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cordibus ([personal profile] cordibus) wrote in [community profile] tornheart2017-07-12 12:45 am

AWAKENING

Who: Everyone
When: Midnight, July 7th
Where: Green Valley School
What: It is time

THE CURTAIN FALLS

Earlier that day, the Navigators' message echo in the minds of Awakened and soon-to-be-Awakened alike.They are being hunted and they need to come together if they are to survive. They must get to the school at all costs...

Perhaps some might think back to horror movies, but for those who chose not to follow the warnings, a feeling of dread will begin to overtake them as the sun goes down until finally they hear an echoing annoyed sigh inside their head.

Seriously, this is not the time to kid around! You want others around you to die? Get going!

If they still chose not to go, they'll quickly find that their muscles are forced to act on their own and they make their way to the school as well with only an hour to spare. The target, a corridor in a wing of the school, is one of many and mostly empty at this time of year. Only a few people move between groups, casting a few confused whispers but ignoring them for the most part.

The phone's countdown continues to tick until the next day. It appears that Luci is still working on getting the network free of whatever is causing this problem for them in the first place, so all they have is the ability to speak to each other telepathically with the help of the Navigators...but perhaps they won't realize that the Navigators can hear everything that they think...and sometimes some thoughts might just leak out...

Whatever's causing this, they'll quickly realize once night falls that we're here. You guys better be prepared...this is it, lambs. Live free or die hard."

It's going to be a long hour inside the corridor.

THE SHADOWS RISE

At exactly 24 hours left to spare on their phone's countdown, all of the lights in the school go out. Anyone who is not Awakened becomes stone statues, unmoving, while the area around them begins to shift and change. The windows shrink to sizes impossible for a human to pass through, cracking as dark mist fills the area around them.

If they walk into the mist, they'll quickly find that they reappear at the end of the corridor, essentially stuck in a loop in a particular area of the school.

They move fast. Looks like they've already trapped you in here...

There’s a terrifying sound of scuttling feet, of a thousand legs moving in the corridors, in the pipes, in the walls and in the ground, as the tiles part like water before they rise above it. In this state, the world doesn't seem to play by the rules, and without the application to give them data, it's impossible to see what's going on...at least until the Shadows reveal themselves.

They look like giant rats, nearly half the size of a full grown human, they are unlike anything they fought before.

I ̧s͢ee ͡you. ̡Í ͢see ̢y͞ơu̕ a̧l̛l̷...̢h̡eh ̵he͞h͠ H͘AHA҉H̨AHA̵HAHA!̨

As their eyes glow in the dark, mist pours from their bodies constantly, causing the area around them to shift and move . The wallpaper begins to move, the portraits on the walls become corpses, and the lockers begin to grow metal teeth, attempting to pull them inside. The ceiling rises until it's impossible to see. If they are pulled in, they will find themselves thrown out in another part of the corridor, from the ceiling to the ground, or out of a portrait into the other wall - anything to give them significant damage. The school is like a giant, living entity that wants them to die...

Awakened will find themselves in their changed clothes, their magical skills and Persona at their fingertips once more.

However, the Shadows’ targets seem to be the Navigators first...Awakened or not, it does not seem to matter. The Shadows will not ignore Combatants should they chose to fight them, but the rats move towards the Navigators and school's lockers will try to grab them to keep them inside. It seems whatever is after them wishes to destroy the only advantage the group has in battle.

When the Shadows speak, they echo together.

W͏h̸y fi̶gh̵t̸?̴ ͡I͢gno͟r̵ąnce͏ i͠s͢ b̷lis̨s.̷.͞.͝so͏o̶n ̶de̢at͝h w͘ill͝ e̶n͏ve͞l͏ope̕ ̶you͘.̸ Do̡ņ'̕t ͘str̵u̢ģg̨l҉e̡.

And the Combatants will soon learn how difficult it is to fight these pests.

[OOC: For this prompt, the Awakened will have access to their skills, and the Unawakened will need to be helped out. Additional notes can be found in the OOC part below]
AWAKENING

Even the Awakened can't continue this fight alone. They've already had many of their numbers disappear lately...they need reinforcements. With the Shadows giving them so much trouble, help is needed.

And so, a voice echoes inside the Combatants. Their hearts begin to glow, and the rats hiss backwards from the light. A voice will echo inside of their head...

The time is now. I am thou, thou art I! Your mind is trapped, but I can set your soul free! My other self, will you die, or fight back?

Accept me for who I am! Forge this contract by letting go of your fears! Revolt against this world, and TEAR OUT YOUR HEART!


The Navigators, on the other hand...their inner voice is softer. There is knowledge, and they'll need to stay calm if they are to control this chaotic battlefield.

The time is now. I am thou, thou art I! Your mind is trapped, but I can set your soul free! My other self, your soul already knows part the truth.

My other self, shall we show them what it means to cross us? Let us finish forging this contract by letting go of your fears! Revolt against this world, and TEAR OUT YOUR HEART!


The shadow rats scream together in anger.

No! NO NO NO NO ! You're not supposed to Awaken! Stay asleep! You aren't
supposed to awaken! STOP IT! STOP THEM! K̢I͏L͡L!͜ CR̨US̡H҉! ͘D͘ESTR̛OY͘!

The beasts' forms become more chaotic - additional legs on some rats, larger heads and tails on others, gigantic teeth on some, and they begin to match the pattern of the corridor - there's no guessing at what they can do.

Good thing you've got a few of you who can help out with that…

You've only got one shot at this! If you get it angry enough, it will show us its true form instead of this vermin bullshit!

Luci doesn't sound happy.

OOC
Everyone is able to speak to each together thanks to the Navigator's telepathic abilities (but always keep in mind that any Navigator can hear you even if you try to speak to just someone else).

For now, characters can only use single spells. The boss battle will unlock the teaming up skills.

The lockers that grab a character will throw them out as mentioned in the prompts and will additionally deal DARK damage and may confuse users, causing them to see other users as the enemy. They will need to be healed by any of the dispell spells to cure them.

The Rat Shadows only have 1 HP and attack with physical spells which can poison about 1/4 times (or more if you want to poison your character), HOWEVER they will be constantly going from Fire, Ice, Wind, Electrical, Nuclear, Psy, Dark, Light, Physical and Gun in that order, and switch constantly as to not be hit.

Only Navigators will know when the time to hit them is correct for your character, so make sure to aid them as much as possible! Navigators have also been given additional data regarding how the Shadow rats move and what spells can cause one hit-Kos or what spells can be used against them, so when it doubt, tag it out and see if it hits! There are over a thousand of them, and, as mentioned in the prompts, the school itself is also alive, so feel free to make this as terrifying for your characters as you wish.

An OOC PLANNING POST can be used to ask questions or to form teams.



kokuyoyo: (Apparently I kept telling people I was)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-07-16 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Weapons are probably a give away- ours are a little different than combatants.

[Trust him, as someone who's had the opportunity to take a nice long damn look. Another crossbow bolt goes sailing to discourage another rat, although not get rid of it- not the right element yet.]

There might be something else as well. When I first ran into you, there was an arrow over your head- Luci may have done something. In the same manner, maybe these can sense giveaways we don't know about yet.

[A locker attempts to grab Astaroth- and Chikusa, wrapped up in the snake's coils, by extension- and the Persona twists its body to avoid it which Chikusa follows without much movement. There's just the adjustment of his crossbow.]

It could be smell, a special kind of sight, or something else entirely, but I don't think we have the resources to figure out what exactly.
failedhandjob: (and all the little fairies dance)

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-07-18 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
An arrow..?

[now is hardly the time to be thinking of it, but with her mind so raw there's little Reimi can do to keep the memories from flowing in unbidden. Kira's father, Okuyasu's brother...all bearers of arrows which had pulled darkness even further down upon Morioh.

Orias sends away the rat that lunges towards her in her momentary lapse of awareness with a resounding slap, the sound enough to bring her back to the present. this was Eddan, not Morioh. she had to protect the people who were here.

a pack of rats clatter out of a nearby portrait and she moves on instinct, casting a spell whose name still feels foreign on her tongue. they slow almost instantly, making for much easier targets to simply sidestep.]


I wish that we could. At least that way we could start confusing them a little bit.
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-07-21 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[A way to confuse them would sure be nice, but what way.... Ah. Something occurs to him.]

Do you know what element you are?

[The simplest way to ask the question.]
failedhandjob: (with a paintbrush)

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-07-22 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Um...

[the question would be odd in normal circumstances, and Reimi's mind, still sore from awakening, doesn't immediately grasp it. she's been running off of instinct for most of those, so something specific like that takes her a moment.

just the one brief moment, though. it's an answer that her persona knows quite well - and they are one and the same, after all. if not for her psychic noise of hesitation, her follow-up response would appear quite timely.]


Light.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-07-23 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Rat on the right, wall above the painting. Should become vulnerable to that soon.

[Meanwhile, Chikusa takes out another rat through the throng, right as it switches to Psychic.]

If there was a Navigator with every type, we'd be better prepared for this kind of thing...
failedhandjob: (with a paintbrush)

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-07-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, thanks.

[she waits some predetermined length of time, the duration of which only her subconsciousness currently understands, before firing off her persona element at the aforementioned rat. it dies with a single anguished squeal, and she can't help but feel a small prick of grim satisfaction. served it right.]

That'd be a little too convenient, though, don't you think?

[for everyone to be completely prepared, ready and waiting for any twist or turn...it just didn't work that way.]
kokuyoyo: (Woke up with a squirrel in my bed.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-07-31 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
With how much we don't know anything about what's going on besides the bare minimum, I wouldn't mind convenience.

[Another bolt shot.]

Have you met any combatants to watch over you?