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

[elongatedsmile]

Are you worried about money? [She remember hearing about that. People avoiding going to see doctors and getting the help they needed because they couldn't afford it.] Sweetie, don't worry about that. They doctors will work something out with you, I'll even help you if you need it! [She is not letting you leave looking like that.]

[magicalesbian]

I-It's not about money! I... I just can't go there!

[Just the thought was starting to make her panic. What would they do? What would happen if they saw this? And found out about how it happened? She couldn't explain this feeling in her chest, but everything was telling her that the hospital was not the place to go.]

[elongatedsmile]

Why? Why can't you go there? [And suddenly it hits her. How strange the cops have been acting.] Is it because the cops are chasing after you? Did they do this to you?

[magicalesbian]

No! No, one one... did this to me. I-I mean, I don't even know what happened! Everything just... [She brings her hand to her chest, fingers running over the pendent still stuck to her skin.] ...got weird.

[elongatedsmile]

Someone had to have done this to you. Even if you don't remember, people don't just start bleeding!

[magicalesbian]

...it wasn't a someone, so much as a something. But. You'll just think I'm crazy. I mean, I kinda think I'm crazy. So I really think I should just go soak my head for awhile. Or something.

[elongatedsmile]

Did you fall? Is that what happened? You can tell me, I- I probably won't find you to be all that crazy really.

[magicalesbian]

I-I didn't fall. I mean, well, technically it made me fall? But that's not how I got hurt...

[Is it safe to talk about? She decides so. She runs her hand over the pendent on her chest -- the one sticking out as though someone had just decided to glue it on -- and wipes some of the blood away.]

Th-this is what got me. I was just wearing it one minute, and the next... stabsville.

[elongatedsmile]

You're pendent? It had sharp edges? Then we should get you to a doctor to have them take it out. Leave it in until then, it will keep it from bleeding, but you can't leave it in there forever.

[magicalesbian]

N-No! You don't understand! It didn't just cut me-- I-I mean, it did, but. Like. It started to get really hot all of a sudden, and then suddenly it just... grew these long metal tentacle things. And then it stabbed me with them, and when I woke up, I was like this.

[elongatedsmile]

It grew tentacles? And grew hot? [Sorry, but that is a little hard to believe.] Does it have a button or something to make it change forms? Like some toys do?

[magicalesbian]

What kind of messed up toys did you have growing up?

[BURNING TENTACLES OF PAIN AND DESPAIR doesn't sound like something any boy and girl would wanna see under the Christmas tree.]

Look, all I know is when I tried tugging on it, it felt like it was a lot deeper than it looked.

[elongatedsmile]

You've never seen those little toys that if you turn their pieces they could look like something else? Well, I actually never had one, but I've just heard about them.

[Wait! This wasn't the point!] If it's deeper than it looks then we'd better get you somewhere they can safely take it out right away!

[magicalesbian]

B-But what if it's so deep they can't take it out! I don't want to die in some creepy hospital!

[Ohgod what if she's seriously going to die? She's starting to feel a little dizzy now.]

[elongatedsmile]

Hospitals don't have to be creepy. They're places where people go to get better. Where are your parents. We can call them and have them meet us there.

[magicalesbian]

[That... actually calms her down a little. Only because she can't help but think how nice it would be for that to be so simple.]

I've got a deadbeat mom whose face I can't remember and a dad I've only known for a week. No way.

[elongatedsmile]

[Oh, whoops.] I'm sorry, but you should still go to the hospital and be looked at.

[A pause. She only knew her dad for a week? Well, this offer wasn't going to be much better then, but she tries anyway.] If you want I will go with you. I'll stay by your side and make sure you won't die there.

[Lies. She knows it's a promise she can't keep should the pendant be in the girl's heart or something, but whatever it will take to get her there to be checked on she was willing to say.]

[magicalesbian]

Don't make promises you can't keep! I don't even know you!

[Just. Gonna start staggering a few steps back now. She's very very adamant about going to the hospital. Something in the back of her mind is just telling her it'd be a very bad idea right now. Even if she's not sure why...]

[elongatedsmile]

I know you don't know me. I just- [Xzana puts a hand to her head. She was frustrated and just wanted to help this girl. Why did she have to be so stubborn?]

I'm worried about you. If you don't have someone take a look at you, you really might die and I don't want to read about it in the paper that a young girl was found dead in the streets when I could have helped.

[magicalesbian]

[This lady was pretty stubborn, wasn't she? Kari wasn't exactly accustomed to this. She was used to being fending for themselves out on the streets, maybe helping people they considered part of their in-group, but...]

...then help me get home. I'm not going to the hospital, but... someone there can help me, I-I'm sure of it!

[elongatedsmile]

[Xzana sighs and then nods her head.] Alright, I'll take you home. Let me get my car. [And call someone to come check on this girl after she learns where she lives.]