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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.]
press_start: (happy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-15 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes. Battle over. Exp gained, pity itemdrops from monsters seemed to be a rarity here. Nanami gave Galaga a pat before trotting back over to her new ally. That was a good match, that was, and it left a suitably warm feeling in her chest when she processed the events that had just happened.

The sweet, sweet taste of victory. Of course there was more to a game than winning, but winning certainly felt pretty good.....

"Thank you. You were a great help, as well...." A slight smile, a small nod. This player was.... quite alright, by the looks of it.

"..... sorry, I don't think I caught your name....?"
stitchedfromsteel: (15.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-15 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
He's just glad that he could have helped someone out here on a night like this. And what an odd night it's turning out to be...
"Call me Kanji," he replies, nodding back at her. "What 'bout you?" He pauses for a moment, curious - "And how long've ya been doing this?"
press_start: (sleepy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-16 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanji. Okay. Noted for future reference. (So many players here, so many things to remember.)

Nanami does skip a beat before she nods in response. She probably skipped more than one metaphorical beat in this conversation, being one with reactions as delayed as hers is.

And besides, that battle was exhaustingly exciting.

".....I'm Nanami Chiaki. It's nice to meet you." Hooray for socializing stock phrases! She feels her quaintly-nicknamed 'server lag' catching up again now that the excitement's died down, reaching up to muffle a yawn.

"Me? Oh..... not for very long...." She shrugs. "But I've been working pretty hard on it, you can say."
stitchedfromsteel: (14.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-16 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
He frowns slightly at that yawn - is she still doing alright, here? "Yeah. You look like you've been workin' hard," he comments. "Hangin' in there?" Good she might be for a beginner, but she's still a beginner. He's definitely worried.
press_start: (sleepy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-17 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
.... .... ..... .zzz...zzzz...z.....

"...mmm, of course..." She mutters with eyes closed, just as you'd start wondering if she really just dozed off like that before your eyes.

"It's kind of like a game, after all." Nanami continues, a little more pointedly this time as she straightens slightly- long enough for her to rub her eyes a bit. "I'm good at games."

....zzzz.

It's hard to tell if she's asleep or not because she responded, she's still standing up, but she's also kind of starting to snore softly.
stitchedfromsteel: (05.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-17 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
What? Is she really treating this like some sort of - has she got any idea of how dangerous these things are? And here he'd thought he'd been fighting with someone competent...

"It's not a game! You could get seriously..."

...Not impressed. He leans over and gives her a sharp tap on the shoulder.
press_start: (sleepy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-17 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"-hnf, what?" Her eyelids flutter open, she takes the moment to look faintly annoyed, and they snap shut again.

"Mnh. I'm fine....." Her Persona buzzes gently as it fades into a blue mass and ultimately disappears."....just tell me when we leave.....or did you.... need, some.....zzz....zz...zz.."

stitchedfromsteel: (02.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-17 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He reaches out to shake her a little - "We are leaving. You need some rest, dammit!" Honestly, he doesn't entirely like the looks of his own energy reserves, but he trusts them to last a lot better than he trusts her ability to stay on her feet. "Where do you live?"
press_start: (srs bns nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-19 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
.... ..... .. .. . ......

".....Libra Five- Oh Three." She makes a soft tcsh in response to the shake, opening her eyes with a huff of air. "It seems like a waste to let the extra hour go.... ......"

Nevermind that she would've wasted it anyway by snoozing; that point doesn't seem to register. Nanami adds afterwards, with the impression that bouncing back questions was something you did to socialize- "...where do you live?"
stitchedfromsteel: (14.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-19 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanji blinks for a moment. "Huh. Couple down from ya. Five oh-one." Just leaving a hand on her shoulder to try and steer her, keep her awake - "We don't know how long this crap's gonna last. If it turns out that ... if it lasts too long, you're gonna need to get some rest or you're gonna be puttin' yourself in danger."

After all, for all he knows - this could be it. This could be permanent.
press_start: (headtilt nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-19 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh....!" Nanami observes, with the faint surprise of the not-entirely-focused. "..... we're almost neighbors."

Somehow, even though she's yawning every few minutes, Kanji doesn't need to steer her too much- as time goes on she stops nearly veering off-course. The touch is weird, but Nanami keeps quiet about it because she's not really sure if it's a good weird or a bad weird. Besides, there are better things to worry about- like the perpetual subconscious dilemma of taking a nap where she stood or reluctantly engaging the world.

"Hmm..... that's true. The city'll need longer patrolling hours over these few days...." That's longer patrolling hours.... and more levelgrinding opportunities. Nanami isn't sure if that's a good thing or not, either. "Hmm. Hmm....."
stitchedfromsteel: (02.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-19 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Too hard, too heavy, a guiding hand as he pokes her in the right direction, his Persona close on their heels to ward off any trouble; but risking her working what he is out is the lesser of too evils at the moment, he thinks.

"No idea what the city's gonna need. We're gonna have to see."
press_start: (srs bns nami)

((oh btw I don't quite remember if I've asked you how okay you were with spoilers...?))

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-20 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
He's lucky she's kind of a shut-in- it doesn't strike Nanami that the hand is unusually smooth and cold, that the grip resembles more of industrial metal than warm flesh. Kanji's probably just weird or a cyborg or whatever, y'know? No big deal, she was talking to a demon boss of about four years old the other night.

(She walks right past the metaphorical trail and lets it go cold. Deep personal secrets were your own to keep, anyway.)

".....mmhmm. Do weird strings of events happen like this often?"
stitchedfromsteel: (14.)

Spoil away, I'm probably never going to play any DRs. ^^;

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-20 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Couldn't tell ya about here. Ain't been here long enough." He pauses for a moment to add, "But I'm pretty damn sure weird kinda comes with bein' a Persona user anyway." After all, he should know.

Still just walking, still just looking around them warily.
press_start: (headtilt nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-21 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"You haven't been here long, either?"

.... ..... ... A few moments of pause.

"..... maybe we could steer closer to the buildings?" When Nanami next speaks it's raising a point with a mild sense of revelation, all signs of her previous train of thought nonexistent. "If I'm not wrong some of them have anti-demon spells to keep demons away.... ... I'm assuming we're done for the hour."
stitchedfromsteel: (02.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-21 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nah. Just a coupla weeks. But I've had my Persona since - uh, been using it for 'bout a year," Kanji says, keeping things simple.

He thinks about her suggestion for a moment - "And yeah, that's probably a good idea. Assumin' that whatever trashed things earlier ain't trashed the wards, too."
press_start: (headtilt nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-22 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
"..... oh, so where you came from..... also had Personas? I don't think there were any where I came from..." Even if there had been, it would also have been quite unlikely -given... circumstances- for her of all people to have things like that. The big picture about this city still needs figuring out, come to think of it, and now apparently Personas aren't exclusive to Hinoto-Ri's game system.... ... you learn something new every day, huh.

Nanami yawns lightly again- still drowsy, but more alert than her snoozing spell earlier.

"Mmhmm, it doesn't hurt to give it a try. We can test for sure whether they're still working, then." Nanami cocks her head slightly. "And besides, even if they fail, we have us!" She fished her Evoker from her pockets, twirling it once.
stitchedfromsteel: (05.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-22 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanji gives her a grin, but he's still a little concerned. It's an improvement, at least, true... he's still not sure he's entirely happy about the idea of her fighting anything down in this state, though.

"Yeah. Got that right. But it ain't like we really went around talkin' about havin' Personas to everyone back home ... it was all pretty secret. Man, it's different here."
press_start: (headtilt nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-24 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, little does Kanji know. She wouldn't be doing much fighting at all if a little sleepiness crippled her.... okay, it was hardly "a little" sleepiness because... um.... she was kind of tired almost all the time. Details, details! Doesn't everyone do that, I mean, adequate rest is important. (Haha. No, few people are like that, but it's not as if Nanami is aware of these things.)

"Oh, I see. ....." Secret abnormalities, huh. Interesting. The (secret) existence of things like these were things to fuel the belief of conspiracy theories everywhere. Seemed like something out of a videogame plot, honestly. Nanami could see it now.... "What other secret things did you have? Was there a whole underground movement surrounding these Persona or was it just, sort of isolated?"

They were walking. Making their way downtown, walking fast. Demons pass. Apartment bound. Hmm... should she make something to drink or snack on for herself when she gets back later, or would she be too tired for that...
stitchedfromsteel: (15.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-24 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Lemme see." Well... he could probably tell her some of it, now? Couldn't he? "There was a gang'f us in my - uh, home town. But ya also had the Shadow Ops - they were more'f an official group'f Persona users and all. Beyond that, I don't really know the details of what was happenin'. I think there were more, but no idea who 'n where."
press_start: (thinking nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-26 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Aaah. I see."

.....

Interesting dissertation of sorts. Kanji's right, though, he loses absolutely nothing telling her this. It's good to know, but Nanami can't do jack shit with this information. Nanami isn't sure how to handle a lot of facts a person offers about themselves, generally, that might be why. If only all relationship points could be accumulated through just beating up mooks together, like it's done in some games.

".... .... oh, by the way, I think that's the Libra ward up ahead...."
stitchedfromsteel: (14.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-27 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
He's hardly the most social person himself, that's for sure. But she'd asked, hadn't he? What else was he supposed to say? Given that he's spent the past year of his life hiding secrets and lying... even explaining what he did felt a little weird.

"Looks like it," he comments, glancing up at the buildings coming into view.
press_start: (pointing nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-28 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmm," Nanami vocalizes vaguely as the streets become a lot more familiar again. "That's good. It's been a long night." She'd like to say something more, acknowledge that his presence was nice and his help in the demon battle was much appreciated, but that would be..... weird.

"....thanks, by the way..."

Yeah, that was weird.

"For tonight, I guess?"
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[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-06-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanji simply nods back, and gives a very slight smile. "Heh. No problem. I'm here t' help." Just about literally made for it, after all, for all he's not going to admit to it to anyone in a hurry.
The familiar sights of the district are still good to see, though. He glances about just to make sure that they're home safe.
press_start: (happy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-03 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
He's not the only one, but oh well, neither of them are aware of such possible similarities. "But if you need help too, whenever... I'm around, too." That didn't come out too fluently but Nanami isn't sure what she's interpreting from this, let alone what she wants to say in return. But the warm, tingling, not-oft-felt sensation of Weird Goodwill is there. She decides that she quite likes this guy.

"Libra fifth floor, right? We're really almost neighbours, wow..." she repeats as the apartment block comes into view and she can see her own flat if she tilts her head back.

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