soul_mods: (Witch's Soul)
Soul Campaign Moderation Journal ([personal profile] soul_mods) wrote in [community profile] soul_logs2012-11-02 02:06 pm

[OPEN] Mission 157

Characters: Open to participants who signed up here.
Location: Nocturne Bazaar
Rating: Gen.
Time: April 5th.
Description: The battle to destroy the last of the three Madness Emitters is upon us.

It happens early in the morning: a strange and lingering air of disquiet, almost imperceptible even to those trained to recognize it for what it is, quickly rising to a mind-shattering crescendo. On the floating island above the city, black liquid bubbles up from the cracks in the cobblestone streets and materializes into tall, thin, clown-shaped creatures. Oversized carrion birds take wing from the rafters of buildings, trailing dust from their dirty wings. The screams of civilians are clearly heard even from Death City so far down below, waking its citizens up from fitful, nightmare-filled slumbers.

The Witches are here!

It doesn't take long for the defenders to rally: Kid sends out the call to arms and, after admonishing all but the most skilled pairs to stay off the island, instructs those attending Mission 157 to prepare to get on the gondolas which still remain the only way to and from the Bazaar.

The streets are not as packed as they were the past two days, but there is no less commotion. The carnival workers and residents, fleeing from the marauding monsters, clearly have no hand in this deception. In between trying to save their lives, striking down the Black Blood-formed clowns and avoiding the talons of swooping bird familiars, the pairs certainly have their hands full.

At the epicenter of the battle is the yellow-bricked fortune-telling building. Waves of Madness emanate from it with an almost physical force. If you aren't careful, you may run into the black-feathered Witch guarding it…

By the end of the conflict, the island is incapable of supporting its own weight. With the help of volunteers shuttling civilians and fighters alike from the Bazaar to the ground, everyone must race back to the gondolas before the entire rock crashes in the sands.

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morecowbell: (seriously miki what are you timing?)

[personal profile] morecowbell 2012-11-12 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Nanami missed the hesitation completely, when she decided to focus one one thing she dived in more often than not without testing the water before hand. She had been told that a bad resonance could hurt but that was currently the last thing on her mind.

"That's probably a good idea," she nodded while keeping an eye on their surroundings, "I suppose if worse comes to worst we can always just watch each other's backs while doing our own thing." She held a hand out to him as if she meant to shake his hand.
diedforyoursins: (♬tone deaf)

[personal profile] diedforyoursins 2012-11-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It was hard for him to not worry about others. That sort of selflessness was what had killed him, after all. But after a moment he nodded back and gingerly took her hand. "Alright."
morecowbell: (blank)

[personal profile] morecowbell 2012-11-12 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, just one thing," she said as she held his hand, "if you would please turn your head away while I transform I would very much appreciate it." Yeah, she still wasn't doing that in front of people so it was more of a polite order than a request.
diedforyoursins: (♫hi asuka i'm stealing your eva ok)

[personal profile] diedforyoursins 2012-11-12 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
He frowned slightly, perplexed, but...

"If you would like." He was curious, of course, but this wasn't really the time or place to be pursuing such subjects. Later, maybe. For the moment, he simple turned his head as asked, pointedly staring at the still-crumbling floating island above.
morecowbell: (scimitar)

[personal profile] morecowbell 2012-11-12 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Nanami made sure he wasn't peeking by sticking her tongue out at him and when there was no reaction she went ahead and transformed into her sword form. "Okay, let's give it a go." She started small like Hanabi had shown her, pushing a tiny portion of determined energy toward Kaworu. She hadn't had a bad resonance yet but she'd only tried with two other people.
diedforyoursins: (✞angelic bullshit)

[personal profile] diedforyoursins 2012-11-13 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not the deep and warm resonance he has with Yako, but it's functional. He returns his eyes to his hand to inspect the sword now in it, automatically answering through their connection with a pulse of acknowledgement and determination before the thought better of it.

"We should see if we can find a working gondola, then," he said aloud instead. Resonation had a sort of intimacy that he enjoyed, and the direct communication was so much more familiar and efficient than spoken dialogue, but humans seemed to prefer their clumsy verbal method.
morecowbell: (see that over there?)

[personal profile] morecowbell 2012-11-14 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
The connection was similar to the one she had with Auron. Nanami often made snap judgments and she usually trusted quickly but not very deeply. If approached the wrong way however, her mistrust ran as deep as the Grand Canyon and it would take a lot of work to turn that around.

"That sounds like a good plan. I think it's behind us a little ways," with all the rubble things were looking a little different around here than they used to. "For the time being we can keep on the move and ferry stragglers to the City."