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Event Log: Fourth Wall, Part One

Who: Everyone in the city + Fourth Wall visitors!
What: Part one of the fourth wall event, hosted by Fear, Confusion, and Delight!
Where: All around the city
When: October 24th-November 1st
Warnings: Visitors from other worlds!

If you're not from around here, you may be wondering what's going on. You've woken up out of the blue in the colosseum, or near a temple, or in one of the numerous other locations in the city. You're somewhere underground and it's dark, cold, and maybe a little unnerving.

Luckily, shortly after your arrival, the road below your feet begins to light up in a gentle, warm glow. The light points you in a set direction and, if you choose to travel that way, will lead you toward the center of the city, where there is a large gathering of others who are lost here like you, people who might know their way around a bit more, and even some of the gods who rule this place.

There are lights strung up on poles throughout the large clearing, casting a comforting glow onto the tables beneath them. The tables are abundant with lots of food that looks simply delicious- though, none of it tastes quite like it should. The tarts taste like green beans, the mashed potatoes like cheesecake, and the chocolate seems oddly reminiscent of steak. In addition, there are decorations artfully placed around the meeting point. If you see them moving, don't worry- that's probably just your imagination.

Also distributed along the tables are shot glasses, filled with a sludgy, yellow substance. If you're brave enough to consume them, they taste strongly of mint and will give you a much needed energy boost, circumventing the need to eat or sleep for a full 24 hours! After that, however, everything hits you all at once, so use them wisely. Some of you may remember these shots from our How Delightful event earlier this year!

In addition to all of the above, there are also party poppers strewn around the area. Each popper can jet out some strange objects- glitter bombs, seashells, plastic dinosaurs, maybe a live lizard or two- so be careful! Feel free to use your discretion on these, but remember to keep it small!
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Of course, you can always not travel that way. The rest of the city has plenty of places to explore- maybe you'd like to stumble in our Silent Hill zone, have a quick look around the alien orchard, or check out any of the god temples that can inspire their chosen emotion. Be careful not to get lost in the tunnels leading away from the cave- none of them can actually move you above ground, but you may run into a few monsters on the way.

For those of you who have been with us awhile, please bear with the gods while they try to adjust around these new folks! Join in on the festivities if you like, or try to orient as many of the others as you can. Start a community outreach program, start a fight club, introduce your parents to your weird cave girlfriend- nobody's judging!

Well. Some of us might be.
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Enjoy the fourth wall event at Hadriel! Once you're settled in feel free to explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies.

Fourth wall characters do not enter with phones so they cannot reach the network- however, if you'd like to handwave that they somehow got ahold of Mello's Newcomer guide to avoid the 'where am I/what is this' sort of questions, then feel free!

Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers October 24th-November 1st.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well! Fourth wall characters will not have posting access, so grab an in-game friend if you wanted to do anything separate from the main log.
► Fourth wall characters will be in the city for at least one week, though they can stay for longer. The party will go on throughout the entire week, thanks to Delight's boundless energy!
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

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She's still affiliated with the Rebellion.

[Hux honestly couldn't care about the different terms. As far as he was concerned there was the Light who were the Jedi and the Dark who were the Sith. Everything else seemed to be pointless terms and names.

His expression hardened at Ren's words, his expression going cold. He may have been young at the time of the Empire's surrender but he remembered all too clearly the last chaotic days, being driven out and having to cling to tradition and ideals in the cold void of the Unknown Regions. There he had seen a lot of former Imperial officers lose their loyalty and lose sight of what was truly important.

He wouldn't ever let himself lose his duty and commitment to the First Order even in a place like this. If anything, his resolve was stronger.] Where we are doesn't matter. The First Order is still here as long we continue to dedicate ourselves what we have always done.

[With that said he sat back, taking a deep breath.]

Apparently so, I must have learned to be insufferable from him. [He's not even surprised, smirking.] She insulted his hair though honestly there are so many better things to insult him over.

[Kylo took note of the expression on Hux's face, though he couldn't decipher it. Kylo had grown up in the Rebel Alliance and his upbringing had been as different from Hux as night and day. Those early days had been filled with optimism and hope. Just a few more battles with the remnants of the Empire and the galaxy would know peace. By the time his parents had sent him off to train with his uncle, Ben had known this was a lie.

The one thing that Hux and Kylo had in common was their blind loyalty to their causes. Kylo was dedicated to Snoke, the Dark Side, and the First Order, in that exact order. Since the first was not here, he was clinging to the Force, seeking to purge himself of the Light. The mention of Brendol Hux made his lips twitch, threatening to form into a full-blown smile.]

Of that, I have no doubt. [Kylo had several traits from his own father, loathe as he was to admit it. Mainly it came out in the sarcastic wit that tended to crop up from time to time. Kylo scooped out two portions of soup.]

Eat. You can't plot to overthrow false gods and take over this planet on an empty stomach.

Why Ren, you actually sound concerned. [But the soup actually looked good. Hux had to admit that it was a few steps above what he normally ate. Now that he had food in front of him, he was aware of how hungry he was.

He gave a nod as he picked up a spoon, tentatively tasting the soup.]

Well, it's editable. [Which, from him, is high praise. Especially since he continued to eat it.]

How generous of you to notice. [Considering he's never had Hux show approval for anything he's done before, it's quite a surprise. The man looks like he hardly eats as it is. Kylo doesn't have the luxury of being able to skip meals. Energy for using the Force and swinging around a lightsaber has to come from somewhere after all.

Kylo eats in silence. It's been a long time since he ate a meal with anyone. Someone of his position wasn't going to fraternize with the stormtroopers and lower-ranking officers on the Finalizer. It's awkward. Kylo' social skills are so atrophied as to be non-existent.]

Of course. [Hux wasn't sure what was appropriate mealtime conversation either. He didn't eat with anyone else outside of required formal events and even then he really wasn't in the habit of making small talk.

It's certainly awkward but Hux decided to ignore it the best he could as he finished off the soup and helped himself to more. If he was getting the chance to actually sit down and eat, he was going to take advantage of it.]

Alright, what do we need to do next? [He said once he finished eating, sitting back in the chair.]

[Kylo got up when the meal was finished. There was a little bit of soup left, so he put it into a container, cautiously opening up the refrigerator in case it decided to misbehave like the stove had.]

You're the one with skills of negotiation. [Kylo was the brawn of this operation. Hux would have to be the brains. He could only hope the general had better people skills than his own, though he somewhat doubted that. Hux tended to look at most everyone like they were something he'd scraped off the bottom of his shoe. Kylo, for his part, tended to be far more at ease threatening or murdering than trying to get along with people that he despised.]

We need allies. [This city was full of people. Surely some of them would be willing to an mutually beneficial alliance.]

We do need allies but we have to be careful about selecting them. It will take time and we will have to be care here.

[Hux went to look out the window before a moment before turning to look at Ren.]

A pity the woman from the Empire is a traitor who was most likely disposed of by Grand Moff Tarkin.

[He wasn't going to trust someone just because they were Imperial at one time, especially if they had failed their duties. He frowned thoughtfully as he started to pace the living room. On Finalizer he could pace the bridge but this was far more cramped which annoyed him.

He came to a stop again to look at Ren once more.]

She mentioned I had been here before but I have no memory of it. She seems to know the Empire as we knew it under Palpatine had ended but I'm certain she doesn't know about the final end of the Republic.

She failed to mention any of that when I spoke to her.

[Likely because she knew how Kylo would see a traitor of the Empire. He felt furious at feeling that she played him for a fool. He had been blinded to her manipulations. Well, the next time they met, he'd see how well Maketh liked the sight of a lightsaber coming her way. He'd show her that he was no youngling to be led about by the nose.

The idea of Hux being here before made him give pause. So these false gods did have the power to send people back and manipulate their memories as well. They were powerful foes.]

Perhaps we should seek to overthrow these so-called gods that are running things.

Did you expect she'll admit that to someone wielding a lightsaber who is attempting to look like Darth Vader?

But I will teach you what I learned from an early age- just because someone wears the same insignia doesn't mean you can trust them or assume they'll be an ally.

[He learned that the hard way even before he finished training as an officer. It was just how things were and he learned to play that game very well. There was a reason people around Hux tended to have a higher than normal morality rate.]

That's what I was thinking. To do that we'll need information and useful allies who aren't too ambitious as to get ideas of their own.

[Kylo scowled at the implication that he was basically a child playing dress-up.] Interesting words coming from someone who's a poor man's Grand Moff Tarkin. [One of these days he'd learn to be the bigger person and not snipe at Hux every time they were around one another. Yep. Any day now. But that wasn't going to be today. Inwardly, he was still fuming at how easily Maketh Tua had manipulated him. It served him right. He could trust no one here.]

I received some information on them, though how accurate it might be is in question. [Several people had told him about how the gods here operated. Maketh, again, had supplied the most information, but now he questioned how much faith he could put into her words. Maybe she wanted to see him go up against one of them and be destroyed. It was just what a traitorous wretch would do.]

I know you get pissy whenever someone says you fall short of Darth Vader's legacy but it doesn't work the same way with me. I've done more in my life than Grand Moff Tarkin could have dreamed of.

[Hux couldn't stop the twitch of his lips though, the topic had always been a sensitive one for him. All his life he had been expected to not only live up to Tarkin's legacy but to surpass it by doing what he hadn't- take out the Rebellion and their leaders once and for all.

In some ways, he knew he had held greater power than Tarkin and accomplished more. In other ways, he still felt as he was trying to catch up to Tarkin's lifetime of experience as a soldier and statesman.

He wasn't going to give Ren the satisfaction of knowing how much that got under his skin though and he forced himself to smirk before leaning in.]

We'll start with what you found out. As we gather more information we can cross-reference it and do our own investigations.

['You're afraid that you will never be as strong as Darth Vader.' The scavenger's words echoed in his mind. Rey certainly had hit him where it hurt. He glared at Hux. Did nothing ever get beneath that cool exterior to whatever passed for emotions on the inside? Sometimes, he thought that Academy, or wherever it was that Hux had grown up, had frozen all the emotions out of their cadets.

No matter. They had better things to discuss than the shortcomings they had in comparison to their forefathers. Kylo recalled all the information he had heard.]

I was told that there were six gods currently here, all named after various emotions like Sorrow and Rage. The most powerful is Hope. They feed off the population's emotions, which is why we were brought here, to act as a power source. They supposedly have yet to be seen in person.

I suppose we may just have to give them a reason to show themselves then. [And if there was anyone who was good at starting wars it was Hux. He could also finish a war if he had to.]

But for that we'll need resources and planning. For now, we'll focus on information. That means no waving your lightsaber around and holding off on doing your best Darth Vader impression. [Ren had annoyed him so Hux couldn't resist going in for one last jab as he walked past Ren towards the bedroom.]

Now, I'm going to look at what passes for a shower here. You can finish putting your things away in the meanwhile.

[Kylo was tempted to throw something hard and breakable at Hux's back as he made his way to the bathroom. But that just meant he'd have to clean it up afterwards. He was sorely missing his ship's multitude of droids At least the two of them were in this together, small comfort though it was to be with someone he despised.

He put his things away, mostly the clothes he had gathered up. That only took a short amount of time and soon he was left with nothing to do again. He sat down on the edge of the bed, pulling off the layers of clothing he still had on. The lightsaber went next to his pillow for easy access. When he was down to his pants, he stopped, and laid down. It would just be for a moment. Ending up in an entirely new world was a bit exhausting. When Hux came out of the bathroom, he'd find Kylo Ren lightly dozing, having already laid claim to the right side of the bed.]

[The shower was actually much nicer than the one on Finalizer and he allowed himself to take a little bit more time, enjoying the hot water without having to worry about using up resources.

When he finished he came back wearing a pair of loose black cotton pants he had found and a gray shirt, his hair still damp. He paused as he looked down at Ren, tempted to wake him up by shoving him off the bed and onto his face. But as long as they had to share living space like this he would at least try to get along with the other man the best he could.

Perhaps Ren had the right idea anyway, he was exhausted and sleep could benefit them both. He grabbed a blanket, looking at Ren again. He may not shove Ren off the bed but he was going to draw the line at tucking him in. Instead he pulled the blanket over just himself, rolling over facing away from Ren.]

[Kylo Ren soon fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. Truth be told, most nights he slept like the dead. The nights he didn't, everyone could tell. Curled up, his body relaxed, and he might have passed the rest of the night like that, save for one fact: he was cold.

He didn't so much wake up fully as rouse himself to a state that could barely be qualified as conscious. He pulled at the blanket until he had yanked it right off Hux and onto himself. Curling up, he went back into a deeper sleep. He didn't even share well when he's awake. Why would that change when he was dead to the world?]

[Hux, however, was a very light sleeper. He had to be awake at a moment's notice if necessary and every sound could have him jumping awake in a moment. Or, in this case, a blanket being yanked off of him. He didn't grab it in time, waking up to see Ren with it.

There were other blankets but it was the principle of the matter at stake now. And besides, why should he have to get up to get another blanket just because someone decided to be selfish. It didn't help that he felt the cold very easily and it didn't take long for him to be chilled.]

I can't believe you! [He grabbed the blanket to yank it back hard. It didn't matter what Ren was stronger than him even without the Force, Hux could still play dirty to get what he wanted. He would make sure Ren regretted the decision he had made.] Get your own blanket.

[The sudden influx of cold air worked a lot better than anything else at waking Kylo up. His eyes snapped open and he mumbled sleepily as he sat up.]

What the hell--?!

[Then he blinked owlishly and tried rouse himself to a fully awake state. Kylo ran a hand through his frowsy hair, yawned, and blinked a few more times before he turned to look at Hux with a distinctly annoyed expression on his face. Truth be told, he had been expecting something like this to happen.]

We need to get a few things straight around here, Hux. I am sharing this bed with you out of a basic sense of courtesy. Wake me up again, disturb my sleep, or otherwise prove to be a pain in the ass, and you will be sleeping on the floor.

[He poked Hux in the chest with a finger to emphasize his last sentence. The general didn't intimidate him one bit. If it came down to a fight between the two of them, he knew he could take him.]

I don't recall agreeing that this was your bed.

[And he never would agree to that. He knew he would lose in a physical fight but it didn't have to come down to that. He knew he could cause some damage in other ways.

The advantage of getting cold easily was that Ren could feel his pain if Hux was feeling vindictive enough. And tonight, he was. He shifted so he could shove the bottom of his cold foot right up against the skin of Ren's leg without warning.]

Now, you brag about being so strong in the Force, surely you can manage to get your own blanket. There are plenty across the room. Unless you can't, then that's your problem and not mine. [He grabbed the blanket and wrapped it around himself, growling like an angry cat.

He rarely got to sleep for long periods of time so he was not happy when someone woke him up unnecessarily.]

This entire apartment is mine. You're only staying here because we agreed to an alliance.

[They were definitely going to need to agree to some boundaries here if they were ever going to get some peace living together. The press of cold feet against his skin nearly made him jump right out of the bed. Rather than give Hux the satisfaction of crying out, he bit his lip instead. He wasn't going to forget that.

Much as he didn't want to admit defeat, Hux did have a point in that there was more blankets in the room. And having the Force meant he didn't even have to move. Reaching out with one hand and summoning his strange powers, he hovered one across the room and neatly deposited on the edge of the bed.]

And you claim I'm the child around here.

[He reached behind him and grabbed the pillow, whacking Hux across the face with it. Yes, he was such a mature, well-adjusted adult himself.]

It doesn't work like that, Ren.

[Hux was satisfied that he had made Ren jump at least. He had always hated that he got cold easily but it was worth it just for that moment.]

I doubt you ever learned how to share but you are going to have to learn. [He huffed at getting hit in the face with a pillow but he wasn't going to let Ren get the last word- or hit in.

He chose his moment carefully before shifting so he could try to shove his bony elbow right into Ren's side where he thought it may hurt though he wasn't looking. ]

Now, let me go to sleep before I suffocate you with your own pillow.

[Kylo scowled when Hux mentioned his propensity for not sharing. This is what happened when an only child was given whatever he wanted growing up, both by his parents and Snoke. When the general elbowed him, producing a sharp pain in his side, Kylo whacked him again with the pillow.

He could have either stayed up and figured out the best way to kill Hux without getting blood all over the sheets. Or he could have rolled over and attempted to sleep as best he could. He finally decided on the latter course of action and laid back down. He muttered loud enough for Hux to hear before closing his eyes.]

We'll see who suffocates who around here.

Oh, stop whining.

[Hux yawned, not at all concerned. He knew he was useful to Ren alive- at least for now. He pulled the blanket tighter around his shoulders as he let his eyes close. He wasn't sure how well he would sleep like this but he was determined to get at least a few moments.

This arrangement would take some getting used to, to say the least.]

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