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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2017-08-23 09:18 am

Event Log: Bad End

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the Bad End event
Where: All over the city!
When: August 23rd-September 5th
Warnings: Bad futures, awkward conversations, smashed mirrors


You wake up to find a mirror at your bedside - a pretty nice one, too, a silver hand mirror perfect for fixing your hair in. Only when you try to do that, it's not your gorgeous reflection that you see. It's something else - a terrible future, just about as bad as anything you could imagine for yourself.

Maybe you see your loved ones dead on the ground, and you know it's your fault. Maybe you see the goal you've been working so hard for pulled out of your reach forever. Maybe you see someone you've hurt in the past ruining your life. Maybe you see your hot girlfriend leaving you to shack up with your worst enemy. Whatever you see, it really sucks, and you know that it's possible. This future could happen if you make the wrong choices, give in to your worst impulses.

Break the mirror if you want, but you'll see the same vision in any reflective surface in the city. You can't break them all, but you can sure try. And what will you do when you see your best friend's vision - and it features you betraying them?

Seek reassurance, give reassurance, lash out, vow to yourself that you'll never let it turn out that way, sink into the depths of sorrow because you feel like the future you see is inevitable. Whatever you do, it won't take away those visions - not until the event is over.

► This log covers August 23rd-September 5th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you can't handle the idea of your dark future, or maybe you just accidentally slip and fall on a mirror shard, let us know here.
toiletseat_girl: (the grass is high the cats are wild)

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[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-08-24 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[George has just seen herself staying eighteen years old forever, never reaching her quota of souls to be taken, watching her parents and eventually her little sister grow old and wither and die in front of her and she was helpless to comfort them or be there for them in their old age.

she just went on, ageless, all of the other Reapers she knew meeting their quotas and being surrounded by strangers so she didn't even have the small comfort of people she knew being there for her.

it never ended. murders. suicides. accidents. death. everyone but her getting getting their sparkly lights and moving on to the afterlife. everyone but George. there's no way out. there's no relief. all there is is death.

after seeing this in the mirror, George shrieked and left the house, trying to find someone, anyone who might serve as some comfort or at least a distraction. she's not exactly looking where she's going, either, when she runs into Dany]


--shit! No, it's my bad, I was. Distracted. You okay? [George asks because she definitely isn't and Dany doesn't look like she is, either]
lemontree: (it's my own remorse)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-09-05 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Another of her visitors from the hot springs. Dany catches her breath, steeling herself. I must not show tears. ]

Yes. [ No, not really, but she won't share what she'd seen with George. ] I... am still unused to the kinds of experiences that are apparently common in this world.

[ To say the least. ]

You saw them too, then? The visions that the gods so kindly provided for us?
toiletseat_girl: (and burned down like a written sin)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-09-05 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[George is still freaked out by her vision, but she's trying to be a better person, so. that involves being kind to people, doesn't it?]

You sure? [trying to be better doesn't get rid of her inherent curiosity] So am I. I've only been here a couple of months, so I'm just kind of. Trying to deal.

[emphasis being on "trying"]

Yeah, I saw 'em. My very own worst nightmare. Being a living dead girl forever with no way out.
lemontree: (even while we sleep)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-09-07 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine it's always like this, based on what I've heard since I arrived.

[ Nothing to be happy about. Her jaw is set as she continues trying to banish the images she'd been shown in the mirror, that she's seen in other surfaces since. ]

"A living dead girl?" [ Dany repeats, frowning. ] What do you mean?
toiletseat_girl: (before her Joyce would unravel)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-09-07 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Not always. Last month was kind of nice. We were in this perfect little town and I had a family. So that was good.

[George is trying to seem as calm and collected as possible. she doesn't want to give any gods the satisfaction of knowing they got to her. which they did. a lot.]

Oh! Uh. Well, I'm a Grim Reaper. I died and got drafted into the job. Which involves taking the souls of people who are gonna die and--and sending them on to the afterlife.
lemontree: (there's no turning back)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-09-13 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "And I had a family." Dany doesn't understand the nature of the event that she'd missed, of course, but the word does conjure distant longing. ]

A Grim Reaper? [ She shakes her head faintly. ] I'm not familiar with the phrase. [ The concept, though... has her stiffen a little. ] You take souls from the dying?

[ So... a member of the House of Black and White? ]

You sound like one of the Faceless Men, of my world.
toiletseat_girl: (I thought bone china was made of bone)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-09-13 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[there, there's something they have in common. no families]

You must be the first who's not. Your world must be really different. [George sees her stiffen and tries to seem as non-threatening as possible] Reapers don't actually kill anyone. They'd die anyway. Accidents, murders, and suicides. That's what I was assigned to.

What's a Faceless Man?
lemontree: (it's my own remorse)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-09-18 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
So, you... guide their souls, then, after their death. [ If you believe in that sort of thing. That's a little less frightening, anyway, and she relaxes a little. ]

The Faceless Men are Braavosi assassins. They believe, I think, that the death they give is a gift, as they worship what is essentially a god of death.

[ That's her basic understand, anyway. ]

But I see now that you are not the same after all, if what you say is true.
toiletseat_girl: (in heaven (the lady in the radiator))

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-09-18 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, pretty much, though we don't actually go with 'em. [it's very real, at least in her world. she'd thought it would be in most others, though she's getting the impression that it's not]

I am so not that, it's not even funny. I hated reaping. Tried saving my first few, but it didn't work out. [she looks vaguely depressed at that]
lemontree: (even while we sleep)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-09-21 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hated?" You stopped, then?

[ This is all... a lot to process, and Dany frowns as she asks, shifting slightly in the hot water. ]
toiletseat_girl: (to quiet down your rage)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-09-21 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm here now, so I guess you could say that I stopped. But I couldn't get out of it back home, no matter what I tried. It always blew up in my face in the end.

[it is, and George's expression changes from kind of depressed to just depressed]
lemontree: (it's my own remorse)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-09-27 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Dany watches the change in expression, quietly considering. ]

That sounds very difficult. I don't imagine that anyone would take that role lightly.

[ And she may not have chosen the job at all, even. ]

I hope you are able to find some peace here, despite its... many flaws.
toiletseat_girl: (to the end of the deja vu)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-09-27 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, some of my "coworkers" did. For them, it was easy. They'd been doing it a lot longer than I had, that's for damn sure.

[she didn't. she was drafted. which she will never not resent]

I hope so, too. So far, it's been--not terrible. Other than this bullshit with the reflections.
lemontree: (even while we sleep)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-10-03 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Then, it was something that you became used to.

[ And desensitized to, by the sound of it. ]

Even without the mirrors, we are still captives. The illusion of peace is just that: an illusion. We cannot become complacent.
toiletseat_girl: (I see a stairway so I follow it down)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-10-03 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...I guess. After a while. A long, long, long while. But certain ones always got to me.

[not entirely]

Doesn't sound like complacency's gonna be an option forever, anyway. Y'know, what with the Null and the gods and their little feud.
lemontree: (welcome to your life)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-10-06 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
We shouldn't be complacent to begin with. We owe them nothing, not even that.

[ Or maybe "especially not that." ]

They are no gods of mine.
toiletseat_girl: (to the end of the deja vu)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-10-06 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess not. It's just easy to fall into a routine, y'know? Get up, go to the clinic for a while, get done with that, go to the Speakeasy a while, get bored with that, go home. Then shit like this happens.

[George is used to being complacent, but is slowly being shocked out of that routine]

Mine, either. Hell, I never even believed in gods back home. I just call 'em that, 'cause what else is there to call them?
lemontree: (there's a room)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-10-10 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
They are slavers. [ She replies easily, expression hardened. ] They play the role of cruel master and wield their powers like a whip.

[ And their captives respond, too, whether they like it or not. ]

We should try and resist, as much as we can.
toiletseat_girl: (I thought bone china was made of bone)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-10-10 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. That's not a word I've heard used for 'em. Not that I disagree or anything.

[human nature is difficult to overcome]

How would we do that, though? Especially with something like this? [she gestures around her, referring to the visions sparking off of every surface with a reflection around them]
lemontree: (even while we sleep)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-10-17 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Dany, at a loss, shakes her head. ]

I'm afraid I have no answers, but that doesn't mean that we ought to give up. That, I know for sure.

[ Once you lose the will to fight, you don't really regain it again, not fully. ]
toiletseat_girl: (before her Joyce would unravel)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-10-17 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
So we just--resist? Even if it's just in our own heads?

[this will be hard for George, she's used to letting her emotions run away with her]
lemontree: (Default)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-10-26 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It may not seem like much, but it will matter. I promise you.

[ Too many times in her own past, all Dany has been able to do is to resist within her own head.

Gently, she adds: ]
You find something to keep yourself looking forward.
toiletseat_girl: (I thought bone china was made of bone)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-10-26 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'll try. I've gotta admit that I usually let my emotions do the talking, but. I don't wanna be anyone's slave.

[George, too, mostly out of sheer bullheadedness]

I've got my work at the clinic? That's not bad, y'know?
lemontree: (it's my own remorse)

[personal profile] lemontree 2017-10-31 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if we cannot control our emotions, we can control what we do. [ She thinks, still relatively naive to Hadriel's ways. ] And we will do everything we can.

[ The clinic is a good place to start. Helping others in their situation. ]

I am no healer, but if I see those in need, I will send them to you for aid.
toiletseat_girl: (hey what are you looking at?)

[personal profile] toiletseat_girl 2017-10-31 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope so. Otherwise, this place is gonna be a real shitshow. [she is also relatively new and naive]

Basic first aid stuff only, for now. Though, I was told I was gonna learn how to do stitches. That sounded interesting. And potentially gross.

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