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.

► This log covers August 23rd-September 5th.
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[His lips twitch a little, like he's steeling his jaw a little against Merle's words. It sucks when he's right, because damn, everyone in a 10 mile radius knows Merle is a disaster and here Taako is prepared to take fucking advice from him. Not like he's had his shit on lock for a while, anyway. But he's long accepted that the world isn't good, or kind. He has his family, and-- what is everything else, but dust? Sure, its fun to mess around with other people, things, items that he wants. But it's transient, and that's a blessing, only a curse when he makes the mistake of caring too much.

Maybe that's why this event is so bad for him, in the end. Because not only is it proving he cares, it's proving that he cares so much, it'll destroy him not to.

Taako sighs, shrugging back.]

Whatever works for you, I guess. If that's your funky chair, uh, philosophy lesson.

[He doesn't care. (Yes he does.)]

So you gonna make me levitate that into the living room or what?

[ This is the best Merle's ever done on advice, ever, ]

Oh, yeah, sure, that's the lesson. My very specific lesson about cool chairs, that I make my good buddy Taako levitate for me.

[ I could lie and say Merle isn't like 10 times more pleased to get an actual chair levitation out of this. But what would be the point. He's glad something in there seemed to stick.

The kids get like this sometimes. Not his kids, mind, or even in situations vaguely similar to this kind of looping-horror-in-a-mirror crap. Just the ones that are sorta his, and happen to be comparatively kids, who did their turn in 100 loops of death and horror instead. Fact is, Merle will almost never know exactly what's wrong or what he should say or how he can help when they're having a rough time of it. He may not always be clothed. He may not even notice something is wrong in the first place.

But if he perseveres, if he tries very very hard, he knows that every now and again a stinking spaghetti noodle will stick to a wall, even a little bit. And that's usually a pretty good turnout. ]

If Pan ever calls me back, I'll levitate somethin' for you, too.

[ THIS IS A BOLD-FACED LIE, and he won't heal anyone either. There is no inheritance from an unknown relative! ]

[Honestly, the fact that Merle has his act together more than Taako at this point is damn shameful, and Taako intends on forgetting that fact as quickly as possible.]

I don't need you to, I have the spell, dumbass.

[He clips the Umbra Staff off his belt, stops for a second.]

Wait, wait, if I'm doing this, I can do one better.

[He walks past Merle, climbing into the chair, and then levitates it.]

Drag me home like a personal parade, my dude.

[ Merle doesn't immediately jump on that dragging train, but he does bark out a laugh. ]

Hey, you think if I find a shower curtain, we could row it home like a gondola?

[ "And make Magnus jealous" goes unspoken. ]

[Taako rolls himself over on the chair so he's on his stomach, looking down at Merle.]

Yes. One thousand times yes. I will put a wind spell in this thing and we'll fuckin' sail it over the rooftops.

[This is so much better than being depressed about reflections.]

[ That's the spirit, Taako. Also heck yeah, something fun and interesting! ]

Great! Hang tight, I'm gonna dig around for somethin' long enough.

[ SHOWER CURTAIN ROD QUEST: BEGIN. He guns it to find what he's looking for, and he rolls a 17 on his quest so that's like. A dinged-up rod, maybe. This gondola is gonna fucking happen, is what I'm saying. ]

[Taako cheers a little bit from the background, just a little 'woo!' still from atop the chair.]

Here, give it, I'll get it stuck on. You find a sheet or whatever. This is gonna be fucking awesome.

You're dang right it is, buddy!

[ ROD: STUCK
FURNITURE: AFLOAT
SHEET: SLIGHTLY TORN YET ACQUIRED, EVENTUALLY. ]

Let's make it happen! Sail the breeze! Real bedknobs and broomsticks crap to set the day up right!

[He attaches it as soon as Merle grabs it, which gives Merle time to get on up there. Once it looks like none of these things are gonna go flying, he casts the spell, the chair bobbing off the ground as it suddenly becomes unencumbered by gravity.]

Can you do the wind thing? I think I can do both but like, just in case, so I don't fuckin' drop us.

I mean, I can give it a shot! Worst case scenario, I just gotta tow you with my vroom broom. Which is still pretty cool.

No, no, fuck it, I can do this.

[He holds his concentration as steady as he can, channeling the other spell, and suddenly, in a burst of motion, they lurch forward and nearly into a tree.]

There we go!

[ SORRY, BIRTH OF HIS BELOVED CHILDREN, NEW BEST DAY EVER COMING THE FUCK UP.

Merle is laughing his ass off, unabashedly. ]

Rest in peace, Taako and Merle! Won a battlewagon race, couldn't fly a chair across town!

No, I got this, hang--

[It's like someone trying to use flight controls in a video game for the first time. Or like a really bad game of Flappy Bird. Taako eventually opts for a bunch of lift, which results in more drops, but they're fucking moving and no one's been flown of Taako and Merle's dickhead chair ride.]

Woo! Taako rules! Multi-spell drifting, fuck you other wizards!

Regular wizards got nothin' on this guy right here! There's no stopping this train!

[ FLAPPY CHAIR AIRBOAT IS THE APP WE DESERVE.

Tho I guess at this point it's safe to say they sailed majestically into the sunset and then Magnus yelled at them for not including him or something? ]

[FLAPPY CHAIR AIRBOAT IS THE NEW HADRIEL MEME OF 2017.

But yeah he probably sails it straight into the side of the spire. It's great. Selfies were taken in front of the wreckage. Fuck you gods and your depressing bullshit, Taako and Merle turned their trauma into flappy chair airboat. Suck it.]

Event Log: Bad End

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