Event Log: Assassin

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The Assassin event
Where: Throughout the city
When: April 15th-23rd
Warnings: Inevitable character death, potential horror and gore and unpleasantness. Please remember to tag for warnings in the header if it things get too bad!

The morning of April 15th in Hadriel is cheerful, with artificial light streaming through your window. Your blankets are warm, jabberjays are shrieking, and you're probably going to experience a murder attempt today.

Maybe it'll be from a stranger, maybe it'll be from a friend, but the bottom line is that everybody is after somebody and nobody is safe (...okay, twelve people are safe, but that's beside the point). Time will only tell when you'll be overcome by that murderous rage and try to kill someone else. The best thing you can probably do at this point is stay calm, keep your head high, and try not to die for the next eight days.

Helpfully, Rage will have restocked her armory for the event, for those of you have yet to arm themselves. Additionally, for a limited time only, the armory will be stocked with bear traps, tripwire (in both 'general wire' and 'barbed wire' flavor), and voice recorders. Use all of them, use none of them, just get on out there and kill each other!

Oh, and one last thing...

► This log covers April 15th-23rd.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► Did your assassin catch up to you? Please remember to hit up our death post!

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[circumitus]

Her primal instincts were telling her to keep moving. During her patrols she very rarely stopped until she made it back to her apartment, where even then she couldn't sleep. Not when she was fighting her own rage boiling inside of her. She had fought those urges before. She could fight them again. But not everyone has had the "luxury" of living and dying several times and living again like Rey has. Not everyone gets to experience it to know how to exercise self-restraint.

That's why she's out here. That's why she's risking her life, even though she has no obligation to the people here. Nothing that should tie her to her fellow prisoners, especially the object of her own anger.

Though that isn't her. That isn't Rey. She knows that.

That's when she turns and, for a brief moment, catches a glimpse of movement. A flicker.

By then it's too late.

[liquid_serpent]

Liquid saw her try turn and face who was following her and this pleased him. He could see her brief panic at seeing him and this only fuelled his desire to get closer and see her bleed. His face was a mask of rage, almost like an animal. He fired another shot close to where her legs were seeing what she would do next.

"You have to die." He rasped, his voice full of anger and hatred.

[circumitus]

It wasn't too long ago when Rey was in her home world, allowing a woman who she had once wronged the chance to put a bullet in her brain.

Now there is this man she's never seen before taking that chance, for no reason whatsoever. It's no mystery as to why, though. She knows that people are acting strange, and Rey has since learned to disconnect herself from her own emotions, bottling up the rage so it can become something else. Of course, not everyone has this practice. Hence there is no point in trying to talk him down. Not like she has the right sense to after that headshot.

Blood is sliding down the side of her face where the bullet had grazed her skull. Ringing fills her ears and she can't make out what the man is saying, but sees that his lips are moving. She just barely hears the bullet impact the ground by her foot, but holds her ground. Squeezing her hand into a fist as her left eye squints through the blood flowing over it. It isn't the first time she's been shot, or shot at.

Go ahead, just try it. She's lived more lives than this one, anyway.

[liquid_serpent]

Liquid smirked and let out a low chuckle. The woman was injured. That was a start. Now he could down to really dishing out some pain. All the rage inside of him bursting to get out.

"Afraid, woman? You should be. Have another shot!" He laughed deeply, as he squeezed the trigger and sent another bullet towards her shoulder. He was going to play with her, judge her reaction before killing her. This was causing Liquid great satisfaction and deep down he had no idea why. This wasn't Snake, his brother, so why was he doing this? All he knew was that he had to do this.

[circumitus]

Afraid? Like hell she is. She's anticipated something like this happening since she felt the rage towards a girl she had never met consume her.

Either way, the force of the bullet sends her to the ground. Beyond the impact, she doesn't make a noise at all. Pain is something she's all too familiar with.

This? Is nothing.

[liquid_serpent]

Liquid moved so that he was standing right over her bleeding body. His bullets had done their job but she was still alive. Hm. He would soon take care of that but first he would beat some sense into her. Like a cat playing with his toy mouse he would have some fun with her.

The blond grabbed hold of her collar and pulled her up to his face level, slapping her in the face and chuckling softly.

"Had enough, have you? Where's the fight in you, little girl?"

[circumitus]

The armor absorbed most of the bullet's impact, leaving there a startlingly lack of blood than there should be. As Liquid draws closer, it'll be more visible that the bullet is lodged in the fabric at her shoulder where he had shot her.

Right now, her head is her most vulnerable. But with metal between her skin and her cybernetic brain, the sensation of that slap probably registers to him more than it does to her. Devoid of expression and blood still streaming down the side of her face, though, she has no witty retort to his query.

What she does do is send a quick swift between his legs.

Rey is not equipped to fight ranged combat. Not without a firearm of her own, anyway. In his cockiness to taunt her, however, Liquid placed himself exactly in her area of expertise: Beating and burning the shit out of something until it's dead.

[liquid_serpent]

Liquid cried out in pain at the kick between his legs. He should have seen that coming and cursed himself for not reacting quicker. He cursed and clutched at his groin but managing to fight off the pain since he rage was masking it right now.

"You bitch!" He snarled at her and went to kick her in the ribs. She had injured his pride and now she would pay. No one kicks Liquid Snake in the balls and has the last laugh. Dirty fighter.

He grabbed at her hair and aimed to pull her head back so he could deliver a blow to her stomach.

[circumitus]

Punch her all you want. You're only hitting Nano Kevlar.

The most annoying factor here, other than everything, is the fact that he's touching her. He's up close and she can feel his breath and that is not okay.

Up until then she has avoided it. But his hand in her hair and his attempts to hurt her have reached the pinnacle of her patience.

Her skin burns. The light indicators on her armor flare up a bright red hue.

An explosion sends Liquid back with a scorching force.

Now her entire body is on fire. The flaming armored woman stands there, her barely discernible eyes glaring down at the man who has since attempted to assault her.

"You're pathetic. You can't even control your own emotions," she says, detached from all feelings. There is no fear, no anger, no hatred. Only brazen apathy. "Come anywhere near again, it'll be the last thing you do."

Body still burning with an oppressive heat surrounding her entire body, she turns to leave. She will not kill him, but she will not allow him to keep laying his filthy hands on her, either.

[liquid_serpent]

Liquid wasn't expecting his target to flare up in flames. He cried out in pain and felt the force and heat blast him backwards onto the floor.

"What the? Ahhhh--"

He gripped at his face and patted down his front hoping his skin wasn't burnt. Damn, that bitch. How dare she try to burn him! This is wasn't what he had planned at all. She should be dead now. Bleeding to death on the street while he watched over her broken body with a proud smirk.

But not this.

He got up snarling. "You! What the hell are you? A monster?" The blond had felt the full force of her fire and had not expected that. At all. He clasped his face feeling the red hotness of his skin there and cursed, whilst stumbling away defeated.

Damn.