2nd Annual Charity Carnival and Celebrity Date Auction!

[stanleecameo]

Who: Everyone
What: 2nd Annual Carnival and Date Auction Charity Benefit
When: the week of July 4th
Where: Gotham
Interactions: OPEN
Warnings: This is an open event thread. Thread jacking, hopping, character romance, violence, and any and all things in between are possible. (But if you're going to do some private intimate things please make a separate thread about it)



The first most noticeable thing was the lights. In a perpetually dreary place like Gotham they could stay on no matter the time of day, casting a warm glow all about the streets and parks that had been connected to create the Charity Carnival. The streets were opened up during the day so that people could get to and from work, then in the evening they were blocked off so that pedestrians could meander about freely withoiut worrying about the cross walks. But whether in cars or on foot; they could always see the lights.

In the inter connected parks scattered around the Wayne Resilient tower there were myriad attractions:

Boothes where games could be played for prizes,
Rides,
Foods of all kinds (mostlly either fried or sugar coated),
and even a small section where locals had rented tables to sell arts and crafts that had been hand made.

And at the center of it all was the Wayne Resilient tower which contained a 5 star restaurant that was the staging area for the Celebrity Date Auction to be held later in the week.

Even the first two floors of the building had been repurposed into a kind of exhibit featuring current and upcoming Waynetech devices designed to improve the lives of the people who used them. Including the prototype for a brand new line of Waynetech smart cars. The event was in honor of the 4th of July but the entire week had been scheduled and included things like live music, fire breathers, gymnasts and a petting zoo.

And on the night of the 4th of course; a fantastic fireworks display arranged by Wayne Resilient with another new innovation of theirs; safe fireworks. Specially designed for sound and color and burst with no heat behind it to endanger fireworks handlers or civilians.

With everything that had been planned and all the staffing involved it was truly looking to be a week to remember.

Comments

[kara_zor_l]

The question of alcohol tolerance went unanswered. However she considered in her mind how she should play that. Would it be better to pretend she was more affected by the substance than she was? Or perhaps she should simple leave the subject altogether alone. For now Kara decided she would be best served by playing the mysterious card and so rather than giving him an answer she just smiled and listened to the man describe the cars features. The fact that the interior was not only man made but environmentally friendly was impressive indeed. And while he assured her the voice could be changed the blonde woman was less than surprised to hear a female voice addressing them.

For a moment she attempted to imagine what an androgynous voice would sound like but found that to be a difficult task indeed. She let the thought go with a slight shake of her head. Of course at this point the woman had become more than accustomed to having her appearance looked over; usually with [an attempt] to be covert. She let the look slide for the time being. Kara was more curious about where they were going anyway.

"I believe I've learned enough about the car for now." She told him with a smile. Although she was interested in the power source and embarrassingly enough; color options. "So I believe Business should be the order of the day-er...night." The woman gave a slight chuckle and then a short cough to recompose herself. As they hit the road the ride was incredibly smooth and before long she could see the lights of the carnival rides ahead. Well, she could see them behind and to the side as well. Having such a vast area was impressive as well and she could see (really, literally see) that much of Gotham had turned out for the event.

[iron_bat]

"Business is always first." lamented Tony under his breath. "Then I'm sure you studied our portfolio and did the math. Obviously I am very interested" the pause in his sentence was partially due to his looking at the fair grounds from the elevated highway. "-in helping both of our companies considering that we're both heading in a similar direction." Suddenly Tony had to honk the horn of the Resilient at a car that had not seen them and tried to merge. He sighed as sped up to bypass the offending driver.

"What are your expectations for Starrware from our possible future business dealings? Expansion? Fiscal profit? Exposure? Ideas?" Tony asked curiously as the a different song came on. "On the other hands, what do you expect from Resilient?"

[kara_zor_l]

Kara's attention was jerked suddenly away from the window at the sound of honking and the cars slight but noticeable increase in speed. What a disaster that would have been. She would have ensured no one was hurt of course, but the rest of the conversation after that would be less about business and more about how she managed all that without receiving a scratch on her. Soon enough though the woman tilted her head to the side with a quirk of a smile. "Well, I'm glad we didn't just have a safety feature field test." She commented before getting back on topic.

"We are most definitely interested in ideas. My company wants to create and help build technology that is not only safe but even beneficial to the environment while improving the lives of the people who use them." She thought for a moment wondering if that sounded too rehearsed. Well she couldn't take the statement back now. "As for my expectations; there are resources that your company has access to that are beyond our means at the moment. And I believe that we have some things that you could benefit from as well." With that statement, Kara reached into her purse and removed a small bottle filled with a shimmering, silver-gray liquid that most other engineers could only dream of seeing in their lifetime; the gray goo.

[iron_bat]

Giving a heavy sigh after the near accident, Tony took the exit off the freeway that was behind the festival, and the noiseless car decelerated as the light ahead changed from green to yellow. When the bottle was brought into view Tony enhanced his vision, his pupils would look like a black microchip if inspected under a microscope. With the sight granted by his own bleeding edge technology he was able to see the molecular nanotech up close. “Machines making machines.” he said so quietly that his lips seemed to barely move as he breathed. “As long as we keep going in the same direction, everything looks good.”

“Really good.” said Tony distantly as he looked at the lights of the large celebration in Karen's side mirror. With the car stopped at the red light Tony drummed his thumbs on the steering wheel in thought. His eyes shifted from the bucket of ice containing the two bottles, to Karen to the bottle, and finally to the barely visible Resilient behind them.

"Yeah, let's do that." Tony announced the last of his unsaid thought and he swerved into the right lane to turn towards the powered down ferris wheel on the empty outskirts, where the lights barely lit the area. When the car stopped in front the still ferris wheel, Tony opened his door and grabbed the cold bucket.

"Come on." he said with a boyish grin.

[kara_zor_l]

Kara's laugh was stopped short as she heard the sounds before anyone in their vicinity. Her head turned just in time to see the red locks of hair rising over the distant carnival, seemingly choreographed to the timing of the exploding fireworks and the flash of lightning that seemed to come from the clear blue sky. With barely a wasted movement the woman slipped the vial back into her purse even as she pointed to the burgeoning battle with her free and well manicured hand. Declaring in a genuine tone of obliviousness "What's that?"

Even as she pointed the mess out Kara was already trying to work out in her mind how she could get away from him long enough to get suited up and over to the disturbance. Most of her plans relying on a man's mistaken desire to protect someone he sees as vulnerable. With any luck he would tell her to 'stay there' while he headed towards the conflict to 'check things out'.

Fingers crossed, anyway. From where she was standing the blond woman could already see another metahuman engaging the giant redhead.