idesof: still in the negatives but i'll take what i can get (score 1 me)
Jᴀᴍᴇs Pᴀᴛʀɪᴄᴋ Mᴀʀᴄʜ (Tʜᴇ Mᴀsᴛᴇʀ) ([personal profile] idesof) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-10-12 08:13 pm

we're so sorry skeletons you're so misunderstood

WHO: YOU.
WHERE: Just outside of Nonah
WHEN: Wednesday evening, the 12th
WHAT: Registration in motion at a very chilling and thrilling Swear-In ceremony! Masks and menaces meet tricks and treats.
WARNINGS: There will be murder in this log, ooc post here. Let me know if this portion needs an update!



The evening has delightful weather of clear skies and some chill. A thin, long sleeve should do the trick just fine. An old, large house on a grassy estate just outside Nonah is where the imPorts will find themselves this time around. The house features large cobwebs on parts of it, the lights gleaming from inside are an odd sort of yellow, sometimes ghouls peek out the top windows, and a skeleton sits on the porch.

The house contains a flurry of actors dressed in a wide array of characters. From the old-fashioned Victorian family and quickly obliging servants to hags, witches, mummies, ghosts, and everything in between. They sit in rooms and wait for their loved ones to return, or just for imPorts to stumble upon them. They run through the halls wailing and cackling, walk through the halls staring dead-eyed at the living. Their presence is all that's meant to scare; no one will be lunged at or nearly attacked or any such thing. Occasionally a room door might shut behind imPorts, "trapped" until they answer a riddle from a Jekyll who needs their help to keep Hyde at bay (or until fifteen minutes has passed, or until they've kicked up enough fuss to be let free) but that's as far as the ghouls go to keep anyone too close.

Two spots of this house have been turned into escape rooms, each accepting eight participants at a time for an hour maximum. No telepathy! No powers! Don't cheat and ruin the fun for everyone else! Some rooms contain games associated with outdoor festivals, tossing spooky-shaped bean bags into holes, or guessing how many jelly eye balls are in a jar. There is even a small petting zoo on the first floor, the hillbilly with an ax in his head seemingly unconcerned that anyone might try and steal one of the animals, which is mostly just small goats wearing spooky sweaters. They are small but frighteningly fluffy. Other rooms have guessing games that encourage imPorts to put their hands in dark boxes and guess what they're feeling. Don't worry! This is not a trick. Those brains are definitely just spaghetti, those bowls of eyes are just made of jelly, those bowls of fingers are just replicas, and the bones are plastic!

Vincent Willem van Ghoul has a quiet room all to himself, with an easel and plenty of colors. He also has a table. You're free to request either face painting (he's very good at drawing ghosts on cheeks, and almost perfect and making ears look sewn back on) or a quick caricature. It doesn't matter which you ask for, he'll be somewhat tight-lipped and grouchy as soon as you walk in the room. You can still engage him in conversation, and if you do, you're bound to walk away with a nice bit of custom art and a history lesson.

The centerpiece of is a ballroom with a stage, renovated so it includes curtain and lights and sounds above it like a real, albeit small, theater might. The stage has a changing set of performers covering frightful tunes in a variety of ways (Night on Bald Mountain played by a jug band; Danse Macabre played on banjos; Dance of the Knights played in a polka style; The Monster Mash gets a jazz rendition; songs associated with scary movies are crooned by local bands). The room itself has enough space to dance in and holds tables of treats. Finger foods shaped like fingers, scary cupcakes, the red punch fountain has a bunch of edible jelly eyes rolling on the bottom. More adult drinks can be requested and delivered on a silver platter by a butler or maid with a not at all convincing slit throat or gunshot wound somewhere visible. ImPorts are free to step outside for a breather (or a smoke!) and will find themselves engaged in conversation with a servant "playing hooky" or left alone, whichever they prefer.

Nearly midnight, things are beginning to wind down. A heavy booming comes from the ballroom as every imaginable horror movie and story trope takes the stage, the main light cuts off, and the sounds of the ever-recognizable Chiller fill the room. This dance troupe pulls it off well, some of them leaping off the stage to dance among those watching, interactive. Even some of the crew that's been there all night is getting into it! Maybe you were still doing an escape room, or were fighting the urge to kidnap a goat, or trying to help Jekyll escape his horrible fate...maybe you weren't there for it, and that's okay. Because it will be talked for a while after. The contrast of victorious wolfman and voodoo doctor to one side, confetti spewing, people clapping, and then the zombie standing out front, now without a head, the light that took it off hanging next to him, before he just collapsed and the screaming started...oh, the screaming, it could have been part of the show...

Any shut doors open immediately as imPorts are hurried outside. Sirens wail as police and ambulances speed closer. ("An ambulance?" van Ghoul can be heard remarking, "We need a hearse.") The house crew will insist that imPorts remain outside unless they can prove to be part of law enforcement in this world, and even then they demand imPorts stay at a safe distance to keep the area of the tragedy clean.

The police say "sorry folks" a lot. There isn't much to know or do until the morning, they say to anyone talking about helping. They have to get their crime scene folks down to gather evidence, and that takes time. They're glad people care, but there isn't anything to be done now. Go home.

The buses shuttling them back leave the radio running until Chiller pops on. Then the short ride back to Nonah becomes a quiet, grave one.
latro: (pic#)

RIGHT OUTSIDE THIS NONSENSE

[personal profile] latro 2016-10-13 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ Hood came thinking it would be good to have an idea of just what sort of things happens in the Swear-Ins; the man hasn't really stopped to ask others beforehand, so this is kind of a surprise. ]

Oh fuck this shit.

[ He's not getting in there, nope. Fuck it, fuck it all to the next block. ]

Fuck it, I'm calling a cab.
brushoff: (you MUST be joking)

Dorian Gray | registered | ota!

[personal profile] brushoff 2016-10-13 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
a: the ballroom
[ For most of the night, Dorian...doesn't leave the ballroom. Nope, he's just going to drink punch and NOT LEAVE. He doesn't have the best track record with regards to Halloween, he's not going to keep up the pattern. Really, the only reason why he arrived in the first place was to drink (he's on his third terrible Halloween themed cocktail) and The problem with that is eventually some sort of actors or locals or whatever start bothering him to come on, just do this one room, it's not that scary, just let us ear our paycheck. Dorian remains intensely stubborn and, due to a myriad of factors, intensely annoyed. ]

Look, the last haunted house I went to, some idiot decided to nullify powers and I got stabbed. What on Earth makes you think I'll go to this one?

[ It's said loud enough for anyone to hear, as Dorian gives the actor a glare. ]

b: stuck in a riddle room.
[ Eventually someone drags him into the more haunted areas of the haunted house. Dorian's response? FUCK THIS NOOOOOISE.

Dorian is not playing along. Dorian is stubbornly not playing along and is being hellacious for that poor actor who just wants Dorian to answer what starts with e and ends with e but only contains one letter so that this awful person can leave and he can go on break and play Disgruntled Avians. But nope! Instead poor actor is getting a thorough berating as Dorian just tears into the idea and the whole concept of the riddle room to begin with.
]

You're not even a proper Henry Jekyll to begin with. I've met him once, you know, if anything he was the one who needed to be kept "at bay."

[ someone save this poor actor. Alternatively, someone give Dorian the biggest chill pill known to man. ]
hishi: (♏)

Job // Unsettled // OTA

[personal profile] hishi 2016-10-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Job is not in costume. He's in Gaultier, and the frustrating thing is that none of the locals seem capable of telling the difference between designer fashion and a ten-dollar polyester poncho off the rack at Party City. By the third or twentieth inquiry of "What are you supposed to be?", Job finally snaps:]

Go ask yo mama what you was supposed to be before you hatched three months too early and became a burden on the under-fucking-funded public education system!

[Goddamn, this place - this world - is going to give him an aneurysm. Hood had the right idea trying to fuck off early. But there's only so much information Job can acquire from the comfort of his (newly redecorated) bedroom. One has to leave the computer behind eventually and get out on the field.

A Halloween party, however, was not what he pictured when he heard the words Swearing-In Ceremony. He's going to need a drink or ten to get through this. He'll be starting with the biggest and most elaborate holiday-themed cocktail they have to offer, blood-red in color and spruced up with dangling bat-shaped charms.]
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edmund pevensie | registered | ota

[personal profile] exonerated 2016-10-13 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
A. FRONT ENTRANCE:
[ At the beginning, Edmund is looking around the grounds of the estate with careful fascination. Spoiled by the vivid colors brought about by the endless summers of Narnia, he finds himself unused to the grand display of morbid degeneration, and the newfound knowledge that people celebrate it with carved pumpkins, fake spiders, and intact human bones. Once, he goes and pokes the skeleton sitting on the porch to see what the fuss is amount, but it isn't quite as real as he thought it was.

When he gets past the front door and is immediately greeted by a colorful array of individuals, his guard goes up like one wouldn't believe, although it quickly makes way for slight confusion.
]

Hags have shriller voice than that, I'm afraid. They are also rather prone to flattery.

[ A pause, as the person that playing the part looks at him oddly. ]

— So this is the 'swear-in'?


B. PETTING ZOO:
[ In true Narnian fashion, Edmund gravitates towards the area where the animals are, and eventually he finds himself kneeling on the floor, petting a weirdly dressed goat that've nosed its way to his feet when he first went to check what all the fuss is about.

He can, in fact, confirm that they are very fluffy.
]

Eager for new company, aren't you? I wonder if we can find you a treat somewhere around here.

[ If not, then... he's not saying he's going to keep a goat.

But he just might keep a goat.
]


C. BALLROOM:
[ Edmund has never been the social type, even when it came to formal function. He's always left that to his siblings, who've always been far more charismatic than their sullen brother in that regard. Typically, they are also the only ones who can pry him off the walls, unless he's pressed to discuss politics while dancing with a nobleman's daughter, or sharing drinks with a lord from some far off country.

It's not too different here. He contents himself with one glass of red wine, and as far away from the treats table as he can manage.

Anyone that approaches him will hear him say —
]

I'm afraid I have two left feet, so I'd rather avoid the dancing.

[ It sounds so well-rehearsed. ]


D. WILDCARD:
[ Feel free to set up your own starter if you wish, I'm open to everything! You can pm this journal or pp [plurk.com profile] vibrations if you want to plot things out first! ]
dualismum: Please, do not take (Default)

Haise Sasaki / Ken Kaneki || Registered

[personal profile] dualismum 2016-10-13 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Ballroom
A.
[ Sasaki didn't come in a costume this time, he wasn't told to bring one, but oh boy he kind of regrets it. He rarely gets to go to Halloween parties (read: never) and he should enjoy them while he can. Sadly, not this one, but the promise he'll dress up for Halloween is there.

Currently, he is over the Ballroom, eyeing the food they made. It looks great, he loves the themed cupcakes and he is definitively getting a lot of ideas for some Halloween treats (for someone who can't eat, he is definitively very interested in food) - in fact, he even grabs a place so he can cut a cupcake in half and see what's inside. ]
These are pumpkin aren't they... [ everyone is so obsessed with pumpkin during Halloween. ]

B
[ when he isn't around food, Sasaki will actually try dancing, because why not? He has been giving a couple of dance lessons to some people, after all. So if he sees a familiar face, Sasaki will approach them and extend his hand to them with a smile ] Would you like to dance?

[ around people he doesn't know, Sasaki can be a bit shy - but if he doesn't know you and you still would like a dance, you can always be the one approaching him instead ]


Vincent Willem van Ghoul - look all of this is gonna be about puns enjoy it
[ Do you know why he is here? Because there is a painter called Vincent Willem van Ghoul. Look, if that's not the best pun ever, you are wrong. Sure, in this world "ghoul" means "ghost" but he isn't focusing on what the word means, solely the amazing pun that was. Of course Sasaki wants to get his face painted, so he is in line waiting patiently, until he spots an actor dressed up as Dracula passing by.

That's when Sasaki knows he HAS to go for it ]
He is probably a pain in the neck, isn't he? [ THE PUN MASTER. ]


Murder, they wrote
[ This wouldn't be a proper Swear-in if something didn't happen. It works like a clock; one Swear-In goes well, the next one has to have some thing happening, and of course this one doesn't fail. When imPorts are shown their way outside the house, Sasaki stays behind as a Police officer. Though, Nonah Police Department isn't that happy it's an Heropa Officer, they are kind enough to allow Sasaki some information.

Murder most vile.

Sure. They tell him a bit, but only a bit but after that bit they tell Sasaki he'd have to go through proper channels in order to obtain more information. Proper channels means talking to his superior, who'd talk with Nonah's PD, who'd maybe let Sasaki in on it. Bureaucracy he'd rather avoid at this very second, so eventually he returns outside. ]


I guess this is a proper Swear-In now. [ SIGH why can't things be normal ]


Wildcard
[ Sasaki is pretty much everywhere, so feel free to come up with something, or you can contact me through plurk [plurk.com profile] vilani ]
Edited 2016-10-13 06:47 (UTC)
illuminescent: (Lucy - I can play this game too)

c;

[personal profile] illuminescent 2016-10-13 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Edmund has always been the dashing one, even if he doesn't think so. Sullen, perhaps, but quick-witted, dark, tragic, and reclusive, which means it's always Lucy or Susan's task to save him from some girl who has some fancy of saving his majesty from a life of loneliness.

Honestly, Lucy thinks they're shallow, vapid things, most of the time.

She spots him and hears that, and her lips press together slightly.]


That is a most atrocious lie. You are a very good dancer.
andaway: (C [Farmboy])

Clark Kent || Unsettled || OTA

[personal profile] andaway 2016-10-13 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
a; stuck at a riddle

[Clark had decided he couldn’t miss the Swear In. It’s not that something bad always happens in them, but… well. Actually no, that’s pretty much it. Some are less bad, some are simply an inconvenience, but he still learned very early on not to skip one of these just in case his help was needed. The fact that it’s now Halloween made the decision to come all that easier, he’s sure someone will want to go with a bang.

He’s even dressed up for the occasion! With the thick glasses under the mask, of course, because this is totally Clark Kent dressing up.

So excuse him for being a little jumpy when the door closes behind him. His fists stay clenched until he’s told what he has to do… ah. Well, he can do a riddle.]


b; tables or treats

[Omnom, Clark can always be found near the food in these sort of places and this time is no different. He eats a lot (a lot), but it’s not just that. Food is often the best way to engage someone in conversation, and one of the reasons who comes to these gatherings is to get to know everyone.

He’s holding one of the scary cupcakes, chuckling to himself.]


I even feel a little bad eating these, they look adorable.

c; after the Chiller incident

[Yeah, no, sorry but Clark isn’t having any of this. A notebook and pen have (somehow???) appeared in his hands out of nowhere and he’s lifted the mask over his hair. Which totally makes him look even more ridiculous, but still. He isn’t physically trying to get in but- well.

It’s a close thing.]


We can’t just push us out. I’m press [No you’re not.] We have a right to know.
dualismum: By me (Normal - pic#10188783)

A

[personal profile] dualismum 2016-10-13 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sasaki is making his way inside; this has been his 25th Swear-in by now so it's not strange or new; just more of the usual. of course he gets why the newcomers would find it pretty weird and Edmund's comment doesn't go unnoticed.

he smiles at the other as he glances back at him ]


Swear-Ins change location and theme every month. Last month it was a Pumpkin Fair of sorts. [ of sorts. Plus, usually bad things happen during swear-ins but Sasaki won't get to that just yet ]
brushoff: (jesus fuck look at those eyes)

clowns to the left of me ghosts to the right.

[personal profile] brushoff 2016-10-13 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sorry actor, just ride out the fifteen minutes until you boot these two morons out of the room. ]

I have, [ Dorian remarked, with a small nod. ] The odd thing is, in my world I've met various people who most would deem fictional. Edward Hyde. Sherlock Holmes. Mina Harker.

[ That does weird Dorian out a bit. Because, while he knew that in his world he existed, that Oscar wrote the book about him, the Picture of Dorian Gray was told and retold all throughout different universes. Did that mean he was fictional in some? That is TOO DAMN MUCH AN EXISTENTIAL NIGHTMARE for Dorian to deal with, especially when he's grumpy. ]
brushoff: (you should probably not trust this smile)

c

[personal profile] brushoff 2016-10-13 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Well it's a good thing that one, I've got enough skills for the both of us and two, I don't give a damn.

[ Surprise, it's Dorian, who's a little bit flush from all the alcohol he's been drinking (though certainly not drunk yet). He attempts to grab Edmund's hand to gently lead him to the dance floor. ]

I'll even teach you the steps!

[ It's a calculated move. Part of this is simply to get Edmund to loosen up a bit, so Dorian can see him out of his element...but how will mister high fantasy deal with dancing with another man? ]
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( b )

[personal profile] immortally 2016-10-13 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Truthfully it's a little ridiculous how mundanes put so much stock into being so ghoulish only at this time of year. Oh, it can be fun, don't get him wrong. But some times it simply feels a little too... much. At one time, long ago in his long lost youth, he felt a bit of shame and offense that people like him—the Downworlders—were what mundanes chose to be afraid of just because they were different and beyond their comprehension. However, that's centuries behind him now and he can usually enjoy things for what they are.

Better than sitting around sulking about it, at any rate!

So, he goes and pokes around here and there. Even offers a few suggestions to certain actors to make their performances more realistic to their real counterparts. Eventually he finds himself by the animals and can't recall how he got there. No matter. He watches for a little while, lost within his own thoughts ( some, honestly, about why they've dressed goats ), until hearing a voice nearby drags him from them.

Magnus could make a light jest that if he's getting the goat a treat, he can grab him a drink on they way back. But, in the end he doesn't because he sees something else flickering in the depths of the man's eyes. Magnus isn't a mind-reader by any stretch, but he knows want when he sees it. He leans a little languidly against the fence of the enclosure, arm drawn up and his chin resting lightly against a slightly curled hand.  ]


I can create a distraction if you'd like so you can— [ the fingers of his free hand wiggle, ] make a great escape with your new friend there.
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[personal profile] exonerated 2016-10-13 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Believe what you must, Lu.

[ He's had training, by necessity, but he still would not call himself good. His other siblings take to their lessons far easier, especially the girls. Besides that, music and dancing in Narnia depict a brighter array of musicl choices than the ones he's hearing right at this moment. ]

Is this what passes for music in this world?

It's riveting. [ — Flatly said. ]
exonerated: (008)

[personal profile] exonerated 2016-10-13 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And they're not all about pumpkins, I hope.

[ They are everywhere, both the real and not, carved with scary faces and lit up with candles from the inside. It's actually rather creative. ]

I somehow understand that part, however. Pumpkins grow its largest during this season.
morethan084: (amused/flirty)

[personal profile] morethan084 2016-10-13 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Daisy hadn't dressed up for this one beyond a nice top, skinny jeans and heeled boots. As well as her leather jacket. Aka what she normally wears. Conveniently the moment Hood is about to leave is when she shows up. Amused at the way he was talking to himself, Daisy looked up at the house.]

It's pretty cheesy isn't it?
morethan084: (smilingdown)

[personal profile] morethan084 2016-10-13 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Daisy just happens to overhear his insults thrown at someone, and Daisy doesn't even try to hide the fact that she finds it hilarious.

She hadn't bothered to dress up beyond what she normally wears though.]


Gotta admit. That was pretty amazing.
exonerated: (020)

[personal profile] exonerated 2016-10-13 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He does get startled at the hand tugging him. It might've even shown on his face.

Narnians are fond of celebrations, therefore music and dancing makes its way to Cair Paravel's halls more often than not. Fauns, Satyrs, Centaurs, and other male Animals — they dance together without much of a care, as all Animals care little for humans customs and lessons propriety that doesn't suit their own. The same goes for the females, twirling on the dance floor. Edmund is used to seeing that, perhaps even joined that from time to time, but it's the company that makes the difference. He doesn't think he ever danced with another human man, knows how that would send ripples across the kingdoms far and beyond their little kingdom, even if it was just a friendly overture.

He's thinking too much, he knows that at least.

But he does have to press his lips together, suppressing a smile. For now, he's standing his ground.
]

Your confidence astounds. I've cooked up a whole plan, that which involved staying in once spot for the rest of the evening without being dragged to any other part of the room.
latro: (Default)

[personal profile] latro 2016-10-13 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's ridiculous.

[ He sounds pretty perplexed, but mostly angry. ]

I thought this was supposed to be an important matter.
morethan084: (irritated)

[personal profile] morethan084 2016-10-13 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all for show. They want us to be all gung-ho about being registered. Some of us just come for the free food and drink, and you know help others when something inevitably goes wrong.
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[personal profile] exonerated 2016-10-13 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Edmund blinks at the man, startled by a few things. He's seen some of the clothing and fashion that the modern world has effort, but it seems that this man has his own style to follow (what are those black lines around his eyes?). But it's more about the fact that someone was listening to him at all, and entertaining his thoughts about taking what isn't necessarily his to begin with.

The fact that Edmund doesn't immediately refute the man probably says something.
]

I suppose I wasn't too subtle, was I? They are charming little animals.

[ He laughs a little. ]

What manner of distraction do you have in mind?
latro: (Default)

[personal profile] latro 2016-10-13 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If I didn't feel too strongly about registering before... it's not happening now.

[ He could be getting drunk right now! The outrage! ]
brushoff: (oooh guuuurl)

[personal profile] brushoff 2016-10-13 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got nothing but confidence, [ Dorian idly remarks, with a wry little grin on his face.

And it's true. Dorian's the sort who just brims with self-confidence, who's utterly dead-set in his ability to do things, to do them well, and to do them impressively. So what if Edmund can't dance? He'll dance well enough for the both of them. And, even if his partner turns out to be rubbish, people will still be watching.
]

Funny, that was my plan as well. But the band's playing a bizarre rendition of Saint-Saëns and I don't think I can stand still any longer.

[ said bizarre rendition is "Danse Macabre" on electric guitar. Hey, whatever works. ]
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[personal profile] morethan084 2016-10-13 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I know. I didn't register either, and obviously you lose the benefits you would get it you did. Not that I really care. I never had anything handed to me before, but I can see why it would appeal to people.

[She did want to see what it looked like on the inside though.]

You're not the least bit curious to look inside?
latro: (z05)

[personal profile] latro 2016-10-13 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll just leave it at "unsettled" until I can move out.

[ For which he needs a job, and that's something he can't rush. ]

You know those pranks they show on television? How at the end they point at the camera and everyone laughs? I don't laugh, I break arms.
morethan084: (gesture)

[personal profile] morethan084 2016-10-13 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Where'd they put you anyway?

[Daisy is pretty sure he isn't joking, but it gets a laugh out of her.]

Uh. Yeah. Maybe don't do that? I don't think the actors would appreciate it.

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