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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.
sassguard: (Default)

[personal profile] sassguard 2014-12-22 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not a lot of time to adapt to a new world.

[ Not in absolute terms, but Shepard's regrettably familiar with the way perception can distort that, depending on what happens and how big a shift in world view it requires. Like finding out everything the galaxy thought it knew about fifty thousand years ago wasn't what they thought. ]
sassguard: (on the way to your home)

[personal profile] sassguard 2014-12-22 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that how you see it? Work?

[ It's something he's been curious about. It's hard to get a sense of what drives Annie to put in the effort she does, but since he's teaching her, or at least trying to, the insight couldn't hurt. ]
sassguard: (kawaii in the streets)

[personal profile] sassguard 2014-12-22 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I think people have different definitions of "play."

[ What the Krogan consider play, Shepard's pretty sure the rest of the galaxy would consider to be destruction of public property. Some people would consider jumping off a building in an elf costume 'play' too... ]

Is there anything you do just for yourself, because you enjoy it?

[ Admittedly, this is pretty hypocritical coming from him, given that he doesn't really have 'hobbies' either. But hey, he knows how to have fun. ]
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[personal profile] sassguard 2014-12-23 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shepard's familiar with conversations that don't reveal much because you haven't progressed far enough in the main storyline the signs of someone who either isn't interested in revealing more unless prompted, or wants him to back off. Despite the fact that he knows relatively little about her, he likes Annie, likes her competence and no-nonsense attitude, though he suspects she isn't as strait-laced as a first impression might suggest.

So instead of pressing further, he just grins, folding his arms. ]


Good to know.
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[personal profile] sassguard 2014-12-23 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Shepard flicks his fingers at her lazily, the universal gesture for shooing someone off. ]

You're off the hook. Let me know when you've got time to work on your shields again -- I know this time of the year is busy.