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TEST DRIVE MEME: NOVEMBER EDITION




TEST DRIVE MEME
A Confluence, capitalized, is the converging of one or more supernatural forces.

This Confluence is predicted. Guild officials are ready to capture the new Starfallen and explain the situation to them. All of this has become quite mundane for them, but you -

You find yourself suddenly falling from the sky. Careening towards the pavement, only to be caught at the last minute by thin ribbons made of stardust. They would have caught you far faster, as they've been getting quite skilled at snapping tumbling bodies from mid-air, but...



ONE MIND, ONE WILL. CENTRAL CITY, MICHIGAN.
Staticky octogon-shaped portals appear in the sky you just fell from. At that same moment, every screen in Central City flares to life. A PINK-SKINNED ALIEN with glittering, crystalline compound eyes stares calmly into the camera.

"My greetings to The Society of Samaritans. My dear old teammates. And their hero friends like Atom...? Atomight? Atomight. If they're even still alive... When you've lived as long as I have..."

He trails off, staring into the distance. It takes a moment for him to resume speaking. "I hope they don't still have you all convinced of the delusion of free will. What does free will matter in the face of immortality? Of freedom from strife? I would reshape you all into something so beautiful." He gives the camera a beatific smile. "I don't know why you would eschew that - so I'm just going to take the choice out of your hands. It's for your own good, really. The Forerunner is here to save you from yourselves."

At that, monsters start to pour through the portals. Instantly there's mass panic. Screams fill the streets.

The Forerunner is viewed as a "god" by the monsters coming through. ABOMINIDS twisted long-limbed biological monstrosities slavishly devoted to him, and his AUTOMATA, incredibly intricate machines lacking free will. Alliance members appear familiar with his tactics, and familiar with the foe. They can tell you that The Forerunner himself is unable to cross between dimensions due to the tragedy that made him. In an act of heroic self-sacrifice which warped his mind, he was trapped between dimensions and his body was warped beyond recognition. This isn't the first time he's attacked Earth with his monstrosities, hoping to weaken the planet's defenses.

The monsters are not the only threat. The Forerunner has developed the ability to hack free will. Automata and Abominids are putting mind control helmets on unpowered citizens en masse, the projected stream of sound they provide capable of binding the victims to his will.

Swarms of converted non-meta civilians are quickly captured and converted. These people are not themselves, but they must be fought, freed, or avoided. You, heroes and villains, are the only force that can avert disaster. The mind-controlled civillians are targeting infrastructure like power transformers and fire departments.

Even more worrying, the Converts are swarming the local hospitals, raiding metahuman wards to take control of metas too sick and weak to fight back. These metas are the intended building blocks for the invasion force, who will be mind controlled and forced to fight despite illness or injuries. At ground zero for the earliest attacks, medical staff need help transporting sick patients and newborn babies to hospital wings that can be more effectively barricaded. Some will wind up trapped, stuck holding doors shut together while fists pound outside.

Whether heroes or villains, those unfortunate enough to be captured will find themselves given a modified mind control device at the base of the neck. If you are so unlucky, you will act completely normal at first to put the people around you off guard. And when the opportunity arises, you will try to convert others by implanting those same devices. The constant stream of mental hacking will leave your personality mostly intact, save for the devotion to the Forerunner.

"Surrender and sublimate. Flesh into flesh. All are one in the Forerunner." They chant in the streets.

Removing the devices instantly liberates the captive. However, there are so many of them. It's up to the Starfallen to hold the line, and stop others from being taken.


DIADEM HOTEL

Whether you've survived the chaos, or arrived after the trouble's over, you're not going home anytime soon. Hopefully, the LUXURY HOTEL they've put you up in will ease that sting.

The DIADEM HOTEL is usually reserved for the obscenely wealthy. Its rooms are enormous, the beds quite literally enchanted to offer the perfect night's sleep, and the food would usually cost your life savings just to sample. But given the circumstances, the Guilds feel its the least they can do to aid your transition into this world. EVERYTHING is complimentary, and everyone gets an ALLIANCE CREDIT CARD to spend on entertainment, clothing, and whatever other necessities they might need. The cards have an obscenely high limit and there doesn't seem to be an expectation for you to pay it back... though if they catch you abusing it, their accountant will be coming for your head.

There's a shopping center immediately across the street. It has an impressive array of outlets that cater to your every need. Food, clothing... and swords? If you can think of it, it's for sale. Although anything clearly supernatural or metahuman seems to be at a minimum and offered under the table. You can grab clothing made to withstand any superpower and a surprisingly mediocre Taco Bell order while you're at it. There's a Super Cinema in the shopping complex across the street that's showing the 11th sequel of a popular action racing franchise, BLASTS FROM THE CURIOUS: LAST OF THE NEFARIOUS, in which Hubcaps Nefarious tries to undo the Carmageddon caused by evil tech entrepreneur Jebs Robs. He uses the Large Hadron Collider to launch a Bugati into the past to save the world and the most important thing of all: family.

CENTRAL CITY isn't exactly the nicest place in the world, even after the clean up from the Forerunners's attack. Wander too far from the shopping district and you'll find yourselves thick into territory controlled by the local non-meta crime syndicate... but maybe that's where you want to be. Maybe you're here to see just what this world is dealing with. If you're going to be stuck here you might as well make yourself useful, right?

Or perhaps you're NOT the heroic type. Maybe this is simply scoping out the competition.

Regardless, it won't take long for TROUBLE to find you. Test out your new powers, do a little thieving, stop a few muggings - this is your time to use as you see fit.


THE PUMPKIN KING. SUNSET FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

The recently open door to the underworld is now closed but that doesn't mean Sunset Falls is free from supernatural events. That said, what's currently happening is at least a normal kind of abnormal, a well-established, necessary yearly ritual.

Every year, a being known as Magna Cucurbita, also called the Pumpkin King or Old Man Autumn, must be appeased so that Autumn in the northern hemisphere can start progressing to Winter and the other seasons. In the past, this entailed flattering him with various depictions in TV specials and movies, but with some of these beloved holiday specials and movies moving to streaming services and being viewed by less people - and increasing Christmas creep - this seasonal elemental has taken affront at the lack of attention at the end of the harvest season.

Fortunately, the magical community in Sunset Falls knows how he can still be appeased. Every year they perform a ritual in some pumpkin fields, corn fields, and orchards just outside Sunset Falls. While the ritual is led by the Alliance's Silent Mystic, the magical community sees it as something that transcends the loyalties of the guilds and all are welcome to help out, regardless of affiliation. It takes a large number of people performing it to make it work, enough that those that might be hesitant will practically be begged because of the importance of making sure Autumn doesn't last all year long.

After being teleported in by the mages, the ritual is a mostly harmless one. Much like the recent masquerade ball, all participants must pick out a harvest mask but instead of magically hiding their identity the mask does the opposite: it enhances it, transforming and taking the form of something deeply personal or that best represents the individual. Sometimes the carvings and paint can show more than one thing, causing a wearer to have an entire collage of personal symbols, objects, characters, or even whole scenes depicted on the mask.

Two participants, often chosen at random, then have their hands bound together with twine woven from straw. They have to walk through the pumpkin patch and both eat an apple from the orchard, then walk into the cornfields. Once all the sound gives way to the white noise of rustling corn stalks, they have to kneel and tell each other their greatest desire. This can be any number of things, both possible and impossible, like the recovery of something long-lost (or gone forever), a short-term goal they're desperate to accomplish, or a lifelong dream they keep aspiring towards.

This admission must be the truth or at least close to the spirit of it, and the stronger the desire, the sooner the ritual will be finished. This is a harvest of emotion that appeases the spirit.

Until both have said their truth, Magna Cucurbita can be seen in glimpses, circling in the corn around them, wearing his grand suit embroidered with pumpkins, accompanied by two skeletal Halloween spirits. When he is finally appeased the spirit gracefully departs, leaving behind the scent of pumpkins, bonfires, and ripe apples. Participants can then return to the others.

When enough participants have appeased the Pumpkin King, a very light first snow will fall, heralding Winter, and the ritual will be declared over. The new season is always welcomed in with the mages treating everyone to magically delicious hot cocoa and hot cider, various apple treats (baked, candied, and caramel), and various pumpkin based foods like pie and pumpkin spice bread.

Provided they don't indulge in a snowball fight first, everyone is then taken home.


EXCELSIOR

A scientist in Excelsior has come forward, claiming that he can solve the current metahuman crisis with science. Robots, he says, without intelligence. One that is programmed to follow human law by the letter. They do not need metahuman intervention. Their problems are caused by scientific minds, and so the solution must come from them.

The robots in question are mass-producted from cheap material. Their programming is… slapdash, at best. And there is no government sign-off on these robots, the eager scientist simply flings open the door to his lab and unleashes them upon the city. 

Rejoice, he cries, I, Sprocket Biggs have saved this city!

He has not.

The robots are doing what they are instructed to. They are intervening when they catch sight of someone endangering others, or breaking the law. Unfortunately Sprocket did not think to check what laws they were upholding, nor did he think to prune the more ridiculous ones that have entered legislation over the centuries. And so these poor, ridiculous creatures descend upon the unsuspecting populace with only their binary understanding of what is and isn’t a law.


Some of the laws the robots are adhering to are…

• It is illegal to attach a vending machine to a utility pole without prior consent from the utility company.

• No person may walk about in public if he or she has the common cold.

• Destroying a beer cask or bottle of another is illegal.

• It is illegal to entice girls away from the Maple Lane School for girls.

• X-rays may not be used to fit shoes.


(more laws here)

• All lollipops are banned.

• A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.

• It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag.

• People may not buy a mattress on Sunday.

• All motor vehicles must be preceded by a man carrying a red flag (daytime) or a red lantern (nighttime) fifty feet in front of said vehicle.

• It is illegal to pretend that one's parents are rich.

• One may not spit on a bus.

• When two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.

• You cannot buy meat of any kind on Sunday.

• No person may walk about in public if he or she has the common cold.   RCW 70.54.050
Exposing contagious disease -- Penalty. 
Every person who shall wilfully expose himself to another, or any animal affected with any contagious or infectious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except upon his or its necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health; and every person so affected who shall expose any other person thereto without his knowledge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

• A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town. This law was set up to curb an ever increasing crime rate in the area. Due to its sheer stupidity, however, it is needless to say that the law has affected nothing.

• You may not shuck peanuts on the street.

• It is illegal to display a hypnotized or allegedly hypnotized person in a store window.

• Dancing and drinking may not occur at the same establishment.

• You may not carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.

• One may not spit on a bus.

• Those who sit on men's laps on buses or trains without placing a pillow between them face an automatic six-month jail term.

• No one may set fire to another person's property without prior permission.

• It is illegal to carry a fishbowl or aquarium onto a bus because the sound of the water sloshing may disturb other passengers.

• No one may kneel on a pedestrian skywalk.

• Spitting on city buses is outlawed.

• Persons may not wear a life jacket near a public body of water.

• TV's may not be bought on Sundays.

• Strippers may not come closer than four feet to any customer.

• No structure shall contain more than two toilets that use potable water for flushing.

• It is illegal to give noxious substances to a bird in any city park.

• You may not ride an ugly horse 

• And many more.


These misshapen, malfunctioning hunks of metal are not much of a threat to any metahuman. They’ll sound their klaxons and chase you with grabbing hands, intent on hefting you above their heads and taking you directly to the nearest authority. This could be a police offer, but it’s much more likely to anyone with authority nearby. Don’t be surprised if your captor rockets through the windows of a board meeting, dropping you in front of the CEO expectantly. 
They’re surprisingly durable, at least physically. It’s probably possible to overload them mentally without much effort, a simple logic puzzle or two might do. Or just bring up a few conflicting laws! Maybe even break as many as possible. Best to team up and grab a buddy so they don’t know who to chase.



CLIFF NOTES.


➢  New arrivals will be appearing in Central City. They fall from the skies and are caught moments before impact by magic users from the guilds.

➢  Taking advantage of thinned spots between dimensions caused by the Confluences and the recent opening to the Underworld, the otherdimensional tyrant known as the Forerunner is attacking the city.

➢  The Forerunner uses mind control devices and monsters to try to bring the city under his thumb. The mind control devices instill a sense of loyalty and devotion to the Forerunner.

➢ Those who are under his mind control will attack key infrastructure in the city, including hospitals. Players must defend themselves from a hoard of mind-controlled civilians, metas, and maybe even friends!

➢ This will last roughly one day before being brought under control. A heck of an entrance, though! In the aftermath, newbies will be brought to the DIADEM HOTEL.

➢ In Sunset Falls, the annual rituals to appease the Pumpkin King must be undertaken. The ritual involves showing him your truth. You must take a mask and put it on your face, and the mask's appearance will reflect your deepest truth.

➢ Two characters will be randomly paired together, and must share a truth about themselves. This can be any number of things, both possible and impossible, like the recovery of something long-lost (or gone forever), a short-term goal they're desperate to accomplish, or a lifelong dream they keep aspiring towards. Once done, the spirit is pleased and departs, allowing winter to come.

➢ In Excelsior, a scientist has made robots that are programmed to uphold the law! Unfortunately, he didn't specify which laws, and these robots are now trying to enforce some really weird ones.

➢ These robots are largely harmless. They're physically strong but mentally dim. They're mostly loud, bumbling, and doing their best. If caught, you'll be brought to the nearest authority - who can be anyone in a position of power, or who simply radiates authority.

➢ The easiest way to beat them is to break as many weird laws as possible. Team up and get creative. Or if you think you can take them head on, suit up and beat them up.

➢  Current Players are welcome to treat this as a bonus event. These events are canonically happening within the game but can be largely ignored if you'd prefer to use the month for personal plots. You can tag into the TDM, reference these prompts in network posts, or use them in your own logs.


WILDCARD.

Metaheroes takes inspiration from all walks of comics. Take a look at the CITIES to get an idea as to what day to day life is like in the other cities. Perhaps you've encountered a supervillain (or hero) who needs to be thwarted, or a metahuman with unusual powers creating bizarre effects. You can also take a look at the MISSION BOARD to get your start as a professional hero, villain, or vigilante.


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Eliot Spencer | Leverage

[personal profile] mydyingday 2022-11-05 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
1. [Eliot had just closed his eyes. He had done his rounds, checked in on Parker and Hardison (Parker is somewhere in the city with a lot of wind interference on the comms, Hardison's playing on his computer with his internet friends), and finally got settled in the guest room for his 90 minutes.

Then he's yelling in fear and surprise as he falls through the air. He's had dreams like this before but he's usually wearing a parachute, or a harness. And there's usually familiar voices screaming in his ear.

It's only once he's caught by-- something-- that he realizes he's not dreaming at all.

There's people screaming. People falling from the sky. Monsters running around. It's like something out of Hardison's stupid games. Speaking of--
]

Hardison? Parker? [He looks around frantically. What the hell is going on?]

2. [After long hours of protecting people from whatever those things were, Eliot's absolutely exhausted. He sees whoever's in charge (an organization he doesn't recognize) herding up people like him; the ones who came free-falling out of the sky; and decides to cut and run before they catch him. He needs to figure out where he is, what's going on, and where his people are. Not necessarily in that order.

It's easy to melt into the chaos. His dirty and torn flannel gets switched out for a hoodie from an unmanned bodega. He grabs a cap while he's at it. Starts dodging security cameras and cellphones.

There's a rendezvous for unfamiliar cities. Ones were they don't have established backup plans. It's dependent on a bunch of things, the first letter of the city name, the month, and the day of week, but he ends up about ten blocks Northwest of city hall in the shittiest dive bar he's been to in a while.

He orders takes a seat at the counter and orders the cheapest beer they have. Now there's nothing to do but wait and see if his team will show.
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[personal profile] hacktivision 2022-11-06 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hardison was one of the ones who got herded up initially. He's always got a fake ID handy, though, and is now in their system as John Browder.

Hardison doesn't want to rely too much on an easily-traced government-issue credit card, but it'll be enough to at least get his hands on some basic tech.

Once that's out of the way, he follows the rendezvous protocol that the team had established, and enters the dive bar, scanning the room for a familiar face.

Or, in this case, a familiar hairstyle underneath a hat.

Hardison approaches the bar and takes a stool next to the man in the hoodie, leaning over in a very un-subtle way to get a look at his face.

And he leans back and lets out a dramatic sigh of relief.
]

Oh, man, Eliot, am I glad to see you. You would not believe the day I've had.

[ He leans in to try and wrap Eliot in a hug. ]

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doug ramsey ( marvel )

[personal profile] omniglots 2022-11-05 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
THE PUMPKIN KING
a.
[ if he knew what his mask looked like now that it's changed, doug might not be willing to wear it. it's so strangely vulgar, so many private things splashed across its carvings-- the black-and-gold circuitry imitating warlock, twined with strange, impossible flowers, a half-hidden bullet resting along the edge of a bright petal. even bei is there in the hawkish shape of the mask, the stark red lines near the top of it.

still, he doesn't know what it looks like, and he has other things to worry about as he kneels awkwardly in the middle of a field of golden cornstalks. blue eyes drop to where his wrist is still bound to his partner's, and he has to force himself not to pull the twine loose. he'd agreed to help out with this, after all. he can't back out now. ]


Greatest desires, huh? [ he muses quietly, and his mouth twitches crookedly up at the reassuring pulse from warlock. ] I'm not sure how seriously I've thought about it. It doesn't always seem safe at home.

b.
[ after it's all over and snow is falling, doug offers an extra cup of cocoa down to someone who looks like they might need it. as he does so, the circuitry covering his right arm peels away, reforming into a tall figure, who lays his hand briefly on doug's nape. there's a moment that seems to pass between them, and the figure--warlock--turns to wander away, probably to check out the rest of the area until doug is ready to go.

the blond himself offers an apologetic smile, lifting his own paper cup to blow steam off the top. ]
Don't mind him, he just.. needed a break from the smells. [ human food still occasionally seems to make him queasy. considering why, though, doug could never blame him for it.

he clears his throat. ]
So, is this.. normal here? Do you know? [ doug ramsey, what exactly is your definition of normal, anyway? ]

OURPOWERS
un: Cypher
[ the person in the video is a young man, blond and blue-eyed, with a right arm that looks to be composed of black and gold circuitry and a.. plant in his lap. he's holding onto it like it's a priceless artifact, though, fingers curled with surprising tenderness around the little capsule it's rooted in. .. anyone from or adjacent to krakoa will probably recognize it as a habitat flower. ]

Hi. Warlock and I-- [ and here a head and hand lift out of the circuitry on his arm, waving politely, then sinking back down and disappearing once more. ] --were hoping to connect with some people from home here. Preferably mutants for obvious reasons. [ he hefts the flower gently to illustrate his point. ] We're also not.. really that picky at this point, though, as long as it's someone at least mutant- or meta-friendly. We'd love to meet up and talk about.. this. [ all of this. being here, having part of krakoa with them, what do do about any of it-- ]

Also, I'm an omniglot-- [ not a polyglot, he chose omni deliberately. ] --and I realize that doesn't seem to matter much here, but it does mean I also talk perfectly fluently to tech of basically any sort, so.. I guess this is also a call for employment? No offense to the guilds, but I'm not really sure I'm ready to sign up with one of them yet, and I'm not sure what else is out there.
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pumpkin king - a

[personal profile] grivences 2022-11-05 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This is the second time Robin has put on a masquerade mask in the past month. After an entire lifetime without wearing one, it feels kind of odd. Her mask is covered in handwriting, in several different languages— English, French, Italian, Russian. But again, she can't see her own mask.

It also feels odd to bind her hands with some random stranger, eat an apple together, and walk through the cornfield. When it comes time to spill her greatest desires, however, Robin blurts hers out without thinking, like it's been dying to come out for a loooong, long time. ]


I want to run away and move to France!

[ The words hang in the air between them as she pants, breath fogging up in the chill November air. ]

I... had a whole plan for doing it. I called it Operation Croissant. [ ... ] God... I haven't told anyone that in years.

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[personal profile] fearfully_symmetrical 2022-11-05 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
One Mind, One Will

She doesn't have time to figure out how she's gotten...wherever she is. It doesn't matter, because bad things are pouring down from the skies. Shit's clearly hit the fan in a big way.

But she's actually kind of happy about that. No, scratch that, she's great about that. Because she has a lot of questions she doesn't have answers to, all of which fill her with existential dread - but schmucks in front of her she can hit? Oh hell yes, baby, that's just the stuff to get right past those questions and into punching mode. Best of all? She's the good guy for doing it.

Which is why her first appearance involves just flat-out landing on an Abominid. When the dust clears, the creature's intended victims see a tall, strong woman in white, eyes red with power - and what's left of the Abominid beneath her feet.

"Don't worry," she says, for the first time in her life, "I'm here to help."

And then she goes to work across the city, super strength and super speed meaning she is not only a menace to the invaders, but an unstoppable force; the first time the Automaton in front of you knows there's a problem, for instance, is when her white-gloved fist punches its head clean off.

"Hoo! Two points, am I right?"

She's enjoying this far too much.

Diadem Hotel

If she's gonna get dragged between universes, at least it's swanky?

She's taken advantage of the 'free' aspect of the program in a big way. And she justifies it rather easily: who can blame the girl born in a lab and raised in a Cadmus bunker for living it up a little?

Granted, there's some downsides. Her kryptonian physique - cloned, sure, but she's drowning out the 'you're not really real' thoughts with stuff, thank you kindly - is pretty rough on the clothes she's buying. And she's not too great with sizing, this being her first time out of said bunker that isn't a mission. The first dress self-destructed when she sneezed. So that's going to go on the backburner. She's proud of her form, but not 'get ogled by the public' proud.

What's much more fun? The spa features. Those she'll take wildly illiberal advantage of.

Which is why you'll find her lounging in a chair, wrapped in a fluffy robe, a facial mask and cucumber slices upon her face - as well as a towel wrapping up her freshly done hair. Around her are bags of purchases, and half of them won't make any sense at all.

She's never been out in a city, just for fun. She has no idea what to get. Has no idea what she likes. So there's a bag of old cassette tapes with movies she found at a thrift shop, but no VCR player to be seen. She's got a bag of CDs, and at least here some shopkeeper had the sense to take the opportunity to sell her a player as well.

One bag just seems to have souvenirs in it. Another, various snack foods and a bottle of mouth wash it's entirely possible she mistook for something edible. Or just wanted. It's hard to remember, the entire experience had been one hell of a buzz for her.

robintohood: ([RH] Dual wielding)

One Mind, One Will

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-11-06 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
On one hand, it's a crap situation for the whole city. An invasion of monsters and aggressive robots armed with mind-controlling helmets? What nightmare trifecta. On the other hand, cutting loose by beating the hell out of the robots is going to do more good than harm so long as civilians aren't caught in the crossfire.

So Jason's choosing to focus on stopping them from mind-controlling more people by shooting them down with his guns.

Soon he spots the blonde woman in white helping out. He has to admit, he likes her style.

"Nice. Can you do a streak of them?" He says in an impressed tone before doing a headshot at another Automata
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kyle rayner | dc comics

[personal profile] torchbearer 2022-11-06 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
( i. holy mind control batman! — green lantern )
[ well. this is a great welcome to the place. dozens of people wearing what must be the tackiest helmets in history running around, causing chaos and mayhem. good thing he can fly. bad thing, people can still throw things at him when he gets close enough. at least no one is packing a lot of heat. in situations like this, kyle could conjure a bunch of baywatch models and direct the crowd, but mind control makes that option trickier.

so to help medics and escapees make way, kyle flies close, creating an entire highschool football team to be their muscle with the ring. the mindcontrolled denizens don't take kindly to that. ]


Don't make me create a hockey team as well to keep you guys apart!


( ii. diadem hotel — kyle rayner )
[ wow. this is fancy. and certainly more money kyle has ever been in contact with. he's never been too comfortable in places like these, but what option did he have? it's not like he had a job or anything and being green lantern doesn't exactly pay well.

so he blinks when he's handed a credit card, turning it over and asking. ]


So if I want to buy top of the line drawing tablet, you're not going to take it from me, right? Just. Checking.


( iii. greatest desire — green lantern )
[ kyle is all for traditions but this feels like putting people on the spot. he rubs his neck, uncomfortable. what was his greatest desire? after ion, after parallax . . . he doesn't know. mixed feelings all around, it seems. maybe a real hero would know. a chosen one. but he's never been that, he's just been . . . the guy. ]

So, is it like a top three? Can we settle for top three?


( iv. wildcard )
[ got a prompt in mind? pm this journal. ]
robintohood: ([RH] Dual wielding)

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[It figures Red Hood would be the one packing heat in a fight. Thankfully, he's making it a point to not have civilians get caught in the crossfire. Instead, he's focused on shooting and taking down as many Automatas as possible before they mind control more people. No one can complain if he cuts loose on robots, right?

Then he spots the football team constructs made of green light and looks at where they came from]

You're back?
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Kaladin Stormblessed - The Stormlight Archive

[personal profile] stormthestormingstorm 2022-11-06 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
One Mind, One Will

There was plenty that was unfamiliar to him here. Buildings that rivaled Urithiru in height, strange fabrial machines that rolled through the streets without any visible propulsion that made faces and voices appear on panes of glass. Then there was the fact that none of the few people he'd spoken to even knew what a Highstorm was or when to expect the next one. There was a lot to make sense of.

But one thing he didn't need to spend any time thinking over was the sounds of distress and panic. It was all he needed to put his questions aside and take to the air.

"Kaladin!" Syl zipped up beside him as a ribbon of blue light before resolving into her form of a miniature young women and pointing down to a building, a hospital, where workers were scrambling to get people inside. "Down there!"

"I see it!" He replied and adjusted his Lashing, diving downward. He didn't have any stormlight beyond what he carried with him, he'd have to make it count.

Down below one of the monsters was almost upon its first victim, reaching out with those overlong claws before Kaladin swooped down with a battle cry. Syl vanished into silvery mist which reformed into a long ornate spear in his hand and he swung the point through the monster's head. The creature staggered, eyes burning away into black smoke and collapsed lifelessly. Kaladin floated a few feet above the ground, surrounded by a faint nimbus of blue light, his eyes glowing bright with the same color.

Well, at least now we know these things will die to a Shardblade. Kaladin thought before turning his head and calling back. "Get inside! I'll hold them here!"

Which... might be a tall order, he realized as more of the monsters assembled in front of him but he'd made an oath to protect others and that was exactly what he'd do here.

So much for stepping back from combat. He thought grimly, before readying himself for battle....

Diadem Hotel

And after all... that, now is finally the time to attempt to adapt to this new city and all the strange things about it. First things first, he needed to secure supplies.

After the battle against those monsters he'd been intercepted and given something called a "credit card" which he'd been assured would pay for whatever he needed. Which was odd and was even odder when he'd left it on the counter at a shop after buying food only for the clerk behind it to chase him down and insist on returning it. Apparently he just had to show this thing to get what he needed. Which, again, made very little sense to him because how could you buy something without any actual money exchanging hands? Why couldn't the people here just exchange spheres like any storming sensible person.

Syl at least seemed excited as they made their way down the streets, zipping this way and that as a streak of light, occasionally stopping to take her humanoid form, that of a tiny young woman made of blue light in a long dress. As Kaladin pondered things, Syl gasped and zipped over to a window.

"Kaladin! Come look at this!" She called, hovering in front of a rectangle shaped frame that showed moving images of various landscapes and odd, hair-covered animals.

"What about it?" He asked, stepping up to it and taking in the sight.

"It's amazing!"

"It's... a moving picture." He frowned, looking up as Syl zipped up in front of his face.

"You should get one." She exclaimed.

"What?"

"With that little square they gave you. Everyone just gives you stuff when you show it to them." She waved her hand back at the box.

"But we don't need a box with pictures that move."

"So?" She huffed, hands on her hips. "It would be nice to have! You don't have to only buy things you need, you can buy something fun too."

And so it went. Now, of course Kaladin knew one of Syl's abilities was to choose who she made herself visible to. But he didn't realize at the moment that was choosing to only appear to him.

Which meant anybody passing by would see an exceptionally tall man in a foreign military uniform holding a bag of groceries and arguing over buying a TV with thin air.

Wildcard

I dunno, hit me with something that looks fun.
definecat: (curiosity killed the)

One of the best Radiants!

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The strangely dressed human was almost certainly one of the newcomers. Sleeper was certain of that from the time they'd seen him try to leave the credit card behind as if it were more conventional money. And gawking at televisions pretty much clinched it.

"The problem is that you get one and then there's almost never anything worth watching," they say from near the guy's ankles. Yeah, they're a cat. Well, by some definitions of cat, but they choose to think of themself like that, and when you're sentient, protean ooze, that does mean something.

[ooc: Very canon-familiar, but Sleeper has the ability to see objects that are normally completely undetectable (like a stealthed Skrull ship in canon) so they might be able to see Syl, but that's up to you. I wouldn't want to assume.]

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CENTRAL CITY
[ of course he fell out of the sky and into a fight. that's just his luck, really. still, it's not exactly out of the norm for him, so he jumps into action as soon as he realizes what's happening.

the nova force makes short work of the invading creatures, of course, but the enslaved humans-- that's trickier, especially like this around a damn hospital. rich isn't exactly built for delicate work, and this is kinda delicate. ]


Hey! [ he yells to someone else that seems to also be helping with the fighting, trying to block the doors into the hospital without hurting anyone. ] Can you help with these helmets? I can't really use my powers here. [ not without potentially doing a lot of damage, anyway. ]


DIADEM
[ later, rich looks tired and stressed at the bar, though it's a cup of tea in front of him instead of anything alcoholic. he wants a drink, but between pete and gamora's support and his therapist at home, he knows he shouldn't have one. he spirals when he starts drinking.

the card he's been giving is resting on the bartop at his hand, and the look of uncertainty on his face would almost be comical in another situation. ]
I-- I honestly can't remember the last time I just bought something for myself. [ normally he doesn't even need civilian clothes, since he has uniforms. ]


THE PUMPKIN KING
[ wait a minute. rich pulls off his helmet, and it collapses obediently so he can tuck it in his back pocket. he looks deeply uncomfortable. ]

Wait, um.. this isn't about a.. fight..?

[ help, he's not ready to be vulnerable with another person. ]
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[It absolutely isn't a situation anyone should be grinning in. Yet Robbie's doing it and it shouldn't be shocking at all.]

[Because it goes like this: Rich is off planet, and then he's on planet, and then he leaves again, and then he's dead, and then he's alive, and then he's dead again, and then he's alive again.]

[Alive is definitely the best state for Rich to be in and it'd be really nice if he stopped trying to do his best impression of Schrodinger's cat and stayed that way.]

[It'd also be really nice if he was on Earth more often but alas, Mr. Humble-About-Being-A-Five-Star-Space-General sort of has a lot on his plate. Robbie isn't bitter about it like he used to be in the ye olde New Warrior days, now he's just a little sad and misses his friend.]

[So it's great to see him, even under circumstances like these.]

[A bouncing arc over a Convert's head lets him grab a helmet and yank it off.]

Alley-oop! Hey Nova, glad to see you've joined the party!

[He bounces off a Convert's chest and uses it to aim towards a wall for a rebound.]

Feel up for a little helmet skeet shooting?

[It's the smart thing to do, blasting the things so they can't be reused. He knows Rich will see the logic, and he can toss them up over the crowd where no one will get hurt.]
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Shotaro Hidari | Kamen Rider W

[personal profile] twoinonetantei 2022-11-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)

[1] One Mind, One Will

[ Alright, so in terms of things Shotaro expected to happen today? Ending up in god-knows-where in the middle of some kind of alien invasion was not one of them. It gets especially worse when he can't get ahold of anybody, not even Philip when he puts on the Doubledriver, which is even more concerning. ]

Whoa...!

[ Still, despite all of that, Shotaro is still running actually against the crowd of panicking civilians, at least, until he spots the encroaching monsters... and the colorful variety of superheroes battling against them. ]

Gah...! What the hell is going on here! Ah man... guess I'll have to worry about that later!

[ Since Philip isn't here, transforming into Double isn't an option... so on goes the Lostdriver instead, followed by him pulling out what looks like a fairly large, black USB, and clicking a button on it, which causes an announcer-like voice to come out of the device, declaring... ]

JOKER!!

[ The memory is slotted into the Lostdriver, and with that... ]

Henshin!

[ With another announcement of "JOKER!!" from the memory, Kamen Rider Joker joins the fight against all of the monsters, running directly into the fray and kicking the first monster he sees off of whoever it's attacking. ]

[2] Diadem Hotel

"Wait... SERIOUSLY!??"

[ That was basically how Shotaro ultimately reacted when the chaos died down and the guild proceeded to offer him basically the height of luxury... albeit only for a certain amount of time. But seriously! The fanciest hotel he's ever seen? An unlimited credit card!?

Nah, nah there has to be a catch.

...but it wouldn't hurt to take advantage of it just a little, right? Right. ]


Ahhhh... this is the life...

[ Which is why you can find Shotaro at the hotel's spa, wearing the softest bath robe he's ever worn in his life, along with all the typical spa treatments. Face mask, cucumbers over his eyes, and so on and so forth.

It's so, so incredibly far from the hard-boiled image he tries to give himself... but it's fine, nobody who recognizes him is here anyway, which... okay that's actually a cause for concern, but he's letting the spa take away some of that stress for now. ]


[3] Excelsior

AAAAAAAAAAA—

[ When Shotaro heard that this place had a bad case of out-of-control robots, he decided that... well, he wanted to see it for himself. That and the idea of using a teleporter was, admittedly, something he absolutely wanted to try out.

He now fully regrets this decision, however, because apparently... it is illegal for him to have been wearing a hat indoors.

It caught him very off-guard when a robot suddenly stormed through a wall, grabbed him, hoisted him over it's robotic head, and started running off with him... Shotaro screaming the entire way, one hand holding his hat to his head.

He has his priorities set correctly, that's for sure. ]


Wildcard!!

[ Hello! I am very much definitely in need of voicetesting, as my Shotaro voice definitely still feels a little off to me, but no better way to get rid of new-muse jitters than to just... jump headfirst into voicetesting, right? I've watched all of W, the movies that have a focus on W, Fuuto Pi, and some of OOO. Feel free to plot with me at [plurk.com profile] OddEyes ]
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Diadem Hotel

[personal profile] greatairplane 2022-11-09 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It sure is.

[Someone replies from off to Shotaro's right, as equally wrapped up in soft bath robes, cucumbers, and all that.]

How long does this last again? A month? Two? However long it is, I'm getting this every day.

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[personal profile] hacktivision 2022-11-06 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
1. (CENTRAL CITY)
[ NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Hardison's learned a thing or two about sneaking over the years, and has been pretty good about dodging the — the whatever the hell this is. Aliens?? He is not going to stay in one place long enough to find out.
]

He ducks into an alleyway, pulling his earbud out and fiddling with it, trying to get it to work — but it's not picking up any kind of signal. And the last time he had a laptop nearby was before he woke up in freefall. ]

All right, all right. Just gotta... just gotta make it to a rendezvous point.

[ He presses himself to the brick and cranes his neck to peer around the corner of the alley, looking for an opening. ]

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2. (CENTRAL CITY)

[ Hardison's backed up against a wall with one of those monsters closing in. He's trying to keep it at bay by swinging a large metal rod he'd found in a dumpster, but it's... not going well. ]

Hey, listen, I am not here to play, all right? So we can — we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

[ He's... generally not too great at sounding threatening, especially when he's terrified, but he manages to keep his voice steady. He tightens his grip around his weapon, trying very hard to imitate the Scary Eliot Face and bluff his way out of this mess.

It's not working.
]

I said stay BACK!

[ He swings the rod in a wide arc, hoping to startle the monster into retreating — but with a a red flash and a sudden CRACK! the monster is blown back several yards to the other side of the street, and seemingly knocked out.

Hardison stares, then looks down at the rod he's holding, then back to the unconscious monster. ]

You see that? Now what did I tell you? That's right. Got exactly what was coming to you.

Now I just gotta... figure out what the hell that was...

[ He inspects the rod more closely. ]

Okay, seriously, what was that? Because I'm pretty sure it did not come from me.

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3. WILDCARD??
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defenderoftomorrow: (Could you put some clothes on?)

2. Central city

[personal profile] defenderoftomorrow 2022-11-06 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jayce is not a violent man. In fact, he very much dislikes fights and solves problems through violence. That said, monsters can't be reasoned with, and when push comes to shove, he shoves back really hard. Using a hammer-canon that is as big as he is tall also gives him some extra advantage in fights.

He had dispatched with a lightning bolt one of the Automata who were attacking people in the street, but then a monster comes flying in from of him, already knocked out cold. Turning towards the direction the monster came from, Jayce finally spots Hardison, staring at that rod with confusion. ]


Nice shot. Are you okay?

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Thaddeus Thawne II | DC Comics

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< < ONE MIND, ONE WILL > > cw: violence

[One second, he's running into the speed force, tears streaking his face, throat sore from screaming at no one that can hear him; the next he's falling from the sky down to an earth in the middle of an attack.

Switching gears to deal with the abrupt change in situations is easier than it should be. Getting dropped into a disaster is really only a novelty the first two times it happens to you. It's a task, a distraction he's more than willing to comply with...at first.

And it's easy, most of the converts stand little chance against a speedster that can just snag the mind control devices off the backs of their necks. If he kept at it, left the monsters for some heavy-hitter heroes to take care of, it probably wouldn't take long for him to help take a good chunk of the converts out. And if he were thinking logicaly Thad probably would have stuck to that plan.

Unfortunately, the whole thing is just too easy, leaving him plenty of room to think, to let the scene he'd dropped out of replay in his head on repeat, Bart's words boring a hole in his chest until the pain turns back into rage.

He didn't want to be here. He had his own problems. These people don't matter, this presumably isn't even his world. He doesn't care about saving anyone, he doesn't want to play the hero, he doesn't want the adulation that comes after the fact, he just wants to hit something.

And a lone abominid made for a perfect target.

Leaving the group of converts he'd been dealing with, the monster doesn't have the opportunity to register his presents before he's rushed behind it. Clasping his hands together in a fist he takes a swing at the creature's knee, smashing into the side of it with a satisfying crack. It buckles, bending at a sickening angle and forcing the abominid to fall. And things go fuzzy from there.

All that matters is that rolling current of rage, and the feel of flesh and bone giving way under his fists. It doesn't matter when a swipe of claws lands a hit because he's not paying enough attention, or when teeth skin into his shoulder when he tackles it. It's just more motivation to dig his knees into the sides of its rib cage and smash his fists into its face harder until is STOPS. MOVING.
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< < DIADEM HOTEL > >

[With the attack over it feels like shutting down. Nothing to do but go through the motions, listen, nod, except the hotel and card.

This isn't his world. There is no going home of his own accord. No going back to the future. No confronting his creator. No thinking better of it and finishing the job. No anything. He's stuck without a plan or purpose or way forward and everything feels hollow.

Some part of him notes he should be gathering more information, making some kind of plan, even if it's just plans for what he'll do when these people are no longer willing to pay his way. And maybe he'll do that...maybe. But right now, trying feels pointless. Beyond briefly contemplating whether or not he should ditch the card to avoid them possibly tracking him with it (deciding against it, until he has some essentials), it's hard to keep hold of any solid thoughts or ideas.

So he listlessly drifts, gathering supplies because it's something to do other than stare at the walls of the hotel or fail to fall asleep.

When he finds himself standing in front of a changing room mirror in the first clothing shop he managed to wander into, it's like finally waking up. His hair isn't his, still brown and longer than he's ever liked it. The clothes, picked out by force of habit, still feel like he's dressing to be someone else. Staring at his reflection it's hard to move, hard to breathe and he's not sure how long he's been stuck like that (minutes, hours, nano-seconds?) before that rolling anger floods back in, filling that hollow space in his chest and drowning him.

He feels the pain in his hand, the shards of glass cutting into his knuckles, before he realizes what he's done, the mirror shattering in front of him.
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{ooc note: for anyone who knows bart allen, thad is his clone and it's easy to clock, so feel free to have characters recognize him.}
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[Kid Flash had reacted instantly the moment the call went out for assistance, and raced from his farm in Kansas to Central City to do what he could. Still, the things he saw were leaving nothing but a bad taste in his mouth. Too many times he'd seen delusional people claiming that surrender was the way to a better life, and this? This was all kinds of wrong.

A dozen scouts are flanking him as he does his best to clear the streets, making room so civilians can evacuate and taking on whatever tries to get in his way. But then he gets separated, just glad the duplicates are on a basic goal to keep folks without helmets safe and away from the monsters and robots. And sees...him. Luckily his doppelganger is distracted by pulverizing one of the demonic minions, but he's not sure what he can do to help or hinder. Either way, it's not going to be easy. So he pauses. It won't be too long, at the speed the other version of him is going.]


I think you got him.

[Just that, quiet, like he's trying to talk down an armed gunman. Because, well, speed is a dangerous weapon. Especially used with anger.]

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Huvrye Tirvio | Broken (Webcomic)

[personal profile] effiomsfavorite 2022-11-06 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
[A note: Huvrye's canon is a fantasy horror canon with heavy focus on war, so there will definitely be CWs that I'll label appropriately. Please feel free to hit me up at Kiaxet#7085 if there's an issue or you want to plot something different!]

1. The More Things Change (Arrival/Forerunner)

This is not the first time Huvrye has found himself falling from the sky. He startles for a moment, but instincts kick in in the next moment and his wings snap out to catch him, only to get ensnared in ribbons-

And then everything gets so much worse.

He listens, and doesn't bother to keep his expression neutral - not when this Forerunner person acts and sounds so much like Effiom. The sneer drops when the portals open and twisted creatures pour into the city around him. This Forerunner person isn't like Effiom; they're the Controller, and these creatures around him may as well be Corrupted-

Well, at least there's one thing here he knows how to handle.

If you're out fighting abominids and automata, you may see him tearing through them with inhuman strength, the concentric circles and sharp lines of alchemy glowing red over his hands, up his arms, and across his face. The sheer efficacy and power behind the violence is unsettling, but once the current foe is downed, he'll look at you and recognize - well, not an ally, everyone here is a stranger, but at least not an enemy. "Are you okay?"

Or maybe you've found him in a lull in the fighting, in a doorway or a corner, taking as much of a breather as he can while still on high alert. Whatever city this is, it's an active combat zone, and he's not about to get caught out if he can help it - that's how people get corrupted or killed. Though if the blood staining his shirt is any indication, he's already been injured, and pretty badly. (That wound healed hours ago, but clean shirts are for people with both a place to go and time to breathe, and he barely has one of those right now.)

2. Have you seen the well-to-do up and down Park Avenue (Diadem Hotel)

This is weird.

He's seen fancy places like this before - every time he's called to upper Lashardi to see Effiom, he sees this sort of opulence. It's exclusively for the political elite and wealthy civs. But after the portals closed and the damage was cleaned up, he'd been brought to this ridiculously fancy hotel, given a room and a credit card, been told it was thanks for his help in the earlier crisis, and been left to his own devices.

His own devices, as it turns out, are not equipped for this.

So for the moment he's sitting in one of the comfy chairs in the lounge, wearing his pants and shoes, and the hotel bathrobe. His shirt had been covered in blood and, more importantly, corruption, and wearing it around people was the worst kind of health hazard when they'd just dealt with an attack. That said, his room hadn't come with a fresh shirt, so here he is, wearing what was provided, with absolutely no idea what to do next. Eventually they're going to realize he's not wealthy, or a civ. Eventually they're going to throw him out of here.

(Whoever 'they' are. Wherever 'here' is.)

But for now, he's in an armchair in public, still on high alert, with all the energy of a kid who's snuck into someplace they're not supposed to be and is just waiting to be kicked out.

Yo Quiero (Shopping Center)

It turns out a 'Food Court' is not the same as a mess hall. Food courts - at least, this one - are bigger than the mess hall, and have a lot more choices, namely in that said choices consist of multiple eateries instead of just 'take it or leave it.'

Huvrye's not so much spoiled for choice as he is paralyzed by it. Hopefully someone who's a little more familiar with the matter at hand can help him out. "What's a Taco Bell?"

(He has, at least, gotten himself a clean shirt by this point in time. Small favors.)
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[personal profile] slowmotionbuscrash 2022-11-07 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
While he no longer lives in Central City, this mall remains the source for various specialty items that are always in demand for metahuman heroes. In Tommy’s case, he’s after extremely high protein granola bars for those with higher metabolisms and some clothes.

The food court is only meant to be a brief pit stop, but he’ll take the time to help a stranger. Tommy points at the fast food counter. “That’s a Taco Bell.”

The most helpful.

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lois lane | superman & lois

[personal profile] smallvillegazette 2022-11-06 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
one; arrival

[The first thing Lois understands about her current predicament is that she's falling, fast, and probably from a great height if she hasn't already hit the ground. Being used to acting under pressure is a boon when she's able to reorient herself enough to get a hand into the pocket of her jeans, grab the ELT, and activate it.

Anyone with super-hearing might pick up on the high pitched signal before Lois is caught by the stardust ribbons.

She breathes a sigh of relief; even not knowing what's going on, at least she's not falling to her death. She can figure out the rest later.]


two; one mind, one will > hospital

[While perfectly capable of handling herself in a fight, Lois isn't Superman, and beating up robots and monsters out on the street isn't her idea of a fun time. But there'd been a call for help from the hospital, and she'd rushed over without a second thought, knowing that most of the heroes are likely busy out in the streets.

She arrives at the right time, witnessing an automata in the process of ripping over a door where a terrified nurse is attempting to hide several patients. Without hesitating, she grabs an IV pole from the hallway and rams the automata with as much force as she can.

It works, sort of. The automata stops its attempt to get through the door, instead turning it's attention to Lois, who suddenly realizes this is as far as her plan went.]


Shit.

[Lois turns and runs, the automata hot on her heels.

If anyone with powers are in the vicinity, she could use a little help.]


three; shopping trip

[Lois Lane is nothing if not pragmatic, and the first thing she does once the dust settles is take her brand new credit card to the shopping center. New clothes are on the list, and she gravitates towards the stores selling items designed to be used for those with superpowers. She hasn't discovered what hers are, just yet, though the idea of having them is... strange, but that isn't why she's here.

A shirt meant to withstand someone's flame powers should work in reverse, as should fabric designed to stand up when worn by someone who's invulnerable. It might not make her bulletproof entirely, but if she can pick up a few useful pieces to wear under her street clothes, it ought to help.

After that's squared away, shopping bags on her arms, she heads to any and every store that sells weaponry. Swords aren't her style, though she could probably manage one in a pinch, so she gravitates more towards modern weaponry. A taser is likely to be more useful to her, and it has the bonus of being non-lethal. She doesn't really want to kill anyone, but without Clark (or even Jon) here to rely on for a last minute rescue, she needs to be prepared to protect herself.]


four; wildcard

[[ooc: feel free to hit me up if nothing here vibes & you'd like something else!!!]]
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Two. Have a Superman: Secret Identity Clark.

[personal profile] noboothneeded 2022-11-07 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[What happens is likely going to be a very familiar set of circumstances for Lois.

Some in a blue and red suit comes to the rescue out of nowhere and punches out the automata.

The difference is that the person in the suit isn't Clark. Her Clark, anyways. Instead, he's a very frazzled looking kid who barely looks old enough to drive.]


Um, hi? Are you okay, ma'am?

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Sandalphon | Granblue Fantasy

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arrival

[ falling through the air was nothing new to sandalphon. what was new was the fact that he had been asleep while doing so. what was going on, he doesn't know, but instinct kicks in and dark brown wings manifest to break his fall. he didn't expect this... or not. who knows, the omnipotent always tended to screw everyone over.

when he does land (after the ribbons only gave him minor purchase), he's looking around to see if he recognizes anything... nothing. ]


What have I gotten myself into now...?

one mind, one will

[ he's only seeing chaos, chaos, and more chaos. and he's only been here an hour or so. sandalphon's seen his own fair share of insanity, but this is the quickest he's seen it ever. that's nice, honestly. makes things easier.

he's unsure whether he should involve himself into the mess, and that's what makes this extremely uncomfortable. as a new arrival, there was an unknown into doing what was right-- would he be getting himself into trouble by using his abilities? for using excessive force? too many variables. but his decision's made when he spots the nearest hospital being overrun by what looks to be a mob. he rushes over to help, only to realize... ]


Are these civilians?!

diadem hotel

[ now this was exorbitant, even for his tastes. even he was more for the modest tastes. but this is the only space he can afford to stay at, especially when he knows that being broke means you can't choose. it's nice to not have to make choices, however...

he can't help but balk at the sheer opulence of the place. the lobby just made him balk. then sigh deeply as he registers that this is where he's staying for the time being. ]


Better make the most of this, Sandalphon... [ he doesn't like talking to himself, but sometimes, the auditory reminder was nice. ]

diadem hotel - shopping

[ well, one thing to make himself fit in was to wear the very outfits others were wearing, right? it would be a sane move... had sandalphon bothered to research any form of dress. he hadn't even checked other people's clothing to get a frame of reference. it was insane, put simply, but it wasn't like anyone was paying any true attention to him, he thought. no one would ever come and bother him if he could so help it after all.

sandalphon had bothered to pick up the essentials beforehand, so now it was a simple matter of dress... but his choices were god-awful. someone help the angel man from purchasing a hawaiian t-shirt with badly cropped shorts. so out of season. ]


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Shopping

[personal profile] effiomsfavorite 2022-11-07 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, were you looking for someone to talk him out of his fashion decisions? Because Huvrye has no context for fashion trends, has never worn anything that wasn't a uniform or government-assigned, and is eyeing that hawaiian shirt with curious fascination. He's more likely to enable than deter, especially with something that colorful.]

Where did you get that?

[How would Huvrye even get a hawaiian shirt on over those wings? Don't ask; it just works.]

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Tsubomi Hanasaki/Cure Blossom | Heartcatch Pretty Cure

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1) One Mind, One Will

a)

"HAAAAAA!" This was not how Tsubomi expected to arrive in this world. It was bad enough she fell from the sky and Chypre had to save her, triggering her acrophobia as she was lowered down. Now she found herself confronting strange machines and monsters and they were attacking innocent people. At least they weren't looking at her as she charged forward, transforming into Cure Blossom and kicking one of the monsters in the head, a blur of pink and white and flowers.

"How dare you try to take their free will! Without such thoughts, well... we'd be nothing but drones, no creativity or beauty!"

b)

"...surrender and sublimate. Flesh into flesh. All are one in the Forerunner..."

Tsubomi had made a critical error in her fight and a well-place hit knocked her out of her Cure Blossom form and into her intermittent form, wearing a shiny pink sundress instead of her usual outfits. Even worse, one of the implants were now in her neck, a small furry fairy-like creature trying to tug at it to get it off of her.

Spotting someone, the fairy'll turn their attention to them, flying up to them in a panic. Well, since there's a bunch of costumed heroes, she can get away with this.

"You have to help me-desu!" the fairy said. "She got caught by those monsters and now she's trying to turn others! I can't free her-desu!" it yelped, flailing in a panic.

Diadem Hotel

Okay, so, going home isn't possible. Yet. That's... not a problem at all. For right now, at least. There's a way, right? Either way, that means Tsubomi needs a place to stay and things to settle in. That means using that credit card.

But, there's no way it could be limitless. That would be a problem... if Erika were here. But, Erika isn't here. Not right now. So, she'll do things her way, heading for the mall and buying a few things for her hotel room - some change of clothes, some flowers to spruce up her room and something to eat.

"Eugh. Th-there has to be something better than American food, r-right?" Tsubomi asked, looking at the various restaurants. She'd ask Chypre for suggestions, but she's busy pretending to be a plushie. Secret identities and all that, right?

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Diadem Hotel

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"TSUBOMI!"

What was that you were saying about Erika not being here?

After catching sight of her best friend in the lobby, Erika had to do what Erika did best. Which was run over to Tsubomi and glomp her into a tight hug. Though with the everything that had happened with their arrival and the invading monsters and the fighting, maybe that was a little more justified than normal?

Either way, you're not going anywhere by yourself anymore, and Coffret just sighs from his place on Erika's shoulder. Little hard to pretend to be a plushy while, Erika is running full speed towards someone.

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Rikka Hishikawa | Dokidoki! Precure

[personal profile] wisdomslight 2022-11-07 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ONE MIND, ONE WILL.]

[Honestly, falling out of the sky wasn't that unusual for Rikka. Something that was ... honestly a little unnerving if she dwelled on it for too long. But she didn't! At least the landing was soft, even if she barely had a moment to get her bearings before things went to complete chaos.

The monsters came fast, and a flash of light gave way to the arrival of Cure Diamond, quickly using her increased strength to bound up to a better vantage point.

A small voice comes from the Lovely Commune on her hip now:]
Rikka, do you know what these are? They don't look like Selfish...

[Admittedly, there was well more than enough nightmare fuel in that last fight she could maybe argue that, but Raquel is right.] I don't know, but... we don't really have time to figure that out. We need to get down there and help those people!

[Then, well. That's exactly what she aims to do, leaping down into the panicked crowds and either trying to direct or calm people, or take the fight directly to the monsters themselves. Still, she hopes she's not alone here...]

[DIADEM HOTEL]

[After that whole mess, Rikka is... exhausted. She sort of just mechanically accepts the offer to stay at this hotel, and the offered credit card, but doesn't even make it to a room, collapsing onto a seat in the lobby and staring at a ceiling.

Things can't be easy, can they? She'll get moving eventually, but for now she's just going to sit there staring at the ceiling, a small blue dog fairy seated in her lap as she unconsciously rubs his ears, something that has a sort of calming effect for both of them.

She'll get moving. Eventually. And will be talkative if anyone pipes up, but for now, she needs to process all of... this.]
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Diadem Hotel

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[Don't worry, Rikka, you're not the only one exhausted by it all. However, Tsubomi just doesn't register who is there sitting there, just thinking there's someone who looks so zoned out like she is]

A-Are you okay? You look drained...

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wally west ⚡ dc comics

[personal profile] otherflash 2022-11-07 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
(1) ONE MIND, ONE WILL, AND A FLASH

[ wally learned long ago that the best way to keep your sanity as a superhero was to simply accept the craziness life throws at you. sometimes that craziness takes the form of a telepathic gorilla, an insane techno-wizard from the future, or in this case, nearly free falling to his death in what soon becomes a war zone.

it takes him less than a fraction of a second after the chaos starts for him to sprint into action; prioritizing whisking people away from harm while smashing some baddies along the way. for some time, he is nothing more than a blur of red and bluish-white lightning for the lucky few who can catch a glimpse of him.

that is until he begins to slow down, as if he's hit the worst case of runner's wall to ever exist, and after pushing himself for a few more minutes, it feels like there is nearly nothing left in his tank.

finding an alley that looks to be relatively safe for the moment, he comes to a sliding stop near the only other person in the area. aside from a few small tears in his suit courtesy of monster's claws, wally looks no worse for wear, though he is panting slightly with his hands on his hips.
]

You'd tell me if you were under the control of the enemy, right? It would be very rude for you not to tell me.


(2) IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN KING, WALLY WEST

My greatest desire?

[ wally bites the inside of his lip as he considers the question. the answer is obvious enough, it's the thing he has been missing ever since he escaped the speed force, but he hasn't exactly been forthcoming about it with his friends back home, much less wanting to admit it to his companion on this bizarre trek into the cornfields. ]

Are we talking about in general or right this moment? Because I could really go for a hamburger that's about the size of my head right now.

[ wally doesn't need to glance at his partner or the freaky spirit stalking about to know they probably aren't satisfied with that answer. ]


(3) WILDCARD

[ feel free to come up with a different prompt and/or pm this journal if you're unsure! ]
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1 Make that two Flashes

[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2022-11-07 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kid Flash had been doing a lot of mostly crowd control, one of the times when his scouts came in handy. It helped that the monsters, both fleshy and robotic, couldn't touch him at speed, but when he noticed another blur, he had to see who it was. He didn't expect the other to suddenly slow down, but he matches pace, stopping not too close.

His expression is...not great. He's trying to be pleased, but, honestly, the clues point to Wally, who isn't ever his favorite Flash. Their relationship is always complicated.]


Flash, I presume. New look. Get tired of the confusion with the one-in-the-cowl?

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Alice Yotsuba | Dokidoki! Precure

[personal profile] yotsubahime 2022-11-07 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[A | one mind, no plan]
-she's falling. Not even the usual, boring kind of falling, where something's broken out the floor she was standing on two seconds prior, but the exciting kind of falling, where something strange is happening. Alice's first instinct is to transform, right herself, and address the problem, but the ribbons of light in the sky dissuade her almost immediately, since someone else has powers and she needs to verify the situation first. So instead she spends more time working to right herself in human form, long dress billowing in the whipping wind, before she's snagged and pulled to safety. Alice opens her mouth to start asking questions-

Then the video plays, and Alice just blinks. Once, twice, thrice. Then the screaming starts, and she snaps into immediate awareness. Without knowing where she is or who might be watching, her powers are out, but she can help in other ways. Bodily dragging people and objects is probably the most obvious way, as she helps to move people out of the hospital and barricade doors, but as things get rougher, she has a visibly more desperate expression. It's not that she can't keep up, but that there are simply too many places she needs to be. Is she willing to take the risk...?

Other passing heroes or equivalent may be hailed for assistance by a teenage girl that looks like she needs more hands and is... not entirely unaccustomed to getting her hands dirty, but apparently not quite used to doing such in this manner. Whatever that means. And if she doesn't think anyone is watching, instead she'll whisper, uh, down to her handbag? "Lance? If you are up for it, I believe I need your assistance..." She doesn't look entirely worried, just tense, wary, eyes open for anything that might come her way.

[B | the diadem]
Some time later, it's a boneless Alice that sinks into a mercifully comfortable chair in the Diadem's lobby. She'll make it up to her room in a minute, she just needs to collect herself. It's been a wild day. It would be better if her friends were here, but she'll deal. There's a small, yellow bear plushie resting atop her head, lying between her hair buns, which would be cute and innocuous if said plushie didn't cling to her when she shifted. Her eyes drift closed for a moment, but she doesn't quite seem to actually take a nap. Just... feeling the world around her, and listening to the traffic in the hotel. Maybe she can learn something from all the people milling around.

Later that day, she's in the shopping district working through her shopping list. She can be seen moving through the boutiques and making assorted purchases, all slung effortlessly in one hand and under one arm, although as the afternoon goes on her posture sloooowly starts to list to one side, Lance eventually noticing before he rolls right off her head and Alice correcting herself with a quiet apology and a small smile. Meanwhile her free hand holds her smartphone; Alice is rapidly gaining familiarity with it, keeping track of what she's already bought and how much she's spent. Even if it's not her money, there's no sense in being wasteful. Tap, tap, taptaptap... "The growth of technology in this world is immense," she breathes quietly. "There are many things I could learn from this. I wonder what else I can find...?" Which is about when Alice begins to window shop a little more. If she is spending some else's money, well... it's research, right? Her arms are starting to get a little full, though, and she's standing in front of a video game store...

After a trip back to the hotel to drop off bags, she returns to the mall and heads to the toy store, where she and Lance are looking at what appears to be doll furniture... wait, no, it's actually the right size for Lance, so she might just be furniture shopping, but not for herself. She might be making the poor young person manning the counter a little uncomfortable, though. "Is there a version of this made with a better material? I don't believe this will stand up to more than a few weeks of use." It doesn't seem like anyone's made the connection to the plushie laying between Alice's hair buns, not wanting to get in the way. She also spends a minute or two outside a certain technology store, peering through the glass at the tablets and trying not to laugh in an extremely unladylike manner. She peers up at the logo above the glass, then back down to the gadgets, then up to the logo again. Then she shrugs, and walks in. Some minutes later she's back out the door with a new iPad, one of her spare hair clips latched around the handle because she can't let things go. "Now, I should find somewhere to do food shopping. I would prefer not to depend on hotel food if I can help it." There's a wistful note in her voice as she muses though; it still won't compare to eating at Mana's home. Or her own, but that's a special case.

[X | wildcard and notes]
((Okay, actually planning to app this month! I've got an idea how I want things to work, so it should be smooth sailing from here. Probably. I've reprised some of Alice's prompts from last month, so those are open again; if you were tagging her last month I'll be happy to pick those back up too. If you want to run something I didn't prompt out, grab me at [plurk.com profile] eternities and we'll figure something out! I'm pretty easygoing with this stuff, I'm just happy to be back in the hobby.))
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B.

[personal profile] heartthumpingexcitement 2022-11-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
A voice rings out as Alice is shopping...it seems someone has spied her from afar. As it comes closer, it becomes clearer, sounding like:

"...aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALIIIIIICE!"

And then that's when a bouncy, pink, and lively figure literally springs out and tries to grab Alice in the biggest hug she can manage.

"You're here!" Mana cries. "You're really here! I'm so happy!"
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ONE MIND, ONE WILL
a.
Heads up! [ no one gives the warning a half second before he lands in the middle of the crowd, right atop a controlled human's shoulders, prosthetic harpy-feet clamping down and forcing the figure to crumple. one foot yanks the helmet off, and he spins atop the metal device, knocking another helmet off and flinging it into a third person's face to make them stagger.

it gives him some space to check on the other figure fighting, tossing curls out of his face and increasing the pressure of his clawed toes so that they crush the flimsy metal beneath his foot. ]


Are you okay?

b.
[ after it's all over, the monsters dispatched and the humans freed of control, no one looks a little worse for wear. his face is bleeding pretty badly where claws evidently raked across it, and from the blood darkening his uniform top, he's probably also been stabbed at least once. he seems to be handling it fine, though, other than the slight irritation evident on his face when blood trails into his eyes.

a mechanical shudder crosses his arms, reconfiguring from weapons mode into seamless civilian metal once more, and he plants a fist on a hip, the other pointing to the biggest bloodstain at his waist. ]


Hey, do you know where I can get this bandaged up?


THE PUMPKIN KING
[ the bird-ish cyborg teen doesn't look particularly impressed as he picks out a mask and turns it between his metal palms. this whole thing sounds.. sketchy. ]

.. We can't just retire him? Maybe make a seidrtech copy that serves the same purpose? [ if he's going to keep being a problem year after year, after all.. ]


[ ooc; no one's WIP info is here for anyone interested! ]
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Pumpkin King

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[Qinghua picks up a mask of his own and glances over at the man, then does a double take. He'd seen plenty of crazy non-humans in his life. And he remembered quite a few sci-fi movies from his past life, too. But it was way different from seeing an actual living cyborg (or what looked like a cyborg) standing right next to him.

So cool]


Ah.... um...

[He stumbled over his words, tongue not wanting to cooperate with him as dozens of questions - many of them very inappropriate to ask someone he just met - raced through his mind. It took him a minute but he finally settled on a nervous sort of laugh as he replied to the question asked.]

Maybe he doesn't want to retire?

[One of the questions asked anyway.]

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Shang Qinghua // Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky | Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

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ONE MIND, ONE WILL

[Qinghua has two very effective strategies for dealing with danger: cling to the strongest person's thighs or play dead. The first ensured he was protected because he was too pathetic to kill. The second because everyone already assumed he was dead (or at least passed out) and thus not worth the effort.

So why was it that he found himself in a world where neither worked?!!

All of the monsters were mind-controlled by someone who wasn't even in this dimension so he couldn't cling to any of them! And when he'd attempted to play dead, several of them had tried to put something on his neck that would have made him mind-controlled!!

The only good luck he'd had so far was that the System was being much more useful than normal! It had even given him a warning that if he continued to play dead, he'd end up another slave to some guy called the Forerunner. What a terrible name. So uncreative. And it had then given him the option of 'do something heroic' or 'run away like a coward'.

He chose the coward option, of course. No need to put himself in further danger. But that also meant he was now at the mercy of whoever else was here to play hero.

Like that capable looking person over there. Qinghua ran to them as fast as his legs could carry him and slid to his knees in the last half so he could grab the hero-like figure around the waist and cry with mighty tears:]


Help! Please! I don't want to die!


[[OOC: if you have another scenario you want to do, go for it.]]
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1. The King's Shilling (One Mind, One Will) - [locked to the 1st person who takes the prompt]
[It's unfortunate that they're the first one to run into him like this. Because he is coming at this from a place of panic. All he knows is that the world fell out from under him, and he briefly passed out, then came to as he was gently caught by glowing ropes.]

[Somehow he's back in his armor. Somehow he also has his sword despite leaving it behind when he was captured by his sister. Somehow the people that were immediately around him, his friends, are gone. He's worried about all of them, of course, but he has his duty, so he worries about one of them the most.]

[That's why the sword is brandished in a way that looks well-practiced. His stance is strong, his form is nearly perfect. His expression suggest he absolutely would be willing to cut down someone if they're behind all this, have separated him from the others on purpose, and plan on malice towards the person Soren is willing to both kill and die for.]

[Unfortunately, being right there means Soren is going to assume this nearby stranger is behind this magical portal to a weird nightmare-scape full of strange buildings, metal monsters, people wearing cursed helms, and reality holes in the sky.]

Are you responsible for bringing me here? What do you want? And where are the others?!

[He's comfortable leaving Ezran alone sometimes because a guy's gotta eat and sleep and stuff, but always when he knows Ezran has other guards nearby, or people like Corvus, Callum, and Rayla. Soren knows they'd all throw themselves on a blade for him, just like he would - especially his brother Callum.]

[But if Soren got separated from the others, Ezran possibly did, too. He could possibly be in these dangerous streets with monsters, or trapped somewhere by whoever brought them here. Alone. Without Callum or Rayla or Zym. And without his crown guard.]

[He is not failing the king again.]

Where is he? Where's King Ezran?!

2. (Size-)Changing of the Guard (One Mind, One Will)
[It happens without Soren really thinking about it. It's trending towards evening. Since it's tied to the movement of the sun, his power is weaker and would've been much stronger mid-day.]

[...But it's still potent enough to let him grow 10 feet tall and start shoving aside mind controlled people like they're kids six grades behind him that he's bullying on the playground.]

I don't know what's causing this, but it's amazing!

[He is at least still focusing on doing good, even as he enthuses about these new powers, knocking people down (not too hard, just enough to stun them) and gently picking off their weird will-binding helmets with the palm of one hand, then throwing them down to stomp on them with massive boots.]

Do you know what this means? My entire life has been building up to this!

[He gets wistful, almost misty-eyed, over accomplishing a goal that's been at least 10 years in the making.]

I've finally achieved my lifelong dream: my powerful thighs being as thick as actual tree trunks.

[He realizes he's being overly focused on the deep wellspring of emotion he's feeling right now, so he apologizes. His voice is a little choked up.]

Sorry, I'm just going to need a second to stop being so emotional.

[The other guards had thought him mad! For doing leg day multiple times a week. And even though he acted confident about it, the truth was he didn't actually know all the hard work, sweat, and sacrifice would be worth it, at least not for sure. Worth it for the gains.]

3. In Shining armor (Near Diadem Hotel)
- Look, I did what I was supposed to do. I signed up with your guild of guards. So I was guarding!

[There's a disruption at the Walmart, in the electronics section. It's not on the level of "a man set fire to a bin full of pillows from The Emoji Movie while dressed in a see-through Spongebob onesie" but it was still pretty bad. This is because you tend to get in trouble when you yell at an employee that they're clearly doing dark magic, and try to pry off the front screens of all the televisions on display.]

[Soren is now handcuffed near a pile of destroyed TVs, with his hands behind his back, and seated on a few stacked boxes of products. He fortunately recognized these were other guards and surrendered without a fight, to try instead to just clear things up.]

[So now they're trying to work out what happened. One group of cops is talking to the flustered store manager and an electronics department employee who looks like this doesn't even rank on the list of the most exhausting things that ever happened to them in a Walmart.]

[Another is talking to the blonde 20-year-old who has his jaw jutted out in indignant disbelief that he's been accosted(!) by other guards and accused of a crime when he so clearly was trying to help.]

You didn't see it! There were little kids in all of them, and they were being forced to - to perform some kind of play! It was obviously some kind of dark magic, creating weird little mirror prisons. [Like one he's seen before.] I was just trying to get them out!

[It was different than, you know, his sister trying to break the greatest evil the world has ever known out of his weird mirror prison. These were just kids, they couldn't be guilty of something that deserved these nightmare prisons where they were forced to perform theatre for the edification of watching strangers.]

["You were trying to get them out...by smashing a bunch of TVs."]

I didn't smash them! That would've killed the tiny, tiny children. I was trying to pry off the front walls of their prisons to break them out, duh.

["With a sword."]

Of course it was with my sword. What else should I have used, a spoon?

[Judging from the looks on the police officers faces, the sass is not doing him any favors. But when you're the head of your country's version of the Secret Service, you tend to cop a teeny tiny attitude when some rank and file guards accuse you of petty vandalism.]

[(The nerve!)]

[He blows a lock of hair out of his eyes and frowns at the officers. The dark magic behind this - and also his pure intentions - should be so obvious.]

Seriously, what is wrong with all of you? I was just doing my job!

[Making this all worse: the outfit. Soren went to the store wearing his usual crown guard uniform and armor, and had wandered around goggling at the alien clothes, strange foods, and even stranger...blippy bloopy things and enigmatic contraptions in amazement. It had drawn a lot of attention. The police seem to be debating whether he's one of the Starfallen, or - judging from the conversation filtering out from a few of them - a completely deranged LARPER having some kind of psychotic break.]

["- the manager is saying it's not the first time they had a LARPER in here. They meet in one of the parks near here and do their weird playing pretend mumbo jumbo. Said they had to kick out some other loony for waving a sword around in store before."]

[The situation clearly needs some intervention - or at least someone telling Soren about the existence of Miranda rights.]
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[It's arrival time and there's a commotion in a store near the hotel... Probably means someone new is causing it. Maybe intentionally, maybe not, but it wouldn't hurt to check it out and maybe find out a little about a newly-arrived threat, or otherwise help someone out of a jam.

[Dana mingles with the crowd of gawkers and listens to the conversations for barely a minute before she's shaking her head. Poor guy. At least there might be something she can do.]

H-hey, has anyone called the Alliance yet? [She acts more nervous than she feels, as if she's just a concerned citizen making a suggestion.]

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[personal profile] believeinbelieve 2022-11-14 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
a. the Hotel
[ Not all that long ago, during a particularly rough bout of insomnia, Ted spent one night at Beard's flat and — to the surprise of neither of them — talked until sunrise. About sleep, mostly, and dreams of the unconscious and conscious kind, and Beard told Ted all he knows on the topic.

For a soccer football coach, he sure does know a lot.

But that's the case with many, many subjects, and Ted's gotta be honest, he's a little envious of Beard's sponge-like capacity for learning pretty much anything.

Anyway, one of the things Beard taught Ted that night is that the falling sensation you get when falling asleep is called a hypnic jerk, and it's caused, maybe, by all sorts of things. "Probably anxiety, in your case," he had said, making Ted frown. Because yeah, probably. "But," Beard added, "It happens to everyone, so, y'know, don't go feeling special."

What he meant was: Don't use this as a(nother) reason to be hard on yourself about your feelings.

So Ted is a little confused when he doesn't wake up from his latest hypnic jerk, and instead finds himself... somewhere, wrapped in sparkly ribbons, his face mere inches from the pavement.

Huh.

Some time later, after he's been brought up to speed (sort of; he barely remembers a thing he was just told on account of the whole you're stuck here message overriding everything else) and ferried to the swankiest hotel he's ever seen, he finds himself standing in the lobby, fingers flexing, looking bewildered.

If there's a good time to catch his attention, it's now. ]

b. the hospital

[ Chaos falls from the sky, literally, and Ted finds himself booking it toward the hospital. He's a lover, not a fighter; the best he can offer right now is several years' worth of first aid experience — and while holding a dislocated shoulder in place or bandaging a split forehead or finding a tooth lost on the field pitch isn't quite the same as whatever the fuck (ope, pardon the French) is happening here, it's still something.

Plus, if he focuses on helping others, he doesn't have to think too hard about the very real, very unfortunately not-a-dream, very terrifying events unfolding around him, and as far as he's concerned helping others is always preferable to having a nervous breakdown. ]


I'm not a doctor — [ He says to the first person he almost literally runs in to when he makes it inside, if they can make out his words through all the panting. ] — but I can help. [ A pause. ] I think. Gimme somethin' to do, I'll figure it out.
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hotel!

[personal profile] wordiness 2022-11-14 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ look, normally billy teleports wherever he needs to go--often into back alleys behind buildings these days, given sentiments in the city--but sometimes it's nice to just take a walk, especially when job-hunting. so he's coming back from one such walk, buttoned up in a coat and scarf against the chill, when he breezes through the lobby and spots a guy that looks.. pretty lost.

oh. he must have just arrived.

unbuttoning his coat as he approaches, he offers a quick, reassuring smile, unlooping his scarf and then offering out a hand. ]


Hi, I'm Billy. You just fell out of the sky, huh? I'd hazard a guess that it's not what you planned to do with your day.

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Yuzu Hiiragi | Yu-Gi-Oh ARC-V

[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2022-11-17 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
1) One Mind, One Will

Yuzu had already been thrown for a loop back home - mysterious boys that look like her friend, people trying to mimic said friend’s new cards and system, her own flaws and trying to surpass them…

And then she ended up falling into a strange new world. Well, one that looked like a normal world… except the monsters and robots attacking. She was lucky she had her Duel Disks and cards with her but what could they do against them?

Forget that, Yuzu, those things and those people are attacking the hospital! Yuzu mused to herself, rushing in to help those trying to barricade themselves in.

“Hey, you!” She shouted at someone. “Give me a hand, please! They need help getting safe!”

2) Diadem Hotel

Well, that was fun, but now it was time to relax and make sense of what’s going on. At least the people here knew what was going on. So… be a hero or a villain, huh? Being evil wasn’t her style, but maybe she was jumping the gun a little…

Right now, she needed to sit down and rest. It was all so much to take in and yet…

“Could I do good here? Do good here and get better at home?” Yuzu mused.

3) Excelsior

Robots on the rampage? How hokey! However, seeing them on the move made Yuzu want to watch them, thus she found a nearby tree and climbed up in.

“Sheesh, what kind of weird laws are they following?!” Yuzu uttered, watching. However, her own curiosity got the better of her as one robot spotted her and unleashed its klaxons, causing her to stumble off and hang off a branch by her shirt.

“Hey! Back off! Leave me alone! Don’t touch me!” Yuzu yelped, flailing as she tried to keep the robot away from her.
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[personal profile] greatairplane 2022-11-18 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably. Depends on what you mean by doing good."

Did some rando just walk up to her while she was clearly talking to herself and invite himself to the conversation? Yes. Absolutely.

Did she kind of invite it by standing in the middle of the reception area as she mused on her options? Probably not. But he's acting like she did.

He walks around her and flops onto the chair she was standing in front of and probably about to sit down in. It was the biggest and coziest. And now it had some random dude dressed like he walked out of a xianxia movie set sprawled across it.

"Personally, I think doing good is going to be a long hot bath once they finally get me keys to my room."

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Lana Baumgartner | Marvel-1610/616

[personal profile] bombshelled 2022-11-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ⓐ Central City/Diadem Hotel (cw: mentions of brainwashing/mind control)
[ Lana doesn't know what the fuck is going on. One minute, she was being whisked away from her first public appearance after getting released from C.R.A.D.L.E.'s reeducation center, after Roxxon's instigators attacked... The next thing she knows, she's somewhere completely different, with people under mind control, attacking hospitals. She just— can't deal with that shit right now. Maybe that makes her a bad hero, but she likes to think her therapists would have her back and tell her it's a good thing that she prioritized self-care in the face of a triggering event. She's still trying to retrain her mind out from under Roxxon's influence. She's not ready to get back out there as a hero yet.

So, she runs. She hides. Cowardly, maybe. But whatever.

After the dust has settled, Lana stands in the lobby of a fancy-ass hotel, holding a credit card that she's told has no strings attached. She's not sure whether to believe that. Maybe once, she would have rushed off to go on a shopping spree on someone else's dime. But it's hard to trust like that these days.

If she notices someone looking at her, she'll offer a weak smile, and gesture at the card. ]


So you really believe they won't make us pay them back for whatever shit we buy?


Ⓑ Excelsior
SINCE WHEN IS IT ILLEGAL TO EAT A FUCKING LOLLIPOP?!

[ The source of the yelling that just interrupted your day is a young brunette woman in a skull t-shirt and ripped jeans. Her protests don't seem to effect the robot enforcer cornering her, though. If anything, swearing at it is only going to earn her another infraction. The robot grabs her and hoists her over his shoulder, aiming to cart her off to whatever authority might be nearby. ]

Let me go, you metal asshole! I'm warning you!!

[ And then, there's the sound of an explosion.

She did warn him! ]


Ⓒ Network
@ bombgartner

OK, so what's the deal with the guild setup? is all this bullshit about needing to sign up legit? it stinks of forced registration shit, if you ask me. what are they going to do to me if my two months are up and I say no? arrest me? been there, done that. no fucking thanks.


Ⓓ Wildcard
[ Want to plot something else? HMU @ [plurk.com profile] millennialfalcon / ©hris#1234! Will match prose or brackets. ]
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A, HI LANA

[personal profile] nerdylilspidey 2022-11-17 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[If he's being really honest with himself, Peter has not felt terribly heroic over the last few months. He'd like to blame it on having a strange kind of identity crisis when he met not one, not two, but three different versions of himself from across the multiverse. It made him feel... a little inferior. Like he was an extra. Like... Like he's somehow less. And then of course two of those other Peters (and other friends he'd made) got whisked back to where they came from, and then this little piddy had a whole new kind of existential crisis on hand.

It's not been a fun few months.

So of course he's chosen this particular day to try to get back into the swing (ha. "swing.") of things. To feel like he could make Uncle Ben proud again. And he's done pretty well so far! Subdued and freed some of the people who were being controlled, brought them to safe spaces before jumping back into the fray to keep going. It's nice. He feels much more Spider-Man-y than he has in a bit.

It's on one of those back and forths that Spidey catches sight of a familiar face, ducked into a corner away from where all the craziness is happening. And naturally he stops, eyes widening behind his mask, before he starts to carefully make his way over.]


...Lana?

[There's always the chance he's wrong. Or maybe it's another version of Lana, one who doesn't know who he is. Either way, he's already made up his mind to help her out.]

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ONE MIND, ONE WILL
[ jon's a blue-and-red blur as he slams into one of the monsters attacking another hero's(?) vulnerable back, launching it into the air and away from the other figure. he turns toward them, then, hovering a few feet over the street as he rubs the back of his neck. ]

.. Sorry about that, wasn't sure if you saw it or not.


DIADEM
I'm sorry, what?

[ it's probably a little funny to see superman holding a black credit card like it's a piece of kryptonite, but to be completely fair, he grew up pretty modestly. he's not used to having what amounts to unlimited funds, especially not for personal use.

he turns the card between his fingers, brows arching with amazement. ]
This must be what it's like to be Bruce. [ what do you even do with this much money? ]


CENTRAL CITY
a.
[ look, he literally arrived in his uniform, and have you seen his uniform? it's skin-tight, there's nowhere to put civilian clothes. he only manages to get his phone into it because it slides into the top of his boot.

so, you know, he's doing his shopping in uniform. it's fine. people maybe don't like people with powers here, but jon's also basically invulnerable, so he'll be.. fine.

he holds up two shirts--one flannel, the other a long-sleeved t-shirt--and turns, blue eyes bright and earnest. ]
Which one do you think suits me more? I haven't really been shopping in a while. [ when does he have time? at home, even with his dad back, he's still busy, and he has a boyfriend now on top of everything else. ]

b.
[ or catch him after he's done shopping, perched on the roof of a building with a big iced coffee--jon, it's cold out, why are you drinking that--a basket of fries, and several shopping bags. the only thing that's missing right now is damian, really, and that gives him a pained pang to think of. they were just getting to hang out more often, and now he's in another new dimension.

and jay. god, what a mess. he hopes he doesn't think jon's just blowing him off. ]


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[ idk prompt me, i'm happy to react to whatever. ]
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[ Superman's not the only one doing his shopping in his superhero costume. Lana's lab coat at least has pockets, but it's still not all that functional, and she definitely needs chicken clothes so she can have some hope of being incognito. She doesn't know pretty much anyone here apart from Peter, so she isn't expecting someone to turn to her and ask for her opinion on shirts.

She turns to look, one eyebrow raising above her domino mask. ]


The t-shirt. Unless you're somehow going for the lumberjack look.

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[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2022-12-21 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
One Mind, One Will

[Getting dropped right into an army of robots and extradimensional aliens hadn't been part of Bouncing Boy's plan today. At least without some kind of warning first.

He's pretty quick to adapt, though. Soon the giant, costumed, rubber ball is is bouncing his way through the army. Not indiscriminately either, as he deftly angles himself to avoid both other heroes and mind-controlled citizens alike.]


Don't worry folks. The Legion's here to help!

Diadem

[Once the chaos dies down, Chuck has a little time to grab a shake and actually think about things. None of it's good. He's not in his own time. Grife, he's not even in his own timeline.]

At least if I was in my past I could try and leave a message...
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[personal profile] exponentially 2022-12-21 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Chuck?

[ it takes a lot of self-control not to just grab chuck and hug him, he's so relieved to see a friend, but he's unfortunately all too aware of the fact that this may not even be the chuck he knows. maybe he's from before they ever met, or from another dimension altogether-- he won't be the first person here that jon knows, but who doesn't know jon.

still, he's smiling helplessly, grateful to see him even if he's not the 'right' chuck. ]


Did you-- Did you just get here?

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Leonardo Hamato | Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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A: Pink Aliens Again (Confluence)

[There's a lot of things Leo is really tired of today. Pink aliens. Portals. Ugly monsters. Being conscious. That's just the short list.

For a second, when he was suddenly ripped out of the Prison Dimension and found himself falling, he thought his brothers had pulled off some kind of miracle, had found a way to save him after all. But now, laying on the ground, he knows that has to be wrong, because he'd recognize the New York City skyline anywhere and this ain't it. So either someone else got him somehow, or Mikey is at bad at judging portal distance as he used to be.

He'd love to just lay here and contemplate how his life got to this point, but there is a pink alien again (he's not claiming responsibility for this one, he just got here) and a lot of craziness happening and he should get up and... do the hero thing.

Which he does, slowly, except his body is one giant bruise and it feels like there are definitely more injuries than that. He's probably concussed? Hm.]


Alright, I'm... I'm up! Come at me, aliens or whatever, I want to get this over with so I can- [Cough, hack, cough.] Eugh boy, that sounded bad.

[At least he has one of his katana... somehow? No idea how he got it back, but he's got it out and... leaning on it like it's a cane oh lord why, if this is his pre-death hallucination he'd like for it to end now please.]

B: Was This Kid Raised In A Sewer (Diadem)

[Leo has been to exactly one hotel in his life and it's owned by a mafia boss who has serious beef with his dad, so staying there was never exactly a relaxing experience. Which is to say, he has never been to a place like this, but what he does know is it is swanky, and now that some nice healer has put his body back in functioning order he is going to take advantage of it.

Catch him at the hotel's restaurant surrounded by empty plates and flagging down a waiter.]


Ooo, okay, can I get another one of these virgin daiquiris, and can I try the creme brulee? [He is absolutely not pronouncing that second one right.

Or he may be outside the hotel's spa, staring at a piece of paper, before catching the attention of anyone in the vicinity.]


Hey, do you know which of these facial treatments puts the little cucumbers over your eyes? I've always wanted to try that.

[And no, he is... not making much effort to look human. He put on a shirt and some pants but that's about it. Whoops.]
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[personal profile] effiomsfavorite 2022-12-21 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Huvrye has absolutely no idea what this person - this kid, from the sound of it - is. He doesn't look to be in very good shape either way; if he doesn't get out of the way of the incoming abominid, what this kid is going to be is dead.]

[So Huvrye can either land and fight and hope they don't get mobbed, or he can grab the kid and hope the sudden movement doesn't make his injuries any worse. All terrible choices, so he goes with the one that's less likely to get them both killed. He swoops down, landing in a crouch behind the kid-]


We're leaving!

[-grabs the kid around the middle (which is not easy, but he's got long arms), and takes off again, hauling them both into the air.]

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