tushanshu_logs | Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

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Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

Characters: Any and all PCs
Date: January 20th - 23rd
Location: All Sectors
Situation: Tu Vishan continues swimming along the ocean floor after his monumental dive, but it turns out there are a whole bunch of undead that want in on the party!
Warnings/Rating: Underwater situations, violence, potential gore; to be updated as noted.

>See the comments of this post for various situations and areas available for tagging.
>Each header will be set for a date and/or area.
>Feel free to start your own header for specific situations.
>The Palace subplot will be run in a separate log.
>Refer to the two OOC posts for further details. 01 | 02

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[Those with light sources and the curiosity to be at the barrier's edge may notice that the outer rim of the shell has a growing collection of visitors. The corpses in the water are starting to take to life and are doing all that they can to press up against the barrier as they look hungrily towards the city of Keeliai.

Any brave enough to risk passing through the barrier and into the water itself will find that they are exceedingly popular with the reanimated corpses, many of which will turn and give chase. They are smart and they are fast, moving with the sole purpose to catch and kill anything living.]

[The barrier still holds against the pressure of water, but the press of bodies against it has reached critical mass and the undead begin to filter through it. At first it appears to be raining jiangshi (zombies) by the scattered corpses plummeting towards the ground -- though these remain animated and will pull themselves towards the living -- and later by those that enter from the shell's edge.

These creatures were fast in the water and are faster on land, possessing of problem-solving intelligence that permits them to open doors and engage in limited combat.

Kedan begin to flee for the palace or their residences when they realise that these creatures pose significant risk to them, for any bitten will eventually succumb and join the ranks of the undead. At the Palace of Landed Sky, Evandau and his police force are busy defending the area from the encroaching undead, though there are many chambers and halls made available for kedan and Foreigner sanctuary in the palace while the threat -- nay, the assault persists.]

[Morning darkens on the twenty-third to a shift in Tu Vishan's angle and a reversal of the events that accompanied the initial dive. The undead plaguing the city remain active as the turtle rises, but suffer devastating effects under the light of the sun as it begins to penetrate the water and warmth returns to the city. All jiangshi exposed to the sun will wither up and fall into dust, leaving little trace of their existence -- save the damages wrought on the city and in the minds of its inhabitants.

By evening, Tu Vishan breaks the surface and all jiangshi are considered DDOA (definitely dead on arrival), leaving Keeliai safe and the kedan busy with another clean up effort as they slowly return to their normal lives.]

ooc-this is for the first few hours following the invasion since he's going to end up in Water later :3

[Tris was at the bonfires when it started. The first of the corpses smashed onto the ground only feet away from where he huddled by one of the huge fires and he looked up to see even more falling. Without a thought, he mutters a spell to throw up a barrier around the bonfire and the next closest to him, protecting himself and those Kedan and foreigners nearby.

From within the barrier, he reaches out towards the corpses with him mind and what he finds shakes him to his core. These living dead couldn't have been reanimated any way he knew; they were soulless.]

[It's later, when he escapes the Fire district, intent on returning home and barricading himself, that something worse occurs to him. When the creatures had attacked the kedan near the bonfire, he hadn't felt the departure of their souls, not even faintly, the way he did since he had been taught to block it out for on the battlefield. The undead were killing people and stealing their souls. At least, he was fairly sure that was what was happening - he'd have to find somewhere safe to make sure... And if it was the case? Then maybe there was finally a purpose for him being here.]

[There shouts of a small kedan child could be heard from far away, panicked and desperate. He was crying for help...but not for himself. Or the two other companions doing their best to console him.]

Please! She hasn't come back up! Something's wrong! Anybody! Help, please!

[Amidst the panic, his tiny soaked hands continued to clutch at a strange, metalic object in his hands. A particular pendant depicting the ocean and streams. Water. Elemental-based. Something that may very well have saved his life...at the potential cost of another's.]

[Damian had ran a patrol and checked in as many of the foreigners as he could, but there was information about people still outside the city (kids) and he grabbed a bike and set off. The shell was huge, so he ran a pattern (and had extra fuel), but he found nothing... until he reached the shell's edge and heard the cry for help over the roar of the engine.]

[He drove to the very kids, and hopped off the bike quickly.]

What are you doing here? What happened?

[The child sobbed, because he couldn't see how somebody as small as himself would make a difference, but he started talking, holding out the pendant. Damian took it, frowning, then looked out.]

All right. I want you all to stay close, we have to get back to the city together. It's dangerous, there, very dangerous. You shouldn't have beet out here on your own.

Just... help her. Please.

Of course.

[He took a rebreather out of his belt and started in the direction of the water, eyes moving all around to both try to see the 'lady' that had saved the kid and to keep on the lookout for zombies. Zombies! They weren't even Black Lanterns, just... reanimated corpses. (In some ways, that was easier. For others, that was, made little difference to Damian.)]

[He waded into the water, easily, the costume good enough to protect him, including thermally. And started looking, shining a light through the ocean water.]

[She was a dark splotch in the beam of his light, hair ballooning around her and jacket loose. She also wasn't moving, which precluded going to her and towing her right up. Instead, Damian took out his grapple gun, set it, and shot. The line sped through the water, wrapping around the 'lady's' waist, and he set the gun to retract her. Fast.]

[Whatever the pendant actually did? As soon as she was in arm's reach, Robin put it around her - Zatara. Put it around Zatara's neck. Then started swimming back to the shell, fast as he could.]

[ Lina never wants to say she was caught unawares, but the truth is, even though she'd been exercising caution as she moved through the city, she hadn't expected the zombies to start falling from the sky. God, she hates the undead. It reminds her of Sairaag.

Still, at least they don't seem to do too well with fire, so Lina hurls fireballs at any before they get too close, incinerating them in their path. She moves quickly back to her suite with the intention of barricading herself up in there and holding the fort, so feel free to run into her on the way there or at her apartment in the Fire Sector. ]

[ At the first sight of the animated dead bodies, Mandorallen felt the chill of fear strike at his heart. Still, he's had some time to work on his paralyzing fear of...being afraid, and as per Durnik's misinterpreted advice, a few hearty chuckles to himself helped a good deal.

He's lucky that he was indoors when it started, and he's kept his suite well-fortified -- but he knows others are in danger, and he's a suicidally brave Arend, so he's venturing out here and there in armor, sword at the ready, to help out anyone in the area who might be having problem with the jiangshi. He'll also open his door to anyone who needs help or shelter from them! ]

[At first, Katniss had been determined to stay in her rooms. Going underwater like this was too much like an Arena, too much like one of her nightmares. But then the mutts had happened, the not-quite-right creatures. And even then she might have stayed where she was, but Peeta's out there somewhere and the last thing in the world he needs to deal with is something like this.

So she grabs her bow and heads out. Maybe she's out of practice when it comes to shooting things that look like people, but she's killed deer that are just as fast at home, and these things are bigger targets. There's a flash of silver and for a moment Katniss is boggled by the sight of a man who seems to be encased entirely in metal before one of the zombies starts running at her. Her body moves before her brain does, setting an arrow to the string and loosing it in one smooth moment. It sinks through the eye of the creature and...

Nothing happens. The thing keeps moving towards her, and Katniss feels the first real sliver of fear curl in her heart, accompanied with a burst of adrenaline. Another arrow sinks into the thing's flesh, through the heart this time, but it still keeps coming]

[Whatever that necklace was, it had no apparent immediate effect. That was because the person had to breathing. Zatanna wasn't.]

[A fact that would soon become apparent when they reached the surface, her soaked, still form falling limp the moment he put her down. Her skin was an unhealthy shade of white, chest unmoving.]

[The small kedan child she had managed to save approached with caution, still flanked by his friends. There were tears in all three of their eyes.]

Is she...dead?

[No, not yet; there was a pulse. It was faint. But she was still alive. Barely.]

[When all else fails, set on fire. It was a principle that had worked to ruin Katniss, so she applies it to the mutts now. Having retrieved what arrows she could from her botched attempts at shooting the dead bodies down, she wraps them in alcohol soaked rags pilfered from ruined stores. After trying to light it from one of the fiery surfaces, she discovers that the flames there are, unhelpfully, not real. Still, she didn't survive the Games (or her district) without learning a skill or two. She soon as a small blaze roaring next to her relatively defensible spot, waiting for her to set her arrows afire. Her hands are surprisingly steady; she'd gotten the vomiting out of the way earlier, and is now working in a sort of dazed calm.

It's harder to shoot when the arrows are weighed down, but she adjusts after missing her first shot. Apparently it takes the mutt she hits a couple of seconds to realise it's on fire, because it keeps running at her. She backs up, but the flames consume it before it reaches her.

Katniss stares at the burned husk at her feet. Her stomach churns, and apparently she's not done with the vomiting yet, because what little remains in her stomach comes up now. Prim...

She has to keep moving. She can't stay here.]

Edited 2013-01-20 22:53 (UTC)

[ Kara feels like she's been fighting zombies forever. Ironic, isn't it, that she had been asking Santo about them a few short weeks ago? Her laser vision seems to work the best, so she keeps it up. It's good that Kal has a source of solar energy, or she would probably be dead. As it is she doesn't feel fantastic. She's afraid, and she feels strange...

No, not strange. Tired. But it's strange to feel tired after such a long time. Apparently she does have limits after all. She hopes she can keep this up long enough. ]

[ Peeta doesn't know how he ended up across the shell, but to be honest, not much of Peeta is aware that he's still Peeta at this point. He was sitting near the shell's edge when it started, nerves already frayed due to being unable to swim yet submerged in water and only compounded when the dead approached the edge and stared back at him.

the dead didn't walk. the dead didn't walk. that was Not Real.

a strategy that worked fine for Peeta until they started falling from the sky.

then his thoughts went elsewhere. to the mutts, with eyes of the fallen tributes. to the muttations of the sewers. to the looks on lavinia and darius's faces as they were cut apart in front of him.

things got Shiny then.

he's been going for hours, but Peeta only knows to do one thing right now. the enemies have to be destroyed. the people of the districts need to be stopped before they do something like this again.

the Shiny needs to fade.

he enters the Fire district, and grabs the first one he sees. quickly, peeta starts to dissemble him. he starts by cranking the neck all the way to the side to keep the teeth away. then he starts to take it apart. like they did to the others. fingers, arms, he's about to split open the chest when he smells something.

fire. burning flesh.

Peeta stills, and his eyes glaze over.

the thing slowly turns its head back around, mouth opening to bite into Peeta's shoulder]

[Katniss is just staggering upright when she hears it. That sick, soft, wet sound of tearing flesh. She knows that sound.

So much for this not being a game. She's not even surprised when she sees that it's Peeta, Peeta tearing the bodies apart, Peeta losing his mind all over again. It makes sense. First mutts that can only be killed by fire, now this.

She wants to run forward and help, get the thing off him, but something stops her. She can see it in the wild look on his face, how he moves. Peeta's lost to her again, and those hands could just as easily close around her throat as the mutts.

Katniss isn't suicidal. Not anymore, at least. More than that, she knows Peeta would never forgive himself for hurting her, if it came to that. She's looking around her surroundings for something to help when the mutt sinks its teeth into Peeta's shoulder and her own safety (or anyone else's) stops mattering.]

Peeta!

One of her rag-wrapped arrows is brushed through the fire, set to the string. She waits for the opening and looses, the tip burying itself in the thing's skull. Flames lick along its body, burning. Peeta can survive fire, but he's been torn apart enough as it is]

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Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

January 20th | Underwater Observers

Keeliai | All Sectors

Countryside & Shell's Edge

Barrier & Underwater

January 21st - 22nd | Dive of the Living Dead

Keeliai | All Sectors

The Palace of Landed Sky

Countryside & Shell's Edge

Barrier & Underwater

January 23rd | Rise, Rise, Rise!

Keeliai | All Sectors

The Palace of Landed Sky

Countryside & Shell's Edge

Barrier & Underwater

Martris Drayke | Fire & Earth | OTA!

-(Closed to Damian)-

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Lina Inverse | Fire Sector | OTA

Mandorallen | Earth Sector | OTA

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Katniss Everdeen ⇁ Fire Sector

Metal Sector | Closed for Damian and Cassandra

Re: Katniss Everdeen ⇁ Fire Sector

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