Event Log: End of Arc 2

[hadrielmods]

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.

Comments

[restinglichface]

[Lup is only just barely aware of what is happening by the time that Gren grabs her.

She's blasting through the Null with ease, whipping fireballs through the air like it's nothing between casual flirting with Wade, when her sharp eyes finally catch sight of the smallest Null kneeling to set something that looks absolutely no good on the ground.]

Oh dag.

[But before the elf can even attempt to make a run for it or throw up a useless shield, the strange device goes off and she's dropping to the floor within seconds, hands flying upwards to cover her overly sensitive ears. It's no good, of course, the piercing shriek goes beyond just hearing, the intensity of the vibration running straight through her slender body, right down deep into her very bones. Suddenly, it's impossible to breathe, she just can't bring herself to draw a breath, the pain is so intense that all she can do is gasp out and hope it's over soon.

Then without even realizing that Gren's gotten his big hand around her, she's flying, tumbling just out of the area of effect, her ears left ringing and her chest aching out sharply in pain, but the piercing shriek gone just as quickly as it had appeared.]

What the fuck, you asshole. My fuckin' ribs-- [But she rolls off of her back and rises slowly, an arm wrapped around herself, when she catches sight of Gren still within the area, her eyes going wide.] Fuck! Shoot that thing!

[ishotyouuu]

[Painful though it probably was, Lup has the advantage of being within the big bruiser's reach; of its quicker-than-lightning reflexes. Wade, unfortunately, isn't so lucky. The sound hits him like a physical blow, piercing through his ear canals and causing his brain to pulsate painfully inside his skull. He loses a few precious seconds by instinctively clapping his hands over his ears, as if that would somehow quiet the hellish frequency, and Lup's shouted instructions are lost to him.

It is fortunate, therefore, that Wade's general approach to impossible odds is to shoot his way out. The migraine-inducing sound forces one of his eyes closed, but he still aims nonetheless, unloading his clip upon the strangely blinking device less than a few feet away from Lup's creature. One of those shots must have damaged its internal processors, for the thing gives a hellish grinding noise before collapsing in a shower of sparks.]

[murderpotato]

[The horrible sound cuts out suddenly, dying with a dying fall. Gren had been trying to blindly stumble his way out of the area, but everything was failing him; his eyes couldn't see anything more than dim shadows, he heard nothing, his limbs would barely keep him upright. His face feels wet and warm.]

[Even his thoughts aren't coming right, all confused and jumbled and fragmented in his head. Everything hurts, and he is so tired, and it's only base animal instinct right now that drives him away from the thing that hurt him first. He wants to lay down and not get up again.]

[When the Null device finally breaks, so does he. His limbs buckle, he drops to the earth like dead weight and lays there, taking in horrible ragged breaths. His muscles twitch spasmodically from the misfires of dying neurons.]

[restinglichface]

[No no no not again.

Wade manages to destroy the device with a few well aimed shots and Lup's already rushing forward to Gren the second he drops to the ground, her pace quick despite the shake in her step.]

Hey! Hey! [She drops at the man's side, near his head, a tiny hand flying to Gren's arm, giving him a shake. The elf doesn't need medical training to know that he'd remained in the radius of that shrieking noise for just too long. She'd barely been in it's range for more than a few seconds and she still felt like her insides were jelly.] Don't you dare fuckin' die on me, you asshole! I swear to--

[Lup's head whips around, finding Wade before she's shouting for him, the hand against Gren's arm flying upwards to his face, cupping what she assumes is his cheek.] You still kickin' over there?

[ishotyouuu]

[Wade can barely hear Lup's shout over the ringing in his brain. His vision grows dark for a moment; warm wetness trickles from his ears that he's pretty sure is blood. He shakes his head violently, twice, like a dog that's got water in its ear canal, before taking a few shambling steps over to where Lup and her monster are.]

Odin's hairy ballsack, man! Haven't had that much ear rape since I stumbled into an Avril Lavigne concert.

You doin' okay there, sweetheart? How's your big'un? He still breathing?