Event: Core [Day 61]

[bastionmods]

For more details, or if you have any questions, please see the OOC post.

For this event, Player characters will be split into two groups: Group A and Group B. Group A consists of any characters who arrived in the Bastion before Day 61. Group B consists of any characters who arrived in the Bastion on Day 61. Please keep your posts to the threads that have the heading that corresponds to your respective group.

There are two goals that need to be met:

1: Group A must locate Group B and safely bring them to the Bastion.
2: Someone must bring the Core back to the Bastion.

The second goal is time sensitive. If the Core is not found in time, it will disappear from the Skyway.

This event will consist of free-form tagging. There is no set tagging order, so feel free to have your characters respond to occurrences as you see fit.

All important threads are listed below:

Group A starting thread
Group B starting thread
Group A: at The Melting Pot
Group A: searching the stalls
Groups A and B meet up
Boss battle

Comments

[bastionpc]

[The bird is hit in the head, and it drops Alucard as it falls to the ground, stunned.

The smaller birds are in a frenzy now. They are clearly worried about the big bird, but they are too scared of the party to approach. Rin's flames are especially scary. Seriously, who lights themselves on fire like that?

But for the moment, there is a stunned bird and squawking smaller birds. Escape is possible, but there's no telling when the bird will get up and chase the party or not. What will the group do?]

[blackblooded]

[Crona isn't a person who has experience letting a fallen opponent escape. Ragnarok is starting to hum, vibrations skittering across his blade, soul lashing hungrily at his meister. They both know exactly what to do.]

Scream resonance!

[The words start off low as a command but shift quickly into a scream, the unified voices of meister and weapon. Then Ragnarok's voice shifts to a high shriek, the sound loud enough that it's hard to focus, even for normal humans. The blade goes up, and Crona barks out a command.]

Screech alpha!

[The blade comes down, sending out a blast of energy that tears up the ground as it heads in a straight line for the bird. It's definitely noisy and destructive, charged with sound and soul energy, and will try to catch the monster in its screaming mouth.]

[notduchess]

[ Duke stumbles at that, but before the birds, hopefully as startled as everyone, get upright or scattered further.

Red symbols form into a sphere about the knight as Duke stops. ]

Sear through the air. Spiral Flare!

[ Fire-beam. Hopefully that will get some of the peckers and convince them to go away. ]

[bastionpc]

[With those two attacks, the giant Pecker is finally finished off for good. All of the other Peckers let out one final screech before they flee, leaving the party alone for the rest of the day.

The trip back to the Bastion is uneventful. It's as if the monsters know to stay away from a group this large.

Back at the Bastion, Nathaniel promptly installs the Core via the monument at the very middle of the Bastion itself. The Core disappears, but the charge of energy can be seen as it is put to use. The Bastion draws in patches of land, bringing up a new area on the western side, behind the current buildings.

On that new land, a farm can be found. It has all the necessities for farming: tools, land, seeds, you name it. It's even fenced in, to clearly show where the farmland begins and ends. But the unique part about this farmland is that it is completely automated. The only human contact needed is at one small station near the entrance to the farms, where anyone can input the kind of food they want to grow. Even more miraculously, all food grows from seeds to edible in one week.

This should solve the food shortage problems.]