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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 ofmoribound.)
[ 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. ]
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
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. ]
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If Ruby and Hiro are friends, though, she's glad for it. ]
My sister used to get along far better with weapons than with people, but she's doing better too. And, hey-- now you can tell me all about your friends back home, and when you see those friends again, you can tell them all about the awesome people you've met here.
I'm okay not being first on that list, for the record, but I want at least third or fourth.
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It's easier to be friends with something that can't talk back because there's less risk of them judging you. I don't really blame her…but I mean, Ruby knows a lot of people now. I'd say she's making friends. [A shrug.] Then again my best friend's a robot. [i.e. "So what do I really know?" He brightens a little bit at the idea of his new friends meeting his old ones.] You'd probably like them…I know they'd really like you guys. Actually? You'd probably really like my friend GoGo. And let's just say you're probably somewhere in the top five at this point.
[It's meant to be a joke, but it's a touch too sincere.] …Wasabi's in the Nexus. I wonder if anybody else is, too. It's another thing I want to look into someday soon, just in case.
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Of course, I wanna figure out a way to break through all of that and get them nice and free and awake, so if you start digging into that, count me in.
[ She's totally beaming over being in his top five though, awww yeah she's still got it. ]
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[It's more motivation to get in there and figure out what it's all about. Hearing about his friends that are missing friends? It's a driving force to get him to pick himself back up and start moving forward again, just like how things at home went.] I'll let you know if I find anything we can start looking into. That's a little harder than it looks.
Let's just see what we can find in the village first before we crack the nexus code. [As much as he wants to save everyone inside, he wants Tadashi back first.]
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... So you've heard of them, huh? Yeah... Ruby was here once before, too, but then she vanished and came back without her memories of this place. It's sort of stupidly complicated, when you think about it.
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[If it isn't obvious by now, Yang, Hiro and your sister have had some pretty in-depth conversations.] It's just another thing I want to know. What happens to those old memories? It doesn't make sense that we get a complete wipe...there's gotta be a back-up somewhere, especially if other people remember us and stuff we've done here.
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Maybe it's something that got messed up with the code, but I still don't like thinking about us like... that. Like it's that easy to lose something so important, just on a mistake.
[ Watch out for that tree root, Hiro-- ]
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...well, at the same time he trips over the root and pinwheels his arms a bit to regain his balance, hopping on one foot before righting himself and carrying on like nothing happened.]
I don't either, but at least code I understand. I write code a lot back home and...I mean if you know what you're doing? It's not that hard to manipulate and overwrite it. It's also not hard to encrypt it either. It's part of why I want to talk to Mosley some more. He might have a better idea than anybody else.
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[ She's a reasonable person, 'everything' will suffice. And she's just going to keep an eye on Hiro to make sure he doesn't topple again, just in case. ]
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[He won't topple, really! And anyway he's been flung through buildings before, he'll live.] It's also why I want to talk to him off the CereVices. Somewhere that can't really be tracked. That might be harder than it sounds though. [He runs a hand through his hair, adjusting the helmet under his arm.] ...I have a lot to do and a lot to think about here. But I'll be careful.
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As long as you are, I'm not too worried. Buuuut first!
[ VILLAGE, HO. ]