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.
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In spite of herself, she feels a corner of her mouth crook. "A wise decision, under the circumstances."

To answer the question, she nods. "I was very young when I first learned to mix a healing potion. If this chaos is a regular occurrence here we may require a great many." Her eyebrows waver in concession. "Although I have found that not everything that grows here is familiar to me."

After a moment -- and a quick look around -- it seems a reasonable time for courtesy. She may be reluctant to trust much, but there is no immediate danger lurking behind them. "I am Morrigan."

There are few people within Hadriel that would call anything Sharon does wise as she's too often doing things that are the very opposite. She's too emotional, too quick to act without thought, but when it comes to consumables, she's learned her lesson; human meat had been snuck into their food supply in the earlier months, resulting in nightmarish creatures and an intense distrust for anything edible.

"It's almost always chaotic, so..." there can be no doubt in her mind that they will need someone with such a skill, but whether she can create potions with the ingredients available is another thing entirely. When there is calm in the city, it's spent recovering.

"Sharon," she's quick to respond,"If you know Cecily, I'm a friend of hers."

And, to Sharon, any friend of Cecily's is a friend of hers.

"So it seems," she agrees without hesitation. "A little chaos is not a bad thing, but this is intolerable."

The mention of Cecily lifts her eyebrows in recognition. She nods.

"Trevelyan, yes. It may be more accurate to say she knows me. She was not the Inquisitor I worked with before arriving." How long Sharon has been here is unknown to her, but she assumes it has been long enough that this concept is familiar, no matter how strange it seems. "She has the mark in her hand, though, and is making every effort to assist with the rifts here."

That and the courtesy Cecily has treated her with up until this point have been enough to help them get by. She pauses for a moment.

"I dared to think--" Not hope, precisely; she has never been much of an optimist. "--that when the rifts opened they may point to a way back."

Event Log: Fadeout

I hope they were good for you!

They were! I hope they were for you as well! <3

They were, thanks! I'm so sorry for the slow. This time of year, man.