soul_mods: (Witch's Soul)
Soul Campaign Moderation Journal ([personal profile] soul_mods) wrote in [community profile] soul_logs2012-08-24 09:51 pm

[OPEN] Mission 155

Characters: Open to those who signed up here.
Location: An unmarked cavern system outside Death City.
Rating: Various.
Time: March 18th, sunrise.
Description: Shibusen agents brave underwater caverns to take out the first of three Madness emitters.

Missiongoers pile out of the mirrors early in the morning, just as the first hints of sun start to color the walls of the sandstone canyon red and purple; it'll be the last bits of real light they'll see for at least a few hours. The atmosphere is electric -- there're quite a few new (and old) arrivals who're eager to see some action, but just as many people who're feeling rather more apprehensive… And for good reason.

The only way to their destination is blocked by a few hundred yards of sunken tunnels. Luckily they've been provided with mouthpieces, breathing apparatuses with enough oxygen to last about ten minutes: more than enough time, provided that the guests don't lose their way in the dimly-lit, twisted caverns. It's as easy as following the person in front of them, right?

Upon emerging safely from the pool onto mostly-dry land, they'll find themselves in an immense cavern, illuminated by countless, blue fungi clinging to the walls and ceiling, looking like stars dotting a night sky. Already the first signs of the way Madness has been corrupting the wildlife are evident: the mushrooms exude strange spores that make some people's head pound the same way the increasingly noticeable Madness wavelength does.

As they travel further into the watery caves and explore its many branches, they'll begin to encounter creatures twisted by Madness: moles, snakes, beetles, centipedes, all grown to monstrous proportions, some with a venomous bite that quickly turns their victim feverish and delirious. The more daring fighters can easily dispatch those and delve even deeper, and it's near the source of the Madness, in the chamber housing the emitter itself, that they'll encounter the kishin eggs.

There're dozens of them-- eyeless, white, vaguely human-shaped things, but despite their blindness they have no problem finding their quarry, fighting with claws and exuding their own Madness wavelength. If the missiongoers can stand strong against the kishin eggs and the ever-present wavelength given off by the Madness emitter, Shibusen's specialists will have enough time to shut the machine down for good.


OOC NOTES.
- The event summary post containing all relevant links is located here.
- Make your own threads, but please indicate in your subject line [CHARACTER(S) | LOCATION | OPEN/CLOSED] and, if applicable, if you need a kishin egg NPC!
- The locations are the sunken tunnels, the medics area, the cave system, and the emitter chamber, but only the medics will have their designated sub-thread.
- If you have any further questions, the mod thread on the coordination post is here!
feelsgoodinyou: (collector)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-08-31 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
He had, but rather hell would freeze over before he let a guy he didn't trust get anywhere near close to his weapons.

'Forget it. They're full with things I actually need.' Unlike certain clingy former hosts who looked just as unreliable in their Weapon form as they were in their true one.
shiromadoushi: (Dice: Inside)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-08-31 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
'I'm not letting go,' Bakura responded stubbornly. 'This is the only defense I have against the Madness and from getting hurt!'

There was a silent, almost resenting 'You took my gun, what else am I supposed to do?' only half audible follow up, not one directed, but bitterly sent none the less. Without a Meister and without his pistol, he had no way to do anything. All he could do was hide in dice form to keep from going Mad and making things worse.
feelsgoodinyou: (you're making me angry)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-08-31 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
He scowled as he finally caught the D10 in one of his hands. Great, the monsters outside and a host who insisted on being stubborn in here. 'I didn't see you trying to use it.'

Unlike Ryou Bakura was feeling well being exposed to the madness wavelength, drawing from it as if he were soaking in the warming rays of the sun. Staring at the monsters, he wondered for a moment when it had gotten like that and if it meant that he and them were the same. At first it had been bothering him too, back when he had been a human. But somewhere along the way it had turned from displeasure to something normal and later even familiar and welcoming to him. He wants to blame that thing for it but he knows that it's a result of him becoming what he was long before he had been killed and his remnants forced to become- He cut the thought short with a hiss as he gritted his teeth. Damn host, whenever he got close like that he made him think about pointless things that were way in the past!
shiromadoushi: (Dice)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-08-31 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
'Sorry if I can't load a gun while running in a twisty maze of caves all alike!' Bakura snapped back, unknowingly referring to the video game that shared the name of the thing that his double was thinking of. It just... seemed a proper reference. It was dark and he was likely to be eaten by a Kishin.

feelsgoodinyou: (fuck off!)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-08-31 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He tsk-ed, already half tempted to sock the cheeky little thing into some monster's face again.

'That's why you modern day people are far better victims than fighters! Zero survival skills!' To make a point, he aimed the gun and shot the monster once more. "And you take your dirty paws out of here!!"
shiromadoushi: (Dice)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-08-31 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a wave of aggravated frustration in return. 'Says the one who's being too stubborn to fight the way that works in this place,' Bakura returned. 'Stop wasting my bullets on things you can't kill with them!'
feelsgoodinyou: (STFU)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-08-31 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
He gave him an annoyed look. He was tempted to cross his arms in front of his chest with a huff, but he resisted the urge to do it, one, because that gesture'd be way to girly for a proud thief like him and two, because it'd be kind of pointless when you hold the person you're arguing with in your hand.

'So then what?! Are you suggesting I use you?!'
Edited 2012-08-31 20:17 (UTC)
shiromadoushi: (As grr as it gets)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-08-31 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, he had to word it that way. Bakura bristled, stubbornness rising.

'If you could, it'd keep us both from being killed,' he returned. But it wasn't as if the Voice actually did anything to help that wasn't backstabbing or just trickery... he wouldn't be surprised if the reason that the Voice had been so vehement about not working with him was that he couldn't. The resonance had broken quickly both times, after all...
feelsgoodinyou: (twitch)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-08-31 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
He all but bristled physically at the suggestion. 'Are you trying to imply that I can't?!!'
shiromadoushi: (Generic)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-08-31 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
'Why else would you still be hiding in this hole and using weapons that can't kill what's trying to kill you?' Bakura returned, the edge of the Madness enhancing the irrationally pleased feeling that of having pissed off his double.
feelsgoodinyou: (do I have a choice?)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
'Because that's better than trying to rely on a guy who killed me once and keeps changing what he wants like a girl with PMS?'
shiromadoushi: (Sign: Don't underestimate me!)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-01 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
'You don't get to tell me I shouldn't be how I am and then insult me for trying to be different!' Bakura snapped. 'And if you'd ever listened to me none of that would have mattered anyway!'
feelsgoodinyou: (Baku: draw the cards)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-01 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
He gave the D10 a flat look.




Then he snipped it outward the opening, having it bounce right off the kishin egg's head.
shiromadoushi: (Dice: Inside)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-01 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
The red thread stayed attached as the die flew. As if it would be so easy...

However, the tumbling motion was enough as Bakura concentrated, pushing up on the 0 to make it land face up.

If the Ring wasn't going to do what was needed....

There was a seconds pause before the die zipped back to his double's hand, starting to glow brightly as Bakura poured all his frustration and anger into it. 'AIM!' he shouted.
Edited 2012-09-01 02:56 (UTC)
feelsgoodinyou: (double critical)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-01 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
He made a soft noise as he caught the die -and then promptly directed its aim towards the kishin egg on the other side in an surprise attack.

"Your turn." Despite the short notice he was working on his voice sounded as if it was just another particular cruel move that he had been working on all along.
shiromadoushi: (White Mage: Shiromadou!)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
There was just something that felt good having a valid target to aim the emotions that the Ring always brought to the surface at. Giving a yell, he pushed with all his will, visualizing his Monster World avatar as he did so, the anger and frustration from both himself and the Voice boosting the attack to be far stronger than it ever had been as it slammed into the Kishin at full intensity.

It was rare for Bakura's attack to take a Kishin out in one hit... maybe this one was lower level than the others he had faced with Leo and Vash... or maybe he was just that mad that it was working far better than before. It surely wasn't the support of the Voice, since there was no way he had that, right?
feelsgoodinyou: (roll the bones)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-02 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
He let out a low whistle as the monster was blown into smithereens. Who would have thought? That little, useless thing could be used for something good after all!

Tossing the die into the air, he caught it with his free hand. "Who would have thought? Looks like you've got some real fight in you after all." He smirked, turning towards the other monster.
shiromadoushi: (Dice)

... accidental Duelist Kingdom parallels here, I just realized. (lol)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-02 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The thread stayed firmly attached as Bakura was tossed, strengthened by the successful attack. There was still a bristling resentment, but it was infused with the need to prove that he wasn't weak. Unconsciously he leaned into the resonance more, as if replenishing the energy that it had taken to pull off the stronger attack. It was a different support from Vash and Leo... the warmth in this connection was like a fire, dangerous and unpredictable, but also far too familiar. Was this what the Ring had stolen from him? The strength he only seemed to have when he was fighting him?

Or was it just that it was only when dealing with the Ring that he could forget everything else because all that mattered was that fight?

'Just roll.' Two in rapid succession would tire him, but he was used to it, and there was an undeniable high he was feeling from the first attack. The background buzz of the Madness around him for once wasn't making him curl in on himself, but instead lash outwards. If he would have realized that the combination of that and the close resonation with his doppelganger was bringing him closer to acting like him, he would have violently rejected that connection, but as it was, all he was thinking was the focus on taking out those Kishin and getting out of that hole.
feelsgoodinyou: (bet on it~)

at least the kishin eggs are less obnoxious xD

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-03 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Feeling the effect he had on his host, his smirk grew even wider. Ahh, nothing corrupted a quickly and utterly as the innocent and the righteous, wasn't it? It was truly ironic and full of delicious irony.

Deciding to go along for now with his host's demand, he let the die land on the floor in an all too casual manner that had the remaining kishin egg stop and stare at him suspiciously from unseeing eyes.

"Nothing like fire to fight fire, right?"
shiromadoushi: (Dice)

And don't speak in rhyme :D

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-03 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Another 0.

Seconds later the die was back in the darker Bakura's hand, glowing brightly, Bakura blocking out anything that his double was implying to focus on the attack, reaching behind him to pull on the other's energy to feed his own.

The attack was almost blinding and left Bakura feeling almost light headed. It was too much too quickly, but the feeling of something burning inside him when he channeled that attack had felt perversely good in a way he would never acknowledge.
feelsgoodinyou: (not even a challenge)

I can't decide whether rhyming kishin eggs would be awesome or horrible~

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-03 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
When he felt the silent request for power the thief gave it gladly, slipping it into his host's hand like a dagger into the one of a man mad enough with his life to commit murder. He also felt the same sort of satisfaction from it, a strange little wicked thing that had gotten much too less care within the last months.

As much as he had given, it felt refreshing to him. Low Life Points, high damage output. He liked that.

Giving the die that had gotten notable quite after its second attack a short glance, he brushed against his double's mind just long enough to make sure that he was still alive and sound. Finding nothing but exhaustion, he shoved the D10 into one of his pants pockets and strode over to catch one of the corrupted souls that were all that was left of the kishin eggs.
shiromadoushi: (Dice)

...I'm picturing Kishin Maze Brothers and it's HORRIFYING (lol)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-03 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Bakura flinched just a touch at the far too uncomfortably familiar feel of his double's mind pushing against his, but he was too tired to protest it. He had just about as much energy as was needed to retain his form.

...and at being suddenly in pocket and his senses dimmed from the barriers in contact, it was a bit of effort to keep from falling asleep. Instead he focused on keeping what connection was there open to see through his doppelganger's eyes. There was a touch of wariness as they reached the souls. Could he seal one inside him while this tired...?

...or would having that energy inside him help him recover faster...?
feelsgoodinyou: (let's eat)

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-03 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Bakura smirked as he caught the remnant of the former predator out of the air, the soul now being nothing more than a snack waiting to be eaten. From hunter to hunted within the roll of a die. Ha! Pathetic!

Smirking to himself, he couldn't resist the urge to chuckle darkly. Letting the sound roll from the back of his throat and wash past the dark tunnel's walls, the spirit all but reared in loud laughter over the pleasure of having won the fight and having done so in the most bloody, most ultimate manner.

Then he raised the soul to his mouth and opened it wide, sharp teeth ready to tear it to bits and leave nothing behind as he meant to consume it entirely. 'Itadakimasu!' While he didn't say anything out loud the sadistic cheer echoed through their resonance.
shiromadoushi: (!)

and just bop me if they actually can/would so I can fix that :D

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2012-09-03 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait. Was he-- but--

'What the hell are you doing?!'

Could Meisters even eat souls?! They couldn't could they?

Without even thinking he reached out to try and stop his double's hand.
feelsgoodinyou: (fuck off!)

np, I think they can but all it gives them are stomachaches xD

[personal profile] feelsgoodinyou 2012-09-04 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
He stopped in mid-moment for a moment while an angry growl resonated through their connection, as if to say that Ryou better not stick his nose into this.

Taking it's power, if that isn't obvious!'

Phht :)

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