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Destiny Strings Mods ([personal profile] stringmods) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2014-06-08 09:33 am

Cataclysm [June 8th Open City Log for all Players]

Who: Open to All
Where: INSIDE the city.
When: From the 8th until the early morning of the 9th.
Summary: Something hits the barrier, and the entire city ends up in a state of panic.
Warnings: Depends on the players!

"Good morning, Hinoto-Ri! It is now eight in the morning, and time to buckle down for most of the working population! Please work hard for the sake of the city! Thank you! Weather today is more rain in the next hour and more rain until night in all the wards, no exceptions! The rain from the past few days continues to pour and--wait...what's that noise?"


A rumble was the first warning that something was wrong. The bustle of animals trying to escape the city was next, as birds gathered in the sky circling, unable to leave. It wasn't too long before the worst happened. Perhaps due to the morning fog and bad weather, it was impossible to see the giant object before it was too late, as it slammed against the city's protective barrier.

The entire city shook and was awoken to the sharp, painful sound of what could almost be a bomb going off, impossible to ignore. Buildings broke down as a giant earthquake rumbled for a few seconds, leaving in its wake a carnage of overturned vehicles, collapsing buildings and debris free-falling everywhere- the epicenter in the Leo Ward.

Whatever had caused this had already disappeared from view... Yet, those that had seen it crash would have noticed a large black form over city hall. A sort of stain in the barrier. Then, to the sound of screeching and windows breaking, a single giant piece of the crystal-like substance began to crack above in the sky, falling onto town hall. Just one piece, perhaps small compared to the barrier itself, but more than enough to cause severe property damage, sending half of the building tumbling right into the police headquarters and destroying part of that too.

Electricity went out in Leo, plunging the ward into near darkness. Apart from the hospital that instantly ran on auxiliary power, of course. The public network went down, depriving Hinoto-Ri of communication between the public, leaving only the visitor's own.

And while the barrier still held up, a very thin strand separating the world outside from Hinoto-Ri was now visible above the Leo Ward, casting a strange light over the carnage.

From the other wards, not everyone would know what happened right away. It almost seemed impossible, after all. A nightmare come to life.

It was over in barely a minute, but the city's entire face had drastically changed.

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[OOC: This is the first of the upcoming event logs, and will take place on June 8th exclusively!

As of a note, that night, the 13TH HOUR WILL LAST 2 HOURS INSTEAD OF ONE so if you want to include that in one of your prompts, please go for it!

Characters can start their own threads, or reply to others. Subjects can be anything you think would make logical send during this day; keep in mind the city is in a state of panic and the public network is down, so anything goes from trying to save their apartments, to helping civilians to realizing what's going on during the 13 Hour. Make sure you mark down the time of your post so that other players are aware of when it's happening.

If you want information about the event, the post is here. Characters are HIGHLY encouraged to mingle with each other. NPCs and demons may show up in certain threads too, so keep your eyes peeled and have fun with each other!

A note to new players; there will be another log posted on the 9th for new players who wish to show up behind the barrier.]
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (What the hell)

Miki Sanada [OTA] | Morning & 13th Hour - All over town

[personal profile] helenchanter 2014-06-09 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Morning - 8h35 (Mostly for Akihiko)]

Miki had been up for more than a few hours, training with her brother. So when the...thing struck, they were in a mid-jog, music blasting in her ears despite the rain (a Sanada laughs at the idea of rain stopping them, after all). The earthquake sent her falling to the ground in surprise, headphones and evoker just out of her reach, as she heard something crack above and a large piece of a building crack...there was no way she could roll away in time.

"Shit!"

[Morning - 9h50 (Open)]
It had only been an hour but damn, the carnage on the city wasn't good. Miki was trying to calm citizens down, or move debris away with her persona so that trapped civilians could be rescued. When she saw someone else she recognized as a Visitor, her eyes lit up.

"Hey! D'you mind giving me a little help here, please?"

[Night - 25h00 (Open)]
The 13th hour should be over by now. The one hour limit somehow continued to roll on as she stared at the sky, the rain hiding part of the nearly full moon.

"After all that's happened today, what's going on now...."

Something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong.
Edited 2014-06-09 00:32 (UTC)
thirdarrow: (sp: battle ♒ Cygnus cygnus)

night;

[personal profile] thirdarrow 2014-06-09 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
The strategist had noticed it too. The usual reddish half-darkness failed to lift. What with the crack in the barrier... did the impact somehow affect the demonic flux as well? This bode nothing but ill.

He blasted an Orthrus with three well-placed water surges, and the demon dissolved into a pile of glitter. There were also more demons around this time, if memory served. Turning a corner into the next street, he saw Miki musing by herself. Yet another young lady out during the Thirteenth Hour - but an independent young lady, from what he could tell. Her Persona looked strong, too.

"Excuse me." He approached, polite but careful. "Might you perhaps have noticed... that the Thirteenth Hour isn't ending as it should be?"

Or was it just him?
helenchanted: (Uhhhh)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2014-06-09 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Nope definitely wasn't just you, guy she didn't know.

"It's not," she said nodding. "It's really odd. And with the public network still down...we have to make sure that civilians aren't getting attacked. Once demons realize what's happening."

Shit! What if they were stuck like this until morning?
thirdarrow: (averted ♒ Anser erythropus)

[personal profile] thirdarrow 2014-06-09 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
He nodded, closing his eyes briefly. "The lack of an effective message distribution can be partially remedied by Visitors acting as terminus messagers... but yes. Demons first." The ones he faced tonight were much stronger than before.

"If you'd like, we should alert the apartment blocks so that any Visitor still awake can start spreading the message."

Or they could start by clearing out the more numerous hordes.

"By the by - may I have your name, young lady?"
helenchanted: (Uhhhh)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2014-06-10 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Young lady? Hey I'm 16!"

Excuse you, hitting a teenager's rough point. Miki looked around to make sure nothing was following them. At least the demons hadn't tried to attack her for now. "Yeah better at least send something." As much as some might be sleeping, maybe it was probably more dangerous than being up right now.
thirdarrow: (doubt ♒ Puffinus lherminieri)

[personal profile] thirdarrow 2014-06-10 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Takakage was surprised by her reaction - he didn't quite understand why she was so offended. 'Young lady' was a very polite term of address for someone of her age - but then again, this would probably be one of the quirks of modern folk.

"Ah, my apologies." Yet another reminder of how displaced he was in the time stream. "If you do not wish me to address you with such a term, could you perhaps give me your name?"

Maybe she'd forgotten. Or she didn't want him to know in the first place.
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Default)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2014-06-14 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! Right. No worries." Okay this guy was acting really weird, but at least he was rather polite about it, which she could appreciate. "I'm Miki Sanada. May I have yours as well?"
thirdarrow: (neutral ♒ Puffinus griseus)

[personal profile] thirdarrow 2014-06-14 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, that surname -!

Though he didn't show his surprise, keeping his tone calm. "I am Takakage Kobayakawa, retainer of the Mouri Clan." He had been giving this description so many times that the forced reversal of his name order didn't feel strange anymore.

Miki was probably from modern Japan. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance."
unbroken_chain: (serious)

9:50

[personal profile] unbroken_chain 2014-06-09 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Kotoha's Visitor status is blatantly obvious right now as she's accompanied by most of her team. At Miki's callout, she jogs over to where she is, trailed by Arthur.

"What do you need help with?"
helenchanted: (Burning up!)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2014-06-09 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"There's someone under here," she replied, her tone urgent. The voice of someone crying could be heard softly. "I think something fell on their leg, but it's too heavy for me to lift alone, even with Helen. And if we undo the wrong block, the whole thing might come crashing down."
unbroken_chain: (serious)

[personal profile] unbroken_chain 2014-06-09 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
At Kotoha's signal, Scorpina swoops over.

"Alright. Scorpina, check the debris and figure out what we can't move. Arthur, once that's done, you help Miki shift things. I'll be on standby with Mitra."

Crouching down, she calls out to whoever's crying, her Persona already summoned.

"If you can hear me, just hold on! You'll be out soon, I promise!"

Scorpina, meanwhile, has finished using her echolocation and passed on the results to Arthur, who is pointing out the appropriate blocks to move to Miki.
helenchanted: (Burning up!)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2014-06-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Miki nods at the Pokemon. Taking out her chain weapon, she uses it like a vine to properly grab them, then slowly pushes them away with her persona, Helen, grabbing them from her and throwing them away.

It takes a few minutes for them to finally get to the target, but finally, they see a small child holding on to a jack frost doll. Her leg was twisted and mangled in a way that it was easy to see she wouldn't be able to walk right now.

"Tch okay, we're gonna carry her to the hospital."

Gently, she took the child in her arms.

"Do you have something to tie up the bleeding on her leg? We need to apply pressure before she looses too much blood."
unbroken_chain: (cheerful)

[personal profile] unbroken_chain 2014-06-10 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
Kotoha produces a first-aid kit from her bag and takes out a roll of gauze. Prepping it, she addresses the child.

"Alright, sweetie, just hold still, okay?"

As she applies herself to the bandage, she clicks her tongue sharply several times. At the first click, Scorpina and Arthur start heading to other places where they can assist. The rest of the clicks attract the attention of Tomoe, who lumbers over towards the trio. Kotoha addresses the girl in Miki's arms with a sort of forced cheerfulness.

"Now, you see her? This is Tomoe, my very best friend! If you want, you can ride on her back as we go to the hospital, and she'll keep you safe all the way there, okay?"
helenchanted: (Default)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2014-06-14 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
That seems to distract the girl enough for her to nod despite her pain.

"It's unlike any demon I've seen!"

Gently, Miki places her on top, making sure to keep a hand so she doesn't fall. Despite the gravity of the situation, she smiles as well, not just for the girl, but for herself. This is what she'd been training ever since her brother's death. To save others.

"Now hold on tight, okay? We don't want you to fall down...and we'll get you there in no time."
unbroken_chain: (Default)

[personal profile] unbroken_chain 2014-06-14 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
At Miki's sally, Kotoha leans over and confides to the girl in a conspiratorial whisper.

"Tomoe's really good at carrying people; I ride on her back all the time and I haven't fallen off yet!"
boxingemperor: (...!?!)

[personal profile] boxingemperor 2014-06-09 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Rain would not keep them from finishing their training. They didn't have much left to do, after all, and we on their way back. But nobody was expecting the shaking earth that accompanied the showers. Akihiko stopped when Miki fell to the ground and prepared to assist her up. That is, until he heard the material crumbling above them. A large piece of plaster was on its way to hit Miki.

He couldn't let that happen. He whipped his Evoker out of its holster, held it to the side of his head and pulled the trigger. "CAESAR!" He yelled.

The persona threw the globe that it held up into the air, and in the time it took for the miniature sphere to rise and fall back into his grasp, the metal plated warrior stepped forward and delivered a powerful punch, blasting the plaster boulder into powder as Akihiko had landed over Miki to shield her, just in case. The fear and worry in his eyes couldn't be hidden when he finally opened them.
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Happy Tears)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2014-06-09 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
The smell of plaster was a thousand times much better than having something that huge fall on her. Adrenaline was rushing in her brain and she shook a little from the shock, but wasn't worse for wear otherwise.

"W-well," she tried to say, attempting to joke a little, lighten the mood, anything to take her mind off of it. "I guess only Minami should be listening to music while...doing...stuff." Words were failing her. How annoying.

"Tch. N-now that's twice I owe my life to you. Thank you."
boxingemperor: (Don't talk like that.)

[personal profile] boxingemperor 2014-06-09 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
How can you do that Miki, how you almost-

Damn it. He was glad she was okay. He couldn't help but hug her for a moment. "You don't owe me anything. Come on." He broke the hug and carefully stood up, offering an arm for her so that she could climb to her feet. "We need to find someplace safe."
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Siigh)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2014-06-09 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
She wasn't in the mood to argue about her independence today. She let him go and nodded, moving from where they were standing so no more debris could risk landing on their heads.

"Okay. But first, let's make sure Shinji is okay too," she countered, reaching to her wrist to use her phone when--"Damn it, the network's down!" Panicking, she pressed to her ear to get the COMP system working, typing into the air.

"The Visitor network is still up for some reason...thank goodness for small miracles. I'm sending him a message now."
boxingemperor: (Hey.)

[personal profile] boxingemperor 2014-06-09 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
He stood beside her, watching her try to contact Shinji. When she encountered issues with the network, Akihiko checked his COMP as well, getting the same results.

"Should we try to head back to the dorms, then?"
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Default)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2014-06-09 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Maybe he slept through it..." At least the area didn't look too damaged, nearly fallen thing on her that almost got her killed withstanding. She picked up her evoker.

"If we run into someone in trouble along the way, we'll help them out."
boxingemperor: (Alright.)

[personal profile] boxingemperor 2014-06-09 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Heh, wouldn't surprise me." Despite the minimum damage, it was for the best that they get out of there. He would feel better knowing Shinji was okay.

"Good plan. Let's try to avoid the alleys, just in case."
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Angry)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2014-06-10 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah." At his signal, she tore off to the SEES dorm room, casting a glance once in a while to make sure nothing else was going to try and attempt to land on her head that day.

The commotion outside was starting to grow, as civilians were walking up and realizing what had happened.

"Guess there won't be time for a shower," she added, "as soon as we know Shinjiro is safe, I'm going to go help make sure no one is trapped."

When she arrives at the dorm she barges in. The place didn't look too damaged, apart from the overturned furniture, but this was just the first level.

"SHINJI!" she called out. "ARE YOU HERE?!"