hadriel_logs | Event Log: Gifts from the Door, Monster Version

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Event Log: Gifts from the Door, Monster Version

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the monster version of the Gifts from the Door event
Where: All over the city
When: October 12th-17th
Warnings: Like, so many monsters

No monsters arrived with the newbies - great! One less thing to worry about. Except it never quite works out that way, does it? Maybe the Door was just delayed a little, because on the 12th, a few monsters start appearing. And then more. And then more. Where's the off switch?! Oh right, no one knows.

Some of these monsters you might recognize, some your best friend from another world might be very familiar with. Some might be creatures you've never imagined. But don't worry, they all have one thing in common - they'd all be happy to tear you to itty bitty pieces. Or eat your liver. Or consume your soul. Or just scare the shit out of you, that's fun too.

So lock your doors and stay inside, and hope nothing breaks in through the windows. Alternately, now's a great time to get your hero on and go out and smack some monsters around. It's great exercise, and there's nothing better for stress relief! Just avoid those big scary fangs.

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No, it just scared me.

[The zombies behind them still scare her. She slows running just enough to allow herself to talk.]

Are you okay? Do you mind if I ask what that is?

[She briefly gestures behind her to the webbing on the zombie feet. Any method of defense is worth knowing about.]

[Okay cool she's not hurt. Peter lets himself relax a little, but he's still keeping an eye out for things that might try to eat them.]

I'm fine, just a little creeped out. Uh, this stuff is... it's like a synthetic spider web? It'll hold those guys for a couple hours.

That's cool. A couple hours is enough time for us to get to the spires and warn people.

[She's still moving quickly, just in case more zombies appear.]

Are synthetic spider webs a thing where you're from? Or is it a Hadriel thing?

[So far the zombies seem to be the slow shambling type, so they ones they've left behind aren't catching up. Who knows how long that luck will keep up, though]

They're uh, just a me thing. Just this formula I cooked up back home.

Back home, I had my rifle. It's not here though.

[She wonders what kind of person cooks up ways to trap people, or undead people.]

Were there zombies in your home? Or other monsters?

I'm not a huge gun fan, but that really would have been helpful against these things.

[Just your spandex-clad crime fighting vigilantes, nothing weird about that at all right?]

No zombies, not... really monsters either? There were aliens sometimes though, I guess those count as monster-like.

It's helpful if you have to hunt for food too. I grew up using rifles.

[She's been raised to be a gun fan.]

Aliens? That must have been strange. Did it help prepare you for this place? The monsters on my world were all human.

I don't think anything could have prepared me for this place. Weirdly enough though, the monster fighting part was the easiest thing to get used to.

The easiest thing for me to get used to was having people from home here. Like Will. He might be in the spires when we get there. He'll know what to next about the zombies.

Are things like this normal where you're from? You said the monsters were human, were they like these?

[She shakes her head.] No, not normal at all. I meant it in a less literal way. People that did monstrous things.

Oooh, okay, that makes sense. Think I've been stuck in Monsterville too long. Actual people, though, I feel like that would be a lot more challenging to deal with?

Monsterville's a good name for this place.

[She gives a small nod and touches her scarf to make sure it's still in place, then moves her hair to cover the scars where her ear used to be.]

It was very hard, yeah. Will, my roommate and kind of guardian, he saved my life along with another man. That's why I'm hoping he'll know how to protect us from zombies.

I thought it was pretty fitting.

[He's on the lookout for zombies, so he's not really paying attention to her movements, but damn dude. ]

He sounds like a good guy. I don't know if the zombies will be all that hard to deal with, though, they don't seem to be keeping up with us.

[Abigail glances behind her.]

Yeah, I guess we're in the clear as long as more don't show up. It's just the idea of being eaten by one of them, it's super creepy.

[Too much like her dad, but she doesn't want to have to explain that to him.]

Creepy seems to be putting it lightly, this is straight up horror movie stuff. Not like "jump scare" scary but like "legitimately screwing with your head and giving you nightmares" scary.

[Speaking of jump scares, there's totally a zombie just falling off of a roof and landing on the ground in front of them, because why not.]

Nightmares and messed up minds come from living people that want to eat you. [She says it automatically and very seriously. Her father was worse than any of these things.]

[The falling zombies causes her to move back quickly.] Oh, damn!

You mean cannibals?

[Okay no that actually is worse than zombies. He's about to comment further but then there's a body hitting the ground and she backs up into him and honestly everything about this situation is kind of awful. He sticks it to the ground with some webbing before it has a chance to get up, and places a hand on her shoulder to like lead her around it. ewwww ew zombies]

Great, airdropping zombies. Let's scoot away from the buildings a little.

[Abigail gives a simple nod for the cannibals, and another nod when he mentions scooting away from the buildings. She's trembling slightly. As horrible as her father was, he never came at her from the sky. She can't help looking up, letting him guide her around the zombie.]

Yeah, maybe we should try to stay from trees too.

[It might be paranoid. But paranoid is good when it comes to the strange things that can happen in Hadriel]

And away from the shores. They could be underwater. It's not like they need to breathe.

I don't think we'll have to worry about tree zombies, I heard someone cut down all the trees to build boats or something. We'll definitely stay away from the water, though.

[She seems pretty shaken up, so Peter's just going to keep his hand on her shoulder as they continue. He has no idea if it's going to help keep her calm at all, but it's the best thing he can think to do at the moment.]

Are we getting pretty close?

Yeah.

[She points to the spire up ahead and then stops walking.]

But what if there's zombies there too?

[It's not just the threat of them on the roofs that has her worried. The idea of them invading her apartment, her safe place, is very unpleasant.]

Should we walk around it at first, see if there's signs of a zombie attack?

[Oh good, it's pretty close. He stops when she does, studying the spire from a distance.]

Yeah, absolutely. We'll make sure it's clear before we do anything else. Just stay close to me, okay?

[Abigail nods, staring at the building and wondering if Will is okay as well as the other people inside.]

Okay.

[Her hand reaches over, touching his arm and then holding his hand if he'll allow it.]

[He will, because he's a nice guy that way. He'll even give her hand a reassuring little squeeze before he starts moving toward the spire. He doesn't hear anything zombie-like, and his spider-sense isn't picking up on anything that might try to jump out for a people snack. So far everything's going pretty smoothly.]

I'm Peter, by the way.

[Little late for intros, but hey. Better late than never.]

[The squeeze calms Abigail slightly. Her friends are still on her mind. She watches the spire, hoping for a sign that everything is fine inside of it.]

I'm Abigail. Nice to meet you; I do wish the circumstances were different.

[There has to be far better ways to meet people than zombie attacks.]

Edited 2018-11-01 18:03 (UTC)

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