logsinthenight | EVENT CONCLUSION: BEYOND THE SEA

characters: everyone!!
location: in the helix station under the lake, and back to the surface! (hopefully)
date/time: july 19th ish
content: After successfully exploring the Helix Station, characters have all they need to deal with the world eater stuck in the portal down below. How are they going to do it? Click and find out!
warnings: injury, body horror, monster horror, blood, maiming, you know, the usual

game plan.

Based on the votes, the consensus is quite clear: it's time to see if a creature that can destroy worlds can be killed. Characters are well armed from the finds in the test lab. Having recovered Weaver from the R&D wing, they have her assistance in attempting to use the MK VIII to assist with this task. The Key Extraction group found strong potions that might help to pacify the creature long enough to fight it. They have all they can hope to in this impossible fight — the idea is simple. Open the doors, distract the monster with brute force and attempt to pacify it with the narcotics they've recovered, while Weaver does what she can to get the drone restarted and hopefully in place for a killing blow.

If things go badly, though, the team has all agreed on a Plan B. If the tides start to turn, then the group will finish what Alastair started and shunt that bad boy back into space. It's not possible for them to change the trajectory, the World Eater will end up back where it started. However, it won't be in their lake anymore, so that's still some sort of a win. As Weaver is controlling the drone remotely, she will be the one in the control room, and will run the reversal routine if the attack begins to fail. Cao Pi is in charge of the radio to call if things start going south. Hopefully someone taught him how to use it!

boss battle.

Javert, Fitz, and Law (armed with a key Weaver provided him), with a coordinated use of the lockdown keys, manage to open the Portal Bay. Even with power restored, it is practically pitch dark in the room. It's as if the World Eater trapped in the portal manages to suck in and contain any light that dares get too close. They can hardly see the monster before they brave entering the room, though as they walk deeper into the darkness the group can see its shadowy form lodged in the portal. It's trapped around the torso, with only a small part of it visible to the group. Impossibly huge, and perhaps somewhat reminiscent of something that might have resembled a green eyed spirit, once, though it has started growing new extremities and limbs, as well as a few more sets of eyes. It rouses as they enter, and just looking at the World Eater manages to send an unspeakable wave of unease, anxiety, and hopelessness through the group.

Gregor, Stone and Jill throw the fragile bottles of sedative. They crack and settle on the skin and wide empty eyes of the monster. While it's clear it did not incapacitate the World Eater, the mental effects lessen and its movements seem to slow.

With that, it's a free for all, all members of the party armed to the teeth and determined to fight for all they have. The weapons recovered by Cao Pi, Link, and Reiju prove especially useful, though as they cut and slash, the World Eater seems to recover new limbs, new tendrils, seem to generate at random. Like a hydra, every piece they cut down seems to restore itself. Braving closer to its torso leaves the creature leaking toxic black blood over the floor. Touching it proves it is bitterly caustic, easily burning through rubber and clothing and flesh alike. It's a bitter, ugly battle, and not without damage to the fighters themselves.

The fight seems doomed to fail, even with the World Eater slowed and mostly immobilized. It's more than just slashes, heavy hits that can send bodies flying across the room. A flash of attention can leave an attacker immobilized, dark swirling terror clawing through them strong enough that they might try to hurt themselves or their company instead of the monster itself. Worse yet, any time the World Eater seems to lull, it seems to draw the living energy from any lantern nearby, rousing itself and dampening the fighter that might have been feverishly fighting a second before.

However, with the distraction provided, Weaver successfully reactivates the MK VIII. It sounds much like a giant sized bumble bee, until it rockets through the air toward the monster. The beast manages to swat the drone away, once, and for a moment all hope seems to be lost. Until the device lurches in the air and zooms right back to its task, landing on the monstrosity and scuttling deftly over the surface of the World Eater in attempt to find a weak spot. The battle swells, attempting to keep the World Eater from clawing the drone from its body before the drone has a chance to work properly.

It feels as if it takes hours for the drone to locate a weak point, though the reality is it doesn't take much longer than a handful of minutes. The sickening churn of flesh, bone and blood resonates in the room as the drone buries successfully inside the monster. Those lingering for the fight aren't spared, as even as the device whirls inside of it, the World Eater keeps up the fight, reaching for and lashing out at whoever remains close enough. There's no running for cover, as the fight rages until the very last.

There's no warning for when it happens. The World Eater cries out, a terrifying bellow that echoes throughout the station. With the cry comes a flash of bold light, brighter than any of them have seen since arriving in Beacon. The light builds, pushes outward, and the explosion deafens suddenly and completely. The room is bathed in light and anyone in the Portal Room is thrown to the sidelines, bouncing like ragdolls off the sturdy metal walls. The implosion paired with the light existing inside the creature floods through the room, likely to leave characters blinded and deafened for a few seconds after.

However, as they come to their senses, they find the World Eater felled, lying in multiple bloody burnt pieces. Troubling, some of them do seem to keep twitching and moving. Still, it seems to be over. The fight was not without consequences, and certainly not won easily, but it was won all the same.

return to the surface.

With the beast felled, and the party much worse for the wear, the group collects back in the submarines which have thankfully had a chance to charge this time around. The ride isn't exactly fun, but there's no alarm messages or rides in pitch darkness, at least. Even if there's still a good chance that characters might suffer decompression sickness, dizziness, queasiness, and headaches as they head back topside.

It's a battered and bruised group that makes it back to the docks. Plenty will need medical attention, and there might even be some with broken lanterns that will need to be taken to the lab and repaired immediately. Those that died in the fight will awaken in 3 days, however, there might be some consequences when they revive.

Those that are in better shape have a lot to share. What they've seen, what happened, and what should happen next. They've had a rough go of it, characters on the surface have their own oddities to share, too. There's a new guy in town, after all... And boy does he have some ideas and opinions.

ooc notes.

For refreshers on the first part of this event, please see the first event post! The results of this event are based on the voting found here. If your character was involved in the portal room fight, we have provided a comment for injury rolls here. If your character died in the fight, please head over to the Death Page to report it. Thanks for taking part in the first major event of our Next Night! It was quite a ride but we hope you had as much fun as we did!

Feel free to use this post for action tags set during the fight, as well as meeting up and sharing information with the others topside. As of this event, new NPC Weaver will be ashore with her submarine to offer her aide to the residents of Beacon after their help with the Helix Station. Keep an eye out for more from her soon! She will be staying at the docks in a submarine. If anyone has a cot a bunny can borrow, hit a girl up...

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No, it needs to be taken off first.

[ he sighs. ] Maybe it's better I do it. I'll come and see you in a few days. [ the splint will allow for the swelling, for the first few days, and when it goes down he should be up again. the timing works out, luckily.

he realizes she's seen his glance — but it's just as well. the people here seem to like cora-san, so he takes her question to be one of concern. ]

He wasn't hurt in the fight, [ and that's something at least. but law frowns; he knows he certainly got hit with more than simply the physical wound. if it's the same for rosinante... ]

But Cora-san is stubborn. [ he supposes that even if he has some mental effects from it, he wouldn't have said anything, not when law was doing his best impression of bleeding out. he'll have to hound him later, once he's better, to figure out if something's wrong. ]

[ she nods and sighs, disappointed by the answer but not surprised. she has some very basic medical knowledge, but setting and properly wrapping broken bones is beyond her and she'll need her arm in working order again, or at least as close to it as possible. ]

You need to be, in this place. [ she's only really gotten to know him more recently, even though he'd only been here a few weeks longer than her. getting kidnapped and tortured together had broken the ice. ] How do you know each other?

Not just here, [ he sighs, because as glad as he is that cora-san is as stubborn as he is — law wouldn't be alive otherwise — it's... kind of a problem, too.

cora-san is dead because of his stubbornness, too.

he isn't exactly keen on sharing life stories, or much about himself in general, but talking serves as a good distraction as he starts to sew elektra's arm back together, and some here have seen cora's memories, anyway... they already know about it.

so he says, quiet, with just an edge of fondness creeping through, ] He saved my life. Without him, I would have died thirteen years ago.

[ she just nods in agreement with that, she's certainly found it to be true. elektra's not necessarily looking to share her story with him either, but the distraction is keeping her from focusing on matthew, who needs her attention less than the other survivors do at the moment. there's nothing she can do for him until they resurface. ]

That makes for a pretty strong bond. [ and it's very fitting with who she knows rosinate to be. ] How? Was there a fight?

[ it would be so easy to say it; I was dying from amber lead poisoning, to say that cora-san got him the only cure there was for the otherwise incurable disease, that he betrayed everyone in order to save law and he died for it.

law stares at the blood running down elektra's arm for a long moment, hand stilling where he was stitching up the wounds.

in his ears, the flies buzz, and for a moment he can feel the weight of the bodies he hid under to escape his dead city. the world eater may be dead, but he doesn't need hallucinations to remember. ]

... sort of.

[ had it ever really been a fight? cora-san locked him in the treasure chest, left him there with a smile, and went to meet his brother with the knowledge that he would die. if anything, cora-san sacrificed himself so that law could escape, and live.

he breathes in, out. ]

I was dying from a disease. [ again — some people had seen cora's memories of the hospitals. it's safe to say this much; probably good to say this much, to make sure cora's story holds. ] Incurable. He found the one thing that could cure it... but getting it to me cost him his life.

[ that. that should be enough. more that he ever wanted to say on the subject... but before, he'd been holding back all his memories. with cora-san here... he can talk about some of it, if it helps people know cora-san is the best person he knows. ]

[ it's enough. she can tell it's more than he would have shared under normal circumstances, and it makes her feel passingly guilty that she's never asked rosinate how he'd died. but then she hasn't really asked anyone how they'd died, has she? even matthew's death had been a mystery, mostly due to the fact that he'd apparently died before she had, even though she remembers events from well after that.

he knows how she'd died, taking the blow meant for him so the hand couldn't use her. but he doesn't remember it.

it feels like something one would ordinarily say 'i'm sorry' for, but doing so would feel hollow. she goes with something genuine instead. ]

I'm glad you have each other now. [ even if that means he's dead now, too. ] So you didn't end up dying from the disease?

[ he doesn't respond to the sentiment, but there's something in his expression that betrays just how much he agrees — frankly, if he'd known he could reunite with cora-san by dying... he wouldn't have bothered to stay alive for as long as he did.

he lifts her arm, carefully, to reach the last of the wounds there, and huffs out something like a laugh. ]

Obviously not. I lived for another thirteen years.

[ ah. right. kind of shows how well she's doing at the moment, doesn't it? ]

It might have been a slow-acting disease, I don't know. [ but she's sort of smiling as she says it. well, smiling is a generous term, more like the curve of her mouth temporarily shifts upward instead of down.

the movement hurts, but she grits her teeth against it, her muscles stiffening slightly before she forces them to relax. these need to heal as cleanly as possible. ]

You're not entirely wrong, [ he says wryly, because he had lived for years, all the while waiting for his own death, his condition worsening... but that had only lasted for three years, not sixteen.

he focuses then on the wounds, mouth opening to tell her to relax when she does, on her own, and law looks at her with some grudging respect. ]

... looks like you're no stranger to wounds like this.

[ she notices the look and returns it with a gruff chuckle. ]

What gave me away, my demeanor or the scars? [ aside from the ones on the arm he's attending, there's one on her neck and several on her opposite arm. and those are just the ones that are currently visible to him. ]

Both.

[ with a raised eyebrow — he's not exactly expecting her to tell how she got them... but it's obvious there's a story to it all. ]

I'd say you're not a stranger to fights like the one we just had, either.

[ there's stories behind all of them, mostly involving fights. there are a few on her arms and legs that are from the green eyeds trying to cut her open and pour their blood inside the wounds, but they'd mostly stuck to reopening the wounds that had killed her for that purpose. ]

It's never been on that kind of scale before. [ they'd fought an unwinnable battle before, the one that had gotten her killed, but that had been multiple enemies and one who had resurrected, not something like what they'd just barely won against.

the fist on her opposite hand tightens because she's reminded immediately that they didn't all win against it. ]

EVENT CONCLUSION: BEYOND THE SEA

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