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TEAM YZMA

READY: START

Team Yzma roster: Carmen Sandiego, Dave Strider, Elizabeth, Emil Vasterstrom, Juzo Sakakura, Lucy/Kaede, Penelo, Seto Kaiba, Shouto Todoroki, Souji Seta, Yato.

The city's been under siege for what feels like hours. It's only on August 3rd that you learn it's been a matter of days. Monsters begin pulling Retrospec users through portals left and right, large gaping holes in reality that spit you out in any given location around the city.

However, just as you think you're finally getting away, a large blue portal opens and you're snatched up. No amount of fighting and struggling will free you and soon the pressure is too great to ignore. Darkness fills your vision and the last thing you may remember is the sound of thunder...

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3RD: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 1 part two
10TH: Objective 1 closes (8PM EST), Objective 2 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 2 Part 2
17TH: Objective 2 closes (8PM EST), Objective 3 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 3 Part Two
24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST)

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Dawn of the First Day: Solitaire-y Confinement

[Well the first thing Pen had tried was the computer...and that had of course been a fruitless effort but at least there was solitaire. She didn't really sleep much that first night, if she were honest. The sound of mouse-clicks and the dim greenish glow of a computer screen lighting up the receptionist's area were a pretty clear indication of where she was.

If anyone approaches quietly, they may catch her slumped over, staring dully at the screen playing the simplest PC game of all time by rote. Noisier visitors will be greeted with a much less sullen looking Penelope, sitting up straight and looking at them expectantly, albeit with slightly strained eyes.]

Hey...

Dawn of the Third Day: The Laugh Track is Killing Me

[Two and a Half Men, on loop, is a special kind of hell. She'd born the indignity of listening to that hellish theme song well enough the first couple of days, but after a while she just snapped. Standing up suddenly, in all her tiny indignant glory, she pulls out her tablet and marches over to the DVD player.]

I can't take it anymore guys. I'm putting something decent on.

[Yanking the hookups out of the DVD player, she practically stabs them into the ports on her tablet and fills the screen with, well, her personal video library.]

I don't have much, but Christ, if I have to listen to Charlie Sheen sing one more time, I'm going to murder someone. So, what will it be? I have the 90s version of the Enrage anime, the first season of Seinfeld, and a bunch of movies. Or I can put on music. Because anything is better than this.

Dawn of the Fourth Day: The Hits Keep in Coming

[In a fit of madness, jittery after several days locked in this Americana Purgatory, Pen had started making use of the pen and paper. Humming softly to herself, her little tomato friend perched on top of her head like some vine-ripened gargoyle, she starts writing something. Stops after several moments, shakes her head, and then tosses the paper into the trashcan before starting again, humming a slightly different variation of the same tune.]

Edited 2017-08-08 16:20 (UTC)

[ Yato is so bored... So... bored...

He comes by and shamelessly picks the paper she threw away out of the trash can. Faster than asking her what she's writing about... ]

[What he'll find is music. Actual sheet music, honest to god written out by hand sheet music.

And the tomato creature will just look at him and chirp, which breaks Pen's concentration enough that she in turn looks over at him.]

The flow's off on that, Yato. It's not worth reading.

[ He continues to look at the paper shamelessly. Having been involved with Anya's transition to idolhood any by extention the production of her music, he has some knowledge of sheet music and sight-reading. ]

You a musician?

[Lowering her pen, Pen shakes her head and smiles sadly.]

Nah, I'm just a hobbyist. I don't write anything more than jingles, really. But I like doing it.

You?

I was into singing in some of my hallucinomemories. Me, personally? I guess I'm technically a music producer now.

[ He thinks of himself less as a professional producer and more as Anya's one-man promo team, though. ]

Plenty of hobbies can turn into a career.

I've already got one though. I'm a programmer. And I do YouTube videos. Music is just...well, it's just for fun.

But what do you produce? Anything I might know?

Music and YouTube go hand in hand, y'know. Where else do people go to look music up?

[ Yato, a serial job hopper for most of his adult life, sees nothing wrong with taking on multiple career ventures in search of the best one. And now that he has a chance to talk even a little about Anya, Yato brightens. ]

I produce for Anya! Or Anastasia, as some people might know her now. But at night, I moonlight as a cook at the Inkwell. They're not mutually exclusive, see?

Well, there's spotify, pandora plus, amazon music, itunes...but I'm not really looking for a music career I guess. I like what I do, music's my hobby.

[Laughing, she taps her pen against the paper and shakes her head.]

I'm not familiar with her. But hey, I'll make sure to check her out. When we get outta this, send me some tracks and I'll see if I can work them into a show. I do plugs for local artists and stuff all the time.

Can do. And if you come up with a jingle you like, I'm sure we could find a use for it. Anya only made her debut recently, but she's on the rise! Soon, we'll need material for commercials and all that. Hobby or not, that could be extra money in your pocket.

[ And it'll be good on her resume if she changes her mind. ]

Hah, well. I'll definitely keep that in mind. I mean, I'm a college student. No way am I turning down money. I just...this is more to keep me from wigging out.

[Patting the paper, she smiles somewhat weakly.]

But you know, if there's a particular musical style you want me to write something in, I can try? That might be more useful than just banging my head against a totally new tune.

Anya's got this night sky kind of concept. Cool and calming, but sparkling like the stars. She's into the kind of music that'll make people smile. And hey, if inspiration strikes you and you end up writing an entire song, we can talk about that too!

[ And -- can you believe this -- he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a business card, which he'll offer to Penelope. ]

Just keep an open mind, okay?

[Well. That's a thing. She'll take his card and weirdly enough produce one of her own. For Pen's Points Productions.]

Sure. Though, if you need work done for a website or something that is where my real specialty is.

[ My god. But he can appreciate an opportunistic self-marketer. And tech stuff is his weakness as an everyman, so this is actually a useful connection for him. He takes the card and offers her a hand to shake. ]

I'll remember that. Good talking to ya.

[ literally how did this turn into a business talk ]

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