Who: Ted & Ronan, plus any others that might want to lend a hand
What: Bounty to defeat the magic binder in Everglade
Where: House of the victim, then towards the target
When: 7:00 pm, December 12th

( Two Muggles vs. One Magician )

Who: Attack on Titan cast + friends
What: It's Petra's birthday. Included in the log are party preparations, distractions and A Big Question.
Where: Nova City, Attack on Mansion + around
When: December 6th
Warnings: Fluff danger, will add others if need be

Distracting Petra
Party preparations
Proposal

General party mingle in the comments, without any top-level!

 "Running for office, as wearisome as it is, has the advantage of allowing you to meet and get to know many different types of people you wouldn’t normally associate with in your daily life. This is perfectly respectable during a campaign— in fact you would be thought a fool if you didn’t take advantage of it— so that you can eagerly and unashamedly cultivate friendships with people no decent person would talk to."
So that's just what he's going to do! His staff had prepared him for this, memorizing names and addresses; now was the time to travel door-to-door, shamelessly electioneering, doing favors and demanding favors, all to seek those precious votes. And that means you! Yes, you. Especially you. 

( PMs to Satsuki, Satori, Vyers, Luke, and David for their support. Doing it in public is a plus )

[Dairine is less than pleased with the sudden decorations in her new apartment. For one, it sort of took away the fun of decorating herself. Secondly, after multiple years in Cair Paradisa, she had a STRONG aversion towards mysterious Christmas decorations. As beautiful as they could be, they often came with... unpleasant side affects. Especially the mistletoe.

She flicks on the video feed. Behind her there is a view of the apartment's tree... which strangely seems to have a baseball cap near the top.]

This might sound odd, but has anyone noticed weird things going on since the decorations appeared? Like, say, the sudden urge to kiss strangers?

Just want to be sure. [Even though she'll be cautious either way.]

( Closed to Kaitou Kid )

To those who are seeing me for the first time, my name is Vlad III Tepes, lord of Castlevania in Everglade. I come to you with a message for the residents of Everglade. Congratulations on surviving the rule of the buffoon tyrant. For too long the residents of this city have been misunderstood, their wishes ignored, and the laws of an ignorant, close-minded fool have been imposed on them.

I have seen first hand the issues this idiot's policies have inflicted on the populous. Refugees seeking asylum in Castlevania from the tyrant and his policies has never been higher than in the time since the ban on necromancy was put into law. Even when the people opposed this move, the tyrant fool remained steadfast in his ignorance.

So people of Everglade, I urge you, rise up against this fool, cast him down and select a more worthy leader. I have lived among you for quite some time now, and am one of you. I am no stranger to the dark arts and I am myself open about my status as one of the undead. It is time Everglade's will be returned to its people, not closed-minded bigots that refuse to understand.

You have got to be kidding me.

[Glory was far from happy, really far from it. She was in the middle of her hunt for her key to get back to where she belonged and now it looks like the slayer and her posse have done something to make her end up here. She had left the Bay, trying her best to figure out how to get back so she could get back to business and instead came across the hologram with a white haired woman. Was she with the slayer and crew and keeping her from her key? It made her angry enough to pretty much rip it from it's spot and stamp on it until it was no more.]

No one keeps my key from me. Not the Slayer and her little posse and not some... White haired girl who looks like she could do with a much better wardrobe. I mean seriously the Snow Queen look is... has never been a good look.

[She moves to walk away from the now smashed device, heels clanking on the ground as all she had left to do was simply find out where the heck she was and where on earth her minions were as well. Because seriously they were useful even if they were annoying. As she walked, arms crossed over her chest if she spotted anyone she raised her hand and yes, she is pointing at you.]

Hey you! Tell me a bit about where we are.

[OOC: Forgot to add the permissions post]

[Action - The Bay and the surrounding area]

[Artanis jolts awake with a start. It feels uncomfortably humid. How long had he been asleep? It was still dark. Had he slept the entire day?

...No. No, that wasn't it. He hadn't fallen asleep in a place so...cramped.

The realization sends a jolt through his body. Anxiously, he feels around the inside of the box he's in...then manages to push open the front. He falls out, but it's an easy effort to lift one of his legs and stop his fall before he lands in the...

...Water?

Now steady on his feet, Artanis looks around. He appears to be in some sort of body of water, with other similar boxes around him. They've all been opened. It's like no place he's seen before.

Well, first things first. He was going to try to call for help. Broadcasting his thoughts outward, he speaks.]

Karax, can you hear me?! Matriarch Vorazun! Rohana!

[The only thing that answers him is silence. He looks around, searching for a way out. But first, something catches his eye back in the box he emerged from.

Upon closer inspection, there appears to be some sort of communication device there, as well as a pendant. He picks them up and looks them over, as well as the welcome note. He then looks around, and finally spots what appears to be an exit.

He emerges into bright sunlight, and immediately he can feel nourishment. However, it doesn't relieve him much -- the surroundings are completely alien to him. The geometry and the structures indicated what might be a Terran settlement, but...it didn't seem right. Something was off.

After taking a few more steps, he investigates a device...until it activates. Suddenly, a holographic projection of a Terran female appears before him, and Artanis listens to the message. Fortunately, it fills him in better on his situation. Not that it makes him feel any better.

If he's trapped, there's a problem. He's the Hierarch of the Daelaam -- the ruler of the united Aiur, Nerazim, and Purifier factions of the Protoss. And after the End War, he's their greatest living hero. While he has no doubt that the council would be able to continue on in his absence and might be able to obscure his disappearance, he fears mass panic would break out among the general populace if they were to find out.

But first things first. He would gather as much information publicly available as possible, then send out a message asking the inhabitants here for further information.]

[Action -- Genessia, Schnee Company Welcoming Center, Amagi Inn]

[Clearly these people had never seen a Protoss before. As Artanis walks through the streets of Genessia, he draws stares left and right. Though to be fair, a seven-foot tall, gray-skinned, elaborately-dressed alien with glowing blue eyes tends to stick out like a sore thumb. It's all Artanis can do to act natural and ignore the fluctuation of emotions around him.

Eventually, he makes his way to the Welcoming Center in Genessia. After getting more information there, he leaves once again and heads toward the Amagi Inn. He's heard they offer free rooms temporarily to new arrivals, so that was as good a place as any to go.

Feel free to catch him at any point during all of this.]

[Audio]

[Broadcasting his telepathy to make it audible is easy enough. Dealing with an unknown Terran settlement, however, is a bit different. He chooses to keep the broadcast on audio for now.

Listeners will hear a deep voice with slight reverberation to it.]

To all who are listening to this broadcast, I bid you greetings. My name is Artanis, and I am a new arrival here in Genessia.

The reason why I am making this broadcast is because I seek information -- namely, information on access to our homes. It is imperative that I return home as quickly as possible, but for the moment, it seems that I cannot. But can we learn about what is going on in our homes? Can we access any detail, any scrap of information whatsoever about them? Any information, no matter how small, will be welcomed.

[OoC: Artanis has had dealings with humans in the past, and he knows how skittish and even hostile they can be to what they don't recognize. Therefore, until he can get a better read on people, he isn't going to show his face to them unless given no choice -- so video responses will be met with voice only.

However, he will be more open to showing his face to anyone who is visibly non-human! If he can tell they're not human, he's more willing to be forthright in an attempt to foster goodwill.]

[ look! there's a tall Nozaki standing there, addressing everyone ]

I wanted to let everyone see the photos that I've taken this year... Kind of like a pre-Christmas gift? Anyway, I hope you all enjoy it. Genessia has so many people here that are different and amazing all at once. It's been a pleasure taking pictures of everyone and I wanted to thank you all for being the inspiration for my manga this year.

Which Volume 3 will be coming out very soon! So spoilers, so don't even try asking. Anyway, here's all of the photos, I hope you guys enjoy them.

[ Nozaki turns the camera and there is a bulletin board with a colored poster behind it. tacked to it are all of the wonderful pictures he's taken this year. some pictures are even of people he's never actually spoken to...weird. a lot of people were caught off guard in the photos or look embarrassed ]

(Marie hates having to make a second video in less than a week, but waking up to find the apartment she is living in covered in holiday decorations from floor to ceiling? Weird, even considering her own past and her current situation, it's just horribly weird. Pretty but weird. She especially likes the paper snowflakes someone had put up on the windows and small army of tiny nutcrackers that sits on one of the once empty shelves, but the tinsel is too much and well, mistletoe is just awkward and she glances up at it and rolls her eyes.

The woman sighs and picks up one of them and with her other hand begins to poke the point of her index finger off of a small plastic sword that the figure is carrying.)

So, uh...I have a question for everyone out there. Who did this? Because while I appreciate it and it's cute and all, no seriously, I kind of miss seeing decorations up this time of year, but well, how do I put this...

(She's actually pretty upset about it, though she is doing her best to be calm about it.)

You broke into my apartment.

(Here is the moment when her calm slips and her German accent becomes thicker now.)

You didn't even ask if I wanted this stuff up!

I'm going to toss all of this out, I swear. So, if you want it back...you better tell me you did it right now. It's nice, but really, breaking and entering isn't right... and I'm glad nothing is missing. (She glances at a box that she had wrapped the night before - the first thing she looked for after waking up.) Now, I need to find a good hiding place, but I'm going to need help taking this stuff down...
(Oh boy, Jason won't be too happy about this.)