⇨ INVASION!

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone! But especially HARBINGERS!
When: S2:D16-22
Where: All over Wismuth!
What: As the Harbingers reveal themselves, those among the carnival that Creation has chosen will start to discover new powers within themselves. It's because they're magical girls, yo.
Warnings: Harbingers being assholes.

HARBINGERS OF VOID↴ On Day 16, the Harbingers begin revealing their new selves... in the form of wreaking havoc on the city! CY-Ren isn't looking for mass panic or serious structural damage - instead she wants constant annoyances and distractions, of the sort that will keep those that might be on her tail distracted from her true plans. However, when Creation is faced with the threat of twelve new Harbingers, it will have to fight in kind... ► HARBINGERS: Your job is to use your powers to create messes for other people to clean up! CY-Ren gives no specific instructions outside of a general framework... flex your powers! See what you can do. Don't destroy the city or anything, but give Creation a run for its money. She needs these civilians alive for her later plans. ► STAR GUARDIANS: Twelve members of the carnival have been chosen by Creation to fight in its name, even if they don't realize it yet. When confronted by the Harbinger's chaos, their Sparks will make themselves known in whatever form is appropriate to the character - and they will be asked if they are willing to use the power of their soul to fight the darkness. How this scene plays out can be flexible, but essentially they will find themselves faced with the question: are they willing to fight for the preservation of life? If they say yes, their Spark will emerge, and they will be able to trigger a magical girl transformation, as you do. ► CHARITY CONCERT: While everyone else is busy with the sudden rise of the Harbingers, CY-Ren's PR team is releasing a statement -- they will say that new information has revealed that there had been bomb threats made against the canceled concert, which are now being blamed for the damages. CY-Ren will make a personal statement, saying that in order to apologize for the failure of her previous performances, a new free to attend event is being planned for the near future - people who had tickets to the previous event and had to go home early get top priority!

Comments

[stillwinningthehardway]

If she'd bothered to take a moment and consider, Scout would know there's no way Cole understands natural dignity or the importance of composure. If he knows anything about the virtues of modesty and humility, which admittedly he appears to be thoroughly aware of, it's probably accidental.

"They don't. What's important is what you do," she says firmly. "I don't like all this Harbinger stuff."

[hurtcomfort]

"Nobody likes it," Cole explains, with a little shrug. "I don't know if the Harbingers even do."

Cole's only had a few interactions with the Harbingers so far. But throughout them all, none of them seemed happy. They just seemed...resigned? Sad? Not many people are happy about ending everything, after all.

[stillwinningthehardway]

"Too bad for them. We've got to stop them either way."

The question of how far she should stick her neck out on stops while trying to finish this contract and get back home so she can try to protect the Jedi who are left has come up in Scout's mind before, and her answer is inconstant. Her powers are limited and problems are often beyond her ability to fix them, but that's not an excuse to not give it her best. Her people and her home reality aren't worth any more than those of the other worlds she passes through. It's a hash, really.

[hurtcomfort]

"We will," Cole simply responds like it's the most obvious thing in the world. Because of course they will. Even without the save the world aspect, their friends were kidnapped. And Cole would stop at nothing to get Lavellan back.

"Do you know what you can do yet? We can do more like this." Cole's already figured out his creepy bonus Guardian powers. Has Scout figured out hers?

[stillwinningthehardway]

"We'd better," Scout mutters. She hates turncoats. All right, yes, this is because something reached out and took them and made them turn, just like at the Manor, but it still puts a knot in her gut. The nightmare at the Temple wasn't that long ago. She's pretty sure it will never feel like long ago.

Her dæmon shoves his blunt face against the side of her neck, breathing into her hair, not-so-incidentally touching his prominent teeth against her skin. It's good and bracing. She leans a little against him and goes on.

"Some of it. It doesn't really feel like... like what I already have, exactly, but it feels good. Empowering."

[hurtcomfort]

Cole's familiar flies over to land on his shoulder. If Cole's weirded out by the fact that Scout's daemon is shoving his teeth at her throat, he doesn't show it. He just looks at the thing with a bit of a confused frown. What is that?

Still, there's more here than that odd thing. Scout's explanation doesn't really tell him what her power is and Cole's a bit nosy.

"Can you show us?" If Scout using her power feels good, then she should use her power. It's as simple as that.

[stillwinningthehardway]

Scout glances around, Tràkata lifting his head to look too, in different directions. It's not really necessary, she's pulling up her might as well be invisibility glamour anyway, but she has the sense that if someone's actually looking at her when she does that it won't work on them, not if they grow curious and look harder.

"All right," she says when she doesn't think anyone will see. Paranoia is a habit that's hard to let go of, after all, she's even reluctant on Carnival grounds. Without a word or a glance her dæmon hops to the ground and shakes himself off, rearranging his mane where part of it had been flattened against Scout.

Doing this while someone's watching and not because something needs to be done is harder. Scout, body and dæmon, closes her eyes, frowning with effort, reaching for the inner brightness running like water through her.