Endgame Log: The Ice Planet

[hadrielmods]

Who: The characters accompanying [Name] to the ice planet
What: The closed event log for the virus upload
Where: On the ice planet, at the Null communications array
When: June 15th
Warnings: None

It's time. There's a plan that needs to be put into motion, and you're the ones who volunteered to do it. You know going in that it's going to be dangerous - but there's no other choice. This is the end, and it's you or the Null.

Upon arrival, you have a little time to prepare. The Null don't know you're there at first, and once they do there's a delay of a few hours before they're in position to fight back. Now's the time to set up defenses or anything else that might help you stay alive. You have to know the fight will be hard, because they know their lives are on the line, too.

Then, the Null attack. With everything they have, they try to stop you, try to beat past your defenses to get to [Name] and stop it from uploading the killswitch. Fear helps out, and the sky goes dark, but it won't last forever. When Fear flees, that particular defense is gone... along with any chance of getting out of there. Here's where those without courage might break, because it certainly looks like it could be a last stand. It doesn't help that Hope can't reach you here either, that any deaths will not be resurrected during the battle.

But it does end. With very little warning, [Name] completes its task. It goes dark, and as it does, the other Null see their end coming. They cannot stop it, they cannot escape. They crumple to the ground, all consciousness and animation gone from them.

And then you're alone on the ice planet. Tend your wounds, mourn your dead, and hope that someone will come for you before the cold does.

► This log covers June 15th
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► As this log takes place away from Hope's influence, any deaths will not be resurrected until people and gods are able to travel to the ice planet again. Have fun!

Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

Such a cool power.

[That was mostly to himself, but he is super impressed. He crunches a few more Null, webbing a few more up for Tinya before hopping out of harms way for a moment so he can check his web shooters]

I just hope I don't run out. These thing don't stop coming!

[unphase]

[she beams] Thank you!

[she floats on over to the webbed Null and proceeds to stab one after the other in the likeliest places for their cores, then goes back and repeats the process on those who were still twitching.

she shoves her hair back] You won't. Eventually, this plan will work and they'll be dead and gone and beneath our notice.

[itsnotaonesie]

Okay, "eventually" could be anywhere between ten minutes and ten hours, and I already used most of my webs up laying traps back in the jungle. Just, y'know, just sayin'.

[he's not being negative, just realistic. He's been laying down the webs like crazy the past few days, and even if he made a ton of it in preparation, it's not going to last forever. If he tries to conserve web fluid, they might get overrun, but if he keeps using it the way he has been, he's going to run out and they'll probably get overrun anyway. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Super cool.]

[unphase]

And Fear ran like a coward, so who knows when we're getting some backup. [she scowls slightly] If we're getting any backup.

[she knows she could outlive everyone here in a phased state. simply . . . stay phased while everyone else dies around her. but that doesn't seem fair and it doesn't seem right. just like it's not right that the aliens apparently abandoned them. this is their fight more than it is anyone else's]

[itsnotaonesie]

I mean, his name is Fear. It kind of checks out.

[He needs to pause the chat for a moment so he can focus on crunching some robots. It's getting exhausting. There's no end to the damn things, Peter's injured and he's hardly had any rest since this whole thing started. Life is hard, dude.]

I'm not holding my breath for backup, I think this is all we're gonna get.

[unphase]

He's still a nasshead for doing it.

[she finds the aliens infuriating. especially their reliance on using the people they stole to fight their battles for them. and that's fine, she'll just acid splash the sprock out of a Null closing in on him]

Ugh, really? The aliens are incompetent. High-handed, self-absorbed, smug, incompetents. [and she's swinging her katana at a Null during the last part, delivering brutal blows to it with each insult she peppers the aliens with, running it through its core with the final word]