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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] recolle2018-02-09 05:52 pm

TEAM FOUR EVENT LOG

MAGATUS
READY: START.

Roster: Noah Isaacs + Gunther Schwarz, Gintaro Suzukaze + Elda Marker, Dave Strider + Byakuya Kirigiri, Shouto Todoroki + Akira Kurusu, Eren Jaeger + Yusuke Kitagawa, Soleil Beaufort + Vera Weisz, Alessandro Vinsmoke + Yu Narukami, Cleo Ritter + Minako Arisato, Penelope Raban + Olive Freya Yun, Orihime Inoue + Matthew Murdock, Ryouta Ono + Baren Kaiyou, Prompto Argentum + Keigo Higashino, Zaveid Taleb + Ragna Edgson, Amelia Wagner + Kasen Kaneda


On the morning of the fourth at 9am, you'll find yourself gathering at the Recollé Zoo and Aquarium. Many of you will find yourself partnered up and with a name in mind, and awaiting in front of you is a large bus with the Retrospec logo on the hood. A text comes through not long after, Zee's name attached.

I'm no Ms. Frazzle, but I think this bus will do the trick. Hope you packed a book or something.


Upon boarding the bus you'll find that's it's equipped for a longer road trip. There are snacks, books, video game consoles, and even a few beds and bathrooms. Just as well, seeing how you're going to be traveling north of the city, traveling through the woods for about seven hours. As you travel, the sky begins to change colors and the temperature drops toward the end of your journey. Outside the window you'll see a mountain range and snow on the ground, and stars streak across the sky as you enter the beautiful region of Magatus.



Permanently semi-dark with beautiful colors streaking across the sky, Magatus is filled with rivers, grass, coniferous trees and snow-capped mountains. The temperature is quite frigid, so travelers will need to bundle up!

The region known as Magatus is fairly open and while there may not a huge population like Recollé, there are small clusters of buildings and homes that characters can find by exploring this region. There is roughly 1,500 square miles to cover in the area claiming to be Magatus and some parts of this region may experiences changes in weather including heavy snow, ice, and blackouts.

Most of the towns are quaint and friendly though most people appear to mind their own business. If spoken to, they will explain that they’ve been enjoying their time alone and away from the hustle and bustle of city life, though it may be a little hard to know if this is actually true. Some of the younger ones will say they’ve lived here their whole life, but most will shy away from the topic of where they came from. Shops that can be found seem to range in the realm of basic general stores, hardware stores, mini foodmarts, and weaponry. The Magatus people truly live a simple life.

The true nature of this region doesn’t seem to come out until nightfall, however. As the light fades and the sky darkens, the colors brighten above and the sound of wolves begin howling nonstop. Depending, you may even hear the sound of snarling and growling, quick footsteps crunching through fresh snow and irritated barking. The townspeople know better than to stay out at night when the wolves run and the shadows dance, and they would advise that anyone from out of town take cover.

Too bad they won’t invite you in. You’re on your own out in the wilderness.


This is the Team Four Event Log! You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log.

Remember, your activity to qualify for your two free memories and one item is supplying at least 30 comments spread over the three objectives per group (minimum of 5 comments per objective!) with at least three members of your groups. You will not be eligible if you do not participate in all three objectives somehow, and you will not be eligible if you only stick with your preferred partner!

People who are paired with partners will experience some of the following:

-Telepathic connections, but only the thoughts you don’t want your partner to actually hear. You can also use this to influence your partner’s thoughts.
-Color fades when you’re not cooperating, it brightens when you are.
-Cause and effect. If something happens to your partner, you feel it (i.e. if your partner trips somewhere, you’ll feel the effects.)
-Timers. You and your partner will have a countdown embedded somewhere (hand, foot, chest, whatever) and if you don’t complete your missions and see each other before the timer runs out, consequences occur.

These are not required and you may play with these as little or as much as you want!

Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions, Participation Reporting, NPC questions. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links. You must ICly tap into the log within the first 48 hours, or you will be removed from your team.
If your activity is low per objective, the moderators may reach out to you about reassignment as well.

The schedule for Team Four is as follows:
Feb 3rd: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Threading for Travel to Location | Threading for Objective One
Objective 2: Info about Objective Two | Threading for Objective Two
Objective 3: Info about Objective Three | Threading for Objective Three | Objective Three point Five
Mar 3rd: Outro
Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work.
concasse: (wut↠ y'know jesus died for your sins)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-21 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

And after staring at the window for a few seconds:]


So how are you two shitheads getting up there?
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-21 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sure is a window for them all to stare at, huh? ]

Climbing up seems dangerous. I wonder if there are any ledges...

[ hang up he’s got to keep an eagle eye out rn ]
covenantal: (oo2.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-21 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
We could use another of my Personas. I could get us up there easily. I've still got energy to spare.

[ He cracks the knuckles of one hand, tilting his head slightly as he considers the tower. ]

... we'll just have to do it quickly enough to avoid the trouble at the bottom.
concasse: (sigh↠ that's just how it is)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-22 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
If you've got the energy, fine by me. [A scoff, like he's just. Given up on something.] Whenever you're ready.

[Whether he hitches a ride on Yu's Persona or just scales the thing by himself, y'know what? Sanji doesn't care, and rolls his shoulders into a shrug.

My oh my, whatever happened to that plan of keeping the pair from using up their spare energy?]


One at a time, or...?
covenantal: (o89.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-22 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I think, [ Yu says loudly, holding out a hand and crushing a tarot card, ] that you should take Yusuke. You two can manage, can't you?

[ Kohryu will appear over their heads. The monsters at the foot of the tower stir and get to their feet, the sound of their growls like the low groaning tumble of stone just before a rock slide.

Kohryu bows his massive head, and Yu will hop up. Just as blasé: ]


I'll see you two up there.

[ #hahabye #missme #suffer #nerds #getaroom ]
concasse: (wut↠ bigger fools than saints)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-22 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Holy shit that asshole just took off and left them here.

... Sanji is fuckin impressed. Well done, partner, he's proud of you.

However that does leave Sanji tensing when he picks up the telltale signs of beasts beginning to prowl, meaning Yusuke isn't given the courtesy of refusal this time. He turns to the other, not even apologetic so much as flabbergasted that this is their life, and just--

hooks an arm around Yusuke's waist

hauls him up over his shoulder like he's a bag of groceries]


Bitch at me later.

[and using a combination of leg strength and pure shonen bullshit, quite literally lunges up the tower wall, using a series of jumps and runs to fight off the gravity that pulls at their bodies.

Sanji's huffing by the time they reach the window, slipped through it and hopefully come to land wherever their third member is, but only because he's still reeling from Yu's betrayal. Once he sets Yusuke down on his feet:]


You weigh less than the groceries Baren brings me.
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-22 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ holy shit that asshole absolutely just took off and left them there. What is this betrayal.

Yusuke’s attention is caught by the growling and shifting of the monsters in the background, enough that he’s only aware of what Sanji is about to do when there’s an arm around his waist and he’s being flung over his shoulder with a surprised sound like some kind of ragdoll. His hands scrabble to find some kind of balance, and end up awkwardly gripping on to Sanji’s shoulder and what the heck this is apparently his life now. Just chillin’ while some guy tells gravity and the laws of physics to go fuck themselves.

Sure, why not.

Mercifully, he doesn’t wobble when set back on the ground - he finds his footing rather quickly... and then huffs. Rude. ]


I will not enquire about how many groceries you get through, if that’s the case. [ He’s slim but not that silm. Probably. ]
Edited (don’t tag when you first wake up) 2018-02-22 09:01 (UTC)
covenantal: (o53.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-22 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yu only had time to glance down and spot Sanji hauling Yusuke over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, but that was enough. He's laughing all the way through the window.

Well, maybe not all the way. He got shut up pretty fast by the state of things within. By the time Yusuke and Sanji drop in hahahahahaha Yu has Mada out again, the Persona doing its best to clear away some of the coals so Yusuke (and Sanji, if he needs it, not that he'd ever admit it if he did) has a place to stand.

He's trying to hush the other two as they speak, attempting to point out the brightly-colored gem that sits nestled among the other coals, but once again things happen too quickly. A bunch of demonic ass fire gophers pop up and immediately start spitting fire. ]


Scatter!

[ Yu will dodge, wishing he had his sword; but Mada will stay by Yusuke, to shield him if needed. ]
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-22 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yusuke has just enough time after hitting the ground to catch a sight of something sparkling in a matter that's different to the glowing of the coals on the ground. And the everything goes to hell, and he's ducking under a fireball that flies over his head and everything happens so much.

While he's sure that he's going to be fine with the boots that are part of his thieving outfit - thicker soles than the shoes he was wearing before. And unlike Yu, he does have a sword attached to his, which he rests a hand on ready to draw when needed. ]


Where did the gem go? [ It was there, but in the scuffle it seems to have vanished from where it was lying within easy grabbing distance before. ]
concasse: (fight↠ it's called kicking your ass)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-23 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[And unlike the other two--

Sanji doesn't dodge.

A fireball collides solidly with his outstretched leg, and there's a grit of teeth and then fire when all of Sanji catches alight, right before he kicks the attack back at its master. That shitty little gremlin doesn't have time to dodge.

It's not enough to kill it, but the creature squeals from the hit, flung back into a nearby wall and... and melting into it, much like the other creatures have done already. Because that's fair.]


So. [Straightening his stance] Fire works on 'em.

[That doesn't answer Yusuke's question, however, but it's soon a moot point when one of the gophers marks its reappearance in the wall by smiling at the group, revealing the jewel between its teeth.]
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scoots on in here real quick

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-24 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
... That's good to know.

[ ok sanji you, uh. you do you.

Still, that's interesting to note. If fire has a good effect on them, then it's unlikely ice would do much - if what he remembers from his memories of exploring Madarame's palace remain accurate here.

He's considering whether or not to just stick to his blade or attempt the wildly inadvisable plan of testing his new rifle in this tower, right now in the middle of all this insanity, and see if he can take potshots at the gophers from here. Hm.

But before he can decide, the gopher now carrying the jewel is making a reappearance, and he ends up acting on instinct instead. They've been vanishing into the wall like it was nothing, and somehow that jewel seems significant. It's only thing in this room that doesn't fit the fire and brimstone aesthetic, after all. So there's a flash, and Goemon shimmers above him, before moving out and swiping the giant pipe in his hands at the gopher with enough force to send it cracking back into the wall with an almost painful sounding crunch. ]
covenantal: (o21.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-24 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice shot!

[ Once the gopher slams into the wall, it ... well, for a moment it's stunned. But it quickly melts back into the wall, seemingly gone again, if likely injured at least a little.

Yu finds himself focusing on the other gophers for now, trying to slow them down or stun them. It's hard to count how many are even attacking them, the way they keep disappearing into the walls. The air roars with fire as Yu unleashes a few Agidyne spells courtesy of Mada.

It's not until one of his Agidyne spells actually cuts through a gopher that things change. The whole tower shakes and groans, sending Yu briefly stumbling. ]


What the?!

[ And then -- there's the gopher with the jewel, its head and side a cool dark black. ]
concasse: (pissed↠ gettin' down to business)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-24 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well shit. The tower shakes in his peripheral and Sanji steels into place, mouth set into a thin line as he considers hauling Yu and Yusuke out the window. Is it because Yu managed to kill one of the gophers? If so, what a cheap-ass trick to throw at them at the last inning.

What stays his instincts is that damned gopher showing up again, still alive but now easily distinguishable from the rest.]


Oi! Focus on that one. [mindful of the fireballs still lobbed in their direction, Sanji kicks another back at their enemies.]

Don't kill any of the other bastards if you can help it!
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-24 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yusuke stumbles to one side in the wobbling and shaking of the tower, catching his balance just before he falls. He'd seen Yu take out one of the golems, not the one from before that he'd attacked-- was that...? ]

Are they tied to the tower...?

[ He side steps one of the other gophers, cracking one aside with a little less force than Goemon is able of and scanning the others for the one from before. That one needs something more than a crack on it's back to differentiate it... so when he's close enough, he flips out the blade at his side and darts forwards, slashing it across the front of the gopher. It moves back before he can really carve a slice out of it, but it should be enough to nick the front of it notably. ]

There...!
covenantal: (o75.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-24 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Not sure I want to find out...

[ The gopher with the jewel is back. Thanks to Yusuke's setup, now they'll be able to knock it down much more easily. The gopher sprints away, aiming to leap back into the wall. ]

No you don't!

[ Yu unleashes another Agidyne. With a screech the gopher is flung into one of its companions, and they both go flying to land in a tangle on the floor. ]
concasse: (shock↠ holy christmas crackers batman!)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-24 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hn... That was almost too easy. Sanji watches the gophers fall into a pile before he's on the hunt, hastily running through the coals to reach them. If they morph back into the floor before someone reaches the jewel --

But he succeeds, grabbing the stone from the beast's teeth (jesus it's warm). Damn right he's still suspicious of how smoothly everything has gone, but he's not gonna complain about it either, already shooting a glance over his shoulder]


Oi, got it--!!

[The triumph in his voice is cut a short when Sanji descends into cursing, as turns out the gophers aren't keen on having their precious stone taken from them. He has to duck and dodge when the fireballs increase in number, causing the air to ripple with heat waves.]
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-25 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ The shout is enough to draw Yusuke's attention -- just in time to see that flurry of fireballs tearing through the air.

Summoning Goemon once more is instinctive, flinging up a wall of ice between the fireballs and the three of them. It won't last, he knows that, but it gives them a brief reprieve. Even if, with the intensity of that heat, it will likely only be brief. ]
covenantal: (o53.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-25 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
We need to get out of here, now!

[ But it's almost impossible with the way the gophers are swarming. Yu has Mada knock them aside, but he can't risk too many more spells -- he'll run dangerously low on energy soon. But knocking them away barely even deters them. ]

We have to take some of them out, there's no choice!
concasse: (grr↠ shut up you're ugly)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[The wall of ice keeps the worst of the volley off them -- but only momentarily, to his frustration. It's a reprieve, nothing more. But it still provides enough of a window for Sanji to sneak out before the gophers ready their second attack, having already come to the conclusion Yu yells.

Playtime is over. Go in for the kill.

And so he does, either smacking back attacks or simply kicking the monsters into the walls, and grits his teeth through any counterattack that manages to graze him. When one of the gophers twitches and then stops moving, the tower above them rumbles its dissent, large cracks starting to shoot down the blackened stone like spiderwebs.]
Edited 2018-02-25 02:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-25 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They need to get out of here, and as far as he's aware the only way that won't send them flying into the path of those creatures they avoided earlier is out through that window again.

He's trying to just knock the gophers out of the way so someone can get out of the window un-ambushed. Hopefully. But there are a lot of them, and the do seem to be fond of running into his blade - another one crumbles and cracks under the flat of his katana, and the tower gives another ominous rumble as a shower of stone and dust litters the ground below. ]
concasse: (angry↠ you're worth a tenth of me)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-25 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sanji doesn't even try for the window yet. His concentration is split as it is, stretched thin from keeping track of the attacks, and it doesn't help that some of the gophers know he has the jewel. Another monster is tossed to the side, side-swiped out of the way as it crumbles to its death, and the tower doesn't just shudder this time --

Whole chunks of stone begin to fall like meteors and crash into the ground with such force that the coal spits up in waves. And Sanji realizes too late the problem here. When one of the broken pieces of tower collides with the monster, the damn thing is crushed instantly.

More of the tower collapses. More debris falls. More of the monsters are killed. And what started as a slow burn has ignited into a forest fire that's gonna kill them if they don't--]


We have to leave. [Running for that window] Now! Everyone get the hell out of here!
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[personal profile] covenantal 2018-02-25 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ In the middle of all this confusion, Yu switches Personas.

This means a couple of things, most notably that he no longer has fire resistance. But this also means he can have his Persona start physically attacking the gophers so that he doesn't have to waste more of his stamina. The tradeoff is that it actually hurts him, but he thinks he can sustain it long enough to get them out of there, get them safe--

Until the cascade starts.

It happens so quickly. It's so loud, the scream of stone and fire, and it happens all at once as more gophers die and the whole tower starts to cave in around them.

Yu has barely enough time to look back over his shoulder and realize a huge chunk of stone is coming loose right above the window. Sanji and Yusuke will be crushed. ]


No!

[ His Persona moves. The tower wall will simply explode outward in a hail of huge stones as Sraosha actually attacks the wall, clearing the way for Sanji and Yusuke to escape.

Which leaves him unguarded as the tower collapses onto him, burying him in rubble. It happens as fast as you can blink.

Sraosha disappears. ]
concasse: (injured↠ this is as bad as it looks)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-25 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[It had never been discussed between them, but Sanji had known to block out the thoughts and emotions flooding his connection with Yu once the fighting started. Treat it as unfortunate background noise, just a bunch of static and smoke. Whatever said or thought wouldn't be held against the other when they were both under pressure.

-- but the pain--

There's someone screaming and only when the world erupts into fire, when the voice screeching in his ear starts to go hoarse does Sanji realize it's him, and the world tilts sharply as he crashes into something (a wall, Yusuke, the ground, he doesn't know he can't see). The pressure builds like a thousand stones crushed against his head and abdomen until breathing is unbearable--

The land is already made of lava; nothing with catch fire more than it already is. But the flames flare around his body like a vortex as he continues to scream.]
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[personal profile] fabrefactions 2018-02-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it what feels like a split second, the everything goes from panicked and a little on edge to... just an unmitigated disaster. It takes him a moment to realise just what happened, when Yu's Persona seems to vanish like a candle being snuffed out, and the sudden gaping hole in the wall where they'd been trapped in.

And then there's just panic - ringing in his head, pained yelling that causes his chest to clench with fear and worry and he can't see Yu anywhere, and--

and he needs to focus. ]


Goemon--!

[ He barely has enough time to watch Goemon burst into action, moving to the fallen rocks to knock as many as he can aside in order to free Yu, and quickly--quicker. He feels his vision waver slightly as Goemon does as he asks, going from knocking them aside to smashing them as fast as Yusuke can stand to keep him going. But he can't sit and wait for Goemon to be done.

Even with a blur in his vision, he's able to scramble across some of the fallen debris, but not able to get any closer while the entire area around Sanji is covered in fire and heat. He... ... what is he supposed to do?

He doesn't know what to do. Until those rocks are moved, Sanji will still be in pain, and Yu is still trapped--- ]


...

[ ... ]

I... [ Dammit all to hell. ] I can't help you while you're setting everything on fire...! [ A glance behind him shows that Goemon is still pulling stone away, quicker than Yusuke could manage alone, but the longer he's out the slower and heavier his body is starting to feel. ]
concasse: (blank↠ srs bzns afoot)

[personal profile] concasse 2018-02-25 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He knows he knows he fuckin knows--

There are needles in his throat with every swallow, his lungs are filled with soot and ash, and his vision blurs in and out like a filter -- stupid details for him to focus on, but his mind jumps for anything that will grant him reprieve. He grits his teeth and curls in on himself with his arms wrapped around himself, until the screams have nowhere to go but back to his abdomen.

He's gonna kick Yu's ass, he swears to himself. Break every stupid rib in that asshole's body, the fuck does he think he's doing, getting hurt on his watch -- (breathe, keep breathing, in and out)-- and when Sanji had made a promise to his swordsman, too, not even ten minutes ago, to not die without permission -- what a joke, everyone here is twisting his arm.

Slowly, the fire retreats into a coil around his body, so that Yusuke can approach the debris-fallen tower with their comrade still missing.]

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