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cordibus ([personal profile] cordibus) wrote in [community profile] tornheart2017-06-04 12:28 am

AWAKENING

Who: Everyone
When: Midnight, June 6th
Where: Green Valley Orchids
What: It is time.

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

The subway stop near the orchards was not the type of place that most people liked to be when darkness fell. The orchards near the school were set up almost like a public park, which wasn’t so bad in and of itself, but it’s also the area where over half of the murders happened before the curfew was first put in place. It was a place people didn't go unless absolutely necessary and most had started taking alternate routes to avoid the stop. As one of the first subway stations built in the city, its architecture didn't really mesh with those that came after it. It had jagged corners where the smell of wet earth lingered, making it unpleasant even for those brave enough to continue to use it, and there had even been talk of closing it permanently once routes and nearby stations had been revamped to be better able to take care of the traffic.

Due to this, it only has the bare-bones of a shelter, fallen into disrepair as the curfew was enforced city-wide, and a couple of night guards, (probably already asleep due to the lack of activity they’re expecting), so characters arriving there will be mostly unnoticed. For a place that had such a bad history, most people rightfully avoid it.

For most of them it will be their first meeting with each other. There will be a bit of time to talk before their phones display a zero. Plenty of time to talk about what they suspect and what might just happen...and that horrible vision they had shared. Then there’s that countdown on their phones...ticking away the last few minutes.
ZERO UNTIL MIDNIGHT
The lights go out when the countdown ends. The lack of sound is, for lack of better word, worrying. Very soon, only the light of the phones serves as makeshift flashlights for the small group. But soon, even as words get displayed, a deep male voice echoes, which could be much more worrying.

FINALLY! Ahahahahah! Ahhh, damn does it feel nice to be able to speak and not
just write. Hey lambs, are you all ready?

Considering the choice of words, that might be Luci.

It's time. Can you feel your heartbeats increasing? Your mind about to explode? Questions swirling in your mind? Just make sure you don't go alone. Groups are
best, go all together and you'll never find the answers.

The voice laughs again.

Not that you have much of a choice at this point! Have fun, give them hell, and tell
them I sent you! I'll be taking care of that pesky guard problem for you.
...Let's go for a night stroll."
Communication ends just as abruptly as it started. No time to back down now, as the door where the guards are staying is quickly locked on its own before the subway system itself appears to be taken over by a virus that flashes on every available screen. With a click, the locked doors to the outside are swung open.

A voice in your mind warns you this might be the biggest mistake you'll be making in your entire life...and yet your heart feels like it's going to burst from your body from the joy you feel...

AWAKENING

It begins with a scream nearby. The same noise that they heard during the vision. The trees begin to turn grey as the sounds of hundred of creatures moving can be heard from all sides. The application opens, displaying them all in real time.

The group is surrounded.

By all logic, they should be running, but their legs feel bolted to the ground. They can't move.

The creatures begin to get closer. The trees start to rot nearby.

Breathing begins to increase. The sound of voices and memories quickly flashing before their eyes that might cause some to clutch at their head...exactly the same thing that the man had been doing back in the vision. If they look down at their hands, they will see them fading, see-through.

Yet for them, something is different. Just as the creatures are about to attack, they stop. A vision of the Velvet Room flashes before the eyes of those gathered as the two attendants silently nod. Then a return to reality as a light of color pierces the night from their hearts. A single voice can be heard, drowning out anything they might be hearing.
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!



It laughs and fades, as time quickly returns to this world. There's only a few seconds to react before it all goes to hell. A faded hand to reach into your chest.

The choice is yours. Death...or Awakening.
THE BATTLE IN APPLE GROVE


It’s a feeling unlike they have ever felt. Never have their bodies been so alive. Their minds fill with lost memories, their bodies adapting into tools to defeat the creatures before them.

Defeat...destroy...unlock the skills of your heart and show them what it means
to cross you."

The voice is encouraging, almost. To those with navigator skills, the voice speaks up once more as well.

Lead them into battle. Hone their skills into true annihilation!"

It’s time to reclaim the night.

[OOC: For the purpose of this battle, the shadows all have 1HP and are strong against nothing. That means any attack will be able to kill them, weapons and guns included. For this log only, CHARACTERS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMBINE SPELLS, as knowledge of this will be unlocked later on. There are about a HUNDRED shadows to be defeated, so there are as many needed for your characters to enjoy killing off. You are free to NPC them and to create situations and close calls.

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



[personal profile] dendranthema 2017-06-05 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
He fully stands up - and now the last of the changes are clear, his appearance that of someone barely out of their teens rather than that of a father.

He moves to slice at a monster headed towards Asher(?), wielding the crystalline sword with a too-practiced hand. Another one headed towards them turns darker than black when he turns his blade toward it, as if beset by the night, and it too melts away.
connivingbird: (time to burn)

[personal profile] connivingbird 2017-06-05 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
He didn't notice the differences in either of them. Rather he didn't see why others would make a big deal of such things. They still had the right amount of limbs, the right amount of eyes, there was still a heart beating in them. Ankh never been much to really pay attention to a lot of things especially when they weren't his humans, and even though he had the human memories they weren't him.

The shadows were shifting, some moving closer becoming more tooth and nails while others falling back. Ankh snorted at the stupidity and called to his fire, tossing a small ball at the group in the back. It wasn't as strong as what he was use to, but that he would exaim later. For now, he had other things to take care of.

Just a few more left then we can take a break.
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[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-05 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
He counters another shadow's attack with a swipe of his blade, but this time as the space in front of him clears, he catches sight of his (not his) father on the other side of it, and finally gets a good look at him. How much younger he looks, and how... inhuman. He must have changed when Asher's clothes and weapons had, but between the darkness and the confusion of everything he hadn't really noticed until just now. It's enough to throw him off and make him just stop and stare for a second, failing to notice the shadow approaching him from the side.

[personal profile] dendranthema 2017-06-05 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
The distracted stare is disconcerting. There shouldn't be a reason for that, in the middle of fighting these monsters (but no, no he knows all too well what the reason for that is, doesn't he...). Out of the corner of his eye, he notices the shadow approaching from Asher's side.

"Asher!"

Watch out, but instead of wasting time and breath on more words, he gestures at the shadow, freezing and shattering it. It was the last shadow in the immediate vicinity, the other groups swiftly dealing with the rest.
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[personal profile] connivingbird 2017-06-07 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

"Tch and not a single Medal from these things. What a waste."

He was rapidly losing hold on the human life without the anchoring force of a human's soul. It had always made him wonder, those few times when he dozed and felt the swirling thoughts of Shingo, if it was the human or if it was him that felt loyalty towards Eiji and his fellows. At first he had thought it was Shingo's will bleeding over, but as time continued, he knew that Shingo might had gave him a glimpse into humanity but Ankh took the final steps to accept what they gave him. This time he wondered what would happen next. These two were suppose to be family, but would it remain that way? Or would their new states drive them away?

"looks like we now have answers to what those questions on that app were giving us."
lovelledup: (pic#11333317)

[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-07 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
The shout of his name--or a name that he thought was his until now--snaps him out of staring, and he looks to the side just in time to see the last shadow shatter in shards of ice. For a moment he only stares at the space where it had been, cursing his own inattentiveness. Still weak. Some part of him still wants to believe that this life he's had here is right, because it's better, but that snap reaction to a mistake, that need to be better and stronger, is too real.

He finally turns back at the other two, looking between them, bewildered. They're familiar and foreign at the same time, and he's not sure what to make of it. Now that he has a chance to think, it's only more confusing.