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Who: Joker + Open
When: Night of the 20th
Where: City-wide
Summary: The Joker is dead but not gone. He returns in the Darkness to destroy the island he feels has taken so much from him.
Warnings: Violence, possible character death, language

The war path started in sector five where a man had died, feeling alone and bitter. The massive creature bore the man's madness, anger, pain and despair and knew only one thing: Destruction. It thundered down the streets, its long tail lashing about behind it, its hideous, cackling cries echoing to the rooftops. Where it went it disturbed the other beasts and all over the island the Darkness was starting to act up and grow more violent.

The creature took no notice of the madness it produced. It had only one aim: The Core. It was making its way towards Sector Four to destroy the machine once and for all. For Batman's sake. Even in the Darkness, it was all still about Batman.

((OOC: OOC info on the event!. Threading format is "Tagger's Choice": Tag however you feel most comfortable. And feel free to NPC the monsters and civilians as you wish! People fighting Joker will be fighting him at the same time, so go ahead and tag each other. Also, if you'd like to play with one of the optional Core status ailments: Getting closer to the baseball diamond may make you feel queasy or uneasy as if the Pull has become a Push.))

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He didn't bother with kidou. He hardly even bothered with ice. Of course he used them when tactics called for it, but if he could help it? It was all about swordsmanship. The thickness of battle and split-second timing were what he needed right now. That required all his attention, and left no room for the cycle of depressing thoughts through his mind when there was nothing else to engage it.

He and Kuchiki had felt the Darkness stirring even worse than usual, and it hadn't taken genius intellect to realize that the monsters would be out in force tonight. They'd shared a brief look, set up a combination of barriers around the house -- with a kidou alarm that would be tripped should one of those barriers be breached -- and each headed out to a different area of the city.

Just in case, he stayed in the sectors closer to home, blade slicing through the night and Darkness beasts alike. Every so often, he would have to usher some foolish people back inside. Idiots, endangering themselves like that. Sometimes, he even had to use kidou to shove them back into proofed buildings and ice the doors shut when they just wouldn't listen. He was keeping them safe, but nothing said he had to be polite about it.

Jubilee called Magneto. Called and told him to get his ass to the house, because she didn't know what was going on, but the Darkness wasn't right.

It hadn't been right for days - she'd come across more than one shadow that hadn't been empty - but this was different. This was... more. She couldn't explain it.

Luckily, she'd been scheduled for a late shift at the Gate. She would have gotten there an hour after sirens. If sirens hadn't brought hell on earth.

The first person she saved was the little cat-boy that Magneto was taking care of. He'd stopped by for some food - Jubilee had invited him - and had assured her that he could get home, even in the Darkness. However, the rope-faced dog at the door had stopped him. It'd gotten a face full of PAFs, and she'd shoved the kid back inside.

... This wasn't right.

"Hey! Ugly!" ... Wrong description as that fit just about everything here. "Pick on someone your own size!" Which, wasn't here, but whatever.

Not good.

Re-l didn't do much at night most times. She'd stay in, work on some things, maybe read. But with that girl missing, she'd taken to the streets, even in the Darkness. She looked for clues and shook down anyone she could find in her war path. Not many lingered outside, not at night, but she'd deal with who she could. Tonight, though, she can feel the shift in the tides, like something was amiss. She couldn't figure out what it was, though, until she drew closer to the heart of Sector Four. There, she could see the monsters ripping into buildings, taking advantage of some sort of chaos. People were screaming and running.

From her vantage point - a building tall enough for her to take the most of the sector in stride - she couldn't see the cause...but it didn't matter. She had to move.

She leaped down from the building and entered into the fray, claws out and tearing through the monsters she could find. People fled past her and she drove forward, ready to take out anything that stood in her way. This is was Bruce would do if he were here. She was determined to stand in for him, to save as many people as possible. (Only for tonight, she tells herself in the middle of everything. Only for tonight.)

The Darkness didn't stop Dani from having fun. Quite the contrary; it gave her an excuse to either be out all night or to stay in and actually sleep. Without Finch, without a purpose, she lacked the initiative she once had back in New Orleans. Now, she was a ruler without a throne, a lonely dancer without someone to be around. Going out and dancing under strobe lights, forgetting about the world and everyone in it was the perfect way to end an evening.

Tonight, she had half a mind to just teleport into the bathroom at the Twins so she can slip out and dance. But then the Darkness became rowdy. The Angelus responded.

"Great," she muttered, letting the light engulf her as she left her building. Perfect way to get an evening going.

But she still pulled the swords out of the light she had, set them ablaze with the power of the Angelus, and took off into the night. Her red armor gleamed in the dark, her entire form bathed in golden fire. She was ready to fight, regardless of the enemy. She torched them with fire and then began to help people evacuate the scene as quickly as possible. Many stared at her in alarm, at her crown and at her wings. She paid them no heed. There was work to be done.

Not good not good not good. As the darkness began to act up, and the monsters in it started to go crazy, the map at the Titans' warehouse started lighting up. One attack on a building, two, and it wasn't going to be something that they could ignore.

So they went to work. The Titan's communicator went off, wherever the person was, and they were told to pick one of two places to defend and help people, at.

The first place they could go to was the Newcomer Community Center. The second place was the Tower Apartments. Everyone was told to forget about the main monster, and to stay near the community center or the apartments. If you could heal, so much the better.

[ooc: ~~Avengers~~ Teen Titans assemble! Monster slaying and protecting people at the community center and the starter apartments. Don't go near Titan Joker, but be prepared to be hurt anyway. You don't have to respond to this thread, but you should tag around!]

[In the streets of the city, the beast continuesits charge. It howls and cackles as it moves, tossing aside anything that gets in its way.

It is determined to reach its destination before the sun rises.]

Edited 2012-06-20 04:22 (UTC)

[Dante glides over the city in circles, sometimes swooping down to the street level to slay a creature in the Darkness.

Tonight the Darkness feels more stifling and angry than usual. Something in the distance is sending up whooping cackles but he is too busy trying to drive the monsters away from densely settled areas to fly off and investigate the source of the cries.]

It was a chaos not seen since the bombing of the Towers a few months ago. And she'd taken command of the community centre then as she did now. It was pure instinct, from so many centuries of being a military healer. The clinic itself was overfull, so she had to designate more areas for the wounded, keep both staff and patients calm despite the situation outside. All orders are given firmly and concisely, leaving no room for refusal.

The fact that she carried a five-foot long sword at her hip tonight might have added something to her influence.

While inside, she directed people as best as she could, tended to the worst of the cases. But once the Darkness-proofing was compromised, she could be found outside the building at times, as well. She might have been a healer fist, but she was a warrior still. Any creatures that dared try to take advantage of the injured would meet either her kidou or her blade.

[The kidou shield had been set around the house, with an alarm to warn both of them should it fall. While Hitsugaya remained close to home and he could feel Unohana's reiatsu near the community center, Byakuya had gone further. The lower sectors would be more at risk for Proofing failing as the night grew worse.

His reiatsu blasted a couple of minor mutations and he grabbed the little boy up, shun-po'ing to where several people had taken refuge. He'd set up another kidou barrier around the building for extra protection. The boy ran inside and Byakuya turned, Senbonzakura out as one of the night monsters lunged.

His sword crashed against bone, not slicing through it. He was pushed back but he pressed forward, locked in a battle as more shadows crept out of the Darkness.]

Larry was running with the rest of the people running away from the shadows, panicking and flailing along the way. When he glanced over his shoulder, he could see the dark mass of monsters still pressing onward. His hand flew to the pendant he wore at his neck, and he gulped. He was only supposed to be fighting Witches, not shadows.

But the screaming and the stampeding told him that he couldn't just run with everyone, not when he had a power that could keep everyone safe.

So he gripped the pendant tightly, and leaped high over everyone as his very personage began to glow. When he landed on the top of a nearby apartment building, Larry was no longer wearing his casual clothes - now he was in a bright orange tailcoat over a white shirt and a black waistcoat. An impeccable white cravat with an orange gem in the middle was tied around his neck, and golden epaulets adorned his shoulders. A gold chain ran from one epaulet into his pocket, and a small orange gem shone on his cravat. His breeches were cream-colored, tucked into calf-high black boots. In short, he looked like a ringmaster from the waist up, and an equestrian from the waist down.

A large orange halberd appeared in his right hand, and he took a deep breath and jumped off toward a mob of shadows, screaming all the way.

"Hiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Edited 2012-06-23 07:07 (UTC)

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Borders of Sector 5, 1, and 3 | Monster-slaying and evacuation | Open

HoA - WARNING: Eventual almost death - Open

Sectors 3, 4, and 5 - open!

Sector 4, 5, 6 - OPEN!

Teen Titans at the Community Center and the Tower Apartments

The Joker-Abroad-Open!

Dante-Sector 1, 2, 3-open!

Community Centre (Both inside and out.) | Open

Sectors 8, 9, 10 - Open - on the ground and in the sky

Sector 4 and surrounding areas | OPEN