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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2017-05-18 12:47 pm

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

WHO: ImPorts!
WHERE: All four cities.
WHEN: May 18-25
WHAT: Mayhem strikes as people get trapped in elevators, have to help out drowning, spoiled party people, rescue escaped zoo animals and have a ball with some unwanted song and dance. Have fun, everyone!
WARNINGS: None anticipated; let us know if this should be updated!



MAY 18 - 25
STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR
THE LOVE BUNNY
DE CHIMA


Wherever you happen to be in De Chima, as long as there's an elevator around, it's fair game. Are you visiting a friend in an apartment complex? Visiting a set of offices? Getting your teeth checked out? Or maybe there's a really rad, hidden comic book store you heard about on the top floor of the highest building in town! Whatever the reason, in the lobby, you'll see someone who looks like she's cosplaying, and having an absolute blast doing so. It's not entirely clear what she's cosplaying as, but nobody would dress like that on an everyday basis, right...?

If you write her off without thinking much about it, that wouldn't be much of a surprise; she's as innocuous as they get. She's a young, blonde woman - probably a teenager, though it's hard to tell - with her hair pulled into high pigtails, bangs pulled back with a headband with two bright pink bunny ears perched atop her head. The rest of her outfit is just as outrageously pink, a tight corset over a white t-shirt, a pleated pink skirt, go-go boots and thick black leggings with a bright pink wand (complete with a plastic bunny head attached to the tip) clutched tightly in one hand. Honestly, she looks to be a bit of a wreck, but that's only to be expected from someone young flexing their costume making skills for the first time.

It's only after you glide past her and onto the elevator that you realize that something's wrong. Halfway through your ascent or descent, the entire thing shudders, the lights flicker, and the gears slowly grind to a halt. The speaker in the elevator comes to life, somehow, and a bright, cheery giggle fills the elevator.

"Stop in the name of love! You've been caught byyyyyyyy... The Love Bunny! Cute, right? Just like me! I wish you could see how cute I am, but that would defeat the point, so you'll just have to take my word for it. The world's become such a dreary place, hasn't it? We spend so much time staring down at our phones that we never take the chance to look at each other, and find our one true loves!" She sighs, a dreamy, faraway sound. "Oh, but don't worry - I don't expect you to have to kiss. All sorts of love is beautiful, even if romance is the pinnacle of all love. I'm not letting you out, so you might as well try to get along! Toodles!"

If your characters don't manage to get out by the one hour mark, the speakers will come to life once again, this time with a distinct pout in the Love Bunny's voice. "Oh, poo, you're no fun. But I'm a hero, not a villain, so it's not like I'd trap you in there forever. Go on, and live your sad little loveless lives - just know that I'm rooting for you! Bye-byeeeee!" And with that, the building's electricity will come back to life, and your characters will be freed once more.


MAY 18 - 25
MUSICAL MAYHEM
The Copacabana Conductor
Maurtia Falls


Feel that fascinating rhythm moving to your feet? Feel your ass gyrating to that titillating beat? The answer is yes, yes you do. Whether you wanted to or not. The normally dangerous streets of Maurtia Falls have taken on an even more treacherous edge (for your dignity, at least). It started with a sudden, sharp up-tick in what appeared to be street performers. Then a couple acapella flash mobs. Some questioned whether acapella flash mob is even a thing, but who knows? Maybe some particularly deranged imPort brought the craze with them. The strange man skipping around in spandex with hand-drawn musical notes all over it seems suspect, especially since he's always clutching that tacky little recorder close to his chest, but it’s hard to tell these days. The middle of the month always has so many odd new imPorts arriving.

Towards the middle of the day, the news has changed from reporting these sightings as some strange performance art in the city to declaring them a clear act of super-powered malice, accompanied only by - you guessed it - the shrill piping of a recorder, inducting all around them into spontaneous song-and-dance. ImPorts with particularly good hearing may hear a shrill voice cheering, "there's no day but today for this!" or "enough of the classics; it's time to get thoroughly modern!" or, particularly irritatingly, "All I ask of you is to stand up!"

The fact the news anchors sing this report just underscores the present menace (you know what we mean). The majority of people seem to be performing their day to day while acting out numbers based on famous musicals, but any tune and dance sequence people can manage (or not, as the many petty thieves singing to Oliver! horribly screech as you pass by) is fair game, from country to pop to Klingon Opera.

Particularly news obsessed imPorts may notice that all this musical fanfare was first reported happening near the Maurtia Falls City Stage Theater. Investigators better be ready to put on their best Javert, however, as there’s no avoiding facing (and joining in) the music as you get closer to the heart of the problem.

MAY 18
ZOO(TLOOSE)
Doctor Dolots
Nonah


Police sirens aren’t that uncommon a sound, unfortunately. However, the occasional lion’s roar and outraged peacock squawk piercing through the familiar noise is a new one. Hover cars have surrounded the Nonah zoo, as much keeping the gawking public out as they are trying (and often failing) at keeping the loose animals in. Only imPorts are allowed to pass the tape line to approach the unusual threat. Known unregistered and even vigilante or villain imPorts are given the side-eye, but not questioned (what, are they going to give the tigers nightmares?), but registered imPorts are giving a bit of a heads up by the local civil servants. They aren’t sure if it’s a victim or the cause, but a lieutenant heard loud sobbing from inside the cave of the black bear enclosure before he was forced out by a crowd of vengeful lemurs. Anyone that doesn't want to have to directly deal with Nonah’s finest and head into the zoo itself still has plenty to do, however. Only a fraction of the animals have successfully been kept inside.

Behind the tape and in neighboring areas of the city everything is, well, a zoo. Animals are running everywhere. Elephants are competing with orangutans for fresh boiled peanuts, while otters have taken over public restrooms and are having the time of their lives playing with the automatic toilets. There has also been a disturbing team up of lions, tigers, and polar bears, while cheetahs race past them towards the most appealing prey of zebra, moose, and people.

It will be better for imPort public image to capture rather than harm the animals, but at the end of the day the choice is yours.

MAY 25
WATER WORLD
Marina
Heropa


Sun and fun often bring shouts of delight, but the cries ringing out over the waves are from panic. The equipment keeping the Oceania party platform and artificial reef has malfunctioned due to the excessive weight — social scenester Evan Caulfield's party has way too many guests to celebrate his 25th birthday, it seems! A few nearby pleasure craft approach the site of the sinking soiree, but they just don't have the capacity to bring everyone aboad.

Word quickly reaches the shore, filtered through social media from all the selfies attendees are taking — #sinking #help #thewetlook — and emergency services urge any heroes in the area to come and help.

The scene is chaotic, but just off the shore, a tall, muscular Hispanic woman in her early 40s climbs to the top of a yacht and shouts to get everyone's attention. Decked out in a bright wetsuit that could be a superhero's costume or a fashionable diving outfit, she pumps a fist into the air. "Come on, everyone! We've got to come together and save these people!"

With that, she dives into the water and starts swimming freakishly fast toward the disaster site. She never seems to come up for air, but when she does surface to aid the bewildered partiers, she does a great job making sure they don't go under.

Well, hero? What are you waiting for?

burlyboy: (a content boy)

NONAH

[personal profile] burlyboy 2017-05-21 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Magnus, who has been having the time of his life, winds up going to the public restroom mostly because he has to take a piss. Underneath one arm is a gator, his mouth strapped shut with a belt that obviously belonged to Magnus because of the way he keeps on tugging up his pants, because he does not, in fact, want to show his ass to the world.

(It's a good ass, though. He's pretty fond of it.)

He gets distracted by Operation: Piss when he runs into the Doctor, however, and all of his little otter friends. "Holy shit, those are cute." The gator he's holding's little legs paddle in mid-air, as if able to swim through the air, but to no avail; he's well and truly stuck. "You can talk to animals?"
helpline: (yaaaaay party line)

[personal profile] helpline 2017-05-21 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can talk to all sorts of things and speak all sorts of languages," the Doctor remarks, with a wide grin, as if a grownass man hanging out with otters in a bathroom is the most normal thing in the history of normal things. "Otters, babies, Delphon, horses, tyrannosaurus rex, you name it."

A few of the otters walk up to Magnus in a sort of 'hello new friend, what is going on' type of way. Lots of sniffing the feet, occasional sniffing of the gator, though the otters are staying a good distance away from the actual critter itself. Otters ain't no moron, they know that the gator will win in a fight.

"There's a spare sink if you want your alligator friend to splash around in something, by the way."
burlyboy: (a content boy)

[personal profile] burlyboy 2017-05-24 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus looks suitably impressed, which is to say, he looks very impressed. Being able to talk to animals sounds amazing, although if he had that ability, he'd probably have to become a vegetarian. It's for the best he can't talk to animals, then.

He nods, then plods over to the sink - luckily a trough-like shape, perfect for gators so long as it doesn't mind its head and tails sticking out of either side - and with a grunt, heaves the gator into it. "There," Magnus says as he fills it with water. "That's where you'll live for a while now."

He stretches his sore muscles out in front of him, then crouches, grinning down at the otters. "Hey, little guys!" He looks up at the Doctor and asks, "What're they saying?"
helpline: (griiiiiiin)

[personal profile] helpline 2017-05-24 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that Magnus is sans one alligator, it's party time. The otters chirp and make cute ottery noises and just kind of run around Magnus in a way that's very much whoa! New human! What's up? He's interesting so they'll bother him. One straight up tries to crawl up his shirt.

"They're mostly saying things like 'hullo,' 'who's this guy', 'why does he have the gator', things like that."

The Doctor, in contrast, is standing up and walking over towards the alligator. Seemingly with no regard for his safety, he stares down the critter for a moment, then reaches over to try and give the gator some scratchies. This might not work.
burlyboy: (a neutral boy)

[personal profile] burlyboy 2017-05-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus lets out a cry of delight as the otter successfully crawls up his shirt, because what's he going to do - dissuade it from doing so? No. He's going to let this marvelous thing happen and have an absolutely wonderful time giggling as he exclaims, "That tickles! Can I talk to them back? Like, can they understand me or are you squeaking back to them? Hail and well met otters, my name is Magnus, and..."

It's only after he's rambled on for a bit that he turns around, realizing that the Doctor's wandered off too to say hello to the gator. The gator wiggles and strains against its bonds, clearly trying to get loose, one beady eye looking at the Doctor in a way that one can only describe as homicidal.

And then the belt begins to creak. "Uh... guy? My belt isn't that strong. You might wanna get away from there."
helpline: (look at this smile)

[personal profile] helpline 2017-05-30 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The Doctor blissfully ignores the homicidal look from the gator. What's he going to do, bite him? Of course not, look at this beautiful beast, he probably just wants attention and scratches and what not.

This day is going to end with the Doctor getting his arm bitten and it will be his own damn fault.

"Nah, he's fine. Look at this fellow, he seems perfectly content!" The gator is not content in the slightest and is seriously considering murdering the Doctor. One of the otters has noticed and makes a sort of warning chirp at the Doctor, in a tone that even Magnus can recognize translates somewhat to 'dude, this isn't good.'
burlyboy: (a neutral boy)

[personal profile] burlyboy 2017-05-31 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus contemplates his situation. He could go and help the Doctor so he doesn't get his arm chomped clean off. Orrrrr he could keep cuddling otters. After a moment's contemplation, he unhappily comes to the conclusion that to be a good person - which is what he always aspires to, despite frequent and often violent lapses - he should probably get up. So he does.

"Do you wanna lose a finger?" He says gruffly, unceremoniously grabbing the back of the Doctor's shirt and yanking him back as though he were an errant puppy instead of an ancient being who has traveled through time and space and experienced far more than Magnus has, because he's a handsy sort of fellow.

As if on cue, the alligator snaps Magnus' belt ("aw, dip, I only have one of those"), and begins to scrabble out of the sink, clearly wanting very much to eat some human today. Magnus just sort of yells. It's not very helpful.