EVENT [closed to

[soul_mods]

Characters: The unlucky people who are being attacked by Witches in South America
Location: Areas surrounding San Martín de los Andes, Isla del Sol and San Pedro de Atacama
Rating: PG-13(?)
Time: June 10th to June 12th
Description: In the area surrounding San Martín de los Andes, Isla del Sol and San Pedro de Atacama, there have been reports of large, bird-like creatures attack and consuming humans. A request was sent out to Shibusen to deal with this threat.



San Martín de los Andes

A town famous for its tourism. It gets chilly at night, but during the day it's bright and sunny with plenty of beaches. Incidentally, it's a famous place for birdwatching during the summer. Needless to say, after more than a few bird watchers were seen being carried off there are fewer of them hanging around lately.


Isla del Sol

An island with harsh climate and rocks. Lots and lots of rocks. It is also rich in old ruins and archaeological sites. The views from the top of the mountains, especially at dawn and dusk are said to be breath-taking. Lately though, it's less the view that's taking the tourists breaths away so much as the giant birds (suspected to be Kishin Eggs) swooping down at them and eating them.


San Pedro de Atacama

Another nifty place for eco-tourism where tourists can choose to go on exploration tours in natural landscapes. Lately though, many tourists who go to the Valle de La Luna and the Chaxas Lagoon, haven't been returning. When a couple of survivors finally made it back, they spoke about a monstrous, pink bird devouring their fellow tourists.

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[everylastone]

Eren didn't need the shout to spring into action like he had trained to over and over again. This thing was maybe no titan and it wasn't like all the fights before, but he still knew what he needed to do and now he also had a clear objective in mind.

There was blood on the monstrous' bird's peak and bloody mess that still stuck to one of its claws was clearly of human origin (that he'd recognize something like that on first sight probably said something about him as well).

He bit into his hand and his shape dissolved into an explosion of hot vapor and streaks of green energy that wrapped around the Pharaoh in a flash, forming belts, plates, buckles, handles, wires and all the other familiar shapes that came together to make of a 3D maneuver gear. Without thinking Eren adjusted the tightness of the harness until it sat perfectly as he yelled at Atem. "Go! Kill them all!!" His part of the resonance had snapped into place with a startling amount of openness, disclosing a soul that was both strong and riddled over and over with marks of new and old wounds as he forced carrying the weight of their imperfect resonance on it as well. As full as it was of weakness it contained also an even stronger will to stand up and keep fighting against all the things that put him down over and over again no matter what, and beneath that ran a strong streak of primal fury and the desire to hurt as he had been hurt, but also a strong sense of unconditional loyalty and compassion.

All those were things that Eren bared willingly as he urged Atem to take the handles from their holsters at his chest and to equip the blades onto them from the inside out without even noticing.

[pregames]

This, above all else, was why Atem had been so insistent. In the moment that the avian fiends were bearing down on them with murderous intent, the pharaoh was completely thrown off guard by Eren’s presence. Not because he had been unprepared for the moment but because the result was so unexpected. Eren had said he was a blade, some kind of sword. What he hadn't mentioned was all the accouterments that came with the package, such that it's only through Eren’s knowledge of the device that he can make any sense of what’s what.

Which he might have managed without the other effect of resonance. The feelings. And emotions. Eren had a closed book until this moment and the intensity struck him profoundly, familiar in the way a mirror might appear. Under different circumstances he might have marveled over the state of that soul, dissecting the pieces and putting back together the puzzle that had comprised Eren, some one like him who had lived far too much of his life in a short handful of years.

Instead he has to shut it down, narrow his scope until the only thing coming through is what will help them win. But no amount of knowledge can provide him with the reflexes or the muscle memory required to respond in time.

Atem was small, light, nimble, drawing less on physical strength than speed and agility in a fight, but the straps constricted and the accessories made it impossible to move freely. The only path open was the one before him as he dropped to the ground to avoid the sharp claws of their attackers , one of which had the reflexes to graze his shoulder, blossoming bright red across white linen.

His first instinct was to curse profusely in his native tongue. "What is this?" Complaints would have to wait as he scrambled back to his feet gracelessly. That wouldn't work again and he struggled to obey the instructions the weapon had provided.

[everylastone]

Eren had echoed the curse in his mind, adding a few choice words in what sounded close to German to the mix. The Weapon's attention was on their enemies, keeping a keen eye on them while his emotions focused in a hyper-sense of purpose and battle-readiness that was laced with a whiff of frustration as he snapped at the pharaoh.

"What are you doing?! Grappling hooks, and then right after them! We can get them up in the trees since we're more agile and can use the wires to our advantage!" He was semi-aware of the jarring his actions caused in their resonance but pushed the sensation back for later examination together with the impressions he was in return getting from Atem's soul.

Remembering the question belatedly, he added absentmindedly "and it's a 3DM Gear. It's the best thing to slay monsters that are bigger, faster or stronger than you. Now draw those blades and -WATCH OUT FROM THE RIGHT!"