excitate vow e somno, liberi fatali

[hdmaster_cid]

WHO: EVERYONE
LOCATION: EVERYWHERE
WEEK: 65
TIME: Early (12:15am onwards) Saturday morning through Sunday evening
WHAT: ANNIVERSARY EVENT
RATING: Inferi, violence, shenanigans - It could get pretty high. M to be safe, for now.
We will be posting another giant event log for the recovery stuff, this is purely for stuff during the event!

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KAIRI; Running through the halls like an idiot; Open

[driftingtides]

Things looked bad

SOMEDAY, BB, SOMEDAY WE'LL HAVE ALL THE SOUNDS

[driftingtides]

She had barely begun to notice that something wasn't right about Yellow; the way he moved, turned his head, was different than he had been a moment ago. She gripped his hand and pulled him forward, worried, wondering if something had gone wrong with the spell. The Inferi weren't far behind them, and she didn't have the time to pause and check--

And suddenly she nearly ran into a wall.

An invisible wall.

It shimmered into place out of nowhere, directly in their path. She barely managed to stop before she smashed face-first into it; Yellow, slightly behind her, fared a little better with the abrupt change of pace. Kairi glanced behind her, just in time to see another shimmer flutter through the air, like ripples in a pond. The Inferi were still coming towards them and she felt something cold dig into her stomach. Without thinking, her hand moved for Sakura's medpack, flipping it open and reaching inside to blindly grab a vial.

Yellow broke their contact to run at the wall and-- and-- and Yellow was gone, vanishing like she

AND WHEN THAT DAY COMES WE'LL REPOST THE ENTIRE GD THING

[delbosqueverde]

Yellow opened his mouth to shout the incantation, but a sudden sound gave him pause. It wasn't a voice but something like a whisper, something desperate and familiar and scared. "Kairi?" he gasped, looking around once more to see if she'd somehow reappeared. The split second of distraction was enough; the Inferi leaped up, one arm outstretched, and suddenly the world turned to fire.

Yellow screamed, shouting a stream of words without registering them. The fourth-year tripped backwards and hit the ground hard, but the excruciating pain of burning was more than motivation enough to roll over. Tearing off her hat without thinking, Yellow used it to pat down the remaining flames on her clothes.

They can use elemental spells, she told herself, looking around wildly for where the monster would strike from next. Her newly-freed ponytail whipped around as moved her head. We learned this. We learned this. I have to pay attention! Ignoring the pain of the fresh burns on her torso and legs, Yellow raised her wand, spotted the target, and fired

AGREED! Also lol I should not post incomplete comments.

[driftingtides]

The inferi went down easily enough when the potion exploded, but it wasn't detroyed. Kairi watched, unnerved, as it beat away the flames all too quickly, as if the attack had done no damage at all

<3 I'll love you no matter how incomplete your comments are. ALSO LATE TAG

[delbosqueverde]

Yellow's heart leapt almost involuntarily when she saw that her spell had hit the monster despite its attempt to leap out of the way. The fact that it had even tried was a bad sign, very bad; it meant that these things were smarter than she'd given them credit for and she had more than sheer muscle and magic to fend off. The thing stumbled and fell, patches of gray skin bleached pale by the spell, but Yellow's split second of relief was cut short when the inferi wildly aimed one arm up from its position on the floor and sent more magic barreling at her. It was favoring one side, yes, but she hadn't taken it down by a long shot.

Yellow cried out and threw her wand arm over her face, expecting more fire, but instead of the agony of a burn there was suddenly no feeling at all-her wand fell from numb fingers and clattered to the floor, and nothing happened when she tried to grab it in the air. Her arm was frozen. The creature's aim hadn't been spot on, preventing full-body paralysis, but this was more than enough to leave her effectively

EVEN LATER TAG. Do I win the failprize ;;

[driftingtides]

Kairi concentrated, gathering every last bit of magic she had just behind her knuckles. The Inferi came right at her, just as she thought it would, and--

--She hesitated. She had the thing right where she needed it, but for the briefest second as it lunged for her, that emancipated face looked hauntingly familiar. Then it opened it's fanged mouth and screeched, and Kairi swung into motion, slamming her fist home.

She missed.

The strike was off-center; landing on the thing's collar bone rather than it's head. She had hesitated a second too long and the thing had moved too fast, and a whisper of Yellow's voice distracted her as electric magic burst forth from the inferi's hands.

Everything vanished under a white-hot pain that consumed her.

She fell back, hitting the ward that kept her locked in with this thing, as every bone in her body lit up under a furious stabbing pressure. It took her a minute to realize she was screaming.

lmfao you're asking ME?

[delbosqueverde]

Yellow barely had time to register that her spell had made contact before it happened: a bony, decaying fist was suddenly slamming against the right side of her collarbone with more force than she'd ever thought possible, fracturing the bone with an audible snap. Yellow saw stars. She was thrown violently backward against the floor, and lay motionless for a few seconds before she began to actually feel the pain

;;

[driftingtides]

With an extreme effort of will, Kairi pushed herself up to her knees, muscles still spasming slightly under the remnants of the electric spell.

She looked up at the Inferi, and realized that the creature was a bit shorter than she had originally assumed. That blond ponytail was a pale, irritating reminder of the girl Kairi was fighting to save. She could hear Yellow's voice calling for her, frantically. Was Yellow fighting a battle of her own? Kairi drew in a breath to call back to her, but her lungs protested, and her throat was still sore from screaming.

She glared at the inferi instead. "Why won't you die?" She asked, truly bewildered and frustrated. If the key to saving Yellow lied in defeating this creature...

Wait. Kairi froze in the motion of lifting her wand, still on the floor. The inferi was standing, facing her, it's own arm lifted almost in parody of her own attempt. But it was hesitating.

Why would an Inferi hesitate?

And ... what if defeating it wasn't the answer? They had been told that was the point

/curls up in shame

[delbosqueverde]

She'd hesitated too long. The creature was getting up, already at its bony knees, albeit moving slowly. But Yellow couldn't attack. There was one more harsh whisper fluttering in the barrier, and then, Kairi's voice had suddenly stopped, and that frightened her far more than any of the monsters or her broken bones. She couldn't concentrate. Why did it have to have red hair

Shame? Shame? YOU have shame?

[driftingtides]

The inferi suddenly came nearer, an unexpected movement that made her tense and pull back, hitting the barrier before she realized. But the monster's arm had dropped, and it wasn't looking at her like it was going to attack her.

It was looking at her like it was sorry.

Oh, God.

"Yellow." How hadn't she seen it before? That was Yellow's heart shining through, all the worry and care and frantic energy, displayed in her eyes as open as a book. Yellow collapsed at her side, although her figure was bony and emancipated and -- was Yellow trapped inside? Or was this all just an illusion? Either way, Kairi was frozen in terror at the thought of how close she had come to -- and how much she had hurt Yellow before she had had the peace of mind to stop and think for just a second--

When Yellow reached up to touch her, Kairi didn't flinch backward this time. Her own hand came up, touching the inferi's face which contained the fragments of her friend. Kairi had hurt her.

Kairi had hurt her friend.The warmth that was seeping out from

Before Yellow catches up

[battle_in_bloom]

Sakura charged through the halls, not out of breath in the slightest as she kept her eyes out for Catty. The two of them hadn't had a chance to fight together properly yet, but from what she new of both of their abilities...

There was a lot of damage they could do.

She souldn't however, do anywhere near so much damage if she was worrying about her charges. Spotting a flash of red hair out of the corner of her eye, Sakura whipped around and found one of the people she had least wanted to see roaming the hallways.

"Kairi! You're meant to be in the Hospital Wing!"

Re: Before Yellow catches up

[driftingtides]

Kairi skid to a stop not more than a few yards away, spinning around on her heel to find her Senpai, just beyond the corner she had just passed. Her rather unhappy-looking Senpai.

Despite everything, Kairi's face lit up in a relieved smile. "Sakura!" There, one of her worries abated, at least temporarily. A pause. "I came to look for you. And help."

Re: Before Yellow catches up

[battle_in_bloom]

Sakura fought the urge to pinch the bridge of her nose, gritting her teeth instead before taking a breath and levelling Death Glare No. 2 at her younger friend.

"Kairi, you can help best while in the Hospital Wing. We have enough people trained in fighting; hardly anyone has enough skill in healing to really help out."

Re: Before Yellow catches up

[driftingtides]

Oooh, that was a bad look. Kairi withered slightly, though still managed to hold Sakura's gaze. After all, Sakura had run out first.

...Which she was going to mention. "You're the best student in Healing, and left first, Senpai." A pause, and she added, not exactly angry, but not happy either, "I was worried. About you and... anyone who's likely to run off. I just wanted to make sure you were okay."

Re: Before Yellow catches up

[battle_in_bloom]

Sakura drew in another breath. This was the part where the similarities between her and Kairi became a bad thing, but there was no way she could just...if Kairi got hurt, Sakura would never forgive herself.

She clenched a fist, closing her eyes for a moment. "Kairi. I left first, because I can - MOVE!"

She hadn't actually intended to end that sentence with something so dramatic, but the Inferius didn't exactly give her a choice. A quick, darting step got her past the younger girl as she forced magic into her fist. The sound it made as it connected with thing was sickening, satisfying. Its rib cage burst out its back, and Sakura stared for a moment before breathing a sigh of relief and turning back to her friend.

"I left because I can do that. I can move around the halls and heal people there who can't make it back to the Hospital Wing. You should stay there for the people who do."

Re: Before Yellow catches up

[driftingtides]

Kairi jumped about a foot, belatedly realizing that her Senpai had already taken care of the problem. She was torn between a sense of hero-worship and simply being grossed out as the remains of the creature flopped to the floor, it's ribcage having hit first and bounced a few feet away