EVENT: Heartless Swarm

[fatedhearts]

Things have been fairly peaceful for a while now as everyone has settled into their current lives on this new world. But one day towards late summer, that all comes to an end.

One of the portals in the sky suddenly opens again, an odd glowing light surrounding it as it ejects creature after creature. Then it closes, followed by another glowing portal elsewhere in the sky emitting the same creatures. Small and black, mostly, with odd antennae and glowing eyes. Some here will know them. The Heartless, creatures of the darkness who seek hearts. Those they attack, if they give in to the darkness in their hearts, will become Heartless themselves.

Where is a Keybearer when we need one?!

OOC INFO

Heartless can be encountered anywhere! They're pouring into Edge, the Midgar ruins, Kalm, Wutai, and everywhere else. Balamb Garden won't be spared, but if they're able to seal everything off in time and take flight, they may be safe from the majority of the creatures and be a safehouse for anyone desperate to escape them.

Anyone familiar with Heartless is encouraged to try to defeat them (or control them, if they're lucky enough to possess that ability). But they may find something else will push back if they try. Did someone deliberately send the Heartless through the portals? Who, and why? Does someone on the other side of those portals know what's happening here? And why are the portals glowing when they open? Is there any important significance in that?

(And yes, this is a very significant event that will have a deep bearing on the overall plot!)

Before anyone asks, having your character become a Heartless is probably not a good idea, given that it would be very difficult to get them back to their normal selves at this point in the game. But we welcome intense situations of Heartless trying their hardest to claim hearts before they're stopped!

The event is scheduled to run through August 10th, but backdating and backtagging is encouraged for as long as everyone wants! Post toplevels to this post or create new posts!

Comments

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"... Lark?" He looked interested. That was a name he had heard before.... "Who is Lark?"

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"She is one of our teachers," Sandry said, fondly.

"Was," Tris grumbled. "They kicked us out."

"We're adults now," Sandry said. "They needed our rooms for children who still needed help. Besides, they'd come visit us if we invited. In fact, when we return home, we should have them all for dinner. Lark, Rosethorn, Niko, Frostpine, and maybe even Crane."

"Crane? At the same dinner table as Rosethorn without a plague to distract them?" Briar asked. "I'll take my neb off anywhere else than in that house."

Daja snorted.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

“Hm. I wonder if she is the Lark someone here was telling me about,” he mused. “They were both sent to another world to help an alien race fix their planet. He liked her quite a bit.”

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"I... do not know that Dedicate Lark has ever been on any such adventure," Sandry said, thoughtful. "But I would like to talk to whoever it is who has met someone else named Lark, just in case."

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"She may be from an alternate dimension," Sephiroth said. "In any case, this person who met a Lark is named Radley. He said she had ... thread magic? She could control the threads in anything."

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[4_lumps_of_thread]

The four exchanged looks. "That is Lark!" Sandry said, eyes wide. "Is this Radley here?"

"And we thought her being a traveling dancer was the shocking part of her history," Briar said, chuckling.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"Yes, he lives at the hotel," Sephiroth said.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"Once this crisis is over, could you perhaps introduce us, sir?" Sandry asked with a slightly wobbly curtsy.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"I would be happy to," Sephiroth said.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"Thank you, I very much appreciate it."

"And here we are," Daja said, nodding to their house.

"I'll get you up on the roof," Briar said to Tris. "C'mon."

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth was relieved they had made it safely. He looked it over as they walked up to it, staying alert for any possible Heartless.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"How can we help with the protection spell?" Daja asked. "Do you need materials for casting a circle?"

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"No, but thank you," Sephiroth said. "I cast the spell from my will."

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"An interesting form of magic," Sandry said, politely.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

“I think so,” Sephiroth said. He started to concentrate and the magic came out from him like a clear bubble, covering the house and property.

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[4_lumps_of_thread]

"We can move in and out?" Daja asked, watching as a window on the top floor opened and Tris started climbing pout of it and up onto the roof, using the vines on the wall for handholds.

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"Yes," Sephiroth said. "All who are supposed to be here can pass freely. Anyone else must have permission."

Re: Awesome. Ty

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"Thank you," Sandry said, curtsying. "after the spell is sed, do you wish to come in as we recover?"

Re: Awesome. Ty

[3wingedangel]

"Yes, thank you," he said. He would like to make sure all was well.

*set not sed, this is English not Latin

[4_lumps_of_thread]

She gave him a warm smile then seperated from Daja enough to go hold the door open. Daja decided to wait outside till he was done, watching his magic.

Re: *set not sed, this is English not Latin

[3wingedangel]

Soon the spell was done and Sephiroth headed for the house.

Re: *set not sed, this is English not Latin

[4_lumps_of_thread]

Daja followed him in. Sandry led him to the cozy eat in kitchen where Briar was making soup on the range. Sandry started putting out place settings. Tris was nowhere to be seen. Daja rested her staff against the wall beside the door then she rolled up her sleeves and started to cut up vegtables that had been hanging over the sink. None of them seemed to be using the fridge.

Re: *set not sed, this is English not Latin

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth watched for a moment. "Is there something I may do to help prepare the meal?"

Re: *set not sed, this is English not Latin

[4_lumps_of_thread]

"Unless you happen to have some meat on hand, we've pretty much got it," Briar told him with a grin.

"You are our guest," Sandry said with a smile. "You get to just sit and be sociable."

Daja narrowed her eyes and Sandry then sighed. "Fine." She started filling the tea kettle with water. Unlike Sora they figured out the taps at least.

Re: *set not sed, this is English not Latin

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth nodded. "I don't, unfortunately."

He smiled congenially at Sandry. "Very well." He sat down at the table.