hadriel_logs | 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.

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[The only reason Ephemera lets Lup grab his hand is because he knows her and feels about 85% sure that she's not going to try and murder him right here and now. What does it matter about her reflection?

Except that she doesn't have one.

Ephemera squints. Rubs his good eye.]

Either my eye's gone to shit or you don't have a reflection.

[It would almost be comical to see how fast the woman deflates there in front of him if the reason behind it wasn't making her heart hammer inside of her chest. Lup's shoulders drop, long ears drooping along with them, and the anger that had been driving her forward all morning suddenly disappears, leaving her left with nothing but worry and fear weighing at her shoulders.]

What the fuck is going on? You can still see me, but--[She lifts a hand off of the glass to press it against her cheek. She feels solid, not less than she was the day before. But that doesn't make the concern fade away.]

So? You don't have a reflection. Either this is some vampire shit or the gods are fucking with people again.

[It seems simple enough to Ephemera. He eyes Lup. She's not calm. There's something else.]

What?

[He catches on so quickly, which is good, because Lup doesn't even have the sense to try and hide how much this has shaken her.]

What if this is just the start? What if I disappear completely? [So much uncertainty in what was next. If she could be reassured this was as far as those shitty gods would go, Lup could handle it better, but without knowing for sure?] What the fuck am I going to do? I can't leave him behind again.

[Ephemera frowns at her. He doesn't know the person she's referring to - someone important, obviously - but he does know loss. It's a damn miracle that he isn't seeing it reflected right back at him in the glass. CT and the others dying without him, unavenged. He puts that thought away, focusing on Lup. She's right here.]

It's just a trick. It's happening to a lot of people.

One fucking hell of a trick, [she scoffs through her worries, but then Lup takes a deep breath, turning away from her lack of a reflection. Freaking out isn't going to help. Taako's relying on her to be the strong one. She'll fight to keep existing.]

Yeah, but not you, huh? [He seemed normal to her, unless she couldn't see what was going on for him. But he seems so casual about the whole thing...] Wonder what you did to escape their notice. I deffo gotta try it next time around.

Lucky me.

[Maybe. Probably not. Just because they overlooked him this time doesn't mean it won't come back to bite him in the ass later. Ephemera shrugs, glancing up the street. No threats. But it's important to check just in case.]

Who knows? I've been asking around and sometimes these events, or whatever the fuck they are, they don't hit everyone. Apparently the gods get sloppy sometimes. Miss a few.

[Hey, Lup appreciates him keeping an eye out for any approaching threats, even if the streets seem quiet. It gives her time to collect herself without worrying about the world going to shit in the meantime.]

Yeah? Huh, guess it's nice to know even they make mistakes. [It means they aren't as perfect as they claim to be. There's more hope to actually overthrow them, to get them back for shit just like this.]

Sorry for--[she waves a hand kind of vaguely between them, like that actually fills in the blanks of what she means] Y'know. Just, sorry.

[Ephemera grunts. He's not sure what he's meant to do now, doesn't know Lup well enough to risk trying to comfort her. Either she'll snarl and retaliate or she'll accept it, and Ephemera doesn't know what he would do with either reaction. So he shrugs. Taps his gauntlet against his helmet.]

Happens. Glad you're not crazy.

[ Lup sucks in a quick breath and stretches her arms out in front of her, rolling her head from side-to-side. She's fine. This is fine. Just to reassure him, and herself, she shoots the man a quick grin. It's not the usual blinding brightness she's known for, but it works.]

Hey, don't write me off as not crazy quite yet, compadre. I like to keep men on their toes.

[Ephemera grins at that, shaking his head a little.]

Damn right. Keeps life interesting.

[ He's known crazy in other people and whatever else is going on with Lup, she isn't there. Not yet, at least. Ephemera doesn't ask for details. It's not his job to police whatever's rocking around in her skull. Either she'll deal or she won't.

He hopes she'll deal. Lup is pretty close to a friend at this point. Ephemera never did have many of those.]

Gotta keep people on their toes if you wanna have any fun.

[Full armor or not, Lup elbows him in the side. They must be friends if she finds it this easy to make fun of him.] Don't get so sentimental on me, homie. Your human side is showing.

[But it makes her feel better to tease, some more energy curling into her grin.] I need to get home and check in on my brother, but we should think about destroying some property soon. I'm thinking all of these windows could just... go.

Event Log: Bad End

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