END OF ARC 1: DAY 168 BATTLE

[asgardmods]

[The grey dim light of false dawn has just settled on the city when the sirens sound. The piercing shriek of a modern warning system begins, and within seconds is joined by the low, haunting wail of wood and bone horns from the Elven camp outside the Gate of Fire. A minute later, there is Thor's post to the network.

And now, as the sun slowly rises, the light reveals clouds of dust in the distance, far off to the North and West. In that time, the city will be awakening with a start. Anyone with connections to a god-supported group or to the elves will be roused and rushed off to their jobs. Folkvang comfort house will open its doors, revealing an interior cleared of equipment and converted into a shelter for those who must flee the incoming violence.

The whispers on the streets are of disbelief and fear. Is it really the end of days? Surely the walls will hold against any mundane army. Surely it will all be over soon... right? Healthy natives are saying goodbye to their loved ones "just in case". Perhaps you should be too.

Later, the armies arrive. First the enemy, made up of humans, monsters, and five dragons. The lesser giants look almost human, except for the flame or frost in their eyes and the warm or cool tint to their colouring. But the king of the fire giants is something else. He is tall and broad and strong, riding on a huge, splendid black boar. The queen of the frost giants is equally intimidating, in armor that looks made of glacial ice itself, seemingly too ornate to be practical but clearly worn as if it is. Her mount is a great white serpentine creature that radiates dangerous cold. The other kinds of creatures are uncountable in their variations, but all well armed.

They dwarf the small forces of Asgard and the forward units of the elves, but just as battle is about to break the sound of a great number of clockwork machines heralds the arrival of the full forces of Alfheim. They are joined soon by the modern outfitted soldiers of Utgard, and then the masses of people collide like conflicting waves of water. Above them fly the dragons, and one great flying ship that seems to have come from nowhere but fights on the side of the gods.

What will your characters do? Will they join the front lines? Hide in the shelter? Man the Arena-turned-war-hospital? There are a million things to do in a battle, but not even those hiding will escape the smell of gunpowder and metal and the sounds of battle.]


[ooc note: your characters are welcome to come up with any frost/fire themed monsters you like! They may not directly combat the giant king or queen. They may not fight dragons without first checking in with the mods in this post (and two dragons are already claimed). Try to consider that there will be a second battle, so you can vary what you're doing. Also make sure to read the plot post thoroughly, especially with regards to character death.

Make sure to include the rough time of day in the subject of your top-level comments, as well as if your thread is open or closed. This whole log will only cover Day 168. If you need mod participation/NPCing, please ask us asap and give us some allowance to be slow, since there's a lot going on.

There is a log for the downtime on days 169-170 here, and a full-event log for those staying in the shelter at Folkvang here. There will be a second pair of battle/downtime logs for the second battle (Day 171-172 with downtime on Day 173) posted on Nov 8.

Important note! There will be a lightning speed commentspam thread for taking down the most familiar dragon in this post beginning today at 6pm CST. At that time there will be a mod plurk to let everyone know we're starting. We will also ask those who can to join the AIM chat (asgardchat) at that time so we're all on the same page. It's a thread we want to get done from start to finish as fast as possible/within two evenings, due to mod business. Please don't feel left out if you can't participate in that thread. It's partly an experiment in seeing if this kind of thing works for us, and there's lots else you can do!

Have fun, everyone! If you have questions, please ask on the event post so that everyone else can see them/the answers. Thank you!]

Comments

[day 168 | various places/times | open]

[lookingfordragon]

[A. So this war that everyone had told her about was starting now? It was a good job she had been training since arriving here it would be helpful. But at the current time it would be best to see if people were safe and work out the place where she would be able to help. Matsuri can be found checking the city to see were the attack is coming from before heading to the battle after.]

[B. Without her normal powers taking on more than one enemy at a time is to much of a risk and she isn't entirely sure of what she's capable of here. Other than a few scratches she was okay, as long as none of the stronger creatures turned up then she wouldn't have any problems.]

[C. Matsuri had avoided most of the dragon's fire but her arm was still brunt and she was struggling to use her sword properly. As much as she hated to admit it, if she kept fighting on the front lines in this state she would die. Her current priority is finding a healer so that she can go back the front lines, if she couldn't get help then she'll help with guarding the area.]

C

[samantha_grey]

[between the various people that were doing healings and the injured pouring in and getting back out to fight, Samantha was looking more than a little frazzled at points. Seeing Matsuri come into view gave her something to react to. At least it was someone she knew.

The burns didn't even make her flinch. She motioned to an empty chair and grabbed a poultice.]

Sit down. I'll treat that with this so there's a little less for the healers to deal with. We're trying to conserve their power as much as possible, just in case.

(OOC: I'd imagine it's safe to assume a real healer comes eventually, but it seemed a nice way for them to chat.)

C

[lookingfordragon]

[By the sound of it she wouldn't be getting healed enough to straight back, it wasn't really life-threatening in a safe-ish area. But it was better to be ready just in case, she's just going to hobble to the chair and sit on it.]

Thank you... How is it?

[OCC: I was just going to have her get back safely if no one spoke to her anyway. ]

[samantha_grey]

I've seen worse. Going to have to prep to see a lot of burns in the area, though. Flames definitely seem to be one of their favorite sorts of attacks. What got you?

[Samantha focused on putting the poultice in place over the worst of the wounds. It had a faintly warm feeling to it, like being next to a fireplace. It wasn't as good as a real healer, but it did stymie bleeding and eased the pain well as a start to the healing process.]

(OOC: Safe to assume she'll get healed and back to the fighting without trouble on day 1, I'd say. We've got a ridiculous number of healers.)

[lookingfordragon]

I didn't see it properly but it was in the sky.

[It was different to most treatments Matsuri had seen, most stung or she didn't notice.]

(ooc: I've got her getting better after a day, didn't know we had that many healers.)

[samantha_grey]

Oh god. Yeah, watch for the dragons. There's a few of them, and those things are like walking battering rams. Just be glad you didn't take the right in the face.

God, I'd like some payback on that thing.

(OOC: Purely OOC, I tallied the numbers. Healing and Damage Transfer are the most popular powers by a significant margin. It's kind of funny. Lots more healers than fighters. I think the last time I checked, it was about 1 in 4 or 5 were healers.)

[lookingfordragon]

I'm glad, it was far away and it cause so much trouble...

I don't think anyone can hit it properly, if we could stop it from flying that might work.

[ooc: I guess we could just throw the fighters at stuff and get the healers to heal constantly.]

[samantha_grey]

Something to control it for a short period would probably be the best, or tear a hole in its wings to bring it low. That, or you'd have to find a way to make the hit it takes really count. Like explosives attached to the arrowhead or something.

[She frowned. They would probably bring the thing down eventually, with all this dedicated fighting. However, it was still more than just bothersome.]

(OOC: Save that, while there's a lot, only a few are level three, so it's lots of light healing support. Always something...)

[lookingfordragon]

[She wouldn't be able to help with getting rid of it. Wait explosives?]

W-We have something like that?

Whoever did it would have to be a good shot...

[ooc: I don't think there many people with level 3 powers of any type.

[samantha_grey]

Not much, but the technology's around here for dynamite, I think. Couldn't get a whole lot higher power than that, though, and I'm not really sure that's enough for a Dragon. [She's actually guessing. She knows a few people have handguns, and that alone qualifies as the same level of tech.]

And yeah... a damned good shot.

[lookingfordragon]

[Explosives and modern technology weren't her strong point, and she didn't know anyone who could fight at a distance either.]

I don't know anyone who could help...

[samantha_grey]

Don't worry about it. Focus on your strong points. You're strong, aren't you?

[lookingfordragon]

Yeah...

I'm sure someone here can do it.

[samantha_grey]

If everyone does their best, we're that much more likely to succeed. Really, it's just as important to have every sort of thing covered, instead of everyone trying to do the same thing.

[lookingfordragon]

Right, I'll focus on what's on the ground.

[She is mostly talking to herself. And she needs to try and focus on what she can do, instead of doing everything.]

[samantha_grey]

Someone has to. If your strength improves, you might look into maybe taking up javelins or spears. I bet you could probably throw pretty hard.

[lookingfordragon]

Throwing?
I've always fought up close, I don't think I've seen anyone who uses weapons like that...
[She'd never really thought about throwing weapons, and Kotomaru definitely wasn't suited for throwing.]

[samantha_grey]

Hmmm. Range does come in handy actually. This is why a lot of people have guns, you know.

[lookingfordragon]

Guns?

[From the rest of the conversation she could guess it was some kinda of weapon but that was it.]

[samantha_grey]

Huh? oh, you're from somewhere they don't have them? Hand-held thing. About this long if it's a pistol. You grip it, press the trigger and it fires a bullet. It's pretty common in my world.

[lookingfordragon]

So it throws...bullets for you?

[samantha_grey]

At a few hundred miles an hour, but yep.

[lookingfordragon]

...They sound dangerous...


{What.... just what. She's really not sure if she should be amazed or scared..]

[samantha_grey]

Well, yeah. That's the point. They're meant to kill people. It uses a small bit of explosives to do the firing. The bullet's small, but at that speed it's pretty dangerous.

[lookingfordragon]

O-oh...

[She just going to think about that and hope she never runs into one]