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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2017-11-25 10:34 am

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.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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► If you get taken out by the Null, please let us know here.
circumitus: (das gross)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-11-28 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Having used the cutters before, and being definitely adept with weapons, Rey thrusts the blade of the Null's means of offense against its chest. This doesn't slice through right away. It's obvious that the blade was intended for much softer targets.

With some work, and finesse, she manages to twist the searing hot into the Null a second time. Then third. The strength of her arm coupled with her mass helps as she knocks the machine to the ground.

Slamming her foot on top of the machine, she drills the weapon into the Null. It shudders and stops struggling. Silent.
hot_mes: (determination)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-11-30 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Law lifts his head from where he landed in time to see the end of that, noting to self that maybe it's not as viable a strategy as he would have liked. Damn. Well, it was worth a try.

He lunges to his feet before his own opponent can catch up to him, ducking its grab and plunging his haki-clad blade into its exposed processor and moving through with the momentum, darting to go and help Rey with whatever's left.
circumitus: (the salamander)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-11-30 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
With the Null being fast learners as they are, it's become essential to change up their strategy more often than not. But sometimes, brute force is all you need.

Thankfully, there isn't much left by the time Law makes it over to Rey. She's since jumped on top of the bipedal machine, knocking it off its feet so she can pummel it repeatedly. Every forceful blow in her black fists makes a deeper and deeper dent in its chassis.

Just when it starts to shakily raise and aim its weapon at her, it stops. Rey seizes the central processor straight from the Null's core. Yanks it from its center.

The machine goes limp beneath her. Lights out.
hot_mes: (what he said)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-01 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice."

Compliments aren't necessary but Law offers it anyway, just to hear something besides the rendering of metal. His voice betrays nothing of how much it hurt to be flung across the ground, but his left side is scored with bloody scratches and dirt now.

"Keep moving," he advises, "don't stop long enough to let them start to swarm on us."
circumitus: (das gross)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-12-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Her head hangs as she focuses on the samandrine around her face once again. The hardened black layer turns oily, peeling off her skin like old paint.

When she looks back to Law over her shoulder, enough of her face is revealed to confirm her identity without a doubt, if there was every one to begin with.

She nods, shifting to push herself onto her feet.

"Of course." Rey runs a hand over her head, the black layer sliding off parts of her hair. "How bad is the clinic now?"

Not that she needs one. Just curious.
hot_mes: (suspicious)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-01 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Half of 'em are at the firehouse, the rest have retreated to the hot springs." Law has checked in at both, but after the main clinic was destroyed three days ago, he's been constantly on the move. Even now he prowls, peering between buildings for any glimpse of movement. "I've been doing triage in the field where I can. It's all we've got right now."
circumitus: If you can't drink cheep beer and whiskey with me, I don't want you. (fuck it)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-12-01 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Rey makes a face at the mention of the hot springs. "Now seems like a terrible time to be taking a dip."

She just has a hard time seeing Love doing anything useful for a change.
hot_mes: (poutyface)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-01 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't think anyone's actually in the springs." Although as soon as the words are out of his mouth, Law makes a similar face as he second-guesses himself. Anything's possible at this point. "At least they'd better not be. But it's defensible, I guess."
circumitus: (your girlfriend is a south jersey whore.)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-12-01 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"You'd be surprised."

Or maybe not, given the display of priorities people have here as it is. She recalls there being an argument against sending Delight off to do recon because then they would be without coffee.

In hindsight, they probably would have been better off had Delight not gone. They could've gathered more intel and this could have all been prevented. No use in crying over spilled milk now.

"Of all places to defend... The Guard's headquarters is just about rubble -- and sadly that isn't the first time." Huff.
hot_mes: (frown)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-01 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"It's just buildings." Law had said it the day he warned the clinic to evacuate, and he still believes it. Only the temples have any chance of staying standing, from his point of view - everything else is too easy to destroy, there's no reason to defend them if they're so fragile. If things get much worse, he'd even advocate holing up in the coliseum. "There's nothing like a fortress here, which would be worth using as shelter. You take what you can get."

He sidles up along a wall and peeps around the corner - for once, the coast is temporarily clear. At least, in that direction.

"...has anyone secured the armory? It's probably too late if they didn't, but..."
circumitus: Keep up the good work. (it's a 12/12/12 miracle)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-12-01 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Let's just hope that Tranquility survives this to fix it all. Otherwise we're not going to have much of a city left after this."

They're just buildings, yes. And Rey isn't surprised that they're not better suited for war. The gods and their former hosts were not adept for combat, at all.

Still, a lot of people put work into those places here. The dam had been her first project, and seeing it destroyed left Rey somewhat outraged. She hates it, but she's also come to consider this place her home. Anyone would be pissed if someone came into their house and started wrecking all their shit.

She pauses. "Not sure. There hasn't been much public coordination for that sort of thing -- for obvious reasons."

With the Guard HQ hit, that would be the more likely relocation for their defenses.
hot_mes: (shock)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-01 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's the one who can restore it? Damn." As far as Law knows Tranquility isn't even a target, but that's only if the Null don't know what he didn't know. Hope, obviously. Fear, as well. But he didn't know until this moment that the other gods could be priority targets besides the overarching plan to just kill them all.

Since the path seems clear, Law steps out from behind the building. "Maybe we should check it out," he offers, edging in that direction. "If they haven't gotten to it, those weapons should be in our hands, not theirs." Tranquility's defense will have to be left up to others for now. One target at a time.
circumitus: She was stuck there, we simply exchanged rides. (it's not like i paid for sex)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-12-02 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Think there are others who are able to, but he's their builder."

She knows that every god has their strengths and weaknesses. While they're not adept fighters, they seem capable of holding their own in other ways.

Rey doesn't need to check her surroundings when they make their way out onto the street. She's already aware. Rubbing her forehead as she walks. "Don't think synthetics with bombs and laser knives would have much use for swords and bows, but better than letting them take any more weapons away from us."

Come to think of it, they should start stockpiling the weapons that the dead Null have left behind. Could bw useful.
hot_mes: (frown)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-02 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"That was more my thinking." Law was under no delusions that the Null would want their weapons, only to deprive them of the tools to fight back. His aimless prowling shifts instantly into a determined beeline for the armory. "We need weapons more than they do. Even the hapless idiots who have no training would be better off with a sword in hand."

At least most of said hapless idiots knew how to hide. It's people like Law who are more likely to end up dead, putting themselves on the line as they do. But, hey, it's something. Something to do with a beneficial outcome, besides just hammering through scores of Null for hours on end.

"...if we run into any more," he adds, not looking at Rey directly, "can you take them for me? I need a bit to rest up."
circumitus: (not your white knight in shining armor)

[personal profile] circumitus 2017-12-02 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
While normally she'd agree, Rey isn't sure what good a sword will do against the metal chassis of a synthetic. But it could be good for other things, like cutting through obstacles in a bind.

In the end, who is she to say what is useful? Anything is better than nothing, or giving up.

She nods, bringing her hand to the injury where the Null had pierced her earlier. Should be fine. She's taken worse hits than this. But Rey has been pushing her limits for a while now and she knows that.

"Sure. Don't do tag teaming very well, anyway." Contrary to their display of teamwork just moments ago.
hot_mes: (haki ping)

[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-02 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd beg to differ, but he prefers to fight the same way. Teamwork is rare. Having a goal has re-energized Law to a point, he doesn't look as exhausted as he says he is and his scraped-up side doesn't seem to be slowing him down, but he hides it well. The instant he feels the twinge of haki warning him that something is about to ambush them from behind a crumbled wall ahead, he stops short.

"They're coming..."