notgneiss: (why did the chicken cross the road?)
🗿 Large Rocky Babe 🗿 ([personal profile] notgneiss) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2017-05-12 09:50 pm

how your backyard barbeque go, the smiths? [open]

WHO: shale and.......... you?
WHERE: maurtia falls
WHEN: early may
WHAT: shale throwing a boredom induced tantrum. multiple times. also trying to steal stuff.
WARNINGS: animal death, theft. uh. shale.



a. obligatory bird murder

[damndable humans, always feeding stupid birds and attracting more of the beasts.

shale watches with disdain, arms crossed as kids and adults alike throw bread out to the small flock of ducks. anyone else might find it a nice scene.

she crouches down, sticks a hand in the pond and activates her electric crystal rune. by the time shale is done, the flock is... significantly cut down and several people are yelling at her. shale barely inclines her head towards them.]


It was a waste of food.

[that's not the fucking point, someone yells, getting up in shale's business. shale responds by putting a big hand on them and pushing them back.]

Then find something to do with the dead rats.

[shale is still calm, but people sure as shit aren't happy to see an import do animal murder. step in save the import name?]

b. murder accord (closed to march)

[shale is not late to the "meeting." she doesn't know what to think of it, but something about the human she'd spoken to reminds her of the warden. curiously, there are several humans in this world that make her think of the warden.

a world where more than one human has the decency to be slightly more than completely hopeless. shale is flabberghasted. this must be some hellish, warped version of the fade, surely...

well, she had a goal in mind. the moment march comes into view, shale will slam a hand into the ground, tearing up a giant boulder to fling at him.]


c. these are mine now

[you know those boardwalk tables that sell gems on necklaces? the owner of one is currently screaming at shale. half the table is laying on its side between the two and the other half is... gone. in a better place, probably. shale is holding a handful of the jewelry.]

I refuse to pay! Does it not tell its customers that these are fake? Why, even a blind human could tell!

[she curls her hand, crushing everything in her fist. the owner goes silent, utterly enraged.]

Yes, call the "police." I'm sure they will do much to assist it. Does it want me to tell it how many times they've tried to shoot me?

[please... please instill faith in imports again.]
helladoomed: (Vroom vroom motherfucker.)

C

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-14 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Chloe was out in the world, trying to keep herself from doing anything stupid, when she heard the crash or smash or bash that resulted in half of some poor shmuck's costume jewelry stall getting smushed. It was a short, somewhat curious, somewhat reluctant walk that had her coming around the corner in time to see a...large rock person shouting at the man. Right. Okay. Just turn around and walk away, just turn around and...]

[What would Max do?]

[Well fuck. Chloe hissed at the little voice in her head, taking a long drag on her cigarette before she made her way over to the conflict. Because poor life choices were apparently still a thing. Just say something to try and calm them down, Chloe...]


Dude, it's fuckin' boardwalk jewelry. Of course it's fake. Leave the poor guy alone.

[Okay, not that.]
helladoomed: (Deep motherfuckin' thoughts.)

It's a good thing to start replaying!

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-15 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chloe's eyes went narrow when he grabbed the store-clerks face. Well shit.]

They aren't fake. They're like...toys. They're to wear to feel silly or to give to your kid.

[Stay calm, stay calm...She gestured at the guy with her cigarette.]

Let him go.
helladoomed: (God fucking damn it)

I had a tumblr about it called 'Sad Decision Simulator' so...

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-16 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh fuck. She hissed under her breath as the golem sent the man sprawling, then groaned and put her cigarette in her mouth, pressing her hands together.]

Don't move.

[This was muttered to Shale as the blue-haired woman walked over to the man, a glow appearing between her fingers, getting brighter until she knelt down next to him. A quick conversation, and she was handing over a simple looking medicine bottle to him, before she turned and jogged back to Shale.]

If you've got cash, I know where you can get real jewelry. It ain't cheap though.

[She said this as she moved past her, hoping that the golem would, you know, follow her away from the scene of the crime. And was that police sirens in the distance...?]
helladoomed: (Mmm...no.)

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-17 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Threats, huh? [Chloe looks so unimpressed.]

You know I don't have to show you shit, right? I could just leave you wandering around until the cops show up to arrest you. And they can, even if you're a big...rock person.

[There was probably a PC term for that, wasn't there.]

Golem-American?
helladoomed: (Just chillin')

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-21 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, if I don't get to call you golem, you don't get to call me it.

[Good lord.]

Name's Chloe.
helladoomed: (Now what is this...)

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-23 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Says the guy who just attacked a man for selling toys.

[Chloe was starting to think 'what would max do' was a waste of fucking time. It sure as hell wasn't making her feel better and Shale was kind of an asshole.]

I'm the only reason the guy you hurt isn't going to press charges against you. A little appreciation might be nice.
helladoomed: (Big pimpin')

[personal profile] helladoomed 2017-05-28 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
It means the cops...the local authorities...would come and arrest you and throw you in import jail for attacking that guy.

[Chloe shrugs.]

Sorry, I call everybody guy. Or dude I guess. Sometimes girl, if they're a girl.
idesof: love triangle crime (terrortorial)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-15 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[March has dressed to the nines, as per usual, wearing a fantastic new tuxedo with coattails, and even a HAT. He's just so excited by the idea of possibly but probably not being ripped to shreds he had to dress like he was going to a wedding.

Or a funeral.

He comes into view, cane at his side. Ah. Look at that giant...thing. What is Shale? He doesn't know. He wants to know, but her aura really says it all. A giant beautiful creature. He raises a hand in wave. He's wearing gloves.

He is a pretentious fuck.

March is about to call out in greeting when she moves, and he stops in place, eyes lit up and his smile so enthusiastic it's rather eerie.

Seems like the boulder hits him.

Until there's no one standing where he'd just been, and his voice rings out behind her, where he's standing quite close, cane held idly next to him as he leans on it, the picture of ease.
]

I say, what a throw!
idesof: take care of your kills and i'll take care of mine (oh honey no)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-16 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's incorporeal when he needs to be. Wants to be. Is barely thinking about it and happens to walk through walls without even realizing it at first. He wants to give Shale a fighting chance, though, which also gives him a bit more room to toy with her so everyone wins.

The Earth itself heaves and shakes and March stumbles. He leans on his cane, puts a hand out, has to lift the cane, it's only when the hat from his head begins to fall that anything ghost-y comes into play. Looks like he moves right through a patch of upset Earth to snag the hat before it can fall. He's like an image frequently overtaken with static. Is he there, fully? No, apparently not, then yes, yes he is. In and out, a mix that's fluid only to him.

By the end of it, though, his clothes do have clods of dust and dirt on them, and he has to brush that off.
]

It? You can call me James.

[d a t i n g]
idesof: that won't get me slapped again or anything (insert old timey racism)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-16 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[And yet, the punch lands. Predictably unpredictable is the name of the game. On his back he goes, hat and cane flying. Yes, he thinks, this was definitely worth getting all gussied up for. If he took his clothes to the dry cleaner, he's sure their faces would be breathtaking.

He doesn't bother to pop back up. Instead he rubs where he's been hit, feet kicking against the ground briefly in a too-giddy way. Absorbing the feeling that comes with it, which he rarely ever gets to enjoy.
]

Feels like you've broken something.

[that will pop back into place shortly enough but no one tell shale

March sounds Pleased about this development, anyway.
]
idesof: john lowe just can't act right (sympathy from the devil)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-16 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[March sits up, awkwardly. Whatever part of him is broken pops back into place with an audible sound and a visible twitch. He hardly seems to notice, looking at Shale with ridiculous heart eyes.]

And make it easy for you? Where's the fun in that! [Those heart eyes don't vanish for the stompy tantrum; he stands, brushing off his knees.] Never been fried before. Go on, dear.

[He escaped any electric chair, but at what cost. What COST.]
idesof: i tear my heart open just to feel (scars remind us that the past is real)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-16 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[He has two options. He can continue to aggravate her with his inability to die, or he can fake die and aggravate her later with the whole fake aspect of it.

He chooses the latter.

He's shocked. Fried, mouth parting in a silent scream as skin burns, clothes burn, internal bits liquefy, and every other manner of nasty thing occurs. His hat even catches on fire. It's super terrible and looks realistic, even as March is tempted to do a bit of the ol' fashioned skeleton showing through the lightning storm, toss some cartoonish bit to the whole scene. But he doesn't. Not this time, anyway. In the future...who knows.

Whenever she stops, he'll collapse to the ground, a steaming pile of meat and flesh and bone for appearance's sake. He's very good at playing the long gone so any sort of additional desecration will be welcome and not at all bring him out of the show aspect.

He even has the decency for a thin line of blood dribbled out his lips, eyes wide and terrified.

Haha, he thinks, inwardly, like a pretentious ghost.
]
idesof: like a hell-broth boil and bubble (for a charm of powerful trouble)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-16 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh no, this kinda tickles.

Except...that isn't really possible, is it? He sorta feels like it should, at least, but perhaps it's simply his heart being so filled with horrible joy at this turn of events he's having a sort of physical manifestation of it. But the tickle crosses a sexually delightful territory quickly enough, as murder can so often do for him. Usually it's just...not his fake ghost murder.

So while "the corpse" is totally reacting as it should, March is having an internal debate over whether this tickles, whether he's gonna have a boner after he reforms from a pile of gore, and damn it all if he isn't craving a cigarette right now.

Good job, Shale.
]
idesof: we like to keep it fun around here (cannibalism jokes lmao)

cw GHOST DEATH double jeopardy homicide ???

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-16 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is definitely listening, despite being a giant pile of mush. God. Imagine how much worse he could be had he spent a weekend camping out here. He'll have to try that, he thinks, before round two crops up. Because it definitely is going to, one way or another.

March manages, through utmost Weird Ass Ghost Willpower, not to laugh or comment. He is so very tempted to, though. So very very tempted to have his mouth form literally anywhere, perhaps the bottom of her foot, and reply. An unreal sort of itch; but he doesn't. Simply remains a pile that isn't actually a pile because Weird Ass Ghost Willpowers are afoot.

...quite literally, in this case.
]
idesof: time for self reflection (is this why i can never win at clue)

points for dat butt

[personal profile] idesof 2017-05-17 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He waits until the Earth has stopped shaking and he's certain she won't be looking back his way. Two eyes form in the midst of the pile and watch her retreat, later followed by the rest simply rising from the ground. March finds his cane and curses the fact he didn't bring a pack of cigarettes with him. What a travesty. He'll have to stop at the petrol station like some poor person. Smoke first, a nice floral arrangement for the giant murderous rock lady after. She's worth it.]