Beyond Evolution

In the wailing darkness behind the barrier, eldritch creatures struggled to force themselves through the widening crack. Spines, tentacles, a lashing tongue, all of them withdrawn with a shriek of rage as the being attached to it found itself still trapped. Their fury was building. But there was one Elder God with a strange aura of calm, moving through the maelstrom almost gently until it -- she -- finally reached the opening.

Gaea. The Great Mother, the Bright Lady, the World. Sister of Cthon, but while her brother and the other Elder Gods had degenerated she had held on to something pure inside herself. Now, as she drew close enough to the breach, she reached out.

The book had always been a vessel, and it had emptied itself of the dark energy drawn from the Coven days ago, feeding the weakness in the barrier. Now, empty of intent, it became a vessel for Gaea. She reached through it to the Coven that had first found it, to the girl whose soul still powered what was left of the barrier and kept it from collapsing completely. She poured her knowledge into it. It had held the spells the that had drawn power for the Elder Gods, but it had also held the spells that saved the world from the Hellfire Club's destruction, and it held the spells that could save the world again. She just had to guide the right people to them.

(Open to Coven, Inferno Kids + Amy)

This RF post is going to cover the dates through Halloween, in part so that the October stuff all stays together and in part because Ash is going to be gone for the end of it otherwise. #selfish We will re-post the link to this RF if it falls off the friends page. Also, for the video game plot coming up, would you like us to post an OOC for people to sign up for video games that we list? Let us know in chat or by email if you'd like that!

EDIT: We are going to start linking prior weeks RFs at the bottom of each current week, for that month. Just look below, you'll get it.

10/22 - Those living in the school have been transported to horror-based video games – Silent Hill, Dante’s Inferno, Amnesia, Slender, Until Dawn, etc. They have the powers of those involved in the games, rather than their own.

10/23 - The school is still not out from the video games, which seem to have been set a level above the hardest today.

10/24 - The school is finally back in its place, and people are back to normal (including anyone who died – for those that did, it more or less was just like a blink and they were back at the school, no trauma). Everyone has a stack of those video games waiting on their beds :).

10/25 - Grandma’s Antiques delivers again, for JACK SMITH this time: a: Dybbuk Box.

10/26 - Someone starts pacing back and forth on the roof of the lakehouse, laying out strips of something. Feels VERY dangerous, even IF you made it through the corn field, so. Not advised.

10/27 - Flying monkeys invade the school. They are absolutely everywhere. They have all different temperaments, some are under orders to fly kids off, some are violent, some just want to run around, some actively want to climb onto people and hug them.

10/28 - The school has turned into Hogwarts for 24 hours, complete with everyone having been sorted into their houses!

10/29 - Half the school wakes up, and are all zombies from scary movies (ex: 28 Day Later is good, Dawn of the Dead is good, that one zombie love story is not)

10/30 - Halloween party where everyone turns into their costumes

10/31 - Creeper’s Ball! Happy Halloween!


10/15/22 - 10/21/22
10/8/22 - 10/14/22
10/1/22 - 10/7/22

We are challenging everyone to try and tag with a maximum of five sentences!

Obviously, do whatever you'd like! But we're trying to see if we're even capable of that anymore!

(Eh, just stick the date it's set on in the subject line, we won't put up headers or whatever this time!)

So we're not all posting a hundred journal entries. ...Yes we include ourselves in that >_>

R&D was close to finding a way to stop these portals – not just hold them open for rescue missions, but potentially stop them from opening at all. They were almost there, and the situation was coming on dire, between Xavier’s and the rest of the world. The portals weren’t going away. They were getting worse, and would only continue to get worse, apparently until they would rip the fabric between the worlds completely apart. No one had any real answers, desperate as the situation was becoming. Not yet, at least.

Not that this was going to help them understand anything better.

Maxine hadn’t been taken by a portal. She had died, been killed by natural means, if in an entirely unnatural setting. She had passed on, Sabrina had even been able to speak with her one last time before she went on to whatever was after this life. She wasn’t supposed to come back. She was done.

But the universe, or the portals, or whoever (whatever) was doing this didn’t seem to agree. And so, randomly on a Sunday, a patch of sky ripped open, and a body came tumbling out. She sat up slowly, muscles trembling. Her hands went to her body, lightly patting herself down as if unsure of her physical form. She blinked hard, the light strong on her eyes. She thought she saw someone coming, but she had to close her eyes and rest them for a moment before looking again.

(Sabrina and Acacia!)

Midday, multiple portals are going to open up and a great deal more of the tentacle monsters come out than came out originally. Along with them are ten of THESE things, who seem to be the ones in charge. They are capable of paralyzing anyone that meets their eyes, summoning elements, and forcing the opposite side to fight each other instead of the bad guys. Most dangerously though, they also have the capacity to use their central eye to project a field that cancels the effects of all mutant abilities within a cone of 150 feet in length around them.

There will be a post going up soon for non-team members to talk on, but the entries there don’t count towards activity. On that note, keep in mind that only posts happening before midnight will count for activity this month (that's why this is going up so early!).

Enjoy!

Suffice to say it wasn't a Fyre Festival 2.0, thankfully, and that everything went nicely. The island was small which explains why it went off the radar for most people. A nice, white sand beach was perfect for setting up shop for sunbathing, partying, and of course some cabanas where people could drink, congregate, and everything else. A music system was rigged, tents (that were decently nice, like a safari) were set up if people wanted to nap and recharge or get some privacy, and Billy amazing reality-warped in a small house set back on the tropical mainland just up from the beach if people need to shower or the weather gets bad. How does it work? Reality-warping chaos magic, don't ask questions. There's a full wet bar set up, and Tommy zipped back and forth for a while serving everyone before it became just self-serve. It really pays to know reality warpers and teleporters to set all this up easy.

See below for headers!

WHO: Sabrina Yoo (GUST) & Callie Betto (DRYAD)
WHERE/WHEN: Sabrina's room, a couple of weeks ago after Shiv's arrival!
WHAT: Make-up. Life. Forcing Jamie to talk about two of her own characters at the same time.

( “It’s like meeting a CELEBRITY, Callie!” Sabrina emphasized, as if somehow her friend didn’t quite grasp that this was SHIV BEAUTY of all people and thus deserved the pedestal. )

WHO: Sabrina Yoo (GUST), Dead Girl, and some closure.
WHERE/WHEN: Today, outside
WHAT: Sabrina is struggling, and DG intercedes to give her the closure she desperately needs.

( “I’m here for Max.” )

WHO: Sabrina Yoo (GUST).
WHERE/WHEN: Sabrina’s dorm room.
WHAT: Welp.

( Sabrina knew she shouldn’t have been watching the broadcasts. )

Rapid fire scene! Try and keep tags to 300 or less words. Please feel free to OOC tag this as well, with what presents your chars give/gave, which events they went to, any random details you want (just mark it as OOC at the top, obviously)! Please see headers below.

So here's how this works! There's no minimum amount for writing here, but try and keep the max to 300 words per tag! The point is to tag each other back and forth quickly and see what comes out, so have fun most of all. Feel free to add your own headers/do opens/do group threads/whatever strikes your fancy. We're starting this one, but in the future anyone can start a RFS if they want, just label it as such! Two tags from a character counts as activity for the month for them! Have fun!