EVENT LOG 004

[larkers]

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: The dreams.
WHEN: Starts October 12
WHAT: The displaced are put to sleep.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: Violence, themes of death, gore.

> EVENT LOG #004

There is a version of reality where the displaced don't go to sleep. There are news reports where New Johannesburg lies in ruins like New Tokyo, like how New Amsterdam nearly did. This is a world where the worst keeps happening, and the foundations of the world lay in ruin. Chaos begins to lay waste to human civilization as the people of Earth begin to pressure the people of the colonies to work faster to terraform the planets so that they can have somewhere more acceptable to live. After all, the world is visibly dying around them, and the people of the colonies are supposed to provide them with the promised land.

There is a version of reality where the displaced do sleep, and that world goes on just the same. Will this be that version? Or will they set things in a different way?

For now, there are things to see – pressing matters, and an opportunity to finally see one another. Truly, in the most raw way possible. Revealed without anything obscuring that in a world where falsehoods and fears seem more real than truth.

> THE UNDERWORLD

You don't remember taking the dive or being near water. Movement is difficult, like a wheel trying to move from the mud. The pressure is overwhelming, pressing against your skin, your chest, your head. The air is thick, the pressure stifling; there's something deep in your gut that feels as if you're being undone from the inside, both physically and mentally. It doesn't subside, nor does it become tolerable, but you can ignore it in spurts in order to make sense of the world around you.

Where you are feels claustrophobic and lifeless – unnatural forms raise off in the distance, expanding in unique, abstract statues. From where you stand, you can't quite make out what these are, but they're shaped like obelisks. Even if there are no tangible walls, there is an emptiness that feeds into the claustrophobia – your footsteps are silent, and your movements flow like you're underwater. There's an echo far off, like the lurching, final call of a dying animal. Here, there is a harrowing feeling, one that buzzes in the back of your brain that there may be someone watching you.

Off in the distance, there is a light – bioluminescent in nature, coaxing you forward. The light grants you just enough vision for you to see the floating bits and pieces of dull blue debris, twisting in suffocation like faceless creatures beneath the harshness of the light. Soon, an outline of a person will brush past you, stop and stutter in their footsteps, before ending up behind you again.

At the heart of this – since it seems as if there should be a heart – there is a spear with a sharp metal head on a shaft beginning to get dragged into the ground by long, white roots, as if they were trying to swallow it down into the mud. On the edge of the head sits four copper and gray birds, their song piercing.

> THE FACILITY

◉ Dim lights coax the PCs further, but they'll find that much of their surroundings have been buried by a different form of life. The obelisks are covered in coral and barnacles that have formed in this otherwise lifeless place. They flow together, a red and white shapeless lump that conceals whatever was beneath it at one point.

◉ Where there were once large, metal pillars helping the facility withstand the immense water pressure, they're now abstract lifeforms that exist on their own. There are some stretches where it's obvious why the barnacles have latched on here, as they intently feed upon the remains of human life that were splattered there before.

◉ The overall feeling of the facility is oppressive and the pressure makes it difficult to move; even though it's a dream, it's hard to breathe. There's a constant feeling of something ripping away at their sense of self that will begin to impact their physical and mental state. Since it's a dream, time is nebulous; your character can be impacted from the start, or it can be gradual. They can be affected by either – or both!

◈ Physical effects include a headache much like the feeling of a driving spike in the temples, so painful that it becomes difficult for them to orient themselves. It's followed by bleeding from the nose, mouth, ears, and/or eyes.
◈ Mental effects include an eerie calmness that has strong feelings of detachment from emotions and body, along with a dissociation from themselves. This can be followed by strong bouts of overwhelming anxiety that cause irritation, rage or a prevailing feeling of desolation with no cause. These can come at interchangeable increments, or as one or the other.

◉ The spear with a sharp metal head on a shaft rooted to the ground will not move. Touching it causes a sharp feeling that cuts through the mind of anyone near it.

◉ Eventually the characters may find themselves standing in a cold room surrounded by the specters. A sharp, acrid smell pierces through the room. The specters range from nearly fully translucent to somewhat corporeal. They're dressed in nicely pressed lab coats with their names stitched on. These names aren't legible, blurring together and causing vertigo for anyone who tries to identify them. They repeat the same phrases in cracked, desperate voices, no matter who tries to speak with them.

◈ "What have we done? This is what we deserve for trying to be gods."
◈ "What we're witnessing is the height of human achievement. There's no turning back now!"
◈ "It was all a lie. They promised us everything, promised a better world for us!"
◈ "How can I face my son now? How can I? Forgive me, forgive me. If you ever learn about what we've done here, please … please forgive me."
◈ "Torn apart. My insides are all being torn apart!"
◈ "Why are you here? You shouldn't be here!"

◉ Dense clusters of unusual, deep sea fish and creatures swim around, all of them red in nature. They're likely unnoticeable at first. The specters and distant lights are more likely to draw the eye. Yet these creatures are on the edge of everything, feeding on what lives there now – and what may have been there before.

◉ Should anyone walk too far, they'll find themselves standing on a cliff's edge, peering downward. Malevolence wafts upward – anger, as well as the sense that anyone might be dragged down for eternity. This is a live grave. Anyone who risks jumping in will be forcibly tossed out of this part of the dreamscape. Wherever they end up next, they'll find themselves suffering from a great deal of nausea.

> THE CITYSCAPE

The sky overhead is gray and where they arrive is nebulous by definition. The ground is made up completely of limestone that paves the entirety of the city, and there are hints of days gone by visible as imprints in the fossilized stone: leaves, skeletons of birds, stones, and more.

The paths through the cities are rigid and linear, rows of different streets, set up tidily like New Amsterdam. None of the landmarks are the same: none of the districts maintain their typical appearance, instead replaced by a strange contradiction of familiarity and confusion.

There is a wealth of pathways for the characters to take. Each of these pathways are filled with buildings lining them, many shapeless and formless – a good number of them lack windows, as if incomplete in their imagining.

> CORPORATE INTERESTS

◉ As characters head toward what should be the financial district, they'll find a series of towering buildings. They aren't unlike the corporate buildings in New Amsterdam, but they're unique and fused together. A single skybridge hangs overhead, connecting Vyonation, Pulsar, and Giles Bell. There's an additional skybridge that connects each of these corporations to city hall and the governor's office.

◉ There are familiar faces in these offices, but they may not be where someone thinks they belong. Aoi Maeda drinks coffee in an office in Vyonation while numerous people surround her, waiting on her hand and foot; Jose Mercado mops up messes at Giles Bell, dressed in a janitorial outfit. Governor Lydia Gill-Jade walks about everywhere – but it's never just one of her. There are many of her, standing in office doorways, waiting for her barking orders. She never seems to have a mind of her own, repeating the same words to herself. If someone draws closer, the words will sound like the beginning of a speech, yet never make sense.

◉ Time isn't linear here, as being inside the buildings seems to accelerate the schedule outside. Once someone leaves, however, the depiction of the day outside will revert to what it was before someone stepped inside.

◉ There is no server access in any of these buildings. Technology is surface level – manifesting in a distant way, as if someone hopes to paint a picture but can't show the finer details.

◉ The monsters can attack in this section, but they can't impact it permanently. The buildings and people will persist even if the monsters destroy them. The people will remain right where they were even as the monsters attempt to ravage them. If the larger monster is led toward these buildings, they will recover simultaneously like someone hit a reset button.

◉ The potential safehouse coffee shop is here, as well. Though it's far less dramatic than the fusion of major corporate powers, the building itself is covered in vines. They don't look as if they belong to coffee plants, but on closer inspection, the flowers themselves provide beans. Upon retrieving a seed, however, it'll disintegrate in the hand of the holder. The interior is also covered in vines, with a path inside that leads deep into the underground portion of the city.

◉ While technology isn't on the same level, many of these buildings' insides will be inspired by the world as it's known to the characters themselves. Seeking out a specific person or their office isn't impossible – it just requires more guesswork and trial and error as individuals are seemingly displaced from their corporate branding.

> BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

◉ Several streets north, there is a large open square, filled with yet another festival: this one with people dressed in unusual garb with various different logos. On closer inspection, these are all sports fans, tailgating for an upcoming event. A large stadium looms off within reach, announcing the day's events on a large, scrolling monitor. Never mind the anachronistic nature of a monitor – surely it makes sense to someone, doesn't it?

◉ These fans rally around while talking about their favorite Vestica star athlete. Whatever the sports event is, there is a sense that it is somehow more glamorous than any current sport outside of the dream. In fact, today is meant to be the grand finals: a place for the different Vestica athletes to come together and show their worth. The information on the scrolling monitor details a number of different sporting events about to go down: Rugby ("Recalling the Sporting Past of Johannesburg"), a FPS competition featuring Overstrike Aeon ("Come see the best aim that our pilots have to offer!"), a timed raid in Planet of Battleforge ("See teamwork come together!") and a traditional decathlon ("Never forget the accomplishments of past Olympians!").

◉ Whether these events are an actual finals or a great exhibition of talent is unclear. There is no opposing team; there are no answers about this, either. Further investigation only leads to the impression that the Vestica athletes will win regardless of their efforts within the stadium.

◉ On the other side of the square, there is a large building, not unlike the 109 Building in Shibuya today. A large screen runs down the front of the building announcing what the various characters are doing in the world. Visiting Jose Mercado? Eating coffee beans off a vine? It seems that someone is tracking everyone's every movement. View of this building is limited to this section of the city.

◉ The base portion of this building opens up to a sports bar that appeals to the sensibilities of the displaced. There are numerous monitors that reveal the characters in action around the dreamscapes. The screens show other dreams, though the images on these cut in and out.

◉ Sound from this square reaches other parts of the city. While the sporting exhibition, whatever it might be, never seems to start, there is a rush of sound and noise elsewhere in the city. People screaming, shouts, booming beats with loud sports anthems (modern and old), as well as the cacophonous sound of vuvuzelas.

> A BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE

◉ If characters follow the river, they'll find that its mouth opens into a large, endless body of water. The entire area appears to be a large port – except an extremely unusual one, as the "docks" are glowing bridges reaching up into the gray, murky distance, reminiscent of aspects of the very first dream in the arrival log. For anyone who didn't experience that particular dream, there will be a sense of déjà vu, as if they've been here before.

◉ One of the bridges leads to a building for New Johannesburg Space Transit. There is a window for ticket sales, even if it's wrong and anachronistic. There is no entry into this building: it's locked, and the door is hot to the touch, like access here is barred for some reason.

◉ There is a paper poster on the inside of the ticketing window announcing trips to Pluto. "Come and determine if Pluto is a planet for yourself! Experience the mystical power of the edge of our solar system!"

◉ These bridges branch off on seemingly endless roads, with some ending with bright blue portals. Many of these portals are closed off with an invisible barrier blocking anyone from walking through.

> MONSTER PARTIES

◉ No matter where someone goes, there is always a risk of the monsters causing problems. The largest monster appears to be wherever the characters may be clustering – which means that it's possible to lead it to specific locations should anyone choose.

◉ The monsters are as described:

◈ One is 800m long and appears reptilian, with a tough, scaled hide. It has four legs, one head, and a long tail. Its coloring is dark, but its scales are iridescent, and shine in a rainbow of colors in the light. Its eyes, mouth, and many vein-like cracks along its body glow a bright gold.
◈ The smaller creatures are all roughly 2m in size, all have bright gold eyes, and come in three varieties:

◇ Serpentine creatures with two clawed arms. They move using their strong tails to propel themselves forward at extraordinary speeds and use their claws to climb, hook onto objects, or impale victims.
◇ Dog-like creatures with huge, powerful jaws. Slower moving, they will often track down a victim and hide motionless nearby, lunging out at the perfect moment to attack.
◇ Crab-like creatures with a large shelled back and a row of prehensile tentacles along the upper edge. Able to climb over most obstacles and squeeze themselves through small spaces, they lash out with their tentacles to ensnare and drag their victims to them. The tentacles also carry a venom which causes numbness and paralysis of the affected area for 10 minutes.

◉ There is the sense that these monsters can and should be defeated. While their destruction doesn't affect the financial district, the rest of the city can lay in ruins unless the creatures that have overrun the land have been stopped. They can destroy the stadium, any other seemingly familiar buildings, and even trample over any of the characters in the process. If it's mass destruction that can be caused, it will be caused.

◉ Killing a smaller creature will reveal that any damage they've caused will be undone. Does that mean the same will happen with the larger monster?

> UNDERGROUND CAVE WAYS

◉ Unlike the real New Amsterdam, there isn't an underground portion of the city where people live, instead replaced by a natural system of underground caves. There is the sense that the underground portion of New Amsterdam was once like this before it was corrupted by those with selfish interests throughout the years.

◉ There are numerous paths to the caves underneath the city. They're underneath businesses, through various sewer covers, as well as multiple other similar places. It's not hard to find a way in; someone just has to be inspired to try in the first place. They also connect most of the city to itself.

◉ There are also paths leading outside. One path leads to a forest, dense and humid. But tread carefully here, as the trees themselves are fragile, easily set alight or toppled by human influence. There are other areas that just lead out into water. If someone walks too long, they'll find that they may be sucked underneath. And then there are the ruins: large, deserted wastelands with no hope of life. They stretch for miles, are extremely hot, and offer someone little opportunity for escape. Walk too long, and someone may find themselves wandering forever – or until the dreams themselves are done.

> THE PERSONAL

While there are certainly places to visit, there are also the minds that have an opportunity to be understood with new context. Not every mind will have an open door – but there is a sense that they may be available at another time, in another context. For some, this is the right time and the right context – an opportunity to welcome someone in to see what needs to be seen, felt, and experienced.

> FINAL NOTES

A few final notes for clarification:

Characters transitioning between dreams: This is up to the player! Your character can find themselves in a different dream at any time.

Time: Time in the dreams is non-linear. For instance, your character may arrive in the city and see no sign of a monster attack, or they can arrive smack in the middle of the city being trashed.

World Changes: Refer to the thread below.

Can I assume something is present even if it's not described?: Yes, you absolutely can! It may not impact the world right away, but it definitely will in time. These descriptions are more cursory to give our players a lot to do, as well as highlight what we felt was significant.

I have another question! Where do I ask it?: On the QUESTIONS THREAD on the OOC Event Post. We also intend to keep the FAQ up to date.

Please refer to the OOC EVENT POST for this event for all OOC info, as well as for any additional planning that needs to occur now that the world locations are more obvious. Since this event currently has no set end date, we encourage you to keep planning what might be best or more fun for you. No one is late at this stage, as aspects of the event were still up in the air!

We'll touch base with everyone on MARCH 30 to see where everyone is, and how they feel about things.

As a reminder, there is one power level up available for this event. This will be granted for a thread of at least 5 action/log comments of participation in this event. We originally misspoke that they needed to use their power in the dreamscapes – they do not! They will need to reach the 5 comments required by APRIL 27 to be eligible. Submission will be handled on the wrap up post.

Our Activity Check will be posted on April 1 at 12 AM UTC. It will run for seven days and close on April 8 at 12 AM UTC. We will not post a warning list.

We will also post our April Calendar and accompanying CR meme on that day. If you still have things you'd like to do in your dreamscape, this CR meme should help you supplement your threads in progress!

> NAVIGATION

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WORLD CHANGES

[larkers]

Please comment with any changes to THE UNDERWORLD or THE CITYSCAPE. Any questions should be directed to the OOC Event Post questions thread.

hideki maeda | cityscape

[blyat]

As discussed here and after an IC planning session here, Cain and Prompto will seek out Hideki Maeda at the sports tailgating party and join in with the intent to get closer to him. Cain will mention wanting to intern at Pulsar and being interested in the fighting ring, but when he realizes that's not very effective as an "in," he'll switch to just partying it up and doing shots like one of the bros. He'll also flirt with Hideki. Likewise, Prompto will be genuine and friendly and join in on the partying as well, while trying to connect with Hideki through social media. Prompto and Cain will be pretending not to know each other. They won't stay too long, just enough for all the guys to take pictures of the "shots" competition, and then they'll be on their way without much disruption.

giant shrine | cityscape

[saviorexe]

As Markus and Loki have an interest in building shrines in the real world to catch the attention of/communicate with the mysterious street artist, this intent will carry over to the dream world. Here, they’re going to go all-out, gathering supplies, scaling the side of the Giles Bell building (with the help of Loki’s Seven League boots), and eventually creating a massive shrine that stretches across the surface of the building’s windows. The design will utilize various colors, but its main focus will be two things: a background that depicts the many interlocking circles of the Flower of Life (rendered in different hues of blue), and a giant, nondescript symbolic figure in the center, complete with a glowing blue chest, hands/palms indicating upwards, and looking towards the sky.

Since time is malleable, they can use this to their advantage to get this done without constraint. The thread for this is located here, currently on-going!

dog monster defeat | cityscape

[windowsills]

Sansa and Alex fight three dog creatures and manage to kill two, but the third one escapes. Some buildings, roads, and windows in the area suffer small to moderate damage from Alex/Sansa's power during the fight.

spear | underworld

[blyat]

After returning to the Facility a second time, Cain approached the spear and got the idea to try and remove it. Having touched it once before with Loki, he knew it wouldn't be as straightforward as pulling it out, so he enlisted the help of Fitz and Markus here. They went for an all-out simultaneous attempt -- Markus used a force field to push against the spear, Fitz tried slicing the roots, and Cain used his spatial displacement ability to dislodge the spear without any physical interaction. Markus and Fitz both suffered psychic deaths of excruciating pain and became specters. Cain, on the other hand, experienced a painless/peaceful psychic death and was absorbed into the surrounding environment, feeling at one with the Facility. The spear was not replaced after its removal.

Eventually, Peggy finds the specters of Markus and Fitz and teams up with both Riku and Sora to help bring them back. Fitz is first, and they all coordinate a plan to revive Markus and Cain shortly after. This is taking place here and is currently on-going.

spear | underworld

[selfimage]

In order to keep outside forces from messing with it, Loki will be placing protection runes around it. The intention is to keep it safe with some kind of barrier, he's got just a hint of concern.

monsters | cityscape

[secondnature]

Thanks to Keith's makeshift Team Voltron, some C4 from Jason, and Thor's awesomeness, they're able to take down the giant monster! It's just a big battle, like what you'd expect between explosions, Voltron, and so forth.

Keith will also be taking down any monster he sees along the way. He has a sword as well as his giant blaster that's like the size of him that can take out multiple smaller monsters at once.

general | underworld

[retravel]

Fitz cut into a lot of barnacles and coral, despite the pain, to find those neat-o human remains. Once underneath the outer layer, he opened the remains, causing them to ooze puss, and then went deeper to release the blood. Jyn also used her hydrokinesis to help him get a clearer look at the mass of flesh but did not participate in mutilating the walls, bless her.

general | the cityscape

[selfimage]

In the open square:

• Jughead will be filling the square with revolutionary messages, including one that says wake up, and others of the like. He'll be replacing any company logos with messages of you have been brainwashed, and various other melodramatic revolutionary taglines.
  
  
• Loki, Billy, Stephen, Sora and Riku will be performing a spell together in city square to use as what Loki will refer to as a "point of power." The intention for this spell is to allow the power that flows through the "dream world" into the "real world" (though Loki will make a snappy comment about how it's hard to tell which one is "real").

In the corporate bridge:

• Billy and Loki will be seeking out a corporate office in [what Loki hopes is] Pulsar. It will be a semi-high level office (closer to mid) with a large window. They'll be casting spells and making it Loki's, including things like "hanging up his jacket" and writing his name in runes on the desk.

new johannesburg station

[preceded]

as threaded over here.

- dick scratched off one of the brighter coloured dots (i didn't want to assume- but if there's something like neon green on here, we'll go with that. or a bright yellow). just one- he was mostly seeing if it would come off and if there was something beneath- so he didn't bother with the others.

- dick rifled through some of the posters and when he realized they were just selling space vacations, he left them as they were- definitely messy and looked through, but not damaged or removed entirely.

- fitz the mad scientist however, organized the posters- and took two of mars. they later made their way to the safehouse located in the dream and hung up.

- fitz also decided to lick his thumb and smear a red and blue dot that were side by side on the board and half erase them/smudge them into a spotty purple

and then they abandoned ship

the cityscape | corporate stuff

[strove]

Clarke is going to go in and do a couple things:

• She's going to find a lab coat and sew in her name so that she can be seen as a member of Giles Bell, or at least get an in to get a job there once she's awake.

• She'll write, with paint on a wall near the entrance, "Did we cause the monsters? Is it our fault? Many people believe this is the case." Even if it's not the case, she wants to change things up and cause some havoc. Sniper and Clarke will draw little monsters with logos from each of the big three corporations on them, as if to suggest that they have branded/made them.

• As she wanders in deeper, she will find one of the Important Looking corporate people and draw them into a closet and user her power on them, trying to experiment with the different ways it goes. While this is cruel, she won't kill them. Primarily, she's trying to see what her power can do at this point while using someone who can be determined to be "bad" as far as she can tell. As one of her potential power branches, she will give them back their energy to some degree so they wake up soon (since she'll likely knock them out fairly quickly).

cityscape | general

[secondnature]

Keith and Rey are going to run around and leave up pro-Morningstar propaganda. Some of it will say, "Thank you for saving us from the monsters, Morningstar!" None of it will be with the assumption of making people like Morningstar. No, it will be with the idea that people already do. They'll also make the event in the arena "sponsored" by Morningstar by putting up haphazard paintings and things on the wall. "Brought to you by Morningstar." Keith will draw some cute Morningstar advertisements for action figures, too, as well as a cartoon!

Some of it will definitely include some wording like "everyone wants to join the Morningstar Resistance Coalition! Look at how happy we are." Cheesy stuff.

smaller monsters

[inherited]

Riku will use his keyblade and darkness transmutation (without fully realizing that's what he does when he reaches into a shadow, turning it into a large fireball) to take out a good number of monsters around the city!

the wasteland | cityscape

[revlon]

Peggy and Fitz were dumped in the desert wasteland beyond the city limits via his portal ability after escaping the personal dreamscapes. Whilst wandering beyond the ruins (including the remnants of Big Ben), they literally stumbled into a half-buried apartment building as outlined here. These are the things they did after getting inside:

• Smashed a window to get into the half-buried apartment building they discovered in the desert; it led them into a child's bedroom.
• Peggy stepped on a toy soldier when she climbed inside, but didn't damage it. Fitz picked up that same toy and after assessing its electronics had been fried, fixed it with his multitool just enough so it could walk again. He left it in the child’s bedroom, safe on a shelf.
• Peggy tried and failed to turn on the broken tablet she found in the same bedroom; they took it out with them and left it on the dining table.
• Peggy found a broken picture frame facedown on the floor and opened it up to pull out the photo of a nanny android. The picture is torn, implying the child was in the missing half. She put it back in the frame before setting it upright on the bedside table (also in the child’s room).
• Fitz opened up the nanny android in the hallway and noticed the Xelkov branding; he tried and failed to repair her despite knowing she was irreparably damaged by the EMP. They both decided to give her a burial beneath the apartment and carved her serial number into the floorboards.
• In the next apartment: Peggy tore out the article in the science magazine detailing the loss and sacrifice of North America in World War III and pocketed it.
• Fitz dropped another science magazine (detailing the impact of global warming on the ice caps and coastal flooding in the UK) into the floodwaters overtaking the abandoned apartment building.

The log is here for reference and is complete!

Monsters | cityscape

[ofmyth]

Thor, in addition to helping fight the big monster, is spending 100% of his time fighting the little monsters. Like he will just keep going until all the monsters are gone. He's working mostly on his own, but with whoever is around when someone else is nearby and fighting (like Bobbi Morse).

Because of wonderful dream powers he's dressed up in his snazzy armour, and has been using his original weather powers to start with, along with a dream Mjolnir, but by the end he's using his highest tier in-game powers which involves calling lightning out of the sky to zap his enemies.

The Cityscape

[deicider]

Sniper used Charm to make the four spear-birds form the Underworld follow them around. They left the birds in the following locations:

1. Their apartment
2. The safehouse
3. The stadium
4. City hall

Sniper and Peggy defeated a claw monster near City Hall

Sniper and Alex broke into the stadium and did the following:

The plan is Alex and Sniper will break into the stadium using a back entrance (Sniper being an athlete would give them a good instinct for finding one) and then bluff their way past any security by "posing" as the entertainment. Sniper will convince Alex to actually go out on stage, and use the cover of her singing to position themself to make a grand entrance. As the "game" starts, they will declare themself captain of a rival team of pilots, and whip out a charismatic villain speech about the conflict-driven nature of human kind.

Let's say the sport is anime fencing. Round one between Sniper (black) and Red to a backdrop of soulful lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYw0XPEoKE

As the dramatic finale, the beautiful songstress is revealed to be working for the villain team as well, and another round of combat ensues between Alex and another pilot.

Alex and Sniper totally win, for dramatic tension.

The Underworld

[deicider]

Sniper removed the four birds from the spear via Charm and took them to the city.

general | cityscape

[saviorexe]

—Markus and Laura visited the coffee shop covered with vines. Laura tore off a swath of vines covering the entrance so that they could enter; they both poked around inside. Markus probably plucked a flower or two, and pocketed a few coffee beans.

—Ardyn and Ignis got into a huge physical fight during a tailgating party near the Stadium in front of a large amount of people. They used their canon powers/magic and didn’t hold back, with the clear intent to kill each other or at least do some serious damage. They wrecked a few nearby vehicles (hover bikes) as a result during the fight.

—Ardyn and Prompto explored the financial district together. Ardyn used his canon powers to “absorb” many copies of the mayor, which led to him receiving some manner of authority in the area. They found they were free to wander into corporate buildings and executive offices with little to no trouble. Ardyn used the excuse that Prompto was his nephew coming to check out the inner workings of business to drag him along. Each executive room seemed to be similar and offering different luxuries — the both of them took advantage of all the REAL MEAT, eating sausages to their hearts content. Ardyn made sure to leave meat in strange places on his way out (light fixtures, drawers, a trail along the floor, thrown out the windows, etc.) before departing. On the way out, he also attempted to absorb Maeda; there was no affect, as if she was already corrupt and not further corruptible.

jose mercado | cityscape

[retravel]

While Johnny Jaqobis distracted Jose Mercado, Fitz stole his janitorial supplies/cart/etc., tidied some offices, and then hid all of Jose's supplies behind a locked door using his portal powers.

(will link as thread progresses there/am happy to go more detailed if needed!)

cityscape, monsters

[evite]

— daisy & jon defeated multiple smaller monsters with the help of jon's direwolf ghost. they also went to the wall and noticed there was nothing beyond it.
— daisy & prompto went after monsters attacking people in the city, including a family with small children.
— daisy & jyn defeated multiple smaller monsters utilizing their abilities & daisy's shock stick (developed with kylo during the raid).

— also, daisy & jyn went on an apartment hunting spree through some of the fancier buildings in the financial district, deciding to make the most of the rumor that dreams can impact reality by solving some of their own personal problems. they broke into a building, found an apartment that they really liked, busted down the door, and raided the pantry. before they left, they carved their names into the nameplate by the door, and crossed out the names of the original residents.

smaller monsters | cityscape

[thwipandrelease]

In the right place this time.

Peter isn't really one to kill things typically, but has instead left a number of conveniently wrapped monsters throughout the city.

The one notable exception is the doglike creature that he will be taking down with Kovacs. The in-progress thread is here

monsters and coworkers | cityscape

[covertness]

bobbi and fitz killed some 10-15 of the small monsters together, also saving some of bobbi's giles bell coworkers (and at least one supervisor) in the process.

[laozu]

Billy and Wei Wuxian collaborated here to take care of a few "fun" matters. The culmination of their conversation ( which hasn't been written out fully YET but was discussed OOCly by myself and Jessi here! ) -- Billy uses his magic to create posters and other icons of "Xuanyu Mo" and spreads them around the city to get his name out there in exchange for Wei Wuxian's promise to use his presence to support Billy/Tommy as influencers. He then "re-"debuts at the Square and rocks it, this time with an identifiable presence - thanks dream-time shenanigans!

spear | underworld

[forcevisions]

Rey and Kylo used their Force telekinesis to remove the spear, and were thus absorbed by the coral and sucked into the wound in the facility, where they felt a profound sense of belonging and remained until experiencing a psychic death that pushed them into a strange Star Wars dreamscape, from which they were saved by Daisy Johnson.

wasteland | cityscape

[blyat]

Cain and Deimos will be exploring the wasteland beyond the city limits via the underground caves. They specifically explore the ruins of Big Ben, where they come across several water-damaged posters on warnings, food restrictions, and other evidence of what happened to the United Kingdom.

After poking around for a while, they decide to loot a few of the posters in salvageable condition and bring them back to the city. These posters are eventually discarded in random places, some in trash cans, some left on outside restaurant tables, etc. Deimos pockets a poster about imported spirits/beer restrictions and Cain keeps one on unsafe rain conditions.