Pandemonium

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Who: Everyone [Open]
Where: The Entire City | 18th from 1am to 11pm
Summary: Complete and utter chaos
Warnings: Despair
Music: Break my Soul

Chaos.

There was no other way to describe the mood in the city, the streets filled with civilians attempting to huddle to the closest safe havens. The demons who had walked a fragile alliance with humans, previously content to stay underground due to the fact that they knew they would be pushed back, suddenly filled the streets - attacking on sight when they saw humans showing themselves to be weak. The darker monsters among them relished in this new opportunity, ignoring humanity's pleas and destroying what little remained of the city's peaceful sanity.

Everywhere, the city was a tumultuous mixture of those still stuck in their childish forms, with some back to their older selves trying to fix what they could and reestablish electrical power and barriers. Some demons, siding with humanity despite everything, aided them by keeping the others at bay. Personas were out in full force, swarming the skies and pushing back invaders. But it simply wasn't enough.

Without a network and all of the news outlets completely silent, everyone was left to fend for themselves... and it wasn't pretty.

The Visitors had to act as fast as they could, still in their child forms or not. There was so much to do, and without any directives. No intel sent to their heads explaining the situation. The Wise Men facility was silent. No one seemed to be answering...

[OOC - Here is the City Page. Your character can be anywhere and either look for clues, help people out or simply try to defend themselves. Remember, there is no electrical power right now, and most of the areas of the city are dark.

It's up to you to decide what to do. Shall you go save civilians, reestablish power, go to the MAGI headquarters? The choices will affect the game. There is a planning post in the OOC comm, create teams, decide what to do and help save Hinoto-Ri by following this link. Just know that, tonight, someone you might have thought an ally will declare themselves a foe.

Good luck.]

Comments

[luckyuncle]

[This wouldn't do.]

[After having spent time with Agatha -- who was younger and completely free of Sheridan woes, at least for a little while -- this wouldn't do. She was still young, still happy, and damned if Jack was going to let these things endanger her.]

[The brown-haired Sheridan wanders the streets, looking for any would-be attackers, when the first group comes; half a dozen demons, claws ready to slash at vulnerable flesh and teeth ready to tear into muscle and bone.]

[Jack is, however, prepared for them. In a fluid, practiced motion, his hand comes up, grasps the glasses on his face, and slips them into a pocket all at once.]

[His glamour fades, the brown hair shifts to red, and the normally calm voice turns into a foreboding, menacing sound as the laughter comes -- loud and utterly psychotic. The demons are handled very quickly after that.]

Pathetic creatures! I will not allow you to touch even a single hair on her head!

[The thought of protecting Agatha -- and the pure, unfiltered anger toward the demons that dare attack him -- is his driving force, sending him into a frenzy on the streets.]

[meaningdies]

[The sudden spike of power and that familiar aura is something that draws Naoya out quickly, even with his body childlike still. The pain and rage are all too familiar, and he can't help but laugh.]

[This is too perfect. It's not as if he's defenseless either - he flips open his COMP and summons Garuda and Behemoth, sending them to cut down the demons he can find with Coyote.]

[samurai_flynn]

[The earthquake jolted him from his slumber.

He bolted to look out of the window of his apartment room. People were running around in a panic... and demons were right behind them; spreading chaos and ruin.

It reminded him of that fateful night in Mikado...

He quickly got his sword, gauntlet, and jacket and ran as fast as he could outside.

Outside was worse than he imagined: there was debris everywhere. The pungent stench of gas and smoke were filling his nostrils. To his left was a small family cowering in the corner with a rather large demon blocking their way. He unsheathes his sword and activates the gauntlet, summoning his demons.]

(Finally here!)

[mementodagger]

[Yurick is almost right on Flynn's heels since they live in the same building. He doesn't know the man but if the Samurai is a fellow Visitor trying to help innocents, he'll offer what assistance he can. Hopefully Zael will show up soon, too.

He has to try to atone for what he'd done after the Virgo incident. Hopefully he won't startle the other man with his magic.

Stopping several yards behind Flynn, he begins charging Prominence, the magic lifting his feet from the ground and ruffling his clothes. Seconds later he launches the blast of fire at the demon threatening the family, laying down a wide magic circle around it and Flynn. While the flames scorch the Grendel, they barely feel pleasantly warm to Flynn. Instead they creep up his sword, enhancing it with fire.]

[ding_bots_are_done]

[Any sensible person would lock their doors and hide once the chaos started. Especially if they had a big fancy castle to hide in. But no.

Agatha is currently approaching whatever is left of the Magi building, a rather impressive looking gun slung over her shoulder and various tools hanging from her belt.]

[terminally_clever]

[As it happens, Agatha is not the only one on her way to the MAGI building in the midst of the chaos. Fumi's headed in that direction as well, Lugh running along at her side as her Velvet Room Persona towers behind her.]

[angryyoungvamp]

[A crisis is occurring in the middle of the night and throwing the city into chaos. This is very, very familiar to Maugris, and it's also something he can actually take part in. This is the sort of thing that seemed to happen in Metatropolis at least twice a year.

After finding that the network is down and taking a brief moment to work out what the emergency post said, Maugris has decided to do what he'd have ended up doing if this were Metatropolis - find a central position and try and start organizing a response.

Said central position is just outside the Pisces apartments. At least half of what he's been doing is trying to get nearby civilians inside; even if the barriers aren't holding, at least it's somewhere vaguely safer than outside, and defensible. Apart from that, he's running into the issue of getting people to try and listen to him over the chaos, and the fact that he doesn't actually have any sort of authority in Hinoto-Ri, and the fact that he doesn't know the people around him and what they're capable of nearly as well as he did the vampires of Metatropolis.

That, and the fact that he's taking time out of his frantic planning every five minutes or so to throw a Rakukaja at someone to give them time to get to safety. If nothing else, Malagi's getting a workout.]

((OOC: Okay, so this is Maugris frantically trying to organize people. He may end up running for places he thinks are likely to be at the root of the problem - probably MAGI or the Research Facility - later if he thinks things are sufficiently organized, someone else takes over planning, or if he just gives up on the idea. Planning post is over here!))

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

[Faris, meanwhile, is doing as much as she can actively - while it may be no small feat in theory to go out, find one or two people that were caught out, and get them somewhere inside, she's having much the same problems as this guy seems to be, and often resorts to just grabbing people.

On the other hand, this was a little closer to what she'd been expecting all these months.]

[all_wound_up]

[As soon as it becomes evident that there's something wrong, Nano is immediately out and about in the city trying to do her best to keep everyone safe. She's outfitted with her keyblade, Pendulum Shift, with her Persona Geppetto floating protectively behind her as she runs around the city attempting to locate her friends. At every turn she is accosted by Heartless of every shape and size, cutting them down with her keyblade as she goes. She's found her courage, and is no longer afraid of the shadows that haunt the night, but there are just too many for one little robot to defeat all on her own.]

[tyrantball]

Quite a few less as Desco cuts in, shaping Usatako into a sword and slamming it into a group of Neo-Shadows.

"True Godly Weapon!"

The resulting explosion vaporizes the Heartless as Desco looks over at Nano.

"Sis! It's dangerous out here!"

[blitzkriegzwei]

[Dammit, not again! ...For a given value of "again," anyway. Germany never particularly minded having to fight; it was something that he had spent a good portion of his history doing. Now (now meaning "for over a year") he had a "new" power with which to do one of the things he did best. He was unleashing Siegfried and Vulcan left and right as the situation dictated and doing a decent job of cutting down demons... but there was only so much he could do alone.]

[dontcallmeerky]

[Erk is over here with Mimir floating above him as usual, an outsized head patterned in blue and gold, with a book in his hand and a staff under one arm. At the moment, he's been treed by a two-headed dog creature, but doesn't look too worried just yet.]

Mimir, give me a Weakness Scan, please.

[Erk's finding that new ability quite useful. Especially when Mimir reports back "ice". Having a Persona not oriented toward combat can be a hindrance sometimes, but Erk can compensate on his own. He flicks open his book -]

Fimbulvetr!

[- and blasts the Orthrus with a storm of icy wind.]

[whyshouldyoucare]

[A new face would make her debut in Hinoto-Ri tonight. (Well, she had been around for a few days prior to this, but was too busy sulking and trying to get her bearings to make herself heard.) After a quick Justice Morph outside of the sight of anyone who could expose her identity, she made her way outside of her Pisces apartment and proceeded to go on a demon hunt. Any demons who appeared to be a danger at all would promptly be on the receiving end of a barrage of lasers. This was going to be fun...]

[all_wound_up]

[As fate would have it, there's another robot emerging from a house in the Pisces district tonight to go out and fight demons. This one is indistinguishable from the humans she's running out to help protect, if not for the big wind-up key sticking out of her back. She's also carrying a curious sword that also looks more like a key than a blade. Maybe it's some kind of motif.]

[halberdaxe]

[Fighting against enemies running amok was probably what Noda was best doing at, even if he failed at doing even that at times. He knew this perfectly well enough so even if for the slightest chance he learned the names of the facilities, he ignored it.

So he's around the streets, beating up on the demons as he runs around. At times, he'd be using his persona when it gets a little too much for him to handle himself, but you would see him fighting by himself majority of the time, looking a little...less humane himself.]

[trainwrecking]

[The dark figures come as no surprise. They're demons fighting amongst themselves--

-- aren't they? Otonashi would be fine to leave them to their own devices if only they weren't drawing closer to the meager shelter he's attempting to scrape together. He swallows once, hard, and raises the sniper rifle. He pinches his damaged eye closed and looks through the scope, looking between the curled, monsterous-looking demons and the humanoid.

The darkness obscures their features, and his finger clutches at the trigger, ready but hesitant.]

[justjustice]

[Man oh man. There were days when Apollo kind of liked Hinoto-Ri, and days when he didn't. Today was decisively the latter. The whole city was in chaos, and guess what Apollo didn't like? Chaos. He couldn't just stand there. He had to do something!

...Or maybe he could just stand there. He was currently standing outside of the Pisces apartment building, being incredibly indecisive as to whether he should risk his hide in a situation like this.]

[dontrunawayfromliving]

Oh hey look who is coming out of the apartment behind Apollo.

(spoilers: it is sarah)

"What are you doing?! It's not safe out here!"

Ayumu and Hizumi Joint Thread | OPEN

[bondsofsuffering]

((OOC: TL;DR Hizumi and Ayumu are now attempting to run from the Pisces apartments to Libra and are currently weaponless. If they are encountered along the way, it is more than likely they will be in dire need of help against the swarming demons, so go wild!))

[It’s the sound of static that awakens Hizumi first. He attempts to roll over onto his side in his grogginess when he realizes that a. he appears to be curled up under an ungodly number of blankets and b. there’s someone in there with him.

It’s only hazily that the memories of the past few days come back, but he decides to put that aside for now to instead pay attention to the video feed, elbowing Ayumu in the side as he does.]

Hey. Wake up.

[Although his voice is still quiet as with the last time they had spoken, there’s an edge of urgency there too.]

[The elbow in the side is what wakes Ayumu first, and any retort he might have to the rude awakening is cut off by the realization that 1. someone is awfully close in his personal space and 2. that person is Hizumi, and his tone doesn’t bode anything good.] What’s going on…?

[The video feed cuts off any more questions. That... didn’t sound good at all.]

We’re about to find out.

[He focuses on the video for now, resting his chin on his hand as he watches. His eyes narrow as Tokudome lists off the Seven and the Wisemen, uttering only a short phrase as the feed ends.]

That bastard.

[Ayumu couldn’t agree more. This guy sounded twisted, even if he didn’t know who he was.] You can say that again. Who is this guy?

A reporter. Or at least, he used to be. I wondered what happened to him after the cage matches...

[He shakes his head. This isn’t really the time to explain.] You’ve still got my weapons, right? We should probably get those as quickly as possible.

[Ayumu agreed. They needed to focus on the sound of fighting outside. Looked like things were going to get messy.] Yeah… at my apartment. If the portals are still down, we’re in for a walk. [A long, dangerous walk. He almost regrets leaving the weapons hidden. Almost.]

[A sigh. It’s not like he was planning to do anything with them...] Then we’ll have to rely on our Personae... Think you can handle it?

I’ll manage. [Better safe than sorry. If he had to use his persona, he’d use his persona.] We better be careful.

Ayumu and Hizumi Joint Thread | OPEN

[melodyoflogic]

[Untangling the blankets took some work..... hope Hizumi doesn't mind the piles being shoved around as Ayumu tries to get to his feet. How many blankets were there....?]

Transportation is probably down, too... We'll have to cross the river by foot.

OPEN TO ALL

[primordial]

A.

[Great. Just great. That reporter who turned out not to be a reporter at all? Eh. He could care less. He could care less about those Wise Men, about saving them. What does it matter to him?]

[But then the chaos starts. And he's right smack dab in the middle of it, totally unprepared for the rush of demons that try to attack him. He's got his Persona out, which is currently attacking the demons that are trying to pull him down from the alley wall he's perched on.]

S-stop it!! Go away!! Just let me go!

[Yeah, this is totally the WORSE situation to be in. Give him a hand?]

B.

[But enough of that. Enough of waiting for people to save him. After that whole incident, he banishes his Persona and takes to the shadows. But not as himself. No, he's going to go hide and let this storm pass over.]

[As he rushes through the streets towards the river, you might see him. But Sam Erstwhile no longer looks like Sam Erstwhile, the timid sniveling young man who couldn't hurt a fly. He looks more like the demons attacking the city.]

[He looks like a monster.]

[What do you do? Do you stop him in his tracks, or do you just let him pass by, nothing more than a shadow in your memories?]

[ooc: If you choose B, please fill out his permission post!! Human beings can't stare at his form for too long without bad side effects, and he'll probably be using telepathy if he feels like speaking. The account I'll tag with for B will be daemoniac.]

B

[tyrantball]

Desco is just looking around for demons to kill and subjects to rescue when she notices something in the shadows.

"Big bro! Are you alright?"

OTA

[demifemme]

[Bitty]

Having acknowledged young Kiku as the future Shura, the Jack Frosts who run with her adult self or just watch her go by have assembled to protect her! Led by three Pyro Jacks lighting the way and one Black Frost clearing the way, the Jack Frosts are carrying bitty kimono'd Kiku to a safer district, from Capricorn where the wild demons are moving into more populated districts to Pisces to hopefully get her to safety into her apartment and maybe raid her pantry for candies too.

[Adult]
Still in a kimono, but now back to her adult self, Shura is still among the Frosts, but now that she has checked the Network for news, well, she is not happy. First of all she hates the chaos reminiscent of the Vortex World. Second of all, she hates to be called complacent when no one ever told her what the city wanted aside from bread 'n games. This Tomokazu Tokudome better be hidden well and far away from her, for her contempt for humans just went up another notch. In the end it was again people fucking people over, but not only was he a human attacking humans, he was a human, probably with a Persona, attacking weaker humans to prompt others into action, and that was far too much like the Manikins for Shura to ignore. The Frosts rejoiced and got ready for battle as Shura began the summoning of one of her demons.

"SHIVA!!!"

She was going to find that smug little bastard, murder the everhating shit out of him, and pay a massive bill for covering that rented kimono with his blood.

adult

[dontrunawayfromliving]

There's a woman in red fighting an entire pack of strange-looking demons just ahead of Shura. When she hears the shout, she spares a brief instant to glance over at the source, her red eyes widening.

"Shura! I could use some help!"

One of the strange demons leaps at her as she shouts, only to be met with the blade end of the massive sword she's carrying, throwing its two separated halves into the wall of a nearby building. The attack is fast but sloppy, and leaves her open for a crucial second, allowing another one of the demons to dart in and slash at her exposed left arm with a massive tusk.

[trainwrecking]

[He can't be exhausted this soon. He just can't be.

The Misato House has been converted into somewhat of a storage, as his first order of business was securing supplies in this mess. Non-perishable foods, whatever water he could get his hands on and... the house's first-aid supplies. Not much, but it's something.

He can be found yelling orders to civilians in the chaos, begging them to seek shelter (at least until he knows he can use this mansion as one) and handing out quick supplies to those who need it. Need something quick to eat or drink? He'll set you up.

And tonight, he has more than just his handgun. He's armed with an IMI Galil sniper rifle and trying to pick off monsters that come too close to the mansion, or any that he happens to run into on the way to monitor the other districts...

This may be a little (just a little!) harder with a tiny Aoi Misato around.]

[eyewillprotect]

[And Aoi is determinedly following him, having found her naginata and holding it firmly in her hands. She might not be in the appropriate clothing for it, but she can still move easily enough to use the bladed staff as necessary, which is important in a scenario where there are literally swarms of demons out and about. She might not be as eager to run into battle as her older self, but she's no less willing to help where she can.]

Otonashi, I think I hear someone...

ota

[ex_knightsky842]

[The first sign of trouble comes for Dagran when he notices that the power's off when he finally trudges back into his little flat. After slamming at the switch, he fumbles his way back through the door just in time to catch the last few seconds of that news report.

That's all that's needed for him to slink outside, really. He's never been one to sit still and wait or do as he's told like a good little boy, and so as soon as he leaves his apartment building and sees the absolute chaos outside, he sticks to the shadows. Although it's not the best thing, when demons come too close, he trips them and sets upon them with the dagger on his person at all times.


Like hell he's marking the treasured blade strapped to his back.

He's grabbed the occasional civilian by accident before though, so it's probably best if everyone stays away from the shadowy alleyway he's currently crouched in; the glint of his dagger isn't something to laugh off when he's mastered this attack at least.]

[otakuro]

Thud.

[Unfortunately, something is currently approaching the alleyway in which Dagran is hiding.]

Thud.

[...This something can apparently be detected by the sound of immense footsteps gradually drawing closer, with the accompanying noise of shouting.]

...This way!

[There is a mighty crash just outside the alleyway as a boy in a floppy white hat passes by, accompanied by an immense creature, so large that the upper body shimmers into incorporeal mist and only the feet can be seen. The clay feet pause at this point; Atsuro stops as well and calls up to his Persona.]

...What is it? More demons nearby?