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Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] sidecars) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-11-13 11:01 pm

I Wish I Had a Castle in the Sky ( OPEN )

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: All over America
WHEN: Nov. 14th-24th
WHAT: The Cosmic Cube is creating multiple realities for all the imPorts. Where are these "universes" coming from and who is wielding it? Are you strong enough to withstand the temptation of a new reality and thwart this misguided attempt at happiness?
WARNINGS: N/A

Hey, Davis! Did you move anything? I've got that Barnes kid's stuff logged. [ He has a digital tablet propped up on a clean, steel table full of plastic bags and baskets filled the different paraphernalia. It's rather reminiscent to an experience in the American security line at the airport. One such basket belongs to James Buchanan Barnes. ] Think something's missing. Says six item's logged, but only—Davis?

[ The man was right there a second ago, wasn't he? Looking around there's no signs John Davis had been there at all, except for in his memory. Shit, has he been talking to himself this whole time? Well, it isn't anything important. The string bean isn't going to miss one dumb little paperweight or whatever it was.

Little does he know just how powerful it is... ]



[ John spares no time or energy leaving Cap Canaveral. He doesn't even put up his cleaning cart before he's zipping through security at the blink of an eye. People've been calling him crazy for so long it's isolated him from the regular rhythm of society, but it's all been worth it for this chance. He will be a hero finally, just like the rest of the imPorts he idolizes. People will start to think twice about him and everyone else with powers. They will have the rights they need to protect this country and keep the Commies out.

This is the energy driving him to hold a dangerous item in his possession. He doesn't know a whole lot about it, only what he's gleaned from gossip rags and conspiracy theory websites. But it's worth the chance to find himself in prison, or worse. In the security of his lonely little apartment he holds the Cube in his hands as it pours out tremendous power. Without words it becomes in tune with his inner self and his wishes. It feeds off of it to create something more than itself. In his world imPorts will have just what they want, whatever it is, however contradictory.

But in truth, what good can come out of a thief too wrapped up in his own fantasies? That is no hero, and John cannot truly control the power he is playing with. As it feeds, the air around him turns hot—too hot to even breath. It's like the oxygen is burning up before it reaches his lungs. The world around him begins to fade as he holds on for dear life, but in the end his consciousness is snuffed out; a small sacrifice for a new world. ]

blahblahboom: (16)

[personal profile] blahblahboom 2016-11-30 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Rita squints at Flynn and then at her shoe. She takes it from him, swats his arm with it and then puts it on]

That was so bad, I can't even get angry.
knightunerring: (13)

[personal profile] knightunerring 2016-11-30 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Then don't hit me if you're not even angry.

[Honestly, Rita.]
blahblahboom: (neutral; an almost pleasant look)

[personal profile] blahblahboom 2016-11-30 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
I can't help it if your arm makes a good target.

[She pulls her boot on and rushes to the door, only to double back and grab Flynn's arm to tug]

Come on, don't be slow!
snarkbot: (more than bAIt)

[personal profile] snarkbot 2016-12-01 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's something odd going on here, but Skeets doesn't really have the capability to understand exactly why there's distortions or what's causing it. It makes him cautious, and observes carefully. ]

Of course, sir. Booster is the best operator I could have.
foreshadower: Adi Granov. (Please allow me to introduce myself)

[personal profile] foreshadower 2016-12-01 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it's a nice place, it's mine!

[ He said, affronted. Like that was to be suspect? He even held a hand to his chest, before he settled back in, and sipped his drink. It was Absinthe, because he was that kind of pretentious. ]

But if you must know, I've kidnapped you to give everyone a touch of a scare, not debate science. I'm afraid I'm rubbish at those sorts of things, now literature...
foreshadower: (Seriously I like quill pens)

[personal profile] foreshadower 2016-12-01 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shade laughed, before he vanished, only to reappear behind her, smooth as butter.

Because even if the shadows were "from his cane", some things were just natural to the ex-supervillain.
]

Now! Let's see what we have here!

[ he reached out, to grab that extending arm, to give it a look. ] This seems all rather over-the-top, doesn't it? Even for a hero?
pillz: (mild)

[personal profile] pillz 2016-12-02 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Heard about it. [kavinsky is mildly disappointed by the disappearance of fun magic glow. he slinks up to the counter, then sets his arms down on top of it, slouching over the edge like he's loitering around a casual conversation about the weather. or possibly selling drugs. his eyes shift restlessly through the shop, then park on the coffee pot. his pupils were too big already. they get bigger.] Was gonna ask you what was up.

The fuck were you doing up there anyway, turd lord?

[if billy isn't careful, kavinsky's going to take the cup of joe right off him, as casual as he is presumptuous.]
inmyothertights: (Billy - pouting more)

[personal profile] inmyothertights 2016-12-02 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
From what I can tell? It's like someone vomited magic all over this world and for once it wasn't me.

[Billy is not careful, as it happens; Billy lives with Kitty Jones, who makes a fine art of stealing coffee, so he's just sort of accepted it as fact.]

Looking at the magical patterns, trying to figure out a way to contain this...whatever it is. Magic vomit.

[He makes a face.]

It's harder than it looks. Whatever it is that's causing this, it's not simple. Every time I try to contain it, poof! My container gets too full.
raw: (00111001)

[personal profile] raw 2016-12-02 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
A tight little breath. The thing about programs is that nothing is chance. Everything is predetermined, controlled. Something in her switched to add that wobble to her tone, to make her sound vulnerable, maybe even upset. If it was a conscious choice, then it was a manipulation. But don't humans also have daemons running in the background that they can't control, borne of past experience and personality and evolutionary psychology and genetics, little programs that they're unaware of and can't control but programs nonetheless. He's always sort of thought of everyone like they were really advanced computers.

"I'm not afraid of you," he explains, though maybe he is a little, because she's strong, and she has the gun now. If he believed in anything he would probably be praying. "But if you're not real, then what the hell is real?" And what was real, how much of everything she does and says is designed? Can she lie? If something makes her activate tear ducts because it seems situationally appropriate but she can't really experience the emotion of sadness, aren't those tears a lie?

God, this is fucked up. He can't think when she's standing this close, it's too uncanny valley. He takes a step back, rubs the short buzzed hair at the back of his head in agitation. "I can't do this. You're — I thought you were perfect." Perfect, or perfect for him? How deep does this go? Jesus. He's verging on hyperventilation now.
pillz: (hay)

[personal profile] pillz 2016-12-03 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[kavinsky sips coffee and glances around. he doesn't notice magic flowing everywhere. he certainly doesn't notice it anywhere in here. the shop sparkles and sits quiet as ever, picked out with the occasional supernatural knickknack.

no evidence of delusional idiots in here at all.]


Why don't you find who it is? [he asks.] Stuff it right up their ass again? Like what Dicky Dickardo and the Spice Boys did with you, when you did the thing. [he takes a bigger swallow from the stolen cup then, even though he adds, too,] Sugar next time.
inmyothertights: (Billy - cry me a river JT)

[personal profile] inmyothertights 2016-12-03 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it's a person.

[He reaches under the cabinet and pulls out a pouring sugar container shaped like a Mexican Sugar Skull, and flick the top open, handing it to Kavinsky. All this is done without much thought, because Billy's attention is somewhere else.]

Like I would absolutely try and stop it from the source but it keeps creating on me. It feels kind of....

[He scowls, and rubs his lip with his thumb.]

...it kind of feels like my magic, a little. Every time I try and contain it, though, it changes shape, or breaks out of the container.
musclemothers: (Default)

[personal profile] musclemothers 2016-12-04 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
You kidnap a superscientist and propose not to speak of science? Hah! You must not know me very well, hm? Science is, you see, something of a trademark of mine. And I can't have my supervillain not abiding by the theme. Now, if you got your powers through an accident, or happen to be the relic of an old legend so we can spin it as mythic, that would work just fine.

[He's dedicated to this universe, sure, but Rusty in every universe knows the trappings of the genre he's in. More than that, he and the rest of Team Venture have always been committed to a bit.]

I assume you're henching me, anyway. That is what this is, yes?
foreshadower: (Later gators)

[personal profile] foreshadower 2016-12-05 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shade laughed, but it was a bit forced. That one had touched a nerve, after all. ]

Well, let's just say I got my powers through... a mystic accident. [ he leaned forward, slyly. ] If you ever invent a time-machine, I wouldn't recommend visiting Dickens and taking any offers to investigate the occult. Particularly if there is alcohol involved.

It ends rather poorly. Particularly when there are cults.
tadeadshi: hxneylemon @ tumblr (09)

[personal profile] tadeadshi 2016-12-05 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
I-- [That's not really the reception he expected and he stares down at the PET.]

Are you okay? What happened here?

[He's worried. Magicman usually isn't that slow to respond nor that... detached from him, of all people.]
hypnotherapy: (sinister looks)

[personal profile] hypnotherapy 2016-12-05 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, what happened?

Well, this isn't an ordinary day, I suppose. I don't know what caused all this.
[ His world, he means. This small pocket that is just enough to make him feel...peaceful, maybe. For a little while. He sounds vague, disconnected. ]

But it's nice, I think? It's nice. For a little while.

I'm okay. Are you okay?


[ Well, maybe he isn't, but that's future magicman's problem, ha ha ha! ]
tadeadshi: hxneylemon @ tumblr (64)

[personal profile] tadeadshi 2016-12-05 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
No, it definitely isn't an ordinary day.

[He takes a slow breath and tries to focus. Not panic because this isn't normal, not for them, not after this long. He at least has the sense to move out of the street and somewhere a little quieter.]

I'm fine. Worried about you.
hypnotherapy: (wonder of the wonder)

[personal profile] hypnotherapy 2016-12-05 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
Worried about me? That's okay. I'm fine. I always am. [ He speaks in that rambling, distant tone that suggests he's not really thinking about what he's saying too much, letting words come spilling out.

He feels like he's in a bubble, or floating. Disconnected. Is he sick again? Maybe he is. Is it possible to be sick like this?
]

I'm worried about you, too. How are you feeling? Everything all right? Have you been adjusting well? [ Like he doesn't already know, like he hasn't been hovering at Tadashi's shoulder. ]
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[personal profile] tadeadshi 2016-12-05 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
You know how I've been. [Magicman always has the first access to Tadashi's vitals. Magicman should know the answers to these already.]

I don't think you're okay. Can you come out of there and talk a bit?
hypnotherapy: i do what i can ([h] i see you hurting)

[personal profile] hypnotherapy 2016-12-05 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
So I have. Haven't I?

All right. I will.
[ He doesn't sound disgruntled, or annoyed, or even mildly bothered. He just sounds like he's parroting some response already generated.

It's worrying.

But he does pop out, as Tadashi asks. He looks the same as he always does, albeit a little stranger in this bubble of...something. The glitches and flickers, the various errors in this simulation, become more obvious.

But he does seem tired. Like he's running on empty. (But isn't he always?)
]
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[personal profile] tadeadshi 2016-12-05 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Once Magicman is in front of him, Tadashi reaches for his arm, just to touch at him. This is wrong, the whole scene. And it's obviously not anyone's fault that he knows of. He's just worried about how robotic Magicman sounds. It isn't like him.]

I really don't think you're okay. Something's wrong here.
hypnotherapy: ([h] just trying to land)

[personal profile] hypnotherapy 2016-12-05 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tadashi touches Magicman's arm, and there's a flicker of - well, not life, exactly - behind his eyes. Awareness, maybe, is closer to the word. Like he was dreaming, and he's being brought out of it.

The world fades in and out, the one they're in overlaid with the dream of the one they're not. He feels tired, and homesick.
]

I'm --

[ I'm okay, he should say, but it's a polite lie that he can't get away with any more. ]

Well, maybe I'm not really feeling okay. [ He seems about to say something more about how not-okay he is, but it seems that even that is a significant effort. He just sighs, and the world flickers again. ]

And this is - wrong, too. And silly.

[ He sounds defeated, when he says that. ]
knightunerring: (87)

[personal profile] knightunerring 2016-12-06 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I know I taught you better than that about attacking knights.

[Only do it when you know you can win, honestly, Rita. He grins and lets himself be tugged along in her wake.]

Alright, alright.
blahblahboom: (14)

[personal profile] blahblahboom 2016-12-06 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well, I'm not one to listen.

[Come on, Rita wins either way. The knights that hasseled the lower quarter citizens were all weaklings. She gives a few more tugs when she feels like he isn't being fast enough]
knightunerring: (86)

[personal profile] knightunerring 2016-12-06 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
If I write it in a book, would that make you more interested?

[How is she moving this fast? His legs are roughly twice as long as hers. He lengthens his stride anyway.]
blahblahboom: (18)

[personal profile] blahblahboom 2016-12-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, it sounds like a book I'd have to burn.

[FINALLY, Flynn is such a slow poke sometimes. She lets go when he's finally at her pace]

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