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

[spotofsunlight]

[ And no one is surprised—not even Shiro. Shouting at them was supposed to get their attention, after all. He laughs, casually holding onto his hat as if an unruly child were making a go for his lagomorphic headwear. ]

Haha, wait, what's caw mean?

[ He points at the Pecker and turns back to Rin, completely oblivious as to why Rin was trying to get his attention in the first place. ]

Look, it said caw.

[kyotoprincess]

[God damnit Shiro is Bon going to have to rescue you again?]

They're not friends! They're not friends!!!

[And whoops he's pulling out his gun (an old six-shooter, very low-tech compared to what he's used to) and trying to shot at the Pecker. He's aiming high so he doesn't accidentally hit Shiro, though that probably makes his shots miss entirely.]

[hellpyre]

Damn it--! Shiro--!

[AUGH this was frustrating as hell. She knew the boy had the capability to be a tank, but that required him to realize that the monsters on the Skyway were always going to be foes. Always.

Which... apparently he hadn't realized yet.]

Some one clear a path! I'm gonna grab him so we can book it to the Market!

[Rin pulled her still-cased sword off her back and bolted forward, snagging Shiro by the collar of his jacket and hauling him up under one arm. She didn't take her sword out, not wanting to waste one of her three uses of flames on something like an annoying flock of Peckers, but she did smack a good number of them back for the others to hopefully dispatch.]

[notduchess]

Excuse me!

[ The knight charges down behind Rin, blade ready to swing and hopefully take care of the core chunk of those birds. Dragon Swarm wasn't particularly fancy, just a pattern of strikes as Duke advances, but it ought to be enough for most of the Peckers in the way- ]

[bastionpc]

[With the combined effort of Bon and Duke, the Peckers are chased off long enough for Rin and Shiro to run through. But after that pair passes, the Peckers will circle back around to start attacking everyone who didn't run across the bridge. When they're flying, their ramming attacks can easily knock someone off the Skyway.

Running might be a good idea, actually.]

[notduchess]

[ Duke turns, putting her back to where Rin and Shiro had darted off to. ]

I'll cover, get moving-

[ Just. Time to play ball with birds until the rest of this group is on its way. The knight will run after that. ]

[kyotoprincess]

[Sorry Duke, Bon won't let you fight them off alone. He's going to give everyone some more cover, and he's trying to pick off the Peckers at a distance before they have a chance to overwhelm the group.]

Don't just stand there and fight 'em, keep moving!

[He's also slowly moving along the path, heading towards the group. The land out on the Skyway is notoriously unstable, and he doesn't want to be caught out there if it decides to fall.]

[blackblooded]

[Crona is one of these people who stands back, waits for the last possible second to enter a fight. It's too much of a pain to try and convince Ragnarok to get involved with fights unnecessarily, especially if he has nothing to gain, so Crona is going to wait and see if action becomes absolutely necessary.]

[notduchess]

[ It takes Duke a moment to connect what's wrong with standing and fighting, but then the knight remembers the way the Skyway shows up and...

Carefully retreating with Bon now. ]

[kyotoprincess]

[Since Duke is retreating too, Bon will go ahead and grab Chrona to drag along as he hurries down the path as well. Nobody gets left behind here.]

[goodlifechoices]

[ Marie might be a little behind here, mostly because she just beat the shit out of one of those Peckers... with an entirely different one. They shouldn't have tried to charge her and she is sharing her feelings with them regarding the matter, that's the whole point of the interaction there.

She'll still be bringing up the rear now!

With Maka in tow, of course, after she caught the boy around the wrist. Miss Marie has this under control! ]

THINGS ARE HAPPENING

[bastionpc]

[Most of the Peckers are killed, yielding a few Shards each. The rest stop attacking the party as they reach the other side of the walkway, since it is outside of their range of caring.

Congratulations, you made it to The Melting Pot!

The path everyone took opens up into a plaza of sorts, with stalls lining the sides and continuing down the streets in every direction. Each stall seems to be selling something different: weapons, food, trinkets, you name it.

Any perishable food has long since been ravaged by the local monsters, but some non-perishables can still be found if you look.

There are several statues strewn about the area. Men, women, and children, all looking like they were engaged in a day of shopping before the Calamity happened. Be careful about touching them if you have a weak stomach!

This is a good spot to stop and do a search before continuing on.]

((NOTE: follow the link to the search thread, and respond to this post for continuing on after searching the area.))

[notduchess]

[ Duke has stopped to stare at a statue. There's nothing particularly remarkable about it, just that... its a statue of a fairly ordinary looking person. ]

... I think I get your point now.

[ the knight has already bundled up her findings, just looking aimlessly about while avoiding statues. ]

[hellpyre]

[Rin came to a stop next to her, and though it makes her uncomfortable, she manages to look at the statue that Duke is staring at.]

... most of 'em are like this. Just. People. But when I first got here--...

[her voice goes quiet, practically a mutter]

some of 'em had True Cross uniforms...

[notduchess]

... That's... lovely.

[ Duke grumbles it. ]

Then there's a bunch I'd really rather not come across out there... somewhere.

[ Aand catching onto Rin's mood. Well. ]

Found anything interesting yet?

[hellpyre]

[She's looking away again, and for a moment her expression almost says everything she hasn't said out loud: why couldn't I save them? Why did it happen this way? Where are my friends? My sister? Why me and not them?

The question breaks her out of her thoughts, and she looks up, giving a nod.]

Fabric. A coupla bolts and some scraps, but it's somethin' at least. I can finally get rid of my trashed uniform, and probably get some one at the Bastion to make clothes for others too.

[notduchess]

I found.. well, I guess it could be a mesh-armor shirt. A bit long, but that is how some of them are. I don't really have much use for it, but someone probably will.

[ Duke is totally just trying to distract you, Rin. Is it working? ]

[hellpyre]

[More or less.]

Probably should give it to some one not as durable as me. I'm okay with gettin' knocked around without armor.

[notduchess]

Its a step above cloth, it'd mostly be there to help with slashes than knocking about.

[ The knight clanks one gauntlet off the other. ]

These are a bit better against knocking about.

[kyotoprincess]

[Here comes Bon with a couple bags.]

I found something edible. Even if we don't find the core, at least we won't go hungry.

[Finding the Core would be way better, though.]

[hellpyre]

[Damn Bon, puttin' those muscles to work aren'tcha?]

At least we found somethin'. I'd rather not go back completely empty handed.

[They should still look though, so Rin takes a few steps away from Duke, Bon and the statue to cup her hands over her mouth and call out.]

Oiii! We gotta keep lookin' for the Core! Let's more forward a bit and keep lookin' there!

[notduchess]

It may be best to start, and search more thoroughly as we move on. Pairs would be a good way to do that, with keeping at least one other group in sight at all times.

[ The knight half turns to look over things. ]

At the very least, within sight would let the delay between needing help and receiving it decrease..

[hellpyre]

Hey, that's actually a good idea!

[Rin turned around, smiling at Duke with a surprisingly cheerful expression. Sure she said she'd lead, but she didn't say anything about having any leadership qualities. Really she was just doing it because she and Maka actually knew the Skyway better than most of the new arrivals.]

What do you think, Bon?

[kyotoprincess]

I dunno, there's lots of alleys around here, it would be easy to get separated without meaning to.

[And considering how at least two of their party get lost in paper bags, that is not a good idea.]

[goodlifechoices]

Aha! There you all are!

[ Here, have a timely example of people easily getting lost. She's apparently empty-handed, having tucked away the one thing she did find already. ]

I got a little turned around when I was looking about.