hadriel_logs | Event Log: Fadeout

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
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► 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!

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[ As Will rushed to her aid, he couldn't help but think that maybe she didn't need his help after all? Just watching her, the way she moved, her body and those impressive kicks and dodges? No, he couldn't think like that, if he did, he ends up watching her get swarmed, overwhelmed and finally defeated.

Will ran in as fast as he could from behind, right where the back of the mob was gearing up to jump her. He wasn't weak, but he wasn't as strong as her, yet with sheer adrenaline powering him ( not to mention whatever was in that potion,) Will managed to deliver a clean smack! right on the back of the head of the two demons creeping up on Jill.]

5 o'clock look out!

[ Calling the location of another demon, just as it was about to make a lunge for Jill! ]

[As the demon recoiled, she kicked at it again, this time a high kick, sending it down this time. This was turning into quite the workout. The demons are as tough as they look and they don't go down easy or stay down for long.

When she heard the shout she turned to look, but is a split second too late. The demon lunges at her, tackling Jill to the ground. She lands on her back as the demon jumps on her and tries to claw at her face, but can't quite reach with Jill's foot pressed to its chest.

The demons that were struck by Will did not appreciate being hit from behind, even if they were planning on doing the same to Jill. They turn on him for retribution.]

[ There was no time! No time to panic that his weapon was inadequate, no time to question his own strength and safety. Jill was in trouble and even though she displayed a very impressive set of skills, she was still outnumbered.

As the demons turned their attention towards him, Will exhaled a slow breath. Closed his eyes and started to breathe slow, steady and calmed. There was no time to drift off into some place else, he'd be jumped and tackled, beaten and killed, yet still Will had to find the moment to concentrate.

It wasn't exactly his best idea ever, but give their circumstances, Will knew what had to be done. Dipping into the part of his mind he was most afraid of, Will channeled Hobbs and all his twisted and demented feelings. If he could convince his brain he was a killer, then his body would surely do the rest.

As he finished channeling, the first of the demons reached him. Slashing out with a hand and batting Will across the street and onto the floor a few feet away. That snapped him out of it. Adrenaline was a crazy thing, giving you strength, energy and a sense of fight or flight that favored the fight side.

Will stood up, felt his head... It was bleeding, the demon's claws were fine and the wound hadn't hurt him as much to start with, yet it would smart later, that's for sure.

In a flash of anger, in the mind of a killer, Will ducked and dodged the next few attacks with an ease he seemed to normally lack. Jumping back up behind the demon, pulling his metal pipe across the demon's throat, chocking it out was his best option! Even if it didn't kill it, it would still give Jill some time to take care of the rest of them. ]

Will!

[Jill saw the hit he took and kicks the demon back that's trying to claw her eyes out. She isn't able to get to him right away to help, as the demon comes at her again, but Jill dodges the attack and swings her knife, swiping once and then stabbing the creature in the throat. That finally takes care of it.

When she turns to look, it's in time to see Will move in a way she hasn't seen him move before. He's quick, like a snake. So fluid and practiced, as if he'd done it a hundred times before.

She couldn't admire for long; Jill hurried in Will's direction and took on another demon, performing strikes, kicks, and finishing her foes off with her knife. When she makes it to Will, it's with enough time to bring her blade up and plunge it into the heart of the demon Will has in a choke.]

[ The moment Jill's blade sank into the chest of the demon, Will pulled tighter on each side of the pipe he was using to choke it. He was in the wrong mindset, he wanted to watch it die, wanted to feel the life draining from its body. He looked down into its eyes, watching as they dilated and grew dull, then he let it go, let it fall in a lifeless heap on the ground.

He heaved a few breaths, lips snarled open and a look about him that he would have normally be unsettled about. It wasn't until he glanced up at Jill that he snapped back to his normal self. Gasping, recoiling back a little and looking shocked at what he was just part of. ]

[When Will snapped out of it and looked at Jill, she was looking at him. The whole time, she was looking at him. The way he looked just then, the darkness in his eyes, the thrill he was getting out of it. It just wasn't like him at all.]

Are you okay?

[That's the only thing she can think to ask him.]

[ Will couldn't look at her, he did all he could to avoid her face, more than usual! Turning his back and covering his mouth, then pulling his hands back down and looking at them before wiping them frantically on the sides of his trousers, as if to get the filth off them... Though they were clean, Will didn't feel clean at all. ]

Y-yea... I will be... Just give me a moment...

[ Feeling at the wall, then sliding down it until he was sitting in a slump. Eyes wide and vacant. He'd allowed himself to get too close to the killers he'd been investigating back home, this was a result of that. A result Will feared and didn't know how to control. ]

Is there much more?

[Jill watched him with concern, and when he sat down, she crouched down in front of him. He didn't look injured, but he was definitely shaken up. She couldn't blame him; she just didn't quite know where that display had come from.]

No, that's all of them.

[For now, anyway.]

I think we should get you home.

[ Will looked away. He felt bad. He wasn't sure what he'd done or what he'd said but he felt bad. The excitement he got from helping take that demons life, that wasn't him, it was the remnants of Hobbs mind inside his own and it troubled will. ]

No, I'm okay. I'll go by myself. You should stay here, there might still be some people in need of help... I'll come find you when I feel better? Maybe I just need some water a sit-down... This is a bit overwhelming... I'm not used to fighting let alone fighting demons.

Event Log: Fadeout

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