Event: Quarantine

[animusmods]

Characters: any characters trapped in rooms during the event
Setting: dormitory level rooms
Format: any
Summary: An unexpected series of explosions has trapped residents in the dorm rooms with no power and no way to get out. Try to communicate with the outside, deal with being stuck in a small room with other people... Deal with the really strange things that seem to be happening, too.
Warnings: typical Animus horror event warnings

[There are several more explosions, and the sound of things falling and crumbling outside. The dorm rooms themselves don't collapse or cave in, but the furniture and trunks and nightstands may be rattled and knocked about. Eventually, the lights flicker and go out entirely, leaving everyone in the dark. There are small red emergency lights lining the floors, but they don't seem to have come on all the way, and flicker on and off eerily.

After maybe twenty minutes everything falls silent. However, if you try the door, you'll find you can't get out...]

Comments

[miseris_socios]

Yeah. They're... supposedly extensions of ourselves. They reflect who we are. And they gain skills and power, and can change.

[fionnuisce]

So it's something like the psychological definition of the word as a manifested concept, or that's what it sounds like at least. But then why the fake gun?

[miseris_socios]

Um...

[... Hm.]

I think... I think it has to do with something about the psychological... force needed to summon it? Like... it seems harder to summon if you're calm. It's easier when you're angry, or afraid.

[fionnuisce]

That's not too unimaginable, I suppose. I can't say I see projections like that every day, it's kind of interesting.

[miseris_socios]

I'd only started using mine for a few months before I came here. But I've had plenty of practice here...

[fionnuisce]

I've been using magecraft for a long time, but I'm pretty sure that's not like anything I've ever seen before. I don't doubt you're sure to be tougher than you look, right?

[miseris_socios]

That's right. Even before I met the others, I was fighting Shadows during the Dark Hour. I couldn't kill them, but I could stun them enough to get away.