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Like Bulls in a China Shop: Taurus Log

▼ The Darkening Days

Who: Everyone. This is a general catch-all Taurus Event log. If you would like to do your own separate logs either due to pacing or easier loading, by all means, please do so!
Where: The Entire City
Summary: The last days of the Taurus event as things start to sour dramatically. During the 13th hour, Mutation Skills are unlocked for certain people (see the info post here) and now people have a chance against the swarming mechanized bulls. Unfortunately, for some, this means the paranoia hit a new low....if you want, you can get together and join each other's posts to try to hold the city down and protect everyone!
Warnings: Strange Attitudes, NPCs, Attacking, Battles.
Note: Please mark your post with what date they are happening. We are allowing anywhere from the 23th to future-dating to the 26th itself. Go on and have fun!

▼ The nights grow weary and a pattern seems to be forming...(days until the 26th)

Most of the Taurus civilians had willingly put themselves in confinement. As their symptoms began to rise, at the very least, there was little chance for them to cause problems. It looked like, hopefully, that they could hold back a lot of the damage and deaths to the city.

How completely wrong they would end up being...

▼ The day of reckoning...(April 26th, before the 13th Hour)

In retrospect, they should have realized something was wrong. While the Scorpio civilians were screaming about doom much like it had been predicted, Aquarius and Leo were not.

More research was needed...but there was no time now.

Somehow, everyone that had gone to the holding facilities were being freed from their confinement areas. No one knew who or got in, or how they got out, but many guards were injured in the process-- or worse.

The city turned into an all too (unfortunately) familiar sight. The Taurus civilians were causing havoc in the city, joined by others that the city had not predicted. Observers and Researchers quickly realized that these were all the earth signs, and a signal was given out; but too little, too late.

The city needed to fight back, lest it lose even more of its members. The situation was dire, but they had the Visitors on their side.

...For better or for worse.

▼ The Hour at Hand...(April 26th, 13th Hour)

13th Hour.

By now, the city was in chaos. For those who had witnessed the Scorpio outbreak it was an unfortunate similarity they might want to forget, but for others, this horror was brand new.

Giant mechanical bulls patrolled the city and continued to swarm, the police force trying to contain them and help as many as they could.

As time went on, mechanical parts and rocks fell to the floor from the bulls. Once the 13th hour hit...the remaining ones mutated, standing on two legs. And that wouldn't even be the worst of it...

And yet even in this Hour, there is hope. Power surges in a select few, and with a new skill at their tips, the battle may be won yet. But remember your mission: you came to protect this city. That includes the people living here. With so much chaos, you'll also need to help them and reduce the number of deaths as much as possible...and try not too look too closely at a looming figure in the Taurus Ward...

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Action; JP's Headquarters; April 24th into the 25th]

[Normally, Fumi is a paragon of calm and logic in the face of overwhelming odds. Unfortunately, however, this time the zodiac is not on her side. As a Cancer, she has been slowly succumbing to paranoia and madness. Ever since the morning of the 24th, she's locked herself away in the JP's headquarters building in the Leo ward, desperately throwing herself into her research.

Though the building is locked to the general public by layer upon layer of both physical and digital security protocols, fellow JP's members with the appropriate access will be able to find her surrounded by books and computer monitors, reading and typing away and largely ignoring the world around her.

She spends the entire day of the 24th researching, but by the time the evening of the 25th rolls around, it's clear that she's been busy with something else entirely. Both JP's operatives and others can see this, as Fumi finally takes to the network once her plan is complete. The video feed shows her standing in the middle of a large magic circle drawn on the floor.]

[Video; JP's Headquarters; April 25th]

We're running out of time here, so everyone shut up and listen to me. I've found the source of the current chaos in the city. The bull monsters and the strange behavior of all of the Tauruses can be traced back to Moloch, the bull-headed Canaanite god of sacrifice. Traditionally, the only way to sate the god's hunger is through a ritual in which children are burned alive.

[She gestures to the floor.]

As you can see, I've already done the preliminary work of setting up a magic circle to channel the energy directly to the god. All I need now are the children. Moloch is one of the most bloodthirsty of the old gods of the Levant region, so I'd say he's going to need at least a dozen children before he'll be satisfied. I can't risk leaving here, as I'm the only one who knows how to perform the ritual, so I'm going to have to ask the rest of you to help me out here.

[Fumi's expression is as blank as usual, but her words come out faster than normal - a clear sign that she's trying to hold back the panic she's feeling.]

And if you're just going to respond to lecture me about the evils of human sacrifice, save it. I don't have time to get into a debate about the morality of sacrificing the few to save the many. Let's all survive first. We can have that discussion later.

[She closes her eyes, wincing and taking a breath before addressing the camera one last time.]

Hurry.

Edited 2013-04-24 02:40 (UTC)

....Are you frikkin' high!?!

[honestly that's about all he can think of to say right now.]

Shijima. Do I look like I'm trying to commune with the Rainbow Serpent or appease Xochipilli? No! If you'd studied more, you'd know that entheogenic ecstasy wasn't practiced in the Levant region. Now stop wasting my time and bring me a child.