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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2015-04-14 04:25 pm
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Turning over a new LIF

WHO: The imPorts!
WHERE: The Ashen Tree, NYC, New York. Need help getting there? See here!
WHEN: April 14th, 8:00 PM - April 15th 1:00 AM
WHAT: The April Swearing In Guessing Game!
WARNINGS: None foreseeable!


Welcome to The Ashen Tree! This sleek, elegant private property leased out only occasionally for limited and exclusive events. The Ashen Tree is a five story, century-and-half old mansion down East 67th Street, constructed somewhat in the vein of those famed and excessive Vanderbilt houses. The theme inherent to The Ashen Tree is in black and white -- this duality means more than just visual aesthetic. There is right, and there is wrong. There is good and there is evil. There is Registered and there is Unsettled. This reoccurring dilemma won't be lost upon your hosts, governmental or otherwise.

The thrust of this Swearing In is to play a game! There will be two versions of this game. If you are newly imPorted (if this is the FIRST Swearing In that occurred since you have been ported in), then you are automatically entered into a raffle to win prizes! You can enter your name into the raffle ONCE for EVERY THREAD with A DIFFERENT CHARACTER that you have! How lucky you are! If you have BEEN here (if this is NOT the first Swearing In that occurred since you have been ported in), then you may only enter the raffle if you WIN at the game.

What is the game?

The Identity Game.

Every imPort who is in the DESIGNATED ROOMS: ROOT, TRUNK, BRANCH, and TWIGS will do their best to pretend to act like another imPort. If someone (who is also in character, just like you are) guesses what imPort you are pretending to be, then THEY may enter their name in the raffle. If you guess the pretend identity of someone else, then YOU get to enter your name in the raffle. There is no sign-up for who pretends to be whom, and there can be multiple imPorts impersonating the same imPort. That will not be regulated. The more you guess correctly someone's pretend identity (which can be achieved by threading with many people), the more you get to enter your name in the raffle. You MUST guess the identity of the imPort being impersonated correctly -- there is right and there is wrong. If someone guesses your character's impersonation correctly, then you have to tell them. You do not have to keep the same impersonation for the WHOLE LOG, but you do for at least a single thread! No changing up identity on someone. ANY imPort can play this game, INCLUDING new imPorts. While new imPorts can play the Guessing Game, or impersonate other imPorts to their desire, their eligibility to enter the raffle is still judged differently. Because they're new!

The LEAVES ROOM is the "safe" zone. You can be yourself! You can stop pretending! Well, maybe some imPorts never actually stop pretending -- maybe there is some gray between all this black and white.
flowerette: ([ 14 ])

[personal profile] flowerette 2015-04-20 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Raina leaned in toward him, intimately close. Hell, she even scooted over to bridge that giant gap Jeff put between them, leaning her head on his shoulder and sparing a coy, upside down glance at his face. ]

Your approval means the world to me, Mr. Winger. I'm sure you're an expert at these kinds of things. It's a shame I met you five minutes after I had already met Frederick.
microbrobotics: (dag man that's cool [suit])

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They poke back . Gently. ]

Sure did. They've got limited AI in 'em so they work together to respond to my commands.
microbrobotics: (sad and alone)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. Yes, that's good. Basically a hug, with the added bonus of not being able to wriggle away from it. Reminds him of being a tiny kid crawling into his brother's bed because of a nightmare or a rare thunderstorm. He turns into it. ]

You sure? He fights stuff now.
tadeadshi: (75)

[personal profile] tadeadshi 2015-04-20 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I-- well.

He isn't physically hurting anyone is he? It's programmed into his chip, but if he's fighting...
microbrobotics: (come oooooon)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Such a lovely sweet smell to it. Hiro swirls it around in his glass like all fancy people do when they drink alcohol. ]

Steal booze? Nah, just this once. Build robots? Allll the time.
slightlyoffchilt: (Dilettante.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2015-04-20 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Chilton was frozen in thrall, unable to extract himself from Lucifer's hands. He felt his own eyes widen, his own lungs collapse and expand with their mortal insecurity for oxygen. He felt trapped. And yet there was something pulling him towards the archangel, something inherent and broken and thrashing for recognition. He kept thinking about Lucifer's hands holding him in place.]

Your. Former incarnation.

[Raina had been right. He should have waited, he should had bitten at those moments meant for deliberate, strategic study, he should have chewed those carefully. He shouldn't have let his own arrogance--]

I owed your former incarnation. Term limited agreement.

[His thought on arrogance never fully manifested. Chilton had once more found his quick tongue.]

That Lucifer had forsaken me, and thus whatever bargain that may or may not have been rightfully fulfilled. You are an entirely different, admittedly superior version -- or do you deny how much better you are? Do you deny your cleverer subtlety? Your darker grace?

I draw a difference in identity. Between the two.

[His quick, sharp tongue.]
microbrobotics: (brotherly love)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Guilt flickers in his expression before he manages to hide his face. ]

No! He doesn't hurt anyone. None of us do. Apprehensions and self-defense only.

[personal profile] braided_icarus 2015-04-20 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as we have the materials to make whatever it is. I could probably manage. As for the portal I used....it really isn't something I'd recommend. Otherwise I'd have tried it by now to get back home. It's...using alchemy, whenever someone attempts human transmutation. And there's always a cost.

[Unless you use a Stone, like Ed had used Envy's to get them out of Gluttony. When he'd first seen Al's body, so unkempt and malnourished. But there. Right there and whole. He swallows, recalling Kimblee's Stone. Wondering what happened to it after their fight. But no, he really shouldn't be thinking along these lines.]
ursawhiner: Treefuckers go home! (Arboreal sex crimes. Stumpin on the reg.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I was going to say everything except taxidermy, but I'm pretty sure Mabel could do that too.
microbrobotics: (verge [suit])

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The only thing Hiro hears out of that is "you could summon a portal to get your brother home if you're willing to pay enough." ]

What kind of cost? You - you lost your limbs, right?

[ Sounds fair to him. ]
ursawhiner: Hope I can pass that bill tomorrow. (Someone who can't toot. Like a senator.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Could I watch sometime? See how it's done?

[He casually takes a sip. Mmm, so fizzy.]
microbrobotics: (candy)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, yeah? Totally? Heck, you can come by my garage sometime and help.

[ Clearly the best way to drink this is to knock it back and have half at once. ]
dreadedone: art by <user name="melkorwashere" site="tumblr.com"> ([092])

[personal profile] dreadedone 2015-04-20 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a really good thing Mairon isn't capable of that power. At least while here. There's no telling what he might do with such an ability. Still, he gives a faint little smile and a shake of the head.]

Perhaps so but some might be more prepared to be bumped into as a celebration such as this rather than being walked through. Some might react more violently to the latter.
tadeadshi: (34)

[personal profile] tadeadshi 2015-04-20 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He catches the barest hint of that face, but... He rolls over to give him a quick hug, mess his hair some.]

Good. Dunno what I'd do if you guys were hurting anyone.
ursawhiner: The wholesale pirate punishment factory. (Bought a cat o'nine tails at Target.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! Also, this stuff isn't half bad.

[Taking another couple of gulps. Can't feel a thing!]

[personal profile] braided_icarus 2015-04-20 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
My leg. Here in Heropa, it's not auto-mail since Noi was able to help with that. My arm was the cost in retrieving Al's soul, binding it to the armor. I'm not trying that again unless I have to. The one other time back home I did it was to keep myself and Ling alive and get us out. I had no other choice. And I'm not so sure it would work for anyone else but alchemists or those specifically from Amestris at best. It's tied to alchemists and their gates of Truth.

[Because yeah, he knows Hiro well enough to guess at where the other's train of thought is heading here.]

Krei's portals are probably safer. Much safer. And that won't be guaranteed to injure or possibly kill someone in the process, Hiro.
infomodder: or you could not be framing me and this is just gonna piss off one of my few allies it's a coin toss really (or you could be framing me)

[personal profile] infomodder 2015-04-20 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
God, no.

[Will's an ancient man, perched on the cusp of forty. He could argue that April blessed him with the gift of pizza seeking, but that was something he'd gathered over the years. Growing up poor and with ridiculous observational skills had been a boon, even if the whole poor thing was generally unfortunate. Will sits somewhat slower than what might be considered usual, undoing the bottom button on his coat at the same time to hopefully give across the image that he was just too tightly stitched up instead of the honest problem. Not that he cares if Jeff thinks he might have some arthritis, but arthritis of the stomach isn't something where Will's from.]

I used to be able to breathe underwater and. Fix broken cups, but sometimes, if you leave, you can come back with...changes to what you've got. The [he's looking at a menu, but his hand gestures to his eyes just the same] night vision has been the same since I got here. Pizza seeking doesn't sound like something somebody here wouldn't have, though. Knew a woman who could turn things to leopard print. Another who could change any food to breakfast food, it's... [shrug] ...varied across the board, you know?
microbrobotics: (yolo???? [suit])

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh good. He can squeeze his eyes shut and hold onto Tadashi's arm and feel even worse. ]

We ... I ...

[ He never wants to tell his brother about this. Never. But Callaghan spat it out no problem - could he say something even worse? In front of Tadashi, even? He should say something now, before it's too late ... ]

I wouldn't be living up to you if I did something like that.
microbrobotics: (brotherly love)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Krei's portals aren't guaranteed either.

[ But if only alchemists can do it ... Damn. He would never ask Ed to pull something that crazy for him. It's only a good idea if he's the only one who gets hurt. ]

Can you show me the theory anyway? Maybe it'll help give us a new angle.

[personal profile] braided_icarus 2015-04-20 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Y-yeah. Hiro. Tadashi showed up later, but I met Hiro pretty much right after he arrived. But he says you won't try anything here. I....understand your reasons, but the way you went about it, that wasn't it.

[Ed can't help taking Hiro's side in this, but he's slightly older, mature enough to be open to seeing the other side of it as well. To consider Callaghan's motives and reasons behind what he did, even if that had been at the unintentional cost of losing Tadashi in the process.]

He told me to stay away from you. Haven't talked to Tadashi yet.
microbrobotics: (proven right)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Right? I always thought it would be like - I dunno. Stronger? Maybe we're just naturals at this.
ursawhiner: at the urinal. (Some good ways to look cool)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you be born with a good tolerance for alcohol?

[These boys are so cool. The coolest.]
microbrobotics: (ooooh?)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well sure. Same as being good at sports or robots. Alcohol prodigies.
sizetwelve: the nerds have accepted me as one of their own (trust this face)

[personal profile] sizetwelve 2015-04-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ At least it seems a common enough activity to check out the newbies, and they should be lucky that it isn't more common for older imPorts to enact hazing as the status quo for swearing-ins, considering how many troublemakers she knows are actually about.

But of course Dana must know that in spades. Mary's grateful she isn't more squirrely around the Watsons, to be honest. Ah, January. ]


You as well. How has life here been treating you?

[ Hopefully better than John treated her. ]
ursawhiner: and it's very hard to focus. (I've got two boom boxes playing Pony)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice. I don't see what the big deal is. This stuff's pretty much like juice.