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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.
surgicalshot: (bloodied lip)

[personal profile] surgicalshot 2013-01-21 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, it's not using any technology. [Just his core-given power, and that seemed to still be there. Once it was fine, he laid a hand over it, numbing the skin just enough, and only for a little bit.] You'll get feeling back in an hour, but this should help minimize it.

[He took out the needle and thread, getting ready to start stitching him up. Tenma kept his head down. He didn't need a reminder they were people. The amounts of clothing left in the clinic, and the sounds from outside reminded him every second. And he killed them. He killed the ones trying to attack them, sure, but it was still murder. He would have to live with that forever.]

There are some people still left here. Other Newcomers. [He began to sew him back up.]
moveslikestrider: Art by <lj site="deviantart.com" user="oranges-lemons"> (Can’t find the answers.)

[personal profile] moveslikestrider 2013-01-24 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Met a few of them while I was out there. [He pauses, breathing in slowly. How long had he been racing back and forth through this period of time? He didn't...know. Probably because he was so damn tired. Dave let's the doctor work as he puts his face into his hands.

He's never killed another human being before. Actually, he has. Over and over again in the darkness. The knowledge of that made him feel so small and wishing he was some stupid normal kid.]


We can't keep living in the past. ...but I don't know what else to do besides ask the core to take us back.
surgicalshot: (I could have done more)

[personal profile] surgicalshot 2013-01-27 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
That's good. It's good to know they're out there, and they're okay. [He starts stitching him up, occasionally numbing sections, just in case something had gone wrong. He was tired, but he'd been this tired before. It was always good to double and triple check, though.]

No, we can't. But... what if we ask the Core and it doesn't help? We might be stuck here forever. [He shakes his head.] I never thought I'd say this, but I miss the city. At least it's not about the kind of survival, back there.
moveslikestrider: (We're falling apart.)

[personal profile] moveslikestrider 2013-01-31 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dave shuts his eyes. In the event the Core couldn't get them back, or, refused to help he had and idea.] If it won't help I get all of you back. Time travel is my thing. It can circumvent my abilities for a little while but forcing the issue might give me a chance to kick you all through.

[Nevermind what it would do to him. He won't think about it.]
surgicalshot: (another what)

sorry for the lateness on this

[personal profile] surgicalshot 2013-02-06 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[That gives him pause.] ...What would happen to you if you did that?
moveslikestrider: (Isn't it serene?)

No worries man I've been sick myself

[personal profile] moveslikestrider 2013-02-07 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea. Might just be sent home. It's not something I'm too worried about.
surgicalshot: (Default)

<3

[personal profile] surgicalshot 2013-02-10 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
You should be worried. I'm sure your friends and family will be worried. I know I'm worried about it.
moveslikestrider: (Would you be the saviour of the broken.)

<3

[personal profile] moveslikestrider 2013-02-11 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Would you rather everyone be trapped in the past? Keep in mind this is a last resort thing. We'll see what goes and plan from there.
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[personal profile] surgicalshot 2013-02-14 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
If worse comes to worse, we could do it. Maybe we're here because we're the ones that need to build the city to what it is in the future.
moveslikestrider: Art by <lj site="tumblr.com" user="viivus"> (#meta reluctance)

[personal profile] moveslikestrider 2013-02-14 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
We're probably just here to see key events than follow the loop back to the present. Time travel always has specific rules to it, and it's never to go back and become your own grandfather or something like that. That only happens in movies.

The reality is much more rigid and unyielding to change.