This again? Heh.

I always feel like the circus is in town or they got fuckin' hand outs or something. Now would have been a good time for all of those lemonade stands.

HELLLLOOOOOO OUT THERE—!!

Listen up, listen up! Just because the city's getting busy doesn't mean that you can forget your fucking manners. This place belongs to us. The one and only KO-GA-RA-SU-MA-RU!

( he slaps his hand against the wall behind him, palm smacking against his team emblem stickered to the wall. )

If you've got some beef, try and take it from us, otherwise shut your traps! And, make sure you remember that, you noisy bastards!


( he swings his arm forward in a grand sweeping gesture towards the audience, just as a small crow bursts from the black mess that he dares to call his hair. almost as to back him up, it cries out towards the device as well. )

Guaaaa, guaaa—!

(( ooc: fourth wall post! open to everyone and anyone! ))

No one told me how aggravating grocery shopping was.

[No really. Usually Phil or Clint went when they were back home.]

In every aspect of life, anything good always comes with a price. In this case, that may be a few… less than completely polite individuals, whether they're the sort who are actively dangerous or just the sort who have no concept of personal boundaries.

But, in among that crowd are often people whose presence you'll find yourself incredibly thankful for, even if only for a couple of days.

So, in the interest of not missing them while they're here? Well. I thought I might as well come say hello.


( hi here's an ooc note and also it almost kinda has house spoilers if you haven't seen the finale )

Just because the lights are on doesn't mean anybody's actually home, or in this case, the shop's actually open. Sorry to break your little precious hearts, but there'll be no Visitors' Day specials today at Passione. Yes, I understand other shops are doing it, but not this one, mainly because we're closed at this hour of the night.

[And currently there are a lack of employees and such other things a business requires.]

Feel free to stop by and tell this lone worker hello if you care to, maybe bring me a coffee and a donut, maybe a late night dinner too. Just saying. It'll be your good deed for the day.


[ooc: Action/Audio welcome since she's at the shop. Everything is fair game except anything past S4 of Bones. Anything else she can easily forgot by *~*magic*~*.]

[She really... hadn't enjoyed this influx, the first time it had come around and she's wary of just what might be lurking out there this time, but she's curious, all the same. Maybe even a little hopeful although she would be loathe to acknowledge that.]

Maybe we should talk this time.




[[ooc; o3o give me 4th wall goodies, yes please. She will be out walking her dog staring at people too.]]

[ what is it with this guy and roof-edges—no, really. Izaya's chilling pretty comfortably, though the camera's flipping dizzily as he tosses it in thought. ]

Is it really wise to venture out on a weekend like this?

Normally, I'd offer more context for a question like that one—aaaa, but it's turned so busy already, hasn't it? And to think we can only get busier from here! With more and more familiar faces gathering...

Perhaps what I should say instead is—good luck?

[ ooc | Ssssslight slowness expected, regular speed will resume on Sunday. Apologies! ♥ ]

Great, now Victrola and every other pub near the Square's packed. Where'd all these people come from anyway?

Some of you need a bath. Others, though--

[Isabela's previous frustration gives way to a pleasant, thoughtful smile.]

--in any case, it looks like I'll have to take my sobriety elsewhere. I'd go Underground and all, but no one likes it when the occasional meandering monster goes Argh and Ugh while you're trying to get your rocks off.

Can someone please inform my mother that six in the morning is not a time that normal people start baking? Especially when she's only just shown up within the last half hour?

[ Hi, City. Ariadne's looking rather bleary-eyed, Biscuit the cat's orange self plopped onto her lap and staring up at his human as she tries not to yawn into the camera. ]

I think we're going to need a new freezer to store everything in, guys. [ TOO TIRED FOR LOCKED MESSAGES TO HER HOUSE. ]

Anyway, I'm Ariadne and welcome to the City. [ Pause. ] Any familiar faces out there?

[ Okay, so maybe she's hoping for some... ]

((ooc: Open to all sorts of fourth-walling, save for telling her she's from a movie!))

Told you today would be something big.

[He's smirking a bit at that. No delusion of actually understanding the City, but at least he's seeing certain patterns.]

Anyway, since the City seems to be filling up, I gotta ask:

Any cute girls here?~


[ooc: Open to all comers, fourth wall people, come at me!]

I, for one, welcome this influx of visitors. Say, are any of you clever souls up for a game of three card monte?

[OOC: Anything goes on 4th wall day!]

...I am very perplexed and confused by everything that is happening.

[He peers around, his eyes darting about.]

Should I be punching things? Is this a bad thing that is going on?

[ooc: FOURTH WALL! Anything goes. Backtagging awesome.]

If you're new here, here's a tip: anyone breaking in or being a pain gets a fireball in their face. Got it?

If you're someone I know, then say hi or something.

[ooc: 4th wall, anything goes!]

[video // action]

[Abed comes crawling out of a building, wearing a blanket tunic and a pillow tied to his head, while carrying another pillow with him.

He stands up and looks around him, puzzled. He looks behind him, but he doesn't see the main corridor of the United Forts of Pillowtown -- only a cafe with some very confused patrons.

He looks down at the pillow in his arms.]


Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Greendale any more


[ooc: 4th wallers welcome! Action threads preferred! Threadjackers are worshipped and adored. Please comment here with your preferences regarding being 4th walled.]

[Filtered from Known DELILAH Members || WARNING Code Failure WARNING Viewable to All]
So we're being inundated with these 'tourists' again, it seems. It was only a matter of time, I suppose. They do seem to come rather more often in the summer, though. Perhaps it's a holiday for them.

As ever, I never manage to do as I say--to keep to myself, well inside, away from the windows and the Network, and all the rest. It never seems to work entirely, if only because it's rather difficult to keep away from all windows and it does become rather tedious. To say nothing of the fact that there are a few people who seem quite capable of coming into the opera house as they please, despite all our efforts to the contrary. And I don't think warning them about He-Who-Kills will do any good either.

I shall, however, keep a close watch for Merry. I haven't much hope or wish for anyone else from my world to pay me a call. Although I do recall that my uncle came for a visit one year. And there was a young man who seemed strikingly familiar but whom I'm sure I didn't know.

Although, there are yet others who seem to come into the City on days like this whom I should still like to see, even if I may not quite hope for it as I did with Riff and now with Merry so long ago and so often.

The little clutch of girls is back under my window, as I knew they would be. I think I'd be rather disappointed if they weren't there. It's still rather flattering. You would think they'd have grown tired of me by now, but perhaps that's the way time works in and out of the City. I shall be tossing them letters again this time, and I do hope they see this on the Network so that they'll be able to catch them. It would be a shame to have them fall to the ground unheeded.

I may even go out this afternoon. It's quite time I tried something a little different in all this madness. And I've seen all of this more times that I think many have. As I said, I wasn't here in the City for a week before it happened to me for the first time.

And, yes, exciting as it always is at first, I know I'll be quite exhausted after a few moments of it. But these tourists certainly won't mind or care. They really can be rather like insects in the way they can find their way into anywhere or anything.

So I think I shall be a fool today and show my face after all. But at least I'm quite aware of my own foolishness. And perhaps there's something clever in that.

Welcome to the City, I suppose.

Though why anyone would visit the City, I shall never understand.

~C.
[//end filter || WARNING code failure WARNING]

[ooc: Hit him. Hit him gooooooooooood. 4th Wall away! Anything that doesn't match up or confuses him or spoils his ending he will forget or write off as madness. C'mon! Party up in here!]

So where's the party at?

[ooc: No spoilers for the ending of Reservoir Dogs, please!]

Ah... visitors. [His eyes say he's smiling.] Always a pleasant surprise. Allow me to offer you a warm welcome to the City. You'll find your way around, I'm sure.

Now, I don't suppose it would be too optimistic to hope that a James McCullen is among you. [Murmuring:] Or even Mr. Zartan...

[OOC: DESSSSTRO, COME IN, DESSSSTROOO. Or anyone. EXCEPT FOR JOES >CCC (No, Joes would be awesome) Just don't tell him he's fictional.]

[voice]

The Dragon's closed for the weekend because no one wants to work triple shifts. If you want to feed the turtleducks in the pond out back, that's fine, but they bite if you're not fast enough! [ Which Toph finds hilarious, of course. ]

--But now to the important stuff. Where is everybody? Twinkletoes, Snoozles, Sugar Queen? It's visit weekend and you missed the last one, so you owe me. I'm going to the park. Meet me there.

[ ooc: Toph is from end-of-series and is open to any kind of fourthwalling you like. Voice/video/action -- it's all good! ]

Don't suppose it's too much to assume we got some other Cybertroinans this time.

[OOC: Bring on anyone and anything.]

Oh, this'll be fun.

If we have any xenophobes in the City today, I'm in no mood.

[OOC: I still have not played Mass Effect 3 yet, so please NO ME3 SPOILERS.]

[ filtered to Tony ]

Out shopping. Need anything?


[ Pepper is out buying herself some well-needed supplies and new outfits. Still recently returned to the City, she has no idea that half the people wandering the streets aren't actually meant to be there... ]

[ Tyr isn't on the screen, but instead points the device toward the beach that can be seen from the house--Or what can be seen of it, anyway. It's currently covered in people, towels, and umbrellas. Some people even set up a barbecue and some faint music can be heard coming from somewhere.

Despite how happy everyone on the beach looks, Tyr sounds somewhat bitter. ] And I thought moving to the beach would make fishing on the weekends easier, too... I wonder how many of the people out there are actually sticking around.

[ ooc: 4th wall! Also open to action. ]

That time again? [Sigh.] Well, let's get this over with.

[A thud and rolling as a Network Device falls to the ground and rolls a couple of feet]

Hang on, no, I can't - yes I'm the Star Spangled-

Aren't you a little young to know those words, ma'am?

There is no need for that kind of language!


[ooc: Anything goes EXCEPT Cap' doubles. Face doubles are okay tho!]

It's too damn noisy today.

[ooc: 4th wall away!]

All right, that's enough of you!

I don't know where you've heard that ridiculous story, but I assure you gingers do have a soul.

[ooc; Welcome 4th wallers :D]

Seems like the City's more hoppin' than usual today... Anyone care to fill me in on somethin' I mighta missed?

( ooc: tags will be delayed due to rl circumstances, but Elijah is out and about and totally open to any fourth-wall harassment! )

If this weekend is anything like the last time this many people showed up, I think I'm just going to stay inside.

( ooc: buuuuut he won't! as with Elijah's post, tags will be delayed due to rl circumstances, but Jack is also out and about and totally open to any fourth-wall harassment! )

[ He's mostly just disgruntled by this influx of people. It makes standing in line for coffee so much harder. Plus, he's tired. ]

Man, I thought I got away with this last time, karma's not a fair dame.

[ ooc: welcoming any 4th wallers moo ha ha ha. ]

Oh please, please God, let him be here today, please.

Please let my loved ones show up. Please.



[OOC: Anyone at all is welcome to come see Mercy!]

[Lena's sitting at a cafe across from the fountain. There actually wasn't a seat available, but she persuaded some people to clear a table for her. All it took was making eye contact and reminding them they had somewhere else to be.]

So, from everyone's reactions, I take it the population boom has happened before, right?

[And she's wondering why a lot of people are being so annoyed and put out about it.]

Do the new people here really disrupt things or cause riots? Because other than that, I can see how it'd get a little annoying having to fill the newbies in, but they're all stuck here like us, and it's not their fault so... [She's going off on a tangent here. Time to reel it back in.]

I mean, they're probably freaked out. I don't mind being the welcoming committee for them. I was just wondering if there was anything different about them from the usual newcomers, that's all.

[Pause.]

And some people seem to think their loved ones are here now. Is that a thing that usually happens with this?

[She doesn't say anymore, but she doesn't yet turn off the camera either. She's forgotten it for a moment as she's doing a Caster thing: reaching out with her mind and calling out to her boyfriend to see if he's there, like she does everyday.]


[ooc: Ready for 4th wall shenanigans! I doubt any characters actually know her canon, but if there's a slim chance, please don't tell her she's fictional. Also her canon point isn't up to date; it's the end of Beautiful Darkness.]

Another visitor weekend?

Tch. If only this worked in reverse. [...with actually being able to leave this place instead]

[ooc; anything goes for 4th wall! feel free to bother him]

Hey, everyone who's new! Don't freak out, okay? You're in the City and it's a weird place, but you probably won't be here for very long and almost everyone's really nice. Oh, and time stops in your world when you leave it, so it's completely okay if you were in the middle of something. You should plan on being here through tomorrow sometime, so if you can find some friends who'll lend you a couch, that'd be a good idea. If you don't have anyone, look for the buildings with the signs that say "The Welcome Center" or "The Youth Center." We have some beds in both places, and no, you don't have to be a kid to stop by the Youth Center. Curses're special that way.

Both buildings'll be offering free food and drinks for as long as possible. Sorry for anyone who was waiting early this morning; these curses don't exactly come with warnings, so it took a while to get everything together.

Anyway! My name's Penny and I'd be happy to help you out if you have any questions or need anything. You can either talk to me by using the video-thingy you're watching this on--there should be a button that says record reply or something like that--or, if you see me around, give me a shout. I hope you have a good time!


[text; unfiltered]

PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE CITY: Thank you so so much to everyone who's been stepping up and helping out! Quadruple thanks to you restaurant and cafe owners. You guys are the best. But even with all this help we're still completely swamped so if you feel like helping and you're not already signed up with one of the Centers, we could really use you.

And if anyone's interested in helping to run either the Welcome Center or the Youth Center, please please please let me know! Thank you! ♥


[action]

[Penny is all over the City's main square, trying to oversee both centers while running errands and trying to be helpful. She may or may not be carting meals, bedding, or other sundry goods. Tumbles, a half-collie mix, might be following her around. Whatever she's doing, though, she's genuinely eager to lend a hand to anyone with a question.]


[ooc: Anything goes, fourth wall as you like, and please forgive delays on my end!]

[Raphael, sitting at a table at an outdoor cafe, looking surprisingly cool and refreshed despite the summer heat, in a light pink button-down and trim slacks. There's a small, untouched platter of cookies, and two equally untouched glasses of lemonade on the table, and scraggly gray and white tomcat lounging on the sidewalk beneath him, front paws resting on his foot.]

... I'm not sure why a few of the newcomers here suddenly think I need to ship myself. I have the unfortunate feeling they don't mean by mail, either.

[Much as he's facing the camera, his eyes are on the crowd, searching, scrutinizing. The hopeful, slightly eager look on his face betrays him even if his words don't.]

I'll admit it's one of my poorer offers, but if anyone would care to stop by, lunch is on me. Believe me, your company's the best payment I could ever receive.

(OOC: Fourth wall destruction is go! ... Action for anybody that wants to meet up with him at the cafe. I would rather him not be spoiled, especially not for his ending-- he's from just before Sara's trial, but please have fun otherwise! Threadjacking is, of course, absolutely fine.)

Vistor's day, already? Every time this day comes, I wonder if this is the deities' method of choosing their next victims. A practice run.

Personally, I hope not.

Also if happen to meet a dapper gentleman with blonde hair, dressed in Hugo Boss or Armani, he, in fact, likely possesses a vagina. You know where not to find me, Charlotte.

[The shop, just over Percy's shoulder, is very crowded - it's clear that Visitor's Weekend has been a success for Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. He looks a bit harried, a few curls escaping from their gelled hold, but he still manages a decent smile for the camera.]

Welcome to the City, visitors! I sincerely hope you enjoy your stay - and if you choose to explore, please stop by Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, a purveyor of quality magical entertainment and joke products. Don't forget: mention 'VISITOR' at check-out and receive ten percent off your purchase!

[Suddenly, a turquoise firework rockets between him and the camera and he looks aside, startled.]

Sir! Sir! Please don't -

[The screen suddenly fills with lavender smoke, and the connection ends.]

[ooc: DID SOMEONE SAY SHENANIGANS? Feel free to bother Percy at the shop, and fourth-wallers are more than welcome - just don't tell him he's fictional!]

Oh, I've heard of this.

[Merlin greets the network with a grin, and raises his hand in a small wave. He may or may not be sitting in the center of stacks of books.

Research.]

Welcome to the City, everyone. I'm sure that if you need any assistance in any way, there's someone who would be more than willing to help around here. I'll personally be too busy to really go anywhere, I think, but if you have any questions that I can answer over the... phone, feel free to ask.

Ah, and my name's Merlin, by the way.

( Filtered from Karl Fei-Ong - requesting magic assistance or whatever )

((OOC: Fourth wall! Anything goes aside from telling him he's from an actual TV show, because he already knows he's a legend. Have at.))

Time for our seasonal Tourist day, I see.

I almost miss wondering-

Others have already explained the situation for your benefit, so I won't worry about repeating it. Just try to keep out of trouble, and I suppose, try not to worry.


( ooc deets! )

This again? Well -

[For all it might be slightly annoying, she looks anxious. Or maybe concerned. Or maybe hiding her excitement.]

Jamie? Guys? If you're here, let me know - I'll come pick you up. Towels included, if you were dropped into the fountain. Just putting that out there.

[ooc; ;_; Babies where are you]

I'm out of salt.

But the City is full of assholes.

[He is not going out there.]

I'll pay someone top dollar for salt.

[ooc: anything but crew doubles!]

What've we started calling these days? Visitor weekends? I'd say this makes for the most pleasant one thus far, but I'm already speaking too soon for it. I never really understood how this all works - what's the difference allowing for people to come for a few days versus the few months the majority of us have been sitting on, waiting to go back to whatever version of home is left for us?

Is there some sort of good deed some of our lot get rewarded for? More paperwork, like in the desert? A queue of personal favours, maybe. What makes someone more deserving than others to come and go? I know I'm hardly going to get a straight answer from the men on the seat and pure speculation is relatively useless, but all the same.

Are any of you really satisfied with your lives in the City? Don't feel as though you need a beating heart sort of life to answer.

If not, what is it you long for?

If so- well, to put it bluntly, why?

Oh, drat it all, I really do suppose I ought to have expected--of course, it is getting to be that time of the year again, isn't it? It was just the first day of summer last week, and it was winter the last time everyone came to call, and that's rather how these things go, once a season or so, without fail.

It's strange how some of the curses are like that, really. When one stays here long enough, one rather gets to know the patterns they follow--like the weekend of random curses once a month, and then this one cropping up a few times a year, and the mistletoe in December and October always being just awful and so on.

Oh, but that's quite enough of that; there's so much to do! The Blue Light will be open late tonight, for anyone to come and sit and have something to eat and visit awhile, so please do come by and say hello! That's where I'll be, and I'd certainly like to say hello to all of you.

And, er...

Well, please do try to, er, behave, won't you?


[OOC: As per usual, she's canonically from just after the end of Perils of Rosella, and with some very disjointed and vague knowledge of Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder. Not that that really means anything to anyone, but. If something comes up that I don't want her to know, I'll just have her forget it, so have a party--anything goes! HIT HER WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT. Troll, threadjack, have a ball!

And of course, I am totally okay with backdating. ♥


P.S. THERE IS AN OPEN LOG AT THE BLUE LIGHT FOR ANY 4TH WALLERS WHO WANT IT. HAVE AT!]

I don't know why, but I've always thought of these days in terms of wondering if I'll get to see anyone I know, when maybe that's not any more likely than running into someone really cool, from history or something. Like Cleopatra or Blackbeard or something. That would be far out. I wonder if Mozart would be down to jam or if he'd be kind of stuck up or what.

[ooc: Anything goes , but my internet is out due to the recent stormpocalypse and I'm shamelessly stealing internet from my friend who lives in the same buildingand also I'm spending tomorrow flying out to see my dad so tags might be sporadic and then disappear.]

[action]

[He'd already been helping Neil out at the bookstore, since Billy's departure, but with the extra crowds this weekend, it goes without saying that it's where he's spending most of his time. Since he generally feels more comfortable with books than with customers, he's trying to keep the store in some semblance of order after the shelves have been picked through.

Needless to say, it's an ongoing effort. Still, even when busy, Todd is never unapproachable.]


[voice]

[When he does get a chance to take a break, he makes a brief post.]

The crowds seem a lot bigger when you're actually in them. I... um, I don't really think I mind. I mean, I don't like that it's so crowded, but-- I'm still happy to see a lot of people.


[ooc: It's impossible to spoil Todd because he is from THE END. Like, on the desk the end. Don't tell him he's fictional, though. That is all!]

( Alexiel has decided to take some time for herself - if one could call being alone in a city full of people being truly alone. She is currently walking down one of the many side-walks, her heels making distinct taps against the concrete. She has yet to change out of the dress she arrived in and her sword and sheathe are tied neatly around her waist. )

The pulse of life in this City is almost overwhelming. ( Especially for one who has spent so much time either in another or alone. )

It's difficult for even one such as I to find friends and foes. ( She pauses in the middle of a street. Yes. Just try to hit her. ) Can I trust what I feel?

( Extending one arm, she raises her gaze to the heavens. ) Are you toying with me? Is this a farce?

( She pays no attention to anything or anyone around her. A wild wind whips her long curls around her body, obscuring her expression. )

Cruel.

( ooc: Open to anyone and everyone! I welcome all 4th-Wallers. Alexiel is taken from the end of AS, jsyk. )

 This? Again? 

I feel like I should properly address the congregation.

[Clears his throat.]

I haven't kept active count for how many times this has happened. All in all I've come out unscathed so I say through the safety of this advice: come at me bro.

audio;

Outta curiosity... when and where are all of you from? Well, folks that are here besides the last two days can say so too but I always feel like there's some sorta calender difference or some shit. Is it bad there or what?

[Why would they leave? And even though he's asking questions, he adds almost reluctantly...]

I'm from Los Angeles. It wasn't bad.

[ You may either find Yusuf laden with an armful of cookie tins- in which case, please stop him and ask for some, contrary to a single person's belief, the house literally cannot handle any more cookies in it- or walking back from the grocery with the tins in a bag and about four other bags of what can only be baking supplies. Likely, if your house needs butter, it will not be getting it on this good night, as Yusuf has just bought pretty much all of it.

You can thank Ariadne's mom.

Finagling the bags around on his wrists, Yusuf flips open his device just long enough to ask a question of the network. ]

So people make brief or repeated appearances in the city on certain weekends. Is it then, a rule, that the people who appear have a relation or acquaintance to someone else in the city?

It's times like these I'm glad I live out on the beach.

But I grabbed a few fireworks. What better way to end a day of...sweet reunions.

[Yuri rolls his eyes amicably, but really he's just kinda jaded and hasn't seen the people he's really wanted to see yet.]

Not quite reliable enough to set your watch by, but it's getting close. I'd been wondering when this would come along.

Don't get me wrong, I love having company. But I'd appreciate any advice on how to get out of here more.


( ooc deets! )