[Event] Invasion!

[soul_mods]

Characters: OPEN to everyone!
Location: All over Death City
Rating: Various
Time: February 2nd
Description: Witches have invaded and are attacking the city!

The attack, when it comes, happens quickly enough that Death City would have been caught flat-footed had there been no prior warning, but it's not completely unexpected because of the city's heightened state of alarm the past day. Warning sirens start sounding to alert the citizens and guests the moment a dark, slow-moving mass out in the desert to the south-east of Death City is spotted by Shibusen sentries. There's even time for civilians to run and hide before the mass is identified as an army of what looks like decaying, shambling corpses. The city's defenders are slow to move, however; most of them are distracted and are having trouble dealing with the black blood in their bodies. While agents are gathering to head out to deal with the zombie threat, that's when the witches make their move.

Portals begin opening in the skies above the city, disgorging hideous familiars: bulbous spiders and leggy ants the size of dogs. They drop hundreds of feet down into the streets and alleyways of Death City, and scuttle off in search of victims. The spiders are poisonous and can spin copious amounts of web to capture their targets, the ants spit acid that cause agonizing, paralyzing pain. Their masters bear down on the city in a cloud of black shadows--massive ravens strong enough to carry off adult men. There are five witches, women on broomsticks, beautiful if not for their crazed grins and obvious glee at the chaos descending upon the city. At some unknown signal--maybe the cackling from a couple of them--they dive in concert and disappear into different areas of the city.

Their masterful plan has begun!



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[aiursfavoredson]

"They will be handled," Tassadar said in reply before he dashed off down the alleyway. He had faith that the young human could hold his own, and instead ran by the cobwebs sticking to the high walls and deeper into the area. It didn't take long for him to catch the scent of the arachnid's on the air, or much longer after that to see three completely different sets of eyes turning his way.

Eyes flashing yellow, the templar momentarily allowed his mind to touch that of the spiders as he began to build a hallucination within them. The spiders soon saw a whole horde of zerglings running alongside Tassadar as he barraged his way down the alleyway. Aiming for what they believed to be the zerglings, the spiders were in fact hitting nothing but air as the templar leapt in to slash the first one down.

[topgun_textiles]

He held off the horde of zombies that, just as he thought, could only come in by the threes at best of they were shoulder-to-shoulder in the narrow alleyway. It was a matter of timing the swings of the lead pipe, and knowing when to throw a punch instead.

As the zombies fell, buying Tassadar space and time, they became an obstacle for the remainder of the horde, who had to climb over and make themselves known to Kanji before they were beaten down.

He snuck a glance over his shoulder once or twice as he worked. The spiders were acting weird, hissing and flexing their fangs at the air around them, legs flailing as his companion was making short work of them.

[aiursfavoredson]

He knew that he couldn't keep the connection with them for long, knowing that doing so would endanger not only himself, but everyone within this city. That was why he pulled his mind back from the spiders when he felt the twitch itching within his thoughts. It was how it had started the last time, but he hadn't known of that limitation when he'd first arrived.

The spiders were fortunately confused after the images of the zerglings disappeared. Tassadar took advantage of that as he slashed at the dazed and confused arachnids. The last few fell without too much effort, even if his feet had gotten caught in the sticky web.

[topgun_textiles]

The zombies formed a nice waist-high wall by the time the horde petered out, and he turned back to check on Tassadar. He'd wrecked the arachnids, but it looked like the webbing had caught his feet.

Kanji quickly reached into his coat pocket, and after a moment he pulled out a small knife. Typically used for cutting tougher fabrics and the like that his scissors couldn't handle, he figured it might help against the webbing.

Without thinking of whether or not this guy needed the help, he still made a dash over.

"Don't move too much, or it's gonna wrap up n' stick a lot more!" He dropped to his knees and started cutting.