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exsithstential ([personal profile] exsithstential) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2015-10-16 07:37 pm
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Boys and girls of every age, Wouldn't you like to see something strange

WHO: Imports
WHERE: Helix Station, Maurtia Falls
WHEN: Evening of 10/16
WHAT: Swear-In Ceremony, with a bonus Haunted House!
WARNINGS: Violence and other spoopy stuff.





The Festival


An orange moon slowly burns into life as the sun begins the last few moment's of it's descent, washing the sky in beautiful splashes of fading twilight hues. The white walls the Helix Station glow in the warm autumn light as throngs of costumed children and their families parade through the large front gate and into the festively decorated courtyard within.

Laughter and squeals of anticipation and delight ring out from the gaggle of children in a never ending chorus as their attentions dance between the kitsch decorations of gremlins and skeletons, to the ImPort Heroes in attendance. But at least the parents and guardians seem to be doing a good job of keeping the beaming or bashful kids from bothering ImPorts too much as you make your way into the facility. Though do be prepared for an autograph request or three. Unlike some of the previous Swear-Ins, this is no media circus. While there may be a reporter or two in the crowd, asking for a few quick shots with imports and their adoring fans, this gathering is for you and your new rosy cheeked best friends. Just a bit of seasonal fun and the added benefit of helping a local children's hospital by contributing to their charity.

STALLS

Colorfully decorated stalls line the exterior of the courtyard, offering the attendees a wide variety of activities, entertainment, and gifts. While most of the stalls are managed by groups or individual imports contributing with their time and goodwill (mostly), several also offer refreshments and snacks manned by droids or volunteers from the hospital staff or children's family.

A few honorable mentions of ImPort run stalls:

-Hazel and the Doctor's Face Paintings
-Kanaya and Helena's Fangtastic Bobbing for Apples
-Manolo and Sabriel's Performance Cake Walk
-Stan's Photo Booth of Terror (And extortion)
-Lucifer's Mystic Magic Mirror of Mystery
-Fraiser and Kowalski's Totally Scary Puppy Petting Zoo

And of course there's also a stall with informative pamphlets and a chipper Government representative ready to register any willing imports and talk about the benefits inherent to doing so.

There are also plenty of open stalls if you want to add to festivities!

HAUNTED HOUSE

Just inside the main building, the lobby area and adjacent rooms open into the main area of the Haunted House. Despite the spooky imagery and haunting ambiance, this floor is rather tame. There may be a few motion sensor activated skeletons that pop up and startling the careless, but otherwise it's all kid friendly.

This however is NOT the case with the upper floors. Which prohibit native participation completely. If that doesn't chill your blood then the fact that you have to stop by a booth near the elevator to "check in" and received a warning that only those that are seeking a true test of terror should enter, might.

However the droid representative will NOT offer any additional information to imports, save that all participants will be given thirty minutes to escape before "time is up". They will NOT be telling anyone that:

-Immediately upon exiting the elevator, you will find yourself seeped in power dampening fog, leaving you de-powered.
-That the upper floors are inhabited by wandering animatronics with monstrous appearances that are programmed to hunt the imports trying to find their way out.
-As the thiry minutes tick by, the animatronics will become faster and hunt the imports with more tenacity and ever increasing perception. Early in the hunt it's possible to hide or avoid most animatronics. This becomes less effective as time goes by.
-Any imports that are unable to escape the animatronics will NOT be hurt. When an import is captured they will be hauled to a secret exit which ends in a shoot that deposits the character outside, near Stan's Photo booth. (Who might just have a series of photos depicting your character in various compromising states of terror.) However the participating imports will be unaware of the lack of danger they are in until this happens. Which means you might even see some imports being hauled off kicking and screaming into the darkness.

Imports that manage to evade the animatronics long enough to find their way out of the maze of corridors and rooms will find themselves in the haunted house lobby, where they will be presented with a plush version of one of the monsters that had been hunting them. Not so scary now, huh?

Attack on Helix Station

Just after midnight as the festivities hit full swing, several masked men slip over the wall and into the facility. While mostly concealed, to any ImPorts sharp enough to notice them, it quickly becomes apparent that these men are armed to the teeth and full of bad intentions. Moving with precision, skill before any import can alert the others, the gunmen take up positions to cause as much damage as possible. However as they ready their weapons an alarm blares through out the facility. In that brief moment of confusion the gunmen hesitate. And in the span of that hesitation, several security droids suddenly march out into the facility through side doors hefting snub nosed weapons cradled in their arms.

An electric blue flash suddenly illuminates the courtyard as a blast from one of the droid's stun weapons strikes one of the gunmen, who crumples.

And then chaos erupts.

Seeing them as the clear and present danger the gunmen focus their fire on the advancing security bots, but as several defense turrets pop out from concealed slots in the walls, their position quickly becomes untenable. While strong in numbers, the gunmen scatter into groups through out the facility to take cover. A few of them drop smoke grenades to cover their escape, but the blinding cloud is short lived. As contaminates are detected in the air, several purifiers cleverly disguised within the decorations will activate, drawing in the smoke and laying the terrorists' movements bare.


As the gloom recedes, Revan stalks forward out of the smoke, a sheathed katana clenched in one hand
and his expression blazing as he marches towards the nearest group of soldiers.

"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" his voice booms strangely loud, carrying over the entire courtyard with the force and command power of someone used to leading warriors into battle. "IMPORTS!" With a fluid motion he withdraws the sword and tosses the scabbard aside.

Little did these bastards know that they were ready. With a small army of Imports, comprised of RISE and volunteer security forces, at his back Revan gave a flourish of his blade before dashing forward.

"TO ARMS!"

[ooc: More info as well as plotting posts can be found here!]
matadorable: (♯ So What)

[personal profile] matadorable 2015-11-15 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Bless Jaime, he's trying so hard to save Manolo from whatever fate awaits him. He can really admire that kind of determination, and for a second he thinks maybe they can actually find a way out of this.

"Don't worry," he says with a feeble laugh, reaching out to grab onto the table that holds the coffin they'd been looking at earlier. "I'm not in a hurry to go anywhere."

Scowling at the creature again, he making another valiant attempt to kick its arm away. "Get off, seriously!"
khajidont: (Jaime - Defiance)

[personal profile] khajidont 2015-11-16 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Jaime's gone for a little longer than he means to be. In the distance, there's the quiet noise of wood scraping against wood, then a thud, accompanied by a grunt. Jaime's plan becomes clear in the next minute as he comes charging in like a bat out of hell, carrying the top of the coffin with some difficulty; it's a little too big for him, a little too heavy. Nevertheless, the moment he gets close enough to the animatronic, he's hefting it into the air and swinging it with a little more strength than his thin frame would suggest he has.

It looks ridiculous, swinging a piece of wood wider than himself as if it's a baseball bat, and the difference in weight makes itself known as Jaime winds up toppling over and losing his balance immediately thereafter.

Happily, it had enough weight behind it to knock the animatronic down too, and Manolo soon finds himself freed from its grip as it falls onto its back.

"Hah! Take that, you ugly..."

God, he sucks at pithy catchphrases.

"...thing!"

Good one, Jaime.
matadorable: (♮ Stayin' Alive)

I love Jaime so much lol

[personal profile] matadorable 2015-11-21 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it would seem ridiculous to anyone else, but Manolo thinks Jaime looks every bit like a courageous hero straight out of a corrido. He watches in awe as his roommate strikes their foe down with that large piece of wood, giving a shout of excitement when the thing actually lets him go.

"Yeah!" he pipes up as he scrambles to his feet. "I hope you enjoy those splinters in your ugly face!"

Turning to the other man with a grateful smile, he offers a hand to help him up from the floor. "You have saved my life, Jaime. Thank you!"
khajidont: (Jaime - idek I'm running out of words)

I LOVE BOTH THESE DWEEBS... they try so hard

[personal profile] khajidont 2015-11-22 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well, at least Manolo has a similar level of pithyness when it comes to catchphrases as Jaime does. Ugly face doesn't have much of a better ring to it than ugly thing does, but for the time being, Jaime can live with it. He accepts Manolo's hand to haul himself up and says, "I sure hope I didn't just save your life, or else I'm gonna start wondering what those freaky things are actually here for... or where they're from."

He glances behind them, looking as the machine struggles to get back to its feet.

"But I'm not planning on sticking around to find out! C'mon, I'm ready to just run out of this place."
matadorable: (🎼 We Shall Overcome)

THEY REALLY DO LMAO

[personal profile] matadorable 2015-11-22 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Unlike Jaime, though, Manolo thinks "ugly face" is plenty pithy, and he seems quite pleased that they got the last word in with that stupid robot. "Well, it was frightening, you stopped it -- I say you saved me," he responds with an easy smile.

Their attention, however, is drawn back to the animatronic, which looks like it's getting ready for a second round.

"Yes, I think so too," Manolo quietly agrees, motioning back toward the way they came. "Let's just...start looking for the exit."
khajidont: (Jaime - Mild)

[personal profile] khajidont 2015-11-23 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Then you're welcome," Jaime says easily enough, feeling good humour return to his bones now that he doesn't feel that they're in any immediate danger. It's not like the hulking thing tried throttling them firsthand or anything, so they're probably going to be okay -- but that doesn't mean that he's keen on investigating any further.

He bumps at Manolo with his shoulder, gesturing for them to go further down the hallway and just move as fast as they can. It would be plenty spooky for a normal haunted house, with all sorts of things popping out at them and building up the atmosphere. As it is? It just feels like child's play to Jaime, save for one or two times that the suddenness of the props startle him.

It's not long until they see a wink of light at the end of one hallway, signalling the end of this mess.