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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?
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[personal profile] mourning_ghost 2019-08-31 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"..." He has to think about it. In most circumstances, he'd trust the police easily. He has personal experience that tells him the police aren't as useful in the more unusual cases, however and this would count as an unusual case. "Normally, I'd trust them. I think something like this... might be too difficult."

He just also thinks the police would be still more competent than a normal person as they have both the experience and the tools to aid them.
entreats: (she swears that there's no difference)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-09-01 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly. I've heard of them fumbling around over easier cases, so there's no way they'll easily solve something like this. I mean, the whole reason there's so many notorious serial killers is because the police fails to catch half of them. Otherwise people wouldn't be as scared of them."

Stop being such a true crime junkie, Ange.. (Or just really cynical about everything ever, really.)
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[personal profile] mourning_ghost 2019-09-07 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Even so, they probably have a better picture than we do," Nageki doesn't even know who the victim was! "Maybe..."

He frowns as he feels something crunch under his feet. Lifting his shoe up it appears to be... some kind of plastic figurine? It's not terribly damaged, but a slim part of the plastic broke off when Nageki stepped on it.
entreats: but better is no excuse for tonight (so you almost feel better)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-09-08 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That crunch is definitely audible, even if it's not super loud. It's at the very least noticable enough for Ange to look over at him when he's suddenly looking at the ground, raising an eyebrow.

"Is something wrong?"
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[personal profile] mourning_ghost 2019-09-11 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Nageki shakes his head. He picks the figurine off the ground and holds it out to Ange. "I stepped on this."

It's a figurine of a superhero, but not a well-known one. Not that Nageki has anyway of knowing, since he doesn't actually like those sorts of works. But it's doubtful there are too many places selling such figurines.
entreats: (when i woke up this morning)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-09-11 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"A figurine?"

Ange at the very least seems to know what they are. She doesn't seem to recognize the particular superhero though, pulling her shoulders up into a shrug after a moment of staring at it.

"Maybe someone dropped it in the chaos when that thing fell over?"
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[personal profile] mourning_ghost 2019-09-12 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"It would seem so," Nageki agrees. He holds on to it so that he can give turn it in to the front desk later.