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
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► 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

[whichend]

I'm Arya.

[ Arya says, after some hesitation. She doesn't meet Matt's eyes, but she doesn't say that she's no one, doesn't say that she's only sometimes Arya. She's making progress. She can do an introduction.

Arya nods approvingly at the energy bar. She's had one of those once, back when the rest of the city was starving. They taste better than bears. ]

Do you remember what happened to you? It's fine if you don't. Probably better that way. But if you don't, then you'll have to make up something to tell people.

[ Arya looks at Matt again and frowns. He seems to be in pretty rough shape. ]

You may have to make up something anyway.

[meatbrained]

I-

( he remembers. he remembers all too well. the sudden blast of their bedroom door when he walked out of the bathroom. the thing that used Emily's voice, that-

it was her, it had to be. that's how it was supposed to work, deals with them, right?

why the hell would Em even think to do that? )

Wish I didn't.

( it's a bitter mutter, said round a mouthful of food. every month, this place proves itself to be crazier, more difficult and unreal than the last. )

[whichend]

[ Arya nods once more. She recognizes that tone too well. She also knows there's nothing she can do to make anything better, not truly. Killing the memories is worse. She would know.

Instead, Arya disappears back into the shelves and reappears with a package of bologna. Arya isn't really sure what bologna is, but it looks like a pizza, so it's probably not too bad. She offers it to Matt. She should probably get that sad boy a weapon, too. ]

What are you going to do about it? You can't sit in here and cry forever, like a child.

[meatbrained]

( people come together over so many things, but until recently, those things were - for Matt - bonding over a shared sport, a love of video games, finding math boring as anything. simple things, really. those traumas that lay in his life, in his world, were exceptions, were markers of something being wrong rather than - as it seems to be here - a fact of life. it's hard to even know where to begin when the basic parts of your reality have been pulled out from under you, discarded as though they're unnecessary. )

Thanks. ( he takes that offer, with as much normalcy as he can muster. she is, after all, correct. crying does nothing. but fuck- )

I, um, haven't thought about it.

( really, the concept of where to go from here has been lying secondary to safety and trying to understand why. why was it Emily, of all people... )

What, um, what would you do?