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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. ]
journaler: (✿ last night)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-11-07 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She keeps up with him, seeming relieved at the discovery. It reminds her of the holes they'd make Ludger crawl through all the time . . . only bigger.]

Too bad there aren't any cats hiding around.

[Though it's probably for the best.

She's immediately looking around, as if trying to prove herself wrong. There's so much space in fact that their voices echo a little. It seems safe to sit, so Leia finds a spot by the wall and does just that.]
spyrites: (» deep breaths)

[personal profile] spyrites 2015-11-14 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[That gets her a weary chuckle from him. True enough. If they had one maybe it could've brought them some supplies like blankets or medicine or something. Then again maybe without Rollo's kingly influence it wouldn't have bothered.

Hey, he had to crawl into those holes too... never again. :(

He sits beside Leia once she finds a spot, collapsing a bit heavily against the rock behind him. He leans against it and relishes in the moment to just rest. His thoughts stray to the explosion though and he grimaces.]


I wonder what happened to cause that. I never noticed anything that dangerous when I was exploring the village.
journaler: (✿ heartbeat heartbreak)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-11-15 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[She would've given anything to keep talking about cats; and that says a lot, since she still considers herself a dog person. Nevertheless, this is obviously important. She frowns, thinking back on the village, though she hadn't been close enough to satisfy his curiosity (nor her own).

She glances at him for a moment when he sits, though it's hard to meet his eyes without an answer.]


I . . . don't know. When this is all over, I'll have to ask around. I don't think it was any ordinary fire. It had "accident" written all over it.