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Entry tags:
- !event log,
- abigail hobbs | n/a,
- chloe frazer | n/a,
- ct-7567 | captain rex,
- finn onaru | the dragonborn,
- haru okumura | noir,
- iris west | n/a,
- jaime reyes | blue beetle,
- jason todd | red hood,
- jonathan walsh | snake man,
- lucina | n/a,
- magnus burnsides | the hammer,
- n/a | the midnighter,
- nathan drake | n/a,
- norman | n/a,
- poe dameron | black leader,
- ruka | n/a,
- tina belcher | n/a,
- tk-622 | sergeant,
- † akira kurusu | joker,
- † alfie solomons | n/a,
- † andrew pulaski | apollo,
- † cassandra wayne | batman,
- † diane nguyen | n/a,
- † duo maxwell | shinigami,
- † galla | the maiden's hand,
- † gemini de mille | gemini,
- † jacob taylor | the protector,
- † karolina dean | n/a,
- † lando calrissian | n/a,
- † leo | n/a,
- † mitsuru kirijo | empress,
- † negotiator | n/a,
- † nico minoru | n/a,
- † rua | deformer,
- † ryūji sakamoto | skull,
- † yato | delivery god
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?
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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[ That hits him like a punch to the gut. He pauses, glancing down at his lap and taking a deep breath. That sounds like Jaime's worst nightmare and, as far as he knows, the reality that Kaidan went back to. Maybe in Ashley's timeline he died a little earlier, but Jaime knows exactly what they were going up against - had always held out hope that somehow he could go back to Kaidan's galaxy with him, give him whatever back-up he needed. Going home had always been something that Shepard and Kaidan alike knew that they had to do, even though they knew it meant walking straight into their doom.
There's really no justice for the good guys, is there? He looks back up at her, grimacing a little. ] Sorry, I, um. I didn't realize. Obviously. Otherwise I would have never brought it up here.
[ But now they're here, trapped in this conversation. ]
But... yeah. He was happy here. Really happy. He had a life here, a good one. He and Shepard got together, actually, wound up renting an apartment, did all the stuff normal couples do. [ He shakes his head, huffing out a quiet laugh, sad and happy all in one. ] I even inherited their dog.
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[And she is: She doesn't blame herself any more, hasn't in a long time. In fact, she's able to listen with a smile that's only a little bit sad.]
His crush on Shepard was so obvious. [So obvious, in fact, that she's not actually surprised it carried over to the good looking male Shepard she saw in Jacob's memory a while back. Kaidan has a personality type, she guesses.] I'm glad they made it work somewhere.
[An apartment, a dog, a life as a couple sound like the kind of life they wouldn't have been able to have back home, between the war and the regs. But here, even with things like the plant havoc and nuclear bombs (how's that for irony, that she got to live through one again and again and again after Kaidan died to ensure a nuke would go off), they got to have it. Ashley finds her smile growing. She bumps Jaime's shoulder, the best attempt at physical reassurance she can do with the lap bar pinning them down.]
Thanks for telling me. Really. I just... wasn't expecting to hear his name today. Usually I just see it [on their memorial wall which she visited semiregularly, but that seems cruel to bring up] in my bank transactions when my donations to the biotic academy scholarship fund in his name go through.
[And because she can't donate from this universe, it's been a long time since she's seen even that.]
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It's all right, Jaime, he tells himself. Maybe Kaidan's in danger now, but that doesn't mean he's dead. That's a different Kaidan, in an entirely different world, and entirely different timeline. ]
But yeah, they made it work. Kaidan's actually the guy that lived with me when I first came - god, like, four years ago? He really helped me get settled in, made sure I was okay. [ What he says next is embarrassing but, he thinks, necessary for setting the mood. He raises a brow at her. ] Not that he was used to people my age. He even tried to give me the talk once. It would've been funnier at the time if it hadn't been so awful.
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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.
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[ 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. ]