BOX BREAKING/EVENT MINGLE: THE GENTLEMEN

[asgardmods]

Who: EVERYONE still in the city on Days 346-348 (Oct 24-29)!
What: The Gentlemen event mingle/box breaking log.
When: Days 346-348 (Oct. 24-29)
Where: Throughout the city.
Rating: PG-13, for mentions of murder/death. Anything too explicit or graphic should be taken to a separate log, please!

Before dawn on Day 346 (Oct. 24), an odd red light will appear in the sky in the general direction of Muspellheim. It's not the sun rising early and it's not a glow cloud, just a single, large streak across the sky that might look like a crack. Seconds after it appears, a rumbling sound will accompany a small earthquake that might break a few dishes or rattle anything not secured off of its perch, nothing terribly destructive. The earthquake lasts about three minutes.

From this point onward, all living creatures in Asgard will be mute.

Beneath the cut is the brief TL;DR of the event, but the plot rundown HERE can provide you with all of the information you need about breaking the boxes, stopping the murders, and saving the day! Remember that your characters are voiceless, so feel free to get creative with how you're communicating across the city.

A brief rundown by day:

Day One ( Day 346 / Oct. 24/25 ): A small earthquake rattles the city for three minutes. Everyone loses their voices. Two people will die late at night with their hearts cut from their chests.

Day Two (Day 347 / Oct. 26/27): The bodies are found. Buffycast will do their best to explain the situation and people will start looking for the "box" only to realise there's more than one. Two more people will die.

Day Three (Day 348 / Oct. 28/29): Two more people will die. The last box will be destroyed right as they're cutting into the third and final victim. Screams of the victims will be heard across the city and the Gentlemen will die.

Everyone is voiceless for this event. No screaming or coughing or anything of the sort. This applies to animals and possibly even the gods; if you try to ring them up, they won't be answering. Voices will return by late evening of Day 348 (Oct. 29).

[ Please include the IC day (ex. Day 338 - that can be found in the info beneath the cut!) and OPEN/CLOSED in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread. There WILL BE headers for the different districts, with a box-breaking thread beneath each header, but you ARE WELCOME to make your own threads beneath those headers for your characters OR to make new headers of your own. ]

Comments

[digophelia]

[Alice has too, as well, finding it very annoying that Asgard's gods or whatever higher being this was this time saw it fit to strip them of their voices. Despite being a loner to boot.

In a matter of a few hours or so, Alice had invested time in finding this "box" -- she wasn't sure what it would look like. Would it be a regular box? Or something else? But after exhausting efforts to look for anything out of place, Alice could only draw the conclusion to be looking in the dark carnival. It seemed, fitting, didn't it?

Just after Alice had decided to stop and regain her barrings. She can easily turn from calm to impatient in no time flat.

Anything out of place - anything - although a blue woman with wings wasn't exactly what Alice was looking for, at the least, she was from the same district. That would be a good start, right? To see if she had found anything? In an impulsive streak, Alice had broke out in a run to catch up to her.]

[pmsgargoyle]

[ Demona may not be able to be able to speak, but she can still ear and smell very well. When Alice approaches, The gargoyle turns her head to look a the girl.

Oh, she has seen this girl before.

Demona grabs her notebook, to write down something ]

Where have you looked for the box?

[digophelia]

[Visibly relieved, Alice painstakingly writes out her note, almost regretting how verbose she can be in a note. Well, better it be clear than vague. She can tell this is going to be a long night already. Who's idea was it for them to lose the ability to speak? Didn't the gods want them to find this thing?]

I looked thoroughly in our welcoming house and all over Hel's district. I decided to come here.

[pmsgargoyle]

I have not checked the place yet but i noticed some activity. Perhaps it's those shadows they have locked inside the mirrors, but there is only one way to be sure.

[ Demona glances back at the Carnival.

They should go. And without really asking - she has no voice - she just glances at Alice and walks towards it ]

[digophelia]

[The mirrors.

For a brief moment, Alice simply basked in the irony of reading that. The mirrors, of course, much like the other part of Wonderland. Life had a funny way of coming back to that, didn't it? Pressing lips into a thin line, she gave a brief nod. Honestly, writing was going to be taxing as it was. Alice doesn't question her, she follows right behind, flashing her knife in her right hand.

Better safe than sorry.]

[pmsgargoyle]

[ The gargoyle walks up to the carnival. And sure, there are shadows locked inside the mirrors, but that's not what was causing the movement.

Minions. Strange creature, but they were warned of them - at least she was. she wasn't, however, warned about how strong they were. it's not like it mattered, anyway - if they are here, it means there is something worthy to check out.

Demona glances over her shoulder at Alice.

To jump in or to lure those things and kill one by one, would be question ]

[digophelia]

[It comes far too easy for her to unleash her vorpal blade into view. As deeply as she despised engaging in battle, there is always still a sick sense of satisfaction against any sort of wet flesh with it. She doesn't quite engage for the fact she doesn't seem to keen on abandoning her compatriot quite yet.

Then again, It wouldn't be much of an issue for her to handle it, she didn't mind. What mattered to Alice was stopping this madness altogether. She does manage to snap out of a mixture of anxiety and anger after seeing the strange creatures to give a curt nod to Demona.

Almost to say "ready when you are".]

[pmsgargoyle]

[ The gargoyle has her own weapon. her wings that were curled around her shoulders finally spread and she exposes her mace, clinging to her belt.

What can she say? She is a fan of maces.

Demona grips on the handle and decides to engage the enemy, jumping towards the creature to hit its head ]

[digophelia]

[And Alice herself doesn't waste any hesitation to stride forward with the vorpal blade, letting out a frenzy of strikes against her choice of an opponent. Like a second nature, the blade's strikes flow through like liquid. Her methods seem self-destructive, overbearing in the way Alice doesn't seem to have any hesitation to get up close and personal. So very ironic when Alice herself dislikes touch.

When Alice gets at least a few free seconds, she does make a point to glance over to Demona. It's difficult, Alice hasn't fought side by side before.]

[pmsgargoyle]

[ Demona has no issues with close combat. Holding a mace ends up being about that, anyway.

The gargoyle viciously attacks the creature, growling and hissing, as she bashes its head in, and when another approaches, she uses her wings and tail to throw it as far away as possible.

Though Alice never fought side by side with someone else, that was the kind of combat Demona knew before the death of her clan. She comes closer to Alice, her back facing the girl; something like "you protect my back and I protect yours" (quite literally since they'd be surrounded by those minions soon enough ]

[digophelia]

[By the time Alice had flicked off her blade clean, she barely noticed what she was doing. In another situation, Alice wouldn't be too fond of being close to anyone -- her standards of a personal space were a little extreme, to put it lightly. It helps that Demona is a woman -- a woman of her own kind, someone Alice can be somewhat comfortable compared to a man. She's managed fairly well without any scrapes or much worse, but now Alice is riding a high of adrenaline that keeps her hard strokes of her knife going. She's quick. She's not the most exceptionally skilled fighter, but she's quick.

But then they start to descend.

A sigh as Alice rolls her green eyes as they become surrounded. It doesn't strike fear into her heart. On the contrary, Alice finds it annoying due to the growing impatience she's starting to develop. It's hard, Alice wants to break away, but she doesn't. She does stay close, covering her comrade in arms from the back, managing to refrain from lunging with the vorpal blade forward. The vorpal blade, as always, is sharp and keen, it never dulls and Alice is grateful for that.]