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Peter Pan ([personal profile] dreamshades) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-01-03 12:12 am

The New Neverland

WHO:EVERYONE (EDIT)
WHERE: Heropa or AKA Neverland
WHEN: January 3rd to 5th
WHAT: The rescuers invade Neverland to end the fiendish Peter Pan's plot
WARNINGS: Death is likely to happen, fighting, swearing, probably just going to be 14+ kind of deal.



The time has come to stop Pan. After posting this to the network Peter has all but challenged the imPorts: either look away and don't bother his paradise or come try and stop him.

Preparation

The jungle stands tall and mighty, a fearful and ominous sight to be seen. One can only hope things go smoothly, but this is Neverland after all, a land of endless possibilities which means endless unknown dangers. Take the time to get ready, plan and storm the jungle....you'll need it.

Entering Neverland
You cross the threshold of Neverland's barrier and everything you once knew has all but changed. Where day use to stand all there is is but a perpetual night. You're not sure how you know this but you get the feeling that despite how many days that may go by in his land time will hold still, day will never come. Dark skies with blinking stars and an eerie moon is but your only light here.

The sights before them are this, a jungle, humid and warm. Where Winter's chill had been has all been snatched away by what would be a mild tropical heat. All there are are trees, vines and large leaves far for the eye can see. It takes only a bit of searching to find sources of water and food a like, but remember not everything may be safe to eat. Careful of thorny vines, for it may be Dreamshade, a deadly poison that inhabits Neverland.

If you manage to find the horizon what appears to be a massive lake of water surrounds the entirety of Neverland where no other land can be seen beyond it. An illusion? Perhaps, but who can say with a curse.

For our heroes, our rescuers this may seem odd if not unsettling. For our cursed? It's nothing new, glorious to some maybe but nothing new.



Riddle me this

Wandering the jungle for Peter's riddles? Continue to do so as they will not be given easily. For Peter has set up challenges that would crush and break the weakest and strongest of hearts alike.


The echo caves
The jungle of Neverland is deep and perilous but none such as the Echo caves. Dark and cavernous holes that go deep into the island, the entrance remains open to all who brave it. How the unlucky stumble across it is different for each. Is that Peter Pan gadding you to come catch him and running inside? Or is it someone you cherish most dear fleeing inside from you? However it happened, inside is damp and dark. The name does not lie for the caves do echo, but not with the sound of your own voice or noises caves make but the voices of others. You hear it in your brain, creeping in like a tangled vine telling you the only way out is to reveal the darkest secret you hold close to your chest, that no one must know. All victims of the cave must say their secret or else be trapped within its walls forever....but not without a catch. Revealing the secret does not simply get you out. For those that you are with now must resist the temptations of the sweet and venomous voices that speak into their ear. They suggest to let their feelings out, to act upon rage or despair or some other hideous feeling towards the secret teller and the secret they held. If all resists though and all secrets let out the secret riddle is spoken and if one has it, the map is unlocked.

The riddle being: I'm separate but close, I am small but I am big.

Dark Hollow
Stumble through the darkness and one would surely find light somewhere, wouldn't they? Perhaps from torch light from Peter's followers? Or even the forever full and silver moon in the sky? But, the further you journey into this part of the jungle, the more the light dies. Light that people conjure also snuff out as quickly as they were lit.

Take a pause to try and get the light back but it only takes a second to look away when they come out. Shadows, living shadows, come out from behind trees and from out of dark corners. They circle like sharks in the water around the victims who so stupidly wandered into their hallow. Welcome, to Peter Pan's den of stolen shadows of unfortunate victims.
They lunge without a thought, attacking and clawing at the people invading this space. They throw sharpened wooden spears, try and grab and throw people into trees and worse off, steal your shadows to add to Pan's collection. They make no sound, only faint and ghostly whooshes accompany them as they fly about. Fight them if you can, but if fire is introduced or a container with a flame they make short work of these evil creatures....and once capture or made to flee they're ghostly whooshes become hollow voices, whispering silently: The only form of rescue they have is a message in a bottle when they are lost but live on me.

The map will be unlocked if it has not already.

Mermaid Lagoon
Water, is a valuable thing to have and in a jungle where it is hard to find? Well, worry no more because a pure spring of the clearest blue water stands before you. Drink, refresh yourselves or just be cautious as with the other dangers of Neverland it doesn't matter. Because the moment you arrive at this spring it's power takes effect.

What use to be foliage and water around you turns to the fears that haunt your very heart. They live and breathe before you, speaking to you, being there before you. It's just like Crane's fear gas all over. Allies may appear to be monsters and what do we do with monsters? The fears are yours and only you can act upon them appropriately.

However, through your own will or the strength of those beside you can help you cut through the dark mirror. When it shatters the fragments of the broken illusion sing to you and you hear the words of a riddle:

I am a horror in which all mortal life makes.

The map will be unlocked if it has not already.

Otherwise you may flee....but you will never hear the shards of of a fear triumphed sing.

Grove of Pixie dust trees
The horrors of Neverland truly never cease, do they? But, rest must be taken if you wish to stop Pan, isn't it? These grove of trees seem nice, don't they? Nothing harmful about them. That would be a naive to think because once more does Neverland play it's evil. The dark magic of this place seeps into your senses, poison that fills the mind and the heart. Shadows of dark and deep regrets that left a wound on your heart that never healed take form here and become solid. It's like a film you relive far too vividly.

The regret may burn in your heart and make you want to flee and you can but the brave face their regrets and admit and accept them. Once you do the regret fades away speaking in the voice of those you let down of the last piece of the riddle:

You may not use me when you think, but you're awfully glad I'm there.

But, you should run, who wants to face their regrets? It'll just mean Pan can keep his paradise.

For the cursed
But these troubles and riddles are for those pesky Rescuers. Peter's cursed victims will have been informed to stop the Rescuers from making it to these locations.

Other things to do

Shadows like in the Hallow roam the island.
They appear as any other person, someone you love, miss or anyone under the sun. They may find you heroes, you rescuers, they may not but if they do they have things to say. The shadows will try and make the Rescuers despair or they will ask for you to leave Neverland with them to go home. The lies they say sound convincing and they'll offer a hand for you to flee with them. Take it, and the shadow will smile evilly and begin to try and rip your shadow from you so you may join the pile of Peter's victims and have your shadow join his fold. Having friends will help ignore the shadow's influence or perhaps they can just go the forward route and just shoot it.


The hunt is on
Lost Children and Peter's employees you have an important task of hunting the defectors, Cursed adults and children not affiliated with Pan, and the Rescuers themselves. For fun or for duty of course. Cursed imPorts are armed with their own own powers and weapons with dreamshade, a lethal poison that will kill they are a force to be reckoned with, otherwise all the regular citizens who had been cursed will only have bow and arrows, swords, spears, and other primitive like dipped in the fatal dreamshade. The poison can be cured but only with plenty of healing or the waters of Neverland on deadman's peak. Be wary of them dear Rescuers because you may stumble upon on of the camps Peter's Children or employees have.


Stir the memories
It's only a matter of time until you run into someone you knew. However you found one of the cursed, coming across their camp, in the wilderness, however it is only a matter of time. If a rescuer's connection is deep with the cursed old memories may surface a bit and cause conflict inside the other. It's not enough to break the curse but maybe it's enough to for them to side with our dear heroes...or fight harder against them.

Campsites
Like the music Peter's played before there are camps that play the same entrancing music. Far stronger than it was over the network it compels you to come join in the fun, rescuers. Forget your troubles and just have fun and dance...but be aware that if you stay too long you'll be dragged away and locked up. Resisting is possible but are you capable of doing that.

However, with our dear cursed individuals this is your respite from the hunt. Peter may be here to talk with you, to reassure or to plot. But, this is also your time to socialize with your cohorts and remember how much you enjoy Neverland.

MISC
Anything and everything goes in this section. Come up with things to do in Neverland. A breather, a fight, your own plans whatever you make of it. Just remember to keep it in the confines of Neverland.

(OOC:Update: Information on the plot here, the plot is now open to everyone. Details may be found here as to why.)

rassera: (Hey you there!)

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[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-04 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[What a perfect timing to meet up with Hazel, am I right? After all, nothing better than promising to meet up and take out Pan together only to see her literally STABBING HERSELF in the arms with those thorns.]

ARE YOU INSANE?

[What part of 'don't get killed you're my friend' didn't you get from the conversation, Hazel?!


Also. Hi.]
deadtective: (fifty-two.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-04 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[the sudden interruption has an already on edge jumping a little, shoulders squared for a fight that thankfully doesn't come when she whirls around to see it's just Kaneda - who, judging by his outburst, is still presumably in his right mind.

the relief doesn't stop him from getting a petulant glare shot his way, though. hi yourself, shitbird.]


No, but I might be fucking deaf now!

[she scowls and looks down at her arm; the jolt had caused her to pull the vine out at a bad angle, leaving several thorns embedded in her body. fucking fantastic. she's going to have to dig those out now, thanks a lot.]
rassera: (Walking fast faces pass)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-04 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[That's Mr. shitbird to you.

He's quick to leap over that log standing between them, feet landing just in front of her as he gains his bearings.

And...the feeling's kind of mutual. No way could a possessed Hazel come up with a response that quick and clever. So she's at least still Hazel..]


Get that shit off you, who knows what it'll do to you--

[His glove hovers over her arm, wondering if it would permeate the leather.

Shit...]
deadtective: (forty-nine.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-04 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[she bats his hand away crankily with her own free one, immediately getting to work on yanking the stuck thorns out. man, she had a system going and everything...]

We both know what it'll do to you, so hands off. [she huffs, then settles down just enough to give actual information.] It doesn't work on me, you don't have to pop a vein over it. I know what I'm doing.
rassera: (What is going on right now)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-04 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't -work- on you?

[That hand's batted away, but replaced with curiosity as he leans over her to watch.]

So...what, you're clumsy and ran into em?
deadtective: (forty-six.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-04 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[she pauses to give him a flat look. really? even now, they were going to do this? if it weren't lethal she'd be tempted to flick one of these thorns at his face.]

Don't be a fucking idiot, I'm not you. [it doesn't matter if he's clumsy or not, it's the comeback that's important.] I've been doing it on purpose.
rassera: (puppy pout)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-04 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay that only almost happened one time and YOU WEREN'T EVEN THERE!]

..

[Instinctively, he wants to help pull those out, and his hand keeps raising up to do so, only to lower when his mind actually kicks in and tells him to stop.]

I don't get it. You want those things to stab you with thorns? Even if you don't get affected, not exactly something you want in your system!
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[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-04 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure it is. What do you think'll happen if some asshole decides to carve me up?

[she can see him struggling to Not Help, and it prompts Hazel to work a little faster for his sake. remove the temptation and nothing stupid'll happen.]
rassera: (abort mission abort mission)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-05 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
You'll--

[Wait. The gears in his head slowly start to turn, putting together the information she gave him on the Network, adding it to what she's doing now, and then...

Yes. Yes he's starting to get it, and it shows on his face.]


You...can collect this stuff in your body?!

[See? HE CAN BE TAUGHT!]
deadtective: (four.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-05 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, look who caught on!

[she grins, offering him a facetious (if gentle) one-handed clap before rolling her sleeve back up. all done with that crisis for the moment.]

Just because it doesn't effect me doesn't mean it goes anywhere. Probably gonna be a really nasty surprise for some asshole.
rassera: (This is too cute and illegal)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-05 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He grins back, looking pretty damn pleased with himself, although if that's playing along with her little sarcasm or actually his reaction...who knows.]

...Yeah, HATE to be that guy.

[He watches her, and then looks at the foliage that she'd been working with. He's smart enough not to touch it, hands going to his hips as he cranes his neck up a little.]

So if it gets inside any normal person...guessin' that's pretty shit, huh?
deadtective: (twenty-six.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-05 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[she follows his gaze, expression sobering up a little bit. even Hazel can't beat away this situation for very long.]

It's a pretty bad one; you won't bite it right away, it takes time, but it looks like it fucks you up pretty bad.

[a pause as she shoves her hands into her pockets]

The shit the cursed people keep throwing at us are covered in it, so tell everyone to fucking watch out.
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rassera: (What the fuck is over there)

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[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He can only imagine what it does to your insides, and winces at the very thought. As durable as he was, he had a feeling that it didn't give him immunity from toxins. If one was able to pierce him, it'd be all over.


Good thing he's bulletpro--]


...!!
rassera: (That sounds like bullshit)

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[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
rassera: (what just happened)

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[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[His eyes snap open wide, staring at the vines and foliage again, quickly turning those gears in his head again.]

Hazel, you can touch this without a problem, right?
deadtective: (eighteen.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-06 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeeeeah. It's what I've been fucking doing this whole time.

[she gives him a serious side-eye because she has no idea why he'd ask something like that, but she can tell a lightbulb expression when she sees one. so, of course, she has to ask.]

Why, what're you thinking?
rassera: (This is mine)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[His hands immediately go to his thigh, where a third pistol was strapped to with a holster. It was different than the others--it wasn't decorated or as ornate as the other two, and looked like it'd been tossed around like a cheap toy once or twice. Scuffs and dirt, scratches here and there...it certainly was odd compared to the well kept ones Kaneda had on his sides.]

I need you to--

[Hold on, give him a minute to get the magazine out, pulling out a single bullet.]

--coat these with it.
deadtective: (twenty-four.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-06 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
...oh. Oh shit, sure.

[she understands immediately, and while her expression isn't exactly cheerful there is a certain eager energy to her movements now.

without another word she rolls up her sleeve before rummaging around in her pockets to pull out a knife - nothing large or fancy, just the sort of thing you could pick up anywhere. searching for a pretty big scar, she neatly slices open the stitching...and then plunges the blade right into her arm to hit the veins and the poison they carried.

there's absolutely no flinching whatsoever or even a hint of hesitation in her actions. pocketing the now-slick blade, she holds her free hand open expectantly.]


Alright, gimme.
rassera: (I'll just go now)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Shit...

[He watches her, going completely off her word that she knows what she's doing. It's one thing to let whatever this poison was collect in her body. It was another to purposely stab at wounds.

But he asked this of her, and he can't exactly back out now. So he'll let her continue, trusting that she knows what she's doing.]


Hmm?

Oh, here--[And he's quick to hand over the magazine clip.]
deadtective: (twenty.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-06 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[she immediately gets to work, talking casually as she carefully moves through the entire clip. even Hazel knows that doing something like this is probably a little unsettling for regular people, so she's doing her best to offset that a little with conversation.]

This doesn't hurt, you know. I can't feel a fucking thing.
rassera: (what just happened)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
What? You can't even feel it???

[Even his durability didn't take away pain, and let him tell you, it's just awesome feeling how getting shot is like without actually getting shot.

Here? It seems like the opposite.]


Is that why you have so many...

[A finger lifts up, running along his cheek just to the side of his mouth, where that one scar of hers is.]
deadtective: (thirty.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-06 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
You mean all my fucking fantastic accessories?

[she snorts, trying to be flippant and almost making it - it doesn't quite reach her eyes. thankfully she has something to focus one this time.]

It's only fair, right? Why let somebody else get steamrolled when I can just fucking walk it off?
rassera: (I heard ya)

[personal profile] rassera 2016-01-06 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Stylish and one of a kind.

[He watches her work, each bullet being equally coated in the stuff she'd only recently put into her body.]

Doesn't mean you can't let someone else shoulder it too, you know.
deadtective: (twenty-nine.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2016-01-06 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't, yeah, but why would I want to? Nobody's a better punching bag than me.

[coated in dream shade and nothing else - but if Kaneda's not going to notice and/or mention the lack of bleeding she's doing, Hazel sure as hell isn't going to bring it up. this whole venture has her exposing herself a lot more than she's really comfortable.

she slots the last bullet back into place, holding the clip out to him with a wry smile.]


I deserve it most of the time, anyway.

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