Log:Dream Machine, Scene 1

Dream Machine 2011/08/28 	 Imaginary Girl Judgement Karlie Loupy Mirage Mr. Sardonic 1

Insomnia sucks. Especially after winning a case and going out to celebrate with coworkers. Everyone went home and Judy... well she wasn't remotely sleepy. Guess that's what you get for having the endurance of a monster. Okay, when all else fails though, go for a walk right? So she's got her cellphone out and is updating her facebook status while simply strolling along and using just her peripheral vision to see where she's going. (more reposes)

Mirage walks along the sidewalk this late at night, looking for trouble.... or at least people looking for trouble, criminals and the like. His hat is off his head, twirling it on a finger as he strolls along. Mirage is trying yet another look it seems, still trying to find a heroic appearance that he's satisfied with.

High above Loupy is floating along.. or rather, sailing, the werewolf mage earning his name as he's snowboarding on the clouds themselves with the use of one of his spells that he casted on his board, complete with goggles and a pilot's scarf around his neck. He hits one of the clouds and flips over it, before going into a dive towards the ground after his watch beeps midnight, floating down to street level and at the same time taking the board off of his feet so he can walk when he lands on the sidewalk.

The streets of this section of town are sparsely populated right now -- and of the few people about, one pedestrian sticks out, mainly because of his attire. A dark haired man in his thirties walks down the sidewalk aimlessly, wearing blue silk pyjamas. He's barefoot, and although his eyes are open, his expression is glazed over.

Additionally, the man in the pyjamas has attracted some attention. A group of three shady looking street toughs stalk behind him, walking quickly to catch up with him. One of them takes a quick snort of something from a bullet-shaped medallion that he wears around his neck.

... okay, facebook. Another case under my belt. This feels good to actually put criminals away, not just beat'em up and... *doubletake* Did I just see a barefoot man in PJ's? Judgement thinks and then turns to look back the way she came. She's across the street and wasn't paying -that- much attention to details. Oh, this can't be good.

Putting her phone into her fannypack, she strides out to cross the street where she approaches the group from behind, "Evening fellas..." she calls out, hoping to prevent any violence before it happens.

Mirage stops, quirking a brow at the apparently sleep walking man. Well, ain't that a dangerous thing to be doing. He stops twirling his hat and puts it back on his head, heading over towards the men as well. Upon seeing Judgement walking up as well, he stops on the sidewalk, observing from close enough to interfere if need be.

Loupy glances over to where Judgement's voice came from and huffs in surprise at seeing her here. He takes the wheels out of his bag and snaps them onto the bottom of the board before kicking off, his paws in his pockets, the goggles up on his forehead and the white scarf laying over one shoulder as he just coasts over to where she called them out from, though he's keeping an eye out for any trouble that they may cause.

The guy with the bullet medallion pulls a gun from the back of his jeans. He rubs his nose with the back of his hand and snorts at Judgement. "You picked the wrong night to get involved, lady. Hand over the bag." He nods for his friends to move forward. "Go ahead and jack that dude." He says, indicating the man in the pyjamas.

The two other muggers draw weapons. One of them draws a knife, and the other pulls a gun.

"Are you -really- that stupid?" asks Judgement. "Oh wait no, you're high -and- stupid." she adds. "And you have no idea that I'm bulletproof. Really? In this town you're going to get high and pull a gun on a stranger?" She basically ignores the gunman and strides towards the PJ-wearer. "Now, drop'em before you actually make me mad." she says as an aside towards the guys.

Up over the city, Imaginary Girl spots what's going on... and dives down towards the scene.

Loupy shakes his head and then reaches into his belt, finding the beads he keeps hidden there and pulls one out, rolling it in his fingers before saying "I wouldn't recommend that," as he kicks up the board and catches it with his other paw, putting it up over his shoulder, walking closer to the party, already calling to mind the spell that'll lift'em all up into the sky. "

Judgement rolls for HAP's and gets 3 for this scene.

Loupy rolls for HAP's and gets 2 for this scene.

Mirage rolls for HAP's and gets 3 for this scene.

Bullet Medallion Guy points his gun at Judgement. "Do you know who /I/ am, $#^& ?!!" He holds his gun sideways...

Observing from up high, medium level rooftop, Karlie takes account of the muggers and armaments, and the pajama-wearing guy, not yet making herself an evident part of the scenery. She is more interested in the actions of the more colorfully dressed and glorified heroically inclined folk, though she has started to engage the safety on the weapons without any obvious sign of tampering...

Loupy smirks, "Yea.. I know who you are.. lunchmeat." and then invokes the spell with a snap of his fingers, breaking the bead and causing a small burst of blue power around his paw... but the target area is where the punks stand, the entire area lit with blue magic and gravity suddenly takes a vacation.

"Wha -- ?!" "Woaah!" Two of the would-be mugger are lifted into the air by Loupy's magical field. Bullet Guy and the knife-wielding mugger are both caught for now.

From above, red laser-like beams of light streak down out of the sky, followed by a busty blonde figure in black, with a red cape: Imaginary Girl! The two guns and the knife /melt/ to uselessness as Imaginary Girl comes down to hover about a dozen feet in the air, saying, "Who /care/ who /you/ are. Are you /stupid/ or something, trying to make trouble in /my/ town?! You coulda hurt some innocent kid with a stray bullet!"

Shaking her head as all this happens, Judy gestures to the other heroes and says, "As I said, in this town.. you must be stupid for trying any of this." She looks at that last person and places hands on her hips, "Drop it and surrender... you are under arrest."

The third thug jumps back in surprise as his gun is turned into useless slag. "Oh $@@," he curses. He looks around at all of the heroes and hestitates a moment. Then he decides to run for it.

Karlie watches the gathering of heroic types in short order, interested solely in them now that the muggers have been neutralized as threatening entities to the world around them. She leans on her knee, still not making her presence very evident except as a blonde woman standing on a medium-height rooftop.

Mirage watches the scene with amazement. A few people pull guns, and then suddenly the weapons get lasered, a couple of them gets picked up, and the situation is defused. Well, there's at least one person that got through the net, and that's where he comes in. "New to this place?" he asks the running mugger, taking a couple of steps towards him. His shadow cast from the streetlight extends into a shadowy mist, quickly flowing over towards underneath the mugger and then enveloping him in a grab.

While the heroes are occupied with the muggers, the man in the Blue Pajamas wanders out into the street, right into the path of an oncoming taxi.

"Huh?" asks Judgement in general as she sees the guy sleepwalking, "Hey! Wakeup!" she calls out as she steps over and sees shadows lengthening. She turns just in time to see the taxi and mutters, "This is gonna suck..." as she leans into it

SLAAMMM! The taxi slams right into Judgement and stops dead. The rear tires jump into the air for amount before dropping back down to the pavement. The front of the car is crumpled like an accordion. Luckily for the driver, he's wearing his seatbelt, and his airbag deploys.

Pajamas Man continues to wander across the street.

Mirage winces a bit as he watches the taxi slam into Judgement. He asks Judgement, tentacles still grasping the mugger, "Uh... you okay there?" Another tentacle reaches over and grabs the sleepwalking man, pulling him over towards the sidewalk for his own safety.

"Hm. Headstrong. Wallbody." Karlie remarks, watching Judgement interfere before she is ready to raise a hand to halt the taxi. She surveys the damage to the vehicle.

"Oof... damnit.." mutters Judgement as she peels out of the taxi and then heads around towards the driver's door, "Hey, you okay in there?" she asks.

Loupy shakes his head as he looks to Judgement and says, "Tough gal," and then drops the muggers onto the ground, but the spell remains to keep'em in place. Makes it easier to cuff'em.

Imaginary Girl flits over to where the nearest of the three muggers is being held in place, and reaches over to 'facepalm' him in the forehead. It's a nice loud *slap* sort of thing that knocks him out /cold/. Even as he's going limp, she's floating towards the next of the muggers, grumbling about, "... freakin' idiots with guns threatening kids with 'em in /my/ town..."

"Whuuuuh?" The man in pajamas seems to start to come around after Mirage has pulled him to safety.

Mirage comments to the man in pajama's, "You probably need to look where you're going when sleeping. Almost got hit by a taxi, there." Shifting his shadows a bit, he points his fingers at the three muggers, solid persistent shadows wrapping around the three of them one by one and tangling them up. (Entangle, no need for cuffs!)

One of the fallen weapons floats up to where Karlie is, no obvious sign that it is moving aside from the visual portion.

Loupy releases his spell once they're well in.. hand? and then puts his skateboard back down on the ground, resting one foot on it and rocking it back and forth as he looks around to everyone, his paws back in his pockets.

The man in pajamas rubs his eyes. "Wha -- where...?" Suddenly it seems to dawn on him where he is. "What the -- ?!" He looks around with some alarm.

Mirage moves all of the criminals over against the wall when they're nice and tied up with shadows, before the shadows retract back into himself and disappear. Well at least he got to show off a little.

Imaginary Girl, unless stopped, proceeds to forehead-slap the next of the muggers into unconsciousness., wrapped up or not. To the one guy who'd asked "Do you know who I am?", she leans right in to be nose-to-nose with him and say, "Don't /ever/ think you're somebody in /this/ town, jackass...!", before pulling her face away and raising her hand to KO-slap /him/, too.

Loupy looks the muggers over and says, "Well.. all's good I guess. Do you need me any more?" curiously as he looks to Judgement and then everyone else. He's still rolling the skateboard back and forth with his foot. "Teleport to the police station perhaps?" he winces a little at the slaps but it's not really his place to argue.

Mirage extends more shadowy tendrils, attempting to pull IG away from hitting the rest of the muggers into unconsciousness. "They're already tied up, ma'am. I don't think there's any need to hit them once they're down," he replies gently to her.

"I-Imaginary Girl! -- Don't hit me!" says the mugger. He turns ways and shuts his eyes preparing for the strike.

As the floating weapon comes to a halt in front of Karlie, she examines it without touching, turning it around to find any visible distinctive markings on it. "'bit excessive," she suggests in a calm tone, effortlessly dismantling the weapon, holding the ferromagnetic parts aloft while the plastics fall to the ground.

Imaginary Girl's KO slap misses the head of the guy she's just growled at, hitting the brick wall he'd been put up against - and leaves a 'dent' of cracked and broken brick in its wake. Turning to glower for a moment at Mirage, Imaginary Girl looks to the frightened mugger, saying, "Just you remember whose town this is, before you go and try something stupid like bringing a /gun/ here, again."

"So uh, when'd it become your town exactly?" Karlie asks.

"Since I've been here", is Imaginary Girl's terse reply, as she's floating up into the air, clearly intent on simply kicking ass and then flying away. Others're gonna be doing the 'wait for the cops' bit, after all.

Mr. Sardonic stops suddenly as he sees an unexpected gathering

"I don't see it as yours," Karlie says, reassembling the gun into.. something entirely different. Clearly some kind of gun-type weapon but not the same configuration. "Guessing neither do a lotta people."

Loupy sighs.. and shakes his head, before saying, "Eh... ok." as he gets up onto his board, coasting over to the man and then stepping down off of it again. "You ok sir?" cocking his head to one side.

Mirage rubs his temple with a hand, sighing. He probably might as well wait around for police, heading over towards the one remaining conscious mugger, and leaning on the wall next to him. "So, you're new around town I'm guessing? Want to share why you decided to pull out guns and knives on a street?"

"That's /their/ mistake... and yours if you /ever/ get in my way of protecting the children of Colonial Bay", Imaginary Girl says to Karlie. "So /stay/ out of my way, bitch", she adds, before darting into the air so suddenly that she leaves the sharp *CRACK* of the sound barrier breaking in her wake.

Mr. Sardonic decides that the situation looks well in hand, but is curious enough to stay off to one side and observe the interrogation

Loupy looks back over his shoulder casually and watches IG fly off... then says, "wow, someone's PMSing bad..." under his breath.

"Yeh. So anyone else think she's off her rocker an' needs t'be put down b'fore she does something stupid?" Karlie asks.

The man in pajamas looks around, turning his body as he tries to gain his bearings. "I -- I was sleeping..." he says to Loupy, kind of thinking aloud to himself.

Loupy nods to the man and says, "What is your name?" he asks, still fairly casual about it.

Mr. Sardonic cranes his neck slightly, tilting his head

"Where's she hang out anyway?" Karlie inquires. "Not done tellin' her off."

Loupy throws back to Karlie, "Check with bard, those two are pretty tight from what I saw." He looks back to the man once more and waits for his response.

"Todd," the man in pajamas says. "Todd Loames." After his response to Loupy his eyes widen in realization, and his face blanches. "I -- I have to go.." he says suddenly.

Loupy nods, he then merfs a bit and says, "Hey, wait a minute..." to the man, reaching out to put a paw on his shoulder, "We just gotta make sure your ok first, then you can go."

"Why are you on my case, man," the third mugger says to Mirage. "I wasn't going to hurt anybody... don't you have any real criminals to catch?"

Karlie looks in the direction that Imaginary Girl went, "Can't be that hard t'find. Moves fast, some kinda authoritarian complex." She disassembles her invention again, setting the pieces down around the captive muggericks. "Wait. You had loaded guns and you weren't gonna hurt anybody? What the f!#$ do y'think loaded guns are for?"

Todd tried to brush aside Loupy's paw. "It's - it's ok.. I live a block away from here..." He tries to make his way up the street.

Mr. Sardonic briefly puts a hand over his mouth to hide a smile then lowers it again.

Karlie adds, "Think real carefully about what y'say t'that. Crazy girls not the only one with low tolerance for that s!#$."

Loupy huffs, then puts his paws on his hips... He looks to everyone else and then to the man as he walks away, keeping him in sight for now.

Mirage sighs at the mugger. "The weapons seem to say otherwise, you know. And.... yeah what she said." He backs out of this one, Karlie seemingly much more versed in the whole interrogation thing that he is. His attention turns back towards the sleepwalking man, watching.

The mugger shuts up, wary that Karlie might try to hit him next.

"Smart move. Don't try lying again." Karlie says. "You're s!@# at it."

Loupy quietly slips off after the sleepwalker, about mid step disappearing from sight... (invisibility spell)

Mr. Sardonic looks from Loupy to Karlie as they separate, then decides the show with the muggers is too interesting to pass up

Mirage watches the sleepwalker slip off... then shrugs. He leans against the wall on the street, going back to twirling his hat on a finger as he waits for the police to show up. Not much else to do that he can think of except to just wait.

"Talk t'him when he's cleaned out his system," Karlie says. "He's high."

Todd Loames walks down the street. He eventually heads into a luxury skyrise apartment buidling.

Loupy walks to the mailbox to look for Todd's name on any of them, the simplest check to see if he actually lives there.

Loupy nods and then heads back out of the apartments, his curiousity sated he comes back to where the muggers were taken down, the invisibility dropping.

Mr. Sardonic steps forth from the shadows on the side of the street and ventures in an amiable tone, "looks like a good night's work, friends."

Mr. Sardonic says, "Although a boring night for me in that case"

Mirage shrugs. "Other heroes did most of the work, really. I just mopped up."

Loupy rolls the skateboard back and forth as the police speed off with the muggers, watching them leave before looking back to the new arrival "Was just a coincidence for me, just glad to be of help."

Mr. Sardonic startles mildly as he gets a good look at the werewolf for the first time, then shrugs and breaks into a grin. "I was looking for trouble myself. Assisting the authorities beats sitting at home doing jigsaw puzzles. But I'm always one step behind the times I'm afraid.

Loupy nods, "eh, it happens... dunno about you all but I need to head home. It's been fun."

Mr. Sardonic raises a hand in farewell

Mirage shrugs. "I was just on patrol, myself. And see you later, wolfboy." He stops twirling the hat, putting it back on his head as he stops leaning on the wall.

Imaginary Girl leaves The Towers and enters Sky Above West Side.

Loupy says, "It's loupy," to answer Mirage in return. "If ya need me I'm in SERAF." He gives one last wave and then hops onto his skateboard, kicking off and riding it down the street, just taking it easy on the way home.

"th'f!@# is a SERAF?" Karlie asks, almost putting a complete sentence together.

Mirage bows as Loupy leaves, saying, "Mirage here. See you later."

Mr. Sardonic says, "Guess that's a night then."