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

[unphase]

I'll be warm enough without it. Promise.

[since she's not actually standing up yet, Tinya will remain in place on the ground.

she smiles gently] You don't have to thank me. [a pause] Do you want a hug?

[[Name] deserves a proper remembrance service, of whatever type Alphys feels is best]

[sciencelizard]

[She's bad at asking for things for herself, but thankfully, Tinya can at least surmise what's good here. Alphys nods, just a little thing, as she pulls herself up with [Name] still in her arms.]

Yeah. If it's not, uhm. T-Too much trouble.

[It'll be okay, but it doesn't feel like that now. Maybe, soon enough, it will.]

[unphase]

[it doesn't matter if Alphys is bad at asking, Tinya is good at giving. she unhooks her cape from her touchstone and drapes it gently over [Name]. shortly after, she gives Alphys a gentle hug]

It's never too much trouble. Especially not for you.

[and she continues to hold Alphys gently in her arms]

[sciencelizard]

[Thanks to all that is good that someone cares about her, now. She lets the cloak be wrapped around her and [Name], leaning into the hug as a few more tears escape her eyes.]

Thank you. T-Thank you so much. Let's... we can...

[She tilts her head in the direction of others.]

Help bring me over there?

[It'll be okay eventually. At least she's not alone.]

[unphase]

[Tinya cares about Alphys very much and the death of [Name] pains her because she knows it pains her friend. and she continues to hold Alphys close, letting her cry as much as she needs to.

gently] You don't need to thank me.

[she looks over at them. Pratt's body is over there. she'd been avoiding that area because of it, but. if that's where Alphys needs to be, she can swallow her own pain for now]

I will. I'm going to pick you up now, if that's okay?

[she's definitely not alone]

wrapped I think ;O;

[sciencelizard]

[Alphys never knows how to ask for help, frankly. The fact she's even trying to reach out now is something in itself, a learned behavior with the knowledge that if she doesn't she'll fall apart.

So she just nods, lets herself be moved. She'll be back, hopefully. They all will.]

Okay. P-Please.

[They'll make it yet.]

probably, but. /CLINGS ;;

[unphase]

[that's okay; Tinya's always been one to offer help even when unasked for.

she gently picks Alphys up and holds her so Alphys can rest her head on Tinya's shoulder]

All right. [she pats Alphys' back gently as she starts to carry her over to the others]

It'll be all right. I promise.