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January Event: Setting Fire to the Sky

JANUARY EVENT: SETTING FIRE TO THE SKY
Who: Everyone!
What: The sun dies, and the creatures of the night emerge from the depths
When: January 21st - January 28th
Where: Everywhere! Ensō, Monsun, Chol, and the Islets
Warnings: Character death, possible body horror and violence. Please mark any additional warnings as needed!
So We Can Take the World Back From the Heart-Attacked

The night of the 21st, the sun begins to dim. It dips in the horizon, sinks to nestle itself in the center of Chol like a star falling in slow motion, where it begins to smolder quietly - massive, smoking, and hot, like a massive egg. The night grows colder, the sky reduced to an inky black. The surface of the surrounding water is still but for the occasional ripple, the odd, strangely subdued wave, with not even the hollow lights of distant stars to glint off its reflective waves.

The Jormun gather around the sunken, dying sun with their scaled hands on their weapons, their expressions grim. They fan out across the island of Chol with arms in hand. Their fortifications have settled around the island's center in a dense ball of bristling weapons. They have been preparing for this. They are ready to fight.

Are you?
No island is safe. From the well-trodden mainland of Ensō and its islets to the stark dichotomy of Monsun to the craggy shores of Chol, all manner of strange things have begun to haul themselves, dripping, from the watery dark.

No more preparation. No more running.

From here on out, it is fight or die.
One Maniac At a Time, We Will Take It Back

As the Storyteller has promised, there is sanctuary in their temple on Ensō, which will keep out the worst of the creatures. It will not, however, protect characters from the cold and dark, and so they will have to keep themselves warm some other way.

The Jormun fight fiercely, but they do not fight alone. Aside from the help that the willing of your number have offered, you may glimpse the Storyteller battling alongside the rest in a flurry of strange, shifting animal shapes: a heavy-antlered reindeer, a shrieking owl with outstretched talons, a slavering grizzly bear with the Storyteller's signature tome strapped across a broad, furry back, to name but a few. Those creatures that the Storyteller defeats will burst into a flurry of paper and dark, spattering ink, rather than being felled in the conventional manner. How odd.

As this is an event with a high risk of death, the Storyteller will impose death penalties for one week only. However, deaths succumbed during the event will count towards the character's total.
Then I'll Raise You Like a Phoenix

Come the sunrise on the 28th, the sun will launch itself into the air with a victorious shriek, its wings trailing plumes of fire behind it. The phoenix takes flight, reborn from the ashes.
The shores of Chol are littered with corpses, both shadowy and scaled, along with an even smattering of crumpled paper and splotched inkstains. Despite the triumph of the fight, it did not come without its costs. The Jormun gather their dead and prepare to mourn them quietly. Those who perished in the fight will not see the sunrise from this unique perspective, watching the murk of the night tint to soft, milky yellow and pink, and then to a glorious new day.

Munin will greet the survivors with a mixture of solemnity and relief, thanking them profusely for their help. There is not much more that her people can offer you, at this point - they must grieve their dead, and she must return to the sea to prove that she has cemented her worth as a leader in the eyes of the other Jormun - but that does not mean that your stories will part forever.

Event Timeline
[ ♆ ] January 20th: Monthly Storytelling occurs as usual
[ ♆ ] January 21st: The dark arrives, the temperature drops further, and the first hostile creatures begin their assault
[ ♆ ] January 28th: The dark ends and the sun rises
[ ♆ ] January 30th: Those who perished are revived, suffering from a reduced death penalty

Event Specifics
[ ♆ ] If you have any questions, feel free to look over our OOC Info Post.
[ ♆ ] Feel free to make your own logs if necessary!
[ ♆ ] If your character perishes in this event, please let us know!
[ ♆ ] Item trades with the Jormun can be found on the OOC plotting post here! Even if you were only recently accepted, you are free to participate!
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dedamastai: (you've got it all)

'til the earth starts to crumble and the heavens roll away

[personal profile] dedamastai 2018-01-24 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He hears the scream, scrambling back onto his feet and scrambling in the direction it's coming from. It's not fast enough - he hears the sickening impact of Laurent's body hitting the ground and kneels next to it. Damen can't manage Veretian, slipping into the rougher edge of Akielon.]

Please. Please. You - you promised.

[It's nonsense, because even at the time he didn't believe that Laurent wouldn't do something like this, but he just. He can't.]

Laurent.
crosslaced: (nightmare)

and I'm yours

[personal profile] crosslaced 2018-01-25 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Laurent is…

not dead! Yet.]


Mn…

[distantly he hears Damen speak, but his mind can't wrap around the words. his mind can't do much right now other than process the monumental amount of pain he's in. a part of him is loathe to be seen like this, and it is in agreement with the part that senses Damen is upset- the part that wants desperately to fix it- and he wants to say he's sorry for being like this, he does, but his mouth can't form the words.

his Veretian is broken.]


i’ll… c-cme b-bck. prm… ss… …hh story… nnn…

[it takes a difficult amount of willpower to keep his eyes open, but if he lets them closed he might expire right there. and he can't while Damen is like this.]

dedamastai: (you can reclaim your crown)

oh, the things that you do in the name of what you love

[personal profile] dedamastai 2018-01-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Damen brushes a hand through Laurent's hair, trying to think of something to say. There are things that should probably still be said, but suddenly none of them seem very important. He can't afford to sit here for much longer - already, he's dimly aware that there's still a battle going on and the very thing Laurent sacrificed himself to prevent might happen if he stays sitting in one place.]

Go to sleep, my love. [It's choked and quiet, a jumbled mess of Veretian and Akielon, because he won't cry. He won't.] I - I will be here when you wake.

crosslaced: (nightmare)

[1/2] you are doomed but just enough

[personal profile] crosslaced 2018-01-26 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
[in another life he doesn't die. in another life they win, and he has countless hours with damen among white flowers that are not narcissus. in that life damen is the one with the injury, and like the great big bear he is he lives through it. but that's not his to live out. and that's okay.

he just feels bad that damen has to see this, the life that is the blood price for such golden endings. or at least that's laurent's theory. poetic justice and all, even the best of them need sleeping aids sometimes.

it is with a great effort that he removes his soul gem from his wrist; it rolls out of his grasp and towards damen.]


…lo… love you.

[his breathing shivers, then slows, then.]
crosslaced: (nightmare)

[personal profile] crosslaced 2018-01-26 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
[uh well I guess Laurent of Vere is dead now. bim bom bam bom!]
dedamastai: (you don't gain a single thing)

confess my love, i'd know where to be

[personal profile] dedamastai 2018-01-26 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Damen doesn't say it back. Instead, he takes a deep breath and picks up Laurent's soul gem, tucking it into a pocket. It takes another moment, but then Damen begins speaking quietly in very old and formal Akielon:]

Rest well, Laurent of Vere. I will now do what you would have wanted of me: I will live to see the sun rise and I will fight so that it may do so. [He swallows, unsure.] When you return, you will have to forgive me for doing this the Akielon way.

[He doesn't have any of the time or supplies for the truly correct order of things, which would be the thing that makes him break if he didn't know that Laurent wasn't journeying to the afterlife. This was not Akielos or Vere or even the place Laurent had been before and death maybe worked a little differently. Everything worked a little bit differently.

Damen still attempted: carefully cutting off a lock of hair with his dagger and folding it into one of Laurent's hands. He builds the pyre from whatever wood is nearby and it takes hours, maybe, but he needs to do it right and that's the only thing he can focus on. When it's done, he tries to steady his hands enough to strike the flint with the steel. To catch the sparks in the tinder, carefully set the entire thing ablaze. It doesn't catch the first time, but the second does and then everything is alight.

He does not watch it burn.]