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[personal profile] keywarding
Who: Holly [[personal profile] keywarding] & Danny [[personal profile] gogoghostpowers]
When: April 24
Where: The park by her house; close to LCHS
What: Magic! Dance Magic Dance

I was going to make a funny David Bowie pun but yeah- )
buildyourworld: (That's....)
[personal profile] buildyourworld
[ The post started off in text because it's the only way he can explain things without shoving it straight into his network friends' face, especially years long friends like Melissa and Celia. After two days of hiding himself away from everyone and finally letting the truth sinks in, he realizes there's no way the drastic change that happened to him isn't real. So with a resigned mood, he booted up his laptop. ]

So...
This might come as a surprise to those of you who knew and have seen me, Tieria, outside of the network.
Right after the broadcast, I received a pulse in the form of physical modification. Thankfully, I did not became an animal or any strange beings, however, the change is drastic enough that I no longer view keeping my appearance from the network necessary. I'm not sure how to explain it so I'm going to switch over to video to make this easier.


[ With a deep breath, he turns on the webcam. In place of his usual brown hair, amber eyes and 24 years old with a mild tan from having worked on the farm is his brand new Innovade body. He's spotting purple hair, red eyes and looks no older than 16 years old, with a skin complexion that would make any girl jealous on first sight. ]

If you have a heart attack, I'm sorry. [ He grimaces, adjusting his glasses in a nervous bout. ] To those who helped me out in my previous post, thank you. I'm no longer suffering from migraine the moment this change took place. So I supposed, there's something good about of it.

[ Sighing softly, he gives the network a weak smile. ] This is going to take some adjusting to...
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[personal profile] farewellmyshadow
[Michael has had his number for weeks and he's been testing it every now and then. Watching the Network had been something of a new past time because these were the guys that saved the city. Who wouldn't want to watch them talk? He just hadn't fully come to realize that he was actually part of it yet.

But, he was in need of their help now so he put on the feed. The fourteen year old looks into the camera not sure what to say at first. But deciding it was better to ask outright than to draw things out he'd ask.]

Excuse me! You're all the heroes that saved Locke City, right? Well I was wondering if I could ask for your help since your heroes and all.

[Aheming, he continues:]

You see my name's Michael and I'm looking for a man named Karl Aurion. Do any of you know who that is?
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (You asked to dance)
[personal profile] keywarding
who: Eugen [[personal profile] buildyourworld] & Holly [[personal profile] keywarding]
what: Eugen comes to collect on those cookies Holly offered.
where: Her house!
when: Saturday March 29th.
warning: just cookies... if cookies can be a warning

she said she'd bake him cookies and that's what she's done! )
labrador: (Default)
[personal profile] labrador
Who: Keith and Holly
What: Keith is getting good at chance meetings
When: April 1st
Where: At the park
Warnings: None!

some stars shine brighter )
bhk: (pic#)
[personal profile] bhk
you're the ones who fought in the city last weekend, right?

[He thought very hard about handing this number over to somebody. He scrawled it on the top margin of a wrinkled grocery store receipt; its words and numbers shifted like code into the Network. He has it in his hand while he writes this in the back of his planner for Locke Academy.

He would have said something about the receipt, if only he hadn't recognized some of the people on here. He's hoping this is some hoax or gaming forum or something. And maybe he's curious about how half of the city went to crap. Either way, it took a while to get himself to write anything down. This is really freaky.]


i found this on accident. [He's convinced, anyway. Because he's normal. 100% normal. Yup.] i'm not a news reporter. i just want the story straight and i won't bug you guys again.

was the snake one of you? someone said what happened was thundercorp's fault. what actually happened?


[There are way too many theories and versions of what happened floating around the city and the internet. He can't get a clear picture anywhere. If this is Superhero Martian Robot or Whatever HQ, he may as well try to get the story straight from here.]

[ video. ]

Mar. 13th, 2014 05:33 pm
enchants: (ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴘᴏᴜʀ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟғ ᴀʟʟ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴇ)
[personal profile] enchants
[ Obviously there's a struggle to hold the camera still. Two potentially familiar voices are in a scramble. Not that they just ran away from the hospital without formally checking Cat out of it. No one is really prepared to get a screen full of angry hamster face, but here it is regardless, overlaid with voices of sheer panic: ]



Holly! Holly! You don't understand! HE'S GOING TO MURDER ME! Look at his face! ... Can pudgy little cheeks look pissed off like that? Because he does and that's just freaky! You can even tell it's him.

[ Cat rushes into the camera view, blocking out the sight of the very annoyed rodent. He's clearly trying to balance this camera phone in his left hand and it's not the smoothest ride, but for now he'll cart it around with him as Holly and Cat attempt to contain the troublemaker.]

Okay, network. I.. could use some pretty urgent advice here. I just turned Skyler Veracruz into a— that's a hamster right? [ Cat turns away from the camera a moment to get Holly's mumbled confirmation, before turning back. ]

—Yeah, a hamster. Anyone familiar with magic... or .. hamsters. Just send a video or text or I'll meet you somewhere with him —Holly, where'd he go?

[ Another several moments of chaos pass as the camera jostles around before Cat's face pops back into view, Holly's head popping up behind his shoulder, trying to contain hamster Skyler from scrambling. The hamster looks positively dejected now. The look of disapproval is quite strong here, folks. ]

I'm hoping he'll calm down soon... Holly's already tried to change him back, if anyone has any clue how to take care of a .. human hamster... [ Okay, even Cat is starting to chuckle and laugh. After all Skyler has been a constant bully in the hallways for several years. If he'd known who was tagging along with Holly he might have declined the visit. Let's just pass the camera over to Holly for now. ]

Oh um- Skyler stop wiggling so much I don't want to drop you what if they have a cat here?- Yes um- Help would be great! Why does this always happen to me?

[ Cat cuts back in a moment later: "Here, hand him back to me." He'll have to hold the hamster between his cast and good hand meanwhile. Holly takes over the video again while Cat pokes at Skyler's chubby cheeks in the background. ]

Please help!

[ Just before the video cuts off you can hear Cat chuckling, "I think he looks better this way!" ]
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (017)
[personal profile] keywarding
[It's Holly again! This time without questions! Behind her is a living room, a brunette boy is running around behind her and there is definitely smoke in the house.

No fire alarm yet though.]


So! I found out how to use the card! It just-

[From behind her Skyler's voice can be heard. "Aaaw - I - Holly, could you tell it to stop wandering around. I was just through here a second ago." Her head turns to look for the card, the fiery form of a boy appears behind her as she looks away from it.]

I'm not really sure it listens to me? Ah! Um! Please don't go near the couch Firey, please?

[The view of her video goes to the couch more, the fiery figure floating above the couch with a mischievous look on it's face.

Skyler's voice comes again, this time closer. "... It's not listening. Yo, buddy, seriously? I will stick you in a car wash and pay for the longest cycle, I swear to god." The card hovers before heaving a sigh and quickly there's a bit of a flash of light before it reverts back to it's card form and floats across the room over to Holly who sighs in relief.]


Thank gosh. Oh oh, the curtains, Skyler! [It seems they reignited just before the card switched forms, maybe one last trolling before giving up?]
theearth: (PRETENTIOUS STATUE TIME)
[personal profile] theearth
Who: OPEN.
When: March 9th, Sunday, daylight hours.
Where: The business district of Locke City.
What: An enormous snake monster is pissed.
Warnings: Violence.

[The alien explodes silently - but it explodes.

First in a small cloud of hot (rose-scented) gas - those there to watch its final moments will want to step back.

A ripple in the air pulses - heavily - from where it once was, with absolutely no sound and color, but penetrating force. Anyone standing within two miles of the point of origin will feel a push, with those closest guaranteed to be knocked off their feet and temporarily dazed. Cars swerve and crash. Staff in the nearest office buildings launch into disarray. There’s no shielding from the blast - it can be felt through walls, through structures, in the air, and underground.

And it is felt underground.

The entire business district starts to shake, abruptly, jarred to a stir by some movement. It rises over the span of a long half-a-minute to the magnitude of December’s earthquake.

Tuning Towers experiences the worst of it - windows are smashing and objects are shaking loose and falling from the upper floors.

It finally ends - with screaming - as the head of an enormous pink snake breaks the lobby floor.

It flows its way quickly out of the hole it’s made, breaks itself another hole ever so politely through the main entrance doors, which were not meant to accommodate a twenty-foot-tall-and-wide exitor, and as it draws the last of its tail out after it, the quaking dies down.

It’s now roaring its way through the streets of Locke City’s business district - all several hundred meters of Wise Snake, emerged in the flesh (or stone?).

No regard for the walls of buildings, streetlamps, civilians, stopped and blindly pulled-over vehicles, anything else on its course - in a frantically-awakened, unrestricted rampage.]



[ OOC: This is part two of the Season 1's finale. The first - the assault on the farmhouse - is here; pertinent plot posts one and two. ]
strikeraid: (pic#6229132)
[personal profile] strikeraid
WHO: A cyborg ([personal profile] strikeraid), a magical girl ([personal profile] keywarding), half a ghost ([personal profile] gogoghostpowers), and a psychic ([personal profile] needsmorezippers) walk into a mall...
WHEN: Backdated to Wednesday, 02/26.
WHERE: Mall. The Mall.
WHAT: A punchline to the joke that will hopefully involve a slap heard 'round the world.
WARNINGS: Actual death threats. As usual, Skyler is his own warning.

and i don't hold my tongue and i don't back down to no one )
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (She sings a simple song)
[personal profile] keywarding
[It's Holly again, she's sitting in her room, the camera showing her sitting on her bed with a window behind her that's shut but the curtains are pulled open. She smiles quickly in greeting.] I have a question for any magic users on here.

How do you use it? Do you use spells? Wave a wand? I'm pretty sure I was a witch or a sorceress or something, and I have some things that could be used for it but- I'm stuck on the how.

Any help would be great!
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[personal profile] duette
[ For a moment, the video opens on a topsy-turvy blend of skyscraper angles and sky. The owner of the phone has it pointed straight up, and the image shakes violently. From off-screen, there's a wash of brightness obscuring the lens. And the sound of glowing. Does glowing make a sound? Well, it sure does now. #ANIMULYFE

It steadies very briefly, and the owner manages to choke out a sort of awful whine-hiccup-sob noise.
]

— I... I need help. R-Right now!

[ A familiar voice, even as she has to grind the plea out, because haha, asking for help. She manages to turn the phone on herself; Harper is on the other end, but there's remarkable differences. First, she's lit up like the fourth of July. Her hair is flowing out behind her, several feet of it, and she has one arm protectively clutched over her chest, where the source of light is coming from. Some kind of brooch, spewing out incandescent white ribbons that she's trying to prevent from getting all over the place. It's not working very well. When she opens her eyes to finally address the network directly, they're insanely bright, edged in tears.

But make no mistake, Harper isn't sad. She's pissed.
]

This thing won't stop glowing, and — I-I accidentally hit someone and broke his face, just a little, but I didn't mean to! I'm really, really strong... [ She winces as the light circles her head, poofing a cute ribboned headband out of nowhere. It does not help her stay calm. ] ...and I don't know why! I don't know anything, if someone saw me like this, o-or why I'm glowing. Oh my god, am I radioactive? What do I do?!

[ Her lip quivers. Never has someone sitting in a pile of magic ribbons and glitter looked so miserable. ]

I want my brother... now!

[ Cure Rhythm, everyone. ]

Text;

Feb. 16th, 2014 12:42 pm
bravelyspoken: (ϟ 41)
[personal profile] bravelyspoken
You know, I've never been a part of a secret society before. Never really been in the cool club at all, to be honest. Bit weird finally making the grade!

The question is, if we're all as fancy and special as everything here implies, do we get special code names and everything? You know, like proper superheroes would? Apparently there's no hazard pay involved, so some sort of perk would be great.

I draw the line at costumes. Not sure I'd look good in spandex.
moonlitblade: (What a day...)
[personal profile] moonlitblade
[The writing is a little more harsh than the last time it showed up on the network, a little more halting, but it's steady enough.]

Does anyone here know how to use a sword? I got one back from a pulse, but the martial arts I know aren't really enough to use it. I think I need someone to show me how to use this thing... I don't want to hurt someone by using this before I'm ready.

And, uh, Holly... we might need to talk. I've been trying to work out some of the things from that last time, and... I don't really know what to think.
comparative_insanity: (Your laws do not compel me)
[personal profile] comparative_insanity
 [At first the camera doesn't show Fay, since he hovers out of view for a moment, to the left judging by his voice.]

Ah, so... Something a bit unpleasant happened a while ago while I was helping out a friend here on the network. That is to say, not in the actual helping out - though it got a bit dramatic there for a moment - but I got another of those pulse-thingies back.

[An off-screen sigh, and then Fay sits down in front of the camera. Notice anything different? Well, probably if you've ever seen him before. He's wearing some cloth over his left eye.]

Or rather, one of those pulse-thingies took something from me. My eye, to be precise.

[He's still smiling, but it's clearly more a reflex than anything, because he certainly doesn't look happy.]

The vampire thing seems to compensate a bit for the loss, but I'm still not jumping for joy, you know? I should've expected it, considering I remember someone eating it, but... well, it's not the sort of thing you can prepare for.

So I'm just wondering... I mean, the whole point with these things has seemed to me that we're still supposed to get things we didn't have before, not... lose things that are kind of useful to have, right? So has this happened to anyone else?

[CLOSED]

Jan. 27th, 2014 07:58 pm
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (Will you break)
[personal profile] keywarding
Who: Holly [[personal profile] keywarding] & Jovan [[personal profile] grannyfucker]
When: 01/27/14, after school
Where: Some cute cafe near the Locke City Middle School
What: Out for their 'date' aka hot chocolate at a cafe

hot chocolate and a meeting of the recently once-deceased )
scramasax: (Default)
[personal profile] scramasax
Who: Anthony Janvier and OPEN on the 23rd; Harper Sutherland, Reilanin Bainbridge, and Angeline Strauss on the 23rd and 24th.
Where: Around Locke, rounding a park and ending at one grocery store on the 23rd; the library and Angeline's place of work on the 24th.
When: Backdated to Jan. 23rd to Jan. 24th; midday to evening.
What: The resident zombie is, courtesy of Master Nine-Lived Detective, perfectly alive again for a few days. What better way to spend them than outside a bit, running a few errands?

23rd - Open! )
23rd - For Harper )
-----

24th - For Reilanin )
24th - For Angeline )
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[personal profile] needsmorezippers
[It's been about a week since Neku's almost fatal run-in with Skyler, and he's still hella suspicious. He's been looking into what information is available on the Blood Keys, and while the idea that Skyler's just a robot in his past life is plausible.... yeaaaah he's not sure he's buying that. But that might be some wishful thinking on his part. Plus, he pretty much has no proof unless he wants to tell someone what happened. Which he doesn't.

Instead, now he's focusing on the only other bit of information he's gotten off the teen, in hopes it'll explain some things. It should, considering how obsessive the guy was over it. Neku, however, is smart enough to realize that he doesn't want to get into that situation again. Luckily, he's an artist, and artists can sometimes approximate other people's handwriting. So, in order to throw the trail as far from him as possible, he posts to the network anonymously, not with his usually typed text but with a flowing, rather girly handwriting.]

Does anyone know a girl named Ari?

[Video]

Jan. 13th, 2014 06:17 pm
[personal profile] two_stones


[Something seems different about Elly today. Even besides the new hat she's wearing.]

Hi, Elly here. I know that there's all sorts of important things going on, but I just need to get something off my chest. A dark secret that I've been harboring for years, but which I can hide no longer.

The truth is, I never wanted to go to med school, and will be leaving immediately in order to follow my true calling: Becoming a published romance novelist.

Yes, indeed, I've actually been writing my first book, titled The Red-Stained Lips of Passion. While the medical world will no doubt mourn the loss of this student, I am confident that my name will spread across the world of steamy, thrilling prose and all those who crave it.

Now, I will leave you with an excerpt from my soon-to-be-best-selling novel... )

[CLOSED]

Jan. 2nd, 2014 11:53 pm
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (054)
[personal profile] keywarding
Who: Holly ([personal profile] keywarding) & Skyler ([personal profile] strikeraid)
What: Holly & Arielle had a playdate but me thinks she's going to stumble on a secret
Where: The Veracruz Residence
When: Forward dated to January 6th | Afternoon
Warnings?: Holly might smack someone in this.

Where did everyone go? )
sugarslice: (19; i'm your wonder maid)
[personal profile] sugarslice
Who: Angeline, open!
When: Saturday, December 28th, ~5PM (sunset, or thereabouts)
Where: Locke City
What: Anthony's video post gave Angeline an Echo in which she, too, became a zombie, albeit temporarily.
Warnings: Zombieness, possible cannibalism (probs just nibbles.)

[ after anthony had pointed out her newest echo, angeline ran out of the coffee shop she'd been chilling in like hell was on her heels. she kept her head low and hooded, and her hands gloved, such that it wouldn't be terribly obvious that she was, in fact, a zombie at first glance.

she may:
- literally run into someone
- be waiting at a bus stop
- ??? i have no idea, i'm playing this by ear ]


OOC: SOME USEFUL INFO )
[personal profile] substitutable
All right. I've spent the last few days lurking on this network trying to get an idea of what this is and the only definite conclusion I've drawn is that it's best not to ignore it.

Apparently I'm going to be getting a lot of "flashbacks" to an alternate-universe or alternate-timeline or pre-incarnation self's life and sometimes I get souvenirs from it. Also there are people trying to find and cause trouble with the people in this network and Thunder Corps is to be watched out for? That's the general idea I'm getting.

Anyway, I'll go by Shin here. I'm a week in to this "Numbers Club" thing and all I have so far is a memory of beating some stranger at a 1P shooter game. And possibly a bottle of Coca Cola. Nice to meet you all I guess?
centurian: (human ✮ damn if I know)
[personal profile] centurian
[ The whole thing was completely unbelievable, there was no doubt about that. Who would've thought that typing random numbers into your phone after a search for cough syrup would turn up an untraceable network filled with what looked like bunch of crazy people? At least, calling them "crazy" seemed like the most likely conclusion. It occurs to him that he really should be doing his job, but sheer curiosity kept him looking through the posts.

Besides, it could all be related to his assignment. Somehow (okay, that was maybe reaching just a little, but what exactly can a guy do?). So, he begins to type on his phone, not quite sure what sort of person will turn up. ]


So let me guess: This is all an elaborate viral advertising campaign for cough syrup, right?

[ Well crap. Sarcasm doesn't quite translate that well through text, now does it? Still, it seemed like the better option than broadcasting either his face or voice, where (to the right person) he might as well just say "FBI agent here! Ask me about my entire life". ]

Unless any of you have a better explanation. Because from where I'm sitting, cough syrup advertising still looks a lot more likely than "aliens" and "robots".

[ Still, as they always say, sometimes "the truth is stranger than fiction". ]

[CLOSED]

Dec. 29th, 2013 01:35 am
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (So I call your name)
[personal profile] keywarding
Who: Holly ([personal profile] keywarding), Banagher ([personal profile] argents), Elly ([personal profile] worldmother) & Ethan ([personal profile] moonlitblade)
When: December 21st, afternoon (backdated)
Where: Out and about Locke City
What: While shopping for some last minute presents a run in with the Blood Key's gets ugly and Holly gets herself a pretty ... pink weapon?
Warnings: Violence, adorable present shopping?

Wonderful day for some last minute shopping. )
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[personal profile] poisonousflame
off-network )

[The screen is dark, camera currently covered by a hand. When Axel speaks, his voice is calm and measured.]

Alright, Numbers Club. Let's see if any of you know.

[The hand moves, and the camera struggles to focus on ... something. It's not human, that's for sure. The combination of bad lighting and a slightly shaking camera makes it a little tough to see, but eventually, the creature comes into view. It bobs gently, appearing to be floating slightly above the ground. The four blades on each arm look like they're colored slightly different than the rest of it.

[Look closer: it's blood.

[Axel speaks again. Despite the slight shakiness of his hand, his voice is still stubbornly calm.]


What the fuck is this thing?

o2. video

Dec. 28th, 2013 11:11 am
[personal profile] worldmother
[The feed comes on to a certain redhead. She looks frazzled to say the least, and a bit irritated to boot.]

I have a question. Has anyone gotten an item from an echo that won't go away? Or, I guess in this case, is stuck? Because I woke up with this--

[The video moves and focuses on her left hand, where a very modest ring sits on her ring finger. It's pretty obvious from how red it is around it that she's been working to try to get it off.]

And I've tried just about everything I can think of and it will not come off. It's too tight. I don't even know where it came from. I can assume, but I have a party to go to in a few days and I really don't want to explain to my college friends that I didn't suddenly get married over break.

[She huffs slightly.]

How do I get rid of this thing?

audio

Dec. 16th, 2013 08:41 pm
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[personal profile] reincarnationception
So with all of the nastiness going around, I figured now is a good time to get in shape and learn some self-defense. I've been taking Judo since I was a boy so I know a few tricks that have practical application. Furthermore, I know some good exercise programs, ones that can be done in the safety of your home or in populated safe areas, I usually jog around LCU for example. Is anybody interested? I'd like to get a few people going, it's more fun and worthwhile in larger groups.
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (Will you break)
[personal profile] keywarding
Is everyone okay? I tried to call but I keep getting busy signals.

Ethan, Elly? Banagher? If you need anything, my parents said it's okay if a friend spends the night.

OPEN LOG

Nov. 23rd, 2013 11:53 am
angelskills: (« somewhere beyond the mind)
[personal profile] angelskills
WHO: Colette and YOU! And you, and you. And why not, you too.
WHAT: Open tea parlor log! Come and get some delicious tea and glorious CR.
WHEN: Anytime within the past two weeks? If you'd like a specific date just throw it in the subject line.
WHERE: Posies Tea Parlor! Located near LCU, about 5-10 minutes walking distance.
WHY: Let's make some FRIENDS or something.

once you've met someone, you're always connected )
flamberge: (sagacity -- always a teacher)
[personal profile] flamberge
Who: Holly Avalon, Richard Locke
When: 11/22 late morning
Where: Locke City High
What: A cute, lost grade schooler runs into a scary high school chem teacher.

or at least the cuter ones! )

[Video]

Nov. 21st, 2013 12:06 am
keywarding: <user name="crysella" site="livejournal.com"> (Let it be)
[personal profile] keywarding
[The image settles on a girl who looks about fifteen with brown hair that falls around her face easily. She's staring at the camera which is her phone before her eyes go round in shock.]

Oh my god it actually worked!

[Glancing around her room quickly, she makes sure her door is shut. It looks like her room. A few trophies sit on the wall behind her, a small window open to the outside with yellow curtains fluttering the breeze.]

So this- this is really happening huh? The numbers and weird memories? Well- [She takes a breath and waves.]

Um... hi?