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Who: All characters with air as their element
When: OOC: 10/15 - 10/22 ; IC: 3/22 - 3/26
Where: Mountains! Cliffs! High places!
What: It's time for the legitimate reward -- a safe place to live for the rest of your happy, contented lives
Rating/Warning: PG-13: Some scary images, some violence. Please let the mods know if the rating goes up or the log needs to be locked!

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//event020.EXE

It’s been a few days in the jungle now and hopefully you haven’t managed to die just yet – after all, the fun’s just begun. On the seventh day of trekking the wilderness, each character who has Air in their heart will suddenly find themselves pausing in the middle of the day. Suddenly they’re able to feel the patterns of the wind in the air. A chill passes through them as a breeze will kick up. Then without warning, they’re lifted right off the ground and cast up into the sky. At least they don’t have time to be scared as they suddenly lose consciousness after floating for a few seconds. Don’t worry. It’ll get better. When they wake up, they hear the following message in a wispy way, carried along by the breeze itself – It is not the correct time to be sleeping. You must awaken. There is something that needs to be done. You need to be the one to do it.

//SCENARIOS.EXE

PHASE I [ day one ] Anyone here with a fear of heights? Yes? Well, that’s too bad. When air characters awaken, they’ll find themselves cast right into the mountains of Tellus. It’s rocky, the path is minimal at best and non-existent at worse, and there are screeches of something dangerous and angry calling in the distance. Caeli demonstrates his poor sense of direction once again as characters wake up and find themselves on a mountainous ledge. There is no apparent path -– except for across a dangerous ravine that dips down to the base of the mountain. There is no end in sight when one looks down, instead only pure black depths. The cloud waits on the other side, floating patiently. Caeli gives one instruction: “Jump.” But try not to fall in, that would be a sad start to the trip. Thankfully, the distance across isn't really too far, and Caeli might give those who can't quite make the jump a little boost -- but you still have to be brave enough to make the jump or be left behind. PHASE II [ day one ] Well, one way or another, you seemed to have made it. From there, it’s just one long hike where you’re stuck following a cloud that simply doesn’t feel like responding to your calls for attention. The hours drag on and the sun sets across the horizon as you are left climbing this mountain, no end in sight. But as you climb higher and higher, the temperature drops. The hour grows later and slowly but surely, white flecks begin to fall from the sky. Cold? Hopefully you were dressed appropriately seeing as now the thick layers of snow are building and building and building – making it harder to climb as the movement now requires trudging through three to four feet of snow. Did you want to take a break? Have fun catching hypothermia if you do! There's definitely not much in the way of shelter, but you can try to make something out of the scant trees remaining, or create a fire. Either way, you definitely don't want to be left behind, so don't lose sight of everyone else. PHASE III [ day two ] Whether you felt like standing guard or were fast asleep, a piercing screech will act in the place of an alarm clock. All too soon, a flight of winged creatures will descend upon the mountain travelers, looking none too friendly. Caeli descends to offer helpfully, “Griffins. They were once mine.” To which, the beasts merely emit another piercing screech before baring their claws and moving to attack the party. They are fearsome creatures and will not fall until they are killed, consistently trying to get back on their feet even when injured. If no one manages to lose an eye and the griffins are subdued, characters will find upon their fallen bodies that they have areas where tufts of fur are missing, leaving a clean injection spot. There are small machine implants at the back of their necks, beeping ominously. Each is branded with a different number identification. Caeli is nowhere to be found. PHASE IV [ day three ] The summit of the mountain is typically considered the most beautiful place. For those who are seeking solace, the peak of this adventure is safely above the clouds and the sun is slowly rising in the distance. Acting as a moment of peace, it is truly beautiful. For those who do not rest so easy, there is more to be found near the top of the mountain. One run-down shack can be found, plated with steel and amenities found inside such as blankets and coats to fight off the snow. More worryingly, there is an operating table in the middle of the room. A white cloth drapes over it, stained with red and operating instruments resting on the edges, the gleaming metal darkened with old blood. The same tufts of feathers and fur that could be found on the griffons are scattered on the floor, claw marks digging deep into the metal of the walls. Be careful not to touch anything. If a character comes into contact with some of the blood that stains the table or the instruments, they will immediately begin to feel hints of aggression. There will be an intense need to pick fights with those around them and the feeling will not disappear until they are knocked out (or killed, but who would want that?). Welcome to your new home. [ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with sensitive or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE

Welcome to Cerealia's October event! Please visit the OOC information here, and should you have any questions, feel free to ask them here! You can also check the FAQ for more general inquiries. This event will last for the month of October, or IC 3/15 to 3/30. This log will last from 10/15 to 10/22 or IC 3/22 to 3/26. Should this event log hit Captcha, there is an all-purpose overflow here. There are 60 characters with the element of air. Thank you!

Comments

[fatalstriker]

( phase i )

[fear of heights isn't really something yuri would have once put on his list of things to be bothered by. and really, being up in high places doesn't generally bother him. but when considering that one of his last memories before being pulled from his world had involved getting injured and then falling from a high altitude? jumping a gap that seems to have nothing but a deep abyss beneath it isn't exactly to yuri's liking here.]

Jump, he says. [listen, cloudman!! he doesn't have to take orders from you!? okay, so maybe he does. at least yuri looks more thoroughly unamused than actually fearful of what may happen. he's confident enough in his own ability to get across, but it just seems to mock him. for a moment, his attention turns slightly to look at the dog by his side—what he says next is actually directed at repede, but nobody just talks to their dogs, right? it's easy enough to assume he's just voicing his thoughts aloud to whoever is nearby. but no, it's for the dog.] I wonder if he forgot that we're not all clouds like he is.

[seriously. maybe he should have seen this coming, since his last conversation with caeli had been less than pleasant—maybe he should have seen people being separated coming too. this world just never quits....]

( phase iii - a )

[fighting the griffins? that's something yuri can handle. he's not infallible, so he does take hits and get knocked back his fair share—especially because he's fighting with a somewhat flimsy, makeshift wooden sword and his fists. but he has repede at his side, carrying out artes at full strength with his dagger; the dog fights well. it's not something he can do alone though, not without his proper weapons and sub-weapons. so if anyone wants a man and his dog aiding them in taking down a griffin, yuri will be there. possibly a little beat up and bloodied, but that doesn't seem to stop him.]

( phase iii - b )

[once the griffins are down, yuri will lean over one of them to find the source of the beeping.]

Kinda seems out of place to me. [by which he means that it's obviously suspicious. he arches a brow—ceres related? it seems like it could be possible, but he's the furthest from knowledgable about this kind of technology. yuri's looking to defer to someone else on this. possibly while sitting his ass on the floor, trying to catch his breath and (like a total genius) using his shirt to try and clean up a fairly deep scratch in his arm from a talon nick. maybe that's less of a nick and more of a wound, but he doesn't have time to let that slow him down.]

iii - b

[xroyal_bratx]

It looks it.

[ Came a voice of a girl. She walked over to him after the mess that happened with the griffins. She was a bit out of breath herself, but she could see he had a wound on his arm. ]

I can heal the injury for you if you need it. Those things were really vicious.

[ She mused pointing to the injury. They were strangers, but she was fairly good at trying to get along with everyone. ]

[fatalstriker]

I'd almost say it's got CERES written all over it.

[he muses in response. it's not really all that surprising that someone would agree that something's definitely not right about what they're seeing. may as well gauge the suspicions.

...though maybe the topic becomes a bit short lived when he gets the offer for healing. that sort of thing isn't his strong suit, and none of his healing friends are with them at the moment, so he offers up something of a grateful smirk.]

I won't say no if you've got the energy to spare. I can deal with it though, it's just a scratch. [it's not just a scratch, but what's the fun in making it a big deal? there is none, of course.]

[xroyal_bratx]

No doubt about it, really if it is them.

[ She nodded with a bitter smile. So far things were getting really out of hand and she didn't feel comfortable after being separated from the people she cared about. It was only a matter of time before she would go look for them. She had also experienced enough strange things in her life to notice that there was something off with this. ]

I didn't use too much magic while we were fighting, so no problem.

[ She replied with a brief laugh. ] Most people would not call that a scratch. May I see it? I'm Ishtar by the way.

[fatalstriker]

I never said I was most people.

[he flashes her something of a cheeky grin—he's the sort that can find time to make light in a bad situation. his sense of humor may not be the best, but there still manages to be an air of truth to what he's saying.

being the kind of person who seeks out a challenge in a fight means he's taken a few hits from some strong guys—the only real difference now is that he isn't properly armed. as deep as the gash is, he knows it won't kill him; maybe it'll scar at worst.

or maybe he should worry about things like this a bit more. but why do that when there are introductions to be had?]

Ishtar it is, then. [for now. there's a pretty solid chance he'll find a way to shorten her name down to one syllable later on, though.] I'm Yuri.

phase i;

[immobileyes]

... Um.

[ One day, Mary will be a brilliant conversation-starter, who lights up a talk with effervescence and fascination.

Unfortunately, today is not that day, and the only reason she's even able to approach a stranger to speak to him is because he's got a dog, and she likes dogs. She thinks. Or people's pets and non-human allies here, anyway. ]

Will he be okay jumping...?

[ ... Says the one who looks like she wouldn't even make it halfway. ]

[fatalstriker]

[repede will take pretty well to her when they're not about to try and clear a gap that seems just a bit too large for any of them to be risking.

for now, yuri turns his attention to mary, giving her a nod.]

You mean Repede? He's probably a world-class jumper. If we had a snowboard, he'd go right over without even blinking. [which... is really not even a lie. and will be confirmed by repede's proud and affirmative bark.

getting repede over the gap is definitely not the issue here. for yuri, it's more himself—and innocent looking kids like her that probably shouldn't be forced to deal with this to begin with.]

[immobileyes]

Oh, good...

But what about you?

[ She supposes she should ask that too, now that her concerns about the dog's safety have been answered. ]

[fatalstriker]

I've dealt with bigger jumps than this.

[yuri, that wasn't a jump. that was a fall to your near death.

...but you know, minor details. no use in worrying a kid, that's just not his style at all.] Pretty sure I should be asking you that, unless you've got a few gap jumps under your belt already.

I.

[zerotohiro]

Who says we need to be clouds to jump? [Oh sorry, Yuri, were you talking to the dog? Hiro just likes to cut into conversations he's not a part of and he's standing not too far down from where they are staring across the gap. He's already made up his mind about jumping, but he hasn't quite yet. Who knows why.

He's vaguely aware of who Yuri is based on what someone's told him (granted, his knowledge only extends to "dude with long purple-ish hair who feeds Ruby Rose), but it's enough to cause him to pipe up.] Worried about falling?

[fatalstriker]

Nobody said it—it's just the way he goes about things.

[as in "caeli gives instructions like it's not a big deal, even though that is probably a big deal for lot of people." most people don't really like potentially jumping to their deaths, and yuri for one, does not trust the cloudman.

he doesn't trust any of their elemental deities and his past conversation with both caeli and maris only hammered that in. but hey, what can he do. he answers hiro's question pretty casually before turning to look at him, clearly bothered by someone else jumping into his conversation. though he doesn't have the same vague idea about hiro—he and ruby haven't had any conversation where he's come up.]

Not worried. It's just a pain to deal with when we don't even get a warning that we're being spirited away again.

[zerotohiro]

Yeah, he's not really the greatest when it comes to being helpful. [Grumbling. So much grumbling. He's a little more than frustrated with Caeli for multiple reasons but at the same time he knows that they have to jump or they're going to be stuck here anyway. Stop being bothered, Yuri, how was he supposed to know he's actually interrupting something?]

And it's not like we got a warning when we were brought to Tellus in the first place either. [Not that that makes things better.] So what other choice do we have here?

[fatalstriker]

Not much of one, unless we want to stay behind and see what we can find on this side of things.

[he's none too pleased about it, either. he didn't like being brought to tellus even if he's long since accepted it. but yuri has no problem being verbal in his distaste for things; complacency isn't his style.]

I get the feeling do that wouldn't work out too well for us, though.

iii-b

[dereban]

Not "kinda." It is out of place. [ There comes a somewhat exhausted voice of a teenage girl who walks up and crouches back to see if this one is the same as the others. And it is. ]

Technology doesn't seem to exist outside of the colony at all.

[fatalstriker]

"Doesn't seem to" doesn't mean it's not at all, though.

[he points out. it's not like he really disagrees—it seems suspiciously like something ceres would do, which is why he mentioned it at all. but all the same, he's not about to assume that's the case, either.]

Wouldn't doubt if it was our friends at CERES, but I'm not holding my breath when we haven't seen much outside of a jungle and this place.

[dereban]

True. A third party could be at play here — [ There's a pause, chewing on the inside of her mouth with some slight discomfort. ]

Although it's not very likely, I think.

[fatalstriker]

Probably not, since it seems like they've got a finger in every pie.

[which is, maybe... what makes a lot of the world outside the colony so unsettling. it's so absent of ceres, and while it should be a good thing, it begs the question of why it's that way.] Can't rule anything out though. Maybe we've got evil corporation number two lurking out there somewhere.

phase i

[cpt_ressentiment]

[ Yosuke's no more afraid of heights than, say, your average person. But your average person also does not get told to just, you know, jump. Like that. From this high up. And... yeah, okay, that's a little unnerving.

He at least manages a laugh at Yuri's comments, even though it comes out way more nervous than he'd ever want to own up to. After that, he sighs, exasperated. ]

You know, I haven't even been here that long, and I can already tell that getting yanked around is pretty much a regular thing. And now? We're in the freakin' mountains. And it's cold. And we have to jump onto a cloud. ... Seriously?!

[fatalstriker]

You'd think, but this is kind of new even for us seasoned vets. Pretty sure this is the first time any of us have been outside the city at all.

[if it's happened another time, it was before he was in cerealia, and it was never spoken of or mentioned to him. but considering caeli and the other deities weren't something anyone knew about until pretty recently either, yuri doesn't think he's wrong.]

I'd say don't get used to it, but who knows if we'll even end up back in that place again. [he eyes the edge of the cliff, then looks over to where caeli is before emitting a sigh.] Though it's tough to say if it's better or worse this way.

[cpt_ressentiment]

Wait, first time? Seriously? I had no idea - I guess I just assumed, 'cause I've only been here a few days.

[ He's got a lot of catching up to do about this place, and it's starting to feel like he showed up right after some serious game-changers... ]

Honestly, until we hook up with the others? [ Because there is no "if," he's not standing for losing his partner, thanks. ] I'm gonna go with worse. But... I guess we'll just have to see.

[fatalstriker]

Can't argue that. Not exactly thrilled with being separated either.

[yuri's not standing for being separated from his own best friend, either. he knows flynn can handle himself, but like hell he really trusts the ones who are in charge of these excursions.]

Might not be permanent, and that wouldn't be so bad. These guys don't instill much faith, but it's hard to tell if they're better or worse than whatever CERES is up to.

If I'm spamming you, let me know!, phase I

[cresthopes]

[With how much he's been falling off cliffs in the Digital World, he should be use to falling off such dangerous heights. Although, now without his friends around, it was really odd to look straight down from the ledge. To think, he would be told to voluntary jump after falling from dangerous heights so many times.

Still, as he stared from the ledge, he looked at Patamon before giving a sigh]

I don't know...how do we know that we're not going to fall? It would be really bad if we did!

no shhh you're always welcome here!

[fatalstriker]

Don't think we can know unless one of us is gonna start predicting the future.

[yuri, those are not comforting words to say to a child. he'll follow up with something a little more helpful, though.]

The first step's to not look straight down. That ain't gonna help you. The second is... you just have to go for it. [he sighs.] Not like we have many other options, anyway.

spamming you into forever then!

[cresthopes]

It would be really nice if we could, we wouldn't have to worry if we're going to get hurt or not!

[And here, Yuri's sarcasm went completely over Takeru's head! However, he kept on mumbling to himself]

I guess not but it's still mean that he wants us to jump onto him! Why can't he just come over to us and we'll just climb on? It seems a lot easier that way!

excellent! scoops up...

[fatalstriker]

[sometimes it's not a bad thing that his sarcasm goes over someone's head. takeru's still young and innocent enough for that, he guesses.]

Cloudman's not really into making things easy for any of us. I'm pretty sure this much is his idea of being nice.