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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2015-01-14 10:40 pm

[open] If Santa Claus isn't coming to town, we have to go and find him.

Attention! By popular vote the Big Finale has been postponed!

Who: Everyone!
What: As announced, the NSCG+friends have been called to Lapland! There, they travel North, hunt down some kidnappers and finally discover...
When: 13th-19th 24th of January after Toushiro and Dani's post.
Where: Lapland
Warnings: Abduction of children, scary Santa Clauses, violence, one instance of (not graphically described) brutally murdered reindeer



On the David Graibiger and Monika Hallbach will greet the numbered in Rovaniemi and together they will all get on a bus northwards. Up there, they will all room in a few cabins, each with two four-person-bedrooms; food will be provided and the beds are made, but they'll have to cook for themselves. TV is available in the living room/kitchen of each cabin, but the internet connection sucks. Up there, they will be taught how to drive a car in the snow, how to drive a snowmobile, how to shoot a rifle if they have no combat power (for self defense). They will then be tasked with one of the following things:

1. People with combat powers: Go out there and hunt down the kidnappers! If those people seek for long enough, they will find:
- Haggard, wild looking old men with unkempt beards who are either dressed in red santa's clothes or have been jammed into green fur suits, their faces painted green with what appears to be markers. These men are feral: They will run away but, if attacked, use hands and teeth to fight, and not be afraid of injuring a person in any way. They are superhumanly strong, but seem to be incapable of human speech - they can seemingly neither speak nor understand what is said.
If a child of up to 14 years is with the group, they are much more likely to find one of these as the beings are seeking out children. They will try to get their hands on and run away with the child in question.

2. People without combat powers: They will be sent on various trips to look at sightings, talk to people, etc. These include, but are not limited to:
- Talk to the parents of abandoned children. There isn't much information to be had from the conversations themselves, but keen numbered will realized that there are vermini in the bedrooms of the vanished children...
- Checking out a flock of reindeer that was bitten to death - yet whatever killed them doesn't seem to have eaten anything. Disturbingly enough, the brave researcher will realize that these were human teeth that killed them...
- Checking out an abandoned excavation site. The only description is that the mad guy who just recently started it (no, nobody knows who he was or why he did it or how he got the permission) hasn't be seen in almost a month now and the workers left for Christmas and didn't return after it. The place is full of vermini, but vermedi can also be found. What they will find too is a letter in Russian, written by the two last guards of the place, in which they resign from their spot, quoting that none of their tasks, which they describe as "watching lunatics and guarding the rise of a monster", was in the job description and that they just aren't paid enough. If someone wants to try, these guards can be tracked down, just comment to the Lapland plot post and ask for more information.

3. Everyone:
- Captured not!santas and not!grinches, after having been tied up or locked up or something similar, need to be watched. And questioned, but really, they will only be violent and still not say a thing or show intelligence above a scared badger. The only way to get any information out of them will be to set one free and hope that they lead the numbered to the place that they live in, but through trial and error one who attempts that will realize that they'll only return there once their mission of kidnapping a child is accomplished.

4 And last but not least
- Much more MUNDANE and nothing that they will strictly be tasked with but: Cooking! Fighting over the shower, throwing things at the snoring person in the next bed. Learning how to shoot, learning driving, petting reindeer, fun in the snow, do you want to build a snowman... go wild!


Please start your own threads and head over to the Lapland plot post if you have questions, need more information on something, want an NPC, want more tasks, etc.
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Grr...)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-01-26 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[As soon as he gets in range, she is going to smack him. But once he catches up to her, she speaks...]

It appears the police are getting into a bit of trouble with the freaks that have been rounded up.

They're about to break out. Predictably, the police are useless.
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[personal profile] savethenpcs 2015-01-26 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
[As soon as they get there, they'll see that they are not the first numbered to arrive - and all numbered are under attack. Unlike the police, who are either trying to help or have by taken to evacuating the people in the neighbourhood. The santas and grinches seem oddly desinterested in everyone not numbered - one of them runs by a policewoman who stands in his way and desperately tries to stop him by shooting at him (which indeed does not work - he just always seems to not be there when the bullet hits, but just a little bit off to the side) and just doesn't even pay notice to her despite her attack on him.

Instead, he seems to be headed for the new arrivals.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Think you're tough?)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-01-26 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sees that one coming, the second he gets close, she was going to take him out with a powerful right hook. The question is, though, would that be enough, or will she have to summon forth Gungnir to deal with these altered mad-men?]

Arthur? Be ready.

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-01-28 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[The first block or so wasn't very dignifying, but when Arthur spotted the violence up ahead, his expression changed immensely. Snow burst up from his feet as his armor and cloak came up around him and in the next moment, he speared forward like a comet in the way of the attackers. The crazed, poorly dressed beast-like men had shown violence before, but it seemed as if things escalated even further.

Just as Emi went to strike the beastly man, Arthur's left hand came out in a strong hook, looking to clean the guy's clock at the same time as Emi. Given the fact that he ran their way in a split second and he was throwing around a metal gauntlet--it wasn't the most gentle of swings.]


Got it.
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[personal profile] savethenpcs 2015-01-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Both punches hit - the place where the guy should be.

Just that he isn't there. He's two metres off to the side, and the side of his head is bleeding, showing that at least a bit of the force was too much for him to escape it fully but... It is almost like he had a lot more time at some point during the encounter than Emi and Arthur.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] What the...)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-01-30 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[What the hell... Do these guys have super speed or something? It looks like taking them down is going to be harder than it looks. No matter, she'll have to be faster and so will Arthur.]

What the... Super speed?
Edited 2015-01-30 01:25 (UTC)

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-01-30 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! We got him a little bit, though! [Arthur gritted his teeth and pressed on. Snow rose with each press of his foot and he kept throwing punches at the ghastly Krampus, each strike falling on empty air. No matter how fast he moved, the weirdo kept moving faster and faster so long as he had his eyes on him.]

Stay still, fuck-face!
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Not happy)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-01-30 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
That means we can take them down! [He's got the being's attention now, and some of the others not engaging other Numbered are getting ready to attack the both of them.

But while the one fighting Arthur is distracted, Emi will try to attack from behind, aiming to take the Krampus out with a full force punch that might make the freak explode if it connects...]

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-01-30 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Something in the back of Arthur's mind twitched and with that, he found himself jumping back the moment Emi's punch seemed to 'land'. Someone who got hit that hard would go flying--instead, the guy seemed to 'blink' out of his sight for a moment before he stumbled forward, Emi's fist making a big dent in his back, with blood spraying from it. Compacted muscles wouldn't make it easy for him to move, Arthur thought--but, he kept going, that time turning to try and take a swipe at Emilia.

With that, Arthur decided he couldn't exactly hold back. Just as the Krampus turned to face Emi, Arthur drew Excalibur, the blade obscured by its invisible barrier. With a flick of his wrist, the magic of the barrier was ripped free and a gale of wind like hurricane winds smashed into the Krampus and sent him flying.]


Ah! I got it! I know what they're doin'!
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Bloodlust)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-01-30 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[It appears they have a great deal of trouble when dealing with more than one opponent, they couldn't focus on more than one.

The swipe hits, and Emi gasps in pain, but something in her demeanour changed in the same instant her injury healed.] Why, this is starting to get interesting...

Now, let's bury these monsters!

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-01 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur took the initiative to step forward when the nearest Krampus broke in close and managed to hit Emi. With a scowl on his face, Arthur swung his sword aside, the invisible winds curling around it exploding and ending another massive gust in its direction, curled inwards like a funnel. It was essentially a high-pressure air-gun.

The nearby Krampus was struck from behind given Arthur's position, getting flung into the snow after all the air had been struck out of it. Arthur came down in the next instant, hammering the man in the back of the head while he was down to completely knock him out.]


So, we gotta distract 'em one at a time!
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Evil Grin)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-01 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Any that aren't focused on her will be a target, and she of course works quickly to take the weirdos out the second the opportunity shows itself. While the invisible winds of Arthur's sword strike one, she takes mist form to sneak behind another of the crazed creatures, striking the guy (if she could call the feral attackers that) in the head and knocking him out with a single punch.]

Exactly... Now, I think that's two... no, thee down?

[At least she's enjoying herself.]

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[One more came for Arthur and as quickly as he could, he twisted on his axis to avoid the swing that came for him. The fact that they blinked out of existence seemingly randomly didn't help his instinctual ability, but it was still something he could deal with. As the next Krampus came for Arthur, he blasted right by him and headed over closer to Emi so they could keep on the corners rather than get surrounded. With one clean swipe, Arthur threw up a cloud of mist from heated snow, Invisible Air effectively making them a great deal of cover.]

Alright. Let's see if that helps.
scarlet_devil: Don't be fooled by the pink... (Apex Predator)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-01 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blinking, super speed, whatever it was, it was drawing things out here. As he approached her, she took the form of dark mist again, using the mist from the snow that was kicked up to effectively vanish from the enemy's sight. The ones that then focused on Arthur and anyone else around were in for a surprise when Emi reforms and attacks from behind.]

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-02 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Where're you lookin', asshole?

[When a few of them turned to run to Emi trying to follow her into the mist, Arthur slipped up from behind and bashed their heads together. It only really worked if they didn't focus on them during their attacks. Arthur tried once more to swing at one of the beast-men as he charged at him, watching as the guy vanished before his fist could even touch him.

It was definitely clear--they had to fight from blind spots or totally surprise them to land any swings.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Grr...)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-02 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Good, that got a few more directing their attention to him, letting Emi smack them on the back of the head when they were busy trying to go for Arthur again.

They're still a hell of a lot tougher than they look, and fast, strong and making her very glad she can regenerate... One had managed to get behind her and clawed one of her wings, making her gasp in pain.]

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-04 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur's eyes bulged the moment he heard Emi's voice in the mist. He didn't want to kill anyone, but for a moment, that was the only thought on his mind. For just that lingering moment, Arthur felt the surge of his rage build up and Excalibur seemed to hear up.

His killing intent seemed the same as a fully stocked furnace being unable to stay closed. It washed over the area before it was suppressed.

He recovered his sense in the next instant, stepping through the most and hammering the one who attacked Emi with a metal-clad fist. It dropped him firmly in the snow, no noise uttered from him in that instant. Despite the fact that he tried not to kill him, Arthur's knuckles were painted orange and his eyes were wild.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] With a red moon)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-04 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Emilia had regenerated quickly and was about to retaliate against her attacker- but that apparently wasn't needed. Arthur had struck him down with one rage driven blow that she was sure killed that one off. No matter.

There are a few more that need to be dealt with. The remaining ones are already heading in for the kill.]

Well, he's not getting up from that...! There's a few left, still!
Edited 2015-02-04 04:01 (UTC)

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[The inclination to 'not kill' began to fade from his mind. It was replaced with a hissing noise, boiling beneath the surface of him that drove his strength out in droves and waves. He swung Excalibur up, the invisible barrier vanishing in return for black light.

Black light that whipped around, melting snow in an instant and creating a heavy, steamy fog. Unlike the previous mist, the continually churning heat of the sword wouldn't let the fog disappear anytime soon.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] With a red moon)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-11 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Try not to kill too many, we need to find out more about them...

[Brainwashed, simply altered? Perhaps they are essentially mindless, which would make taking them out a much more simpler affair for her. As it stands, punches and kicks will have to do.]

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-13 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Hidden by the mist, Arthur had gone silent. He only really had one thing to ask--]

How many should we leave?
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] With a red moon)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well, try not to kill more any just yet, is what I mean.

[Between them and everyone else, the false santas and grinches are getting all smacked down.]

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-13 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
...

[He went silent at that. After awhile, another Krampus was sent flying out of the steam, knocked unconscious by a heavy heel from Arthur.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Bloodlust)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-02-13 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[The were only a few left. The vampire struck out at the one nearest to her before it could hit her or Arthur... leaving one more for him to take out.]

One left... I think!