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!

Comments

[glacius]

I do not. [This is said in a very firm voice.] Depsite your attack, she has yet to do anything to try and defend herself. If she was a danger, would she not have lashed out at you already? Would she not have tried to harm the people around her?

[Glacius glowers for a moment more, but then his eyes drop to the blade he has shaped his limb into. He's not really giving Dorian a lot of incentive not to incite conflict, here... perhaps he should set an example. Heaving a sigh, the alien's art liquefies and then reverts to its natural form, and he looks to Dorian again.] If you would not prey on the innocent, then prove it. Show me that my perception of you is wrong.

[sparkler]

[It makes sense, what he's saying. Dorian doesn't want it to make sense, because he doesn't seem able to change how he feels. It's frustrating, unnerving. Upsetting. She does not seem to be a threat, but somehow he's certain that she is.

Dorian is an intelligent man. He cannot control how he feels, but he can at least see that there is something off about it, something abnormal.

He rubs his temple with two fingers. It doesn't make any sense. None of it.]

Get her out of here, if you would, and I will leave as well. I cannot promise that I will be able to stop myself again. I don't understand what's caused this, but -

[He shakes his head, sudden, frustrated.]

I believe she is a threat, but I don't know why. The gods playing tricks again, perhaps.

[unfollowing]

[Emily will do fucking anything to get out of this situation, so as soon as Dorian says he'll leave if she does, she nods.]

Come on, Ash, let's go inside--

[The gods? Oh, of fucking course it's the gods. At the moment, Emily is too scared from this brush with death to be properly angry, so she just keeps backing up towards the house, her hold on Ashley tightening with every step. As soon as she feels brave enough, she'll dash into the house, dragging Ashley with her if she has to.]

[cowardley]

[ Ashley keeps her fingers tight around Emily, almost protective in the way she moves them towards the house, keeping her friend in front of her and mostly out of Dorian's sight. She's not going to argue about any of this, and is just happy to get them out of harms way. ]

[glacius]

[Glacius would be alright with going with Emily and Ashley if his escort would help them feel safer, but as it is his presence is not requested, so he does not want to impede on their space by following without invitation. He remains on the scene a little bit longer, scrutinizing Dorian... the man is behaving very oddly, but at least he's making an effort not to do harm. The control is admirable.]

I do not know what is going on, but... thank you for being reasonable.

[With that he's going to depart. If this really is the work of the gods, he doesn't want Dorian to be turned against him next. For now it seems best to give the man his space, too.]