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exsithstential ([personal profile] exsithstential) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2015-10-16 07:37 pm
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Boys and girls of every age, Wouldn't you like to see something strange

WHO: Imports
WHERE: Helix Station, Maurtia Falls
WHEN: Evening of 10/16
WHAT: Swear-In Ceremony, with a bonus Haunted House!
WARNINGS: Violence and other spoopy stuff.





The Festival


An orange moon slowly burns into life as the sun begins the last few moment's of it's descent, washing the sky in beautiful splashes of fading twilight hues. The white walls the Helix Station glow in the warm autumn light as throngs of costumed children and their families parade through the large front gate and into the festively decorated courtyard within.

Laughter and squeals of anticipation and delight ring out from the gaggle of children in a never ending chorus as their attentions dance between the kitsch decorations of gremlins and skeletons, to the ImPort Heroes in attendance. But at least the parents and guardians seem to be doing a good job of keeping the beaming or bashful kids from bothering ImPorts too much as you make your way into the facility. Though do be prepared for an autograph request or three. Unlike some of the previous Swear-Ins, this is no media circus. While there may be a reporter or two in the crowd, asking for a few quick shots with imports and their adoring fans, this gathering is for you and your new rosy cheeked best friends. Just a bit of seasonal fun and the added benefit of helping a local children's hospital by contributing to their charity.

STALLS

Colorfully decorated stalls line the exterior of the courtyard, offering the attendees a wide variety of activities, entertainment, and gifts. While most of the stalls are managed by groups or individual imports contributing with their time and goodwill (mostly), several also offer refreshments and snacks manned by droids or volunteers from the hospital staff or children's family.

A few honorable mentions of ImPort run stalls:

-Hazel and the Doctor's Face Paintings
-Kanaya and Helena's Fangtastic Bobbing for Apples
-Manolo and Sabriel's Performance Cake Walk
-Stan's Photo Booth of Terror (And extortion)
-Lucifer's Mystic Magic Mirror of Mystery
-Fraiser and Kowalski's Totally Scary Puppy Petting Zoo

And of course there's also a stall with informative pamphlets and a chipper Government representative ready to register any willing imports and talk about the benefits inherent to doing so.

There are also plenty of open stalls if you want to add to festivities!

HAUNTED HOUSE

Just inside the main building, the lobby area and adjacent rooms open into the main area of the Haunted House. Despite the spooky imagery and haunting ambiance, this floor is rather tame. There may be a few motion sensor activated skeletons that pop up and startling the careless, but otherwise it's all kid friendly.

This however is NOT the case with the upper floors. Which prohibit native participation completely. If that doesn't chill your blood then the fact that you have to stop by a booth near the elevator to "check in" and received a warning that only those that are seeking a true test of terror should enter, might.

However the droid representative will NOT offer any additional information to imports, save that all participants will be given thirty minutes to escape before "time is up". They will NOT be telling anyone that:

-Immediately upon exiting the elevator, you will find yourself seeped in power dampening fog, leaving you de-powered.
-That the upper floors are inhabited by wandering animatronics with monstrous appearances that are programmed to hunt the imports trying to find their way out.
-As the thiry minutes tick by, the animatronics will become faster and hunt the imports with more tenacity and ever increasing perception. Early in the hunt it's possible to hide or avoid most animatronics. This becomes less effective as time goes by.
-Any imports that are unable to escape the animatronics will NOT be hurt. When an import is captured they will be hauled to a secret exit which ends in a shoot that deposits the character outside, near Stan's Photo booth. (Who might just have a series of photos depicting your character in various compromising states of terror.) However the participating imports will be unaware of the lack of danger they are in until this happens. Which means you might even see some imports being hauled off kicking and screaming into the darkness.

Imports that manage to evade the animatronics long enough to find their way out of the maze of corridors and rooms will find themselves in the haunted house lobby, where they will be presented with a plush version of one of the monsters that had been hunting them. Not so scary now, huh?

Attack on Helix Station

Just after midnight as the festivities hit full swing, several masked men slip over the wall and into the facility. While mostly concealed, to any ImPorts sharp enough to notice them, it quickly becomes apparent that these men are armed to the teeth and full of bad intentions. Moving with precision, skill before any import can alert the others, the gunmen take up positions to cause as much damage as possible. However as they ready their weapons an alarm blares through out the facility. In that brief moment of confusion the gunmen hesitate. And in the span of that hesitation, several security droids suddenly march out into the facility through side doors hefting snub nosed weapons cradled in their arms.

An electric blue flash suddenly illuminates the courtyard as a blast from one of the droid's stun weapons strikes one of the gunmen, who crumples.

And then chaos erupts.

Seeing them as the clear and present danger the gunmen focus their fire on the advancing security bots, but as several defense turrets pop out from concealed slots in the walls, their position quickly becomes untenable. While strong in numbers, the gunmen scatter into groups through out the facility to take cover. A few of them drop smoke grenades to cover their escape, but the blinding cloud is short lived. As contaminates are detected in the air, several purifiers cleverly disguised within the decorations will activate, drawing in the smoke and laying the terrorists' movements bare.


As the gloom recedes, Revan stalks forward out of the smoke, a sheathed katana clenched in one hand
and his expression blazing as he marches towards the nearest group of soldiers.

"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" his voice booms strangely loud, carrying over the entire courtyard with the force and command power of someone used to leading warriors into battle. "IMPORTS!" With a fluid motion he withdraws the sword and tosses the scabbard aside.

Little did these bastards know that they were ready. With a small army of Imports, comprised of RISE and volunteer security forces, at his back Revan gave a flourish of his blade before dashing forward.

"TO ARMS!"

[ooc: More info as well as plotting posts can be found here!]
lunaraneae: (Don't forget to leave your Pokemon in)

Cindy Moon/Silk | Registered | ota

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-18 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
The Stalls

[Going in costume to a Halloween themed party only means she's double in disguise, right? Right. Silk moves through the crowd, waving at little kids and wishing her costume design were better suited for eating. As it is, she enjoys the atmosphere and excitement she hasn't been a part of in years.

While she doesn't actively participate at every stall, she does spend some time watching people enjoy themselves, cheering on the kids at the cake walk, admiring the face painting. And so what if she spends a little more time at the puppy petting zoo? Everyone needs some fluff in their lives.
]

Attack on Halloween

[Okay, so either wearing the suit was good luck or the worst luck. Either way, Silk is soon swinging her way through the crowds, shielding civilians with webbing and grabbing guns out of the attacker's hands.

The attack is so... normal that it's almost relaxing to fight alongside other heroes and punch bad guys in the face.
]

Bit overdressed even for trick-or-treating, aren't we, guys?

Wildcard

[Do her powers look kind of similar to another wallcrawler's? Are her quips terrible? Choose your own adventure!]
Edited 2015-10-18 00:06 (UTC)
rassera: (They're the ones who were missing out)

Attack

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-18 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaneda doesn't even notice Cindy at first, not until she's swinging in his direction and using her webbing to shield him from one of said attacks. Because right now, he was too busy trying to knock out one of those hitmen that everything else kind of took a backseat.

...

And then he sees her stop to make that comment, noticing the gun in her hand.]


I know, heard Halloween was when you're supposed to dress like monsters. And these guys are ugly even by those rules.

[The hitman looks less than pleased at that comment...right before Kaneda knees him in the stomach.]

You using that gun?
Edited 2015-10-18 03:53 (UTC)
lunaraneae: (President Machamp what have you done)

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-18 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
They're totally ruining the spirit of Halloween.

[She tosses the gun into a corner of the ceiling and webs it there, along with a handful of others.]

Nope. And neither are you.
rassera: (Talked down to bare essentials)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Just like when you step on a kid's sandcastle, Kaneda watches as she webs (what the hell is up with that anyway) that gun to the ceiling, eyes showing that lost potential right then and there. His mouth uttering the softest frustrated whimper.]

Hey! The hell was that for?!

[A finger points to the ceiling, hand then opening in a...vague flailing.

Which...somehow backhands another hitman.


Team...work?]
Edited (because repeating myself is stupid) 2015-10-18 04:08 (UTC)
lunaraneae: (You need your own modern version)

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-18 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Guns are bad, kid! And... stay in school?

[She watches in bemusement as Kaneda seems to effortlessly take out another hitman.]

Also, you seem to be doing fine on your own.
rassera: (Santayana)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-18 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, mom.

[A. No they're actually really useful have you ever been a guy without spider powers in a world of people with things like spider powers.

B. Fuck that shit]


...

[Slow look at his hand, before deciding then that...yes. He IS having a heads-day. Coinflip things, you wouldn't understand.]

Figures this would happen in Maurita Falls. Dunno what got so wound up the guys asses to attack the Swear-In, though.
lunaraneae: (Don't forget to leave your Pokemon in)

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-18 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Den of crime and villainy, right? Maybe they're just really angry diabetics.

[Silk casually kicks another hitman in the face and webs him to the floor. It looks like the webbing is coming from her fingertips, gross.]
rassera: (What am I looking at)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-18 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
These old geezers? Definitely.

[Kaneda they're like maybe 30.]

...

[Okay, he was willing to let that go for like two times, but now it's three and WHAT THE HELL. A look at her, a look at the web.]

So what's with the-- [Vague imitation of what she just did. With 100% less gross spider butt-thread.]
lunaraneae: (This guy collected 45 Pokemon)

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-18 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Watch who you're calling a geezer, wow.

[She looks down at her fingers. Shoots out some more web, making a shield. Looks up at Kaneda.]

What, this? Just, y'know. Your friendly neighborhood Silk, weaving webs where ever she goes.
rassera: (sassy face)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-18 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[It clicks, and his smile widens.]

You wear it well.

[YEAH, THAT.]

Jeez. People's powers are fuckin' weird in this place. [And he thought psychics were the weird thing. Now, they're the FAMILIAR weird thing.]
lunaraneae: (the Jesus of this world would just say)

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-18 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I... what? [Was this kid flirting? In the middle of a firefight? What!]

And my powers are perfectly normal! For a spider!
rassera: (Bike | Move out)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-19 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Yep. Flirting and trying to loot from the fallen hitman he'd just taken care of.

Why don't these guys have anything useful on them like a--oh hey, a lighter.

He'll just take that.]


So you're a spider...girl.
lunaraneae: (They'd be too expensive to eat)

[personal profile] lunaraneae 2015-10-19 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Silk. Call me Silk.

[She's not a girl, damn it. Would a girl web two hitmen to the ceiling?]
rassera: (sassy face)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-10-19 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[MAKE UP YOUR MIND ARE YOU AN OLD LADY OR A GIRL GIVE HIM A SIIIGNNNN.]

Silk. I like that!

[He's not stupid, he can tell it's not her real name. But he's got the same thing going with his own, so he won't judge.]

I'm Kaneda.