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⇨ The Tourist Trap: WEEK 2
Who: Anyone, anywhere in Portland.
When: October 7st - 14th, 2017
Where: Portland area, in the new reality.
What: The week begins as the time of the Animal Fair finally arrives! Meanwhile, the truth of this reality starts to be revealed, and forces both human and celestial alike attempt to take advantage of a rare opportunity.
Warnings: Individually marked!
When: October 7st - 14th, 2017
Where: Portland area, in the new reality.
What: The week begins as the time of the Animal Fair finally arrives! Meanwhile, the truth of this reality starts to be revealed, and forces both human and celestial alike attempt to take advantage of a rare opportunity.
Warnings: Individually marked!
BY ANY OTHER NAME↴![]() Tensions thicken as various supernaturally forces react to the events of the previous week. Something critical is afoot, and it's only a matter of time before things start coming to a head. It's time to find out more about what's happened to this world, and what will happen in its future. ► A NIGHT AT THE FAIR: From the night of the 7th to the morning of the 8th, the Animal Fair is officially in town. There is a top level down below with more information, though you can also RP content from this elsewhere if you wish. The host, who is very likely something called a Wyld Fae (if you discovered that ICly), will be present, but they will only be appearing to you of their own accord and attempting to track them down by force will be ineffective. Just kick back and relax! Fairs are supposed to be fun. ► THORNS IN YOUR SIDE: Culminating in a full fledged attack against the Sanctuary, it would seem that The Rose Queen is declaring war on the changeling population of Portland. Though the vicious attack of thorns against the safe house was eventually stopped, it wasn't without damage, and the black roses that caused it are still popping up around the city and threatening the places where homeless and lost changelings would be likely to congregate. It's obvious now that this is a serious threat - will it ever stop without an intervention? ► HELL ON EARTH: As Anath's march draws near, the first waves of her demons will be entering the city. Primarily acting as scouts and foot soldiers, these demons will be attempting to secure loyalty from the local demon populace, as well as taking out any angels they can manage to catch. It's a level of aggressiveness against heaven's forces that hasn't been seen for years, and it's a foreboding hint of things to come. These demons can be NPCed by anyone, and will mostly be thugs or manipulators who don't know much about Anath's plans but do know that you need to join their side. They are also rowdier than most of the demons in Portland, and are a threat to the innocent mortal populace as well, if they decide to try to get their kicks here. ► THE WIZARD POLICE: The Enlightenment Council seems to have demanded control of the local Circle chapter, and now backup has arrived. These mages are being sent out into the city as if they are a police force, and will be attempting to demand control of various common supernatural areas, as well as questioning community members that they run into. Whatever is going on, it seems to have resulted in the Council instituting what is essentially martial law... of course, not everyone sees any need to heed their demands. If you are a demon, warlock, or other rogue element, expect to be harassed or even attacked by them. These character can be NPCed, and if you need additional information you can ask the mods. |
► ANGEL MEETING (OCTOBER 9TH)
Her wings are actually exposed now – a set of white feathery ones, that are purely physical in form, unlike the spirit made ones of full angels. There is an ornate rapier sheathed at her side.
There will probably be some time to bother her before she begins the meeting, if you are so inclined, but she is not the most talkative, and seems somewhat uncomfortable in the presence of so many angels. Still, she will eventually stand up on the stairs and begin telling her tale, after throwing out some protective charms to guard them from observation.
“Thank you for coming,” she will start, a bit uncomfortably. “As I’ve suggested to a few of you... I’ve brought with me some information that could be critical to the angels that are still trapped on Earth. I’m sure you’ve already seen the demons and the fae start to act... the Sanctuary I was staying at this week was already attacked.”
She swallows. “There are... reasons for this, that not many people realize. It’s more than just the standard level of aggression we deal with from their kinds. You’ll notice that all of this is coming from the species most directly affected by ‘the Severing’ – that is, the magical event that cut off communication with Heaven twenty five years ago.
“I’ve never known the specifics of this spell myself... I was only born a short time before it occurred. But I’ve been given information from a trustworthy source, that suggests the magical and spiritual fluctuations of the Earth are due to the spell’s long term effects... that it was set up to run from the energy of the Earth’s spirit, and recent stress has caused it to take more than anyone was expecting.
“It was meant to separate the Earth from extra-planar creatures, and though we’ve never known what this looks like from the outside... it seems like it does something more complicated than simply preventing entry. I believe that there may have been an influx of beings who have very recently arrived from outside the Earth... and that they are walking among us, right now.
“I also have reason to believe that this presence could be the key to dismantling the spell from the inside.”
She will go on to describe the situation in more specifics. It doesn’t sound like she knows much about the magic itself, and is going off of the word of a human mage, but she is under the impression that the Severing spell may be overloaded, and thus currently vulnerable.
A more important question looms. If it is possible to dispel the wards protecting the Earth from outsiders... should it be destroyed? Or is the safety of the Earth from Hell’s forces more important?
Joker / Jaoel
For all the fact that this is an angel meeting, for angels, Joker lands on the front steps of the church with his probably-human-definitely-psychic charge tucked under one arm and a beat up barely conscious embarrassment to demons under his other. Although at least with Sora, he carefully sets him down on his own two feet once they're inside the church- listen, flying was faster and easier than taking a bus, which would have refused them from Psi bleeding everywhere anyway.
Anyone who appears to be even close to giving him a look for this will get a prompt, "Oi, mate, got a problem?"
Otherwise, Joker finds a bench to sit on in the rows of pews, and sets Psi laying down on another where he watches blankly as the demon almost inevitably slithers off of it to collapse in a heap on the ground. After a second of apparently debating if he should bother to exert the energy required to pick him up, Joker just leans back against the bench with his arms spread. He's too damn tired for this.
...And he does look it, for anyone taking a gander. Angels don't technically need to sleep, being the divine messengers and warriors and shit that they are, but Joker looks like he could do with a long nap. Occasionally while he waits for this whole thing to get starter, he grimaces and wipes at his face, trying to stay away. While he's tried to clean it up, there's blood splattered here and there, especially on his shoes and beneath his finger nails. It's clearly different than the blood smeared on him from carting around Psi. Occasionally, something in his eyes or hair or skin almost seems to shimmer- he's two seconds away from giving up on his "polite" human appearance and becoming full on holy warrior.
But it's fine. This is fine.
Meeting Time
When it's clear that Pru has gotten through the majority of the reasons why they're here and what the hell is going on, thus making it Question Time, Joker wearily raises his hand.
"Alright, so this is all well and important, but why do the demons and the Rose Queen give a good-" A pause where he was clearly going to swear and then remembered he's supposed to be a Professional (tm) divine entity. "Why do they care about this spell? What's in it for them if they keep it goin' or destroy it?" He looks around to see if anyone else has a better idea than him.
...After a second, he also nudges Psi with his shoe, but he's not expecting anything there.
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"What the hell is this?" she asks, gesturing emphatically in the direction of Psi's delirious body.
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He's had a rough day, let him live.
After a second, however, raking his hand through his hair, he musters up a better answer. "Rudolph, if someone wrote questionable fanfic on if reindeer were demons." He nudges Psi with his boot. "Psi. Demon. Guy I know."
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"Okay. Yes. But why did you bring him here?" she asks, no less critical.
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after the meeting
"...They want to be free. Angels aren't the only ones trapped on Earth... Anath, the arch demon, is raiding the city for that exact purpose. Her lover, Lord Baal, is still in Hell and she wants to return to his army. The Fae... well, the Fae have never been very happy to be on the receiving side of imprisonment."
"They want a way out as much as you do."
It is in this moment that Sora will have a vision.
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It's also one of the more violent things he's seen in his visions. He'd seen things before, car crashes, violence, but nothing so... deliberately creepy. The man in the vision, the changeling with the dark feathers, looks familiar, though Sora doesn't remember having ever seen him before, but it's painful to watch this whether he knows the man or not.
It's almost a scene from a horror novel, and when he wakes up, it takes him a moment to groggily readjust to where he is.
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"Are ya alright?" he asks. That takes precedence over the details of whatever it was he just saw.
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"S' no one to boss... Like a debuff. Serious dicks."
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"So. The hell happened to you? You look like you lost a fight," he says, pausing for effect. "Badly."
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"Three... Lost three times."
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"Yeah, but it worked out all right for ya until it didn't, huh?" Reaching down, he lightly touches Psi's shoulder. No slapping or patting, just a touch. "Try ta rest, ya mess."
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"Don't let 'em undo it."
Zangetsu / Marmaroth
Not that anyone would actually want him there. Marmaroth was an angel that gave all the rest of them a bad name. Smiting at the drop of a hat, spending his evenings drunk at demon bars... Some Holy Warrior he was.
Initially he just listens, his halo and two pairs of wings revealed to give proof of his angelic-ness. Wings and halo both seem to be made of blindingly bright, reddish light, and droplets of liquid light seem to drip from them. Except upwards. Because fuck gravity, right? And his wings are covered in black and gold eyes that roll around apparently at random. He perches on one of the pews, listening with pursed lips.
Once the girl is done talking, he... raises his hand. Like a kid at school. But he doesn't wait to be called on before he starts talking.
"Hi, yeah. Name's Marmaroth. 'Cept it's not," he says, in a much more casual tone than Marmaroth ever uses, "My name is actually Zangetsu and I'm one-a those outsiders you were talkin' about. This isn't my body. And I wanna leave."
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"You're... what?" And then something pings her memory. Zangetsu is the one that had written her that absurd letter, under the veil of an angel named Mamaroth. He hadn't even been invited, but...
"You mean you actually came from the outside?"
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"You're what?" he manages to say at the same time as Prudence.
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He can pick up on Prudence's discomfort more easily than he can follow her presentation and watches her with sympathetic eyes. It's hard being different, and she is very young. Of course, she is also actually capable and someone to be respected, so he'd better not tell her they have something in common. He manages to keep up with the gist of what she's saying, more or less. That's a relief.
"But... if outsiders can get in, why hasn't it happened before?" The Dove of God wouldn't make the effort. Circling God's throne and singing is too important to just stop doing. But there are many more angels in Heaven, and some of them love the Earth or things on it.
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Though some of these angels definitely feel more 'down to Earth' than others.
"Maybe because, in the past, it was few enough that no one noticed," she says, offering a helpless gesture. "Or... maybe the only reason whatever is guarding the Earth didn't destroy them this time is the fact that there were so many at once. The spell is strong enough that it's been causing massive fluctuations all over the globe... it's consuming an enormous amount of magical energy to do what it's doing."
"Our only guess is that it was finally pushed further than it could handle."
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"So... what happens now?" Iuliael sounds probably more plaintive than he should with a question like that. "Are the hellspawn and the fae trying to break the barrier? Would they have got like this anyway?"
Yugo / "Hugo"
...Hugo floats his glorious draconic form up from his chosen seat, none too concerned about outside threats being threats again in favor of the questions he choses to ask-
"How exactly would these 'outsiders' be able to... er- reverse the Severing? And does figuring out who they are have to do with recognizing strangers you've never met?"
If only this angel knew."Because there's this kid with the exact same face as when I'm human-looking and I definitely didn't steal his look or anything."
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"Much of magic is based on sympathetic connections... joining things with relationships, either emotional or physical. It's important to be able to guide the magic to do what you need, and the best way to do that is to provide it with a path to follow.
"And so... theoretically... if a new arrival still had a strong sympathetic connection to the realms outside of this one, it could be powerful enough to bridge the gap. That, combined with the fact that the ward is already damaged from excessive use."
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"If that guy was from somewhere that's not here..." He ponders aloud while briefly scratching at his head with a claw. "But somehow we're connected, even then?"
Rudolph (if demons were reindeer)
"How you doing?"
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He's not going to make a big deal out of this. He's just going to... leave. By himself. There's no need to say anything about it. This 'Zangetsu' guy is giving them more information than Sans could ever hope to, so who cares, right?
Right.
Of course, Sans's backwards trajectory brings him right past Psi and his slurring bullshit. Right now, it just makes Sans impossibly angry - and that's coming from someone who doesn't actually get mad very often.
The look he casts Psi is sharp, but given that they've been roomates for so long, Psi can also probably realize that this is the exact sort of behaviour Sans exhibits right before running the fuck away.
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"Sans-" he tries to stands and trips over his own feet in his haste, wincing in pain as he falls back onto the pew.
"Wait!"
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