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TEAM FOUR EVENT LOG
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 OneObjectives 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. |
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there stood a door indeed, resembling the inside of the cabin they had been in with magnus. the most he does is give it a glance, and without sparing it more of his time, he continues trekking toward the soft pull of water ripples. ]
We don’t need it.
[ not right now, they didn’t. as good of a distraction that was, eren doesn’t fall in, and does what he has set out to do: pull the harpoon up near the water’s shoreline and look for a boat. the water gleams, brightly like they’re full of precious stones. ]
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...no. Eren is right.
[A third shake of her head.]
A distraction like this appears just before we look into the water? Something must be trying to divert our attention.
[For a trap, this was an...obvious one. If it was a trap. But they had other things to do first, and if the door was still there when they had exhausted all the other options it might be worth revisiting. Now, though, Amelia backed away, keeping an eye on the door as she turned for the coastline.]
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Right, time to focus. She whistles to Koromaru, and the two of them jog to catch up.]
Any luck? If we can't find a boat, I can fly us over.
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Doesn’t look like it. [ eren shakes his head out of thought, still planning and working internally and taking his steps over to the bridge and closer to the slushing waves. it actually . . . looks really shiny, as if there were pebbles, or scales underneath the sheet of crystalline waters, reflecting off the bridge’s surface. they almost look like jewel, and out of curiosity, especially after the information they gathered, eren crouches down. after a moment, he reaches in— ] Think you can fly us low enough to— look?
[ the bridge moves. it jerks and slips, coils into a spiral and throwing eren back as he does. in front of them spins a massive beast, rising from the blue, scales flaring and jaws snapped wide in a hiss that sounded like a gale. the water is no longer still, but thrashing as it holds its tail. ]
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And the only bridge to the water was suddenly no longer a bridge. Amelia jerked in surprise--reflexively catching Eren as he flew backwards.
Amelia didn't call out to announce the danger. That threshold had gone sailing past them. She set Eren down, hands curled clawlike. Looking up at the serpent, fear was not one of the things she felt. It was anger--the same indignant ire the wolves first stoked into flame. The monster was a challenge, not an existential terror.]
Do you think- [it was a question hissed between nearly-clenched teeth, as Amelia tried to get ahold of herself] -it can be reasoned with?
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[Minako hangs back a bit, though, waiting for her chance...and then the serpent releases its strangely glittering tail and roars at them, masking the crack of her Evoker as she fires it off behind the others' backs. A serpent-like dragon rockets off into the sky, carrying Minako on its back with it.]
Heeeey! Hey, Jormungandr or whoever you are! Can we talk?
[The serpent answers by snapping its massive head in their direction. With a shout, Minako and Samael manage to whip away just in time, starting to circle around the giant beast to keep its attention while Eren and Amelia get ready for a fight.
Because please take note, friends: it doesn't want to talk.]
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this wasn’t like magnus. magnus waited. the beast waits much less as it pins its head back and strikes the air the dragon glides on. there’s no discussion, and the terms are made clear; it hides its tail from them, in the light flickering a bright gem with the mark of an animal’s paw.
eren draws his blades, more natural than the harpoon and less devistating than a shift— he feels the stakes rise and his resolve harden into a monster itself, one that’s prepared to fight by all means necessary. if they needed a titan, he’d renounce this stance, but for now . . .
he prepares to take to the air, ready to join minako and calling back to amelia. ]
We got our answer! [ there was no hesitation here. the serpent’s intentions were primal and clear, and with a snap from his wire’s to the snake’s hide, compressed air shoots him forward in an airborn dance. ] The key’s right there!
[ whether it’s eren’s sheer force or the aftershock of emotional burst from his heartstone, it’s fiery, fierce and available to all that need the intense boost: fight! ]
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And Amelia did not choose irrelevance.
She didn't need to reach very far to find that chaotic beast in her mind. Like it was a second skin, an old friend--a shadow at her feet. Just a touch, one thought connecting another--and Amelia's human form smoldered away into white light, one bipedal form burning away into another. One that expanded and rose, until her many-horned head crested the roofs of the houses. Barely so--and it was nothing compared to the serpent.
It didn't stop her from roaring at the monster, wings flared high to make herself larger, more noticeable. Pay no mind to the hooks in your hide or the beast in the air, your opponent was here.]
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Up in the air, Minako curses under her breath as she watches the key go down into the water. Kartikeya is obviously the best choice for striking at this sea snake, but she doesn't want to risk electrocuting Eren, either. She needs to focus her attacks on it away from the water. With a word from his summoner, Samael zips back to where her airborne companion is.]
I'll help Amelia keep it busy and try to draw out its tail! You go for the key!
[A gunshot to the head, and then her dragon disappears into blue shards of light beneath her, leaving her free-falling in the air for half a second until a giant peacock and its rider burst into existence and catch her on its back. They dive bomb down, sending a ream of lightning strikes down right on the crown of its head enough to make it spasm.]
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Got it!!
[ eren yells to affirm that he heard that and agrees, gaining heights and momentum as he spins into the air and snaps his hooks free off the beast. he hovers in brief free fall, just in time for it to receive the blow and quiver beneath its own coils from snaps of electricity. it snarls, angered as it rises once more to face its more immediate challenger— a dragon, a thing of scales and claws, of horns that dare to rival its own, but a size that could make it sneer. wrong it is, as it strikes rapidly with teeth as a cobra would, a hiss in every lunge, destroying the ground the waves crash against.
had the beast been able to admit things, the wing span is rather startling. eren watches, always in movement, and when his eyes hatch the twinkle of the gem in the day’s light, he shoots for it, making any twist and turn he had to, to mold into the parallel combat and give them more than enough room. it didn’t matter how many times he had to try, but every opening had to be taken. ]
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The snake had really sharp teeth, that was not so good.
The first strike Amelia was able to fend off with her claws, raking them across the serpent's nose. It withdrew, only for its head to snap back lightning-quick, engulfing the dragon's arm and side with teeth. The scales on her back were too heavy for the creature to make much headway there, but the lower teeth punched through to the dragon's side. Amelia roared, raking her other arm forward against the serpent's eye and tearing her shoulder back out of its jaws. The spikes there gouged into the roof of the serpent's mouth, and it let go with a furious hiss--only for electricity to spike into its head, crackling across its skull and leaving an acrid burn in the air.
Despite the pain in her side, she couldn't stay here on the ground. Too slow. The black dragon kicked off the ground, fanning her wings forwards and back with enough force to clip a chimney off the nearest house. But by the time the serpent recovered, she was airborne.
Amelia was much clumsier in the air than the other dragon had been--her only experience with flight was that brief time she'd spent as a bird, and that was different. She circled in front of the snake's head, blood from her wound was still streaming down her flank, but in her adrenaline haze she barely noticed.]
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The snake finds Amelia much easier prey now that it doesn't have to crane its neck down to her, and it's prepared to devour her right out of the sky, its glittering tail bobbing in and out of the water just out of Eren's reach as it shifts towards her. But the arrow storm changes its focus, and it whips its head around to try and unseat Minako and her summon. The two of them continue to fly backwards out of reach, goading the serpent further inland.
Enraged, it continues on this rampage, swinging its giant head around back and forth not unlike an infinity symbol, rapidly and without stop, in an attempt to smack either of its opponents out of the air. As it does, more and more of the beast's body slides up out of the sea, seemingly without end. But within a few moments the body tapers off, and the tail emerges.
And continues to rise.]
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minako continues to fight; amelia, injured, continues to direct her aim. eren wasn’t about to stop his own objective when they’re giving him and trusting him with this chance. he wouldn’t let their work go to waste. the two larger enemies are enough to decoy its attention away from the zipping airman at the same level as its belly, and once again, he positions himself through acrobatics and raises his blades the same way he would attack the nape of a titan.
and he would’ve gotten a good swipe, had the rising serpent kept rising. it snaps its head downwards, in the direction the man with blades come, and with a defying hiss it snaps its tail away into its jaws and whirls, with eren still connected to its scales by wire. it’s too late to snap free from them, too dangerous even. he’ll be sent flying and hit the water like he would be speeding into concrete— so he braces himself and puts his faith in his teammates. he was never really a fan of giant frisbee rides, and now he never will be. ]
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They raked across one of the beast's eyes as it passed, gouging across the orb and catching on the sharp ridges of the skull. The serpent shrieked, spitting its tail out of its jaws to twist and thrash away in vain from the thing in its eye. The force felt like it was going to rip even Amelia's arms from their sockets, pushing her backwards in the air before her wings clawed back into an upstroke, lifting her up along with the snake's head as a screeching, angry deadlift.]
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It creates the exact opening she needs. The peacock dives, and Minako bails off, firing off the Evoker as she falls. Using her spears, she stabs into the scales and hangs on for dear life as she plummets down even further, until she finally comes to a jerking stop somewhere a quarter down the serpent's back.
With Kartikeya gone, she's lost her means of flight, but in its place is a beautiful, statue-like Persona composed of three one-winged women standing around a giant clock. Minako struggles to right herself, turning her head towards Eren, praying he's still secured to the serpent with his rigging.]
Hang on!
[Norn's three wings flap delicately, and an enormous tornado explodes to life near Eren to answer her call, lifting the serpent's jeweled tail up into the air through the sheer force and strength of its winds. It lasts for a good five seconds, and then the winds peter out as quickly as they formed. The tail slowly drops again.]
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clumsily, he breaks free from the snake as soon as the opening permits it, veering inelegantly into the ground away from it, only then forcing himself to stumble back onto his feet, to stand and face their situation. he doesn’t plan on acting sooner than later, his ribcage expanding to harsh breaths.
the snake has yet to fall defeated to the three— after a suspecting stretch of silence, the beast’s ragged huffs spring to life in a desperate assault, its last card. it whips its head, its body, it wails like an animal that had no where else to flee to, having a preference for swinging with the side that still preserved an eye socket.
eren sees his chance where the bloody gash eats through the snake’s right side, unguarded and chipped. with the strength in his legs and stiffened vision gaining confidence, he attempts again, blades out and angling his hooks to its shell in another blast of wind. ]
Keep its attention!!
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As the winds faded, the creature thrashed to new life, tossing its head like it was trying to rid itself of an annoying parasite. The dragon bared her teeth even as each toss threatened to compress her spine and jaws, but her claws began to come loose. She tried to readjust her grip--at just the wrong time.
The snake snapped its head to the side and her claws tore loose, wings flaring--but unable to catch herself in time, she was moving too fast too close to the ground. The black dragon smashed into a house, demolishing the roof and upper floors in a hail of broken shingle and splinters. The indignant roar Amelia voiced didn't end with the cloud of debris.]
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The vicious wound Amelia inflicted on the snake's eye makes it all the more easier to hurt it, and the giant serpent writhes wildly, screeching now in equal parts pain and rage as arcs of electricity jump off its scales. One particularly strong bolt of lightning stuns it, and it sways in place, eyes glazed over.
Minako could kill it right here and now with several more Maziodynes. But she doesn't want to. Even if it has been hostile, if it's a legendary beast as many signs seem to point to, then it would be wrong to end its life like this. So after one last round of lightning, she has Kartikeya back up, hovering nearby only to ensure that it doesn't act up again.]
Eren! Now's your chance!
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make it count.
eren swears he sees the neck of a titan when he does this, and it feels almost right. in a split second slash, the tip of the beast’s tail is pierced enough to detach its flesh. it releases a painful outcry, perhaps not out of the actual injury inflicted, but because of the precious treasure being taken from it. it’s cries turn to shrills, and in beaten breaths of distress it rolls in its anguish on land.
and flying back to them (fast, he’s worried about amelia) is eren, the sound of his working wires whirring and humming through the air, a ribbon of blood and flesh following until he breaks it free and throws it; the only thing in his hands now a bright blue gem. ]
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Her wings were splayed against the walls of the foyer instead of crushed beneath herself, a small blessing; nothing seemed broken, but there was doubtless a sprain somewhere. The dragon's scales might have protected her from the worst of the sharp edges and splinters, but they didn't help with the blunt force trauma.
Amelia lifted her head slowly from the splintered ruin of the dining table and chairs, teeth bared in a grimace. She set her claws into the remains of the stairs and second floor to pull herself upwards. Wood creaked and groaned in complaint, but Amelia was past caring about property damage. From what she could hear, the battle was still going on, she was still needed.
With great effort, the dragon got her feet back under herself and stood, horned head cresting the broken roof. Finally able to see, she...didn't see the serpent. At least not in the air.]
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Once she affirms that Eren's zipping back to shore with the key in hand, she has Kartikeya wheel around towards Amelia as well. Another crack of a gun, another free fall, and another serpent-like dragon, instead this time it glimmers white instead of black. He pauses on the ruined threshold of the house the dragon woman crashed into, Minako peering over his head down at her.]
Hold still, Amelia, I'm going to heal you now.
[A soft golden light encircles the area, affecting Eren as well once he reaches them, gently but swiftly easing pain and sealing wounds.
Minako promptly slumps over the front of her dragon. He floats to the ground before disappearing beneath her, her body creating a small crater in the sand where she lands in a heap.]
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he inhales and exhales as he clips his handles away in their holsters, a little heavy and rapid, nostrils flared and hands shaking. he’s still running on the crash of adrenaline brought by the mix of battle and a memory, tearing through tail with as much fury as when he had ripped another young man from the neck of a titan, angrily slicing through his limbs until he was nothing but a torso to pull out.
it’s hard to ignore the contagious fury of the past, and he knows he needs to calm himself. near him team, he holds out the treasure. ]
We did it.
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The aches and sprains vanished, as if eased away in a warm bath. And that throbbing wound punched through her side stopped troubling her just as quickly, enough that Amelia looked down at it in alarm. The blood she'd already lost was still spilling down her scales, but the angry puncture was nowhere in sight. By the time Amelia looked up again, the white dragon had disappeared. She clambered out and over the ruins of the house, but found nothing on the other side except Eren and Minako.
She was reluctant to leave this form just yet, in case the snake came back. As her great feet thumped to the ground and she stared down at Minako crumpled down there, though, this form seemed a bit...problematic. Amelia spent a relatively long time trying to figure out if she could safely pick Minako up or not. Even her claws had claws, there were a lot of pointy things on her.
Glancing at the stone in Eren's hands was the last tipping point, though. The dragon's red eyes closed, and the fatigue hit her all at once. This form slipped out of her hands, the dragon dissolving into a shrinking light until she no longer towered, but resembled an ordinary person stepping out of the glow.
The older woman knelt a bit unsteadily, reaching for Minako's shoulder. She glanced at the gem in Eren's hands while she was at it.]
We should leave. Before the serpent returns.
[If it did. Amelia didn't have much sympathy for it.]
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Great job, Eren...go team...and I agree, let's go.
[She doesn't really inspire much urgency, though, struggling to at least prop herself up on her elbows at Amelia's touch to her shoulder. There are at least half a dozen healing items in her backpack, but she opts to leave them for now, just in case there might be more trials ahead, and pushes herself into a sitting position through sheer willpower.
It only makes her dizzier, and she goes stock still in a concerted effort to not throw up.]
Might. Need some help standing.
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I got magic food in my other pocket. [ if she needs it for a quick up in energy, it’s all hers. a door swings open yet again, to the cabin, and this time they could take it. before he starts moving, he’ll ask amelia, holding out his free hand. ] You need help, too?
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