saying this out loud, ooops ]

A lot happened in that world, I've extensive history on it and it's ironic how some things are just so similar to this one. I can tell you that world was destroyed in December 2013 of their calendar, and this destruction was the work of a group by the name of Vulcanus, and ultimate Lachesis own sister, Atropos. Vulcanus was a group of people who wanted to send all imPorts home, and when they couldn't do that they attempted to take their powers through kidnapping and experimentation, and after attempted to put imPort under their heels. Since it didn't pay out, the answer was to kill all imPorts, leading to a fight that took them across multiple universes.

Vulcanus had access to a Porter, where they locked up one of Lachesis sisters, Clotho. With it, they built their perfect world, New Vesuvius, where they had been successful in exterminating imPorts and enslaving the ones left. Though Clotho helped imPorts as she could, this only caused Vulcanus to grow angrier at the audacity, and so they went further: they searched for the last sister.

Atropos is the last of the three Fate Sisters and she’s the one who cuts the string of life, which is very fitting considering what she did to the Alpha World. Possibly using Clotho, Vulcanus brought into Alpha World this last Fate and she bit it half. She destroyed everything – the oceans evaporated, the moon broke, everything became ruins, and while imPorts tried to survive Vulcanus was there to kill them off one by one. Lachesis was forced to abandon her universe in order to save herself and she brought along some of the imPorts to this world, leaving behind Vulcanus and Atropos. Who are still there.

When this world’s government says they are afraid of something coming through this Porter, they mean them. I hope you'll understand why.

If you have any questions, I will try answering. [ since a lot of people from the City prefer not to ] All I have is Kanaya's testimony and I was not in the Alpha City, so I can't tell you my personal experience. Only hers.

darkpants_warmfeeling

Jacob Taylor here. I've got an update on the investigation into the OTO. That's Otherworld Technologies Organization for the new people on the Network: they're a group that's been responsible for a lot of the bad things that have happened this year. The report is here for anyone who wants to take a look at it.

If you're going after the OTO, be careful. They're seriously bad news. But we need to keep chasing them down, before they hurt more people. The government's been supporting our operations so far: they're on our side on this one. If you find anything out, you can tell me or another member of the RISE team.

That's not the only thing I wanted to talk about, though. Last week, a friend of mine took a life in combat. He's facing the consequences for it now. I've done the same thing plenty of times, in the military and out of it. And I know some of the OTO's scientists didn't survive the raid on their cloning facility last month.

It's a heavy thing to deal with. Sometimes it's necessary. But a lot of people think imPorts are dangerous right now. If we do too much damage, we're going to risk proving them right about us. Doesn't matter if it's because we're battling bad guys.

I think this fight with the OTO is just getting started. It's not going to be the last time we have to make those kinds of choices. And we need to work together if we're going to beat them. I figure that'll be easier if we're all clear on where we stand. About what we're willing to do to get it done.

So here's what I want to ask you: would you kill, to save a life? Or is that going too far for you? And how do you want to hold people accountable for something like that?

dumbfound

[ There's a kid sitting on screen with a opaque plastic cup with a slightly less opaque bendy straw sipping something dark out of that cup. He's staring blankly at a spot right below the camera for several seconds before-- ]

Wait... people have evil clones now?

[ Yes... no, yes. He's dead serious with that question. ]

khajidont

So, first off - hi to all the new people 'round here! I'm Jaime, and I've been here for... gosh, it's gotta be, what, three years now? Longer than most people around here, with a few exceptions. Anyway, if you got any questions about how things work around here, feel free to ask me, and I'll answer if I can. Or if anyone's looking for a job at a garage, we got a position opening up - maybe even two. [ If Erik's successful, that is. With that in mind, Jaime leans back in his seat (he's at his computer desk in his room, a rumpled bed behind him with a stack of textbooks on his bedside table), and gets going on what he really wanted to talk about. ]

What I really wanted to ask you guys, though, is this: did you bother going to school here? You know, college and all that? Getting your GED's good for finding a half-decent job around here, but about a year ago, I didn't really see the point in going to college if we might not be around long enough to even get halfway through a degree. Now, though... I'm starting to reconsider.

[ He brushes a lock of hair out of his face (it's really too long, again), and continues. ]

So. If you decided to go to school, why'd you do it? If you actually made the decision to not go to school, d'you think that was the right call? Just consider this, like, an informal poll. I'm interested in hearing what you guys have got to say.

am_i_a_monster

Mother's day has come and gone. It was my first mother's day here. I never got to see where my mother's ashes were scattered. And now I never will. It's made me think of other ways to remember her.

[She holds up a sketch she made of her mother, climbing a mountain.]

That's her. I drew her going up Eagle Mountain. It was a trip we were planning to make, before...

[Her voice trails off and she puts the sketch down.]

Well, before.

[She pauses and blinks a few times, keeping herself from crying.]

I have a power with a harpsichord. One of the things I can do is help people recall good memories. Or make the bad ones less painful. I can't use it on myself. It only works on others. So if anyone wants to remember the good things about the people you've lost, or to get beyond some bad memories, I can try to help you.

[It isn't entirely selfless. She's hoping someone out there can offer to help with her memories too.]

continuousgroaning

[Once Tina had had everything explained to her, she intended to do... something. Maybe not give a great big speech, but at least say hello, meet the people she'd be living and working with. However, the stage fright kicks in and all that comes out of her mouth is an uncertain groaning noise.]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[She shuts up then, and switches to text.]

sorry, I get horrible stage fright sometimes. i guess here it's even worse because I wouldn't think of myself as being superhero material. especially when my powers are

that I can cook really well and pass through things?

And I have a job at a jeans factory, which doesn't fit with either of those. am I at least in good company?

oh, my name's Tina :)

dumbfound

[ The video feed flicks on to a closeup of Junseo's face before he pulls back and gives the camera a little wave. ]

If you were seventeen, but then you went back to your world for long time, and you were eighteen there, but then you came back here and your birthday is in ten days...

[ Trails off with a "uhhhh" starting off somewhere just off to the right of the camera for a good several seconds. ]

I don't know how old I am anymore?

[ Back to the camera. ]

Also being back here feels weird, but also not really? It doesn't feel like I was gone for that long, but also like I left a really long time ago. Does this happen a lot? I wasn't gone that long last time I left, so it didn't feel as weird.

[ Pause. ]

I don't think...?

dumbfound

[ Who remembers that llama from about a week ago? Well guess what? It's back on camera now! How... exciting?

It's still in the same bedroom, which seems suspiciously like a place a llama doesn't belong, but this time it's on the bed, and seems pretty comfortable.

A voice cuts in, but the camera stays on the llama. ]

None of the farms knew who he belonged to, but he likes me, so I am going to keep him.

[ A pause. ]

His name is Fluffy?

[ He doesn't sound as sure about that, but that's what he was told to name the llama, and who is he to go against that? ]

dumbfound

[ Things have been kind of weird lately, and after having been followed around for a bit by a spectral version of the old woman that used to live next door to him, Junseo's mostly been sticking to work and home. He's back in his room, unwinding after a tiring day of work. All is normal--

Except... except as the video cuts on, and Junseo squints at the camera before pushing his sliding chair back across the floor so the space behind him is visible, it's clear he's got something else following him around now. ]

Uhm... I found a lost dog?

[ That is not a dog... ]

akito

What kind of shit would you do on a birthday when none of your friends are around to spend it with?

Under-18 shit only.

admemoriam

Okay. Best type of dog, and why. Go.

[There's only one correct answer to this - all of them - but Noah will accept some alternatives.]

aojona

[ The feed on the screen today displays both a strange sight and from a strange angle; it appears to be a view from the top of a building in Heropa (from what other scenery suggests), angled in such a way to capture an alleyway -- and the walls that frame it -- below.

On the ground there's a yellow spray-painted silhouette of a woman, her hair a wild, spiraling cloud that also spreads over part of the walls; in the shapes of her hair appear numerous eyes, painted in green, an there are red poppies growing from the ground precisely where her face would be.

Also, the camera is being held upside down.

Pablo himself doesn't speak immediately, although the view on the screen shifts a little as he moves the arm holding the communicator, giving a glimpse of the fire escape that he's lying on. ]

I found that here this morning. [ Almost definitely his doing, but he doesn't remember doing it. ] It reminds me of my sister, actually -- it's her birthday today.

[ His twin sister, if he's mentioned her. ]

We haven't seen each other in a few years, but I uh, I always try to do something anyway... I think it's nice to have rituals like that, you know? Um, or in general. But I think it can help, like, keep people close to you even when they're not. Does anyone else have those?

disguarded

[The feed cuts on to a shot of a woman with a very impassive expression sitting at a table... in a park maybe? She's somewhere outside at least, drawing in some sort of sketchpad, and by all appearances might not even know the camera is actually recording her. That is, until she speaks up after several long seconds of silence, eyes still locked on the page in front of her.]

Sorry for the interruption, everyone, but I'm curious about something, and I hope you have a second to answer.

In your time here, have you made many friendships or alliances, even knowing that they'll all be ending soon and forgotten? If so, why? And why do you think it's so common to do this? What motivates people to keep trying?

[She finally stops her sketching and looks over to the camera, holding up her pencil in front of her.]

Also, do you know where I can find better supplies for things like this? I usually just take what I can get, but if quality is an option...

thirdprogenitor

[ This isn't any different from the council meetings she's had with the other progenitors back in her world, it's simply... smaller. Much smaller.

Krul stares into the device that she has propped up against something, chin resting on the back of her hand with elbows on the table. Eyes of crimson blink slowly and she lifts a hand to tuck a couple of bright pink strands of hair behind a pointed ear; her expression seems almost bored. It's when she drops her chin into the palm of her hand that she smiles for a moment then, deciding to ask what's been on her mind. ]

Those of you who consume blood... [ There's a glance off to the side for a moment. ] ...how do you find it to be here? This... artificial blood?

[ Her expression changes even as she says the words ARTIFICIAL BLOOD, finding the sheer thought alone of having to consume anything man-made as disgusting but somehow not all that surprised that such a thing exists. Humans tamper with everything after all, don't they? ]

Those of you who don't... [ She smiles then, ever-so-sweetly with just a touch of something sinister behind it. ] ...would you ever donate your blood to someone in need?

[ Donate how? Well, heroes are often ones to help those in need, aren't they? So the how shouldn't really matter one way or another, right? ]

bloodshots

[ Tabris squints at the camera, moving it back and forth until she's sure that she can be clearly seen. Strange magic, but she's getting used to it. ]

Okay, so. This one is for all of the nonhumans of us out there. Sorry, shems.

[ She's not sorry. ]

Alright, so, I don't know about you guys, but having a couple hundred prisoners who don't like imPorts made it profoundly clear that I have a big glowy sign over my head that says 'imPort'. Or, I guess the sign is on the side of my head, because. Pointy ears.

From what I can tell, this world only cranks out humans. Which--Andraste's flaming ass, it's weird. Why do they only have humans running around? Do you think they went and, like. Killed off everyone else? I wouldn't put it past them.

[ She pauses for a moment. ]

If I'm actually full of shit and there are some organically grown all natural nonhumans from this world, please direct me to them and I'll send them a gift basket in apology.

glowsferatu

[ Kanaya comes onto the video huddled close to the camera, speaking almost in a whisper. She's trying to hide something, or escape prying ears. ]

So, I know this is short notice, but I'm in a bit of a bind. It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow and I've...never really hosted a party for anyone her age before? I mean, it's only her first, and I'm still working out what exactly it is that I'm doing. She's without any friends her age to invite over, and I'm not acquainted with many other young parents to take notes from. You know, she isn't like human girls, so it's not easy to socialize her with them.

So, I don't know. If anyone would be interested in celebrating a one-year-old grub's birthday, or has ideas to pass off for what such a celebration should look like...

[ She freezes, cutting herself off as she looks off to the side. Her eyes are wide as if she's been caught in the act, but so overdramatically that it must be facetious, right? Her eyes flash back to the camera, then it tilts over to a nearby doorway, where something large and white stares up. Kanaya's daughter is a moth larva who's the size of a medium dog, for now.

She clicks at Kanaya suspiciously, but Kanaya just gives her a smile. ]

It's nothing, darling! Go on and finish your dinner before the dog gets into it. [ Ashiah's on to her, she has to cut this short. She looks back over at the camera, and mouths "Help" before the feed ends. ]

apotheoppose

[Under usual circumstances, Tara would have made a video post without a second thought. But these aren't usual circumstances. She can decide how public to make her life now and she has no idea what to do about that. Not to mention no idea what to do about being alive again.

Still, staying cooped up in her room trying to figure out what to do with the new rest of her life is starting to get old. There's got to be something she can do to take her mind off things.

Despite the whirlwind in her mind, Tara's voice is utterly self-assured when she makes her audio post. It's a young woman's voice, early twenties but only barely. Her tone confident and aloof...or maybe just wary. Still absolutely polite.]

I have a few days to kill in Maurtia Falls, and I'm looking for things to do. I like art, fashion and music in particular. Something more interesting than the tourist attractions would be appreciated, though I'll take those too. Any recommendations?

[After a pause, she continues, her voice a less certain that it was before. Tara's never had much to do with animals, not even pets.]

And...does anyone know anything about therapy dogs?

[OOC: Tara will be replying with audio posts for the most part so I'll be using a mixture of masked and unmasked icons (since I don't have enough unmasked expressions yet). I'll try to compensate with text descriptions as well, but feel free to poke me if her tone is unclear. I'm happy to edit in more info as requested. Or, hey, awkward misunderstandings, those are fun too. /o/]

puppydoctor

[It's just after dawn on Friday morning, and the video feed clicks on to a young man in torn, bloody clothing, crouched down over an injured baby deer. From where the communicator rests in the grass, early morning De Chima traffic is visible behind him.]

Look, you have to go back in the- No, no, not that way-

[He's trying to urge the deer back towards the woods, but it just wants to come with him. Though its injuries seem extensive, it isn't in any apparent pain, frolicking around his legs in the high grass.]

I can't take you home, kiddo. I don't even have a home, yet. Just- Stop that!

[If it weren't all for the blood, this would be one of the cutest things to ever happen.]

thevictoriandetective

What do you do when you make a mistake and anger someone close to you? How do you make it right? Besides saying 'I'm sorry,' of course.

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