summertime chill // OPEN (Event)

[nosotros]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Downtown
When: June 24th, evening
Summary: Ice pixies are such jerks
Rating: PG-13

It should have been a nice balmy evening. Instead it's chilly, and only getting colder.

Throughout downtown various civilians are asleep on their feet. In some cases literally. What's more the ice pixies, little humanoid creatures that look like tiny and slightly spiny ice sculptures, are out in force, flitting about in groups of two and three and generally causing problems.

But the citizens of El Sera aren't alone. The magic stirring in the air calls out to the mages and magical boys in the city, seeking to draw them out of their homes and to the defense of the city...

(ooc: Go nuts, guys! You're free to NPC the ice pixies on your own, as I won't have time to reliably do so myself. However, I can provide prompts, IC stumbling blocks, or other tools for you to play with on request!)

Comments

sorry about the late tag! ;;

[revile]

[Suzuki tends to pride himself in being the most mature and reasonable of his group of friends, even more-so than other people he knows back home, but when it comes down to it he's still a regular high school boy away from home, away from anything familiar and safe and secure, and deep down, it sort of rattles him a bit. As posh and accommodating as El Sera is, it's not home, and he sure isn't terribly enthusiastic for however long his stay is meant to be.

But the presence of his good friend Heisuke does ease his worries a small bit, though just barely. Heisuke always makes plenty of things difficult, and he'd surely make this world a handful to deal with. However, for once, his friend is not the top of his list of concerns when he'd suddenly woken up in the middle of the night with a strange sort of stirring in his heart, a weird tug and sense of urgency. As much as he'd wanted to go find Heisuke to see if he felt the same way or had any sort of idea of what was going on, all he could really do was drag himself out of bed and outside, and without any knowledge as to how and why, his feet led the way.

The air is ice cold, puffs of his breath escaping in front of his vision, and though he'd catch little hints of movement from the corners of his eye, he just assumes it's was nothing. He's most likely just tired.

The thing ahead of him though-- no wait, person. That can't be nothing.]

Hey! Stop! [Suzuki calls out before racing forward, waving his hand to grab the person's attention. It's someone far taller than him, larger build too, so it must be an adult, and hopefully a useful one. One that knows why in the world the temperature has suddenly dropped and where the heck he's meant to go.]

I do not mind at all :)

[crotesque]

[Will has a soft-spot in his heart for children. He's a good man who wants to protect everyone from the evils in the world -- (It's a heavy burden for one man, it's eroded him away into pieces that have started to crumble. It's a lonely burden too.) -- but he sees the potential of younger generations. More than that, he spent his entire childhood far away from anything safe or familiar or secure and he knows how much it hurts.

Right now, everything has been turned upside down. He's in a strange city, where he's been told strange things. And far too many of those things are turning out to be 'true.' He's still convinced this is a delusion, but he's learning it's rules. He's not enjoying the learning process.

Will can hear the boy calling as he flees down the bank, and he doesn't have time to shout for him to stay back. What he does have time for is to grab the kid around the shoulders and pull him down, using his own back and his jacket to cover them as ice continues to be pelted at them.]

Stay down. [It's a terse warning, and Will glances over his shoulder. All he can really see are faint glittering shapes, can hear their angry muttering. He takes a long deep breath, eyes closed, before he actually looks down at the kid he all but tackled.] You need to run. I'll lead them off.