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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.

--

[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.]
thirdarrow: (default ♒ Aves)

Aquarius Ward | Immediately after impact | OTA.

[personal profile] thirdarrow 2014-06-08 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
- what was that?

Takakage jumped - a reaction precipitated only by the sheer magnitude of the shock he had received. The library itself shook, books jostling amongst the shelves - but luckily none fell over. (He dreaded to think of the consequences if one had...)

Given how early it was, there were very few students in the library - but from their shouts and raised voices they were very much alive. The head librarian took charge immediately and started escorting everyone out of the building. As a new employee, he couldn't think of much else to do, and followed suit - leaving only when the students had all exited.

There was... something in the sky, in the direction of the Leo Ward. People were pouring out of (luckily relatively undamaged) buildings and pointing at the stain. He already had an inkling of what it could be... and given the dream he had last night... oh no. This was not good at all.

For the first time in months, he was close to panicking.

Whispers traveled far through the crowd - and what seemed to be most pressing was the fact that the network had gone down. Well, if it did... then there ought to be another form of communication.

The strategist focused for a moment and Koppa Tengu burst into existence in the air above. The avian landed smoothly beside him, folding its wings neatly. He closed his eyes and placed one hand upon the Persona's head, willing it to carry his voice through the CommLink system.

Hello? Can you hear me? Are you alright?

[ ooc: if your character has had previous cr with Takakage, feel free to respond to the commlink message. If not, you can have them go up to him and talk to him - outwardly, he is next to a very large owl with three legs, so that ought to be a point? :'D ]
Edited 2014-06-08 15:52 (UTC)
electricyousei: (nani naze)

Park then Leo

[personal profile] electricyousei 2014-06-08 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Ruri is roused from her work on repairs by the earthquake and moves outside, looking around the park with a curious look.

"Omoikane, can you connect me to the city grid? No? Did your antenna take damage? No? Set up the backup system and start broadcasting. I'm going into town to check on the city. If anyone stops by ping me."

With that Ruri headed off towards the city with her usual deadpan, looking out to see just how bad off things were.
electricyousei: (eh?)

Several hours after the initial disaster

[personal profile] electricyousei 2014-06-08 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It took Ruri some time to get to the City Hall, its not like public transit keeps going when the city is in an emergency so she had to walk, in the panic. After she got there she looked up and tilted her head.

"I wonder what caused that."
hinoto_npcs: (Female - Civilian)

[personal profile] hinoto_npcs 2014-06-08 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's terrible!" a voice quipped, coming from a random citizen, sobbing. Her arm was in a sling, but apart from that, she didn't look worse for wear. "Half of the town hall is destroyed! I just hope people were late to work today..."
Edited 2014-06-08 21:01 (UTC)
spiritofjustice: (Stick to the B.E.A.T.)

About an hour after the incident

[personal profile] spiritofjustice 2014-06-08 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bobby had already been on his way to the Leo district when the earthquake hit. He starts work at the police headquarters 8:30 AM sharp, but he arrives at least ten minutes early every day, just to be sure he's not late.

The trouble is, the police headquarters took heavy damage. It isn't as bad as the town hall next door, but good grief golly that is not the sort of state a police headquarters should be in. Then there's the curious onlookers, of course. The disaster tourists. Should he send them on their way or enlist their help with evacuations and clean-ups? He just doesn't know. He can't find his chief or any of his other superiors in this mess, so he hasn't gotten any concrete orders on how to act just yet.

Ultimately, all he can do is linger between city hall and the police headquarters to make sure people don't complicate the matter. If there's anyone who needs help, an overbearing (and incredibly shocked) police detective is standing by!]
electricyousei: (Ruri captain uniform)

[personal profile] electricyousei 2014-06-08 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Is the building still structurally sound? Do you need help getting to a hospital?"
hinoto_npcs: (Female - Civilian)

[personal profile] hinoto_npcs 2014-06-08 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm fine," she responded. "I was carried to the hospital," she mentioned down to her sling, drying her tears with her other hand. "But I don't know of my husband...he's part of the office of coins...the network is down so I can't contact him."
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?
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?"
tyrantball: (Default)

City Commlink | OTA

[personal profile] tyrantball 2014-06-09 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Attention subjects! This is Queen Desco! She is sending out an all-points bulletin - if you possess a Persona, she is press-ganging you into her emergency response squad! If your Persona has enhanced physical strength, report to Leo Ward and help rescue her trapped subjects! If you are a trapped subject, you must immediately inform Desco of your position! If you possess healing capabilities, you are now under Desco's personal supervision as she sets up a field hospital! FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH YOUR QUEEN'S ORDERS IS TREASON. CHOP-CHOP, LACKIES!
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.
stringent: (pic#6419273)

[personal profile] stringent 2014-06-09 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Fulbright!

[ and there was a frazzled fransiska von karma, shrieking at the state of the rubble. she was poking her head out of the nearby law office block, where the prosecutors had their offices at the city hall. it was clear the incident had ripped one side of the building clean off leaving all the occupants in their offices, stranded to say the least. ]

Get me down from this building this instant!
press_start: (Default)

Libra Ward | Shortly after the impact

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-09 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
......!!

Apartments were not supposed to shake and slant like that, as cheap as they were. Surely not.

[And the last time she had felt her world shift like that..... was no good. No good at all.]

Nanami shakily got to her feet as the tremors continued, raising her arms above her head as a shower of crumbled cement and paint flakes rained down. It wasn't easy to get to her door, not with the tangle of wires across the floor that she had been sorting out for the past few days. The huge mess did not waver her initial happiness at having so many game consoles transferred over to this apartment, but right now it was a bit..... -oof!

Even before she wrenched open the door and tottered to a window in the corridor the tide of screams and chaos had already crested to its maximum. Everything outside was in pandemonium, and across the city skyline she could see the misshapen outside of several damaged buildings- and the small forms of several Persona circling frantically.

Nanami stood there for a while, knuckles turning white against the edge of the windowframe, the image of the failing city slowly burning into her eyes.

Then she turned to retrieve the Emergency Exit hammer from a box on the wall, smashed the window, and raised her Evoker. In the panic of the apartment block no one really noticed the small girl hop out of the window and sail away on her spaceship. The lifts and stairs would be too crowded at this point, anyway. Nanami circled lower and lower towards the street, trying to make sense of the situation.
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."
thirdarrow: (blank face - uh)

half-redirect from open post above

[personal profile] thirdarrow 2014-06-09 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ somewhat continued from here ]

In the aftermath of the confusion, his first thoughts were to make sure the people he knew were safe. And the first person that came to mind was Nanami - he didn't know anyone else that well, and Saionji would be able to take care of herself. Right?

He placed one hand on Koppa Tengu's forehead and willed his voice to transmit.

Hello? Nanami-san? This is Takakage, please do not be alarmed. Where are you? Unhurt, I hope?
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."
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."
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?
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."
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?"
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."
press_start: (Default)

I FORGOT TO CLOSE MY ITALICS TAG, DAMNIT I HECKED UP

[personal profile] press_start 2014-06-09 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Message from the COMP Network. A familiar voice played into her ear as if she herself were thinking it. Hello? Nanami-san? This is Takakage, please do not be alarmed. Where are you? Unhurt, I hope?

Nanami, unlike Takakage, is not as familiar with the finer details of hands-off COMPing. She takes one hand away from her grip on Galaga to massage the row of buttons hooked onto her ear, activating the voice recording for her reply- ".....yes, I am alright. Yourself? Do you know what happened?"

There are so many people rushing around below. Nanami isn't sure what to do. "What do we do?"

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