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EVENT LOG: RED SNOW
Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Red Snow event!
Where: All around the city
When: December 14th-18th
Warnings: Yeti. White Walkers. Probable injuries, possible death, definite cold toes.
What: The event log for the Red Snow event!
Where: All around the city
When: December 14th-18th
Warnings: Yeti. White Walkers. Probable injuries, possible death, definite cold toes.
On the morning of December 14th, a light dusting of snow begins to fall from clouds clustered along the ceiling of the cave. It's lovely and seasonal - for a couple hours. Then it begins falling faster, and the temperature of the cave drops as well. The snow sticks, the footpaths and roads start freezing over, and everything gets a little bit more dangerous. By the evening of the 14th, it's hard to see farther than a foot or two thanks to the thickness of the falling snow. An icy wind that'll cut right through you stirs it up even more, and drifts of snow obscure landmarks, making it even more difficult to find your way around. Hopefully you headed home earlier, or you're going to have a hard time of it!
And if you did head home? Well, there's no heating. Maybe you've got magic that'll help, or something to burn, or a friend or two to cuddle with. Or you might brave the storm and venture out to the shops, where you can find the usual assortment of clothing and bedding - and some extra supplies, thick jackets and hats and gloves. If you get there fast enough, there might even be a few left.
But watch your back - roaming the streets under cover of the blowing snow are yeti and White Walkers, who will be more than happy to tear you apart and nibble on your bones or kill you and bring you back as a mindless wight. So have fun with that! If you avoid being killed by yeti claws or White Walker swords or hypothermia, the blizzard will cease on December 18th. Santa does not appear to have come this year. Sorry!► This log covers December 14th-18th.
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nick rivenna; open + closed.
Nick's lived her entire life up until the past couple months in the Midwest region of the US; she knows exactly how harsh winter conditions can get. So when snow starts falling, she doesn't waste any time making her way to the shops to collect whatever supplies are to be found. She's come too far to let something as stupid as snow take her down.
Oh, look. Gloves.
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the great idiotkamina.Of course, there are no monsters where Nick is from - no monsters except those who are like her. Certainly not yeti.
Erupting into a high-pitched scream when she comes across one during one of her treks back from gathering supplies is the only natural reaction.
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He lifts his hands when he sees her, a 'no trouble' gesture that he's gotten used to making right off the bat. No trouble, no trouble from Bob.
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"Yeah? What do you want?"
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He clarifies, giving it a look around- there's clothes here, enough winter clothes that he swallows, and badly wants to come in, but he won't push in at her, when she's looking that wary.
He sidesteps, out of the doorway, so she can bolt past him in a pinch.
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"You just gonna hang around outside? I don't bite. Not unless you bite first." She holds up one sweater of a particularly garish design, at least three sizes bigger than would reasonably fit her, and turns a pointed look at him. "Not really my style. You could probably use it, though."
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"It's only going to get colder, if the winters are anything like New York."
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Which are instantly, universally fatal.
"Where are you from?"
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He says, with a little relief, lowering his hands and looking up at her. It shouldn't make a difference, but it certainly does.
"It's not everyone."
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Then again, Nick herself is proof that seeming human doesn't necessarily make it so.
Of course, it's equally likely this guy could just be a complete wacko, too.
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He agrees, with a little nod.
"Like the monsters, but more coherent, ready to talk to you. Elves aren't so bad, but- not everyone calls their planet Earth. Best get used to that."
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And of the moment when Nick herself Became, too.
"No shit, huh." She inhales a shaky breath and turns her attention back to sorting through what's in front of her on the table, circling around to her right to start picking through a fresh pile.
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Saving you whether you like it or not
A couple blocks away he whips around a corner to see a giant--is that a beastman? A giant monkey? Looks kinda like one. Well, whatever it is, it's terrorizing someone on the other side of it, and that's not gonna happen on his watch. Kamina pulls his sword free of th sheath with a ring and braces himself to face the beast. "HEY, UGLY! How about you pick on someone your own size?"
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Angry words ring out around her, The fuck are you doing? - and it's only a few seconds after that Nick realizes they're her own. No time to dwell on that, though - there's a monster attacking, and Nick is stupidly outgunned in this fight. Graham never prepared her for something like this.
Graham. Of course. Nick still forgets, sometimes, the nature of what she is, what she only discovered a few months ago - that she isn't human. She forgets that she has power, that she has another form that is stronger than the one she knew for all of her twenty-five years of life.
It's a risk, of course, and Nick doesn't have a strategic mind for things like battle; she runs on instinct and emotion. She's stronger in her Morphus form, but slower and less agile. Still, she guesses her odds are going to be better at withstanding this attack than they are fleeing it; she isn't especially fast for a human in her Facade, and her chances of escaping unscathed don't look good, even with the distraction this big idiot happens to be providing.
So when the yeti turns its attention to Kamina instead of her, she takes her opening - closes her eyes and concentrates, and when she opens them again, she's taller, bigger, a porcelain doll with a cracked forehead, clad in black ribbons and layers of lace, dark curls cascading over her shoulders. She turns toward the creature and lets loose an inhuman howl, summoned up from the depths of her now-hollow body.
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Nick might be surprised to find that she and Kamina both run on the same principles in fights--or maybe she wouldn't. He's impulsive enough in everything else he does, too. What he isn't is prepared for that noise, the sound making him clap one hand to his ear, unwilling to drop his sword to cover the other. It looks like as much as it hurts him, it hurts the furry monster, too, and wincing, he looks up to judge his attack.
That's when he sees the....whatever it is. It's not a person. A doll? A giant, moving doll that he's positive wasn't there two minutes ago. What the hell?? Is that another enemy to fight? With a brief shake of his head to clear the ringing, Kamina shifts his grip on his sword and charges full-tilt at the first monster, dodging one blind, sweeping paw to deliver a slice across its leg. The fur clearly takes the brunt of the blow, but he feels the resistance of flesh as he rolls past, narrowly avoiding running into the creepy giant doll. Circling around, he yells up at the roaring furry monster.
"Hey, ugly! Yeah, that was me! Down here!"
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They're both a hell of a lot slower than he is, even if they're like three feet taller; that's something he can use, at least, and the fact that the giant girl-thing is focusing on the furball helps, too. This time, when she screams, he's prepared for the noise, and even though he winces it seems like the yeti gets the worst of it.
As it stops and sways, clapping hands to its ears, Kamina sees his chance. Squaring his feet in the unstable ice, he charges, stabbing his sword straight into the thing's knee. It sinks in almost a foot before Kamina yanks it free, spinning the thing around in the process, and a spray of red blood follows. Yelling in triumph, he squares himself as it turns to find him, now ignoring the source of the noise in favor of the sharp thing hurting it. He dodges one swipe of claws, but he isn't so lucky on the second; unable to dodge conpletely, he ends up with a scored line of red from one shoulder down to his elbow as he dives into a snowbank, trying to roll free.
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She can't move as fast in her Morphus, and speed looks to be the more important factor here; from where Nick stands, the yeti looks ready to pounce Kamina and rip him apart if she doesn't do something, and fast. So she slips back into her human guise and picks up a can of beans from her spilled pack.
"Hey! Hey you ugly fucker, over here!" She chucks the can at the yeti with all her might, hoping her aim is good enough to at least distract the thing long enough for the other guy to make a move that doesn't involve dying.
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Even if she was a total bitch, that didn't mean she deserved to die.
Rolling from the drift, Kamina pops up just in time to see the beast roar at the girl from a few weeks ago, turning towards her and taking a step. Seems like this is the only chance he's gonna have, and squaring his feet he takes a few bounding steps towards its exposed back, leaping into the air and plunging his sword downwards into it with all his might. This blow seems to have done something, because the thing screams before dropping to its knees, and then toppling forward onto its face, one hand still reaching forward. Kamina is on his knees on its back, leaning on his sword hilt and panting. Hopefully she doesn't wanna start yelling at him this time. He's kinda worn out.
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"Did you learn how to use that thing at a school for the blind?"
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Aaaand there it is. Hopping off the back of the creature, leaving his sword where it is for the moment, Kamina picks up the now-dented can of beans from the snow and wiggles it at her, frowning. "Gimme a break, I've never had to deal with this crap on the ground before, it's a pain in the ass to move in. And what were you gonna do? Try and bean it to death?" He's never seen food in cans before this place. It's weird. Also, there's definitely not enough edible meat in this place, which reminds him of his other reason for running to help. The walking rug bled, and so somewhere under this fur, there's gotta be some meat. Hopping back on its back, Kamina pries his sword out with a squishing pop, wiping the blade on a clean bit of fur before sheathing it--although, where's the other one? The creepy doll that vanished?
"Hey, did you see a giant doll run off anywhere?"
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Nick stops short of answering his question about what she planned to do to the yeti, because the second question comes, and every muscle in her body goes taut. "No ... I didn't see anything run off."
Which is technically true. She's still here.
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"Well, whatever. I guess I'll see it if it comes back. What are you doing out here, anyway? Besides screaming at giant furry monsters?"
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That's what she is - a thing, not a person. A monster, not unlike the thing that just attacked them. The word pricks her under her skin, and she scowls, because it hurts, and because she doesn't want to be hurt by something so small - a single word.
He doesn't know, so it's not really fair for her to be angry with him about how he describes her in her other form, but - well. Life's not fair.
"What the fuck do you care?" she snaps. "I was doing fine without you."
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