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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.
ursawhiner: and think "yeah, I could juice that?" (You ever look at a skinny cucumber)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! You're from California, too?
abduxel: (to call home)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-04-20 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, of course I did. [He says it before he stops himself. He's clearly had too much wine, he thinks to himself, being so careless. He takes a breath, composes himself.] Sorry. We - had some run-ins in my home world. He knows me.

[Sort of. He never met the guy. But 90 years living in someone's home, you sort of feel like you know them.]

Which, as you can imagine, is kind of a shame for me.
microbrobotics: (texting)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. San Fransokyo.

And before you ask, no, San Francisco doesn't exist in my world.
deadtective: (eighteen.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2015-04-20 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[she rolls her eyes but doesn't argue the first point because ok they aren't technically impulses, the criminal acts just kind of happen.]

I don't think yelling at someone really counts as socializing.
ursawhiner: Let me show you to the pancreas. We've made a life down there. (Welcome traveler.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. And you thought the time travelling pig was weird.
corviform: (052)

[personal profile] corviform 2015-04-20 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
You're from his world?

[ Now his earlier reactions to hearing about gods like Loki being brought into this one make so much more sense. Gil can't fault him for being wary when he had just arrived and all he had possibly ever known were gods who weren't to be trifled with. ]

Why? [ In response to the second half of his statement. ] Did he want something from you?
microbrobotics: (confidence)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
It is weird. I'm just a regular ol' alternate universe.
ursawhiner: Quantum Leap, colon, Quatum Leaping More. (Quantum Leap 2: Leaped Again.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, does Tokyo still exist in your world?
microbrobotics: (sketchy)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
'course it does. And San Fransokyo's still part of the US, in case that was your next question.
abduxel: (no I can't slow down - I can't hold back)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-04-20 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
He listens, interested.

"No one ever thought to test it? Take a shot, knick yourself?" He makes a little gesture with a finger, as if cutting his arm with a knife.
ursawhiner: he's trapped in Yahoo answers and he wants out so bad. (John Lennon's ghost in the machine)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Why wouldn't it be part of the US? It's still in California.
deadtective: (three.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2015-04-20 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty bad place to be in if that's what you're here for.

[this is not, in fact, delivered with an accusatory tone. everyone stop and marvel. Hazel has made detours to look at particular places plenty of times, and she can't say that the Ashen Tree really makes for an all-encompassing (even even very pleasant) experience.]

Maybe you should quit stalking strangers for a little while and see all the really good stuff.

[ok, nevermind, she can't complete anything remotely resembling sympathy without sabotaging herself. at least her heart's in the right place this time.]
abduxel: (no I can't slow down - I can't hold back)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-04-20 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, yeah. You probably are too, you just don't know it. He has his own world, one that touches every one of ours.

[He's wrong. But there were so many iterations of the Devil in so many different universes, it's easy to see why one might make that mistake; and Hell itself, where Abduxel comes from, is its own plane of existence, separate from the mortal plane. It only makes sense.]

[But why... that's harder to answer. He hesitates. He's said too much already. Lying,] Well, he's the Devil, what do you think? He wants my soul.
microbrobotics: (awkward)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Right? But everyone ALWAYS asks that one next. We're just like ... Quebec, or something.
cephalothorax: (144)

[personal profile] cephalothorax 2015-04-20 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[gosh hazel he doesnt even know about that, amazing.]

That's not what I mean.

When you're distressed, you didn't retreat into a corner or turn in on yourself. You sought company. That seems social to me!
redplainsrider: (She's searching the stars for her man)

[personal profile] redplainsrider 2015-04-20 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
She shook her head, looking back up at him. "The Nah Notek might not work again if'n you drink enough to make it turn off. Ain't worth the risk."
ursawhiner: and think "yeah, I could juice that?" (You ever look at a skinny cucumber)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-20 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
But with less maple syrup, got it.
deadtective: (five.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2015-04-20 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's not exactly my choice right now. [that petulant tone is really convincing, gj girl] And it's not like there are any totally empty couches here.
microbrobotics: (candy)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-20 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Bingo. Glad I don't have to explain myself.
abduxel: (ain't no rest for the wicked)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-04-20 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yeah, I can see why that would be a problem."

The drinks arrive, and he pushes the cranberry juice over to Red.

"How fast does it work? I met a guy who heals right before your eyes if you slice him."

And that guy demonstrated, too. It was great.
cephalothorax: (184)

[personal profile] cephalothorax 2015-04-20 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Sure it is. You could leave?

[...]

Or just sit there without talking.

So... asocial doesn't work for me.
bulwank: @vouloir (eightyfive)

[personal profile] bulwank 2015-04-20 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Ah- I'm happy to hear that then!

To become truly a friend, yes, perhaps. But the word is still used for those you are only just growing close to as well, it is a broad term. To some, you and i would be considered friends, to others, merely acquaintances.
deadtective: (eight.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2015-04-20 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
I can't leave until he does. [a vague handflap in the direction of the crowd, where Manabu (probably) is]

And I know you, just staring off into the distance with you right next to me would be weird.
redplainsrider: (HIYAH)

[personal profile] redplainsrider 2015-04-20 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
The somber look left her face and was replaced with a cocky half-grin. She was inordinately proud of her Nah Notek, she had worked hard for it, and it had been well worth it. "Works pretty dang quick. Got blasted in the gut with a shotgun an' I were back up on my feet in under a minute." She could see a sort of twinkle of hope in his eyes, so she added with a slightly more crooked smirk, "Gettin' injured still hurts to tarnation an' back, so I ain't too keen to illustrate, though."
cephalothorax: (158)

[personal profile] cephalothorax 2015-04-20 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Really? You seemed surprised that I remembered you.