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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?

pale_blue_arrow: (Smug)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-22 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
OH GOD YES

you pay fare i pay for beer afterwards y/n?
h2no: (hey now... hey)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-22 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
GOT IT.

[and he turns away, calling for a cab. because he knows its going to come out in song.]
pale_blue_arrow: (A Freaking Drink)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-22 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
this is the best thing you've done for me

i will never forget this

but i will try very hard to forget what precipitated this

so, so hard
h2no: (that is just fucking fascinating)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-22 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
YEAH, ME TOO.
CABS GOING TO BE HERE IN 10.


[after singing the fucking order... god, archie hates this.]
pale_blue_arrow: (Vulnerable)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-23 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
at least you're not singing in foreign languages so we can actually get home

please tell me this isn't a regular thing

PLEASE
h2no: (UHHHHHHHHHHHH)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-23 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
YES AND NO.
WILL EXPLAIN IN BAR.
pale_blue_arrow: (Mundane)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-24 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
i can't go into a bar

i'm underage + no fake id yet
h2no: (you weirdo)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-24 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[archie rolls his eyes at brendan.]

HOME, THEN. WHAT THE FUCK EVER.
pale_blue_arrow: (Smug)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-24 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
i was promised booze

why don't you love me
h2no: (hey... fucker)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-24 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
NOT MY TYPE.

[he points at an approaching cab. get in, nerd.]
pale_blue_arrow: (Oh Really.)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-24 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
but you promised

don't make me sing love songs to you in the car. all the ones i know are depressing af


[He gets in, sighing. What even is this day.]
h2no: (aqua propaganda)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
DON'T.

[he climbs in after brendan, then asks the cab driver how his day was. in sing-song. the cabbie replies, in sing-song.]

WHEN HE STOPS SINGING I GUESS WE'RE SAFE.
pale_blue_arrow: (Thinking)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-25 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
i will sink to all kinds of lows in the name of booze and/or entertainment. do not test me.

[Brendan has to bite his lip to keep from bursting into song in the presence of other singing people. Oh, God.]

are you getting the urge to sing to because that's still a thing rn for me???
h2no: (HAHA UM)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-25 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
I WANT TO JUMP OUT THIS FUCKING CAR HEAD FIRST, SO YES.
pale_blue_arrow: (Default)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-25 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
you don't have a healing factor that is a bad idea

but not an unappealing one
h2no: (quagsire isn't affected by electric??)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-25 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
DON'T GET ANY IDEAS.
URGE IS FADING?


[he looks terrified but...]

I... think?
pale_blue_arrow: (Pause)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-25 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
i am not talking just yet

i still have the urge to hum that could be a sign
h2no: (hey now... hey)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-25 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Quit bein' a wuss, kid.

[he leans forward to get the driver's attention.]

We're just here, bro. Thanks.
pale_blue_arrow: (Mundane)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-25 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
i once let myself be beaten and shoved into a car trunk. i am not a wuss, i just don't like indie music

Who says 'bro' unironically over the age of fourteen? [Oh thank God, he can talk without singing.]
h2no: (fuckin kids)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-25 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[archie hands the driver the fare and boots the door open, holding a hand out for brendan.]

Me, apparently. Shut up.
pale_blue_arrow: (Have Words)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-25 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I refuse to until I get beer. Or at least some rubbing alcohol and some orange juice. I can make do.

[He takes Archie's hand with the air of someone wholly unused to being helped out of cars.] Thanks. First round's on me when we find a place. Promise.
h2no: (ummm....)

[personal profile] h2no 2017-05-25 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, alright I have a bottle left over, or somethin'.

[get USED TO IT PAL. he lets go when they're out, of course.]
pale_blue_arrow: (Oh Really.)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-05-26 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Great. Now can you explain what th' Hell that was? 'Cause I'm damn good at English Lit. but I don't speak Latin and I don't sing anymore after the dark days of freshman year. [This place was weird, but the singing was another kind of bullshit entirely, one he didn't remotely have patience for.]
h2no: (excuse me??)

twos got two thumbs and lost this tag like a genius

[personal profile] h2no 2017-06-07 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, so...

[he rubs the back of his head.]

Sometimes really weird stuff happens, but it's not always singing. You should be glad you missed the one that happened before you turned up, it was like... ghosts of people you felt guilty about!
Edited 2017-06-07 16:28 (UTC)
pale_blue_arrow: (Oh Really.)

[personal profile] pale_blue_arrow 2017-06-07 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, this may be a dumb question but I'll ask it on the grounds nothing can be dumber than what we just did: why does reality go take a long walk off a short pier like that sometimes?

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