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So Familiar a Gleam: Start

JINNJAR CITY

"Welcome to Jinnjar City! A city famed as the central power of all of Diagad, and where the magic happens. It has a big history: the birthplace of the first Heroes Association that led to the creation of the Interstellar Justice Alliance, the protectors of the universe. Compared to other places, Diagad's what many people call a superheroes world, but that isn't true. A lot of us don't have the crazy powers that some of the popular folks have! And people like me? We don't care about saving the world! I'm just trying to make it through school, hang out with friends. Live my life!

People tell thousands of stories about us though, and that I can be proud of. When other planets call for help, it's us that comes running to their aid. Our heroes put their lives on the line for anyone who needs a hand, and sure, I don't count myself one of them... but I want to share their story anyway.

Well, I don't need to be telling you about this city, do I? You're a part of it! Always have been, just like me. So I should talk about some funny stuff that's been going on lately instead…”

A TL;DR notes version of days/prompts: (click to show)

EVENT BASICS: Un-apped AU characters were taken 1 week before the event from their own worlds, their minds altered to believe they were always from Jinnjar, Diagad. They have a superpower because of this and a new life either living alone or with family (other NPCs or PCs). Go to the OOC post for more info.

DAYS ONE-TWO:

Strange streams of colour in the sky have appeared, and looking at them for too long causes strange headaches. At this point you’re not sure what they’re about, but you can investigate them. However, trying to get right close to them is impossible. You will never get high enough. Regardless, let us know if characters will be investigating anything!
Voidtreckers arrive, be on the lookout. People are excited about finding these infamous criminals, and may be bothering those wearing peculiar watches, or the colours of Blue, Red, Purple, or Orange. You might be one of them: the bothered, or botheree. Many games or movie criminals are some adaptation of these Voidtreckers. A lot of people are worried they’re behind the phoenonem in the sky.
Nevertheless, people will still have their own lives to deal with, regardless of worrying events. Play around with what job your character has, if they’re in school, what work they do; if they’re drawn to a night life or just hanging around wherever they like. Characters not used to technology in-canon may find themselves having trouble with this world (despite believing they’ve always lived here).
Some of the Voidtreckers who are most resistant to illusions and mind control will be breaking out by the end of the first day. They will have to lay low and plot in secret, figure out how to make contact with others. The SCA comms do not work.
Other Voidtreckers might begin having dreams about their past by day 2-3.

DAYS THREE-FOUR:

Those who have been brought to the world begin to dream of their real and past lives, if just in very small and confusing snippets. Some of those dreams may bleed into reality, and people may start to recognise absolute strangers, but don't quite always know why. This is stronger for Voidtreckers than 4th wallers.
Random electronics seem to be glitching in odd ways, particularly the training centres, which lock people in together, even random strangers. Mostly it's harmless and more of a pain. People also swear they think they see the tops of buildings 'glitching' or colouring out. People have been speaking about pets going missing on walks, though the zoos and such are mostly fine, save for some of the higher up bird sanctuaries.
More of the Voidtreckers and some of the more resilient guests will begin realising the reality of the place they find themselves in. That this is not their own world at all.
The propaganda of the city starts to escalate, warnings about the dangerous voidtreckers and reminding people of how great the city is.

DAYS ONE & TWO: SLICES OF LIFE

"This is an emergency broadcast to everyone in Jinnjar City. At 08:00 today, a breach into the city was attempted by the invading force known as the Voidtreckers, who have tried countless times before to take over Diagad for themselves.

While it's believed the group was resisted, citizen are advised to watch out for anyone acting suspiciously in the city, and to watch out for this emblem. Please call the D-F-O-R-C-E hotline if you see anyone you suspect of being an intruder!

Remember to keep low altitudes while we deal with the phenomenon above."

[ RAINBOW SKIES. ] "Everyone's been speculating about what's been going on up above. About a week ago, these long streams of twisting colours suddenly spread through the purple skies of Diagad, rainbow colours inking the clouds. They've been growing out, like merging with the sky itself, and news broadcasts have been telling people not to worry. But what even are they? They say that looking at them for too long causes headaches, while some swear up and down they've seen things in them! I've heard a couple of friends talking about investigating them, but I dunno..."

▷ Twisting streams of colour are becoming exposed in the sky, and indeed, those who look too long high up will find themselves receiving headaches and dizziness. They’ll fade once you look away, but those who do decide to investigate by getting close will experience a tug, as if something yearns to take them somewhere. There will be patrolling Heroes - this world's equivalent of police - keeping an eye on things. Maybe your character is one of them, or posing as one. Maybe your character wants to learn more about what these are. Regardless, they won’t be able to get significantly close to the streams no matter how high they aim.

[ THE VOIDTRECKERS. ] "Gossip is HOT about these Voidtreckers. I remember seeing a movie about them once, based on something that happened years ago. They tried hacking their way into taking over a dyson sphere being built - like a giant structure around a star. There's other stories about them too, but are they really the ones behind this? Who are we even meant to be on the lookout for? I don't know... I'm kinda spooked. But do they seriously ride around in a flying train?"

▷ You've heard about the Voidtreckers, whether you remember stories about them or not. Are you bothered about them? The news broadcasts say they got rid of them - then why are they asking people to look out? And what are you supposed to look out for? On top of the emblem, there's chatter going on about watching out for people wearing strange devices on their wrists, and wearing colours of Blue, Red, Purple, and Orange.

Will you defend your city from these mysterious foes? Be smart about it, or rash? Or maybe you're interested to know more for your own deeds… whether or not they’re the Voidtreckers of tale, they may have resources for furthering your own goals.

[ LIVING YOUR LIFE. ] “But nevermind all that! Life’s about having fun and hanging out with your friends too. I work part time, but I’ve got plans after my shift’s done! Doing some shopping, going to see a movie. I can’t stress out about the funny stuff going on. And I heard the new waiter in my favourite cafe is suuuper cute!”

▷ Despite the few anomalies going on, you still have a life part of Jinnjar City. You have a job filled with devices that you’ve been surrounded by all your life, or certainly longer than a week or, so you know how to work a coffee machine, right? You know how to drive an air taxi!

And where would you take one to? To anywhere: to the gym, one of the training centres, a spa, to the movies - normal things that everyone around the city have always been around. Meet up with some friends for fruit smoothies, or watch one of the shadow displays held by the Georgi’s Gang around every street, putting on shows to mesmerise and delight the kids.

Or how about buying your groceries to take back to your apartment or house? You know what all these fruits are! Right? Right?

… … maybe it’s produce from another planet.

DAYS THREE & FOUR: JUST ANOTHER NORMAL DAY

[ DREAMS. ] “Dreams are just dreams, but a lot of people have been talking about them. Like, really being disturbed by them? Not in a creepy ohhh a monster’s coming for me! way, but like, they say they see worlds they swear they’ve been to before. Or see people? I wouldn’t really think about it except, there’s this guy… not like a super cute guy, but someone I think I knew…”

▷ Talk about dreams have been popular lately, though not everyone has them - or, not right away. Sometimes people may be at work, in school, doing nothing in particular when a name (important to their real self) appears in their mind, a flash of scenery. Coming as quickly as it goes. They don’t know what it means, if it isn’t just a symptom of the latest weird gossip influencing them.

But it sticks with you, something you can’t completely dismiss. But surely it’s nothing - right?

[ ANOMALIES. ] ”Just what we need! My friend’s dog’s gotten lost! She was taking him for a walk, and then she just says he went running ahead, and poof! Disappeared! Maybe he saw a cat? He’s always been a lazy chubby thing, but even dogs can’t help themselves, I guess…”

▷ The colours in the sky seem brighter today, closer...but it’s difficult to say for some, unless you’re actively studying them. Sometimes when you look above, you might catch - if just for a second - the tops of roofs glitching out, corners or streaks erased, colours meshing with the walls. You think it might be the light or your eyes, as it never lasts long, and even standing around waiting to see it happen again won’t give you what you want.

You may have other things to worry about than tricks of the light. Animals have simply been...disappearing, and always the ones owned, or particularly birds that fly around freely. People will ask you for help, and it’s weird they need to. Most owners have a tracker chip and app, and either apps show a blank map, or show them just standing in place...a place that when you get there, is nothing, no one.

[ TRAINING CENTRE. ]
“Really though, other than the weird sky business and how jumpy the news has made everyone about the Voidtreckers, the only odd thing that’s been up is some weird stuff happening at the training gyms. Even I saw it! I was just doing my warm-ups for the day when the field I set it to, the sky...these shapes suddenly appeared, dark and looming. It seriously creeped me out. But it’s just a glitch, right?”

▷ Young or old, the training centres around the central district are a popular spot for everyone to give their powers a safe space to be unleashed. While there’s basic simulations that’s free for everyone to use, people can be personal trainers, or even run group sessions in the bigger rooms.

Sessions aren’t always linked, since getting private training is allowed. However, lately, people keep getting jumped into other’s sessions, and can’t get out until they finish the routine. Sometimes they’re simple, where you need to destroy building block-esque cubes, or superspeed through courses twenty times. But then there’s also story modes, such as…

Castle Defence: Help protect the castle of Erna from the tricky Voidtreckers! They’re trying to storm the castle, and the world needs your power to help keep them away. Difficulty is based on the amount of people present, and speed of the individual. Do you turn things green? Then turning a Voidtrecker green will make them pop! Good job!

Kama Aid: Floating spheres have been lured inside a giant 3-tiered labyrinth ball. You must help the spheres - come in optional people-shaped or even cute animals - be released back outside where the air is fresh. Use telekinesis to tilt the tiers like a ball tilting game, or use super-strength to destroy the different tiers!

Dia Mysteries: A theft, vandalism, maybe even a murder. The crime scene is locked down, and something is afoot. Use your telepathy to gain information from the suspects, sneak into a secure area under invisibility... the solution is yours to find in this investigative simulation.

[ A PSA or Six. ] ”Stay vigilant citizens of Diagad. Please report any suspicious behavior to the DFORCE force.”

Announcements blare from speakers on public transport. Adverts pop up as they scroll through Diagnet. All remind citizens to be on their guard, report strange or disturbing behaviour and keep a look out for any of the symbols or colours of the Voidtreckers.

"Heroes don't keep secrets! If you have suspicions about any dangerous people in our midst, let your local DFORCE force know. Speak the Truth. Save the World."

▷ Billboards are plastered with bold posters reminding citizens to keep an eye out for the Voidtreckers or anyone who they might have tried to sway to their side. For those beginning to glimpse that this city might not be what they once had thought, this could be dangerous especially if their families and friends believe the city truly is under threat.

credits: text box - city banner - city side - coloured sky by benjamin0000

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Ballroom Blitz [OTA BAR FIGHT BAR FIGHT BAR FIGHT]

Yondu is not a bartender. He manages, he cuts deals, he finds ways to make it work. He doesn't tend bar. Today he's a patron at his own establishment for whatever reason. He felt like it? Actually he can't remember clearly when he first started coming here. That's all real fuzzy.

He's trying to pull it up from the recesses of his mind when a sturdy middle-aged woman slides over, what visible tattoos she has obviously moving as a part of her powers, and pulls one of those 'so do you come in a flavor or are you like that for decoration' lines. And he would have been down, except what he assumes to be her former significant other strides up behind her to give her a piece of his mind. So now there's an argument, and he's just ignoring it. But then there's her punching him, and before Yondu can tell her to hold up and calm down there's some other man jumping in and yelling about how he knew she was no good and he should have seen it the whole time.

Yondu easily pushes his barstool away from the bar to dodge a blob of water from someone's powers (why does that remind him of something?) before he scoots it back up. A moment later he's lifting the beer off the bar 'cause asshole number three in the situation (not counting himself) just got flung down the length of it. He takes a drink as they slide by, just watching them go.

Things are starting to get a little carried away, and he calls out a- "Gonna need some help over here!" -to one of his allies. He is finishing off this goddamn beer before he does, thank you kindly, and he stands up chugging it.

Home Life [OPEN TO TANI / MADOKA / RAVEN]

After cleaning up and cleaning off, he gets home later than he intended. He's got a shiner to show for it, too, but he's only really upset that he got held up sweeping up damages. He bursts into his quaint little house (comfortable enough for three teenage girls and their single dad).

"Sorry y'all! Someone was actin' up. Several someones, actually," he comes in, pulling off his leather coat to hang up, and... not really remembering where the coat hanger is. He should know that, right?

Nevermind. Has to tend to his girls first. He tosses his jacket onto the chair and he extends his arms in the universal hug beckoning gesture. "Come on, I promise I'll make it up to ya. Who wants to go out tomorrow." This was the wrong time to be home, he thinks?

Future Regrets [CLOSED TO WHOEVER I ASKED]

Yondu's out getting groceries or doing a run by the training center or failing to find someone's cat, who he is just wondering if even the cats learned to fly 'cause he's had no luck findin' nothin'. Doing basic every day slogging around errands that you just can't pawn off on someone else? But it's lucky that he didn't because-

Goddamn.

He is thoroughly distracted by someone that is some level of hot or competent. "How's the day findin' ya?" he calls out.

Snapping Out of It [OTA]

And now he's figured it out. Shit. Shiiiiiit That sorta intense inner feeling of the word that has two syllables and 'y' somewhere's in there. He quickly heads back to both the bar and to the girls, keeping an eye out for anybody that he might know and that he might possibly be able to snap out of it.

The sad thing was he was kind of liking this place? But this means at some point that asshole in the sky won. Who knows if these people are real, or if they're the citizens, or if they're even alive 'cause they could just be meat puppets at this point like those folks that were in the hospital before.

This is going to be a pain in the ass and he hates it already. He's got a few ideas but he's gonna have to run them by some people.

[OOC: The Knickknack Knockback Bar is on the border of the the Educational and Political (1) district and the Shopping and Entertainment District (2), near the Garden & Zoo (3). It's got a roof covered in vegetation and on the inside it's your average dive bar, complete with dive bar food and lazy music and a single TV that plays whatever the bartender's been badgered into. Only a nice collection of potted plants by the window set it apart. It's a front for a vigilante biker-ish gang, a group of 'heroes' that for whatever reason don't call the DForce to deal with problems. For them there's a speakeasy style entrance in the back, hidden by vegetation, and hidden exit routes from there.]

Bar Fight

She was pointedly NOT watching the girl with the moving tattoos on her arms. Not when her long sleeves were covering tattoos of her own that thank the gods, if there were any, didn't move on their own. She ignored the whisper in her mind that said "yet". She tried to avoid the fight, but then someone asked for help, **** it. Off duty or not, she was a cop. She growled and fished her badge out of her pocket, even though she was in her civvies. At least she wasn't drunk. Her Sargent would bust her back to private - wait, private? What? - if she tried to arrest people while drunk. Or worse got involved and got arrested with these idiots.

"I AM DETECTIVE ELIANNE NEYA," she said, voice pitched to carry, even over the noise of the fight and the rest of the bar as well. She was not screaming, but the voice carried anyway. She had been trained for exactly this even those crowd control was Swords work.

Swords? No, think later, be a cop now.

"THE NEXT PERSON TO THROW A PUNCH WILL BE CHILLING THEIR HEELS IN A HOLDING CELL. YOU WANT TO KEEP FIGHTING? TAKE IT THE ****S OUTSIDE." And if they didn't listen... well it had been a while since she'd been in a bar brawl. She didn't exactly miss it. But she didn't hate it either. At least not when she knew that Teela and Tain had her back.

Wait, who the ****S were Teela and Tain?

Oh hell, a cop.

Not people he wants up in here to any large extent. He's not wanting to make a haven for villains but he is making space for people that didn't get properly represented by the justice system. "Hey! Hey, calm your tits," he shouts in a man's face and grabs one of the guys and pulls him off someone else. The tattooed woman he whistles at, shrilly....

For some reason the shrill whistle makes him more aware. Briefly everything in the room (to him) is shown in oddly particular detail. It makes his fin light up with the sound.

He's losing the plot here.

Snapping back to (not really) reality, he points to the door. "Get the hell out!"

He shoves the man he's holding towards the door. Then to Neya, he gestures loosely. "They're just idiots what need to be thrown out. They don't need to be threatened with arrest. People get hot heads an' make mistakes." Then again he snaps at the lingering brawlers. "Y'all go! I said git!"

In the process of him yelling, the blue flowers near the window have closed, red roses opening in their stead, responding to his power that he feels like he's had for forever.

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*drums hands on table* ballroom blitz!

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here for the bar fight! lol

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home life

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Snapping out of it

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home life

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BAR FIGHT w/ the triplets of terror lmfao -- Atem > Selene > Other Atem > Yondu?

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