jawdacity: (parachutes13)
松岡凛 ( rin matsuoka ) ([personal profile] jawdacity) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-10-04 04:23 pm

( mini-plot post: open to all )

Who: [personal profile] jawdacity & all of cerealia!
When: towards the end of the event (so this won't conflict with any event threads you may already have going). 2-3pm.
Where: Abandoned village + surrounding jungle
What: THERE ARE EXPLOSIONS. And mushrooms.
Rating/Warning: Possible NSFW for gore?

Details about this mini-plot HERE

(theme song of this post, courtesy of [personal profile] moribound.)



[ it's another muggy, meandering day in the jungle; nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. ]

IN THE VILLAGE

[ if your character is near the center of the village, they'll bear witness to the curious sight of a herd of shuffling mushroom beasts. in terms of threat level, to the experienced hunter they may have ranked low on the scale: slow, lacking an external fang or claw, they seem to be interested only in their endless march forward.

but, if your character is close enough, they may catch sight of a red-haired young man, a manifesto of anger written across his face. one breathless moment, the calm before the storm, and then he hurls a metallic pair of gloves at the closest beast, the gloves trailing arcs of flame.

what may strike your character first is the searing heat, the thrum of the earth below their feet. the whole village is demolished in a moment, the dying cries of the beasts rising above the din. the explosion lasts much longer than it should, the line of mushrooms going up one after another.

if you're too close, you might be torn in two. you might lose a limb, or two, or three. you might go deaf, you might lose your sight. you might lose all your eyelashes, your clothes. maybe the bag of mushrooms you'd collected for dinner is now little more than ash.

keep running. the smoke trails into the air. someone is screaming. the smell of charred meat follows you even after you disappear into the jungle. ]


IN THE SURROUNDING JUNGLE

[ if your character is close enough to the village, they'll feel the blasts, one after the other. the jungle is on fire, quickly spreading. maybe you'll hear the screaming, too; maybe your lungs will fill with smoke. maybe you'll run into one of the last mushroom beasts, fleeing from the explosion only to trigger a lesser one in the depths of the jungle.

it came from the village, didn't it? maybe someone you love was swept up in the explosion.

if you manage to escape the stampede of terrified jungle beasts (some of which may stop to crunch you up as a quick meal as they dash away from the blast), maybe you can venture closer to see what's happened.

or maybe you should get as far away as possible. ]
spyrites: (» wait shit)

[personal profile] spyrites 2015-10-06 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's right but his head is still spinning. The smoke causes him to start abruptly coughing. Dizzy or not she's right that they can't stick around. Nice to see she has water artes too, though. Those will be pretty useful right now.] Right.

[He forces his legs to work and follows close behind her. Thankfully following a fast moving, quick decision making woman is familiar territory to him. He's still suffering some coughing as he goes but does not complain or slow. The further they get from the smoke and flames and better his chest starts to feel. It's still a little heavier than it should but that's unavoidable.]

We should go further. There might be more explosions. [One big one could be followed by smaller ones as more flammable things get caught in the blaze. He'd rather not be around for that.]
Edited 2015-10-06 20:04 (UTC)
faradize: (wanna stand in place like a foil deer)

[personal profile] faradize 2015-10-09 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ lightning eyes the boy through coughs, carefully looking him over. he seemed to be in similar, if not worse shape than she was. ]

Are you sure you can handle it? [ no, she couldn't force him to stay away from danger completely. but she'd at least ask. she wouldn't send him headlong into it without making sure he'd be able to keep up. ]
spyrites: (» harsh truth)

[personal profile] spyrites 2015-10-09 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He had unfortunately been a little too close to the explosion. It had thrown him a ways too and he had hit his head on what he assumes was probably a rock. It still throbbed with pain but for now he can set it aside thanks to Lightning's Cure spell quelling most of it.]

Yeah. I'll be okay. [He can manage. He doesn't want to burden her or make her worried. He can handle himself.] I think the blast probably caused most of the jungle life in the surrounding area to flee anyway. [He can't imagine they'd stick around with all this fire and smoke... in which case it'll be a bit safer going further in then it might be otherwise.]
faradize: (and there's so much more)

[personal profile] faradize 2015-10-11 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
.. Alright. [ she has to allow a moment for thought, to decide if she'd allow this boy to willingly traipse into more possible danger. she ultimately decides that, if she's with him, it might be fine. maybe. ]

I'll take point. Stay behind me.
spyrites: (» back off)

[personal profile] spyrites 2015-10-12 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't want to concern her with the state he's in so he just gathers his remaining strength and pushes on. He's not so roughed up that he can't handle a bit of a jungle trek. He's traveled under worse condition. So he nods and falls into steps behind her.]

Got it. I can watch your back. Be careful. [He decides even if he is a little worse for wear he can at least do that and support her as needed. His healing artes are still usable after all.]
faradize: (moonballing bureaucrats)

[personal profile] faradize 2015-10-16 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. [ you don't need to tell her, Jude. not that she typically abides by the 'be careful' rule she goes in with. ]

Most people will have escaped by now. Anyone left will be too injured to walk. [ she says this as she begins to emerge on the other side of the village. ] The wildlife's been alerted too. They could be aggressive.
spyrites: (» that's no good)

[personal profile] spyrites 2015-10-21 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He wants to go back and help those injured people but he doesn't feel like he'd be any help. His headache is pretty bad now and just thinking about channeling spirit artes causes him to wince. He just... needs to wait that out. Then he can definitely go back.]

That's true. I was hoping most of them would've run away at the noise and heat. [But the stuff in this jungle was... weird... so maybe they'd behave differently than he assumes.]

I'd like to go back and help the others but I just need a second. [... Oh.] I'm sorry, I didn't even ask if you're okay. Do you need any healing yourself?