hadriel_logs | 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.

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She expects the hit and braces for it when the pain comes. Staggering backwards, Rey let's out a sharp cough. Can't risk breaking her ribs again. The last thing she needs to be doing is kick the bucket now, so soon after promising not to...

That alone is a stinging motivator. Her eyes widen as she grabs his wrist and twists it. Shifting to draw his arm behind his back.

Words aren't going to reach him. Violence else will have to do.

The successful grab forcefully pulls his body around and closer to her.

He struggles to reach with his hurt hand for the combat knife at the small of his back. He can't use his thumb properly or keep a strong grip because of the damage from the kick, but he pinches it into his palm the best he can with his fingertips. Though pulling to unsheathe it proves less than successful on his end.

His fingers slip off the handle as he's pulled further into the hold.

He's suddenly more careful now. He can't afford to break his good arm or he'll have little else to fight with.

Looks like they've both got injuries to mind during this.

That's fine. Rey can work with this.

With all the strength she has in her own good arm, she chucks Kyrii into the wall of the building he had obliterated earlier. The force alone might send the debris crashing around him, maybe slowing him a little more, given the condition that he's in.

She'd rather avoid having to snuff him, in the event that Hope doesn't make it. But she also can't die, either.

So she runs the other way. Find a weapon. Something non-lethal and can give this guy a good jolt.

The wall crashes over Kyrii as he goes tumbling into it. His good arm preemptively tucks to protect it from being crushed.

When it seems to have all fallen over him, he begins pushing the chunks of rubble off of his body. But it takes too much time for his liking. He isn't able to move himself any faster with the one hand he's working with.

After several more long seconds, he's finally standing over the debris.

She's running. He carefully vaults over the broken wall and breaks into a hindered sprint after her.

Ignoring the screaming ache in her knee as she bounds and weaves around fallen rubble that litter the streets throughout the city, Rey flees. Faster than she should be with her injuries. The taste of iron from the blood in her mouth is still fresh and unforgettable.

Quick to stumble to a stop, she skids to the right, towards the remains of an unused shop that looks as though an explosion had taken out the entrance of it.

What would seem to be leading to herself to a corner is something else entirely. She digs through the shelves, finding a pile of wrapped up cloth in the back room.

Air is forced in and out of his lungs with consecutive pinches against his left lung. It slows him down considerably, allowing her to gain a decent lead ahead of him. But he's able to keep his eyes on her and see her duck into a building further up.

He comes to a halt in front of the shop. Heaving to catch his breath, he draws the knife properly with his usable hand. The GBE far behind him now, he thinks.

By now Rey would have had plenty of time to gather herself in there. He has to proceed with caution.

The blade flips in hand with ease. He moves carefully through the entrance of the store.

While Kyrii goes for a knife, Rey pulls out an orb-shaped device from under a pile on the shelf. It's pale, and so simply fits into her hand.

Using the shelves of the shop for cover, she navigates the maze-like place for signs of Kyrii.

He's no novice, though. She knows this. Chances are he won't make himself so easily known.

The HUD flicks on over his retinas. It glitches intermittently while attempting to scan for signs of movement across the spaces. His steps are careful and quiet. He even keeps his breathing to a minimum despite desperately needing to recover from the run.

It's possible she could have already run out some other exit, so he moves more naturally to sweep the area.

The knife staying firmly to his side, he quietly follows the most unobstructed path. It guides deeper into the labyrinth of the destroyed building until he reaches a smaller space clear of the rubble. It appears to be the origin of an explosion or previous fight.

But with no immediate sign of Rey.

Shoulder pressed to the surface of the shelves, Rey slides around the corner to evade Kyrii's line of sight. Her boots shuffle across the ground, quiet and muffled. The distant sounds of battle provide enough background noise to deafen her movements.

Eventually, when Kyrii is close enough, Rey positions herself behind her cover. Gripping the weapon in her good hand, she slams her weight against the shelf. Sending it toppling over Kyrii on the other side.

The weight of it should be enough to pin him down. If only momentarily, so she can get a clean shot.

He can't turn and catch the shelving in time. His elbow reaches to try and break the fall of the weight against him. Instead it gets pinned more awkwardly beneath the shelving. Legs instantly shifting to get some sort of foothold on the object in attempt to push it off from him.

He glares up from the ground to her.

The weapon charges in her hand, proving to be not at all difficult to operate as she approaches Kyrii on the ground. She has no doubt that he could remove himself and fight back if given the chance.

Rey gives him no such chance. Instead, she takes aim with the weapon, and fires a blast that's intended only to shake apart and kill intangible enemies.

For Kyrii, the goal isn't to kill but to simply stun him. Remembering what was said about the godkillers, she decides to put the idea that they are only intended to be lethal to the gods to the test.

Better than letting herself get killed for no reason.

She pulls the trigger. A blast of microwave energy bursts from the gun.

Event Log: End of Arc 2

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