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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?
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[personal profile] batburgers 2018-05-19 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Jason is here because he wants to see who registers and who doesn't. Who is paying attention to who and how the government is marketing itself to the imPorts. Gotta stay in the know while looking like he's not in the know.

What a better way to do that than to play a few games?

He was eyeing the sharpshooter booths even though he knew he probably shouldn't--or would have to dumb down his skills a lot. Until he saw the girl who looked like she's never aimed a gun properly in her life.]


Do you know how to hold that thing?
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[personal profile] shesalittle 2018-05-21 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of. [She shrugs and turns around to look at her new spectator.] I know what to do to make sure a gun doesn't go off. So I'm just working backwards from there.
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[personal profile] batburgers 2018-05-21 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Jason is shaking his head a bit just looking at the form while she's holding the gun.]

Knowing how to not shoot a gun doesn't help much with how to fire one and hit something. It's all about the aim.
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[personal profile] shesalittle 2018-05-25 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm getting that. [She doesn't really mind the advice, obvious as it may seem. She is pretty objectively terrible at this.

She does study him carefully to try and figure out if she's gonna have to shoot down a guy while she's waiting for her girlfriend.]
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[personal profile] batburgers 2018-05-26 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Right now he's focusing on the travesty that is how she handles a gun. It being a toy gun doesn't matter, it's just sad to look at. He'll think of maybe flirting with her possibly later. He has priorities.]

Come on, hold the gun up again. Take a stance.
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[personal profile] shesalittle 2018-05-29 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[She sighs, shifting into position. This is probably not a terrible skill to have, even if she's not sold on her teacher yet.] Learning to shoot a gun won't help me with self-defense any more than learning how to play Whack-A-Mole, though.
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[personal profile] batburgers 2018-05-30 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing how to shoot a toy gun isn't gonna do much for self-defense one way or the other. Toys are for fun.

[And only a little bit similar to shooting a real one.]

Raise your arm up and use the line of it like a sight.
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[personal profile] shesalittle 2018-06-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure we're having fun.

[She does hold up her left arm and start trying to aim. But she leaves her right arm, and the gun it's holding, right where it is.]
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[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.