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Galla (Amaia) ([personal profile] lastofthebog) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2018-05-12 02:59 pm

May Swear In

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Nonah's Fairgrounds
WHEN: May 12th
WHAT: May Swear In
WARNINGS: None expected; please warn in threads if necessary

Spring is finally beginning to fade into summer with weather starting to warm, and the trees and flowers beginning to blossom into their peak, and what better way to celebrate the welcome change in weather than with a FAIR?



The fairgrounds have been transformed overnight with a swath of rides and attractions filling the field from one edge to the other. There is, of course, a booth for imPort registration that's positioned near the entrance of the fair. Even so, imPorts with an interest in registering may have to ask a fair worker for directions. The signage on the registration booth is, for some reason, faded and easy to miss among the bright and bold banners and lights drawing attendees to the different game booths that line the paths further into the grounds. Must have just been poor planning on someone's part!

Further into the park there are a wide array of the standard carnival games. Games include from balloon pops where you can win your very own "signed" copy of imPort photographs, but does anyone actually remember signing any photos…? There's also a ring toss that no one can seem to win, but the prizes include items like a water bottle discarded by Tony Stark, or dried flowers from one of Persephone's actual vines! Or maybe you'd like to prove your sharpshooter skills by knocking milk bottles down with a pellet gun? Prizes range from cheap, poorly painted figures of popular imPorts, to a handful of detailed and poseable figurines of both imPorts and famous media characters for the very best shooters.

Past the games are the many, many different food booths. You can chow down on Fried Stuff On Sticks, offering fare ranging from deep fried cheesecake on a stick to deep fried corndogs on a stick to a variety of tempura on sticks. (It counts!!) Or perhaps you prefer a healthier roasted meat? There's no shortage of options for that: roast turkey, roast beef, roast bison, roast alligator? Strangely few, if any, of these booths offer any vegetable options, but intrepid imPorts can find a booths offering superfood smoothies, quinoa bowls, or fruit parfaits tucked away at the very end of the food court.

And don't forget the main attraction (at least, the attraction Galla is most pleased with): CAPTURE THE FLAG. A parcel of land roughly the size of two side-by-side American football fields has been fenced off, and a brightly colored banner that looks like it manifested directly from the 90s is hung across the entrance, inviting all to enjoy! Inside, there is a scattering of trees to provide some natural cover in addition to man-made structures like sections of wall, pieces of large construction pipe to crawl through or hide in, and, of course, the different flag bases:



Yes, those are inflatable dinosaur heads inside an inflatable Jurassic Adventure. The flags are located inside of the temple the top of the "mountain" which, conveniently, has a rock climbing facade just in case climbing to the top of an inflatable hill is too difficult for some players.

Capture the Flag games are held hourly, and imPorts can choose to compete against each other, against natives, or even to team up with local native attendees! When competing against or with natives, imPorts are asked to refrain from flight, mind-reading, or teleportation, but it isn't a rule being strictly enforced. In fact, apart from those requests, imPorts are encouraged to use their powers as much as they like! There are natives lined up around the perimeter to watch the games play out, so why not give them a show to remember?
girlybruiser: (( 131 ))

[personal profile] girlybruiser 2018-06-06 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Haru would definitely have panicked at the sight of Mitsuru pointing a realistic gun to her own head. ]

That doesn't sound entirely pleasant, if you can forgive my bluntness.

[ A "certain" stress... something she experienced herself, but that was once and only once. ]
dragony: (❥z - 18)

[personal profile] dragony 2018-06-06 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[ The shift in mood is instant. Her face trades softness for tightening at her jaw, around her visible eye; even in only one word, her voice is colder.

It's certainly a different tone than when she was talking to the Negotiator.
]

I... try to keep an eye, on my 'fellow' refuges, when they remember the City.

I remember him.
khajidont: (Jaime - sheepish)

[personal profile] khajidont 2018-06-06 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Good. I mean... [ Jaime pauses, then shakes his head. He doesn't need empathy powers to know that Ruka doesn't like the guy. All for the better, as far as he's concerned - while he'd like for the Negotiator to have his time to be normal, if he's capable of doing so, he doesn't want any of his friends to be swept up in his manipulations.

And while their relationship is a strange and frequently rocky one, they are friends. ]


It's good that you already know he's bad news. I just - there's not much I had to ask or to tell, really. I just wanted to make sure that you knew.
dragony: (❥z - 11)

[personal profile] dragony 2018-06-06 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [ She nods. ] I can put two and two together.

[ It would be enough to leave it at that. It should be enough to say that much. She can do the math; if Jaime wants her to know he's "bad news," then he wants her to keep her distance. Keep herself safe.

It would be enough. But—
]

And I can tell when they don't add up. [ She forcibly rolls her shoulders, as though that would dissipate some of the tension she feels building. ] It's not my place to know everything, but... there's one thing I have to know for sure.
batburgers: (049)

[personal profile] batburgers 2018-06-06 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Says who? [A bit cheeky.] Adjust your right arm back a bit. You don't want it too far away unless your vision is that good. Then take a breath and shoot.
batburgers: (059)

[personal profile] batburgers 2018-06-06 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Jason is perfectly okay with bad guys and monsters getting hurt. And grenade launchers because...grenade launchers.]

Not my kind of thing. I was in it for the toys. [He holds up the gun and shakes it a bit with a wry grin.] You pick something.
girlybruiser: (hashtag oops)

[personal profile] girlybruiser 2018-06-06 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Wha—

[ Caught off guard by the offer, she waves her hands back and forth a tad nervously. Those curls of hers bounce up and down along her chin as she does so. ]

Are you sure? It's your prize, after all. Something to commemorate your own win.
icecution: (04)

[personal profile] icecution 2018-06-06 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't, but then it isn't supposed to be. You do get used to it, but I can't say I don't find something reassuring in knowing that other methods of summoning exist.

[And okay. Maybe she's a little bit resentful that for all the research the Kirijo Group carried out, they couldn't work out a less traumatic means of summoning given that facing Shadows was risky enough a venture to start with. But things are what they are, and she knows there's no point wasting time and energy getting upset over a past that can't be fixed.

Better to focus on what can be fixed, to her mind, and there'd been enough of that back home to keep her busy.]
cannotrest: (push off)

[personal profile] cannotrest 2018-06-06 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Once it becomes clear that no one's coming down this pipe, particularly with Jacob's phone moving away from it in her network awareness, Ashley retreats further onto her own territory. She heads towards the tree line, turning around to wave cheekily when he pauses at the top of the wall.
cannotrest: (to sail beyond the sunset)

[personal profile] cannotrest 2018-06-06 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ashley's still smiling wistfully at the thought of Kaidan helping this kid settle in, only to burst out laughing at him trying to give the talk.]

Oh my God, that is just like him. [She can just about see Kaidan getting embarrassed about it even as he treats it as an Important Duty.] Maybe they teach sex ed later at that awful school he went to, because civvy and military base schools in our galaxy definitely teach it younger than you must have been. I actually donate to a different school, one that's supposed to be not as harsh on the kids - I hope they teach it earlier.
stretchy_girl: (convo)

sorry for the slow :(

[personal profile] stretchy_girl 2018-06-06 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[It being pliable then it's all too tempting to poke it, which Gemini does a moment later, testing that strange alien material in the most basic way possible. It's clear she doesn't mean any harm and is only curious, although if the suit scans her to evaluate a potential threat then they just might pick up that beneath the appearance there's nothing human about her.]

What do they shorten it to, Beetleboy?

[She grins and winks, clearly teasing him, if this even is a boy.]
Edited 2018-06-06 16:50 (UTC)
stretchy_girl: (woolyhat yesyes)

[personal profile] stretchy_girl 2018-06-06 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He wouldn't be the first priest Gemini's corrupted.

Gemini takes the plushie in an embrace and after a moment she's already stroking it so it's indeed a hit with her.]


Yeah the colour could be different, but I'm very happy with him.

[She grins in gratitude for the gift before looking around at the stalls.]It's been fun so far, it's nice that they go to all this trouble for us. Have you been to one before or is this your first?]
Edited 2018-06-06 17:14 (UTC)
h2no: (HAHA UM)

[personal profile] h2no 2018-06-06 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
He puts a hand on his head, laughing a little still.

"Shit. Now you got me paranoid! No-one else says as much stupid shit!"

Archie shakes his head.

"Ah-- alright. Let's get to that fuckin' flag capture shit, huh? I'll come in with ya."
khajidont: (Jaime - Planning)

[personal profile] khajidont 2018-06-06 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a part of Jaime that feels bad for springing this on Ruka. They were having a perfectly nice time for once and now she's gone back to looking as stressed as she normally does. This time, he can't argue it. The Negotiator is absolutely someone to be stressed about. God knows Jaime's been losing his mind over the man. ]

Of course. What do you need to know?
dragony: (❥z - 01)

[personal profile] dragony 2018-06-06 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head. ]

You're not the one with the answer.

[ It's nothing she wants to explain, nothing she wants to dig up — and Jaime already turned down the offer she made, to hear about the other Jaime, the one it was... much simpler to call her friend. If she's lucky, he won't press now. ]

But, you don't have to worry about me. That guy didn't recognize me, and never knew me in the first place. I'll be fine.
khajidont: (Jaime - smirk)

[personal profile] khajidont 2018-06-06 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jaime has to laugh too, a sudden, sharp burst of mirth that has him covering his mouth for a moment. ] I just wanna say that me laughing now doesn't mean I was laughing then. I have no idea what he was thinking.

[ Well. He knows exactly what Kaidan was thinking. He was thinking that Jaime was going out and having unprotected sex instead of dressing up like a beetle to fight crime. ]

I'm, like, 99% sure that they taught them sex-ed at the right time and he was just being a weird stick-in-the-mud about the whole thing. I was going out at night and that's just where his brain went. [ He shrugs. ] He's a natural-born worrier.

[ Pot, meet kettle. ]
khajidont: (Beetle - Grin)

no worries!

[personal profile] khajidont 2018-06-06 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, you could call me that if you wanted to, but that's not shortening it at all! Bee-tle-Boy. Blue Bee-tle. Same number of syllables!

[ He bounces a little on the balls of his feet. ]

They usually just call me Blue or Beetle or BB or just B. Or a few ruder things if they're mad at me, but I don't think I'm gonna mention those in front of a bunch of kids.
khajidont: Made by me (Jaime - Threw up in the bugsuit again)

[personal profile] khajidont 2018-06-06 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Just keep your distance, okay? We've got... a truce going on, but that doesn't mean I trust him. Which means I want all my friends to be careful.

[ He goes after whoever he can, in whatever ways he can. Jaime knows that now. Even with guilt on his shoulders, he's not willing to let that go.

His family could have died. ]


But even if I don't know the answer, I'd like to know the question. Whatever involves him is my business, one way or another.
dragony: (❥z - 07)

[personal profile] dragony 2018-06-06 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
... Knowledge changes things, Jaime. And sometimes it is for the worse.

[ She doesn't want to tell him. She doesn't want to say. She doesn't even want to think about it, but she's never been any good at letting go.

It's hard to form the words; they feel like syrup in her mouth, thick and shapeless and heavy. She can't even look at him when she speaks.
]

An incomplete story is a dangerous one to tell.
khajidont: (Jaime - Heard this story a million times)

[personal profile] khajidont 2018-06-07 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. But I know enough about people living here with incomplete stories to know it's better than nothing.

[ It's not something he should press. Obviously it's something that's caused her pain, that's causing her pain now to remember - but if this involves him or the Negotiator, he wants to know. He has to know. ]

I can't force you to say anything you don't want to. But if it involves me - if it's up to me, I want to know.
dragony: (❥z - 03)

[personal profile] dragony 2018-06-07 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ She takes a breath before she answers, gazing more into thought than their surroundings. It doesn't involve him, because it didn't happen to him, and he doesn't remember it. If it were just that, then that's all answer there would need to be. But the reason she's thinking of it, the reason he's asking, the reason it matters, is an entity that does remember. That can act.

She doesn't want history to repeat. She knows it won't, if she's allowed to act.

(Was it the right decision to make, in the first place? She hopes so. God, she hopes so. She hopes he would have forgiven her. She hopes he never knew.)
]

If you're sure. [ Her voice remains quiet. He asked. Even against her warnings, he's asked — and she'd made a promise to him before, hadn't she? All he has to do is ask. ] ... Then, we should go somewhere a little more private.

[ And if he hears the whole story, if he asks for all of it... and he can't forgive her... then at least they won't have an audience. ]
mostlyprofessional: (Default)

[personal profile] mostlyprofessional 2018-06-07 03:28 am (UTC)(link)

It's okay, Nate. I've had a while to get over it. [Over him, really.

[Enough time for her to smile about this:]

I couldn't believe it either, when you first told me. Didn't really seem like your thing. But you've passed the five year mark, and it seems to be working out.

mostlyprofessional: (Default)

[personal profile] mostlyprofessional 2018-06-07 03:32 am (UTC)(link)

Yeah, quitting tends to be a thing you can do with jobs.

[She gives him a bemused look. It's not like she's had a nine to five in a while and she still knows that.]

Sprogs is Aussie slang. [She assumes he'll have gotten the meaning from context.]

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[personal profile] mostlyprofessional 2018-06-07 03:34 am (UTC)(link)

[Chloe nods solemnly.]

They start at the head and work their way down. The best defense is putting forks in your hair, or Vegemite behind your ears. Puts 'em right off.

imaphantomthief: (thinking)

[personal profile] imaphantomthief 2018-06-07 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Veggie what?

[This conversation is mostly words he’s never heard before, and it kind of shows. He’s not too concerned about it at least. What’re the chances these weird veggie hating bear things are around here, anyway? Probably not very high. They’d totally put up warning signs for that, right?]

No offense, but I don’t understand anything you’re saying.

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