Jul. 29th, 2025 09:02 pm
EVENT: Heartless Swarm
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fhlogsThings 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!
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?!
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!
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Sandry raised her brows.
"My point exactly," he said.
She tossed a napkin at him and it wrapped itself around his face.
"HEY!" he protested, pulling at it.
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"Is he going to be able to breathe if you do that?"
He wasn't sure he would ever get used to their love of tormenting each other. He hoped they wouldn't ever treat him like that.
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Tris snorted rudely. "It's probably me," she snapped.
Sandry shook her head. "I'm not so sure," she said thoughtfully. Then to him she asked. "Do you find us discomforting?" she asked quietly.
"Again, it's me, everyone seems to freak out around me, he was fine before I came down wasn't he?"
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Sandry smiled. "We do have an unfair advantage. We're all connected mentally, and the connection is so close that we know that there is love behind the teasing."
"Love? Isn't that a plague or something? I should start working on a cure." Briar teased. The napkin around his face started sprouting small green stems and bits of fluff.
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"Some absolute idiot," Tris growled.
"Someone was trying to harness the power of earthquakes."
"I was thirteen and even I knew better," Tris said bitterly.
"Really?" Daja asked. "So I don't actually remember having to help spoon feed you after you tried to pause the tides for the first time."
Tris crossed her arms and sunk down in her seat. "I was thirteen," she mumbled. "And Niko's lecture was almost as bad as what the ocean did to me already anyway."
Sandry picked up the story. "Someone was attempting to harness the power of earthquakes. When he failed, the earthquakes he had been gathering ripped through in all directions. We got caught..." she swallowed hard.
Briar took over. "We got trapped down in a cave trying to find our dog when the big quake hit. We were trapped in." He glanced at Sandry then just said to Sephiroth "It was pretty bad. Sandry saved our lives that day."
Sandry wrapped her hand around something under her shirt, the same thing she had held fighting the heartless. "we saved each other."
"We only could because of you," Daja told her, then turned to him. "Sandry wove our powers together. Tris was able to hold the stones long enough for me to find the metal in the ground around us. I tried to use it to form a box to keep us safe while Tris tried to make small gaps that would let air in and encourage the breezes to us. Briar called on the plants to use their roots to help me anchor the saraku. We only managed it because Sandry kept spinning the thread she put our powers into."
Sandry flushed slightly. "My parents thought spinning was below my station so I didn't learn until Discipline, and Lark. My first attempt was all lumpy. Ig had four lumps as it turned out, so it made for a good focus. But by the time our teachers found and saved us... somehow the sting had sealed itself into a loop. And it kept some part of each of us in there ever since."
Briar nodded. "But just like when trees grow so close the entwine, we got all tangled up too."
"Boy did we ever," Daja said, fingering the metal on her palm absently. "For a while our powers got very scrambled. My metal started growing like plants."
"I accidently destroyed that beautiful embroidery," Sandry said, regretfully.
Briar shook his head. "It don't matter, we got it fixed is what matters. But we were still all stuck together up above our nebs."
"I don't think we were talking after a certain point when we were trapped in the earthquake," Daja said. "But I'm not sure. All I know is ever since keeping a secret from these three has been near about impossible."
"We're closer than any family now," Sandry said, firmly. "Even when they're being stubborn."
"Hey, I explained it already!" Briar protested. "I was trying to protect you girls."
"And now you know we don't need it, rat boy," Daja said, shaking her head at him.
"Anyway," Sandry said before it can be an argument. "Only distance or actively working to keep each other out stops us from being able to speak mental or see through each other's eyes."
"And until we all get better about keeping our nebs to ourselves," Briar said, "We've all agreed there are certain things we aint gonna do."
"Like share our beds with strange women?" Tris asked, archly.
"Who said they're strange?" Briar demanded.
"If they're flirting with either of you, I think that's proof enough," she said primly.
Briar reached over and tweaked her ear gently. "Don't worry, Copper curls one day some strange woman will hit on you."
Tris glared at him. "She had better not! I don't need any of that mess thank you very much. When we get home I'm going back to schooling and that's all there is for it. I;ll be way too busy to get foolish over anyone like that."
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"How far apart can you be before the connection breaks?"
He liked the idea of the mental bond on some level, but it seemed like it would be more useful over distances.
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"We were a few days out on the ocean when I lost track of you all," Briar said.
"We never actually measured," Daja admitted.
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The mention of a castle didn't surprise him too much, since Sandry did act like she had been raised in high society. And castles were quite common in his world and others he'd seen.
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