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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[When DeDeDe's side of the comp feed flickers back on, he's wearing a robe and sitting at his desk. His face is turned for the moment toward the unseen demons still hanging out in his office.]

Get the fuck outta here!

[And then his attention is back on Samus.]

I was tryin' to get my rocks off, but I can see one of the girls had different ideas.

[The feed continues showing Samus's view, and all that is visible for a moment is static as she rolls forward into a screw attack, ripping through another group of bulls and landing with a heavy thunk on the ground.]

There are civilians dying out here, children are in danger, their parents are being ripped to shreds!! We have a duty to protect them, why are you concerning yourself with something so unbelievably petty?!

[She is practically screaming at him in anger and it's pretty clear that she's not... quite right in the head right now. Her view goes down to the cannon on her arm and she presses a pattern of somewhat invisible buttons that only light up when being pressed, before her view pans up to the sky where a ship is flying, firing missiles down into the streets.]

I told you before - I ain't no hero, and I'm sure as hell not gonna fight another turf war over someone else's argument. I locked this place down and made it a safehouse, but I've got no intention of dancin' to the tune of Madam Butterfly or anyone else. If I'm goin' down here, I'm at least gonna go down doin' what I love.

[He seems reasonably pissed off too, but it's unclear as to whether he's angry at her accusations or the situation itself.]

You don't care?? [Her sheer disgust is clearly apparent.] Your apathy is just as much of a menace to this city as the monsters destroying it.

[Her frustration builds enough to the point where she literally grabs one of the charging bulls by the horns and slams it into the ground, a show of both strength and menace.]

We need as much backup as we can get, your selfish actions will cost us this war!!

I'm outta practice.

[He turns to rub briefly at the head of his hammer before making a fist and slamming it down on the desk.]

I couldn't do a damn thing back then, and I can't do a damn thing now. A washed up broken old bird like me... ain't nobody needs someone like that.

...Old birds like you have done more than you would think.

[As she says this, her ancient bird of a Persona appears before her, casting a wall of flames at a thick group of enemies, the flames burning high and mighty with enhanced fire energy.]

If you want to wallow away in your hideout, then fine, be my guest. I've seen you fight, though. I don't believe for a second that you'd be useless in battle.

Sorry... I just don't got that kinda fight in me anymore.

[He bites his lip, looking away from the feed.]

... Fine. I'm wasting my time, then. I'll search for backup elsewhere.

[Aran slams her fist into the brick side of a building, putting a sizable hole into it before cutting the feed.]

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