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).))

Comments

[beautifulmidboss]

May I check your wounds, briefly? I cannot heal but if anything needs bandaging I can take care of it.

[It looked like she was standing up alright on her own. That was a good sign - she could probably make it to safety, then. Still, he wanted to give her a quick look-over just to make sure nothing seemed too out of place.]

A madman by the name of Lucifer has decided to 'show us what Hell looks like' and is raining destruction upon the city.

Do you know where your friends are now? I'd suggest gathering them and heading for one of the gateways out the city as soon as you are able.


[OOC: That's good to know - I just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting on anybody's nerves :) ]

[sharingkindness]

Oh, okay. [She very rarely says no to anyone anyway, unless it was absolutely necessary, but even then it's quite hard.] I let my friends out to go about their 'business' but now...I'm so very worried about them now.

[Now that she knows what is going on she is going to try and go out and look for them, because that is the right thing to do.]

[beautifulmidboss]

[Whilst she spoke, Vyers started checking her wounds.]

… They cannot have gone too far from here.

[Right now, Vyers' priority was to get to Lucifer as soon as he could, but he wanted to make sure she was sent safely on her way first.]

[sharingkindness]

[Fluttershy nervously went on ahead, calling out for her friends but so far they hadn't come running back to her.]

Oh dear, I hope they weren't in the building when it started to collapse. I need to go back to make sure. [And sure enough she is turning around to go check, stopping her might be a good idea.]

[beautifulmidboss]

Don't! That building is not stable. I'm sure they would have left or called for you by now if they were still inside.

[Vyers gently tried to stop her going back into the building. Even he could see how bad an idea that was.]

Tell me, what do your friends look like?

[sharingkindness]

[She looks down,nearly in tears because she had no idea where they were.]

Well... one is a cute little black-haired Labrador, the other is a greyhound. [Yep she was talking about dogs this whole time.]

[beautifulmidboss]

I am sure we'll find them...ah, I have an idea. Wait here a moment.

[Bringing his wings out, Vyers quickly took to the air, watching the street from above to see if he could catch any sign of the two dogs.]

[sharingkindness]

[She looks amazed if only for a moment because wow, he could fly...Which then reminded her she could actually fly too, she just forgot in the whole commotion. Flapping her wings she started to take flight and follow.]

I though I would help looking by air. I may not be a great flier but it helps.

[beautifulmidboss]

[For the moment, at least. His wings - and the flight they offered him - were certainly something Vyers took a lot of pride in.

He was a little surprised that she joined him, but then gave a nod.]

I think we may be able to see them better from up here, so long as we avoid getting smoke in our eyes.

[sharingkindness]

[She gives a small nod as she flutters around, keeping an eye out while at the same time keeping an eye out for any other poor creatures that might be in trouble. It wasn't long before she saw her friends, rubble falling down around them.]

Oh no...They need help. [Time for Fluttershy to slowly make her way to help.]

[beautifulmidboss]

[When he saw Fluttershy start to make her way downward, Vyers spotted the two dogs and started to fly quickly over there himself. If he was fast enough, he should be able to get to them and fly out before the building collapsed any further.

He kept his eye on Fluttershy as he descended, making sure she did not get herself hurt in the process.]

[sharingkindness]

[She was being careful, but wasn't sure if she could be careful enough to get them let alone be able to lift them. With that thought she looked over.

Um... Can you please help me, I don't think I can lift them.

[beautifulmidboss]

[Vyers nodded.]

Of course.

[With that, he flew down and landed in the building a little way from the dogs, before approaching slowly on foot - he did not want to spook them anymore than they probably already were.]

[sharingkindness]

[he dogs were whimpering as rubble fell every now and again as Fluttershy had soon landed, growing more and more worried.]

please don't worry, I'm coming and I have someone helping.

[Another piece of rubble falls causing the dogs to panicked as it was closer to them than it had been.]

Please don't... [They're too panicked now to listen to her.]

[beautifulmidboss]

We may simply have to grab them at this point. I am sure you can calm them down once they're somewhere safe.

[With that, Vyers quickly moved forwards. He was grateful for his agility - hoping he could just grab the dogs and fly out, even if that meant he got bitten in the process.]

[sharingkindness]

[The dogs were a little too big for Fluttershy to be able to carry them, but never the less she knew she could at least get one of them and carefully carry them to safety due to the fact they were rather light.]

I should be able to calm them after. [Some rubble falling down, but thankfully it was smaller than before.]

[beautifulmidboss]

Good.

[With that assurance, Vyers attempted to grab the two dogs - firmly enough to hold them, but careful enough to avoid harming them. He would fly out as soon as he'd got hold of the two.]

[sharingkindness]

[Thankfully they managed to stay still once they had been picked up and the rubble fell around where they once were and this made Fluttershy glad that they had managed to get them out in time.]

Thank goodness. If we had waited any sooner, then hey would have been seriously hurt.

[beautifulmidboss]

[Vyers did not take time the to talk until he'd landed on the street outside - away from the immediate danger - and attempted to put the dogs down.]

Yes...at least they are unharmed.

[sharingkindness]

[Fluttershy had landed and immediately went to the dogs to check and make sure they really weren't hurt. She sighed as soon as she knew they really weren't.]

I should thank you again for helping. I'm very grateful.

[beautifulmidboss]

[Whilst she checked over her friends, Vyers paused to catch his breath, eyes scanning over the horizon to try and catch sight of Lucifer.]

My pleasure. But please, get yourself and your friends to the Nova City Archway as soon as you are able. There will be people there who can get you somewhere safe.

...I intend to stop this madness.

[sharingkindness]

[She gives a small nod.]

Alright, but please be careful, okay?

[beautifulmidboss]

Of course I will. You as well.

[Vyers nodded to her, before running off to try and find Lucifer. He hoped that she would make it to safety, but he did not want to take the time to escort her himself, not when the madman responsible was still at large. Stopping Lucifer would stop anyone else from getting caught up in this mess.]