The 13th Hour - GENERAL LOG

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The 13th Hour

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Who: Anyone
Where: The entire city
When: This week
Summary: This is a General 13th hour log.
Warnings: That depends who is there
Music: This

When it is darkest, men see the stars...

The snow was falling softly in the night sky when the heavens turned red again. The nearly black sphere of the upcoming new moon meant the monster population wasn't overly aggressive and the creatures wouldn't offer much challenge....

...or that's what was supposed to happen.

That night, there was a strange pull. The demons had acted odd that day, but even when asked, they were unsure why. To keep the population safe, the mayor had asked the city to stay inside that night and let the city police and visitors do their job.

It was a good thing he had. As the first minute of the 13th hour continued, something happened...the signature tail in the sky of something appearing, much like when the Guests had shown up. Only this time it was hundred of such little signals. The sky was filled with them, and people were ushered inside buildings as much as possible. Something was wrong.

Something was very wrong.

New creatures began to move around the city. For some, it would be creatures they might have wanted to forget. Yet for others, this would soon be forgotten when not flesh but stone, rock and metal, rose from the very ground, pieces of their homeworld reborn in Hinoto-Ri...

Extra Long OOC Blurb

[(Make sure you read it!)

Alright 13th hour post!

This will be up to you on what you want to do; start a new post where you can character's name and OPEN and write the days they'll be wandering during the 13th hour. Join other people's post, do some exploration, post them fighting monsters and just have some fun leveling up / interacting! For this log only You can level a persona twice meaning if they are used in a post with one group and in a post with another group, you can level up your persona twice. The conditions is that the fighting must happen on two different days. You can do this with only one persona, however.

For the buildings, each one gets its own thread. The original owners who submitted will be the first to see them, due to a strange pull that made they feel like they NEEDED to go to that area. What they do with this information is up to them; they can contact others in their group, start exploring by themselves or allow the thread to be open for others to come in with them...it's all up to you. That next morning, the government will be coming over to analyze them (that will be done offscreen, however).

FOR THE CREATURES 1) The creatures have to be in the Beastary for you to use them. You don't need to use creatures from your own home worlds either, as long as someone's put in a creature in there! No boss characters that night, since it isn't a full moon. Also make sure your characters could logically take onthe creatures you pick let's not have them take down a giant tree when they couldn't normally.]

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Meetra Surik | Open all days

[echo_of_a_jedi]

1 - Monday

Much to her surprise, the Exile was accosted on her way to bothering demons at the Mictlan. Even more surprising was what trio of things had accosted her.

"Are you serious?" she asked, drawing her lightsaber hilt into her hand. "I thought we were done with this."

The leftmost of the three robots chimed in with a mechanical, yet enthusiastic response. "Observation: Disappointing organics is not a primary directive, but is nonetheless satisfying."

The central of them added in, "Nostalgic recitation: Let us proceed to facilitate communications, and bring about the termination of hostilities."

And then Meetra ignited her lightsaber to start deflecting an incoming barrage of blaster fire.

2 - any other day

In addition to certain annoying things from her past, there certainly were a lot more weird things around during the 13th Hour, and Meetra was out and about every night assessing the new threats and, if need be, slashing them apart with her or her Persona's lightsaber. In particular, she's taken it upon herself to secure the Cancer district. She's in the middle of a technical project, and doesn't want the demons or newcomers wrecking storefronts.

[deathboss]

And right in the middle of battle, she might notice someone watching from the side with a surprised look plastered all over his face.

Wait, that lady who had trouble with the washing machine? She had a lightsaber? Eikichi wasn't that much of a Star Wars nerd but he knew the glowing swords when he saw one.

"...Really? You're a Jedi?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Condescending query: Oooh, what gave it away?"

"I guess I really do just have to wave this thing around for someone to figure that out...," she mused, telekinetically smacking one enemy with another to give herself time to get closer.

"Stand back, these guys are dangerous."

[deathboss]

"Really?" There was a strange grin that grew on his face as he moved the guitar case to the front of him.

"Then they should know that Michel can be just as dangerous, if he wants to be, baby!"

Look out robots! He has uh...a guitar case?

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"...is that a weapon, or...?" Meetra asks as she begins swinging at one of the HKs, which tries a bit lamely to rifle-butt her in return while the other two circle around to surround her.

[deathboss]

"Hell yeah! Hey big, tall and ugly! You robots want some?"

As he held on to the guitar case the case groaned under the weight, front opening to revealea giant machine gun that logically should in no right way be working. Yet it didn't matter that moment, as there were already bullets flying right for the robot's faces.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Meetra ducks down to stay out of the field of fire, at the same time chopping her opponent's robotic legs off. Eikichi's hail of bullets damage the other two, who split their attention to try and attack both opponents.

"That's a neat gun," Meetra observes as she puts her lightsaber through the downed HK's head.

1!

[risingshepard]

...You know, there's something very familiar about this situation, but she just can't place her finger on what it is. Not to mention, it feels like she saw that saber at least once in her childhood...no matter.

Shepard's sense of timing hasn't failed her at all, apparently, because she arrived sometime after the blaster fire started--and is already aiming a Slam at one of the poor droids.

"Magnet for trouble, aren't you?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"You have no idea."

Meetra, used to fighting with other Jedi, didn't blink at the telekinetic attack on one of the HK-50's. Instead, she continued to parry their fire with her saber and summoned Vima to surround one with light patterns that immediately disintegrate it. Good, less volume of fire would really help here.

"Observation: Jedi aren't supposed to be able to do that."

She starts advancing on the one that hasn't been eliminated or slammed with her lightsaber, carefully. "Be careful with these guys, they're programmed to enjoy killing."

[risingshepard]

Jedi? ...Well, then, there's something for her to ask about once this mess is taken care of. Shepard, regardless, moves to take whatever cover is present; not having the same defenses Meetra does kinda sucks like that.

"I've dealt with an entire species that loves fighting; that tell you anything?" Popping out for a sec, she promptly fires her Phalanx at the remaining droid's leg before ducking behind it again.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

As the standing HK turned to try and fire at Shepard with its sniper rifle, Meetra grabbed the knocked-down droid that was trying to get to its feet with the Force and smashed it into the ground again.

"Offended statement:," began the attacking droid, "Master, we're perfected weapons, not merely belligerent! This is our highest and only purpose!"

And then Meetra smashed the droid she'd grabbed into the back of the one that was talking.

[risingshepard]

"If I didn't know better I'd say you're a whole lot worse than the geth--which you are."

Witty banter towards idiot droids in the middle of a fight? Priceless. Shepard scrambles away promptly, swiftly summoning Lazarus to send an Arm Chopper at that same droid for its trouble. Talk about focused pounding.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

The Arm Chopper and Meetra's lightsaber mangle one of the downed droids, leaving only one of them.

"How did you follow me here?" she demanded of the last one, barely deflecting a sudden point-blank shot.

"Confused admission: We have no idea where we are, but as there are plenty of organic targets around, we don't really care, either."

Re: Meetra Surik | Open all days

[greyerrant]

"ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCES!"

Loken pounds towards them, his huge legs churning as his bolter barks a brutal counterpoint.


"DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

His chainsword screams in his other hands, even as he charges.

Yeah, don't mess with his weird friends.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Meetra blinks once or twice. She wasn't really sure if droids could look surprised or scared, but the HK-50s were making a good job of it with their immobile faces.

Seeing the whirlwind of death Garviel was turning into, she stood back and tried to pin one of them in place with the Force for easier chainswording.

[greyerrant]

He takes advantage of the pinned one, grunting as several blaster shots deflect off his armor or burn into it, driving the chainsword clean through the motivator unit and out the back in a shower of sparks, spalling pieces of droid hurtling every which way as he grinds the blade down through the thorax. He finishes it with a final pair of shots into the body with the bolter, scrapping it as he squares off with the other two, growling at Meetra.

"I told you these things were trouble."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I never said all droids were good," she said, marveling at the overkill. She remained standing back, summoning Vima to surround one of the remaining robots with ribbons of light and, again, vaporizing it cleanly with Hama.

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[stupidmeatbags]

Meetra, you know it was a bad idea to bring your pet battle droid along with you? Poor HK's got his gun raised, but programming his preventing him from pulling the trigger. You want to know why? Because some butterfly masked fool thought it was a good idea to kidnap him and bring him here before he had the opportunity to wipe out his self preservation programming. At least they can't attack him, but he can't do jack against them either.

"Analysis: Master, my self preservation protocols are preventing me from pulling the trigger. I'm afraid you will have to dispatch these annoying copies yourself."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I am having way too much déja vu right now...just stand back for now," she ordered, jumping in toward HK's gunmetal knockoffs. Best to engage them at point-blank range. Or stand behind HK-47, but that seemed selfish even if he was almost perfectly safe.

[stupidmeatbags]

HK-47 let out an electronic sigh, lowering his weapon. He finally had the opportunity to participate in some electronic carnage, and he couldn't do a damn thing.

Ah, well, at least he could be some satisfaction watching Meetra turn them to scrap.

Some.

...

Very little.

...

Almost none.

*SIGH.*

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"You have my permission to attack anything else attacking civilians, if that makes you feel better," she said, slamming one of the '50s into a wall with the Force. "Or, I don't know, see if you can accidentally drop something on these guys."