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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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[ Magnus is kind of an asshole. It's just good for their mutual friendship that Archie can be a little bit of an asshole too, especially since Magnus chuckles as he watches the little guy scarper off. ]
Sounds good. I'm gonna try it your way this time.
[ He tries it Archie's way, falls off halfway through the journey because he doesn't have that kind of balance, and then has to hold onto Sharpedo's tail the rest of the way there, sputtering in the saltwater. It is not a cool dude look. Magnus has regrets. He manages to recoup enough to grab a couple of people to drag along the sides again, and after a couple of loops of this nonsense, emerging from the water once more, he notes, ] You notice that we're saving a buncha assholes? I've never met people so pissed about not drowning.
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I gotta show ya how to do that properly. [said as he wades into the water and checks over sharpedo. he shouldn't leave it mega evolved for too long and he can already see it's getting tired.] An' yeah. I'm kinda hoping the ones that threaten to sue me do, it would be a good laugh.
[he runs his hand over sharpedo's back and it grunts and rolls over, showing it's BIG OL' TUM.]
...I think Sharpedo wants a little bit of a break.
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[ Spiders? Off-limits. Sharks? Still apparently adorable to Magnus! There's no rhyme nor reason to what animals he decides to like or dislike, but this adorable shark is absolutely in like territory, especially after he got to ride him. ]
Looks like the guys with the lifeboats got it mostly under control by now anyway, [ he says, nodding towards the ship. ] You gonna put him back in his ball for a rest?
[ He's not clear on what the ball is, but he figures it's more or less like Taako's Pocket Spa. Small on the outside, big on the inside, with all of the amenities a fishy or furry animal could possibly want. ]
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C'mon, mate. Time to sleep. I'll get ya big ol' fish, yeah?
[it grunts again and bumps into archie's waist. he laughs and returns it.]
It had to remind me not to get the salmon. Sharpedo don't like the salmon here!
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And there's this weird part of him that thinks that he should, that he's done it before, and it's missing, but - nah. That's probably nothing. It's all chill. ]
How long have you had Sharpedo for?
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Mmmm... almost two decades now. I caught it as a Carvanha.
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Whoof. No wonder you two can read each other so well. I've never - I don't think I've seen anything like it before. Carvhana's what a baby version of him is called, yeah?
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[he muddles around with his phone for a moment. why does he have a picture of it? look, sometimes you just gotta draw your amazing children whom you love and would die for.]
Here!
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[ He's never going to understand Pokemon. They're awfully cute, though, and he can only imagine that this little guy was just as cute in real life. His fingers grasp at the side of Steven's bowl, imagining a world where he'd grow up too.
Steven will not grow up. He's just happy little goldfish, perfect the way he is. ]
You must've just been a kid when you found him.
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[he laughs, thumbing sharpedo's pokéball fondly.]
They usually travel in packs and I think the lil' guy had been separated, because I never saw any others around that area.
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Lucky he didn't chomp you a big one! Your folks must've been pretty pissed, though. [ He glances over at Archie, realizing that he doesn't know much about the guy's childhood. ] If you lived with 'em, that is.
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[oh, sharpedo. you and your jaws...!]
My mom was happy, though. Who do you think taught me how to do the wrasslin'?
[no mention of his dad... if he was around, sure as shit didn't have much of a hand in the wrasslin.]
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[ They lived within their means, and while they weren't necessarily poor, they also weren't in the position of having another mouth to feed, let alone another thing to look after. They were already pretty shitty at managing to wrangle Magnus as it was. ]
Your Mom sounds like one great lady.
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[he shrugs.]
Yeah, she was tough as an old boot. I actually got all the gym badges and she was so proud! [presumably, seeing as sharpedo can use waterfall.] She had a... Corsola and a Tentacruel. Bloody tough fuckers, they were, bless their souls.
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[ Okay, that's baffling to him. He whistles, low and impressed. ]
Why's that? Are most people's folks just done by then? It's a pretty dangerous world out there for a bunch of little kids.
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[fond memories. archie decides not to mention all the villainous teams around.]
It's a cultural thing, yannow? People know kids are gonna be on their adventure and are more than willing to help out in each town. I went off at ten and ended up beatin' all the Hoenn gyms!
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[ It sounds like a completely foreign concept to Magnus, but he's open to it. Hell, it sounds nice, like a world that he would have liked to grow up in. He'd be a different person for sure - a hell of a lot less rough - but to go from village to village, meet good people, spend some quality time with wildlife... it sounds like paradise.
Not so much of a paradise that Archie never had anything to fight against, but a paradise nonetheless. ]
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[he looks away for a moment, pressing his palms to his face. oh no he's having a feeling!! archie didn't get a chance, before being ported in, to actually leave the aqua base proper and survey the damage that kyogre had done. all he's done is read reports which... focus on all the negatives. habitats destroyed, trees knocked over and blocked off pathways. he doesn't look back at magnus.]
Though I dunno how much it is now.
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Hey. None of that. If they're good people, whatever happens to them, they'll still be good people. Nobody else can do anything about that.
[ It's a simplistic way of seeing the world, perhaps, but he still believes it. ]
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No... I mean they won't feel safe anymore. Ya wouldn't think twice about sendin' your kid out on a life changing journey before Kyogre almost drowned every landmass on the planet. I'd be thinkin', what if it happens again?
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[ Magnus sees Archie's point, sure, but staying home a little while, in a home with warmth and kindness... that can't be so bad. ]
There's always gonna be that danger, even if there's not as much of it. A hurricane or a tornado can do plenty of damage without any Pokemon Gods getting involved.
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[he shakes himself, feeling selfish for putting all his problems on magnus again. archie forces a smile.]
Y'know what's weird about Pokémon? Ya get a Psyduck and it's Cloud Nine ability could stop a storm in your area.
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Does every other person know that? [ He pauses, thinking about it. ] And if they do... maybe you can help fix it.
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[because... ITS NOT A GOOD ANSWER IF ITS KYOGRE.]
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[ He's not going to like this answer, is he? ]
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