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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: (Trust falls. Rope Course. Punish the ass)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-14 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[The chic design of everything is making one Dipper Pines very uncomfortable. He almost wishes he was wearing a tux; almost because there are very few occasions when Dipper actually wants to be wearing a tuxedo. Vests are cool, right? And baseball hats are always in. Plus shorts! Shorts are super fashionable.

They said something about a game, but at this point, Dipper doesn't really know any other imPorts besides Mabel. --Who would be all over this game. Definitely going to have to do some damage control there. The game is probably going to make any info gathering difficult, but Dipper Pines is no quitter! He seats himself on one of the deceptively uncomfortable couches: ]


So... pretty fancy, huh?
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.
microbrobotics: (escape)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-15 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ If it makes you feel better, here's a kid in a hoodie and a robot shirt. So at least you're tied for being the least fashionable kid in the room if nothing else. ]

No kidding. I'm mostly here for the free trip to NYC, not gonna lie.
slightlyoffchilt: (Caprice.)

Frederick Chilton | Registered | open to all

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2015-04-15 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
None could persuade him from a drink. The night might be young and glamorous, but Chilton anticipated a far darker aging as the hours would wane on -- psychologically speaking, of course. When he had heard about the terms of this Identity Game, he immediately considered the cognitive ramifications: projection, ego bruising, winners and losers. It was a mind game, this whole affair. But that (professional opinion) alone wouldn't have prevented the psychiatrist from engaging socially. After all, every imPort was armed with a communicator, and therein was immediate access to speech patterns and videoed body language. A leveled field, so to speak.

Single malt scotch in hand, Chilton decided that he would nevertheless play along. A fresh impersonation for everyone was to encounter this evening, why not? One could determine social circles that way, though he suspected that his rationale for this game was somewhat singular. Chilton didn't have his eyes on those prizes, he was far more intrigued by the observable behavior soon to unfold.
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!
ursawhiner: Let me show you to the pancreas. We've made a life down there. (Welcome traveler.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Dipper hasn't seen a boy his own age that didn't have a pompdaour in months. Time to become best buddies!]

I feel like there's something wrong when summer in northern Oregon feels almost exactly like spring-time New York.
microbrobotics: (so you're telling me)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-15 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Just a good ol' scraggly like nature intended. ]

Too hot? Or too cold?
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: Take the non-haunted outfit off the haunted doll! (Found a murderdoll. I named it Wife 2.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Please teach this boy how to have cool hair like Hiro's.]

Bit of both? Mostly I'm just glad I didn't need to wear a winter coat.
microbrobotics: (escape)

[personal profile] microbrobotics 2015-04-15 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, no kidding. I'm from California, so I'm seriously glad this whole winter thing is just about over.
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.]
resipiscent: (uhh...)

[personal profile] resipiscent 2015-04-15 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[This place is like something he feels DiZ would have liked. Riku pushes that thought away, taking a sip of the fizzy water he'd snagged from a tray-bearing waiter. He makes a face, leaning back on two legs of his chair to set it on the table behind him and pretend he doesn't know it.]

I thought it was Sprite... [His voice is a mumble, half to himself and half to whoever's sitting nearby.]
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.
tadeadshi: (82)

Tadashi Hamada | Registered | ota

[personal profile] tadeadshi 2015-04-15 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[This is well out of even Tadashi's comfort zone, way too fancy and expensive. But Hiro had mentioned wanting to see New York City for the first time and here the swear in is, a free trip to New York. Plus the chance to see if anyone else had shown up that maybe they'd missed somewhere.

He sits in one of the chairs, making a mental note to get up and walk around every few minutes because these chairs were obviously not meant to be sat in for very long and watches ImPorts walk by. He'd almost look relaxed if not for his idle fiddling with the small wrist band on his left wrist.]


Sure are a lot of people this time.
ursawhiner: (Earth Girls are Easy. And in Submarines.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-15 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Looks like I picked the right time to arrive.

[He remembers Mabel being alone for months and months and... deflates a little. Winter on the East Coast wouldn't have been so terrible if he'd been able to keep an eye on his sister.]