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...

Comments

closed; cw: death

[dedikated]

( Exhaustion can affect anyone. All it takes is one push too far, one day too many without enough sleep or food.

All it can take is a seemingly endless battle, wave after wave of Null adapting and forcing itself towards the Door, and the lingering, draining madness that emanates off the bouncing sphere in an attempt to defend itself and them. One second where the shadows lingering at the edges of Kate’s vision and the constant taste of blood (ohgodthetasteofblood metallic and warm and invading her throat until she has to force air into her lungs with a grimace) distracts her for just long enough that she doesn’t see the second Null step in too close, doesn’t notice the flash of the laser until it burns through flesh and muscle. )

— Shit.

( It’s such a dull reaction to the pain, so breathless and quiet among the echoing clash of Null versus the people of Hadriel, where spells curve and curl out in their limited space, lighting up the tunnel until — for just a moment — Kate feels twenty again, watching Faith light the Underground up while it collapses around them and Marc’s by her side, groaning with the effort of pushing the earth away long enough that all of them can escape the shuddering, rolling masses of the monsters beneath the city.

But this time the only thing collapsing is her as her knees buckle and each part of her body — her hands letting go of the makeshift weapon they’ve clutched for the last few hours, her head turning towards the place where the Null cut through her — works in slow motion, as though the pain (an oddly distant thing, given the fact a laser sliced through her, obscured by so many layers of fog and memories) has physical weight it attaches to her limbs.

Is she breathing? There’s a burning in her chest, fighting against an erratically stuttering heart, which suggests she is, but she’s not sure how it’s passing her constricting throat. There’s the muted sound of her body hitting the floor, a gentle thud which should sound louder, given the way it rattles in her shins, and the thought:

Sucks to die now.

Yes. Yes it does. )