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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: (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?"
stitchedfromsteel: (04.)

[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.
stitchedfromsteel: (15.)

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-07-03 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Seriously. Kinda a coincidence, huh?" Of anyone from all the city, he'd run into the, well, girl next door...

Yep, that's the place. He looks up, looks around - his curtains are drawn, but he can spot them all the same.

"C'mon. Nearly there."
press_start: (happy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-06 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fate has such an interesting way of bringing people together." Nanami states, eyes half-lidded, with a vague aura like someone gazing across an ocean of meaning. Of which only the surface is skimmed, and everyone kind of knows from how weirdly abstract that sounds, but it's too easy a spoiler if you could immediately figure out what this is all about.

She probably doesn't know what she herself is really talking about either, but the sense of message-in-a-bottle belief is there. "D'you think the 13th Hour is still going on? I think it's almost been two hours...." Nanami glances around as they close in on the Libra Ward Apartment entrance, watching the sky and the streets. The redness seems to be fading a little? Would the new timestamp be two hours per 13th, now?
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[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-07-06 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Deep, there. Kanji gives her a curious look at that first comment. Fate? This seems to be too minor a thing to be 'fate', strange as it is. But ... well. It's the way things are.

"Yeah, it's been 'bout that," he agrees as he checks his internal clock. Close enough to it, anyway. "Hope it's gonna be done soon. This is gonna be a problem if it ain't."
press_start: (thinking nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-11 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
"This is already a problem, either way." Nanami murmured as they stepped into the building, with a vague sense of sarcastic humor in her tone. "I guess you can never leave humans alone long enough before trouble comes looking, can you?" Huh. Gamer humor (was this gamer humor? Shut-in humor? Schoolgirl-with-no-apparent-experience-with-life humor?) was weird.

"Hopefully, there'll be enough Visitors to problemsolve if it comes down to that.... do you think we're up to handling, whatever this is?"
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[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-07-11 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...Odd choice of words, again. Kanji frowns a little - is she just being all 'abstract' with that 'humans' comment or is she calling him out?

"I can pull my weight. I ain't seen enough of other folks fightin' to say."
press_start: (thinking nami)

[[hints of sdr2 spoilers, for any log browsers!]]

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-12 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
They're both odd people. Odder than usual. Nanami's calling herself out, actually, but in the moment one party glides past that little slip-up and the other is worried about himself. Walking slightly ahead of Kanji, Nanami doesn't catch the slight frown- she doesn't have a need or an inclination to be scrutinizing people, anyway.

"Mmm, I believe that. I was thinking more of.... speaking from the perspective of the bigger picture, Hinoto-Ri's Visitors.... they're from all over the place, right? Do you think?"
stitchedfromsteel: (05.)

Re: [[hints of sdr2 spoilers, for any log browsers!]]

[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-07-12 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Ya gotta point there." He scratches his head for a moment. "Whole bunch of different backgrounds, different worlds, all the rest of it. Means there's a whole bunch of people with different experience, too... but dunno how much difference that'll make."
And the fewer inexperienced people fighting, the better. Sure, she'd handled her Persona just fine, but if it'd gotten worse...
...well, he'd have done what he needed to.
press_start: (pointing nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-17 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"That exactly, what are the odds that it's enough to do something?" She pauses at the stairwell, and when she turns back the curves of her face are set into a slight frown. A slight lock of the jaw, twist of the lips, her pale eyes milky with thoughts; Nanami raises a finger as if making a point but when she speaks it's almost to herself.

"What if someone comes from someplace where they've seen something like this before? What if, what if we have someone here who's almost like a deity? I've met Final-Boss-tier players before, so could that happen? I mean, if this is where consciousnesses go in sleep, in death- people are going to keep coming, so would it be that sooner or later-?"

She glances up, but her gaze doesn't quite focus. "Hmm....well, we don't know the rules of this place. Do you? It... makes things weirdly open-ended. Do you think?"
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[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-07-17 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, she's pretty much lost him there. What the heck is she even talking about? Players? Sleep? Man, it's like she's sleepwalking already...

"I ain't interested in open ended. I just want to know whose ass I'm meant to be kicking next."
press_start: (headtilt nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-18 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
(She really probably needs to work on her people skills. Nanami's lack of people skills is a huge gaping void that even someone as oblivious as her can notice; the problem this time is that she knows it but doesn't seem to care. Darn.)

"Oh.....?" Her eyes flicker to his, finally alert. "Oh... I see. I think too much, by some standards...."

And then her gaze starts roaming absently again as she takes one backwards step up the stairs, and then another- it's better than falling asleep, certainly, but one is certainly getting the impression that she isn't the best at staying focused on one thing."It's pretty late for that sort of thing, huh."
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[personal profile] stitchedfromsteel 2014-07-21 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely getting that impression, indeed. He frowns, keeping a close eye on her again.

"Yeah. Go sleep on it. Hopefully things are gonna be alright in the morning. If not, ya know where I am."
press_start: (sleepy nami)

[personal profile] press_start 2014-07-25 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Sleep on it? Nanami blinks, and yawns again.

"Mmm, things would probably be.. ... ... ...be. See you around then, Kanji-san?" She's raised her hand in a vague half-wave, anticipating simply some agreeable body language and a word of farewell. The hour is late. Nanami is hardly running at full capacity.

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