thepull_mods: (Missionworth)
thepull_mods ([personal profile] thepull_mods) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_logs2013-01-04 05:25 pm

[Open Event Log] Everything in this world dies alone

Who: Open to all Surviving Newcomers
When: September 4th, Late Afternoon through Darkness
Where: City of Missionworth (Specify in Thread Header)
Summary: The end of an era explodes into a torturous fate worse than death. But a special few remain curiously untouched, to survive and tell the tale. However, that doesn't mean the next three nights will be easy on them.
Warnings: Violence, Explosions, Annihilation of life on a massive scale, Darkness Monsters

[Threads may take place before, during, or after the Event explosion. Start where you'd like! In the moments Pre-Explosion the island is still heavily embroiled in chaos- Both military groups have turned on each other, civilians are fighting them blindly for control of the core. Some have sheltered their families within the Stone Quarry mines underneath Sector 9, where they will be sealed in following the explosion. And many are climbing into boats or makeshift flotsam unfit for a sea journey, trying to flee the island while they have the chance and braving The Pull's effects in the hopes of it's power lifting.]




At the height of the nightmare that is a citywide clash of civil war, there is some kind of minor explosion underground, unearthing large chunks of ground at the site of the trampled squash patch and causing tremors that can be felt throughout the island.

Is it the detonation of a military weapon, some revolting miners with crude TNT, part of Winthers' grand experiment, or something else?

Shortly after, there is a harsh, tearing and unearthly sound, which rises in volume as a large blue-white glowing blob rises from the ground and brightens, only briefly visible to those in the near vicinity. It is amorphous, composed of crystalline solid, liquid, and a swirl of plasma gasses, and for a moment it brightens and seems to condense itself before shooting out white whipcord arms that reach out in every direction.

Then a sonic boom, and a rush of searing white light that engulf everything. For newcomers, it is only temporarily blinding, they'll be able to see again as the dust clears. For everything else that crawls, walks and lives?

Every living being on the island and on many tiny ships dotting its outskirts are mysteriously gone. Clothing is left in piles in the streets, dust billows past untouched buildings. With the exception of the Core's strange visitors, no other human or humanoid, domestic or wild creatures were spared. Even the bugs are turned to dust. Most of the vegetation has also evaporated, leaving only a few old trees and weedy plants standing weakly. Aside from a cave in at the mines, no building is harmed, no vehicle or non-living object seems tarnished or rotten, as it does after siren in the present day. All is left standing and eerily barren of life, litter left out to decay by time.

Descending underground in the collapsed chambers in attempts to reach the core will show a deep crevice in the ground where its pod once slept. Deep, deep down, too deep to be reached, it slumbers again, softly glowing.

The darkness is young; hot, bloody and angry, when nightfall finally comes without the herald of the usual Sirens. It is not thick with the scent of decaying rot yet, as it is in the present day. Instead, there is an overwhelming stench of fresh blood and death.

The once-living return as newly-twisted and tortured creatures by night, perhaps not as malformed and haggard as the monsters which will appear in future nights. Most of these will one day be called "mutation". Some carry fresh burning boils, or scuttle on broken limbs. For now they resemble something slightly more human or beast than their modern counterparts, something less adapted for deadly killing. Their animalistic rage is fresh and hell-bent on destroying anything that lives, however, and blind to any efforts at communication, compassion or reasoning. They are in far too much pain for anything more than brutality toward anything that has cheated this fate worse than death.
countsrabbits: (neutral // questioning)

[personal profile] countsrabbits 2013-01-06 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[She picks up another rock, but hesitates with her hand up in the air over her head as she turns to look at the girl, curiously.]

Hm? How come? All the dangerous people are gone now, right?
oujomerchant: (Neutral)

[personal profile] oujomerchant 2013-01-07 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well.. I suppose it does appear that way, but there is no way to know for sure right now, so better safe than sorry, wouldn't you agree?

[She really couldn't look any more confused.]

You are not frightened being out here by yourself?
countsrabbits: (smile // teehee)

[personal profile] countsrabbits 2013-01-07 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[She only shrugs at the question.]

Maybe a little, but skipping rocks is more fun than being worried. Plus Papa and Vince are probably still alive, so it's okay like this for now. Are you lost?
moveslikestrider: (I don't mind if we never get out.)

2nd night

[personal profile] moveslikestrider 2013-01-07 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He finds the church on the second night of darkness. It feels like a lot longer than that but, that's because it was. To someone who raced through through time and lengthened the days into weeks...

Ugh.

Dave sagged as he dispatched the last of the creatures (people, his mind reminded him flatly) in the area he stepped over to the door and rapped the age old morse code of s.o.s to see if anyone was inside. He had a gash across his side but he wasn't concerned about it. He had to keep moving, finding people and helping them survive.]
oujomerchant: (bragging rights)

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[personal profile] oujomerchant 2013-01-07 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[And then she smiles a little, impressed.]

Well when you put it that way, that does make sense. And no! Well, yes. Sort of? I've gotten separated from an associate of mine again. But she has the ability to find anyone, so she should be about soon enough.

In fact, once she catches up, how about we assist you in finding your father? Oh, perhaps I should introduce myself? I am Alouette Emeline Mercier Bouchard. You may call me Alouette, of course.

[The blonde, more relaxed, takes a stone for herself then, which she slings at the water.]
oujomerchant: (caught)

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[personal profile] oujomerchant 2013-01-07 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[It sinks immediately.]

*grk*
manicpixiedreamgirl: (k04: blood)

wooooo relevant use of this gif finally

[personal profile] manicpixiedreamgirl 2013-01-07 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[If anything tries to attack her while she runs, she doesn't notice it. She barrels through the dark, and not even the Devil himself could stop her. At some point a heel (very expensive, imported from off-island) breaks, but she just keeps on until there's nothing left of either shoe. Nothing matters now but him

Then she smells it. Blood. His blood. It doesn't take long to find him then, and the creatures huddled around him are dispatched even quicker. She's running on full instinct now, it's not difficult at all.

Once the monsters are dead, she can finally calm down and tend to Jasper's wounds. However, what she finds is....well, if she could vomit, she would. Blood is everywhere, on him, on the ground, on the dead things. On her.

God, no. Please no.]


Jasper? Sweetie, I'm here.
empathetics: © tomorrowbleeds (♞ 082.)

[personal profile] empathetics 2013-01-07 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
A...lice.

[His eyes wheel blindly, without any actual focus on his surroundings. Everything is oddly muted, his vision spotty. Jasper's breath gurgles and rasps in his throat and he lets out a blood spattered cough.]

G-get away from here...

[Couldn't she see it wasn't safe?]
Edited (wrong icon!) 2013-01-07 05:28 (UTC)
asano_san: (tears)

Closed to Ichigo - Pre-Darkness

[personal profile] asano_san 2013-01-07 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[The week just gets worse and worse. Pull Sickness volume 2 was a bad enough start, but then he just barely slipped away from whatever those military guys were going to do to him (who knew sneaking into strange basements would provide him with useful skills later?).

And then. And then! Protests and fighting and someone is grabbing his collar and trying to drag Keigo in to the middle of what he can only see as an angry mob. This isn't where he's supposed to be - in more ways than he can even count. This isn't his fight.]


You don't want me! I didn't do anything!
manicpixiedreamgirl: (13: Fashionista)

;;

[personal profile] manicpixiedreamgirl 2013-01-07 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She kneels next to him, awkwardly pulling his broken body into her lap. He doesn't fit, exactly, he's so much larger than her in every way. She manages it though, through sheer stubbornness and fear.]

I'll be fine, I promise. We're safe for now.

[She smiles weakly and pats his hair, and immediately wishes she hadn't. Her hands were covered in red, and now it's smeared in his hair and-

Deep down, there's a part of her longing to reach out and taste it. Just one, nothing bad will come of it. There's no harm in a little taste, right?

Thankfully (if anyone could be thankful at a time like this), something about seeing her mate in so much pain and danger shoves her hunting instincts down so deep, she wonders how she could even contemplate it in the first place.]
blackmoonrising: (bitch please)

If you wanna see some action~

[personal profile] blackmoonrising 2013-01-07 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
[The atmosphere in the city is nuts; Ichigo hadn't taken kindly to being told he was about to be detained, he'd taken even less kindly to being told that Zangetsu was to be confiscated, and so there had been a fracas, someone's nose may or may not have been broken and Ichigo was free as a bird and getting into more fights with hostile natives than he was really happy with.

He had just taken up a perch on the ledge of a church steeple to get a better view of everything when he noticed a skirmish, and then an all too familiar wail of despair as a large, burly man made a grab for a hapless Newcomer's collar and Ichigo didn't even bother to censor his swearing as he flickered into Shunpo in order to wrap his hand around the man's wrist in an unforgiving vice grip and fix him with a cold hard look.]


You don't wanna do that, pal. Drop him.
asano_san: (bliss)

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[personal profile] asano_san 2013-01-07 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
[He's so happy to hear Ichigo's voice, he could almost kiss him (in the most heterosexual, bro-y way possible).]

Ichigo!

[Keigo's attacker has the good sense to know when he shouldn't mess with a guy who just appeared out of nowhere, and may have actually flown in to the middle of the crowd. Not if he likes his wrist in its current unbroken state.

Keigo stumbles forward when he's suddenly released. He turns to face his savior.]
asano_san: (seriously?)

[personal profile] asano_san 2013-01-07 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
It took you long enough.
empathetics: © peps (♞ 079.)

[personal profile] empathetics 2013-01-07 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can't stop the strangled groan that escapes his lips when she moves him, but it's more of a knee jerk reaction than anything else. Everything seems to be going numb, starting in the tips of his fingers and toes. His breath continues to hitch in his throat, but it 's turning much more shallow.]

I'm...sorry.

[He isn't even sure what he's apologizing for. For everything that's happened in Port, or for every time he's caused Alice pain over the decades they've been together by slipping up, by shutting her out.

His chest heaves painfully, and blood trickles from the corner of his mouth. Jasper reaches with a trembling hand to grasp's hers, but falls short.]
lovedbyflowers: (I see your tragic future)

OPEN

[personal profile] lovedbyflowers 2013-01-07 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[This gentle bishop and Ghost sent from Heaven to protect all, shines with his own soft soothing light. The Seven Ghosts are also known as the 'Seven Lights from Heaven'.]

BY DAY
[As the God of Vegetation, Labrador tries to tend to and revive the remaining trees and plants. The plants do seem to do a little better with his care. Feel free to catch him talking to them.]

BY NIGHT
[His darkness devouring flowers plus his own divine light keep him safe from the darkness but he cannot really bear to kill tortured, malformed creatures that crawl out of the darkness. After finding them closed off to all reason, he cries as he slays them with his scythe to put them out of their misery, whispering a prayer for their souls as he does so.

You might find him at work, trying to deliver these lost souls back to Heaven or sitting aside silently grieving for these souls.]
mouthbreathing: (palo special)

[personal profile] mouthbreathing 2013-01-07 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not a killing blow by any stretch, but it's thrown with such rancor that the impact throws Warsman entirely for a few desperate moments. He barely even registers that the door is open before the shot is fired and the creature slumps over in the dark.

Bewildered, he looks up- and sees a very familiar face.]
Doctor-! [He's already scrambling to his feet and through the door around Tenma, though it's no easy feat for a man his size. He leans heavily on an upturned pew, still trying to put events in order. Tenma's the last person he'd have thought of as a sharpshooter, but that monster was downed with a single bullet.

He waits for the doors to slam shut again before speaking in low, embarrassed tones.]
Thank you. I- I'm sorry I made you waste ammunition.
manicpixiedreamgirl: (j01: Oh my god shoes)

[personal profile] manicpixiedreamgirl 2013-01-07 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Shhhh, don't apologize baby. It's okay

[Alice continues stroking his hair, and takes his hand, the one that couldn't quite reach, into her own.

He's lost so much blood, maybe too much. There's no way she can get him to Carlisle or any other kind of help in time, so she's only got one option if she wants him to live.]


Japser? I don't think I can get you to help, so I'm going to bite you. Okay?

[It might be too late, she has no idea, but the has to try.]
empathetics: © peps (♞ 065.)

it is hard to find an icon to convey this ;_;

[personal profile] empathetics 2013-01-07 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jasper shakes his head. He's prepared to protest to that, not against the paralyzing thought of facing the burning agony of the change, but of the memory of Alice's protests against turning Bella herself. That she wouldn't know how to stop. And he doesn't want her to have that on her conscience.

But he can't seem to find the breath to form words. Jasper chokes, his eyes desperately trying to meet hers, to say everything he can't. His gaze finds her for the briefest second, locking onto her lovely face.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I love you. Be strong.

A single shudder passes through his broken body, and Jasper goes still.]
manicpixiedreamgirl: (k03: disbelief)

OH GOD MY HEART

[personal profile] manicpixiedreamgirl 2013-01-07 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[She easily ignores his weak protest, looking for a clean patch of skin (the blood is tempting enough, she doesn't want to taste it until she has to) to bite. His heart's slowing audibly, she needs to do this fast.

But unfortunately, she's not fast enough. She hasn't even got her teeth near his throat when she hears it slow to a final stop.]


J-Jazz?

[No.]

Jasper? Baby, [She shakes him, trying in vain to wake him up.] say something. Please.

[No. This isn't happening. This isn't happening.]

blackmoonrising: (you've got five seconds to run)

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[personal profile] blackmoonrising 2013-01-08 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Ichigo is doing a very impressive job of fixing every single one of Keigo's would-be assailants with the mother of all stink eyes, and it seems that that alone is doing a good enough job of keeping them at bay. It could also be down to the fact that he's got a person sized sword strapped to his back, that would probably be enough of a reason to give anybody pause for thought.]
blackmoonrising: (yeah what he said)

[personal profile] blackmoonrising 2013-01-08 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[And then Keigo has to go and be Keigo.]

In case you hadn't noticed Keigo the whole city's going to hell right now!
asano_san: (impending doom)

[personal profile] asano_san 2013-01-08 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Does that mean I'm not allowed to be scared?

[Even if Ichigo is doing a good job of protecting him from the masses, it's hard to relax in the middle of all the fighting.]

Can we go somewhere else?
blackmoonrising: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] blackmoonrising 2013-01-08 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Keigo admitting that he's scared saves him from getting chewed out for getting on Ichigo's case; he doesn't blame him for being frightened in an atmosphere like this. Keigo's got guts, he knows that, but at a time like this he can be forgiven for letting the situation get to him.]

Yeah, let's get out of here.

[He shoots the other men one last dirty look before he turns and starts to walk away, nodding at Keigo to follow him.]
servingmichael: (This is unexpected and bad news)

After Chuck dies!

[personal profile] servingmichael 2013-01-08 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd felt this before, this sudden, abrupt emptiness. He doesn't go looking for Chuck - whatever could have killed Him could kill an archangel, whatever could remove God can do damage to him.

Instead, Raphael stretches out his wings and flies to Aslan, wings fluttering.
]
mikhail_in_me: (Mikhail is tough)

OPEN

[personal profile] mikhail_in_me 2013-01-08 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Somehow Teito has managed to avoid capture during this entire time and has laid low as he tried to not only figure out how he got there, but find any familiar faces. Unfortunately, neither has proven successful. As darkness fell, he found himself fighting for his life. The familiar, yet clearly different, creatures of the darkness that plagued the world he had landed in before..were once again back to terrorizing what was left of the city.

But Teito no longer had the strength to fight them. He may have been surviving, but he had hardly been taking care of himself. Now he is exhausted, beaten, and unable to hold back the fury of the god that lived inside of him. The creature that had manage to take Teito down, doesn't survive for long as Mikhail emerges and makes sure to take his anger out on it.]

I'll teach this world a lesson for mistreating my Master. I'll destroy everything!

[He lifted his hand and a bright light started to grow from around him. The explosive power he is about to let go will not be good for any creatures in a fairly large radius of the violent god.]

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