lyingheart: anonsanta, let me know who to credit! (relaxed | it's time for you and me)
Annie Leonhart ([personal profile] lyingheart) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2014-12-13 09:22 am

[ open ] jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

WHO: OPEN.
WHERE: De Chima.
WHEN: Saturday, December 13th, 2014.
WHAT: Earlier in the afternoon, there will be base-jumping in elf costumes. Later on is the charity silent date auction and different performances by USA celebrities fundraising for charity this holiday season. OOC information post here.
WARNINGS: None now, will update later. To avoid seeing all the silent auction threads, simply press on the (Hide ## comments) under the header comment for the auction section!

[ BASE JUMPING from TARTARUS TOWER ]

For those imPorts who volunteered to jump from Tartarus Tower, arrivals for fittings into their costumes begins at 2:00 PM sharp. Each costume comes with a name-tag attached, and make-up artists are on hand to help affix elf ears to participants and work on their eye make-up for the ease of the cameras catching all this live.

The jumps will start at 4:00 PM, and after all imPort elves have jumped and successfully reached the ground, they'll join the bus transporting presents and Malik to the De Chima children's hospital to deliver gifts to the children in the cancer ward (and elsewhere). ImPorts will then be transported over to the main facilities for the fundraiser event as a whole, invited to attend the Silent Date Auction as well as listen to any of the various performances occurring over the course of the evening.

[ CHARITY SILENT DATE AUCTION in DE CHIMA ]

Starting at 4:00 PM, the doors to the conference hall made available for the ImPort Charity Silent Date Auction will open. Live music will be provided, along with refreshments and catered hor d'oeuvres, and televisons displaying both the news stories and live coverage of the fundraiser events occurring over the course of the evening. ImPorts will be encouraged to attend any of these performances in person, but will not be required to leave the conference hall unless they wish to do so.

There is lounge seating available, and free wireless throughout the building. Different conference halls are hosting different events in this event center, and the largest productions are happening on a built stage outside. There's a massive lit tree in the central front courtyard of the event center, and many small stands selling hot drinks, good foods, and wares outside by the stage and surrounding streets, all with a portion of proceeds going to various named charities.

Please comment to this log with your own starters! Only the Auction Thread will be set-up under its own sub-thread, for ease of tracking. Auction Threads can be threaded in, but initial comments to those threads should be the bids that a character is placing on someone else (or themselves). Bidding will close OOCly by this time next week (or when a player states bidding is closed on their character - send me a PM to close that thread, or comment to close it on your own). ICly, all bids close at the end of the night.
mantlepieces: (no YOU were going to free the zombies)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-01-30 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Abilities back home? Reggie raises his eyebrow, looking at Jean in uncertainty. Great, more people that had lives like in comic books; not that Reggie should be fazed by that at this point. ]

No point to any of it except to keep the nerds and self-righteous goody-goody types happy, as far as I can tell. But-- [ Shoving his hands deeper into his pockets, he shrugs. ] Seems kind of counter-productive to me. For all they know we could all decide to kill each other or somethin'.
isaytheeneigh: (Jean008)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-01-30 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't there people out there who are killing people? [Jean doesn't involve himself in it, partly because he doesn't know what to do about it. But he spoke to that Manipulator guy, and he's heard about Lunatic. Who hasn't heard about him?]

I don't really think they care. We're still assets even if a few of us are dangerous.
mantlepieces: (it's about ethics in zombie disasters)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-02-05 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
But not all of us. We could -- or at least the civilians around, since it's not like they got powers.

[ The whole thing just seems unreal and stupid, except for the part where they can live their own semi-decent lives for most of the time. That part is an improvement to him, but obviously it would only seem like one to people in special circumstances. ]

They got another thing coming if they think I'll be an asset to this crap. I didn't even get cool powers. They should've skipped the whole "hero" part altogether and just given us the free ride for all the trouble.
isaytheeneigh: (Jean038)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-02-06 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Does that mean that you've been doing hero business even with your crappy powers?

[Jean can't help but lean on that part of it. If he hasn't skipped the hero business, why is that? He has his own group, but it hasn't always been the most organized and functioning bunch of people. At the end of the day, they've wanted to help.]
mantlepieces: (just a natural fashion-plate)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-02-08 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah. I mean, I guess I could always do magic tricks for sick kids or something if I was desperate, but what do you do with an ability to pull things out of hats?

[ There's that other power of his, too, but Reggie doesn't like talking about it. Literally feeling what other people feel, physically, is just bullshit. ]
isaytheeneigh: (Jean044)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-02-11 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you pull out anything you want? [Almost immediately, he starts finding about fifteen different uses for it. All of them are pretty good, but hey, he might be wrong.]
mantlepieces: (IT'S NOT DRAMATIC ENOUGH IN HERE)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-02-12 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of. It's... I don't get to pick, but sometimes it's something I want it to be.

[ It's a "need"-based power, not that Reggie can really identify that just by context. It's hard to make the connection sometimes to why he "needs" some seemingly random object the moment of, but he also hasn't used the ability all that often yet. ]

The worst part about it is I don't wear hats that much.
isaytheeneigh: (Jean002)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-02-13 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? I have some great hats you can have. I don't have much use for them now that I'm here. [Jean's taste in hats is questionable.

The fact that he nearly went on to die in the main hat means that it is probably not something he should be offering to a could-be-a-friend person, but it's still a friendly offer just the same.

Though Jean is well aware of the value of it. He just wants it out of his closet.]
mantlepieces: (m'lady)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-02-18 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Great hats" is like, an oxymoron most of the time. But hey, if you aren't doin' anything with them I can take a look.

[ It's not like Reggie has to know about the near death experience, that would only sully the deep symbolism of the fedora sharing. ]

For all I know the power gets more useful with practice.
isaytheeneigh: (Jean038)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-02-18 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds pretty stupid, but who knows? It could be the best thing they've ever given someone.

[He can see a number of uses for it, but that's if it's not stupid.

Then again, Jean can (secretly, very secretly) turn into a horse. That's stupid for a different reason.]
mantlepieces: (not as big of a jerk as he could've been)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-02-21 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The best--? [ Reggie raises his eyebrows, thinking about that. ] Huh. You think so? I mean, I can't say they'd have chosen the wrong guy to give the best power to.

[ He runs his fingers through his bangs. Yes, this isn't a bad spin to put on it at all. ]

Does that make it better than yours?
isaytheeneigh: (Jean044)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-02-22 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's as broadly capable as it sounds ... sure, it's probably the best. I don't have much to brag about. [Healing is useful, and he's grateful for it. But in his months of being here, he's felt the full wave of emotions from so many people that he'd rather not do it again.

And his two other powers aren't much in comparison.]
mantlepieces: (what release schedule?)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2015-02-24 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
No kidding you don't -- I could've guessed that.

[ His smirk grows, his eyebrow remaining arched up curiously. Reggie keeps his other power under wraps for the most part -- as "useless" as his hat power might seem, it isn't quite as embarrassing or theoretically exploitable as the one where he feels, physically, what someone else is feeling -- but this conversation is somewhat affirming. ]

Don't wanna talk about it, huh?
isaytheeneigh: (Jean079)

[personal profile] isaytheeneigh 2015-02-24 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I heal people and fly a little. ["A little" is what makes it unimpressive. It helps with using his gear because of the limitations it has in battle, making it so that he can do more.

But then again, what use does that have here? If he's knocked off a building, he probably won't die, but he hasn't had to use his gear in a whole lot of battles except to rescue people.

Rescuing people isn't really the gear's intended use.]