Intro Log: HOLY F*^K THAT'S A F*&KI%G DRAGON

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for October
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: October 10th-13th
Warnings: New faces, new greeting posts, and dragons. What's more to want?

If your first thought upon waking up on the cold, hard ground of Hadriel's very own Colosseum is 'maybe I partied too hard last night', one, Delight would love you and two, you're wrong. Or- maybe you did, but that's not why you're here. Instead, you wake up with the same clothes you were wearing when you were last home, but surrounded by very different people. So, make some friends! Might as well voice your confusion and concern and show the technologically unsavvy of you how to operate these fancy new phones, right? Just be sure not to trip over these odd bags of chips on your way to greet your fellow man.

Don't spend too much time out in the open, though. There are monsters about, and not quite the usual ones. This month, Hadriel is bringing in four dragons, each with their own unique abilities and raidboss-esque stamina. They'll be terrorizing the city until someone puts them down- maybe that someone is you! Maybe you should, uh, actually hide. They're hungry and territorial and mean and they're definitely out for a good meal. Check out our OOC post for more information, as well as who will be eventually killing the beasts!

But hey, once you escape from the dragons, feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies.

New, as of October's intro log is a Newcomer's guide that installs itself by default on every activated phone. Thanks, Mello!

Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers October 10th-13th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
► All characters arrive with phones that have network communication and the newbie guide installed.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Comments

[dedikated]

( if you think about it, it has been. Kate did all she could after Manchester to avoid combat. trained and sparred, yes, never really let herself forget how to fight, but -

well, she wanted to be done with this life.

(and no, her heart doesn't stop in her chest when the dragon gets too close to catching Faith. of course it doesn't. that would be highly illogical.)

she bounds a few rooftops further, glancing again, fingers working at her sunglasses while trying to pick a faster way out of the city. )

Glasses that aren't workin'. ( that's what she's got. ) Keep going this way, looks the safest.

( for the city. perhaps not for them. )

[avephoenix]

Shit.

[Okay, so they'll have to wing it. Not a problem! Not a problem, they've faced worse.

Faith follows Kate along, lobbing fireballs at the dragon every few steps and jumps, forcing it to pay attention to her and get away from all the people who are new or can't fight or both.

On one landing, the crumbling edge of the rough falls when she puts weight on her foot, and in that brief moment of lost balance, the dragon shoots a beam at her. Faith lets herself fall, rolling on the ground when she lands, and the beam passes over her, destroying only the rubble and ruins that were already there.]

What the shit kind of dragon--! Kate, we've got to kill it!

[The question is, how?]

[dedikated]

( Jesus fuck-!

if Kate didn't know any better, she'd have thought her heart stopped in that moment, but Faith uses it to her advantage and Kate springs onto a higher vantage point, nearly level with where the dragon hovers.

it's the scales, it has to be. that's part of their stories, isn't it? the fantasy shit Marc liked to read. dragons were tough because their scales were hard to penetrate. )

Got an idea.

( she pulls the sword from her hip and jumps, landing on the dragon's back and looking for a space between the scales, somewhere to dig her blade into. )

[avephoenix]

[That looks dangerous as anything, but it's a good idea and one Faith might've attempted herself if she'd thought of it first. So for now, since she's the one on the ground, she focuses on keeping the dragon's flight path marginally steady, or at least on keeping it from flipping around and trying to knock Kate off its back.

Which is accomplished by -- what else? -- running and leaping from rooftop to rooftop, lobbing balls of fire at its face, and moving towards the edge of the city. It's working, sort of. That's good. But--]

Hurry and stab it or get off! Y'can't stay up there!

[dedikated]

( god bless you, Faith Carr. Kate eventually plunges the blade into a space near one of the dragon's legs, slicing between scale and flesh with a grunt and the quickness of someone who knows her balance is about to be sent flying.

the scale flies off first and Kate finds herself thrown from the beast, sent flying toward a building she barely manages to grab a hold of, pulling herself up onto the roof. )

Fuckin' hell. ( okay, but that is what happens when you rip off a dragon's scale and piss it off. she hops a few rooftops without really pausing to assess the damage of being flung into a building, catching up to Faith. ) Think you can hit that?

( it's a small target, but it should do some damage if Faith hits it with her fire. )