In A.D. 2011, war was beginning.

[pacifisted.livejournal.com]

WHO: 300,000 angry nerds and the Imports who fight them. Tag yourselves in, please!
WHERE: All around, but mostly near the Porter tower
WHEN: 7:30A May 18 - 3:13P May 20, 2011
WARNINGS: There is no fourth wall. Only Zuul. And violence. And probably bad language. And other things as well. JUST ASSUME THAT THIS LOG IS NOT FOR LIL'UNS.
SUMMARY: The Crabhammers declare war on the Porter and, to a lesser extent, the Imports. The battle lasts three days, is horrible in just about every way you can think of, and this is how it goes down.
FORMAT: However people wanna do it!

"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time."

Everything you need to know is here.

quick links to avoid crashy computers
in the fray
DAY ONE: 7:30 AM--10:00 AM (FIRST CHARGE, BROKEN TRAINS, TRAFFIC JAMS)
DAY ONE: 10:00 AM ONWARD (CONTINUED BATTLING, PUBLIC DISTURBANCES ELSEWHERE)
DAY ONE: 5:17 PM ONWARD (CONTINUED BATTLING, FIRES AND BOMBS ALL OVER)
DAY TWO: 1:00 AM -- 6:28 AM (CONTINUED BATTLING, ENEMY ENERGY DRINKS)
DAY TWO: 6:28 AM -- 12:00 PM (CONTINUED BATTLING, PIRATING THE RADIO STATION)
DAY TWO: 12:00 PM -- 7:42 PM (CONTINUED BATTLING, TOY RAIDS)
DAY TWO: 7:42 PM -- DAY THREE: 12:00 AM (CONTINUED BATTLING, ENEMY IMPORT-HATING REINFORCEMENTS)
DAY THREE: 12:01 AM ONWARD (CONTINUED BATTLING, HERE COMES THE CAVALRY)
DAY THREE: 6:45 AM -- 1:00 PM (CONTINUED BATTLING, CREATE YOUR OWN INSANE LAST-DITCH GEEK TRICKS)
DAY THREE: 1:00 PM -- 3:13 PM (CONTINUED BATTLING, THE MADAGASCARIAN TWENTY-GRAND HOLDOUT)
DAY THREE: 3:13 PM ONWARD (WAR OVER. TAKE PRISONERS, MAKE FRIENDS, GET HEALED, FALL ASLEEP, ETC)

not quite in the fray
DAY ONE: ALL DAY (ON THE SIDELINES, AT REST, TAKING BREAKS, ETC.)
DAY TWO: ALL DAY (ON THE SIDELINES, AT REST, TAKING BREAKS, ETC.)
DAY THREE: ALL DAY (ON THE SIDELINES, AT REST, TAKING BREAKS, ETC.)

fuck the fray
DAY ONE: ALL DAY (FORGET THE BATTLE, I HAVE HBO)
DAY TWO: ALL DAY (YOU LOSERS ARE STILL FIGHTING? IT'S AMERICAN IDOL TIME!)
DAY THREE: ALL DAY (IF YOU'RE ALL BUSY ELSEWHERE I'M JUST GONNA GO ROB A BANK)

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[grey1911.livejournal.com]

Aaron pushed with the other officers, but kept a little ahead, giving the line a hint of a wedge formation that allowed them an advantage against the crowd. They were making ground, be it slowly, but their advancing was being noticed now. Bottles and props started to come their way, but most bounced off the shields.

Down the line, an officer staggered back from the advance, face bloodied from a lucky hit with a lightsaber.

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

"We can hope, but I doubt they will come quietly." He sighed, then slowly setting his coffee down on the table. "Speaking of which..." Across the street a group of about a dozen individuals, some dressed in costume, were walking toward the radio station. They were armed with strange weapons, mostly LARP legal ones, as Aaron stood and motioned for Seras to look toward the group out the window.

[out_of_time]

"Damn it!" While other officers dragged away the injured man and replaced him in the line, Jack broke away, ran to the van, then came back with a brightly-coloured shotgun. He singled out the man with the faux-lightsaber, still flailing away with it in brown Jedi robes. Jack took aim over the shields and dropped him with a bean bag round.

[out_of_time]

That was the space he needed. Drawing a precision tool from his jacket, he slowly and delicately reached deep into the innards of the bomb, and touched the 'stop' button on the wristwatch. There was a beep, and then the countdown stopped. Simple as that. He wished all bombers could be this amateurish.

Not satisfied, Jack took a moment to disconnect the watch from the detonator, and the detonator from the explosives, before standing up and yelling "We're clear!" With the bomb defused and the hostiles subdued or routing, it looked like the store was well on its way to being secured.

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

When Jack dropped the flailing Jedi, Aaron gave a shout and pushed with his shield against the pressure of the mob. He knew the other officers were tiring rapidly, but they had to get the crowd to realize they were not going to hold out against the police quickly, or they would eventually overpower the line. He heard some shouting, and a little of the pressure pushing up against his shield seemed to be relieved.

"Jack! Check the crowd!" The last thing he wanted was for the pressure to let up and then come back with more force, overrunning them.

[crusades]

"They're smarter than they are physically able," he replied, proving the point by deliberately allowing a Terrible Trio contingency to outmaneuver him only to make short work of them with his hands, "The cave was secure enough to withstand individuals, not a militia. They knew I'd be in the field when the riots broke out."

They hadn't counted on him having remote control of the cave's systems, however, or for half of the surprises it had waiting for plucky interlopers who were to boldly stupid to realize who they were dealing with. Even so, he'd been compromised lethally. He would have to be less accessible in future.

it was his true rune plot back last summer

[trueltning_fury]

Geddoe pondered it for a moment. "Is there any in distance?"

He started to push himself up, but he was just too damn tired and his left arm ached. He sagged back down on the curb with a sigh. "Damn. I suppose I have no choice. If you can..."

*makes note to review that later*

[shiromadoushi]

"Just wait here, okay?" Bakura assured. "Meat is okay, right?" There was a hamburger place a few blocks, and a place that sold chicken, he was pretty sure.

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

It was becoming increasingly obvious that his recently acquired fighting style was a eerily similar to Buffy's -- or at least it was obvious to Peter. Sort of. Mostly it was just strange, but he was vaguely preoccupied with laying into the hordes of armed nerds. At least he wasn't preoccupied enough that he couldn't hold a conversation. "Something tells me they're not getting bored anytime soon."

[slayerpreferred.livejournal.com]

Which is super serious, she gets it. It only makes her more nervous and she's starting to feel like she's in the principal's office. Info would be nice, though it comes with a strict no-kill policy. What's a vampire slayer to do if she can't slay vampires? But she finds herself nodding, though still with the worried face. "If they're all as nice as you, that shouldn't be any trouble." Maybe the vampires in the city all had souls. Or.. chips, like Spike. Or maybe vampires from other dimensions were just nice and fluffy. She was okay with being delusional for now. Or forever.

[out_of_time]

Jack looked over the top of the shield wall again, and saw the faces of the enemy (those who weren't wearing stormtrooper masks at least). He saw tired faces, desperate faces, fearful faces, faces streaked with tears.

"They're wavering! We've almost done it!" He yelled. "One more time! ALL TOGETHER NOW: ONE, TWO, THREE, PUSH!"

This last effort had better do it, because it's the last one Jack is physically capable of. He can feel his legs threatening to give out from under him even as he braces them and once more throws his shoulder into it.

[slayerpreferred.livejournal.com]

"I'll let you in on a secret. Neither am I." She flips over one fake vampire, punching out two once she gets between them, then laying out a third with a well-placed trip. "Where'd you learn to fight?"

[trueltning_fury]

"Yeah. Fine." Geddoe rested his elbows on his knees and actually took off his gloves for once, leaving them resting across a thigh. It didn't matter if people saw the runes now, he was finally getting over the habit of hiding.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura blinked a moment at the runes, but refocused quickly. "I'll be right back!" he nodded before lowering the visor and zooming off.

It was less than 10 minutes before he returned with a bag from the chicken fast food place. He carefully dismounted, pulling off his helmet and shaking his hair free as he walked over, bag out in offering. "Here," he smiled.

[trueltning_fury]

The big mercenary perked up considerably, smelling the food, even if it was the greasy and fast kind. He actually kind of liked it that way. "You are a godsend," he murmured gratefully as he pulled out a sandwich and set to right away. He stuffed his face for a bit first, and then glanced up at the youngster. "Do you want...? I have some money," he offered. "To pay you back."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura shook his head. "It's all right, it wasn't that much," he assured with a smile.

[meowminx]

A few guys in costumes she didn't recognize charged in together. They didn't fare any better than the solo fighters. "I assume you were prepared for this."

She already knew the answer was yes.

Sorry this is late

[caprihorn]

Gamzee moved almost as soon as he saw Booga moving. He might have moved a little faster than that had he not thought for a second that one of his "fans" had broken into the store. Nothing was there as far as he could see, but he was still going to keep an eye out. Last thing he needed was another fight with someone trying ram a brownie down his throat.

Still, he followed and shot two people as he, one got it in her eye and one he decided to give a slower death by shooting him in the throat.

He was a little late in seeing the grenade, but he ducked in time to avoid most of the damage. Specks of purple blood were on his shoulder after that, but he didn't really feel it anyway, so what did he care. A second later he was back to shooting, being a little more vicious than before and making sure to hit in spots that hurt a lot more and drew out the dying a bit longer.

He honked as he hit each mark.

"Hope you motherfuckers all motherfuckin' like getting up at not motherfuckin' breathing."

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

"Good." He turns, heading for the station again. "I appreciate your understanding, Buffy."

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

It was a titanic effort, all the police pushing in one desperate effort against the crowd, while it was pushing back in its own attempts to keep them at bay. Aaron lowered his shoulder, putting as much force as he dared behind it.

"Come on!" He looked over at the officer next to him, and Jack beyond them, they both looked spent as he gave another push with his shield. Just then, the pressure started to let off, people started to turn and that sense of resistance against them slowly began to lift.

[trueltning_fury]

"I owe you for this."

Geddoe bolted down the rest of the sandwich, but moved on to the rest more slowly. He remembered that the kid was a healer, even if he didn't know his name. "Taking care of people after the battle?" he wondered between bites of chicken.

Sorry this is late.

[caprihorn]

Another hit he couldn't fully dodge. Gamzee moved as much as he could to take the blow in a part of his body the could better deal with the damage than his back could. The force behind the hit almost knocked him down, but because he was still moving and he didn't feel the pain behind it he still had a hold with his feet.

If he could swing it he was also going to try to get ahold of Chao while he was still moving. Aiming to grab her arm and pull her with him as he moved Gamzee hoped to twist and wrench her arm to break it. He was strong enough that he could snap even a muscular person's arm with little effort, but then he'd actually have to be able to grab Chao and the suit he was guessing may make this a little more difficult than he'd like.

Recognizing that he probably needed to get out of this fight quickly he was also putting a lot more force behind this move and preparing to run off. If Chao could see it she could probably see the way his muscles were tensing and guess that he was going to put a lot of effort into this one move.

[shiromadoushi]

"Yeah," Bakura nodded. "A lot easier now that it's all over!" He didn't need his LARPer body guards to clear the way like he was an escort mission. "Most people have gotten to the Clinic and hospitals now. Mostly just checking for anyone that was missed or who's in need of other things."

[trueltning_fury]

Geddoe nodded his agreement with the idea. They were all very fortunate to have healers among the population. "I'm fine," he reiterated. "Just tired."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded. "That's good to hear. You should be able to get a good nights sleep tonight." Maybe even two nights worth. He was pretty sure he'd be sleeping most of the next day as well...