Event Log: Is It a Wonderful Life?

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for Is It A Wonderful Life? event
Where: All over the city
When: Jan 4th-8th
Warnings: None

Throughout the next few days, you may find yourself plagued by visions and dreams of back home. The dreams will be lifelike and difficult to tell apart from reality, as the world will be constructed from what you remember of your world. However, unlike usual dreams, you won't be present, and will find yourself unable to be seen or heard by those around you.

The dreams are vivid reminders of what might happen in a world without you: a world in which you disappeared when coming to Hadriel, a world which desperately needs you back for some reason or another. You may see your parents putting up missing posters, your significant other moving onto their next relationship, or even your hated villain finally taking over the world without you there to stop them.

When the vision leaves, you're back here and nothing about the city has changed. Though maybe you have a different outlook on it now...

► This log covers January 4th-Januray 8th.
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► If you try a weird solution to make it back home, please let us know here.

Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

Not unless New York has some kinda creepy, underground spider cult, no.

[I mean who even knows with New York amirite]

Nah, this is just a me thing. I've got like, spidery abilities anyway, I figured why not just go all out with the spider theme, y'know?

[coyoteking]

Wait, you have spider powers?

[Charles squints. New York being weird can wait. This is weirder.]

Do you, like, turn into a spider?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Every New York in every reality is probably super weird. It't like a rule.]

No, no, nothing like that. I can like, stick to pretty much any surface, I'm crazy strong, uuuh, I can jump really far. You know those tiny jumping spiders? It's kinda like that.

[coyoteking]

[Charles thinks a minute. He looks like he's genuinely trying to take this in.]

How do you know that's spider powers? What if it's frog powers?

[itsnotaonesie]

Oh, good point. Lemmie see if my tongue does that thing.

[He sticks his tongue out, aaaand since he's wearing a mask he just. Kind of licks the inside of it. Mlep]

Nope, it's definitely spider powers.

[coyoteking]

[Alright, that gets a laugh, even if it's brief.]

So what, you got eight eyes under that thing?

[He's mostly kidding, but it would be cool.]

Why bother with that getup in the first place?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter will count that as a win.]

Nah, it's just the two. Right now the mask is for keeping my face warm, and the eye pieces help me focus. Back home it was to keep people from recognizing me. And for looking cool, mostly that. Got a whole suit that goes with it, buuuut that needs some repairs after the whole killer mammoth stampede thing.

[coyoteking]

Yeah, I guess someone in my world with spider powers would probably want to keep it secret. Though to be fair, there's like, no one with any powers where I'm from.

[Meaning it'd be weird.]

So, do you just wear it when you're... doing spider shit? What exactly do you do?

[This is definitely working as a distraction because he's really baffled by so much of it.]

[itsnotaonesie]

It's not really normal where I'm from, but it's not unheard of. Well, the spider thing is unique to me, at least as far as I know.

[Dude it's weird anywhere.]

But uh, Hm. Short answer, I help people. Sometimes bad things happen that your average person wouldn't really be able to deal with, that's where I come in.

[coyoteking]

So what, people call you for spider help? Or do you just wander around waiting for someone to need you?

[Neither seems ideal. Maybe he works with the police. To be fair, Charles does not entirely know how police work.]

That's, uh, pretty noble of you, though. Using that shit to help people.

[itsnotaonesie]

Little of A, little of B. Mostly I just pay attention while I'm patrolling. It just... u'know, just seems like it would be a waste if I didn't use this to help people.

[coyoteking]

I mean you could use it for your own gain. Make money off of it. I'm sure there's a way.

[No, bad Charles.]

[itsnotaonesie]

Nah. That's not how Spider-Man rolls.

[he may be young, but he's already got his shit figured out in that regard at least.]

[coyoteking]

[Wow, instant conversation derailer.]

Wait. You call yourself Spider-Man?

[The skepticism is readily apparent in his tone. As is the implication that it's "Spider-Boy" at best.]

[itsnotaonesie]

Well, it was gonna be Admiral Arachnid, but I wanted something a little more succinct.

[He sees your skepticism and raises you one sarcasm. fight me]

[coyoteking]

But Admiral Arachnid has some dignity to it, you know? It's a rank.

[He's here for this. Which is why he's barely restraining laughter.]

[itsnotaonesie]

I mean yeah, but it also has too many syllables. Doesn't roll off the tongue too smoothly, you know? Plus I'm not actually an Admiral. Now Captain America, he's actually a captain, so it works for him. But again, too many syllables. People just shorten it to "Cap", and that doesn't exactly strike fear into the hearts of villains everywhere, if you know what I mean.

[this is just flying off the goddamn rails at this point, but hey.]

[coyoteking]

[Dear god what has he started.]

Please tell me you made up Captain America. Is he really the captain of all of America? And what do you shorten to? Man?

[itsnotaonesie]

[YOU ASKED FOR IT]

Captain America is a real life dude, his real name is Steve and he's from Brooklyn. I think he was just in the army, he;s not like the captain of the whole country.

I don't think anyone's given me any nick names yet. Not that I know of, anyway.

[coyoteking]

Well you've made it kinda hard. Not a lot you can do with Spider-Man.

[He'll try, though.]

Manny? Fuck it, I hate nicknames anyway.

[Or not.]

Maybe I'll spare you. I know I wanna punch someone whenever I get called Charlie, and Chuck is right the fuck out.

[itsnotaonesie]

Spidey. How does that sound? Better than Manny, right?

You really don't strike me as a Chuck, you don't seem very Chuck-like.

[coyoteking]

Spidey works, I guess. And fuckin' thank you. Who goes by Chuck anyway? Pretty sure the old man would've killed somebody for calling him that.

[Whoops casual murder.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[dooon't murder guys come on use your words]

I dunno. Sounds like an uncle name. Like the type of uncle with five ex-wives and a smoking habit and he only shows up for the holidays.

[coyoteking]

[but what if they're fightin words]

Sounds like a guy who has jowls. And a receding hairline.

[Neither of which he has, thankfully.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[You can fight without murdering!]

Maybe a pot belly, at least three different NASCAR baseball caps, takes football way too seriously.