hadriel_logs | Event Log: End of Arc 2

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Event Log: End of Arc 2

Who: All characters
What: The event log for the End of Arc 2
Where: All over the city
When: November 25th-December 12th
Warnings: A full-scale battle, including character death, NPC death, and various other ways to suffer

It was bound to happen. The Null warned you, after all, and this has been building for awhile - and now it's here. First comes the initial attack, the agents of the Null attacking Hope's temple. Then, an SOS, warning the city of what's happened: a betrayal, and Hope being injured. Luckily for everyone, thanks to the actions of his guards Hope survives the attack. Unluckily, his attacker, the goddess Delight, escapes and lets the Null in.

Flooding into the cave, the Null will attack anyone who they believe is resisting them. They'll destroy buildings and deploy dangerous crowd control weapons, in addition to their sheer strength and speed. Confusion empties the monsters in the tunnels into the city, to help distract the Null. Some gods fight, others provide safe havens, but everyone is in danger.

After about a week and a half of the attack, Fear summons enough power to teleport the city. This stops any new Null from arriving through the tunnels, but the remaining Null must be hunted down and destroyed, or else they'll signal their location to the rest of their species. The danger will lessen as Null are taken out, but things won't really be safe until Fear moves the city again, so don't get too comfortable.

What will you do? Run and hide? Fight? Help the fighters? Turn on the gods yourself? Whatever you do, it's time to make a decision.

► This log covers November 25th-December 12th.
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[Kravitz is in the fortunate position of not needing to worry about ammunition, his scythe as reliable as ever, and his magic coming in handy more than once already. When he spots Julie, bloody and messy and looking exhausted, he feels a twinge of pity.

Good lord. What is happening to him.

Careful not to give Julie's position away, Kravitz moves to her side when the way is clear, and kneels beside her. His suit will be getting dirty, but there's no helping that.]

If you need safe passage to rest for a moment, I can open a portal.

[She shouldn't stop, because when she stops the bone-deep exhaustion seeps out from her core and sinks into every aching, tired muscle in her body. Closing her eyes, even for a moment, brings her dangerously close to sleep and she doesn't notice the person approaching her until the moment they speak.

Julie jumps, jolting away from him with a half-stifled yelp quickly muffled with a hand pressed over her mouth. She stares at him with wide eyes for a moment, as if needing a moment to process what he's saying.]

... A portal?

[Like magic? She's still getting used to that.

A noise nearby draws her attention away from him and she pushes herself up to peer around the wall before moving quickly back.]

Shit, more of them.

[Kravitz huffs in aggravation, and, seeing as their time is running short, takes the decision halfway out of her hands.

His skin and hair melt away piece by piece, exposing the skeleton underneath. Normally, this wouldn't be necessary to open a simple portal, but Kravitz is tired. Without waiting for a reaction, he summons his scythe, and slices open a portal.]

Well?

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[He's probably trying to help. In a different, calmer situation, it could certainly be interpreted as helping.

What happens, however, at the moment Julie realises that this person's hair and skin is literally melting off, is the girl's back slamming to the nearest wall and both hands coming up over her mouth to stifle a sound that would have no doubt drawn anything nearby to them had she let it loose.]

Ohmygod.

[She whispers through her fingers. What the hell is this guy?!]

[There is a brief moment where Kravitz has no idea what she's reacting to, and whips around to look behind him, expecting to perhaps see the enemy approaching in droves, or something equally alarming.

Then it clicks, and he slumps, making a low, aggravated noise under his breath.]

I highly suggest that we postpone reactions to and discussions about my appearance for a later date. Shall we?

[And with all the Extra Flair possible, Kravitz steps through the portal, cloak billowing behind him. Barely giving Julie a second to follow, he pops his head back through, nodding for her to follow.]

Before they find us?

[It's not every day you see something like that happen right in front of you, and for all Julie knows of the Dead, what this man just did is straight out of the movies.]

... oh. Oh! [It might be something about the utterly normal way he addresses her, but she's jolted out of her reaction to his appearance in that moment, scrambling up to move towards the portal.

Then, another problem. Guess who has never even seen, let alone used a portal before? A loud bang behind her makes her decision before she has to, and she takes a deep breath - holds it - and steps through the portal.]

[With so many other people from his world here that he interacts with on a daily basis, sometimes Kravitz forgets that there are people in this place who will react to him this way. ]

Right, yes, there we go-

[He moves back through, expecting her to now follow. To Kravitz, this sort of thing is entirely old hat now, but to Julie, it may feel a little odd. It's like stepping through a door. You know, if the door was floating, and left you aimless and nowhere and nothing for the briefest of seconds before you stepped out on the other side.

Once she's through, Kravitz closes it with a wave of his hand. They're nearby a temple, and the area seems to be significantly quieter for the moment.]

Are you injured at all?

[It does feel odd. She arrives on the other side of the door feeling a little nauseous, and curls a hand over her stomach with an utterly displeased expression on her face while she reorients herself with what's around her.

A temple? Which one... she can't tell. She squints at it, but the voice beside her reminds her very sharply that she isn't alone and--]

I'm... fine... [The words come out of her weakly. She's sure that taking a step away from him would be rude, but she can't make her legs work anyway.]

Are you..?

[Oh dear. It's a good thing she isn't otherwise injured he thinks, because that little portal journey doesn't seem to have done her any favors. Kravitz makes a sympathetic face.]

Am I...? [He raises an eyebrow, looking a little puzzled.] Oh! Am I injured? Is that what you mean to ask? Ha ha. No. I'm alright.

[Hhh--haha, okay, she can handle this. This is fine. She grimaces while she tries to will the feeling of nausea away (like being travel sick, without the motion of travel, she thinks), but she's still staring at poor Kravitz like he grew another head.]

... What the hell are you?

[Julie, you can't just ask people what they are.]

[It's certainly rude, and Kravitz rolls his eyes, but he doesn't seem to be that bothered by the question. It is, after all, nowhere near the first time he's been asked it.

It also gives him the opportunity to be one of his favorite things- dramatic. Kravitz flicks his hair back over his shoulder, and looks down at Julie.]

I've been called many things. I'm a keeper of souls. A bounty hunter, of sorts. One of the most common names is- I love this one-- the Grim Reaper.

[So, she might be half-rooted to the ground and still feeling a bit sick to her stomach, but she knows dramatics when she sees them. That, combined with the somewhat overdone introduction, has her letting out a short, sudden, nervous laugh followed immediately by pressing three fingertips to her lips.]

You're telling me I just got rescued from death, by... Death?

[Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.]

[Once upon a time he might have been offended by the laughter, but Krav knows better now. He's familiar with all the sorts of ways people express shock or disbelief and react to his presence.]

I suppose it's not something everyone could say, is it!

[He sounds like he's having a good time, now.]

[She's trying not to laugh but it's hard when her alternative reaction would be some kind of screaming, and she really doesn't want to do that. It's not every day that you stand in front of someone while they casually announce that they're Death.]

H.. ah. No?

[... No, indeed.]

Do you... have a name? An actual name, I mean.

Oh, goodness, I'm sorry, where are my manners?

[Kravitz bows deeply, another sweeping ridiculous gesture as this poor girl is near hyperventilating in front of him.]

Kravitz. Charmed. And you are?

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Event Log: End of Arc 2

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im so sorry kravitz

ITS FINE LMAO... he should have expected this, the dingus

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