stringmods: (City)
Destiny Strings Mods ([personal profile] stringmods) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2013-04-23 08:04 pm

Like Bulls in a China Shop: Taurus Log

▼ The Darkening Days
 

Who: Everyone. This is a general catch-all Taurus Event log. If you would like to do your own separate logs either due to pacing or easier loading, by all means, please do so!
Where: The Entire City
Summary: The last days of the Taurus event as things start to sour dramatically. During the 13th hour, Mutation Skills are unlocked for certain people (see the info post here) and now people have a chance against the swarming mechanized bulls. Unfortunately, for some, this means the paranoia hit a new low....if you want, you can get together and join each other's posts to try to hold the city down and protect everyone!
Warnings: Strange Attitudes, NPCs, Attacking, Battles.
Note: Please mark your post with what date they are happening. We are allowing anywhere from the 23th to future-dating to the 26th itself. Go on and have fun!

▼ The nights grow weary and a pattern seems to be forming...(days until the 26th)
 
Most of the Taurus civilians had willingly put themselves in confinement. As their symptoms began to rise, at the very least, there was little chance for them to cause problems. It looked like, hopefully, that they could hold back a lot of the damage and deaths to the city.

How completely wrong they would end up being...

▼ The day of reckoning...(April 26th, before the 13th Hour)
 
In retrospect, they should have realized something was wrong. While the Scorpio civilians were screaming about doom much like it had been predicted, Aquarius and Leo were not.

More research was needed...but there was no time now.

Somehow, everyone that had gone to the holding facilities were being freed from their confinement areas. No one knew who or got in, or how they got out, but many guards were injured in the process-- or worse.

The city turned into an all too (unfortunately) familiar sight. The Taurus civilians were causing havoc in the city, joined by others that the city had not predicted. Observers and Researchers quickly realized that these were all the earth signs, and a signal was given out; but too little, too late.

The city needed to fight back, lest it lose even more of its members. The situation was dire, but they had the Visitors on their side.

...For better or for worse.

▼ The Hour at Hand...(April 26th, 13th Hour)
 
13th Hour.

By now, the city was in chaos. For those who had witnessed the Scorpio outbreak it was an unfortunate similarity they might want to forget, but for others, this horror was brand new.

Giant mechanical bulls patrolled the city and continued to swarm, the police force trying to contain them and help as many as they could.

As time went on, mechanical parts and rocks fell to the floor from the bulls. Once the 13th hour hit...the remaining ones mutated, standing on two legs. And that wouldn't even be the worst of it...

And yet even in this Hour, there is hope. Power surges in a select few, and with a new skill at their tips, the battle may be won yet. But remember your mission: you came to protect this city. That includes the people living here. With so much chaos, you'll also need to help them and reduce the number of deaths as much as possible...and try not too look too closely at a looming figure in the Taurus Ward...
frequent_flyer: (Nice butt)

Morning of the 26th - locked to Otonashi

[personal profile] frequent_flyer 2013-04-24 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Was yesterday the best day ever or what!?

Exhausted from staying up late playing video games, but also ready for another action-packed day with his best friend ever, Hinata rolled out of bed.

"Good morning..." He groaned sleepily, reaching up his shirt to scratch himself, stepping over Otonashi's sleeping bag to the kitchen to look for cereal or something comparably easy for breakfast. Maybe ice cream?
trainwrecking: (➝ injured;)

[personal profile] trainwrecking 2013-04-24 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
The sleeping area designated for Otonashi's stay lacks a body. The mussed blanket lays open, pointing towards the kitchen where the redhead had dragged himself off to hours earlier.

As soon as the clock had turned over, nearing the arrival of Taurus' havoc, he had gone to stare at his reflection in the water pooled in Hinata's sink. He struggles, terrified of the new pair of horns and the manic look beginning to burn behind his eyes.

It's one of his last moments of lucidity. "A-ahh... I can't..."
frequent_flyer: (Hmm?)

[personal profile] frequent_flyer 2013-04-28 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's not right.

He remains blissfully unaware of the horns or glowing eyes, as the redhead's back is to him, so he walks over and innocently places a hand on Otonashi's shoulder.

"Otonashi... Are you okay?" His tone is gentle, wondering if he's feeling ill or something.
trainwrecking: (shrouded in light.)

[personal profile] trainwrecking 2013-04-30 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I thought I was." His back straightens, but he never turns to face Hinata. His voice is familiar, but warped and lacking its usually smoothness; the gutteral, gravelly sound that takes its place is not quite his own.

"No, I've been such an idiot..."
frequent_flyer: (You're not that bad)

[personal profile] frequent_flyer 2013-05-01 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe sharing an entire tub of ice cream before bed had been a poor idea... Yeah, he was probably just feeling sick. That was all.

...Right?

"An idiot?" He gave a lighthearted little laugh, trying to chase away the dread. "No, no... We just stayed up too late, haha..."
trainwrecking: (Happiness is such a luxury...)

[personal profile] trainwrecking 2013-05-02 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Yeah, we've stayed up for too long." Tears brim and threaten to roll down his cheeks as he turns to face Hinata, but the inhuman yellow glow now haunting his eyes blurs them.

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry, Hinata. You've suffered for a long time, haven't you..?"