Event Log: Fadeout

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Fadeout event!
Where: All around the city
When: November 15th-November 25th
Warnings: None!

The morning of November the 15th seems rather normal- that is, if you can avoid the glowing cracks in the fabric of reality tucked away among various streets. Still, they don't really seem to be doing much of anything and you can't quite see through them, so maybe they're decoration? This wouldn't be the first time the gods pulled some weird shit to shake things up around here.

By midafternoon, however, something changes. Cecily, in all her wisdom, decides to attempt to dispel one of these rifts, and the resulting shockwave sends tremors through the city. Tears throughout Hadriel open wider and allow for various demons to burst through and terrorize the various citizens. Demons will be tearing through in all corners of the city, though you can choose to avoid them if you like.

Look out for Pride and Rage demons, who attempt to brute force their way to you and feed off of your anger, steel yourselves against Despair and Fear demons who grow stronger as you give up hope, and definitely cross the street to avoid the Desire demons, who can take either male or female forms and will offer you everything you want if you just let them in.

Demons will either focus on attacking you or tempting you by taking advantage of and feeding off of your basic emotions. Agreeing to let a demon help you and mentally folding to it generally means that the demon will begin to possess you and start calling the shots- often using you as a vessel to hurt others and sow discord. If you happen to have any sort of magical abilities, extended possession can lead toward becoming an abomination after the corruption takes root.

So... you might want to avoid all of that. Luckily, there are some good things happening that can distract you- along with the demons, several nugs and fennec foxes will also pop up around the city, and if you don't want them to die a horrible death to a hungry demon, you might consider adopting them. In addition, you may find a random potion laying around- maybe this can help you fight off those demons, or maybe it'll make every nug in the city love you- or maybe it's secretly a jar of bees. Wouldn't be the first time you guys let bees in jars get a little out of hand.

► This log covers November 15th-November 25th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you are murdered by a demon, become an abomination, turn your insides to sludge with a potion, or just throw yourself from a rooftop to end it all, please let us know here!

Comments

[skelebro]

Makin' it, mostly. Or enlisting Hope.

[Skeletons can last a long while yet without food, technically, not that it's all that comfy for yours truly. Still, though, he makes do. Like always.

Sans laughs at that one, more than a little amused.]

Finally, a way to clean the plates.

[dragoon_pride]

[The demon is getting far too full of itself, seeing that it's got the upper hand and that it has its enemy almost beaten. Shadow is just a target to him, something to be brought down and destroyed. The darker part of Kain deep down inside agrees, too, for now... there's no sense in fighting now when he has no choice, no ability to stop the demon.]

[So the demon starts out satisfied, when it sees its attacks striking Shadow full on. He'll be the one to end this, and it's almost done. But when Shadow manages to leap upward, everything suddenly goes all to hell. Sure, he can feel his weapon jabbing through its target. Yet that moment is short lived when the explosion suddenly hits.]

[The energy blasts right into the demon possessing Kain. To Kain, it's a horrifying and painful moment as the whole world bursts into brightness everywhere. Together, the both of them scream as they plummet toward the ground for a heavy landing.]

[meatbrained]

( Nothing? Is that really the case? Ever the case? He could have done so much back home. So much that would have made a difference. )

Yeah. ( He actually manages a half-smile at that. Yeah. He can imagine that well. ) You said... you said you were in other places like this.

... Um, were they all this bad?

[hasitsthorns]

[ In places like these? Yes. Even home, there were times Rose felt hopeless, useless... There again, she wasn't really known for doing anything beyond surviving. ]

Ah, yeah, I was... Haven was the place I was before here. [ Mm. There really isn't a simple way to describe the place. ]

I was pretty convinced it was Hell near the end. [ That probably does a nice job of summing it up, doesn't it? ] Hadriel is definitely better, but. I don't think anything will be as bad as Haven was.

[sciencelizard]

O-Okay. Uhm. Thank you.

[Gosh, okay. She can do that. At least Pharah's cool about it.]

♥♥♥

[fulcra]

A blaster bolt struck her thigh and Ahsoka found herself promptly on her ass, effectively knocked off balance by Hux's shot. And then she was moving again without any hesitation or recovery, one hand going behind her to use fingers splayed around her to push up, all her weight on her uninjured leg as she lunged to her feet and toward the despair demon. She was finishing this, with both of them, now.

The demon attacked again and Ahsoka deflected two long shards of ice in a row at Hux - the first to his head, the second to his chest - while she closed the distance between her and the inhuman monster so intent on drowning her in the darkest thoughts in her mind. Two quick slices later and the demon was without arms. With a third, she lost her head, Ahsoka flicking her fingers to send it flying with the Force back to land in Hux's lap.

As the demon's dismembered body dropped to the ground, twitching, she settled into a defensive pose again, so distanced from her body that she was no longer visibly favouring her injured leg. It would hurt later, undoubtedly, but for now, the man so intent on shooting her had all her attention.

[sciencelizard]

Well, I guess t-that works.

[She does laugh at that response though.]

Maybe we shouldn't. I mean, if we can't eat it... I d-don't want to get them sick or something.

[Listen, we all love Papyrus. Not so much Papyrus' cooking.]

I guess, uh, we s-should get them home, then. Make sure they're out of the uh, d-demon zone.

[skelebro]

Yeah, sounds about right.

[He adjusts the newly-christened Brot in his hood and offers a hand to Alphys.]

Wanna take a shortcut?

[meatbrained]

( Matt's hand instinctively goes to his head, runs across his hair (which he really needs to trim by now, it's getting fuzzy and curly), in a half-sheepish gesture. If this place is better, and he's complaining about it-

What must that seem like? )

... Shit. I'm-

I'm sorry. ( Sorry you had to go through that. Sorry you have to deal with his whining. )

[hasitsthorns]

Don't be. This isn't about me, dude. It's about you. Haven sucked, yeah, but that doesn't make what you're going through any less sucky.

[ 'Sucked' might be a bit of understatement but... No one said Rose was eloquent. ]

If nothing else, I'm glad I went through it so I can be better equipped to help people like you deal with the tougher shit. [ Of which, she's sure, there's gonna be more. ]

[therewillbeorder]

Hux smirked, pleased with himself as he watched Ahsoka fall. He knew it would take more than that to keep her down and he was ready when she sprung to her feet once more. He didn't have time to think of what he would do next as two shards of ice were flying right towards him. He barely managed to dodge one which left a long, clean gash across his cheek. The other was more difficult and it hit him practically straight on, knocking the wind from him.

The demon slammed into him hard, making him gasp. Thankfully the demon wasn't heavy and once he caught his breath he started to shove it off of him. He shook his head as he pulled himself to his feet, blood dripping down his cheek, running down his neck.

He brushed off his greatcoat as he looked at her, blaster in hand. "Your leg must hurt," he remarked calmly despite the fact that he knew that she could still strike him down. "So is this when you kill me then?"

[fulcra]

She wanted to kill him. Ahsoka had to admit that much to herself as she found her body moving of its own accord, stepping over the demon to be within lightsaber's reach of Hux. She didn't think about raising her mainhand weapon to his neck, with the clean, sharp end of its white beam illuminating his face and likely heating his skin. It was just there, waiting for her to take the last motion required to kill him the same way she had the demon.

But there would be no point. Hope would bring him back. It wouldn't do anything but put unnecessary blood on her hands and take this monster out of commission for a few days. And Ahsoka liked to think she better than petty murder. He wasn't a real threat, despite what the pain in her leg told her. Because he wasn't, at the end of the day. He'd be no match for her in a fight to the death.

"No," she said evenly, eventually. "I have better things to do."

So she wasn't going to kill him. Instead, she thumbed her shoto off and let her fingers flex around the hilt as she raised her hand to gesture, using the invisible hand of the Force to grab him roughly by the neck and throw him into the nearest hard, uneven cave wall. It wasn't a gentle toss, but hard enough to knock him out, hard enough to hurt.

She was a better person than a petty murderer, but that didn't necessarily mean she was a perfect one.

[dragonsgrasp]

[The energy blast took a lot out of the demon, clearly, and the landing on the ground didn't help. It attempts to move away, giving a groan of pain that sounds eerily almost-human for a moment. It's futile, as the hedgehog's got him tight in his grasp. The creature is surprisingly strong for someone so small! As he goes flying, the demon collapses into a heap on the ground for a moment.]

[Inside, somewhere buried deep down, Kain wishes he could scream out his pain. All he wants is to regain control, but he knows that's no longer possible. He has only one hope. One disturbing hope. The pain coursing throughout the demon's body tells him that this hope of his is near.]

[It's dying. They're dying, both he and the demon who's claimed him.]

[Though the demon does make one more attempt to attack. It gets weakly up, shambling over toward Shadow, clawed hand swiping toward him one last time... and then he collapses once more, the motion too much for him. It'll be only a matter of time now. Please, let this end.]

[sciencelizard]

[Alphys scoops up the new Bub in her arms and takes his hand, gently. If Sans wasn't... well, Sans, and if she wasn't her, this would basically be a Disney movie.

Too bad they're both disasters and not in love or there'd be a wicked musical number about now.]

Sure.

[skelebro]

[Eh. Whimsical musical endings are highly overrated. Do Disney princexes ever get to plunk down on a ketchup-stained couch and watch horrible movies together with greasy burgs in hand?

Nah. He didn't think so.

He takes 'em both out.]

[meatbrained]

( And this is why he likes you, Rose. Why his mood had evened out - still tired, still shaken to his core, but he's breathing. Not panicking. He feels...

Not better.

As though he might be, eventually. )

Yeah. ( Okay. He'll accept that. He'll even go as far as to start making his way to the door. )

We. Uh. We should probably move, right?

( They've gotten away with the quiet here, but who knows if the demons will suddenly barrel in. )

[hasitsthorns]

[ She does what she can. Granted, it's not a lot. Rose's forte has never been emotional support (she can barely keep herself afloat day to day for goodness sake) but she tries. Apparently, it shows. ]

Yeah, that's... probably not a bad idea. Just, y'know, don't talk to any of these shady motherfuckers. They're like terrible cars salesman. Anything to get you to agree. But they can't do anything if you ignore them.

[dragonsgrasp]

[Rage fuels the demon in this last, desperate charge toward Shadow... but it's all in vain. The demon doesn't expect much of anything from Shadow at this point, seeing how he appears to be weakened as well. Little does it realize what's coming for it. Before it can manage another attack, the world around it bursts into blinding, burning energy. As those crystals jab into the demon, it howls in pain, a disturbing sound since there's also something of the human in there alongside the demon's voice...]

[It's really over this time. The demon takes a couple of unsteady steps and then collapses. Kain feels its pain fully, in complete agony... there's nothing he can do about it now. He's going to die, and then... and then what? Will he wake up in some new world? Will he even wake up again at all? He's not so sure he wants to, after what he'd become. Right now, he's ready to embrace the oblivion of death. It's all he has to look forward to. He struggles, trying to speak. He wants... he actually wishes he could thank Shadow for freeing him...]