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maskormenacelogs2017-05-18 12:47 pm
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Entry tags:
- !event log,
- abigail hobbs | n/a,
- elena fisher | n/a,
- harleen quinzel | harley quinn,
- † andrew pulaski | apollo,
- † brendan frye | n/a,
- † cassian andor | fulcrum,
- † count dooku | darth tyranus,
- † gabrielle lancret | cinders,
- † gwen wynne-york | n/a,
- † jacob taylor | the protector,
- † jyn erso | kestrel dawn,
- † k-2so | n/a,
- † kaito kumon | baron,
- † kanaya maryam-lalonde | psychopomp,
- † kara zor-el | supergirl,
- † peter parker | spider-man,
- † qymaen jai sheelal | grievous,
- † raven reyes | n/a,
- † sansa stark | little bird,
- † twice | the untouchable,
- † utena tenjou | calyx,
- † veronica sawyer | dead girl walking,
- † yusuke kitagawa | fox,
- †: armitage hux | starkiller
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?
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?
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[ With a move straight out of fantasy wrestling, Magnus slams his own shoulder right into the dirt and takes the boar down with him, still staring him straight in his beady little eyes. The boar lets out an unhappy groan as he's flipped over, and Magnus takes that opportunity to jump on top of him, pinning him down with all of his strength. ]
I have rope in my adventurer's pack! Get it out and get him trussed up, quick!
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he doesn't reply, but nods rapidly as he runs over to the pack, digging through it quickly (sorry, magnus, archie cares more about you not getting gored than being careful with your stuff (though if steven is in there that's the one thing he will be careful with)) and pulls out the rope, skidding over to start looping it around the boar's legs.]
Fuckin'-- it's a lot easier when ya can dematerialise these bastards, ya know!
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[ Archie's right, of course - there should be absolutely nothing fun about bleeding, the threat of bodily harm, and a very angry, very large wild animal. One could say Archie has his priorities in order, except for that bout of his with ecoterrorism that had to be stopped by, like, an infant. Whoopsa-doopsa.
He holds the boar down firmly as Archie ties his legs together, then stands up to study his handiwork.
He holds his gross, bloody fist out for Archie to fistbump. ]
Thanks for the assist!
no subject
archie laughs, fistbumping magnus, then taking his big ol' meaty paw in both hands and looking over the damage.]
Dunno what to do with that thing, but you want help wrapping this up?
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[ He holds his hands out, admiring the boar's handiwork. He was a worthy foe, that's for damn sure. ] D'you know how to do it? Ya got any Cleric experience?
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[his hand hovers above magnus's, nonverbally asking his permission to try.]
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[ He stares at Archie expectantly.
It will be for the best that Archie cannot heal humans, as it turns out, or else Magnus would have no choice but to try to haul him on-board as their new resident Cleric, particularly on the basis that if he's successful now, he's already a better Cleric than Merle.
(Sorry, Merle.) ]
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he concentrates, but nothing seems to happen, which is pretty inconvenient, honestly. not that archie doesn't want to be able to heal animals, but why not humans? these powers are so weird.]
...Nothin's happening. God damn it. You're gonna have to heal the long way! Unless you go see Angela. She fixed me up in a couple minutes when that bastard robot turned my ribs into dust.
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[ Archie is the sort of guy who's affable enough to be everyone's friend, but - and this is a big but - he certainly seems to like animals more. If he had to choose one or the other, he can probably make his heart fuller by healing animals - and there are plenty out there who need it.
He kicks open his pack and shoves out his adventurer's kit, grabbing onto the bandages with the tips of his fingers so not to completely drench the whole thing in blood. He rips off a long strand with his teeth. ]
'sides, this isn't enough to waste a spell slot on.
no subject
archie makes a noncommittal noise and holds his hand out, looking a bit annoyed.
don't do it with your teeth, bro. he's right there.]
no subject
[ Archie, how fucking dare you ruin his ability to be disgusting. ]
Hey, don't give me that look, I'm just very independent!
[ Another lie, because he's literally the least independent person that he knows, including the ten-year-old. But he does toss Archie the bandages. ]
no subject
[archie rolls his eyes and unwraps some more for him.]
Gimme your hand.
no subject
[ Is he shitting you, Archie? Can you tell? ]
no subject
...Blood poisonin' and septicemia fucks you up, not other people ya dingus!
[he wraps the paws up, with clear practice. he's had to help matt and plenty of grunts after they discovered their carvanha/sharpedo had the rough skin ability. hell, he's even had to do it to himself.]
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[ You were supposed to laugh, Archie. ]
Thanks. [ He turns his hands over, looking at Archie's handiwork. ] It would have been okay, though. It's not my first rodeo. Your work's neater, though!
[ Wrapping up your hands is always the hardest thing to do. Everything else - which he's got just as much practice at - is a lot harder. ]
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Yeah, yeah, whatever you say. C'mon, you need to get those cuts cleaned up and proper bandages on 'em.
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[ He looks pointedly at the boar. ]
Why don't we clean 'em up after we return this guy? I don't know how long that rope'll keep him for, and if he gets loose, next person who runs into him might just kill the little bugger.
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[he pads over and crouches down next to it and puts a hand on the boar.]
Is it okay?
no subject
[ He pats the boar's side affectionately, even as he derides his whole species. ]
And if he ain't, you can just fix him up, right?
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[the boar grunts and archie gives it a little pat too.]
Ya know, if I was back home I'd be puttin' you in a pokéball about now. Looks a bit like a Emboar but without the fire collar.
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[ He picks the boar up and hauls him over his shoulders, looking mighty pleased with himself. If there's ever an opportunity to pick something up over his head, well... he often just does it, just to amuse himself. ]
All right! Let's get this fella back to where he belongs. Unless you wanna keep him.
[ He looks expectantly at Archie, half expecting him to say yes, yes he does want this random wild boar, thank you very much.
He wouldn't even question it. ]
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...Naw, I don't have a popcorn maker.
[what? anyway.]
You need help with that or anythin'?
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[ He jumps a little, shifting the boar's weight. ]
What's with the popcorn maker?
no subject
[what rumour? he doesn't elaborate.]
I got the map up. I was goin' to the zoo before the fucker tried to murder me, [he says with a glare to the boar which soon melts into an obnoxious kissy face.] but I still love him! Yes, yes I do! He was just doin' his boar thing, weren't ya?
SHALL WE WRAP IT UP HERE