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.

► This log covers November 25th-December 12th.
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[The individual battles against the Null aren't much, but the sheer numbers of them are simply overwhelming. By the time that Lup meets up with Curufin on the battlefield, she's looking a little weary and worn down, a deep cut across her forehead, the knees of her pants matted with blood and dirt. But she spies the other elf and grins just the same, whipping a fireball to life at the tips of her fingers and hurling it for the Null closest to Curufin.

The robot stutters as it's processor is incinerated, before collapsing to the ground, lifeless.]

Booyah!

[ Curufin is just bringing his sword around for a cut at the Null, when the fireball smacks right into its central processor and that essential device flames out. Lup is looking as battered as you might expect, considering how enthusiastic she is about fighting and how energetically she slams into the Null warriors. Curufin grins back at her. ]

Lup! I am pleased to see you. How is it going?

Oh, you know. [The hand that isn't flaming gives an exaggerated swipe across her brow, the elf feigning a huff like she's exhausted. Which she kind of is, but come on, this is still pretty fun.]

Burning through robots. Trying to keep all of Hadriel from collapsing. The ush. How's it going on your end? Music nights canceled until further notice?

Yes, I guess I do know. [ He's fairly bedraggled, too. But YES! -- this is FUN!!! ]

Same here. Yes, I'm afraid I won't be strumming the harp or giving anybody a nosebleed from listening to my wild Elvish flute, not for a while. Gotta kill all these animated tin-cans first!

[ He laughs, delighted to see Lup and delighted to join forces with her. ] Look out behind you! [ Another wave of Null are coming out from behind the nearest building, heading for the two Elves. He moves sideways and lifts his shotgun and blasts the first row of them. ]

[Well shit. That's pretty cool. Lup points over to his shotgun, admiring the whole thing.]

One, that's super rad. But two, pretty sure my magic is way more flashy than a silly gun ever will be. Wanna see who takes the most out?

[ Curufin grins. ]

Yes! Let's have a contest! I want to see this flashy magic in action.

[ And there are plenty of Null for both of them, here they come! ]

[That's all Lup needs to hear.

The Null swarm them from both sides and Lup turns to the left, leaving Curufin with the right. Her hands raise and she immediately whips another raging fireball into life out of nothing, before hurling it at the nearest of the Null. It's steel casing melts easily under the magically amplified fire, the processor incinerating immediately. The robot teeters before crashing to the ground, accidentally tripping the Null that had been approaching it from behind.]

[ Curufin decimates the Null to the right, most of them, anyway. Those who are staggering from the shotgun-shell hits or are still coming are subjected to his sword, which is his secondary weapon in this battle. He leaps on a Null, knocking it to the ground with his weight and stabbing downwards with his sword, to skewer its central processor. It dies.

He finds time to keep track of what Lup is doing, grinning to see her generating those fireballs right out of thin air and flinging them at the Null with the force of a catapult. The Null fall with their CPUs in ruins. ]

Toast them to a crisp, Lup! [ He grins. ]

[This is Lup in her element. Most of her friends can fight, but don't derive nearly as much pleasure as she does from battle. But for Lup, everything about her feels alive when she can summon the elements at her fingertips and blast through her enemies, leaving nothing but bodies in her wake.

She shakes her long hair between spells, giving it a practiced flick over her shoulder, before shooting an exaggerated wink towards the other elf. It shouldn't be, not when people are in legitimate danger across the city, but Lup still finds this fun.] Right back at you, kemosabe! Stick 'em right where it hurts!

[Instead of going with her standard fire, Lup casts Lighting Bolt, electrocuting a Null that had side-stepped it's brethren and was coming straight at her. The spell shoots through it's system, shorting out it's delicate machinery, leaving the robot to topple over while it's limbs spasmed uncontrollably.]

[ It is a thing they have in common, Lup and Curufin. They enjoy a battle. They feel alive; every faculty they have is fully engaged. It is a pleasure to fight beside her.

He grins in response to the wink, and then does as suggested, skewering the Null before him right through the carapaces. He laughs aloud when she chooses the Lightening Bolt spell. ] Way to go, and way to glow!

[Just one of the many reasons the two of them get along together so well.

Curufin throws out that commentary and Lup audibly groans, like it's the lamest thing she's ever heard. But she quickly falls back into laughing before she's throwing another lightning bolt towards a second trio of Null running her way. This shit is too easy.]

I've gotta be up to like fifteen by now, right?

[ Curuifn would feel he was losing his skill if he was not able to make his friends groan with his awful jokes and comments! And he laughs with her as she flings another lightening bolt to electrocute another droid. ]

Fifteen at least! You're ahead of me. I'd better hustle.

[ He grins and blasts another couple of Null. ]

Edited 2018-01-06 11:41 (UTC)

Event Log: End of Arc 2

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Sorry, I'm really late. Do you want to play or wrap?

im always down to play!

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