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The Twelfth Doctor ([personal profile] helpline) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-03-12 08:44 am
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i can't remember to forget you

WHO: all imPorts!
WHERE: a large expanse of land that is kind of a parking lot in Heropa
WHEN: March 12th, 4PM onwards
WHAT: Time for the March Swear-In! this is gonna be full of fun and games and nothing going wrong at all, right? Nope. More ooc details can be found here
WARNINGS: none!

After the harrowing experience of the Perestroika Seminar last month, the government's decided that a nice, easy fun swear-in would be the best for everybody. Time to relax and recover from the harrowing events of February with a fair! The temperature's a bit brisk but the grand thing about Florida weather is that a brisk Florida March is still a warmer than average March compared to the rest of the nation: perfect fairground weather.

4PM - 6:30PM: ALL THE RIDES
The carnival has stereotypical fairground rides: ferris wheels, carousels, the gravitron, fairground swings, a tilt a whirl, everything that you know and love. This isn't Six Flags so there aren't any large roller coasters or water rides, but if it can be assembled and moved around via a large truck, expect it to be here. In true carnival fashion, the rides are staffed by twenty-somethings who desperately don't want to be there. Also in true carnival fashion, the safety of some of the rides is....slightly dubious at best. Be careful of a few spots of vomit outside some of the faster rides: some of your fellow imPorts don't take motion sickness very well.

All rides do have height requirements. Sorry tiny imPorts, have you tried the kiddie train or the smaller ferris wheel?

4PM - 6:30PM: FAIRGROUND STALLS
Some booths have fairground food. There's the staples: corn dogs, candy apples, funnel cake, lemonade, and so on. There's a scary amount of deep fried food, ranging from the sensible (pickles and oreos) to the downright disturbing (how can someone deep fry pizza?!) Some of the vendors have gotten in on the imPort craze by naming their fair food after imPorts themselves: have a nice cool Jinseok Jin-ger Ale. What about a Cindy Moon Pie? A Kaiden Alenkronut? April Ludgateorade? If a bad pun can be made of the fair food name, then somebody's selling it.

Other booths have traditional fairground games: toss darts at balloons, test your strength, skee ball, and so on. The games are all a bit rigged and all a bit overpriced, but that's part of the fun! Win yourself or that special someone a goldfish, an inflatable sword, or an overly large stuffed animal. The barkers running the games are keeping a strict eye out for imPorts using their powers...but they're only human, after all. Try and use that super-strength when nobody's looking!

6:30 PM - END: MEMORY LOSS
After the sun's set and the fairground is lit up by lights, annoyance strikes. Off to the side of one of the food stalls, there's a small explosion, producing a lot of smoke that quickly travels throughout the fairground, but not much else. The problem is, as the smoke clears, imPorts may find that their memory isn't up to snuff. Some people don't remember how they got here. Some people don't remember that they have superpowers to begin with. Some people still have all their memories. There's no pattern as to why some people have all their memories while some have lost theirs,

The fairground only stays up for about half an hour more before officials start to close everything down and hurry everyone home. After all, some of the imPorts don't remember how to use their powers. Besides, they need to figure out what caused the memory loss in the first place: could it be another Soviet attack?!?

(spoilers, no, it's just an incompetent old man with broken technology. Whoops.)
leonized: ([gentle side eye] done with love)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-03-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well he's seen weirder animals than that, probably. But the lei makes him laugh a little, and he comes over.]

I'm surprised she's willing to wear that.

[He could just ask the bird, but he didn't want to be too weird. Or something. That probably qualified as too weird.]
dreamkid: (Friendly)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-03-14 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Matthew smiles warmly, rarely one to meet a stranger. ]

I don't think she minds. I told her she could take it off if she wanted.

[ Of course, Henrietta doesn't really talk back to Matthew. Sometimes she scratches out Latin in the dirt with her talons, but his Latin is not as good as Ronan's so there's a lot of one-way chattering in her and Matthew's relationship. ]

Does it make her look less scary?
leonized: ([what's up] all nite)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-03-14 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Leon ... ponders this for a second. Does she really look less scary? After a few seconds of staring at the bird (which were slightly unsettling, by the way), he snorts.]

A little, I guess. What is she, exactly?

[Like, just an animal, or something magical...?]
dreamkid: (Uplifted)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-03-14 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ "A little less scary", he'll take it. ]

She's my brother's.

[ That doesn't answer anything, but even with the seven-foot-tall nightmare bird monster standing right there as evidence, Matthew isn't likely to run his mouth about Ronan's abilities. ]

She's actually real nice; she's kind of keeping an eye out for me.

[ He gives her a fond look, and she returns it with a silent, beaky sort of one. (Also Matthew is being silly; she has no eyes so how can she keep an eye out for anybody...) ]
leonized: ([hand] bumblebee)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-03-15 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives the bird another slightly doubtful glance, and then shrugs.]

So your brother's here too? That's lucky.

[Not that he had any siblings, but he was definitely sure that having someone you were close to here made a big difference.]
dreamkid: (BAM an infectious laugh)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-03-15 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [ Matthew agrees earnestly. ] I don't know what I'd do if I ended up here by myself. But Ronan's here and a lot of his friends are, too. I guess a bunch of people get ported in from our world.

[ He smiles and scrunches his nose a little at the same time, which creates a very innocent, charming effect on his face. ] It's still weird saying that.
leonized: ([pout] transmission)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-03-16 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Leon is slightly charmed and he hates that. He isn't charmed by people easily, but when someone was this innocuous it was hard to not be.]

Are you new? Which part's weird?

[It was just a guess. It wasn't like he was an old hand at this, himself, after all, but he'd had a little bit of time.]
Edited 2016-03-16 01:30 (UTC)
dreamkid: (Hey there)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-03-16 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The "different worlds" part. [ He thinks about it for a second. ] I guess it's not that weird, I just never thought I'd actually be in another one. I got here almost a week ago. Oh--

[ He realizes something. ]

My name's Matthew, by the way. And this is Henrietta.

[ The nightmare murderbird, that is. ]
leonized: ([uhh] daisy)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-03-19 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Leon.

[He nods to the both of them.]

And— I already knew I came from a different world, so this was a little less weird. Apparently there's a lot more worlds than I thought there were, though.
dreamkid: (Right! Sure! Clever!)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-03-20 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Matthew quite appreciates that Leon nodded to Henrietta as well. ]

Whoa, really? [ He leans in, interested. ] So how did you know? You've been to different worlds before this one?
leonized: ([bite] soy milk)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-03-26 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, no.

[He pauses, unsure how to actually describe this.]

I knew another world existed? I didn't ever go there though, because it's hard to get back.
dreamkid: (Repeat that please)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-03-28 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Matthew considers that for a second. ]

That'd be a good reason not to go.

[ Being stuck in another world with no way back home sounds pretty freaky-- oh wait. ]

What's your world like?
leonized: ([hand] bumblebee)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-04-03 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Um, depends on what kind of things you want to know?

[Should he even bother talking around the fact that he's a fairy anymore... he's not even sure why he bothers, except that he doesn't want extra attention from anyone.]

Everything's sort of ... soft? I'm not really sure how to describe it exactly. It's the kind of thing you have to experience.
dreamkid: (Right! Sure! Clever!)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-04-08 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Matthew tilts his head and smiles, curious. ]

'Soft'? That sounds nice. So it's not like this one at all?

[ He has no idea what 'soft' means when applied to an entire world. ]
leonized: ([hmm] hailstorm)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-04-10 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't really either, he's just being obtuse for no real reason except he likes passing as human.]

Some things are kind of the same same, I guess. But it's really different.
dreamkid: (Uplifted)

[personal profile] dreamkid 2016-04-15 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Matthew is quite unlikely to figure out the fairy part unless Leon straight up tells him, so there's that at least. He's just really curious! ]

What kinds of things are different?
leonized: ([softspoken] true colors)

[personal profile] leonized 2016-04-16 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well— everyone has magic. Not like how only imPorts have powers or whatever here. And the way society's organized is really different ... there's a noble class and a royal class and all of that.