destinystrings | 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...

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[Water hell is not a fun place to be right now. As her panic grew, rationality was quickly abandoned in favor of RIDICULOUS NONSENSICAL THEORIES!!1!!11!

Which is why she's on the network now, speaking quickly and urgently.]

Okay, guys? I think I've got this figured out. The bulls are coming, right? Right?

And remember that platohedron thingy?

[No, Erika. The platohedron was in Alexander Senki... She means the trapezohedron.]

The one that connects to other worlds? And remember that episode of Pokemon where Ash caught all those Tauros? He left them with Professor Oak, right? Do you see where I'm going with this?

[Uh, no. No one even understands this.]

We need pokeballs people. Lots of them.

[Actually, a closer look at the video reveals a pile of what appear to be pokeballs behind her. Only they're actually just skillfully painted rocks. Yeah, she's nuts...]

[Hey there, fellow water sign. Have a Fumi, looking irritated and panicked as she flicks on the COMP. There's a large magic circle in the background of the room she's in, and she seems to be surrounded by dozens of books.]

What are you babbling about? The attack is obviously demonic in nature. Even an idiot should be able to tell that much.

Oh yeah? Then what's your bright idea?

[Seriously tell her. She's desperate enough to try anything.]

Human sacrifice.

[She says this quite plainly as she gestures back toward the circle.]

The bulls running rampant through the city calls back to the ancient Canaanite god, Moloch. Moloch was a bull-headed god of sacrifice, and the most common method of appeasement was to burn children alive in his name.

......

[After a few seconds of silence, she gasps dramatically.]

Of course! How could I be so dumb? This whole place is based on SMT games! Of course its a demon! What should we do first?

[Because helping out the crazy lady that wants to burn children is a high priority.]

I don't like repeating myself, but I will anyway because you're the first person who seems inclined to listen. Bring me some children, and quickly.

Kids, huh? Man, bulls are mean.

[But it's us or them and she left ~~Dotachin~~ her conscience back in Ikebukurou.]

I'll swing by the elementary school, see what I can find.

Finally, someone reasonable. Thank you.

Hey, no problem. It's times like these that we all need to work together, right?

So where should I drop those kids off?

Leo District, two buildings down from City Hall.

Okay, got it! I'll be in touch.

[ Yuri rolls her eyes, immediately understanding the concept. Or at least, she thinks she does, anyway. ]

This isn't a video game, you know.

[That gets her to pause for a moment.]

Yes it is.

[Obviously.]

This whole place is like someone put the entire SMT series in a blender. Persona, Devil Survivor, Devil Summoner... all of them.

Well, if it really was a game, you only have one life to live.

[ There's a slight pause after that. ]

And if it really is true, it's a lame game for sure.

Yeah, we don't get continues. That's why we have to do whatever it takes to survive.

"Whatever it takes," huh. Those aren't always good words to live by.

Hmm, maybe not. But I really can't just sit back and accept it either.

That's true. Doing something is better than nothing in most cases.

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