OPEN LOG; EVERGLADE, GENESSIA - do not reply until you read the ooc post

[genpcs]

The first sign that something was going on that day hadn't been at the crack. It hadn't even been in Genessia, as a matter of fact. The first sign had been a sound not unlike a window shuddering in a heavy storm. It perforated the atmosphere within Everglade first.

Only a few moments later, Fayren would hear the same shudder echo through its forests, forcing birds to flee the cover of the trees. In the populated areas of the kingdom itself, it would be much quieter, as if it were miles away.

Then it would return to Genessia. The crack in the sky was rapidly saturated, thousands more than before forcing their whole shapeless bodies against the barrier. Some of the strange aurora-tinted color seems to press into their ranks, a few of the strange creatures being forced back, but quickly being replaced by another of its kind.

And a sickening crack could be heard in all archways near and far, but it was loudest in Everglade, where a new crack had formed. Two humongous cracks appeared in Everglade's barrier like a sinister grin as if it were laughing at the town just above the clocktower. The two cracks took only a couple of seconds more before the strange monstrous creatures burst small holes into that crack, not big enough to fit their bodies through at once.

The leaked through, dripping like poison from an apple out of that sneering mouth in the sky until the first of these creatures fell to the ground. The eager, hungry soul from before, whose abyss of a stomach had been shared with the whole of Genessia when he'd opened his misshapen jaw the first time a few days ago now looked from side to side in the streets of Everglade.

The first face he saw was that of an NPC, and he only saw it for a moment before launching himself at the man and pinning him to the ground. Some would recognize him as the grizzled owner of The Rabbit's Foot. A loud scream was put out from the man as the creature opened its jaw wide, but did not eat him. Nothing seemed to happen when his jaw was opened, as a matter of fact.

The creature closed its mouth slowly before standing upright on what seemed to be a two-legged form, though if it had arms they didn't take shape. It made a gesture as if it were cracking its neck as the man escaped quickly, locking the door to his shop behind him.

More of the creatures were piling into Everglade slowly but surely, but this one in particular caught sight of a local werewolf, someone with a pendant, a soul, and repeated his mauling, but this time- this time something happened. This time a strange, glowing mist seemed to pull out of the Everglade resident's body, a faint glimmer of aurora with it, and in a short time this person stopped screaming. They were still alive, but it didn't seem like there was anything... inside, really.

A hissing, victorious laughter left the creature and he moved on, heading toward Genessia's gate along with his oversized mouth pulled up into an eerie grin that reflected the crack in the sky. Those that had made it in through Everglade's crack followed suit.

They had to let the rest of their friends in through Genessia; it was only the polite thing to do.

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Comments

[monkeystowaway]

Right. You weren't here. Well..you were. Just not..you you. [He sometimes forgets what people do and don't know because they left and came back without memories.]

I don't think it was these exact creatures, but they were something like them. It happened over a year ago in Genessia City. Something tore open a hole in the air. [Really in reality itself.] It was this massive thing. It spawned other creatures as it walked and they threatened to overrun the city. When it appeared, the device put out a loud alert saying that corrupted elements were detected and we needed to purge them for the city to survive.

These things..they are from outside the barrier. I don't know exactly what's out there, but they want to get in and get us. Maybe we are drawing them somehow, but they want us.

[whiteas]

You should really share these things sooner, Sun.

[ Give Weiss a minute. She has to think. Her eyes turn up to the crack. They want something that has to do with them specifically. ]

This place's emergency alert system could use a little work, but putting that aside, we need to figure out what everyone here has in common that other people don't and we need to figure it out fast. How did you get rid of them last time?

[monkeystowaway]

Hey. I can't always keep track of what you do and don't know. [And it didn't really..come up until now. He had no reason to bring it up before.]

Ruby. We all managed to get the big thing immobilized and she attacked it. She hit something in it and when it got pulled out of the thing, it disappeared. The things that it made disappeared with it too. It's was a big metal sphere thingy. And there was someone in it. Once the guy got pulled out, the metal sphere was launched out of the barrier.

[whiteas]

Well you know I don't know anything of what happened before I got here now. [ Though she assumed he knew that already, her tone says she's clearly salty about it. ]

Whatever these things are, they learned better from the last time they were here and kept their leader out of shot this time. Who was the man? What happened to him?

[monkeystowaway]

If the thing was their leader. It could have been just a bunch of them grouping up together.. [Which meant more of them getting in would be a particularly bad thing.] I honestly have no idea. I never learned his name and I never saw him again after all of that.

[whiteas]

Well did he say or do anything at least?

[ She frowns more deeply, putting one hand on her hip while she focuses more of her attention on Sun. ]

[monkeystowaway]

If he ever did, then no one filled me in on it. If he was outside of the barrier, he probably could have really filled us in on some stuff.

[whiteas]

If we see him again, I say we make him talk.

[ Not exactly the nicest thing to say, but at this point? It's kind of necessary. ]