Event Log: Oh Shit (side A)

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Who: All the characters in Group A
What: The event log for Group A
Where: The left side of the city
When: The evening of March 28th-April 9th
Warnings: Loud noises, Silent Hill monsters, and also half your friends are gone

On the evening of March 28th, the good feelings that come along with Love's resurrection abruptly disappear. The lighting in the city flickers and goes dark, everything hooked up to the power grid loses all energy, and the network stops functioning. Very soon after, the city splits down the middle. Everyone on the left side of the city can look over and see nothing but a rock wall where the right side used to be - along with all of your friends that might have been over there. A few hours later, the network begins to function again, allowing you to check in with friends - but though within your half of the city it works fine, any contact with someone one the other half will be accompanied by a host of glitches and general communication difficulty.

On this side of the city, since Hope is here, the lights come back up quickly. The shops are still stocked with food, people are still resurrected when they die (though in Delight's temple, rather than Hope's), and things seem like they could continue as normal - except that on March 30th, anyone on this side of the city starts hearing strange noises. Loud, echoing sounds begin to come from outside the caves surrounding the city - thudding and drilling noises, loud enough in volume to be impossible to ignore. Shortly after that, Hope calls for help from the remaining residents: go with Rage and Delight into the caves, and use explosives provided by Rage (or your own powers) to collapse them.

There are, of course, still some monsters in the caves, though Hope's power keeps them from invading the city (the other group won't be so lucky). What's more, as you venture deeper into the caves, the drilling sounds get louder and more disruptive, until it's difficult to even think. But this is incredibly important - your lives all depend on it. You'd better just keep going.

For those who can't or don't want to venture into the caves, the city itself isn't entirely safe either. Fear needs power desperately, and so the gods have released their confinement of the Silent Hill Zone. Though it won't overcome the half-city again, there will be pockets of fog and Silent Hill monsters scattered throughout the city - all in the service of scaring you as much as possible. On top of that, with half the gods missing, Sorrow's garden begins to die, Tranquility's mopeds no longer run, Confusion's GPS has completely failed, and Love's brand new hot springs run dry.

Help out, run from monsters, get lost in the cave, worry about missing friends - just try not to let that drilling noise get under your skin. Something's coming. What are you going to do?

► This log covers March 28th-April 9th.
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Comments

[unitas]

[ Sharon has never been a fan of physical contact with most people and even when she trusts a person, with her life, she can't seem to shake that need for distance because one single touch can mean a thousand things. A thousand, untranslatable things.

But Shadow's touch, she doesn't need to translate any of it because she can see it in his eyes. It's physical effort not to fight back at first. She gave him permission. This is no different than allowing Mello to kill her. She did something wrong, she knows she did something wrong, and she knows she has to pay for it.

You always have to pay for it.

Finally, she does fight back as panic kicks in. She can't breathe. She can't breathe, she can't breathe, and it's happened before. She's had lobotomized monsters attempt to choke her out but a gunshot to the head sent a shake of death through it and she was free. She claws at him and when he looks away from her, she stops.

If he kills her, whatever, right?

But then he lets go. She breathes in and chokes, coughing, her own hands curling around her throat where the bruising was already beginning to form, watching him, blue eyes holding a heavy sense of acceptance and betrayal. ]

Good job. [ The words sound harsh to her ears, breathing still ragged. ]

[unitas]

[ She watches him move, narrowing her eyes as he pulls into himself, a position she's taken many times before. A wave of disgust rolls over her followed by betrayal and then one of innate understanding. He shouldn't be curling into himself after this. She'd given him permission, even if she hates that she did and hates what she did to get him to that point. ]

Don't be such a baby. [ Her voice is harsh (and hypocritical given her own behavior earlier). She winces when she tries to swallow back her saliva but, after a moment, she pushes herself to her feet, taking the few steps so she's beside him; she slides down next to him, knees up, neck already turning a splotched yellow and green in the darkness.

She gave him permission and she deserved it. She's deserved almost everything in her pathetic life. ]

You're okay.

[unitas]

[ A four letter word can mean a lot and when Sharon says the word 'don't', you stop; so when he says it, she stops. She sits there a spell, swallowing as little as she possibly can. She sits there and then she stands up. ]

Don't stay long. [ A pain to say. And then she grabs her bag, scooping it up onto a shoulder and heads for the door. She doesn't bother to check if there's something out there waiting before opening it and letting it creak shut. She's probably not wanted or needed here anymore. ]