Luceti Valley - The Second Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone
What: The second part of the experiment. Things begin to unravel.
When: August 7th - August 10th
Where: Luceti itself
Summary: Check out the mod post for more. This covers Day 6-9!
Rating: Varies with thread. Please move explicit stuff to appointments post with appropriate warnings.

Luceti Valley continued in its own merry little way. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. A new tax hike had ensured increasing animosity between both groups, despite the protests of the every charitable Lord Mayor. But on the sixth day, something happens and people begin to notice things are unusual. Idle thoughts that if thought about too much is bound to get you a visit to the police station for an hour or so. Or worse, it may just get you committed.

Meanwhile, the asylum continues to gain more and more patients. Those that are trapped there will find escaping difficult, but there may be more to this place than they first assumed...

On the tenth, battle breaks out across Luceti Valley. People begin to exhibit powers and abilities they didn't know they had. The police begin rounding up these people to lock up. If they resist, its bound to come to blows. Even though no one has regained their memories of their true self yet, it becomes apparent that some trickery is afoot, even if they might not know the source or why.


Note: This is the second log! There will be a third and final event log for the aftermath. There will also be two separate logs specifically for finding John and defeating Zompano. For those of you that signed up, we'll be randomizing the results and replying to the selected characters later tonight. In the meantime, keep enjoying the event! If you have questions, direct them here.

Comments

[misterbrief]

Now is not the time! Quit being a coward and do something! [He blasts a few more cops, giving him time to turn and yell some more.]

What would you rather be? Dead? They are shooting at us and the last time I checked they were the ones chasing you for absolutely no good reason whatsoever! Don't you think that's a little strange!? Just like everything else that's been happening around here the past few days! You don't have time to question it, we'll get to that after we've saved our sorry hides!

Ah-!

[Though the big guy has managed to get behind Vegeta, tackling him and pinning him to the ground.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash knows what Vegeta is saying to be true. Yet he can't stop thinking of Fluttershy. How horrified she'd look right now and how disappointed later. Then suddenly Vegeta is taken down and pinned.]

VEGETA!

[He doesn't think, his arm just moves. The gun in his hand fires four times, the bullets flying and hitting each of man's shoulders and legs almost at the same time. It leaves Vash breathing heavily and holding his gun out and ready to fire again if that hadn't done the job.

Two shots left.]

[misterbrief]

[The shots ring off, and that makes the man on top of him rear up to grab his shoulder, yet still slump over a little from the pain in his legs. It gives the Saiyan enough to pull his own legs up from underneath the girth of the cop to land both feet in his stomach, kicking him off of himself high into the air. And while still prone and on his back, he brings both his hands together in front of him instinctively, aiming straight up at his target-]

Final Flash!

[A massive beam rips upward, hitting the guy and enveloping him in a beam of light, disintegrating him completely. He lies there, breathing heavily and staring up blankly into the air. The fuck is a Final Flash?]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash can't help Vegeta with that. He has no idea what a Final Flash is either, except for the fact that it looked rather, well... final.

He looks away, not allowing himself to be distracted in the heat of battle again. Using his final two shots to shoot the gun out of the last armed officer's hand and then his leg as he goes to calmly collect his new weapon.

He opens the barrel. Only five shots in this one; yet someone he had known that before he even picked it up. He gives the cultists a rough kick to the jaw as the man makes a grab for him. If he's smart he'd stay down after that kick, weaponless and unable to walk he's no longer a threat. Best for him to play dead, but if it's one thing the cultists were, they weren't cowards.

Either way, Vash can't bring himself to shoot the cop to be sure he stays down. Only five bullets left. He needed to save them and shooting a man who couldn't protect himself just didn't sit well in his stomach.

Instead he looks back to his brother.] Are you alright?

[misterbrief]

[Blinking, he looks over. He doesn't really know. He just disintegrated a guy. That's still registering with him. Though the act of it didn't feel weird, or wrong, or anything like that- it just happened, and that's what's really strange.]

Believe it or not, yes. [He sits up, brushing the dirt off of himself.] Seems like you ended up taking care of the rest. I don't see any more weapons being aimed at us. Looks like you finally managed to do something right for a change. [He eyes Vash.] They haven't managed to lay a single finger on you, have they?

[Honestly, any logical person would see what just happened and probably leave. Any remaining cultists who aren't knocked out are looking very, very worried.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash flicks down to the burnt hole in his long sleeve. He flexes the fingers on his left hand. It still didn't hurt at all.] No they didn't, I'm fine.

[He sees those worried looks. Unable to lower his defenses he's still ready to go on the defensive if he had to; yet doesn't move to run off.] Are you alright?

[misterbrief]

Yes! I already told you! [He picks himself completely up now. He'll join his brother at his side.] Vash. I've had enough of this. I'm ending it now. And you've got some explaining to do.

[Not that he'd know right? But Vegeta's just being himself.

Hand raises up and the ones that he notices are still able to attack them, he puts energy beams through their chest or head.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash doesn't move to stop Vegeta from killing the remaining men.] Me!? I have explaining to do?! I'm not the one shooting laser beams out of my hands!

[misterbrief]

Well excuse me for being useful around here! First of all, you were the one they were after if I remember correctly, and second, how did some bumbling idiot like you suddenly become one of the most deadly accurate sharpshooters I've ever seen? Tell me that!

[goldenglasses]

I don't know! Just- just some really lucky shots I guess! [He knows that's no excuse.] I mean, I- it just seemed like, as I saw them aiming it was as if I could calculate it all in my head. The angle they held their guns, the speed of a bullet as it leaves a chamber, how fast a person could pull the trigger- it was just like it was all there and it was so easy.

[He shakes his head; as if doing so would make those odd calculations he shouldn't be able to make go flying out of it.]

And yeah... they were after me first.

[Vash looks around at the cops that were all laid out on the ground. One... two... three- oh crap! One was missing! No wait, that one got disintegrated by- no, he doesn't want to think about that just yet.] We should get going. Before someone sees us here in this mess.

[misterbrief]

Somehow I find it hard to believe you're able to do any sort of math in that tiny brain of yours. [He's got no reason not to believe he could though, since Vash clearly displayed what Vegeta considers to be the best precision shooting he's ever seen.]

Yes, fine. We'll go. You can stay at my residence for the time being, it's safer there for you anyhow. Come on.

[goldenglasses]

Thanks, but I'm not sure I should. [Not that he has any plans to return to his own place.] If they find me there it won't look good for your business or Bulla for a criminal to be found at your house.

[misterbrief]

Do what you please then. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. [For the first time, he actually doesn't care about the business. This seemed much, much more important than making money. For obvious reasons.]

[goldenglasses]

Just be careful. You have no idea how long that new power of yours will last. Or even if it's dangerous to you or not.

And if you're really getting to the bottom of this, I want to help. There's this kid- or I think there is. I want to find him. Make sure he's okay.

[misterbrief]

Kid? [Somehow, he's not surprised at this concern. Like...something Vash should be concerned about.]

Whatever. If you're coming then, let's get a move on. I don't have time to waste waiting around for you. If we find this child, then good.

[goldenglasses]

Yeah, I'll come- just... I'll meet up with you later. There's someone I need to see. Fluttershy; I need to make sure she doesn't try to go to my house as they're probably already there.

[If anyone hurt her because of him--- he's really not sure what he'd do.]

[misterbrief]

You don't have much time. Go. I'll be around, and I assure you I won't be hard to find at this rate. [He should check on Bulma himself. And Bulla. He doesn't know where his daughter has gone off to today, but at least he knows where his wife is.]

[goldenglasses]

Don't worry. I won't be long. [He doesn't want these cops to catch him with her.] I'll catch up with you later. [He hides his new weapon in the waist of his pants before turning to run off in the direction of Fluttershy's house.]