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Jun 28, 2015 1:23:04 GMT -5
Post by KITTEN on Jun 28, 2015 1:23:04 GMT -5
Midday sky a swirling gradient of gray. Rain is promised in the harsh wind that blow cold and damp over bodies littering a blood splattered ground. A child wails over his mother’s lifeless body, the only break in the shocked silence hanging over the devastation. Long gone are the strigoi, gone back to their hiding place wherever that might be.
Commoners and magicians alike gather to the scene, drawn like moths to the flame. A few with medical knowledge weave through the crowd to each still corpse in hopes of survivors among them. None so far. Hopeless, horrified. How could such a thing happen within their precious walls?
A rogue coterie of strigoi, eleven in total, have ravaged the bustling quarter and disappeared underground. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the people gather to pick up the pieces. This event is open to everyone. There will be no posting order for the sake of advancing the event as quickly as possible. Have fun!
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Jun 28, 2015 15:45:48 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jun 28, 2015 15:45:48 GMT -5
A whistle rings out from tensed lips and channeled air, hands in pockets and shoes clicking in the filthy streets. "What a mess," the seraph states, circling around the area, blood coated stone and pavement under his feet. It's almost sticky, the air smells awful, the blood and bodies cooked by the sun. "What a shame. These people never saw it coming. Makes me wonder what crimes they committed to have ended up with such a fate as this..."
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Jun 28, 2015 19:15:21 GMT -5
Post by cyrille leblanc on Jun 28, 2015 19:15:21 GMT -5
He came to the scene as soon as he heard. People were crying, begging him to work miracles and bring the dead back to life. That wasn't something he was capable of doing. He ran here, barefooted and without a jacket. He could feel the blood between his toes as he walked down the road. He checked all the bodies he came across for a pulse, closed the corpses' eyes, and wished them well in the afterlife. There was no one to save here.
"Everyone is guilty, this entire world is filled with sinners. I doubt they deserved this end."
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Jun 28, 2015 22:32:14 GMT -5
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Post by fang yuhua on Jun 28, 2015 22:32:14 GMT -5
from the dead she rises, blood caked in her hair; tattered, dirty. the bruise on her cheek has long gone; pain, like life, is fleeting as it is temporary. she chokes back a clot in her throat.
still, she stands a little shakily on her feet, peers a little suspiciously at the swarm around her.
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Jun 29, 2015 9:15:49 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jun 29, 2015 9:15:49 GMT -5
Malakai laughs, "You got that right, sweetheart. Poor chumps." He wraps his arm around Cyrille, draping it across his shoulders as he tugs him in.
Then, then girl rises. "Holy shit," he murmurs as he watches the little woman stand, clear her throat. "You're gonna cause a scene."
Malakai points at Fang, blinking.
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Jun 29, 2015 9:48:59 GMT -5
Post by jonah sterling on Jun 29, 2015 9:48:59 GMT -5
quietly he moves through the bodies strewn boulevard, careful not to slip or misstep. to yuhua's side he goes. two others are with her but he pay them little mind.
"yuhua." a cursory glance reverses his curling lips. "did you suffer?"
light fingers brush sticky hair from her face. those dull eyes wonder away from her smeared face. how horrifying the scene around them. festering blood and sunbaked corpses scent the air. he dislikes this place.
"there will be more bloodshed. how terrible."
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Jul 2, 2015 8:39:52 GMT -5
Post by fang yuhua on Jul 2, 2015 8:39:52 GMT -5
her first reaction is to go to the side of a familiar face; he reaches for her, she does so likewise. the way she peers at jonah betrays their past; she watches, he acts, but her gaze does not move from him. she only dips her head to look at the (rude) man pointing at her. she, tugs at jonah's shirt.
"i'm fine... really..." she trails off, finally surveying the scene, finds that there is nothing in her gut. (their deaths are unwarranted, so they will not be punished.)
besides, living in a pain of its own kind. the brutal remains mark only a grim residue of their existence, but they existed. existed. (she pinches her cheek.) how kind it is to exist.
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Jul 6, 2015 22:19:39 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 6, 2015 22:19:39 GMT -5
Malakai laughs softly, a mere chuckle deep in his throat as he looks at the girl and drops his arm to his side.
"Terrible, yes, if it isn't warranted," he replies as he takes a few steps over to the two white haired seraphs. "But what if... they deserved it?"
His eyebrows perk, showing off more of his pretty brown eyes, his smile widening slightly. "Mm? What then? Is it still terrible?"
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Jul 7, 2015 18:20:21 GMT -5
Post by nergal on Jul 7, 2015 18:20:21 GMT -5
There was no greater god in this moment than the King of the Sunset, Bringer of Plague and Burner of the- No. Nergal clenched his fist as he stared across the way at the mayhem and carnage. No. No. No. No. Decades of work just flushed down the toilet in an instant. He can see it now. Investigative reports, authorization of funding and guards, negotiations with the upper world, threats, bribery, and on and on. If it had just been Nergal, he would be salivating at the chance to feed the machine of bureacracy.
The King was going to complain.
Nergal leaned against the wall of the shop he was appropriating for his sulk, fingers pinching the bridge of his nose like it could hold off his migraine. "Arratam arāru... I'm going to have to clean this up, aren't I." He snapped his fingers like it meant something, a tiny ball of light zipping about his head as he basked in his own heat. "Just... great. May as well come out where it's warm, little lamb."
[OOC: 'arratam arāru' is as close as I can get to Akkadian for 'curse it']
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Jul 7, 2015 19:03:48 GMT -5
Post by KITTEN on Jul 7, 2015 19:03:48 GMT -5
closer inspection of ten bodies scattered amidst the numerous discovers blood hasn't clotted over twin punctures in their skin. no punctures at all mar the skin. it's dried down their faces, dripped from the corners of their mouths and down their chins. splattered on their clothes tell a story of violence, and blued lips and foam bubbled over lips tell another. eyes opened and bloodshot stare glassy and sightless at the grass they've fallen. |
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Jul 7, 2015 19:23:43 GMT -5
Post by SOPHIE DELACROIX on Jul 7, 2015 19:23:43 GMT -5
It was chaos.
Lured outside by the steady stream of people passing by the shop down in a seeming hurry, Sophie poked her head curiously out the front door. "What's going on?" She yell-asked a passerby. With wide eyes the portly woman replied "It's a massacre." Sophie's breath hitched and stood there stunned as the woman continued rushing in the direction of the square. It's a-a what? Paying no heed to the weather or her state of dress, Sophie joined the mob.
She jostled for a view, but regretted it instantly when her early lunch threatened to reappear. Sophie quickly dashed to a side street and heaved the contents of her stomach onto the sidewalk. She didn't immediately notice his approach, but shrunk back when he drew nearer to the building. It was a useless attempt to hide as the male spoke to her, "Just... great. May as well come out where it's warm, little lamb."
"I...um...yes." She was still a bit shaky from losing her lunch and more than a little self conscious that she had vomited just moments before, but it was true that she was poorly dressed for this chilly weather. Truly she hadn't been intending to leave the store. Sophie rung her hands in front of her apron as she stepped a little nearer to the stranger. Green eyes opened a bit in surprise when she noticed that it was warmer near him. "Thank you," she smiled a bit sheepishly.
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Jul 7, 2015 19:56:19 GMT -5
Post by dora markovic on Jul 7, 2015 19:56:19 GMT -5
it is high noon and sunny, the pavement against her palms reminds her of warm bread and dusty flour. she's sitting on the ground in a sundress, she's watching the people pass and twisting her hair between her fingers, but dora can't help but smile though her skin crawls. just bugs, just bugs, she tells herself, rubbing at her arms.
she shuts her eyes and feels the sun on her skin.
or, no - her vision tunnels, and she feels the white hot swell of fear in her chest. something tumbles into her lap, something shrill rings in her ears. her skin is crawling, crawling, wet.
dora opens her eyes and realizes she is the one screaming, tangled in the limbs of a corpse.
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Jul 8, 2015 0:18:09 GMT -5
Post by nergal on Jul 8, 2015 0:18:09 GMT -5
Small. Fluffy. Human. A human that heaved her guts up on the ground, noisily enough that even a hardened god felt bad. He sighed and pulled himself off the wall, watched her shake and snapped his fingers idly in front of him. A second little ball of light joined the first, swirled around his head before settling on the little lamb’s head with all the warmth of a cool summer’s day. “Come along little lamb, this is no place for you to stray.” Nergal bowed with a flourish of old world manners and a smile carefully calculated to hide his fangs away. “I swear on the graves of my ancestors that no harm shall come to you at my side.” Such a tiny thing had such good manners that it warmed the cockles of his shriveled heart.
He slunk through the crowd, the glower on his face carving his way through the crowd. Nergal had no patience for these silly humans that couldn’t be bothered to save their own.
The screaming had to stop for the sake of his poor ears.
It was so easy to pretend to be a magician, just frown and mutter something undetectable under his breath before pretending that lifting a corpse in a burst of sunshine warmth was harder than it appeared. Really, far too easy. “Come along little lambs, this is no place for either of you.”
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Jul 8, 2015 1:39:01 GMT -5
Post by SOPHIE DELACROIX on Jul 8, 2015 1:39:01 GMT -5
Sophie’s eyes grew wide like saucers when a second small ball of light appeared and then zoomed to rest above her head, bringing with it its warmth. Her little mouth fell open as she stared at it, and she reached one hand up towards it with a squeal of happy delight. “Pretty!” She exclaimed, and allowed herself a couple seconds to bathe in its warmth before his bow and old-world speech pulled her out of her reverie.
The young lady blinked in surprise and gazed at him curiously for a few heartbeats before giving a chuckle, her face breaking into an easy smile. “Yes milord,” she replied with a small curtsy. She used the oldest, most proper term she could think of to address him since that seemed to be the game. Sophie thought him silly, speaking like that, and assumed it was a form of roleplaying. Her fear and uneasiness had been dampened by his actions, and she naively assumed that was his reason for acting as he did.
Sophie followed in his wake as he cut a path through the crowd that she never could have managed alone. The scream which pierced through the din had Sophie quickly clapping her hands over her ears. Honestly, the crying and screaming of the children was already more than enough. Sophie peered around Nergal when he stopped (and regretted it, but thankfully her stomach was already empty).
She let out a squeak of surprise when the corpse lifted off the other girl, but quickly covered her mouth as to not add more noise to the atmosphere. Sophie was…disgusted by the corpse, but amazed by the magic and she couldn’t quite decide which reaction to go with. She stood there with her hands over her mouth, staring at Nergal with an expression that plainly said as much.
Relief visibly flooded her at his command and she was all too ready to leave this scene. She hesitated though, waiting for him to take the lead and unsure what to make of this other girl…
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Jul 8, 2015 2:17:40 GMT -5
Post by jonah sterling on Jul 8, 2015 2:17:40 GMT -5
safe in his arms he holds her close. since childhood the white haired pair’s lives entwined. his hold is a protective cocoon about her fragility.
“you’re too cruel.” his lips wear poorly the frown on them. that wan face is more accustomed to the listless smile than a grimace. his eyes seem to narrow in his face, too cold and lackluster. “death is deserved by none.”
away his attention shifts to the gathered crowd. screams rent through the chaotic murmurs yet go without notice. he finds the source through cursory, a girl beneath a corpse. he makes to approach, but yields at the sight of the man who wields sunshine at his fingertips.
“is she all right?” he calls out. “are you all right miss?”
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