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▼ 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...

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Nano!

[As she cowers, a few shots from a handgun go off very close by, followed by the agonized hiss of a few monsters as they recoil.] Come on! [He hooks his hands under her arm, all but dragging her to her feet and pulling her along with him into an alleyway for cover against the taurus, the demons, and the newly added cow beasts roaming around.]

[Assuming she lets him, of course.]

[Nano shrieks again at the sound of the handgun, mistaking it for another thunderstrike. She allows herself to be grabbed and dragged, but only because the screaming and flailing she's doing is rather ineffectual since she isn't very physically strong. Unfortunately, though, she is in a complete panic at this point, and hasn't yet recognized Hinata as a friend as opposed to a threat.]

[He pulls her into the alley, pressing her back against the wall and leaving her there as he checks around the corners of the building for more monsters. Seemed like they weren't followed...]

[He crouches down to be at face-level with her, placing gentle hands on her shoulders.] Nano, are you hurt? [And then, in her wild flailing, she smacks him int he face. Oww...]

[Nano screams and flails the entire way into the alley, still in a blind panic over everything that's going on. She huddles down in the alleyway, covering her head with her hands and muttering to herself.]

No...! Not the lightning... the lightning...!

[As Hinata's hands come down on her shoulders, she yells again, whacking him right in the face in surprise. Fortunately, though, this seems to snap her out of it.]

Oh, Hinata-san! I'm sorry!

[He reaches up to rub at his jaw, part of which is red from the impact. Although the injury doesn't seem to be anything to worry about.]

That's alright, haha... [He pulls his hand away from his face, looking at it to make sure he isn't bleeding. Satisfied that the damage is minimal, he looks back to her.]

Lightning..? What about the monsters...

[Really, Nano. Where are your priorities?]

I-I've always been afraid of lightning... electric surges mess up computers and fry their circuits.

[And given that's what her brain is and all... yeah. Monsters she can beat up with her Persona, but she can't stop a bolt of lightning.]

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