Kanaya Maryam (
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[OPEN] BABES IN TOYLAND
Date & Time: December 20th, 2013
Location: New York City!!!
Characters: HOLIDAY SHOPPERS. Please note that with mod approval, any character is allowed to have joined the mob in front of the transporter, regardless of whether they responded to the network post advertising this event.
Summary: In a bid to conserve energy, over a dozen transports do all of their Christmas shopping at once. I hope you brought money!
Warnings: None for now!
All the transports are dropped into New York at 6:00, simultaneously but scattered. Coding the drop points for this mission was hell.
It turns out that the weather is actually fairly mild on this date; there is snow neither in the air nor in the ground. That isn't to say there's nothing of visual interest: All the lights of the city are on at this hour.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was lit back on December 4th.

Shop until you drop, Transports.

Location: New York City!!!
Characters: HOLIDAY SHOPPERS. Please note that with mod approval, any character is allowed to have joined the mob in front of the transporter, regardless of whether they responded to the network post advertising this event.
Summary: In a bid to conserve energy, over a dozen transports do all of their Christmas shopping at once. I hope you brought money!
Warnings: None for now!
All the transports are dropped into New York at 6:00, simultaneously but scattered. Coding the drop points for this mission was hell.
It turns out that the weather is actually fairly mild on this date; there is snow neither in the air nor in the ground. That isn't to say there's nothing of visual interest: All the lights of the city are on at this hour.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was lit back on December 4th.

Shop until you drop, Transports.

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And it's great, isn't it? Though there's supposed to be a Roxxon building in midtown. It's tripping me up. [He gives a slight shake of his head.] Not that anyone wants them, but it'd explain the future evil stuff. If you knew who they were, anyway, which ... I bet you don't. [It's a lot of unnecessary babbling, but he does at least eventually catch himself.]
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Wouldn't miss it -- this is great. It's funny... never actually thought I'd like New York, but I always wanted to see it at least once. Like a bucket list sorta thing. [ He exhales and rubs his hands together, as if warming them. ] Is it a lot different than what you remember?
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Plus, as a pop culture joking teenager, he has to know these insignificant facts.
And then there's the fact that New York is always so unpleasant in movies. He pauses to think about it before shrugging it off.]
And it's different enough. There are a bunch of superheroes in my world, and some of them are business conglomerates. So you notice the changes.
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[ He can't even say from this thus-far-brief experience whether or not he likes it, but the experience itself is both pleasant and interesting. It's a change, anyway, from being stuck on the moon and then in a snow drift. A change he can appreciate. ]
What's that like, anyway?
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It might not be for everyone.
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It's almost with a laugh he gets out: ]
Yeah. Not for me, that's for sure. [ He shakes his head. ] Sometimes it's better relying on yourself then a masked stranger to save your ass -- uh, builds character.
[ Or something. ]
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[Which can stand for two things: he's not always able to help everyone, which he hates, and the Ultimates weren't exactly there for him when they left him with a bullet through his shoulder. Either way, he seems to be speaking from personal experience.]
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Can't imagine they would be. Just not how life works for anyone -- sooner or later everyone gets let down.
[ He raises his eyebrows and shrugs in an exaggerated That's Life sort of way so it doesn't seem necessarily as if he's speaking from personal experience himself. ]
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[ It's spoken innocuously enough; he appears to mull it over. His life has been, of course, the opposite of lucky for quite a while, but that's not something that will be as true for Doug Rich as it is for Wayne Malloy. ]
Can't complain. Nice house, good job, great family -- what else matters, right? Well... [ He waves a hand. ] Before. Dunno if I'd call it lucky.
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[At least, that's how he sees it. He doesn't want a normal life so much these days, but he always wanted things to go a little better, for him to be a little less picked on, for things to suck a little less. He would've taken it.
Of course, a spider bite happened and everything changed, but he still can take some simple things in life. He'll just be super responsible while doing so.]
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An unconsidered life isn't worth living.
[ He believes it. That struggle has been most of his life, not that it's even over now. He's only still a Rich to get rich... so he tells himself, anyway. ]
Better to be the guy calling the shots on it.
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I think I'm a little too young for that. [There, that's how he's going to save Doug from thinking he's some screwed up kid.]
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Well -- not saying you need to be in any hurry. Just for later down the road, last thing you want is to get out in the world and not know who you are. Know what I mean?
[ Maybe it only makes sense to him. ]
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Shouldn't be much trouble for someone as smart as you. Seems like you could probably do almost anything you wanted.
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It's a deep moment.]
I've got a job at a newspaper back home. The editor's really fond of me.
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[ Reporters aren't cops, but it's habit to be wary of either; he takes comfort in the fact Peter is a teenager and that there's nothing to investigate. ]
That's pretty good. I can't even talk my son into getting a paper route.
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Good thing he's not a photographer, right?]
But when I went in, I got a job working their website.
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Ah. One of those kinds of jobs. I kind of accidentally happened into a few myself over the-- when I was younger. Might be a teenager thing. [ Smooth recovery. A little quickly, he continues: ] So, are you buying presents? Not that I'd blame you just for sightseeing.
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Because New York City is only cheap when it's dollar pizza.]
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[ He could steal one, but there's really no way to justify having a working credit card. He tries to remember if he brought any of his petty cash along, or at least his wallet -- he might not have had as much as he came in with, but a few hundred dollars was enough. No sense in pulling out bills to count right out on the street, but he pats his coat pocket in confirmation. ]
But thank God for cash. Anything you need? Call it a gift -- don't have much else to spend it on.
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[There is a very big part of Peter that wants to say no to money, but he knows he can't. Not right now.]
Because if you are—I'll owe you. I don't like just ... taking. I wasn't raised that way, and I can already hear my Aunt May in my head disapproving of the very idea of it. But, y'know, a pay it back later thing. I can do that. Just ask.
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