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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► 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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( 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?

[ 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.

( 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. )

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. ]

( 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. )

[ 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.

Event Log: Fadeout

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