I - Darkness Event

[darknpc]

What: Darkness Event
Who: Lucifer and Everyone (with your choice of NPC involvement)
Where: Genessia City (Four other cities and dimensions gates are excluded)
When: July 17, 2014
Warnings: Possible deaths. Horror. Flames. Darkness. Lightning. Falling Debris. People falling off buildings.

I

From the highest building of Genessia city emerged a dark and unwavering light. It lifted up into the heavens. It brought with it obsidian smoke swirling around the light as if a shroud of darkness. In an instant the bright skies lost its light. Thick black clouds descended from the heavens. They tossed, tumbled and seemingly kissed the city's skyline. It was noon and yet the sun was no where in sight. With all light, it stole all happiness from people who saw the dreaded skies.

Loud booms, sizzles and crackles were heard beyond the clouds - as if a prelude to the coming event. This lasted a while before everything became hauntingly silent. Nothing could be heard. Everything, from the ground to the skies were silenced.

Waiting.

Aching.

And finally welcoming.

The skies glowed eerily. Dark hues of crimson, azure and silver lined certain portions of the skies. Then a white light glowed. A light which ripped through the space between ground and skies, leaving a crisp sound in its wake. The lightning bolt was strong enough to make the very ground quake at its presence. After a moment of silence, similar bolts of lightning hit different areas of the city. Continuously. Relentlessly.

Following the thunderstorms, came a foul stench raining from the skies. It smelt like rotten eggs. Suffocating. It was Burning Sulfur. With the stench came black flaming orbs which plummeted wantonly on the buildings of Genessia City. It burned anything it could get its hands on.

The terrible weather continued for at least five minutes after it had started. Never softening. Just ending abruptly after it had left most of the city in flames.

II

Not too long after the skies started to brighten, after people assumed a crude state of sanity, an ominous circle of light emerged on top of Genessia Hospital. For a few seconds, there was nothing but silence. But slowly, the circle of light expanded its terrain. Soon, it was large enough to cover the entire medical building. But still it remained silent. For people who have affinity for arcane magic, they can sense the power flowing through the circle - an energy devoid of any positive light.

A minute after the circle first appeared, the land beneath it started to quake. Every pillar and every wall shivering and threatening to fall. Then, the same fire storm that was released around the city was concentrated to fall upon the hospital building. A barrage of obsidian flames fell to the building one after another. Never stopping until the building itself hasn't fallen. After the building has crumbled the flames slowly dwindled into the bright glow of scarlet flames.

((OOC: Each part here comes after each part from Lucifer's Video Feed. So Part I from the feed comes before Part I of the Log. Each section here will be divided to sections deemed appropriate for the event. Any further questions can be addressed from the ooc-community post or from this journal. Fights Lucifer will get into are limited due to ic (after his little show, it'll be too much if he can still fight a horde of people) and ooc reasons (basically too many fights will drive me bananas).))

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I - Firestorm and Thunderstom Chaos

[darknpc]

((ooc: For people who will be in the line of fire that needs saving. Or for people who are willing to save other people. This includes playable characters and NPC. For example, people can try to save NPCs from a burning building with another character.))

[crash_mage]

[Gildarts was just wandering around aimlessly trying to get a feel for the city layout when the destruction started. Cursing under his breath, he tried to make himself as visible as possible, jumping onto a nearby bench before calling out to the people nearby.]

Hey, everyone, get moving, now! From the looks of things, it's gonna get really chaotic up here! Get underground if at all possible, that's going to be your safest bet for now, now MOVE!

[Once he was convinced that people were moving, he pulled out his communicator and opened a channel as fast as he could.]

To everyone in Fairy Tail, we have a situation. I'm gonna need some backup so everybody, get out here, on the double!

Zeref - OTA

[deathsought]

{ It was day two of his little 'experiment.' The new book would take several days to write, and then there was the matter of embedding magic into it for it to serve its purpose. He'd already learned his lesson with previous books; this one was for an entirely different purpose. A contingency plan, of sorts. He'd run it by Silver when they spoke next, which, hopefully, would be soon.

As Zeref stepped outside, the first thing he noticed was the awful stench. Sulfur. Brimstone. He'd know that smell anywhere, having smelled it quite often four hundred years ago, as well as during the bombing of Exsilium. Just as Zeref was about to look up, he was forced to leap backwards to avoid a fireball.

Either someone had a death wish, or they had no idea who he was. Zeref hated fighting, and he hated having to kill others, but after certain events on a certain island, he had fewer reservations about self-defense. Zeref raised his eyes after landing, the unfinished book clutched tightly under his arms. It didn't come from any mage; it came from the sky itself. His first thought was 'dragons,' but there were no telltale roars of a winged beast overhead, only the screams of Genessia's citizens under the assault.

This was very powerful magic. Part of Zeref wanted to find whoever was responsible and put him out of their misery, but if he knew Mavis and the rest of Fairy Tail - not to mention other groups like Team RWBY and those 'life fiber' users - they were already on it.

No, he had other priorities. And besides, anything he was capable of do would likely do more than good. Unless Zeref ran across whoever was responsible by coincidence, he had to make sure a certain doll and a certain demon didn't plan on getting involved.

Fighting his body's urge to activate his magic - with his eyes reflecting the struggle of doing so - Zeref reached for his necklace. }

Silver? Suigintou? Where are you?

{ Even thought it was hard to hear anything over the explosions. }

{ EDIT: Just clarifying that anyone could tag into this, despite who he's addressing over the necklace. }

Rekka Hanabishi | OTA

[openflame]

[The only problem with fire, was that Rekka had the ability to control fire. It was one of those times he actually wished that asshole Mikagami was around with his Ensui.

He couldn't do much to combat the fire at all. He might have been able to call upon it, but he couldn't control it in a manner that would be helpful. Being that he would be unable to rely on the help of his brother, whom he wouldn't want the help of to begin with, would have to rely on the aid of a stranger.

The teen saw several individuals here and there who were caught in the fire, or stuck in debris.

He held out his palm, ready to exercise an ability he didn't use often. Since fighting was out of the question, he would rely on defense. Several balls of fire. A minimum of three, what it took to form a barrier, would surround these individuals. Once the respective balls of fire were in place, a shied of light connected between the fireballs. It didn't take much concentration to hold them there, but until someone could come around and stop the damage from continuing, he would have to hold it indefinitely.]

Someone mind lending a hand here?!

Oh God Why? | OTA

[koishi_komeiji]

Koishi clutched at the sides of her head. The sudden panic from the sky-fire had hit hard... It hurt. It hurt so much. Nails on a chalkboard in her mind. Her third eye was wide open, its frosted white surface staring, trembling straight ahead, blood trickling from the corners where the lids had split open. At least the bubble barrier she had called around herself was holding.

She didn't move from her refuge in a corner between buildings until the fire stopped faling. Managing to tune out a lot of the panic, she allowed her barrier to drop as she shakily climbed to her feet, surveying the damage around her. Another incident... And no grumpy shrine maiden to fix things.

Expanding her mind, she took to the air, expanding an aura of peace and courage and trying to rescue anyone she could sense. With no special resistance to flame and no real way to extinguish them this limited her only to the people she could easily get to; the ones at windows, on rooftops, trapped under light rubble. Her powers prevented their panic as she ushered them toward places that were more protected or not on fire.

It hurt to leave some behind, but if she could find someone to help her who was less vulnerable to hellfire she could direct them to the people still trapped.

"Hey! Can anyone see me? Can anyone hear me? There are still people trapped in the buildings!"

Ryuuji Takasu | Closed to CR | Mun is not sorry

[isadragon]

[Ryuuji did have the ability to save others, or protect them from certain harm. He wasn't very special and lacked any sort of power necessary save someone. Especially from unnaturally caused events like this one. It was something he had expected. What he didn't expect to happen, was to be caught in the very thing he would usually try to avoid: Danger.

He wasn't sure what had caused the floor of the building he was in to collapse, but it did. Ryuuji's lower body pinned to the ground by the heavy structure. During the collapse, it had somehow missed anything vital, like his chest. Breathing would have been significantly harder had debris crushed his means of breather. It was a little hard to see past all the rock, but he had some exposure to the outside. A gap, if you will.

The teen hoped no one else had been caught in here, but he might as well call to see if there was.]

H-hey. [He felt so nervous and shaken.] Is anyone there?

[There was a faint cry of a child. With most of the light blocked, it was hard to look for someone who might have been knocked out. There was a few people however, caught further in the debris in need of saving, and Ryuuji couldn't help them.]

C-can someone help?

[luckymonster]

If people passed by the Regency, not a single flame can be seen within its immediate vicinity. In fact, not even a single thunderstorm hit the area if the locals were asked. It was strange, but the flames were all redirected to other buildings, and so was every lightning bold. It still continued to rain fire and lightning, but the Regency apartments were all spared.

However, people will notice the flames coming near a balcony in the third floor before being redirected. Same thing happened to all the lightning. When it threatened to hit the area surrounding the building, it traveled towards the balcony, rested there for a moment, before being shot back up to the heavens.

For people watching from a high enough vantage point, they will notice a girl standing in the balcony with a confident smile on her face. "Too easy"

[banishment]

It was the booming sound of the thunder that brought Zuko out to the streets, but it was the bolt of lightning that had him making a mad dash for the poor, unsuspecting citizen who was about to be struck by it. He's ought to be thinking about what a risky move this was, the dangers in doing so with lightning from the sky instead of another bender's hands, but he wasn't. Instead, he was thinking only of that person's safety, mumbling a quick, awkward apology as he shoved them roughly to the side and took their place in the lightning's path.

Zuko raised his hand up just in time to catch it, bend it through his body — in, down, through, up, and out — and send it hurtling back towards the sky. Later, he would register the fact that he'd managed to do this successfully in the wake of his failure in bending his own lightning, but the current state of things left him little room to contemplate it in the here and now.

"I'm sorry that I had to— Are you okay?" Again, his attention was on the person whose life he'd impulsively just saved. Zuko held a hand out to help them back up.

All this Chaos! OTA

[celestial_wizard]

[ Fairy Tail had been dispatched to assist in the rescue once Gildarts called to them, and Lucy -had- been with them. Key word: Had. In the chaos of the moment, she caught sight of a child almost unnoticed, trapped half under rubble. Immediately she sprinted in that direction. There were more than enough in the group to take care of things - she had to do her part here too, and there were still people wounded and trapped. ]

Gate of the Gold Bull, I summon thee - Taurus! Come out!

[ She summoned the bull spirit to her side, both working to lever up the slab of stonework up enough for the boy to get out. A little help would be appreciated by both though. ]

[gullwingsgunner]

[Yuna had been focused on taking care of those that were injured during the fire and thunder storms, using her abilities of her White Mage dressphere to help those that were in need. Until of course she was low in MP. Where was ether when one needed it.

When she had run out, she had gone out to find those that could help her heal those that still needed it. That was until she noticed someone trapped in a burning building. So now she was currently running towards the building, Gunner dressphere currently equipped to try and get the poor victim out.]

[sharingkindness]

[Fluttershy had not been expecting it to rain fire and thunder. So when her building was hit and part of it came crumbling down, she didn't have enough time to make her escape before a rather large piece of previously roof had landed on her, pinning her down with nowhere to go as a fire slowly started to spread.

All she could do was cough and try and call for help.]

H-Help me, please... I-I'm stuck.

[One can only hope that there is someone nearby who can hear her tiny calls of help.]

Emergency Medical Center - (OTA)

[weavemyownfate]

The archway leading to Nova City is bustling with activity right about now with the Satsuki trying to keep things moving as efficiently as possible.

"Azula has informed me that she can keep the path from the bay to this archway clear of elements for 10 minutes; take advantage of that." she notes to Ira and Nonon via her video device. She also discloses Azula's location to Nonon and notes that, should the flyer see she or her companion fall, to bring them back here.

At the moment she is moving back and forth through the archways to get medical volunteers and supplies through; it will take some time to get everything through but in the first ten minutes, five tents are set up, two of them powered and ready to accept ten patients each. Hopefully not too large a wave of injured people will come in right away.

[shslprogrammer]

[Chihiro had been trying his best to be of some use and helping to guide some people from one place towards the archway like he had been told to, but it had not been easy.

There had been various fireballs that had causes paths to be blocked, but never the less Chihiro charged on through. That was until a sudden collapse of a nearby wall that put a few of them under the rubble and trapped Chihiro leg causing him to scream out in pain, causing a few of the people who were trying to evacuate with him to try and start prying rubble from the people and Chihiro, with Chihiro trying to get it off his own leg.]

[whiteas]

{{ OOC: Late comment is late as hell but it would be ooc for her to not be involved at all! It's totally my fault for being behind and only focusing on my inbox that this is late, but if you'd like to tag her still, please feel free! }}

[ Weiss recognizes that she's not ready to fight something like this. This is too out of hand. It's not that she doesn't want to, or that she isn't willing to, but when considering all angles of the situation? There are a lot more powerful people than she is here or Professor Ozpin wouldn't have warned her just with Adam not to approach him. When she gets to that point of being able to stand side-by-side with everyone, then she'll worry about that.

For now, Weiss is doing what she can and going and helping out anyone- NPC or regular people- who needs help. She might not be an expert world-saving-level individual yet, but she can certainly do her part. Besides, she was separated from her teammates right now. If nothing else, she might be able to find out where they went while rescuing people from collapsed buildings using her glyphs. ]

I - Additional Chaos

[darknpc]

((ooc: Want to take advantage of the chaos? Want to steal from the bank? Want to kill players once they're weakened by the event or is confused because of it? Want to use the event to kill other players and pretend it was because he wasn't thinking straight? You can use this post.

If in doubt, PM beareroflight))

Zelman Clock - OTA

[crimsoneye]

Naturally Zelman saw this as an opportunity to make things worse instead of better. With all these fools running around with their hero complexes, he imagined the man responsible would be heavily outnumbered. Not that the vampire was particularly villainous in nature, antagonistic at best, he did get deathly bored. This was the first real trouble that has happened since he arrived here. It only made sense to take advantage of it while it was happening.

Of course his little chaos was more subtle than the bang of the show. The once esteemed vampire of his world was gradually adding more fire onto the town as he strolled by ever so casually. He noticed several were combatting against it, and decided he would make it worse by igniting small fires here and there. As to whether he would actually kill someone was still debatable. In the meantime, Zelman saw to it that the fire remained burning.

Kefka Palazzo - OTA

[warring_triad]

[High above the city, watching it burn with great glee will be the self-proclaimed God of Magic himself. Gone are the colorful robes and painted face. Now he has chosen to take on his celestial form, zipping between buildings, throwing balls of fire and ice at random.]

Oooh, there's nothing quite like a good outburst of random chaos to get the power flowing~! Just wish I'd gotten an invitation to the party~!

II - Pre-destruction of the hospital

[darknpc]

((ooc: Each character has 5 responses to save the patients. Afterwards, they have to state the building is starting to crumble and move on to the next Section))

ishtar fucking hates you right now. | OTA ;W;

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Ishtar broke out in a run, and then a dash. She was freaked out that everything was dark and then the lightening and firestorms hit and she was running. The hospital that she worked so hard at with Duzell was more or less falling apart and there were people inside. She fought back angry tears as she dashed towards the hospital almost making her way there to save the people.

She was not resting until she found the source and she knew the source. While she ran into the hospital she screams angrily, Sidia pulled out. ]

Lucifer you asshole where are you?!!!!

[ She snapped, while glancing around panicked and looking for people to save. ]

DAMN IT YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!

II - Boom goes the Hospital

[darknpc]

((ooc: Was your character still inside the hospital when things started to crumble and burn? Was your character one of the patients? No matter what happens, the hospital will really burn, so it's up to you what will happen to your characters and how you can save people when everything is already burning.))

siiigh time to put the fonist to use ;W;

[melodyoftheabyss]

[ As the hospital goes boom, there's a resonating voice coming from nearby to help alleviate the problem temporarily, because she couldn't have people dying again. There was no way they would repeat the mistakes of the past. The hospital was a place that Tear had grown accustomed to, even if she spent time watching Jade and assuring that he didn't try anything funny.

She was still a fighter, a soldier, and a fonist. If she could alleviate the problem, then she was going to do it. ]

O tune of unyielding protection...♪♫ Croa riou ze tue riou rei neu riou ze.

[ Tear was inside the crumbling building and using all of her abilities to call forth Forefield to protect those inside, or those who were injured. It also protect people who were also trying to save others. She didn't know how long it will last since it wasn't Auldrant and her abilities only stretched so far. Hopefully this was enough. ]

Fight I - Sailor Venus

[beareroflight]

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

[Seeing building burn, people fleeing and people who still needed help really got the young lady mad. Why was all of this necessary? What was the point in any of this? Minako didn't even ponder it for long before she was transforming into Sailor Venus and soon was helping a nice young couple out of their place.

With them safely away and safe from any harm, Sailor Venus knew what to do and that was find the guy who was responsible and make him pay big time. She started running, being quite glad that she was considerably fit and healthy as she turned a corner, skidding before carrying on.

Where is he? Where is the monster that did all this? She wasn't going to stop until she tracked him down and gave him a piece of her mind and a piece of her belt whip.]

Fight II - Midboss

[beareroflight]

Fight II - Midboss

[beautifulmidboss]

[Vyers was already in Genessia City at the time of the attack - hunting down potential locations for the flower shop he and Terra had discussed.

When he saw the video show up on the network, and the fires that followed soon after, he did not waste his time replying. Instead, he went to try and track the man responsible down as soon as he could, rushing through the streets and keeping his eyes out on the building tops around him. He kept his wings hidden for now, hoping he could spot Lucifer before he saw him - the element of surprise would help here, at least until he knew exactly what he was up against.

It would not be the first time he'd rushed into a fight with a powerful demon, although this time he had significantly less time to prepare himself. Just like when he had left to fight the Tyrant Baal in his past life, there was one very clear fact in Vyers' mind as the destruction rang out around the city:

Lucifer had to be stopped. No matter what the personal cost.]

Fight III - Luke

[beareroflight]

[headfons]

When it comes to healing, he's pretty much...useless. There's absolutely nothing he can do to help the others. After digging what people he can out of the debris, and doing what he's able to, to help--something that's left him fairly exhausted, already...

He's on a search.

That means he's not stopping until he finds the bastard responsible. Luke never bothered replying to the message on the device. He simply used it to get a look at the person's face. That's all he needs. The replica's not exactly thinking clearly, right now. Plus, with all the chaos? Everyone's pretty much separated, for the time being. By this point, he can feel his body's strain. He...kind of knows, already, that he doesn't have much time left. So, he's not dragging anyone else into it. He'd rather go down swinging, than just stand by while innocent people die.

He trusts Jade and the others to keep everyone else safe; he doesn't want them to see it when it happens, either.

So, after some extensive searching, he's moving without so much as a pause. Teeth clenched, the redhead's keeping his eyes peeled. After some extensive searching, he finds himself at the entrance of Everglade.

Fight IV - Gohan

[beareroflight]

Ryu | OTA

[dragonform]

[Anyone coming across Ryu may find him in one of two positions. Either healing and escorting the injured away from the site, or in a form altogether foreign to Genessia so far. At his command are a myriad of dragon transformations, and he'll most likely be utilizing the forms of ice or fire to combat the blaze set upon various buildings, or clear a path through burning rubble by cleaving through it to permit people safe passage.]

[ooc: So depending on what you'd like, you can have your character encounter him as a human or a dragon. Bear in mind unless he's in his Warrior form with the humanoid features, he can't actually speak until he changes form.

Its a bird. Its a plane! Its....an extremely small pink-haired girl in the sky!

[symphonyofdestruction]

[But it sort of looks like a plane. Nonon, as the only one Satsuki has that can navigate the skies, is giving her medical team a bird's eye view, informing them of which routes are open to let the victims reach the medical crew at the Nova City gate. She had another task as well, one that Satsuki had not had to tell her to do, she had simply known it had to be done, and that was to keep an eye out for any dangers which might actively try to hinder their mission. Cities don't blow themselves up after all. Someone had laid a claim to the chaos, but they didn't know if they had worked alone or not.

Thankfully, it seemed that her dominance over the air was going mostly uncontested. Her task has been almost too easy, and relatively uneventful. It seemed whatever had caused this had no interest in keeping her out of the skies. It made her task easier then she had expected.

Because of this, she is able to catch something she might have otherwise missed. It is difficult to miss the hulking form of a dragon, but what she catches is where it comes from. Did she really just see that? Even to her, the girl who was flying through the sky in mecha made out of a special school uniform that defeated people with classical music, it was hard to believe. That had been a person just a second ago! Her flight stops suddenly, eyes locked on the creature on the ground beneath her. She speaks into her communication device.]

Satsuki-sama! There's a complication.

[She doesn't know the beast to be a threat, but she's not about to ignore it. What if it tried to eat the injured?]

Merlin | OTA

[anachronize]

[Merlin is finally putting his magical abilities on display. In a rare form of competence, he's conjuring great winds and blizzards to snuff out the fire. He has an idea that the fire being rained down upon the city is no mere storm, but something magical in nature. Along with his winds, he's called the aid of willing buckets to a sort of consciousness, commanding them to gather water and douse the flames as best he can manage.

Merlin himself will be around the city trying to do this, as well as evacuate people and putting his shape shifting abilities on display to help spot people from the sky as a bird, or shift rubble with the form of an elephant.]