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Peter Pan ([personal profile] dreamshades) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-01-03 12:12 am

The New Neverland

WHO:EVERYONE (EDIT)
WHERE: Heropa or AKA Neverland
WHEN: January 3rd to 5th
WHAT: The rescuers invade Neverland to end the fiendish Peter Pan's plot
WARNINGS: Death is likely to happen, fighting, swearing, probably just going to be 14+ kind of deal.



The time has come to stop Pan. After posting this to the network Peter has all but challenged the imPorts: either look away and don't bother his paradise or come try and stop him.

Preparation

The jungle stands tall and mighty, a fearful and ominous sight to be seen. One can only hope things go smoothly, but this is Neverland after all, a land of endless possibilities which means endless unknown dangers. Take the time to get ready, plan and storm the jungle....you'll need it.

Entering Neverland
You cross the threshold of Neverland's barrier and everything you once knew has all but changed. Where day use to stand all there is is but a perpetual night. You're not sure how you know this but you get the feeling that despite how many days that may go by in his land time will hold still, day will never come. Dark skies with blinking stars and an eerie moon is but your only light here.

The sights before them are this, a jungle, humid and warm. Where Winter's chill had been has all been snatched away by what would be a mild tropical heat. All there are are trees, vines and large leaves far for the eye can see. It takes only a bit of searching to find sources of water and food a like, but remember not everything may be safe to eat. Careful of thorny vines, for it may be Dreamshade, a deadly poison that inhabits Neverland.

If you manage to find the horizon what appears to be a massive lake of water surrounds the entirety of Neverland where no other land can be seen beyond it. An illusion? Perhaps, but who can say with a curse.

For our heroes, our rescuers this may seem odd if not unsettling. For our cursed? It's nothing new, glorious to some maybe but nothing new.



Riddle me this

Wandering the jungle for Peter's riddles? Continue to do so as they will not be given easily. For Peter has set up challenges that would crush and break the weakest and strongest of hearts alike.


The echo caves
The jungle of Neverland is deep and perilous but none such as the Echo caves. Dark and cavernous holes that go deep into the island, the entrance remains open to all who brave it. How the unlucky stumble across it is different for each. Is that Peter Pan gadding you to come catch him and running inside? Or is it someone you cherish most dear fleeing inside from you? However it happened, inside is damp and dark. The name does not lie for the caves do echo, but not with the sound of your own voice or noises caves make but the voices of others. You hear it in your brain, creeping in like a tangled vine telling you the only way out is to reveal the darkest secret you hold close to your chest, that no one must know. All victims of the cave must say their secret or else be trapped within its walls forever....but not without a catch. Revealing the secret does not simply get you out. For those that you are with now must resist the temptations of the sweet and venomous voices that speak into their ear. They suggest to let their feelings out, to act upon rage or despair or some other hideous feeling towards the secret teller and the secret they held. If all resists though and all secrets let out the secret riddle is spoken and if one has it, the map is unlocked.

The riddle being: I'm separate but close, I am small but I am big.

Dark Hollow
Stumble through the darkness and one would surely find light somewhere, wouldn't they? Perhaps from torch light from Peter's followers? Or even the forever full and silver moon in the sky? But, the further you journey into this part of the jungle, the more the light dies. Light that people conjure also snuff out as quickly as they were lit.

Take a pause to try and get the light back but it only takes a second to look away when they come out. Shadows, living shadows, come out from behind trees and from out of dark corners. They circle like sharks in the water around the victims who so stupidly wandered into their hallow. Welcome, to Peter Pan's den of stolen shadows of unfortunate victims.
They lunge without a thought, attacking and clawing at the people invading this space. They throw sharpened wooden spears, try and grab and throw people into trees and worse off, steal your shadows to add to Pan's collection. They make no sound, only faint and ghostly whooshes accompany them as they fly about. Fight them if you can, but if fire is introduced or a container with a flame they make short work of these evil creatures....and once capture or made to flee they're ghostly whooshes become hollow voices, whispering silently: The only form of rescue they have is a message in a bottle when they are lost but live on me.

The map will be unlocked if it has not already.

Mermaid Lagoon
Water, is a valuable thing to have and in a jungle where it is hard to find? Well, worry no more because a pure spring of the clearest blue water stands before you. Drink, refresh yourselves or just be cautious as with the other dangers of Neverland it doesn't matter. Because the moment you arrive at this spring it's power takes effect.

What use to be foliage and water around you turns to the fears that haunt your very heart. They live and breathe before you, speaking to you, being there before you. It's just like Crane's fear gas all over. Allies may appear to be monsters and what do we do with monsters? The fears are yours and only you can act upon them appropriately.

However, through your own will or the strength of those beside you can help you cut through the dark mirror. When it shatters the fragments of the broken illusion sing to you and you hear the words of a riddle:

I am a horror in which all mortal life makes.

The map will be unlocked if it has not already.

Otherwise you may flee....but you will never hear the shards of of a fear triumphed sing.

Grove of Pixie dust trees
The horrors of Neverland truly never cease, do they? But, rest must be taken if you wish to stop Pan, isn't it? These grove of trees seem nice, don't they? Nothing harmful about them. That would be a naive to think because once more does Neverland play it's evil. The dark magic of this place seeps into your senses, poison that fills the mind and the heart. Shadows of dark and deep regrets that left a wound on your heart that never healed take form here and become solid. It's like a film you relive far too vividly.

The regret may burn in your heart and make you want to flee and you can but the brave face their regrets and admit and accept them. Once you do the regret fades away speaking in the voice of those you let down of the last piece of the riddle:

You may not use me when you think, but you're awfully glad I'm there.

But, you should run, who wants to face their regrets? It'll just mean Pan can keep his paradise.

For the cursed
But these troubles and riddles are for those pesky Rescuers. Peter's cursed victims will have been informed to stop the Rescuers from making it to these locations.

Other things to do

Shadows like in the Hallow roam the island.
They appear as any other person, someone you love, miss or anyone under the sun. They may find you heroes, you rescuers, they may not but if they do they have things to say. The shadows will try and make the Rescuers despair or they will ask for you to leave Neverland with them to go home. The lies they say sound convincing and they'll offer a hand for you to flee with them. Take it, and the shadow will smile evilly and begin to try and rip your shadow from you so you may join the pile of Peter's victims and have your shadow join his fold. Having friends will help ignore the shadow's influence or perhaps they can just go the forward route and just shoot it.


The hunt is on
Lost Children and Peter's employees you have an important task of hunting the defectors, Cursed adults and children not affiliated with Pan, and the Rescuers themselves. For fun or for duty of course. Cursed imPorts are armed with their own own powers and weapons with dreamshade, a lethal poison that will kill they are a force to be reckoned with, otherwise all the regular citizens who had been cursed will only have bow and arrows, swords, spears, and other primitive like dipped in the fatal dreamshade. The poison can be cured but only with plenty of healing or the waters of Neverland on deadman's peak. Be wary of them dear Rescuers because you may stumble upon on of the camps Peter's Children or employees have.


Stir the memories
It's only a matter of time until you run into someone you knew. However you found one of the cursed, coming across their camp, in the wilderness, however it is only a matter of time. If a rescuer's connection is deep with the cursed old memories may surface a bit and cause conflict inside the other. It's not enough to break the curse but maybe it's enough to for them to side with our dear heroes...or fight harder against them.

Campsites
Like the music Peter's played before there are camps that play the same entrancing music. Far stronger than it was over the network it compels you to come join in the fun, rescuers. Forget your troubles and just have fun and dance...but be aware that if you stay too long you'll be dragged away and locked up. Resisting is possible but are you capable of doing that.

However, with our dear cursed individuals this is your respite from the hunt. Peter may be here to talk with you, to reassure or to plot. But, this is also your time to socialize with your cohorts and remember how much you enjoy Neverland.

MISC
Anything and everything goes in this section. Come up with things to do in Neverland. A breather, a fight, your own plans whatever you make of it. Just remember to keep it in the confines of Neverland.

(OOC:Update: Information on the plot here, the plot is now open to everyone. Details may be found here as to why.)

boobwindow: (✰ 4)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-10 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Some kind of barrier. It goes pretty high it seems, but maybe we can get under it.

[ There has to be a way to undo all of this. Maybe this Pan is clever, but no villain is ever clever enough to cover all his bases. They slip up somewhere, at some point. However, they can't afford to wait around and hope Pan screws up. They need to act now, especially with the locals and other imPorts brainwashed to do his bidding. ]

We also need to avoid being seen from above. A few people tried to spear me earlier.
khajidont: (Beetle - Making excuses)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
The shadows, right? I ran into them too. They sort of bounced around my shadow for a little while before I blasted them, but I wasn't gonna stick around long enough to see what they were gonna do with it.

[He regards Power Girl a little curiously, absently wishing that Superman was here too. Together, maybe they'd be able to do some real damage. Having more manpower is always nice, especially in circumstances like these.]

I can breathe underwater, so we can try it that way. How about you?

[He has no idea what Kryptonians are capable of, aside from roughly everything.]
boobwindow: (judomaster calls him what)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-11 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
I can hold my breath for a long time, don't worry.

[ AKA nobody can remember if Kryptonians don't need to breathe or simply can hold their breath for hours at a time. Comic problems.

She lifts her hands one at a time, cracking her knuckles loudly. Her eyes trail over the trees, examining them closely as if something may leap out at the two of them any given moment. It honestly might just happen, so she dips low so she's no longer a visible target in the air. ]


Have you run into anyone else yet?
khajidont: (Beetle - that was your killer monkey out)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-11 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Not really. I went to see Kaneda before all this went down to see if I could help him at all, but I went ahead of him and his group. I don't think our styles are the same.

[Kaneda and his little army are on a mission for vengeance. Jaime doesn't blame them, and it's probably wise to march into the forest with as much weaponry as possible, but joining up with a crew like that just isn't something that he does. He thinks that Karen probably understands that too.

He follows Karen's lead as she flies, though there's very little hiding Jaime from anyone who's paying attention. Sometimes, their costumes aren't exactly the most sensible things in the world.]


I'm willing to bet that I know half the people who came in here anyway. It's always the same people running into danger instead of away from it, right?
boobwindow: (standard comic entrance)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-11 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
I know Kaneda's hurting, but I hope he does the right thing.

[ If Pan is killed, she's not going to be pleased. Murder has never solved anything and in their case as imPorts, it's an incredibly risky chance to take when the nanites are likely to revive them. Pan would just come back and get up to something else, possibly before he can be stopped.

She stays close to the jungle floor, vines and leaves rustling as she pushes past them to venture forward into the deep, dark environment. It might be magic, but the earth smells strongly enough to be real, as does the dew on the leaves, the flowers and other types of plants that have risen in place of concrete and metal. ]


I hope they know what they're doing.
khajidont: (Beetle - puppydog eyes)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-12 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Does anyone know what they're doing around here? I sure as heck don't. It's not like I'm any good at fighting against magic anyway.

[Jaime knows that magic is his weakness, that this is the one thing that can stop him in his tracks, but that sure didn't stop him from launching in here anyway. Being a hero is about more than simple common sense, after all. If he actually does manage to get to Pan, he's not entirely certain what he'll wind up doing after the fact.

He sighs.]


I know what you mean, though. Killing him won't fix anything, but I'm not so sure that they came in here wanting to just knock him out.
boobwindow: (don't heck this up)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-12 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
We'll figure it out. We've stopped plenty of bad guys before, even without knowing every little detail about them or where we were.

[ She doesn't have a solid idea either, but it wouldn't be the first time she's made something up as she goes along. ]

Kaneda's from a world where the government gets away with a lot of awful, illegal things. He's not convinced this system will do anything to keep Pan in check. [ She shakes her head, exasperated. ] A while back he was opposed to Tetsuo being slapped with a nullifier completely, too.

[ Kaneda means well, but he definitely lets his heart overrun rationality. ]
khajidont: (Beetle - officially done with your bulls)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-12 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I heard about that one.

[Jaime has to frown at that, remembering exactly what it was that Tetsuo did to Ken, in his own home, but that's not his information to share. At this point, that's not an outcome that's his to dispute either. By the time he'd gotten filled in, he was too exhausted to do anything but to tell Minato that he trusted him to do the right thing.

He hopes that that wasn't a mistake.]


He's right, though, you know. Not about Tetsuo, but about Pan. This place doesn't keep criminals in check. I'm not saying we do anything besides try and take him down so he at least gets a nullifier, but after that, it's up to us. Look at what they did with Crane.

[If he's killed, though, he just pops back in, good as new. Jaime wouldn't preach for death either way - every person, no matter how reprehensible, deserves a chance at life - but it makes that course of action that much more illogical.]
boobwindow: (henshin powers for real)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-13 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[ Crane's probation will be lifted and he'll strike again. Her skin crawls at the thought, especially if he's targeting Superboy for whatever reason. If he touches a hair on that boy's head... ]

I'd like to advocate for harsher sentences and not just slap on the wrists.

[ However -- ] As much as I'd like to criticize the system in place, we can be here all day. We should get moving; something about this area is starting to give me the creeps.
khajidont: (Beetle - Confiding)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-14 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, yeah, you got a point there.

[Jaime shifts directions, moving towards the water surrounding the island Pan's currently on, and he lands by the shore, knee-deep in water. He waves one leg, splashing it around thoughtfully, then shrugs.]

Well, might as well give it a shot. You ready to hold your breath for a while?
boobwindow: (bryan fuller's hard on for hannigram)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-14 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's close by, landing in the water cautiously. The water is eerily calm and quiet, kind of foreboding to be completely honest. Her nose wrinkles, but Peej undoes her cape and ties it around her waist as she doesn't want it dragging behind her, pulling her back in the water. ]

I'm good. You?

[ An attempt to scan the water reveals nothing so far. ]

Hopefully there aren't any alligators. If you hear tick-tocking, swim faster.
khajidont: (Beetle - Sideeyes)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-14 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
I'm good too. Magic water. No biggie, right?

[Yes, biggie. Jaime's not so certain around magic in the first place when it's being used by anyone but a steadfast ally, and this water stinks. It stinks, and probably hides a bunch of creepy monsters, and they're going to have to fight underwater, and it'll suck.

But hey, at least they might be able to find a way to Pan like this, and if they do, it'll be worth it.]


Too bad Booster's not around. He's a professional at menacing dangerous sea animals.
boobwindow: (everybody loves dick grayson)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-15 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
He would make a better bait.

[ Does she really mean that? Well, no, but she probably would have Booster as bait as to draw attention away from themselves. He's good at drawing attention to himself, after all.

She plunges into the water, squinting at first to see through its murkiness. ]
khajidont: (Beetle - Sideeyes)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-15 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, don't be mean.

[As Jaime plunges in after her, he thinks about it for a second, then amends,] Actually, yes, be mean. He's not here helping us, so we get to say mean things about him while he's abandoned us to rot in some stupid forest.

[One of the perks of the suit is the ability to speak both in space and underwater. He tries not to do either on a regular basis, mostly because if he thinks too hard about his ability to do this, how he's able to do this even with his mouth exposed, it makes him want to go cross-eyed.

The Reach were genocidal maniacs, but hey, nobody could say that they weren't good at their jobs. He stares around the murkiness of the water, then holds one glowing hand out in front of them to light the path, moving steadily forward. Peej can't really hold up her end of the conversation while she's holding her breath, so there's nothing to be done but move forward and hope like hell that Pan didn't think this thing through.]
boobwindow: (whoa whoa whoa)

okay, ceej says there's nothing in the water!

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-21 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a smooth swim over, although unnervingly so; Peej never lets her guard down for a second as they approach the island from underneath. Because she can't say anything, she can only gesture with her hands or head for Jaime to follow her when she thinks they've gotten close enough to surface.

But as she pushes ahead, it's as if she's hit some kind of invisible wall. She's forced back at a high velocity and even underwater, she's barreling fast and straight into Jaime. ]
khajidont: (Beetle - Directive: Run)

cool, thank you for double checking!

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-21 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oof!

[Okay, that didn't work. Jaime's knocked over by Peej's weight - he could really use another forty pounds on him, couldn't he? - but he wraps his arms around her shoulders so she doesn't just go blindly flying straight into a rock, digging his heels in the ground to halt their process.]

Oh, man. That didn't work. Maybe I could run into it harder?

[He does seem to be seriously considering it.]
boobwindow: (nOPE)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-22 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ She points upwards with her finger, indicating the surface. She swims up, breaking through it and letting out a loud, agitated groan. The island is so close and yet that barrier gives the illusion it's much farther out. ]

Damn it! I've tried that maybe three times now. Maybe physical force isn't going to work on it.
khajidont: (Beetle - please let there be a big red s)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-23 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Jaime cannot, in fact, float. So as Peej breaches the surface, Jaime just moves in a straight vertical line and bursts out of the water, only to hover right above it. Without hovering, he'd just sink like a rock.]

Physical force is never the answer these days, [Jaime says, and he really shouldn't sound so cranky about it, but he is. He just wants to solve something by punching it. Is that really such a horrible crime?]

I bet there's some weird incantation, or we need to hair of a dog and the feather of a parrot, or something.

[Friggin' magic.]
boobwindow: (did i just punch lightning)

[personal profile] boobwindow 2016-01-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
He really doesn't want us getting to that island. I wonder what's there?

[ She tries to use her super vision to scour the island from where she floats, but whatever magical barrier it is, it doesn't allow her to see past it. She growls. ]
khajidont: (Beetle - officially done with your bulls)

[personal profile] khajidont 2016-01-27 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Him, I'm guessing. I tried tracking him down, and the signal stopped right where that wall does, which is awfully convenient.

[Jaime grumbles a little, floating backwards now that they've given up on simply punching through the barrier.]

He probably has, like, eight boss monsters or something waiting for whoever gets in there first. It's not like he's interested in fighting fair.