WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

[maskormods]

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?

Comments

[jojoceanman]

Stop complaining, or I'll toss you back into the car and leave you there.

[It's faster to just bring Rusty along with him, rather than go by himself and then have to go through the trouble of getting Rusty out of the car from the outside of the shaft. Plus he doesn't know if the store might want to charge him for busting the elevator doors or not. All he wanted was to buy a damn book - what a troublesome day this has become. Still, he's had worse.]

All we need to do is get the elevator doorway on the second floor open. [He carefully steps to the wall, where an indent of a door can be faintly seen in the dark.] It should open automatically if we pry it together at the same time. I know you're a bit frail looking, but I'll need you put your strength into this.

[musclemothers]

You toss me around and then you insult me? [ Who does this guy think he is? Rusty would have a lot more to say about it if he wasn't standing on top of a broken elevator in an elevator shaft in the darkness, accompanied only by a man who has proven himself to be superhumanly strong. Rusty's irritable and abrasive, but there are limits to his stupidity. ]

And I'm not frail, thank you! I'm svelte. All lean, long muscles here. [ He is, however, still deeply in denial. Now with something to prove, he tries to pry his skinny fingers into the crack of the door, and once Jotaro says the word, begins to pull. ]

[jojoceanman]

[It's no use convincing a guy like this of anything real, is it? Well he doesn't know how much the lanky man actually helps, but Jotaro does manage to pry his door open enough that door's mechanism makes it automatically open. Right on the other side is the second floor. A few people walking through turn around, looks of bafflement and curiosity toward two men coming out without the car, but the rest just don't seem to register anything.]

After you. [Just in case this door closes for whatever bizarre reason, he rather his "partner" leave first. He might not survive without someone to help him...]

[musclemothers]

Thank you, [ Rusty says, in the beleagured tone of one who's been unfairly put upon this whole time which is, admittedly, how he feels now. He hops through the door with no small measure of franticness, not keen on it shutting on him and breaking a bone or two before spinning around and brushing himself off. He arches a brow at him and asks, ] Who are you, anyway?

[jojoceanman]

[Once Rusty is out, Jotaro follows out and allows Star Platinum to vanish into air. Won't be needing it anymore now that this nonsense is over with. Jotaro turns his head to the elevator door, just in case anything else strange tries to surprise them, and looks back to Rusty once questioned.]

Jotaro Kujo. [Normally he wouldn't give out his name to a stranger, but this guy seems harmless despite everything.] You?

[musclemothers]

Doctor Thaddeus Venture.

[ Rusty surveys him up and down. It's impossible to tell what he thinks of what he sees, mostly because he somehow looks utterly unimpressed as well as utterly non-hostile, in part because anyone who is bigger than him (most people) is counted as both a threat and a potential protector. He's not sure which Jotaro is yet. ]

Jotaro... [ He squints. ] That sounds vaguely familiar. Have we met?

[jojoceanman]

[... He could say no, but that might be too much for a guy he is taking a little pity on.]

We communicated over the network when I first arrived. I'm the marine biologist. Ring any bells?

[musclemothers]

Ah. Yes, the fish fellow. [ Rusty looks Jotaro up and down slowly, more assessing this time. So this is what he looked like the whole time? He was expecting some humourless little man, skinny and balding, probably with glasses on a long, thin nose.

Oh, wait. That's him. ]

You're bigger than I expected.

[jojoceanman]

I get that a lot.

[Especially from other scientists.]

The person who trapped us may still be around. I suggest leaving the building just in case. I'm going to look for her.

[musclemothers]

You go do that. I'll undoubtedly see you again - us scientifically minded imPorts never do manage to steer clear of one another. [ For better or for worse. Stark. ]

Toodles!