Like Bulls in a China Shop: Taurus Log

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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...

Comments

[componere]

Oh, much appreciated, but this isn't a polaroid camera! No need to let things, ah, develop.

[ Joshua giggles to himself, then jumps high into the air, higher than any human being could jump. And floats. He drifts away gently with a wild look in his eye. ]

Five's way too short for that kind of thing, anyway! Let's just talk, mm? No need to get so riled up.

[[ ooc: joshua's not looking for a fight as much as he's looking for a reason to piss someone off! he'll stick with dodging and play shots, giving your character singed armor and hair at the very most, and i'd be ok with much the same on joshua. i'd prefer not to escalate this into a honest to goodness fight since joshua is extremely godmode - i'm sorry, i should have clarified this in the original post! please let me know if you'd really like your character to take him on! ]]

[strangerfromthedesert]

((OOC: Fine by me! And that's okay, we can have them avoid significant injury and talk for now. I've answered your permissions post in case Joshua is actually capable of reading into Zero's "mind"; if you'd like to pull anything from that, feel free!))

[The Reploid looks up, staring with crimson eyes, at the floating and retreating figure. He doesn't care to understand much of what the other person is saying concerning photographs, but right now only the fight matters to him, his knees bending in preparation and his Z-Saber held in a hand behind him.]

... There is nothing to discuss.

[componere]

There's plenty to discuss! [ Joshua keeps floating, ready to dodge or block if need be, but sticks his hands in his back pockets in a (mostly) universal sign of relaxation. ] Like... Where on earth did you get that garish thing? [ He motions towards his own face in the shape of horns and grimaces. He knows perfectly well where the thing ] I've seen better at a flea market.