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.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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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

[bythewaves]

I only wish I could have been there for you in truth. But you are safe now. I won't let anyone hurt you any longer.

[handofsilver]

You were. (He pulls Maglor's hand against his heart.)

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor kisses his forehead ]

Not in any useful way! But I'm here now, Tyelpe.

[handofsilver]

How is that not useful? I closed my eyes and everyone was around me. (Dying had meant being reunited with them in a way.)

[bythewaves]

More useful would have been sparing you the need for that at all!

[handofsilver]

One of the Maiar cannot be conquered so easily. Even if a speck of him remained, he would have done as he wished.

[bythewaves]

True. But you should not have needed to fight him alone at all! Oh Tyelpe. I wish we had left you behind.

[handofsilver]

You know I would not have accepted that. (His smile is sad, knowing.) I would have snuck onto a ship or waited until I was old enough to captain one myself.

[bythewaves]

I know. But we should have tried, all the same! You were so young, then.

[handofsilver]

Young and in need of my family. I would have been miserable on my own.

[bythewaves]

You had your mother! And mine. Oh Tyelpe.

[handofsilver]

But not my father or my uncles...

I bonded early with all of you.

[bythewaves]

You were so easy to love! So tiny and clever and very cute.