genpcs: (Show Host.)
Genessia NPCs ([personal profile] genpcs) wrote in [community profile] genessia2018-06-15 11:03 am

Guardian Debates! Live TV and action for those who came in person!

[ Everyone's TVs will flicker on and to the Genessia News Channel for a Live Special Report. The Show Host pops out from beneath the podium, a cool tenor voice coming straight from him as he addresses the camera. ]

Well heeeeello there everyone! We interrupt your day for a very special report! This is the hostess with the mostest, your favorite Show Host, here with the City Guardian Election Debate, coming at you LIVE! This debate's a little smaller than normal with two City Guardian positions being uncontested, so Genessia City and Fayren will both be sitting out this time around. Congratulations to their continuing Guardians, David Haller and Mavis Vermillion!

Before we get into things, I'd like to introduce our sponsors for the City Guardian Debates this summer: Schnee Company Welcoming Services and Paw Paws and Props. Paw Paws and Props: You bring your pet, we'll take ridiculous model-level pictures of them as superheroes, celebrities, sports players- you name it, we'll make your pet into a star. I got a photo of me with my pet the other day, take a look!

[ Yes, this broadcast is being interrupted by a photo of Show Host as Robin cheek-to-cheek with his caped crusader, Bat-Llama. The photo spins out of the way cartoon-style back to Show Host and starts the show! ]

We are broadcasting live from right here in Genessia City. Many folks are in attendance, including our very own GCPD who are here to monitor and keep the peace. Let's begin the live debate-slash-Q&A you've all been waiting for. Here's how it works: You all come up with questions to ask each of the Guardians, and each Guardian will have the opportunity to answer it to help you decide which of your candidates is the right one for your city. You can submit your questions via text to the CPU and it will beam them to our stage, or if you're here in the audience, head on up to the podium and ask in person! Now to introduce our candidates.

A huge fight is brewing in Attleton with fiery contenders! Dante Sparda: current deputy, suave musician, professional pizza-lover, and badass is our first candidate but don't think he's the only one here. His opponent is EXPLODING onto the stage with plans to be the very best, like no one ever was! Katsuki Bakugo is ready to tell Dante to get back and go! Who will Attleton choose to be its new hero!?

Attleton isn't the only hot-button topic around though. Everglade may send a chill down your spine, but things are getting ready to heat up as Lydia squares down with Hikaru Takeda. One's a passionate protector of undead rights, the other the entrusted as acting City Guardian. Who will Everglade choose to deal with the spooky task of trying to keep everyone happy as City Guardian!?

Last but never least, let's make some hoopla about the high-tech city that programmed its way into our hearts and shot them into the sky, Nova City! Nova City's got two candidates with us today. He's sexy, he's cute, and popular to boot, he's bitchin', great hair, we all love to stare: Gale Reinhardt! But don't let that great intro fool you, Android 17 used to be a park ranger, and our hearts are in his range now! ❤

So park yourself down, take a seat, and let's get started folks! Get into the town hall for this live debate, starting in 30 minutes! You've still got time to pop in, let's go, and don't forget to cast your votes this June 24th at the polls!

{ OOC NOTE: Anyone can reply to this post with a question they want to ask the potential City Guardians. Each City Guardian candidate is tasked with answering any question on this post. No candidate is required to, but lack of participation may affect public opinion of the candidate! Lack of any activity during the election season will disqualify your candidate, however.

On June 24th, the polls will officially go up and each character will be afforded one vote for each city. So if you play 5 characters, you will need to submit 5 IC vote choices; if you only play 1, then only that character will vote. This means you as the player are voting on your character's behalf because it's going to be in the OOC comm just so that we can include instructions. There will be further information at that time as well as a link to a "booklet" with candidate information. For now though, the debate is here! }

[personal profile] redcinemareel 2018-06-17 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Interjects by lifting a finger to get a microphone brought to her.]

You are aware that spirits are even used in criminal investigations in Everglade, right? This has been the norm well before any of us off-worlders have arrived.
hot_handed: (thinking)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Like those fake psychics?

[personal profile] redcinemareel 2018-06-17 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
What do fake psychics have to do with calling actual spirits from their graves? Necromancy is used, and the spirits speak for themselves. They don't speak through a medium, unlike with psychics. That's the difference.

Besides, psychics are put through rigorous tests before being certified to work with the police force. There aren't many psychics because of that.
hot_handed: (smirk)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Necromancy isn't a real magic. You can't call up what doesn't exist.

But making sure there are strict regulations would be a good idea if it was real, I guess.

[personal profile] redcinemareel 2018-06-17 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Grell really tries to cover up her irritation, but then she remembers that humans have this tendency to be in ignorant bliss about the supernatural.]

Then I have two questions for you, but I'll direct a specific one for you and the next to all candidates.

What would it take to make you believe that ghosts and spirits exist? Surely, since we have actual laws governing them, along with Necromancy, must mean they aren't fake and not created just for fun.
hot_handed: (he ???)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay...

I want to see them posses a decrepit, grotesque doll in an abandoned prison and beat up a grown bodybuilding man. Those are my requirements.

[personal profile] redcinemareel 2018-06-17 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's....really specific.]

I'll see what I can do.

[...not gonna lie, Grell wants to see that, too.]
hot_handed: (speechless)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, yeah. I'm used to being disappointed.
bigbadrose: (armfold)

[personal profile] bigbadrose 2018-06-17 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Did someone leak the plans to you, what the hell?

[GRUMPY >:|]

Look whatever, check the dungeon section of Haunted Eatings. I wanted to get as close to Chucky without an actual psychopathic murder spree, but it's important to give ghosts opportunities to have fun and perform too, yeah?

And there's like... 80 different kinds o' Ghosts! Ain't ya never seen Ghostbusters? There's incorporeal ones, posession spirits, fake holograms, that are actually glitches of the person's identity and mind and personality possesing a replay of safety features in teleport suits, and then there's like 50 kinds o' dead-dead, and there's --

Well, anyway you're provin' a point. You shouldn't try to murder ghosts either though. Ghosts are people too.
hot_handed: (subdued)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-18 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
That's a movie.

Are they real ghosts...? [His expression is neutral, like he's trying really hard not to get hopeful.]
bigbadrose: (/snap)

[personal profile] bigbadrose 2018-06-18 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
No kidding.

[Arches an eyebrow, and laughs with a nod.] Are you sure you've been to the other cities? Fayren has magic. Real magic. I went through hundreds maybe thousands of dimensions and universes before, and I still never saw real magic. Total surprise to me, but a good kind.

Look, I don't want to get too heavily into how multiple dimensions and parallel universes work here, but every story you've ever heard is real somewhere sometime. Have you met Cheshire Cat?

[Nods!] Ghosts are very real. Not all are as benevolent as Casper, but most are pretty benign. I've technically been a ghost sometimes. But without the dying thing.
whiteas: (Default)

[personal profile] whiteas 2018-06-17 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ From somewhere in the back ]

I have literally stabbed you with creatures I've summoned from the dead before you dolt!
hot_handed: (wtf im not the best???)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought those were metaphorically dead!
whiteas: (Are you for reals?)

[personal profile] whiteas 2018-06-17 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I very literally can only summon things I've killed myself first!
hot_handed: (haaaaah?)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
But they aren't dead if you can summon them.
whiteas: (Excuse you.)

[personal profile] whiteas 2018-06-17 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
They're undead, technically! Either way, necromancy is real and stop being a twit!
hot_handed: (existential crisis at 15)

[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-06-17 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
W--

I'M GOING TO MURDER THIS DEBATE, ICE-SENSEI, JUST YOU FUCKIN' WATCH!