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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...
otakuro: (Surprise)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-04-29 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[That is enough to snap Atsuro out of his terror for a half moment.]





The what?

[OK well obviously Hizumi was crazier than he was a generalized sense of impending apocalypse wasn't nearly as bad.]

Oh. Right. Taurus.
bondsofsuffering: ([Fear] like an unsolvable puzzle)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-04-29 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Guess they got that part right.
otakuro: (Melancholic)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-05-01 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Tch...

I can't stand this...! I want to... scream or hit something or something. It's too weird. It's too much. Something uncontrollable...
bondsofsuffering: ([Fear] Is this world reflected in)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-05-01 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
They're screwing with our thoughts.

[He sounds genuinely furious - well, as much as one can when they're also trying to fight off terror.]

I don't want to-- I shouldn't be acting like this.

[It only feeds into his fear. Although he had yet to experience the more violent portion of the curse, this is almost exactly as he would assume it would be, and it's highly disturbing to him - to have lost control of his own thoughts and mannerisms, and to be unable to do anything about it.]
otakuro: (Grim)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-05-05 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
...

I don't think listening to each other freak out is helping us.

[Atsuro swallows.]

C'mon. Let's just... keep it together. Nothing'll happen if we stay inside and let the others take care of it.
bondsofsuffering: ([Strain] a bitter laugh as)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-05-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Keep it together."

[It comes out as a sort of despairing laugh. Like that's even possible at this point.]

I don't think there's much to- to keep together anymore.

[Let's be real here, he's pretty much lost it by now.]
otakuro: (Angry)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-05-07 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Then wrap up everything that's left and knot it up tight!

[That doesn't make any sense but making sense wasn't on his list of priorities right now.]

We can use the fear for... for something else. We have to.

...
...

I'm going to play some games. Catch you when it's over.

[wait what was atsuro channeling his jitteriness into video games]
bondsofsuffering: ([Yell] looking so unsure)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-05-07 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
...

Yeah, see you.

[There's something behind his words - anger, maybe? While the frustration earlier was aimed in general at his situation, now it's focused on Atsuro.

'You're really no help at all.'

Of course, were he any saner he would realize that there wasn't exactly anything the other teen could do about it, particularly that he's fighting off his own fears, but them's the breaks.
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