EVENT LOG: EXTINCTION V.1

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Extinction event!
Where: All around the city
When: January 24th-January 28th
Warnings: Fighting, monster-killing, blood and guts, senseless destruction of endangered species

On January 24th, Hope puts the call out for a little help with this monster problem he's been having. In exchange for some prizes, he'd like you to go into the caves and kill him a few monsters! He'll be keeping an eye out and rewarding you for each kill, so grab a friend and a sword and get to work. Just try not to get lost in the caves - they're pretty extensive, and no one seems to have a decent maps. Also, you know. They're full of slavering hellbeasts.

Or if you'd like to sit out the fighting and collaborate on a way to relieve some of Hope's burden in some other way, you can do that too. He'd appreciate the help. Lastly, feel completely free to do absolutely nothing. You won't get a consolation prize, but you sure will avoid getting eaten by monsters!

If your character will be killing some of the monsters, please comment here and let us know how many they've taken out. For reference, here is a list of the amount of each monster that can be found in the caves:

Monsters Ahools (14 3) Coeurls (16 4) Dire Bears (11 0!!!) Grey Children (21 0!!!) Hunters (7 1) Smokers (11 5) Taxxons (9 8) Titanoboas (6 0!!!) Trolls (15 12) White Walkers (3 2) Yeti (9 2)

► This log covers January 24th-January 28th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► Please let us know how many monsters you've killed right here!

Comments

MONSTERS KILLED

[hadrielmods]

Report your monster-killing stats here to receive prizes!

[theresolve]

3 Bears.

No jokes, Maker damn it.

[isacrowd]

8 grey children (2 trios and 1 duo). Nobody impersonates children for nefarious purposes on Z's watch!

[themightykamina]

Three yeti. Two as payback for the first one giving him food poisoning.

would it be wrong to make a fur coat of one

In the right place now

[64th]

A taxxon, 2 titanoboas, and a troll!

Re: MONSTERS KILLED

[circumitus]

2 dire bears, 3 hunters, and a titanboa.

[unitas]

A single smoker, two grey children, and a troll that was turned to ash.

[camouflage]

camouflage - 2 titanboas, 1 coeurl, 1 ahool (they all taste great, btw)

baths - 1 ahool (well it was kind of a joint effort)

[illiegetimate]

2 coeurls, 1 yeti.

[synthedick]

Just three grey children which were absolutely 100% not children when he went to investigate.

[hotspurred]

3 grey children, 1 coeurl, 1 dire bear.

[fervence]

(Join effort between Lloyd and Chie, I'm so sorry)

1 titanboa
5 direbears
3 coeurls
3 ahools

[closerift]

( 1 ) coeurl
( 2 ) grey children
( 1 ) smoker

[murderpotato]

2 Ahools, 1 Coeurl and a yeti.

[whichend]

reporting for arya and newt!

together they killed 3 grey children.
newt killed 1 smoker.
arya killed 1 white walker because she's an angry stark and that is what they do.

[notsoimmortal]

2 Coeurls, 1 Ahool and 1 Troll!

[swarm_embrace]

Kerrigan and her Zergling killed
3 ahools
3 hunters
2 yeti
3 smokers
1 coeurl

Kamina | OTA

[themightykamina]

[party-building]

[Hope may be annoying but he's right about one thing--there's a hell of a lot of monsters in this place, and eventually they're gonna end up coming out of those caves. Better to take care of the problem now. So he puts out a text message on the network:]

Yo, this is Kamina! Anyone wanting to take out some monsters, meet me by the last tower near the caves! Bring whatever weapons you have and a couple days' of food, we're going hunting.

[He's there right away, of course, and it's kinda hard to miss the shirtless dude with blue hair, tattoos, a pack over one shoulder and a katana shoved through his belt.]

[caving!]

[There's enough of them out here that eventually, one hunting party is bound to run into another. Or, in this case, for Kamina to come across someone already tangling with a monster.]

Hey! You need a hand with that thing?!

party-building hell yeah

[isacrowd]

Don't go in without me

[Z is prepared for this. All that stocking up comes in handy now. She stuffs her back with as much as will fit and heads out to meet Kamina at the designated spot. Some part of her is... not excited, really, but more normal, now that there will be some action. In a way. A Ranger never starts a fight, but these monsters are probably going to attack first, so she's good. But another part of her is mad. Mad that Hope hasn't gotten them home yet (and she's losing faith in him, that he even can, that he ever will). Mad that he's so tired that he has to have people do this for him. She's used to having to do her own thing to get out of trouble, so that's fine. It's more the fact that she feels she's been cheated that she's upset with. This isn't the best time to think about that, though, so she files it away for later.

She could've brought a sword with her, but she's not confident enough with one yet. It'll take more training with Rainier to get to that level, so for now she'll rely on what she already knows. She did, however, bring a shovel. Who knows, right?]

Hey! [She's smiling when she calls out to Kamina, raising her free hand to wave at him.] I figured you might be up for this.

caving!

[notsoimmortal]

[Rishfee is currently having trouble fighting an Ahool. It wouldn't be so bad honestly, but flying monsters are annoying when you fight with a blade. At the moment he was watching the giant bat circling around him, it's gaze fixed on the blue mage as was his eyes on it. They had been at it for a while now, the bat a bit bloody from some wounds Rishfee had managed to inflict.

Kamina's entrance jostled his attention however as he quickly turned to see who was approaching, at first wary it could be another monster. At least until he spotted him and heard him speak.]

Any help would be appreciated!

[Of course it was when Rishfee took his attention off the Ahool that it decided to swoop down for another attack. While he wasn't caught completely off guard, his attempt to jump out of the way wasn't so successful. The giant bat had managed to graze him still, and the force behind to swoop knocked him to the ground.]

Rey | OTA

[circumitus]

Teamwork is not Rey's strongest suit, and it isn't like she has anyone here she can call a friend, anyway. So, at Hope's request, she not-so-prudently obliges hoofing it on her own through the depths of the cave's tunnels.

While she doesn't venture out with weapons, she isn't what you could call defenseless. Some may even recognize the peculiar armor; now with the hood drawn up over her short hair. From a distance, her figure makes it difficult to tell whether she's male or female, but one thing is certain: She is traveling alone.

It may not be the brightest idea she's ever had, but Rey is of the mind that her skills are more of a hazard to others than if she were to go it alone. Without a gun or a rifle, she isn't much use against something as big and formidable as some of the creatures she has seen thus far.

One may find her in the depths of the tunnels, stalking what appears to be a giant bear with a head crowned by horns. It's bigger than most bears, with a much wider set of claws on each paw. All that comes to mind is a single thought, though...

"You look like you could be dinner," she mutters to herself, her eyes narrowing as she assesses the beast. In fact, the bear looked like it could be a whole week's worth of dinner, now that she thinks about it.

The idea was the rely on Hope as little as possible. To distance herself from these things that call themselves 'gods', if she could. Figuring out how to feed herself rather than depending on the food one of the said 'gods' provide them is a good place to start, she would like to think.

[theresolve]

"Eaten them before," Rainier comments quietly, to not give them away to the bear. He'd been separated from his team in the tunnels and searching for them, coming upon Rey and recognizing her armor once more. "They don't taste good, but they'll keep you from starving."

Which was a real possibility before Hope realized they needed to do things like eat.

big boss | ota

[camouflage]

NETWORK RECRUITING | text.

Anyone up for a little hunting expedition? We can map out the grounds while we're at it, maybe we'll find something of note.

I'd prefer people with actual combat experience, but if you know how to draw a map or take good notes, that'll work, too. I'll be waiting by the caves. I'm the guy with the beard and eyepatch.

MEET-UP & ORGANIZATION | (sam, arya, kerrigan, literally anyone else just jump in here)

[for once, john doesn't actually mind doing something that one of the gods asked them to do. after all, hunting and killing is one of specialities and, even if they don't find anything important in the caves, they'll get dinner out of it. he's actually looking forward to tasting one of those giant snakes and maybe anything else they manage to bring down.

he sits on a rock just a ways from the mouths of the caves, his pistol at his side, knife at his wist, and his bow slung over his shoulder. he's made some progress with it and feels like he could strike something dead for a good distance away. now he just has to wait for everyone to show up.]

((you don't have to text him to be included, just jump in the meet-n-greet!! if more than 4 characters come along, we'll split off into teams so the thread isnt a mess of people waiting their turn to tag.))

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[swarm_embrace]

[The attached image is a map drawn in black on a large piece of beige cloth, outlining the tunnels she knows. They all seem to curve back into the main cavern at some point, though there are several that were not explored entirely and just lead off.]

I'll go. Mapping the caves would be easier if I could track everyone's location.

Haurchefant Greystone | OTA

[illiegetimate]

A; Colosseum (Party rendezvous)

[Having made a post about Hope's request, he has since made his way to the Colosseum, seeing it as good of a place as any to meet with those who would answer his call to slay these foul beasts.

He is properly armed with his sword and shield, dressed in his typical chainmail—which still has a sizable hole in the belly of it, but what can one do when there isn't much in the ways of armor-crafting here? Haurchefant stands at an impressive 6'8, so besides his silvery-blue hair, medieval like garb, and his pointy ears, it definitely makes him easy to spot!]

B; Monster Mashing!

[Having met with all who would be in his party, Haurchefant has set forth for his group to travel into the caves. He is wary of his surroundings, and fortunately with his enhanced vision and hearing, any possible danger is easily detected.

It doesn't take long before they happen across a few of the monsters. One is actually somewhat familiar to Haurchefant: the coeurl, though it lacks the scales the ones in Eorzea have adorning their bodies, but the similarities are not lost on him. Nor the danger they can pose.

The myriad grey children wandering none too far from the feline are a scant comfort, but they at least are easier to handle.]

Take care, my brothers and sisters in arms, and keep your wits about you. While the Coeurl should be our higher priority, the small impish fiends who lurk just beyond should not be ignored.

[He uses his sword to point to the coeurl in question, the monster taking notice as its eyes transfix on the knight, and it isn't the only one to notice the group. The grey children, too, turn their attention, and have started to make their way towards them.]

Prepare yourselves!

A;

[hotspurred]

[The hair colour is what first catches Henry's eye as he walks across the colosseum, and those ears are confirmation: there waits the leader of this monster slaying party. He alters his path appropriately.

Who knew that Hal's imposing height had a match?

As he draws near the tall knight, Henry speaks.]

A fortnight past, monstrous bats descended upon their chosen prey from the heights above.

[As far as knights go, Henry is quite short: he just about reaches Haurchefant's shoulder. Yet that does nothing to dampen his valiant skill at arms. He wears a layer of mail under essentially full plate and moves in them unhampered. Another who favours the sword and shield, he carries a heater shield bearing a red cross on a black background and a one-handed sword.]

Their kind may well be amongst the foul beasts that we annihilate today.

lloyd irving | ota

[fervence]

[there's a lot of things in this place that lloyd has trouble with:

the communication devices, for one. actually that's probably the one thing he has the most trouble with, even after all that practice he got with typing while he was buried alive.

the people calling themselves gods he's... sort of still undecided about. they've done things he's not happy about, sure, but he doesn't know anything about them yet and he can't be sure if there's a way to get them to stop using and hurting people on their own.

this whole being underground but not buried alive thing is a little rough too, but mostly just because he's never been stuck in one place for so without being able to leave and he's maybe getting a little antsy about the whole thing.

zelos being gone. that one probably bothers him most of all. because he can't quite manage to convince himself that it's not his fault.

what doesn't confuse him at all though is the concept of fighting monsters and, honestly, at this point it sounds like the best sort of distraction from everything else. finally, something constructive and helpful that he can do that doesn't leave him wondering if it's the right thing to be doing at all. because even if hope is the one that asked for the monsters to be killed, it's something that will keep everyone safe and lloyd can't see a single thing wrong with that.

he's out in the caves almost immediately after the call goes out, making sure to leave noishe behind at the house (aside from noishe's fear of monsters, there was always a risk someone might mistake him for a monster, as ridiculous as the notion might seem to lloyd, after all) and packing only the most bare essentials in the bag slung over his back (a few gels, a snack, a cleaning rag for his swords).

it feels almost like old times, honestly. aside from the fact that he's alone this time.]

[heavyheels]

[He won't be alone for long. After the stress of being buried alive, Chie is just itching to get out and punt a few of the resident things that go bump in the night.

She's ditched her rowan crown for now, but the iron link remains safely tucked away in her pocket. While fae aren't exactly the same as monsters, and monsters were what was mentioned by that Hope guy in his message, Chie has seen enough to know that she can never be too careful.

She spies Lloyd entering one of the caves and sprints after him.]

Yoo! Lloyd! Wait up.