Crowd Control (IC)

[Spacefurry]

GM

 

Wednesday afternoon

Sept 18

Millennium Mall

 

Crowds moved through the mall in their usual ebbs and flows as the people shopped and wandered about. The food court was bustling with activity as the lunch crowd buzzed with chatter. And in one of the central intersections of the mall a crowd gathered to watch the small film crew that had set up camp to capture the mall as background for its ‘on-location’ shooting. A local daytime drama, popular with local viewers for being set in the city and sometimes filming on location. Uniformed FCPD peppered the perimeter of the filming crews.

 

Just like any other day in Freedom, the multitude of civilians had no idea just how many superheroes found their way into the mall on a daily basis. Today was no different as several members of one of the newer teams, the Young Guardians, ventured into the mall to enjoy a well deserved lunch after a reprieve from training by their leader and taskmaster.

 

But they are far from alone the only heroes blending in with the crowds this day. Eira, another Claremont Alumni, was at the Childrens’ Museum nestled within the giant mall. The new interactive exhibit easily coming together as she worked.

[Lone_Star]

Ghule

 

Vik slowly made her way through the crowd, drawing her hoodie up to avoid attracting attention. She was nervous of being caught, of being outed as a zombie in this big crowd of people. What would happen if people knew an undead walked among them? Would people get hurt trying to get away from her? All these questions drifted freely through her mind as she made her way to the children's museum, where she was supposed to meet some other members of the Young Guardians.

 

She glanced over at the daytime drama being filmed at the mall - it was never her thing, her mother was all about her "stories", but seeing the actors prepare for their scenes made her smile just a little bit. It reminded her of sitting with her mother while she made kasha for breakfast. . It always aired just after Saturday morning cartoons, and though she didn't really understand what the show was about at a young age, she knew her mom liked it. 

 

She sent out a group text as she posted up just outside of the Children's Museum: Anyone else here yet? 

[Avenger Assembled]

Angelic 

 

It would have been a simple matter to install the mainframe for Archetech's newest contribution to the children's museum, a 3-D holographic display called JOURNEY TO SPACE! that let children interested in the final frontier 'zoom' out from Mercury all the way to the hub to CoVic Station at the edge of the Solar System. But Eira Katastroff didn't like to do simple jobs, especially when it let her honor the brand identity of one of her heroines. So instead she'd done the work - then installed an "FTL mode", allowing young people to zoom all the way out to the nearest star systems, complete with accurate maps of those systems and depictions of Lor and other alien vessels they might pass by. Unfortunately that did require a substantial upgrade to the core memory, much less the projection bandwith of the holographic projectors and the generators of the interactable hardlight objects - but fortunately Eira didn't need to sleep. She'd pulled an all-nighter, scored an excellent reference for her consulting business - and honestly things were going well. 

 

She leaned against the wall, fighting the urge to scratch under her blue labcoat by simply deactivating those sensors, and went on speaking to the museum's director. "Everything will be ready for the big unveiling, yes?" she said, her tone not really making it a question. There were many children here, playing happily and enjoying themselves immensely, or crying and throwing a fit, or any number of things - and she was happy to see all of them. She'd taken the time to upgrade the museum to make sure it was fully compatible with the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the few things that she really liked about living (for a while) in the United States. 

 

As they spoke, she watched, a half-smile on her yellow-painted lips, as she saw a young girl in a wheelchair reach out for a holographic Mars the size of a basketball and clutch it to her chest, looking very pleased with herself.