MarinaNova Asylum

So like, I looked around. Lotta food stands, really tall horses. Shooting range looks neat and kinda lethal except for the whole foam darts deal. Really nice headphones though-- if a pair goes missing I really don't know what happened. Same deal goes for the convenience store, you're really going to have to stock those shelves better. A few of them are empty. [That's because it's all now stored away in his temporary apartment, along with the various other things he's probably stolen, planning to steal and or displace in the near future to remake his basement paradise. If he can only find the arcade... today may be bearable. It's going so slow already.]

Saw everything else too. Even the wicked looking sector with all the creepy dinosaur business going on. Needs to be more flashing lights saying 'don't go in here' so people don't just you know, wind up in there getting eaten or anything. But what do I know. [Besides the fact he didn't stop to look and see if there were any before oops, he was in the middle of a funky jungle sweating in his faux leather jacket. He got out of there just as fast but maybe not before carving his name into a few of the trees. And patting a raptor on the head. Yeah, that part was cool.]

Not bad for a prison. The Pentagon's got nothing on this place.

[Kitty, or someone who looked a lot like her, was exploring the dome cautiously. Mostly staying near Sector 0 and attempting to figure out how to get up on top of that island for a better view. Wanna offer help?]

[An irate-looking teenage boy with red hair is still wearing the orange prison uniform that one gets upon arrival when he appears on the network. It's not because he finds the look appealing, he just hasn't had the opportunity to find a change of clothes for reasons that will be explained shortly.]

Okay, I bet you guys think you're being real funny here. I mean, do you really expect me to believe that I've been brought here because I'm a criminal? I help people! That's, like, as far away from being a criminal as someone could be! You guys are going to be so sorry when the Justice Le--

[Wally clamps his mouth shut, not wanting to give too much away since he doesn't know who all might be listening.]

Can someone at least get me off this dang floating island!? [He sighs, looking more than a little dejected all of a sudden.] I need something to eat.

(OOC: PLEASURE PRISON EVENT)

[ This voice call was meant for Kitty Pryde, Sr., but Lelouch was not quite specific enough when he made it, so both Kitties get to enjoy this brusque interjection into their regularly-scheduled routine. ]

Miss Pryde, I presume? [ And then, immediately, ] I'd like to report an incident.

[ Specifically, he'd like to report Suzaku's terrible life choices. Is there a form to fill out for that? ]

| HEATWAVE EVENT INFO |

Maybe Kitty had been up late reading the night before. That wasn't terribly unusual. It was, however, unusual for her to sleep late because she usually liked to get things done in the morning so she could stay up late reading later that night. Oops?

Scenarios

1. Power Outage


2. Mutant's New Clothes


3. Bad End


4. Player's Choice

Event Planning Thread if you want to work something out before tagging!

Dream 1: Afterglow
[Welcome to the afterglow. You're all wrapped up in each other, flushed, and pleasantly exhausted. Maybe you see each other as naked and curled up in bed together or maybe you're in the shower up against a wall in the living room or an alley in some partial state of dress. Maybe you're defiling a tree out in public. There are so many places available for these things. Was it a surprise or is your mind already hard at work making it make sense to you? Hard to say if it's all cuddling and pillow talk from here or just a cool down before round two (or three?)]

That was amazing. [She still sounds breathless.]

Dream 2: Home Sweet Home
[You've arrived inside the living room of a middle class couple living in Deerfield, Illinois. It's a cozy space—lived in, but not too messy. There's a thirteen year old girl with bushy brunette hair sitting at the dining room table reading the same page of a book over and over again. Her father and mother are sitting on the couch in the adjoining living room watching some television. You can't interact with them yet. The front door is blasted open sending splinters of it flying across the room. Then large men who are more technology and armor than flesh and blood file inside. You can't speak or move. You feel trapped and helpless as you watch this play out. The girl drops her book and stares but she seems just as frozen as you.

( Cut for depiction of violence/death )

(OOC: EVENT INFO | RAFFLE THREAD)

[Pucker up, inmates! It's that day again—your favorite prison holiday! And, of course, the wardens provided lip balm stations for your convenience.

(OOC: Mistletoe Bot INFO)

[Because Kanji isn't always the brightest he's managed to broadcast his disk to the entire network in an attempt to play it. Is... Is that Kanji and his friends defeating a monster through the power for dancing and friendship and believing in yourself? Because it sure looks like it.]

... The fuck was that?

[Everything may be a bit topsy turvy today. Maybe you lost your head. Maybe you lost everything else. Or maybe you're perfectly you and it's just your friends and neighbors who don't make any sense.

Good luck going out and about to figure out your new surroundings.]

(MIND/BODY SWAP EVENT INFO)

[You have a lot of baggage for your stay. Not the kind you stuff free robes and toiletries into. No, the kind of baggage that helps drive the sort of scenarios you experience. Your fears and your hang ups. Or maybe not everything is about you after all and you have a perfectly random, horrific time. Either way, the adventure starts now. Ring the bell for service.]

OOC: Haunted Hotel Info/Plotting

[Video | Private to everyone excluding Kitty the elder]

[The video goes out in the morning, before all the therapy and inevitable drama. Ianto looks predictably business-like even for this message.]

Hello. I know it seems like it's shaping up to be a busy day this morning but it's also Kitty's birthday. We'll be hosting a party in our flat this evening if anyone would like to stop by. It's a surprise, so please try not to utterly ruin that aspect for her in the few hours between now and then.

[Open Action]

[Fastforward to evening and party time. Somehow Ianto has found the time between therapy sessions to get the apartment he and Jack share tastefully decorated and throw together some food and, of course, coffee. He's not sure how many people will be feeling up to this after spending the day talking about their problems but even if no one attends he suspects she'll still appreciate the gesture. He's told Kitty to come over for drinks and talking, conveniently leaving out the bit where people are going to jump out and yell surprise when she arrives.]

[The Not Quite Normal Group Therapy Session was set up in one of the workshop rooms in the Education Center. The individual tables were pushed together into one with the chairs around it to promote a sense of belonging for the outcasts participants.

Activities were fairly free-form with a loose structure of a schedule. Introductions, bonding activities, and snacks. There were also name tags for all to wear, already printed with their names. Paper and pencils are provided.]

Introductions

My Name Is...
Go around the group and ask each young person to state his/her name and attach an adjective that not only describes a dominant characteristic, but also starts with the same letter of his name e.g. generous Grahame, dynamic Dave. Write them down, attach to their name tag, and refer to them by this for the rest of the session.

Catch Me if You Can
Everyone creates two parallel lines facing one another, opposite someone they don't know very well. Partners introduce themselves to one another, having about a minute to talk back and forth about things like hobbies, likes/dislikes, unique features. Both lines then turn back to back. They have one minute to change something small about themselves, like how their hair lies, what hand their watch is on, remove or add glasses, etc. The change should be discreet, but visible. Once time is up, the lines turn back to face one another again. Each person has two minutes and three guesses to identify the change in the other person.

Fact or Fiction
Everyone writes on a piece of paper THREE things about themselves which may not be known to the others in the group. Two are true and one is not. Taking turns they read out the three 'facts' about themselves and the rest of the group votes which are true and false.

Intermission
Snacks will be served! Take a break and talk casually to others.

Bonding Activities

What Makes You Unique
Everyone shares something unique about themselves. Show and tell if possible. Discussion welcome.

What Makes You the Same
Break apart into smaller groups of two or three. Each person must find 10 things they have in common with the person/people they're talking to.

Unique Isn't Bad
Each person talks about a time when the unique thing about them helped themselves or others. Alternately, each person discusses how they could re-purpose their uniqueness if it's something they see as bad in themselves.

Worries in a Hat
Participants anonymously write down a worry or fear related to their unique attributes and drop them in the large hat. Specificity with anonymity is encouraged. For example, "I'm worried that having magical powers and special duties because of these powers will interfere with having a family." Each person then picks a random card from the shuffled hat, reads the worry out loud, and attempts to explain what the person who wrote the worry means, trying to describe their own understanding/reflection of the person's emotions associated with the worry. The next person then picks. If someone picks their own worry, they place it back in the hat, reshuffle, and pick again. If someone figures out who wrote the worry, they must respect anonymity and not say who it was. After all the worries in the hat are read, the group can then discuss common fears and themes among what was in the hat.

Free for All
Feel free to make your own activity until the end of the session!

Dismissed!
Have fun with your new friends! Post session chatting is encouraged.

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{OOC: Group Therapy Event Info}

[A pink vampire has a cup of tomato juice (yes, really tomato juice) in one hand, and her communicator in the other, tapping away. In the crook of her elbow is a closed parasol. She's got pink streaks in her black hair, and she is excitedly taking in all the sights of Sector 0.]

Eh?! Jail?! [She's been reading her welcome message.] ... What? But we had to do that, or Spectra and all the other ghost kids were going to be trapped there forever! [She suddenly looks around herself. No chains. Good.] And Valentine had that coming!

[Sigh, and pouting while she sucks on the straw to her tomato juice.] Clawd, I miss you... [sniff sniff like she's about to start crying]

Fine, don't let me set up any roots. Keep shuffling me in and out of this place like a sad, spider-decorated Joker in the deck. It's not like I want to have an apartment or anything, or that I like taking a nap and waking up at the next informal meeting of displaced strangers awaiting their next coma. Really! But seriously, I had a really nice place and it's all taken over by strangers and [head shake!] a homeless spider is a sad spider. And I had things... Eugh.

So don't mind me setting up web in the center of town. I'll have a mad speaker system tonight for anyone who wants to chill.

[And the camera's shaky before it pulls back to show the start of a hanging web dangling from Sector 0's speaker island. Peter has to put on some more finishing touches but it's a nice little bachelor bubble that he scampers up to before giving the lens a peace sign and clicking out. The rest of the day he'll be seen adding to it or swinging around town because he's well aware he'll likely be gone by sunrise.]

Yoo!

[ Neil's in a good mood, despite the mess that he was in yesterday, for a while. It's only partly pretend, because he's got his family there, and nothing could be wrong with that. ]

Lyle, Kitty [ He'll assume she'll know which one, because sister, duh, so he doesn't specify that he means the younger one ], Artemis, Duo. I was thinking, we could all go to Euphie's picnic as a family, right? Tieria, Conrart, you're totally coming with us, too, because nobody's staying to sulk on his own.

How's that sound? Anybody have any thoughts of what to bring with us?


ooc: If anyone wants memories that they're part of the family, too, or I forgot anything that was discussed? Just barge in. This is going to be a trainwreck anyway, so might as well go all in!

[Have Euphie's smiling face on the screen. Kanji and I would like to invite you all to a picnic today! Of course we want to see all our family there, but friends and soon-to-be friends too. [That means strangers.]

You don't have to worry about bringing anything, but if you'd like to bring something extra to share or a game that would be fun or even just an extra blanket just in case that would always be welcome.

We'll be in Trois Park near the koi pond and fountain at noon today.

[There will already be some blankets laid out and pink picnic baskets with a variety of food—many of which have been prepared in extra cute ways like rice balls shaped like cats. You probably think this was mostly Euphie's doing, but it was mostly that boyfriend of hers, Kanji.]

(OOC: Mingle! Tag yourself in or hit up Euphie on video here or at the picnic here. Want to be a relation of Euphie's? Just let me know!)

[DAYTIME: Walking in a floral wonderland. Not to be confused with an actual wonderland. Completely different event. You could be anywhere and everywhere today and not escape the petals.

DANCE: The sector 2 garden is a little extra pleasant and inviting this evening. Gentle breeze, beautiful flowers, delicious hor d'oeuvres, sparkling punch, and music. And dry. Did we mention it's dry? Not a single flood as far as the eye can see. So, find someone and get out there and dance.]

(OOC: Event INFO. Feel free to have your mingle set up cover both aspects of the day.)