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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Comments

[mismanagement]

[Hmm. The idea doesn't seem to go down so well.]

I could order you to do almost anything and you would.

[It's just how things are. Maketh tips her head to the side.]

An officer needs ambition. Too much and he'll ruin himself. Too little and there's no use in him at all. Understand?

[leashed]

Yes.

[It's a firm response to the statement- he's loyal, and there's an almost genetic deep-seated need to prove that. It's in his blood to want to do well, follow commands, please others, and what's more, it's been in his training since he was old enough to walk.

The ambition part is odd though, and he watches her for a moment, considering.]

And if my ambition is to serve and uphold my superiors' law?

[mismanagement]

[Maketh grins. She likes that question.]

Then you should strive to do it better, soldier.

[leashed]

I always do.

[Despite the terseness of this conversation, Rome finds the corner of his mouth twitching up just slightly.

They understand one another. That's all that matters.]