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OCTOBER EVENT PT2

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→ THE BEGINNING

(click to expand - happy early Halloween)

It's on the evening of October 28th when everything quickly descends into madness.

It begins with faint static in the air, gradually becoming louder and louder until it's impossible to ignore, the pattern of cries that was once hidden now audible to everybody as it grows and grows until it culminates in an explosion. The walls of the local bookstore burst outwards, a rampaging Hydreigon within unleashing Hyper Beam after Hyper Beam without any rest in between. Its trainer, an old man, hobbles up to it in a panic in order to ask what's wrong, but the Pokemon knocks him to the ground, ignoring him and continuing to destroy everything in its path while its trainer lies motionless on the ground, blood pouring from his head.

Further down the street, another eruption shakes the city, a group of Galarian Rapidashes slamming themselves against walls and windows until they break through, careening and crashing through buildings with wild abandon. Occupants inside a cafe scream as they attempt to flee, crushed under rubble and trampled by merciless hooves. From the sky, Murkrows and Natus swoop down on residents on the streets, long talons outstretched to claw at any exposed skin and pluck out any staring eyes. All around the city, Pokeballs burst open on their own and the Pokemon rush madly at human and Pokemon alike, disregarding orders or pleads from their trainers and attacking anything within sight in a wild frenzy.

Fires blaze across the city as children wail and adults scream. All the while, the pattern of cries continues...

→ THE RAMPAGE

(click to expand - you're in for a bad time)

Throughout the night, dark, ghost, and psychic-type Pokemon rampage throughout Mango City. Wild Pokemon appear from the outskirts of town and attack anyone and anything on sight, while companion Pokemon force themselves out of their balls and turn upon their trainers. No other types seem to be affected, the other Pokemon just as confused and distraught as the humans as they're forced to run from, defend against, and fight the Pokemon they were once allied with.

While many of the mad Pokemon physically assault those around them, other use innate abilities to wreak havoc. Musharnas emit a dark mist that engulfs entire beings and brings their fears to reality, forcing all those within the fog to face the same delusions. At the same time, Shedinjas steal souls away in their shells and keep them captive in a shared endless nightmare of their worst experiences relived. Similarly, Beheeyems cause those nearby to reexperience their most feared and hated moments, erasing all memory after that moment in order to trap their victims in that vulnerable mindset of the past. Meanwhile, Zoroarks trap their targets within grand illusions that force them to undergo a series of deaths over and over again, causing them excruciating pain and suffering while their physical bodies continue to live. Haunters phase in and out of walls to surprise and lick their victims, sapping years off their life and causing a frigid shivering that won't stop until they wither away, and Gengars loom in the shadows, sapping heat away from its surroundings and causing the small and the weak to slowly freeze to death. Umbreons spray poisonous sweat all over the street, causing people to choke and convulse if they stay too long near the toxic areas, and Cofagriguses drag humans into their coffins and wrap them up as mummies, bound so tightly nobody can hear them scream. No amount of pleading nor bargaining will cause any of them to stop; the only option left is to defeat them in battle, either by killing them or knocking them out.

It'd be kinder to do the latter, but in the heat of the moment, it's difficult to hold back. It's desperate times, after all, as the city streets soon begin to fill with the cold and still bodies of both Pokemon and humans.

→ HELP...?

(click to expand - is anyone even sane enough left to help)

At the outskirts of town bordering the forest, herds of Stantler lead the unaffected and helpless deeper into the forest into an area where the trees are so densely packed that even the shine of the moon can't break through. The only source of light are the small Litwicks that scurry towards the humans, smiling and holding out their little hands. Follow them. They'll keep you safe(?).

Perhaps it's time to abandon the city, where the fires continue to grow and rage throughout the streets, threatening to engulf entire neighborhood blocks. The hospital and Pokemon Center get repurposed to disaster zones as the doctors and nurses struggle to treat their patients while fending off rampaging Pokemon at the same time. Mari's large Steelixes wrap themselves around the buildings to become iron walls keeping the wild Pokemon out, but even their great defense struggles against the never ending attacks.

In the midst of the ongoing disaster, the radio tower remains undamaged and completely abandoned, untouched by the rampaging Pokemon outside. The receptionist has fled long ago, leaving the front doors open but the door to the stairs and the elevator up remaining locked. The tower stands empty and silent, completely free of the static and pattern of cries playing outside, the one place of reprieve from the hell that has descended upon Mango City.

→ MOD NOTES

⬥ Welcome to the Halloween event! Due to the nature of the prompts, please properly warn for any potentially disturbing content in your threads/tags for all players.
⬥ This event is forward dated to the evening and night of the 28th and may last past the 28th if no proper IC measures are taken to stop the rampaging Pokemon. The OOC deadline to solve and fix the disaster will be October 29.
⬥ Please comment to the mod question & investigation thread to report any actions that characters may take to stop the events of the log.
⬥ Have fun! :)

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[ Fai catches a glimpse of whatever was forming against the wall, briefly wondering what it is before it disappears.

Sagi's words distract him from that momentarily and he nods. ]

Go! [ Marshtomp takes that as a cue to send one final Mud Slap! ]

[Either in desperate self-defense or as one final malicious impulse, the Musharna looses a cloud of mist dense enough to blanket the whole room. All of a sudden, Sagi can barely see past the front of his face. The only thing he can see is the shape that rapidly reforms by the wall: it's without a doubt a woman's body this time, crushed and mauled beyond any semblance of life except for the only partly bloodied green of her hair.

But then Fai's Marshtomp delivers one more slap of mud across the Musharna's spout, and it crumples. The fog and the shapes within it rapidly dissolve into nothing, clearing the air of everything except the incessant static from outside.

Sagi looks a little shaken to register their victory right away, still staring at the wall where the body was. It takes him a few seconds and some blinking before he realises the fog is no more.]

I guess that's that. Are you hurt?

[He approaches his Marshtomp to check on him first, but it's meant as a general question.]

[ Fai was not expecting to see something like that, and he's glad that the illusion disappears the moment the mud hits Musharna. Letting out a small sigh of relief, Fai looks down at Marshtomp to make sure she's fine while Swablu flutters around them.

The fact that Sagi looks shaken doesn't get past him, however, and he nods at Sagi's question. His hand is bleeding, but it's not a big deal. ]

We're alright here.

[ He walks over, Marshtomp and Swablu in tow. ]

Are you?

I think it tried to switch targets at the last second. [He manages a small, lopsided smile. It's a little annoying to get caught up in a vision despite already knowing what the deal was with the fog, even just for a moment.] But hey, it went down. Good job!

[The smile fades when he catches sight of Fai's cut hand. Right, the glass from the window. He forgot about that after coming in from the roof instead.]

Oh, your hand... Do we have anything for that? Uh, let me check.

[He takes a playing card out of his pocket, pulls an entire shoulder bag out of the playing card in a whistling flash of light like it's the most natural thing in the world, then props the bag up on the side of a mud-spattered table to rummage through it. He definitely doesn't have actual bandages, but maybe he can improvise something close enough.]

[ Switching targets, huh... Fai doesn't push any further on that, because he saw how bad it was. He doesn't want to upset Sagi by asking about it.

The shoulder bag coming out of the playing card does surprise him a little, though. That's a new form of magic he hasn't seen before, and he watches Sagi dig through the bag. ]

Ah... don't worry about it. It's alright if you don't have any bandages. I can get it taken care of.

[Sagi looks up from the bag, his arm elbow-deep inside.]

You sure? Sometimes blood attracts extra company.

[He still sounds pretty matter of fact about the whole affair. The mangled corpse was unpleasant, but it wasn't real; he doesn't see a need to think about it too hard, or at all.]

It would be out of character for these guys, but so is... everything else they're doing.

[ He's glad that Sagi has seemed to recover pretty quickly from what he saw.

But he does have a point—the Pokemon are acting unpredictably and it's possible that they will be drawn to blood. ]

...You're right. If you can't find anything in there, I can use some of my clothes to wrap up my hand.

[Sagi doesn't answer right away, but after a short while he pulls what looks like a dark purple sleeve out of the bag. A little hacking at it with his dagger, and he has a couple of soft, somewhat ragged-edged, dark purple strips of cloth.]

Will this do?

[He holds them out to Fai with no hesitation. Clothes are replaceable, hands less so.]

I think so.

[ Fai takes them and starts wrapping his hand. It's a little difficult to do using just his one hand, but it's manageable. ]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[He just beams. It's nice to be appreciated sometimes.

With that particular quest complete, he pulls a second blank card from his pocket - the bag goes in one, the dagger in the other, both disappearing in the same flashes of light and high-pitched sound.]

Well, unless your shield works on broken glass, we need another way out...

[They could just try the door, but maybe the window over there is less damaged? It's hard to immediately tell under all the mud splatters, so he walks over to take a look - though he's just slightly hesitant to step through the space where the illusory body was lying.]

[ Fai smiles back at Sagi, but this smile is smaller and more subdued than what Sagi is used to.

Shaking his head to say that his shield does not in fact work on broken glass, he starts to look around, noticing the way Sagi hesitates at the wall the illusion was earlier. So, he steps in front of Sagi to examine the window. ]

Hmm... this one doesn't look like it's in as bad a shape as the others.

[ There's a large crack running through it but... ]

We should be able to open this if we're careful.

[Being careful has never been Sagi's forte, but he nods anyway and tries the window handle, since he's not the one with a bandaged hand. Gently does it... slowly, gingerly, making sure not to bump his elbow or a wing against the cracked pane...

This might be excessive caution, honestly. He's just trying to do what Fai advised. Regardless, eventually, he pushes the window as wide open as it seems it will go, then leans out to look at the street.]

Hmm... Looks clear for now.

[He thinks so, at least. If he's right, it's a matter of Fai fitting through and climbing down.]

[ It is a little excessive, but Fai's glad that Sagi followed his advice so he doesn't complain.

He looks at the window. Although he's thin, he's also very tall. This could prove to be a bit of a problem. ]

Hopefully I'll fit!

[ He smiles as he says it, like he's not worried about it. ]

Are you going to use the window too?

If it holds up. Via the roof if not.

[Fai is tall. It feels like a trend with most of the people Sagi has met recently. In a vacuum, he'd be a little more concerned about the feasibility of this escape route... but he takes Fai's apparent lack of worry at face value and assumes things will be more or less fine.]

What are you going to do afterwards?

I plan to help out whoever I can.

[ He smiles at Sagi, heading toward the window and testing it a bit to see if the frame will hold. ]

I can protect people with my magic, so I plan to put that to good use. What about you?

[Sagi's expression turns more serious.]

...Right. The radio tower.

[He hadn't forgotten. Being attacked by a fog apparition just shuffled his immediate priorities around a bit.]

I was going to go break the machine up top. None of this will end until the sound stops.

[ Fai nods. ]

That's a good idea. If you need help with that, come find me. If you see my shield, I should be close by.

[ And his look unique, so it should be easy to tell what's him and what's a Pokemon attack. ]

Thanks, I will. You take care, too.

[He'd best fly out through the roof after all if they don't want to get in each other's way. He withdraws his Pokemon, pets Fai's Swablu if it lets him, then heads back over to stand under the damaged panel in the ceiling.

He pauses only to gauge the height of the jump he needs, then opens his wings. If Fai doesn't rethink the window exit route, he's just leaving.]

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OCTOBER EVENT PT2

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→ THE BEGINNING

→ THE RAMPAGE

→ HELP...?

→ MOD NOTES

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