+ Wanted to get it real home-like... +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE!
Where: EVERYWHERE!
When: ANYT-- Friday, February 20 to Monday, February 23
Rating: An average PG-13? (Consider warning for explicit sexual or violent content in your thread's subject line)
Summary:
For the duration of this event each character will discover that their room has been replaced with one of their own memories, one that they find themselves particularly happy or "at home" in. More information can be found here.

This log is an opportunity for your characters to describe the memory playing in their room, so that other characters might visit, and watch the scene unfold. To help browse the collection better, please include your character's name, and their room number in the subject line (e.g. Seta Souji - 100, 6th floor) of your top-level comment.

Rooms/Comments may be locked to certain people, or be available for all to see & visit. Log participation is completely and entirely voluntary.

Have fun!

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James Rogers: 7th floor, room 18

[heirtotheshield]

The room has turned into a subtropical zone over night. Large palm trees grace the small clearing. In the distance, there's a few roofs visible through the trees, but not much else. Ferns and other small bushes obscure the obvious paths that lead back to the main living area.

There are others gathered around. A young black boy, crouches, one hand on the ground, watching intently. A tall blonde girl, her hair in two warrior braids leans on her sword stuck in the ground. And finally a little boy with black hair seems to be all but buzzing around the prominent pair in the middle. An older man with white hair kneels down next to a younger looking James, a metal cylinder in his hand.

He slips the cylinder on James's arm and starts telling him all the things the "generator" can do. James is staring at it and flexes his hand and a huge shield - big enough for him to hide behind - springs up in between the pair. Everyone starts laughing.

[keeperfromtheflame]

Hazel was used to the heat. New Orleans summers could be brutal, and in fact, one of the absolute worst parts about moving to Alaska (aside from the obvious) had been the shift in climate. Even California. She'd missed those beautiful trees, and for a moment, those were the only things she could focus on. Tall, green, and fluttering in a warm breeze.

Then came the people. Faces she didn't recognize, but whom James seemed to know and trust. His was the only one she did, and though instincts were to call out to him...alert him to her presence...she held back. Unsure if this was a training session or not, and if so, if she would be more of a hindrance by distracting him.

But then...everyone started to laugh. Guards down, aura of frivolity up, and she relaxed.

"What's so funny?"

[heirtotheshield]

He turns, the memory still going behind him. He grins and holds out a hand. "This is the biodome." He explains. He starts pointing to people. "Azari, Pym, Torrun and Tony." He waves at everyone around him.

"My family. We're laughing because Tony was explaining everything the shield generator could do." He grins. "Except he forgot to tell me how to turn it on. So when I pushed the button it blew up in our faces." He shrugs. "Tony sometimes forgot things like that."

[keeperfromtheflame]

My family.

She looked around shyly at each of the new faces, but with a warm smile and wave. There was....had there been new arrivals recently? Either way, James was reunited with the people he'd most wanted to see, and that was good for him.

"Shouldn't that be the first thing you learned how to do?"

[heirtotheshield]

James isn't sure how this is possible. He doesn't care. There's so much that he wants to see again, to know that it still exists somewhere. He wants to go home.

But this? This is good enough for now.

None of the others wave back. He doesn't understand it.

"Usually," he admits. "But Tony sometimes got excited about the other stuff, that things like turning it on, just weren't important."

[keeperfromtheflame]

It was...almost like they didn't see her.

Lingering insecurities long since passed momentarily appeared in her thoughts. A lifetime of either being ignored or mocked...but, no, James' family wouldn't be like that, would they? If they were ignoring her, there must have been a good reason.

"They know I'm here, right? Nobody's using some sort of invisibility shield on me for laughs?"

[heirtotheshield]

"I don't know." James admits. He walks over to talk to Torrun, but she's still laughing and doesn't answer. "Maybe... maybe it's event?" Which saddens James. He doesn't want it to be an event. He wants his family.

He sighs. "No one can use invisibility shields." He's serious. Those are a thing.

[keeperfromtheflame]

She believed him.

In fact, she believed him so much, Hazel closed her eyes for a fleeting moment. Concentrating. She hadn't sensed it once since arriving in Wonderland...hadn't seen any evidence before now...but maybe...

"No, no Mist." she murmured to herself, before opening her eyes again and turning to James sheepishly. "But even if it is...this is still a good thing, right? I mean...you get to see them again. Even if it's just--"

But, of course, her mind had already begun to wander. Taking into account every factor of the situation, the possibilities, and what this could potentially mean for her. She glanced back--just for a moment, but with a noticeable flash in her eyes.

Does that mean...if I go back...Frank...or even Sammy...

Part of her was afraid to even look.

[heirtotheshield]

James sighs. He really wishes it was for real and not an event, but he guesses this is better than nothing. He can show people who he means now. Azari and Pym start chasing each other around the area, Pym shrinking to the size of a gnat.

"What's Mist?" It seems important to her. "What's wrong?" He worries about Hazel sometimes. He wonders what's going on.

[keeperfromtheflame]

It took a second for her to register James was talking to her. Her attention...

"Hmm?" She turned back. A second later, and the glassiness faded. She registered the question. "Oh. No! Nothing's wrong. I was just...thinking."

But if it's just a Dream, do I even want to see them? Knowing they'll just leave again.

Frank, maybe, but she was more worried it would be Sammy. Just when she was finally over him.

"The Mist...it's this presence that's in the air. It hides things we don't want the rest of the world to see. Most people can't control it." Most people. "It happens automatically."

[heirtotheshield]

"It's a telepathic suggestion?" James says. That's what he understands things as. He's heard of such things before, but never seen it in action. Neither Azari and Pym had had any telepathic powers. He's actually glad about that.

"It sounds like something that some people back home could do." He waves at his family. "None of us, but some of the other mutants on the planet could, before Ultron wiped them out."

[keeperfromtheflame]

She almost shook her head, but hesitated.

"I don't...think so? It's...more like magic. An illusion. Very few of us have the ability to sense it, it's so natural. There's no real way to tell unless you know what to look for."