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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.
glitchinthesystem: (Are you sure that's legal)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Dipper isn't the only one who doesn't look like he fits in this stuffy place. Glitch didn't really get the whole, dress up thing or...well...didn't know it was a thing. The mansion to him just gives an air of oddness. So, here he is in a grey hoodie, jeans and boots, looking out of place.

The teen was more busy pressing his face up against the window to look outside, because, he can't get enough of seeing actual trees, than to care about what people are wearing.

However, that changes when it sounds like he's being addressed. The dark haired boy looks back and see's...

child. There is a child in the room. Welp, looks like he's not going to be a jerk for the moment.]

I suppose, but, it's not that big a deal from how these people are making it out to be.
ursawhiner: (Fuck it! You get Kangaroo Jack.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Having spent the first half of summer in rural Oregon, trees are kind of old news for Dipper. Maybe this guy is super into New York City architecture?]

Dude, they flew us out on private jets! Jets, multiple! And one of the prizes is a skateboarding owl!
glitchinthesystem: (Yeah I'm pretty good)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, wasn't that fucking cool? I didn't know people could fly!

[And Dipper...you are the rarity to hear something not sarcastic from him. This is a treat.]


Either way, I don't see why that means WE have to look all weird. They chose to fly us in.

No comment on the owl though. I have no idea how they made it skateboard...or what either of those things are.
ursawhiner: and think "yeah, I could juice that?" (You ever look at a skinny cucumber)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
...So you're from somewhere not here, obviously. A place with no planes, skateboards, or owls.

[This is so exciting. This guy might be an actual alien! Play it cool, Dipper.]
glitchinthesystem: (um)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Not from here at all. From another worldish like everybody else.

[He turns away from the window to sit down on a chair to look more plainly at the boy.]


And I mean, we probably had that stuff, maybe.
ursawhiner: Hope I can pass that bill tomorrow. (Someone who can't toot. Like a senator.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Were you like, kept in a locked room?

[He's mostly joking.]
glitchinthesystem: (Are you sure that's legal)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
You'd be right. But, instead of like tiny locked room, think big large dome full of teenagers and robots.

[He's not joking.]


Oh and uh, other lame and boring circumstances.
ursawhiner: and I want her gone. (Condition: Creepy as hell)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
You were locked in a dome with robots and you call that boring?

...I don't know if I want to see your version of exciting.

[Dipper is imagining lots of explosions and robot punching.]
glitchinthesystem: (No trust)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Trust me, kidlet, it's not exactly fun either. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want sixteen hour work days, am I right?

The only fun thing to do in that place is like, fight club.

[He'll...leave out the bit that the robots control the food supplies and basically beat you half to death. No kid needs to hear that.]
ursawhiner: and I am not one to argue. (He called it "ethically repugnant")

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think that's legal in my state. Or... anywhere.

[This got depressing real fast.]
glitchinthesystem: (that doesn't sound good)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
It's legal where I'm from apparently.

[But, he can sense how sad that actually sounds and no, children do not need depression in their lives. So, Glitch favours to change the subject.]


Well, off of the crappy stuff. What's your name, kidlet? You can call me, Glitch.
ursawhiner: (Trust falls. Rope Course. Punish the ass)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Dipper. And we can be in the Weird Nicknames Club together, I guess.
glitchinthesystem: (Are you sure that's legal)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? Nickname? Glitch is my name. [Wow, Dipper. Way to be rude. He'll shrug it off though. Customs are weird in this land.]

But, sure, I'll join your club, Dip.
ursawhiner: I had painted his nose brown like a dog. (Well color me embarrassed!)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. Sorry. I didn't think anyone could have a name as bad as my real name. Parents, huh?

[This is so awkward. So, so awkward.]
glitchinthesystem: (Are you sure that's legal)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Dipper...the grave is only getting deeper.]

...I picked it. Not the biofactors I don't even know.

[He sighs, whatever. Dipper's a child. He can forgive a child.]


Look, it's probably just a time thing. Your from lemme guess, this twenty first century, right?
ursawhiner: Have we got the wands for you! (Wizard's aren't upsetting enough?)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, I'm so sorry. About everything. Let's just stop talking about this.

[Unfortunately, not the first time Dipper's driven a conversation right off a cliff.]

Anyways, yes! Twenty first century, that's me! Hahaha.
glitchinthesystem: (Yeah I'm pretty good)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-15 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Glitch is just going to laugh and then he just reaches out and poke. Poke's Dipper right on the forehead.]

Man, lighten up. It's cool. You didn't know.

Besides, there's the reason right there. I've got like four hundred years later on ya. Things change by Twenty four forty two.
Edited 2015-04-15 03:44 (UTC)
ursawhiner: Gimme that sssssap. (Did you ever read "The Taking Tree"?)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-16 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
I went to the future once. Does yours have a giant Time Baby?
glitchinthesystem: (that doesn't sound good)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-16 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Um...no? No, I think I'd remember a giant time baby.
ursawhiner: Gimme that sssssap. (Did you ever read "The Taking Tree"?)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-17 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Your future actually sounds better. Minus all the... robots and fighting.
glitchinthesystem: (oh im sad)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-17 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's-it's really not, kiddo.

Trust me when I say you've got it good right now. You don't ever want to see where I live.

[It's the only amount of honesty he's willing to tell this boy. There's no way Glitch wants someone thinking his world sounds cool or better.]
ursawhiner: he's trapped in Yahoo answers and he wants out so bad. (John Lennon's ghost in the machine)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
I was... mostly joking. Though I do want to never see the Time Baby again.
glitchinthesystem: (Are you sure that's legal)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-19 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

As for the time baby thing...what's a time baby even look like?
ursawhiner: Quantum Leap, colon, Quatum Leaping More. (Quantum Leap 2: Leaped Again.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's like a giant baby. With a really deep voice... and it can wipe you out of existence.
glitchinthesystem: (holy shit what)

[personal profile] glitchinthesystem 2015-04-21 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, that sounds like it needs to die.

Like, nowish. Glad it didn't like do that to you though. It'd probably suck really hard if it unexisted you.

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