[OPEN] Sandstorm Event + September Introduction Log

[soul_mods]

Given that the last time there was a sandstorm BREW had just...unceremoniously dumped the new arrivals outside to face the elements, Shibusen decided it would be prudent to send some people out to make sure the poor souls aren't left to flounder.

Outfitting their volunteers with the proper gear, they're allowed back into Death City not only to search for new arrivals but also to check for stragglers.

However, as the volunteers go through the city, they find more than just the expected stragglers and new arrivals. For some reason, there is the occasional Kishin Egg wandering around...

To make things worse, the sandstorm continues to rage, causing poor visibility and covering the streets with a thick layer of sand, making it hard to keep footing. A problem these Kishin Eggs don't seem to have when most of them are capable of diving under the sand to move like sharks.

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[morecowbell]

[Covered practically from head to toe with garments to keep the blowing sand at bay Nanami trails quietly sticking to the walls behind the two just about twenty seconds behind. She pauses around a corner waiting for them to exit but she's close enough to see Yuugi's weapon form especially with how long it is.]

[tauborn]

It may be a bad storm, but it's still just a storm. [Takuto says the words out loud but Yuugi probably hears them much better through their resonance. And his wavelength wraps securely around Yuugi's familiar one. The gratitude is more or less shrugged off--did Yuugi really expect him to avoid him because of his decision? Because that's silly.

He steps into the storm, holding Yuugi's hilt tightly and leaning into the wind. His sunglasses are hardly helping to keep the sand from his eyes but they are the best he has.]

[mieru_mienai]

[Yuugi focuses far more on what's ahead of them, trying to be Takuto's eyes and ears in the storm, than what is behind, and that's the reason he doesn't immediately notice that they are being followed by a very bundled up Nanami. The sand whirls violently through the air, giving the whole city an unnaturally reddish hue; it shifts beneath the meister's feet, biting into anything it can, and Yuugi just wants to make sure that they make it to Atem's and Sugata's apartment as quickly as possible and without incident.]

It looks so weird...

[Almost like being trapped in another world. At least they have the familiar buildings to guide them, even if they can barely see down the street.]

[tauborn]

Like it's not even our city.

[He hurries through the streets, trying to find cover behind buildings and running quickly across intersections. The problem is the wind seems to funnel through the narrow streets, blasting sand into his face or nearly knocking him over when it comes up behind.

He can't shake the feeling he's being followed, or that something is watching them, but he tries not to let that feeling spread through his wavelength. They probably are being watched, by the few other people that locked their doors and refused to evacuate.

Still, it didn't help the atmosphere at all. There was nothing to be heard other than the sound of the wind, and the city looked eerie and unfamiliar, like hundreds of years had passed and the place was now ruins buried by the desert.]

[morecowbell]

[Nanami combats the wind with a low center of gravity as she tries to keep up with pair without losing sight of them in the storm which is proving to be a difficult task especially with all the darting Takuto is doing. The streets are almost unrecognizable in a dismal post apocalyptic sort of way.

She pauses to keep her balance as a strong gust goes past her and when she looks back to where Takuto was only to find a wall of sand. Oops. She just needs to press forward a little faster and that's when something catches her eye, a small shimmer beneath the sand just off to the side. Nanami squints behind her goggles as it disappears but now the sand appears to be rippling in her direction. The blond reverses moving away from the impending sand. Takuto was probably too far along for her to catch up now.]

[mieru_mienai]

Yeah....

[Yuugi is unsettled enough by the atmosphere that he begins to watch their backs as well as where they are headed, in time to catch the faintest of shadows but it disappears within the whirling sands before he can quite make it out.

Probably just a trick of the storm.

There's something else, though... He tries to keep his apprehension to himself as best as he can with their resonance.]

At least it's not much further.

[tauborn]

[Takuto hurries as best he can, but he can really go only so fast. Only a few blocks away, he's caught in the middle of the street by a gust of wind, and he takes a knee to avoid falling onto his face, pressing the tip of Yuugi's blade into the sand for stability. He's grateful not just for the weapon's company, but the fact that Yuugi is such a useful shape, too.

It's more than a little concerning that there's enough sand that Yuugi does provide some support, but as soon as the gust passes, he rushes towards the safety of a narrow stairwell. The steps may be dangerous to fall down, but at least there are walls he can lean against for support.]

This is pretty ridiculous. [But, if he's not mistaken, the looming darkness through the sand ahead of them is the Fatality Condominiums.]