lucetilogs | Luceti Valley

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.

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Leave it there. [ If you're still alive then let's try not to change that. ] We should find a doctor and have them try to pry it--

[ But his words are cut off as a loud screeching sound starts to emanate from Joshua, as the energy swirling around him picks up in intensity.

It takes several seconds before both fade back to the level they were at before. ]

... I don't think I should try doing that again.

[The noise is enough to make Kari reach up and cover her ears -- and thankfully distract her from the fact that she's still more or less covered in her own blood. She doesn't drop her hands until she's sure the noise is gone.]

...w-what's even wrong with you? I'd say you need a doctor too, but I don't even know what I'm looking at.

Well, I appear to be a decade or two older than I actually am, lit up like a Christmas tree, and whatever all this is [ he waves a hand, trying to indicate the energy swirling around him ] seems to not like me touching things. Not to mention I'm hearing voices, I'm not certain I'm actually breathing anymore, and I have a lot of mental buttons that don't seem to want to be pushed.

But aside from that, nothing's really wrong with me as far as I can tell.

Edited 2013-09-06 12:18 (UTC)

...how can you say all that and say nothing's wrong! That's, like, a whole lot of wrong right there!

[Though there's not much point in arguing that, is there?]

And why did weird things start happening at the same time? I mean, i-it's too weird to be a coincidence, you know?

It's sarcasm.

[ Though considering the way they both are panicking, if in their own different ways, it's not surprising that that fact got lost somewhere along the line. ]

Oh, I have no doubt these are related somehow. You surviving something like that and me... doing whatever I'm doing are both not exactly things you'd see in the average day, after all.

Now is hardly the time for sarcasm! [Sorry if she sounds a little snippy but she kinda sorta just got impaled. And is still covered in blood. Seriously, should she even be conscious right now??]

[Somehow she manages to stand up without feeling dizzy, but the stress was beginning to make her nauseous.]

I-I... I need to get to a hospital or something. And you too!

... You do know how far we are from the hospital, right?

[ ~~Push those mental buttons, Joshua, one of them will teleport you! One of the others might take out an entire city block, though, so choose wisely.~~ ]

Yeah, well you got any better ideas? I'm not just going to sit around here and hope for the best!

[Though the more she thinks about it, the more she begins to wonder. This just felt too freaky to be some kind of accident. Maybe going to the hospital would be pointless?]

[ These are the mental gymnastics Joshua has already done, but Kari is more than welcome to do them herself, too. ]

First off, can you check if you're actually still bleeding?

[ Though as he looks at the pendant, he has a realization, and after a couple seconds turns around.

Making sure they both make it through whatever the hell is going on alive takes priority far more than teasing her about him using this to get a glimpse of her chest. ]

[She almost pipes back how could she not be bleeding, but instead takes the opportunity to check when he turns around. He'll hear the sound of fabric ripping as she tears a clean strip away from the bottom to wipe the blood away from around the pendent -- and also the sound of her trying very hard not to start crying at how freaked out she is over all of this.]

...i-its not bleeding. And it... doesn't even hurt. But I don't know if that's just shock or whatever.

Alright.

[ He's turning back now. ]

In that case, we can actually walk to the hospital instead of getting someone to carry you. Regardless of why you seem mostly okay, we should get you checked out if we can.

Do you think you can walk?

Yeah, I... I think I can walk.

[Though whether they'll make it that far or not it anyone's guess. Even knowing that she should go to the hospital, something in the back of her mind is making her wonder if that's really such a good idea...]

[ It's probably a terrible idea, but she was the one freaking out about it, so Joshua's indulging her. ]

Alright. Let me know if anything changes or there's anything new that seems strange.

[ And he'll see what he can do.

In the meantime, setting off for the hospital? ]

[Setting off, yes! Though they won't get too far. After about a block, it becomes clear that something is very off about the streets right now. It takes a few minutes of walking for it to really sink in though:]

...h-hey. It's the middle of the day, right? Where are all the people?

[Inexplicably the streets are empty, save for a lone police car sitting at the next corner, almost as though it was waiting for them.]

They've been gone at least since I started glowing.

[ It hadn't bothered him at the time, since running from the giant glowing light would be a reasonable reaction. But no one had been poking heads out to investigate since then. ]

Do you like the look of that? [ He gives a small nod towards the car. ]

Edited 2013-09-22 13:18 (UTC)

Not particularly. The cops have been acting weird all week. And I've never been a fan of them to begin with...

[Oh, now they're getting out of the car.]

[And one just took out his police baton.]

[They don't look happy.]

...maaaybe we should turn around.

Probably. [ Of course, he's taking another step forward to make sure he's closer to them than she is before he turns, though he keeps a good look over his shoulder. ] Try not to get between me and them. Just in case.

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