Event Log: Bad End

[hadrielmods]

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.
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► 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.

Comments

[toiletseat_girl]

Fear? Seriously? But he was nice to me.

[George would be curious about how that happened and how she came back to life, given what she is]

Well. I wish them good luck with that. The Null doesn't exactly seem the type to make it easy.

[hasitsthorns]

And Sorrow's nice to me. Doesn't mean he isn't going to do what he needs to for an emotional boost.

[ Disclaimer: Sorrow is actually not to Rosie at all. ]

No, they don't. So if this helps, honestly, I don't mind. It sucks, yeah, but... Could be worse.

[toiletseat_girl]

How can Sorrow be nice? I've never met him before. Unless this shit with the mirror counts.

[Fear was genuinely nice to George. she's not used to that she's used to people being cruel and disregarding her feelings and needs]

How long d'you think it'll last? This whole--[gestures around like she's encompassing everything around her]--thing?

[hasitsthorns]

Same as the way Fear can be nice, I guess? They don't just feel the emotions they're named after and all. They got personalities and junk.

[ Sorrow's was just abysmally grey as his name implied. ]

Maybe a week? Sometimes more. I don't know.

[toiletseat_girl]

See, that's something I hadn't really thought about before I met Fear. The gods having emotions and personalities behind their--well, what they are. Or represent. Something like that.

[George found Fear oddly charming. and kind of hot]

A week? Great. Good thing I'm not vain, I'm not gonna be able to look in a mirror at all.

[hasitsthorns]

That's... fair. A lot of us didn't, I think. I mean, when I first met Sorrow he definitely seemed broody and mysterious.

It's no wonder I fell for him, in the end. [ Kidding. Mostly. ]

You and me both. I actually don't usually look in the mirror these days, but I definitely have a reason not to now.

[toiletseat_girl]

I haven't met Sorrow yet. I haven't met--any of them yet, except for Fear.

Seriously? Does he like you back?

Why not? I mean, you're pretty. So why not look when things are--well, when they're not like this?

[hasitsthorns]

Haha, hell no, [ she's quick to answer, to laugh off. It helps hide the sting of the reality that the god will never ever return her affection. That she's maybe actually falling for someone who can feel any kind of way towards her.

No one ever said Rose had good taste. ]

He's not into us. He basically said so to me once, so. It's not happening, but. Doesn't mean I can't appreciate the view still.

[toiletseat_girl]

Oh. Well, that sucks. [not said unkindly. George has little experience with love, but even she realizes that it's got to be painful to love someone who doesn't feel the same

winces in sympathy] Ouch. I guess 'cause they're gods and we're just people, it would be--awkward.

[hasitsthorns]

[ 'Ouch' is right, George. Though Rose has... gotten used to it. It wouldn't be the first time she fell for someone that she couldn't have, honestly. That actually seems to be the running theme of her life. ]

It's fine. But, yeah, it'd... be problematic, definitely. For one thing, they don't even reproduce like we do so.

[toiletseat_girl]

[it's beginning to be a running theme of George's as well. she has mild crushes on two people here who already have partners. so she's in for some heartbreak]

I guess it would be. I mean, what would he do when he needs a power up? He'd wind up having to hurt you, too, and that would suck. But, how do they reproduce?

[hasitsthorns]

[ That's what polyamaory is for! ... If only more people she was interested in were polyamarous as well. Alas. ]

He already does that, and I don't mind.

[ Which. Says a lot about her, honestly. ]

I don't know. Tranquility told me it was a really personal question.

[toiletseat_girl]

[George hasn't yet admitted to herself that she likes girls as well as boys, polyamory would just boggle her mind]

You don't? Seriously?

[speaking of boggling her mind]

Yeah, I guess it would be. They might look like us, but they're not us.

[hasitsthorns]

[ Rose is your bisexual, polyamarous senpai. ]

No, not really. That's what's being called a masochist! Though I always pegged myself as a sadist... I don't know, maybe I'm just a sucker for the tall, dark, and mysterious.

[toiletseat_girl]

[Lord knows George could use one]

Sadist as in [her voice turns uncertain] someone who likes hurting other people? [her voice gains a little more certainty] And, jeez, who isn't?

[hasitsthorns]

[ Rose is always happy to lead people down the path that rocks. ]

That would be it. And get off on it, too. [ Rosie, oh my god. ]

That's my type for guys, I guess. Or the doofy ones that make me laugh. For ladies though, I like... sunshiney types. Warm. Bonus points if they can hold their own.

[toiletseat_girl]

[George will follow, albit slowly]

Oh. I've heard about that on the internet, but--never knew anyone it actually worked for.

Those sound like good types. I dunno what my type is, really.

[hasitsthorns]

[ That's fine! It took Rosie three years to get where she is today, so. ]

Well, you're looking at one that it does. [ But only if all parties are consenting. ]

Hey, you'll figure it out. You got time.

[toiletseat_girl]

[George is just so socially awkward and insecure, it'll likely take her six]

Oh. Well, that's cool? I mean, as long as everyone's happy, right?

Nothing but time, at least while I'm here.

[hasitsthorns]

[ Please. George didn't see Rose when she first started this journey of self-discovery. There's hope for her yet. ]

They usually are! That's the whole point. Pleasure.

And, yeah, I feel you there. Same goes for me.

[toiletseat_girl]

[she will likely need hands-on assistance and/or a smack upside the head]

I--wouldn't know anything about that.

How d'you fill it? 'Cause I can only read the same book so many times before I go insane.

[hasitsthorns]

[ Rose is available for both of those things. ]

I spend most of my time in the orchard helping out there. I also go to the tunnels a bit.

[toiletseat_girl]

[the smack upside the head will probably have to come first]

The tunnels? You fight?

[hasitsthorns]

From time to time. Like to keep my skills sharp as I can.

Never know what this cave is going to throw at us next.

[toiletseat_girl]

I didn't know you fought. Why is it that everyone here other than me knows how to kick ass?