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[ en ] tranceway . m . o . d . s. ([personal profile] vitaelamorte) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2019-08-03 11:21 am

+ Welcome to Santa Barbara Comic Con! - MINGLE LOG +

Who: EVERYONE
Where: Santa Barbara Comic Con!
When: 8/3 - 8/5
Rating: PG-13, warn if going higher
Summary: A mingle log for the Psych event - Welcome to Santa Barbara Comic Con! This would be an absolutely terrible time to get mixed up in a horrible murder!
The Story:

Welcome to Santa Barbara! Nicknamed the American Riviera, it's a cozy seaside city that can often feel like a small town. And you get to be here during its most exciting weekend - the Santa Barbara Comic Con!

Whether you come from out of town or are a Santa Barbara native, there is plenty to do in the convention center and surrounding city. Maybe you are there to cosplay, attend panels, or meet your favorite comic book creator. You might even be a guest yourself, be it a well-known illustrator or an easily overlooked character actor.

If conventions aren't your thing, there are plenty of other activities around town, whether you want to run one of the food trucks down by the pier or take advantage of the tourists with expensive tchotchkes. You could use the weekend to pick up extra hours at your comfortable pharmaceutical company job. If inclined, you can help out convention security as one of Santa Barbara's finest, the totally and completely 100% competent officers of the SBPD who do not at all whatsoever rely on a psychic to help solve a staggering percentage of crimes.

There's more to Santa Barbara than just surf and sun, though. You might be more drawn to the seedy underbelly of the city and make your living smuggling drugs, stealing cars, and robbing department stores. In which case, the convention could prove to be a convenient cover for your clandestine operations!

No matter what, you can look forward to a relaxing weekend of beautiful beaches, fun cosplay opportunities, and delicious street food. All you have to do is ignore Santa Barbara's disturbingly high murder rate.

Easier said than done, though, since day two will bring about, you guessed it - death!

When a fanmade, life-sized statue of the coolest new superhero, the Blue Revenger, falls and kills one of the convention's headlining guests, some assume it's an accident while others suspect something far more sinister. Where do you stand? Are you one of the police officers on the case, or would you rather offer your assistance as a consultant? Will you ignore the yellow tape and enjoy your weekend? Or are you just going to take advantage of the chaos to help nudge the murder rate up a tad on your own?

Are you destined to be the next victim, or will you be one who survives... under Santa Barbara skies?
entreats: (she'll find someone to need her)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-09-05 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ange slightly rolls her eyes, but rather than in a dismissive way, it seems to be more in a near-amused "I know right" sort of way. She's seen some stuff go down in that convention hall... ]

No. I usually don't like going to places with lots of people. [ As is the fate of an antisocial nerdy teenager. ] Figures that the one time I do this happens.
thereporter: (🦋 the lies i weave)

[personal profile] thereporter 2019-09-21 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, don't blame yourself. It was probably inevitable.

[ Eventually one of these basement dwellers was gonna lose it. ]

Why are you here?
entreats: (she swears that there's no difference)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-09-22 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanted a limited edition item that they were only going to sell here.

[ Hence why she actually had to go out among the people.. Because it sure takes something like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity like that to get Ange to actually do as much. ]

But it hadn't even gone on sale yet before this whole mess happened. [ Why may actually be even more sucky than the whole someone died part. To her, anyway. ]
thereporter: (🦋 did you never want to be alone?)

[personal profile] thereporter 2019-09-24 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hopefully whatever vendor is selling it did close up and run for the hills.

[ Julia isn't sure they are actually letting anyone out of the convention center, though, so the vendors might be stuck either way. ]

What do you collect?
entreats: (she'll find someone to need her)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-09-24 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ See, while Ange will gladly admit to certain nerdy things, some things go a little too far. Mostly the things that threaten the cool front she's always putting up.

So is she going to tell Julia that it's a cutesy series filled with magic and friendship and is kind of aimed at kids? No. Never. ]


Ah.. you know. Just stuff from some series. [ So smooth, Ange. Like butter. Totally not obvious at all that you're dodging the question. ] Not like it matters anyway now the convention is practically over.

[ Who's still going to want to enjoy it after that gruesome death? ]