Endgame Log: The City

[hadrielmods]

Who: The characters within Hadriel
What: The event log for the Null attack
Where: All over the city (and possibly outside)
When: June 15th
Warnings: None

The battle has been going on for awhile now, but this is when things really begin to kick into overdrive. The Null's primary target is the Door, but their secondary targets are all the god temples - particularly Hope's. It's time to fight, because if you don't, everything is going to end here and now.

Whether you're defending the Door, defending a temple, or finding some other way to fight or offer support to the fighters, you'd better be ready to go all out. The Null certainly are. Their forces seem almost infinite, especially with the way they can drag the remains of Null bodies from the field and repair and reanimate them. But then, that's true for you, too, as Hope flickers around each battlefield throughout the city resurrecting people nearly the moment they fall.

All the gods are fighting at your side. Some will fall, sending currents of emotion through the warriors on both sides, while others will fight on. It may seem like this battle will last forever, but there is an end - when the Null all begin to crumple, the life going out of them, signaling that the killswitch has been activated.

Then it's just you, and the living injured, and the city in ruins. But you've won, no matter what the cost!

► This log covers June 15th
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► All deaths will be resurrected near-instantly, though after awhile things may begin going wrong...

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Carlisle Longinmouth | Fear's Temple, Underground Passage [open]

[tongueamok]

Carlisle Longinmouth does not serve the gods. Aside from bargaining for his plants, he has long resisted in dealing with them in any way, refusing to vote in their polls or take part in their machinations in any way. He considers them false deities, wardens of this prison city, parasites who feed upon their captives as one would livestock. He does not serve the city, either -- though he has made connections within Hadriel, friends he could not afford otherwise, it is not his home. He has never felt compelled to answer the call to action for the betterment of the city the way he would Bear Den. This place is only worth the people he has met, and even some of those have vanished over the years, leaving holes in his heart. He prefers to stay out of danger, and insists they do the same if given the chance. They are fools to risk their lives for this war between the false gods and the constructs.

But when the Null ships arrived in the skies above Hadriel days before, Carlisle knew he could ignore their invasion no longer. He had once been a prisoner aboard a starship years ago, just before he was brought to Hadriel; he had seen the constructs in their first invasion, healed those who needed it all while being ignored himself. He'd assumed they'd taken no interest in him at the time because he did not put up a fight, refusing to choose a side. He was not their main objective, and threatening as they may have been to him on the principle of being constructs, they did not evoke outright terror in him. Their ships, on the other hand, did. When he laid his eyes upon them, all he could see was the Tranquility returning, hungering for him.

And then, as Carlisle realized the Null were doing their damnedest to reach Fear's temple, to storm upon the place he knew Kate and so many others were trying to secure, he was forced out of his indecision. They are down there now, beyond the underground passage and defending the Door, and though he knows as well as anyone that it may be their only way home, he has done little to protect it himself thus far. He has reveled in his cowardice, shielded by his partner, but he cannot continue to ignore the guilt welling in his middle. If these constructs take the Door, they may have no way to leave Hadriel, no way for Glacius to return to his people. They may be even less willing to bargain with the captives of the city, slaying his friends without question once they have reached their objective. If he chooses inaction in their time of need, what good is he? What value does he have in this existence?

Through his time in Hadriel, Carlisle hs found renewed purpose in the people he has come to care about. He refuses to let them down, to be the failure he has long believed himself to be, and so he sets out for Fear's temple, his satchel at his shoulder and his partner at his side. Though his hands shake with apprehension as he dips his brush in ink and begins to paint on the floor, he works swiftly and diligently. The glyph he draws around the entrance to the underground passage is similar to the one around his garden, but rather than shielding the area from the elements, its conjured walls are solid enough to block anyone and anything that would seek to cross through them. The same spell once protected him and Pratt from a demon; he now hopes it will shield his friends from an equally terrible threat as he pours his energy into the glyph, the glowing, translucent walls forming a dome over both him and the entrance to the passage.

The main problem is that the glyph will only hold for as long as he channels into it, and he knows that despite his metaphysical bond with Glacius and the abundance of energy it provides, he cannot hold it forever. As for how long he is willing to risk his life to maintain his barrier, he hasn't yet answered that. He's hoping he might not have to.


[PM me or hit me up at grimmhooke if you want anything specific! Otherwise, feel free to hit him up as he's setting up the barrier, when the barrier is already going and the Null are breaking in, or whatever. He can't maintain it forever, and is only going to buy the main Door Defenders so much time, so he is game for all the help he can get. o7]