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theianmods ([personal profile] theianmods) wrote in [community profile] theianlogs2017-09-01 12:00 am

Welcome to Theia!

Who: Your mysterious caretakers and you
When: September 1st
Where: The Town Square
What: The welcome wagon has arrived!
Warnings: Minor gore, death




It's a white envelope that finds its way under every door, through every nook and cranny a day or two after your arrival. With the peculiar, bloodstained fingerprints lovingly applied as though they were a signature scrawled into its thin paper body, it doggedly persists--it will find you--until you open it and read the letter written ever so meticulously in fine script. It's a cordial invitation to a party hosted in your honor in the town square today. You should hurry, hurry, hurry! You wouldn't want to be late and keep your generous hosts waiting... or so says that oddly compelling feeling pressing into the back of your head. You make your way to the square, the urgent tugging feeling growing stronger the closer you get, and when you turn the corner to get a glimpse of the festivities, you find it's... not quite what you had been expecting.

The square is small, and looks rather out of general use. The fountain in the center is dusty and crumbling, and if there was ever any water in it it's long gone now. Most of the cobbled stones are broken and loose in the road. There are two long tables stocked with refreshments along either side of the walkway to the fountain, and what appears to be a small stage of some sort right in front of it, holding a large, ornate chair and a third table. The most unsettling thing, however, is the rest of the décor.

The theme is death, or so it would appear. Beside the food table to your left sits a bespectacled man wearing a scarf, but was the scarf always red, or is it only stained so because his head is hanging onto his neck by a thread? Against his lap rests a beautifully crafted cello, which appears to be missing its G-string... Oh. There it is--it's still stuck in the gashed man's neck. The poor bastard has been garrotted with the strings of his cello! Talk about hoisted by your own petard. Where his head lolls against the table, you may notice that behind those glasses, his eyes are missing.

Near the fountain is a large, wrought-iron statue of an archer, where... well, he's made his first kill, apparently. The body of a young girl with long dark hair is speared neatly through the chest by the archer's arrow, her little feet a good half a yard off the ground, now sticky with her blood. If you step closer to peer into the fountain, you'll find another body, this one a man with short dark hair, his face twisted into a mask of desperation and his gloved hands around his own throat as though he were gasping for air. Oddly, his lower jaw appears to be missing. Did he drown? There is no water in the fountain...

In the ornate chair on the platform is the body of another man, this one with his head completely removed from his shoulders. Oh... there it is, in his lap, his hands carefully arranged in his wild black hair. Wait, it seems there are too many hands, though! A second body dangles from a large tree that looms over the square, the rope frayed and dirty where it is wrapped around another man's neck, a strangely peaceful smile on his face, blue though it is. His hands rest atop the first man's, as though making certain the severed head remains still.

On the table in front of the chair rests a chest, its lid wide open and a glittering bounty inside.



If you peer inside, you will see a collection of eggs! Scaly, cool to the touch, and about the size of a football, they come in several colors. There is a note pinned to the inside of the trunk's lid--


Do you take an egg, as the note suggests? Dare you? (Dare you not?)

That pressing feeling in the back of your head has left you now, now that you are here to be welcomed to the city, now that you are here in the presence of your caretakers, but it is difficult to take comfort in the relief from the compulsion when surrounded by so much destruction. Who has done this to the faithful sentinels of the city? Who has killed the Watcher, the Interloper, the Guardian, the Nightingale, and the Keeper? Why have they been left here, at your welcoming home party?

Before you can turn to ask your neighbor, before you can wonder any further, a sound breaks the silence--a terrible, wet crunching noise like a sheet of ice breaking under your feet. You turn over your shoulder to see that it isn't anything so simple as ice. In the middle of the square is one final body, a body that wasn't there but a moment ago. She is small, thin, with dark hair and eerily pale eyes wide in terror. You know this girl, she met you on the elevator, expressed pleasure that you had been found (had you been lost?), and welcomed you home. Where did she come from? It's as though she simply... fell out of the sky! The Dreamer now dreams forever.

As you turn to survey the carnage all around you, a pleasant chiming sound seems to fill the air. It would seem that your mirror has a message for you! Upon inspection, you will find a new icon on the main viewscreen.


If you touch the icon, it will take you to a new application. Welcome to the Task Board! Here you will find a multitude of errands you can run for... whoever is running the city, now. Boy, what a way to announce things are under new management!

Welcome back to Theia, wayward children. Please enjoy the refreshments--watch out for the Nightingale's eyes, they may have fallen into the punch--get reacquainted with your friends and neighbors, and do take good care of those eggs. Or else...
bodyofadevil: (pic#11467797)

ACTUALLY IT WOULD BE ADORABLE, NOT GROSS!

[personal profile] bodyofadevil 2017-09-06 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
As if they really had a choice about the invitation, as Akira would have declined if given the chance to.

The Devilman never believed he was here before and that this was their return, but surely others could have left? Perhaps the bodies were just the weak unable to defend themselves. Like he used to be. It'd be cold of him to leave those in need behind if they wanted an out too, but first he had to find one.

"This isn't a real party. It's just a ruse."

Brows furrowed in irritation, the scowl which so commonly painted his features rarely subsided unless he happened to be enjoying a fight.
foeyay: (pure black comedy)

...touche, but it would be grossly adorable

[personal profile] foeyay 2017-09-07 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe."

Kamui's agreement was patronizing to the extreme. He clearly didn't care what Akira was saying, and he wasn't hiding it either. His smile in the face of such a gruesome set up made that clear as day. Just to hammer this point home, he then leaned against the corpse on the platform with him and patted it on the shoulder.

"Maybe your pals here were going to throw the party before they kicked the bucket. Or maybe this is the party, and you're just being a spoilsport."
bodyofadevil: (pic#11706670)

grossly adorable is my favorite kind of cavity

[personal profile] bodyofadevil 2017-09-10 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The intentional provocation didn't sit well with the demon. Akira constantly yearned for a battle that could only be quelled through violence. The very instinct of accepting a demon as his person, and the only thing preventing him from becoming the monsters he killed was the human heart he retained. The teen aggressively reached for the collar of the stranger's shirt, pulling him away from the corpse. Humans were such weak opponents, and Akira had no intention to kill them, but he was more than willing to beat sense into this one.

"What if that was you? Or your friends?" Would he be so complacent then? Akira had growing reserves about this stranger.
foeyay: (bloodier than gears of war)

same

[personal profile] foeyay 2017-09-11 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Kamui blinked at the stranger who had just grabbed his shirt. Though Akira did manage to pull him away from the corpse, he didn't get any farther than that before Kamui's bandaged hand latched onto it, squeezing painfully tight. Blue eyes narrowed beneath sharp brows.

"That," he answered with frigid disdain, "would mean I was too weak. Just like they were."
bodyofadevil: (pic#11706668)

[personal profile] bodyofadevil 2017-09-12 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
If Kamui's strength was inhuman enough, chances were Akira might have felt the sharp feeling of the grasp. Even if Akira did, it wasn't enough for the teen to relinquish his hold. His threshold for pain was higher than most.

"You mean to tell me you weren't weak once?"

Akira was itching to fight and Kamui was looking like a pretty good punching bag right now.
foeyay: (balloons are for noobs)

[personal profile] foeyay 2017-09-14 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"I saw I was weak, so I got strong."

The fact that Akira hadn't let go irked Kamui because it meant he had to keep listening to these pointless questions. But it was also intriguing. He tightened his grip further, enough to crush a brick, just to see Akira's reaction.

"Do you have any questions that aren't stupid?"