the song remains the same

[nascentia]

Who: Participants... and those noticing something a little bit off
When: Day 128, Noon.
Where: Thusia
What: ALIGNMENT SWITCH EVENT - START

Something is changing in Thusia.

Well, a lot of things are changing in Thusia, actually. But something in particular is changing. Maybe you can't sense it - certainly nothing you can put your finger on - and maybe you don't care. On any other day, it might not even have anything to do with you. Change happens all the time, after all, all around you. It's usually easy enough to ignore it. To keep living your life the way you always have and to keep being the person you've always been.

Today, however, a celebration is taking place. There were no invitations issued, and there is no meeting place. Nobody told you there would be a party, and the party isn't for you anyway. It's for change.

It happens at noon directly, the second the sun reaches it's highest point. It happens like flipping a switch. You might be in the middle of a conversation, in the middle of doing something. You might be alone. But it happens suddenly - an urge, a thought - maybe subtle or maybe violently powerful. 

Something changed.

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Event Information/Plotting Post 

Note that this event DOES NOT require signups of any kind. All players are free to participate. 
Furthermore, if you wish to start participating later on (either ICly or OOCly), you are free to do so.

Players whose characters are not effected may post here if they wish to interact with anyone who is.

HAVE FUN, GO NUTS.
If you have questions use the OOC comm post I just linked, or else contact K - necrofantasia @ plurk or akureinoojo@gmail.com

Comments

[luxuresombre]

[Scrutinizing slightly and slowing down to do that. Some of it is because, well, people are fun. Especially when she's feeling more animated today. In addition, this lady seems a little off, which is even more fun.]

[Hey.]

[supraliminally]

[Turns her head towards Lulubell slowly. And smiles.]

A lovely day, isn't it.

[Said a bit flatly.]

[luxuresombre]

[The slow turn of her head and flatness of the tone makes her wonder a teeny bit.]

[Obviously, the best course of action is to give you an unusually bright smile!]

It is, really. Though I can't help but wonder if something's changed.

[supraliminally]

Oh. Curious about that, are you?

[luxuresombre]

Rather. Though personally, I can't complain. [Odd emphasis on 'personally', yes.]

[supraliminally]

Neither can I. But I happen to know a thing about the change you're referring to.

Do you want to know?

[luxuresombre]

Oh. Do enlighten me.

[supraliminally]

Are you familiar with the term 'satori'?

In Zen Buddhism, it is the word for when you are suddenly struck by a divine truth. A moment of clarity - epiphany, I guess you would say is the word.

[luxuresombre]

[Raiiiises an eyebrow.]

Philosophy makes me itch. But go on. What exactly is your moment of clarity all about?

[supraliminally]

Ah. You'll have to forgive me. It's sort of philosophical.

Do you think the world is worthy of existing?

[luxuresombre]

I'd have said no previously, but my views may have rearranged themselves slightly.

What brings this to your mind today in particular?

[supraliminally]

Ah. I suppose I would have to say that my views have rearranged themselves slightly.

[luxuresombre]

[Another slightly twisted smile.] And have you decided that the world deserves to burn?

[supraliminally]

I wouldn't put it in such dramatic terms. Better to say that moving towards oblivion is the natural state of all things. Existing is just getting sidetracked.

That's the sticking point, really. My satori, I guess you could say. It's that all distractions have been done away with, and the things which are natural are revealed.

And, the truth is...

[She smiles a little bit. Somewhat ruefully.]

[luxuresombre]

And yet you seem dissatisfied with your... satori.

[supraliminally]

Well. The thing is, when you're distracted, there are a lot of inconvenient things that you're able to ignore. Things that ought to be addressed.

And the truth is.

[Turning to Lulubell and smiling wider now.]

I'm starving.

[luxuresombre]

I'm not surprised. You can't eat epiphanies.

[She straightens, eyes narrowing a little.]

[supraliminally]

A shame, isn't it.

[Yukari takes a few steps back, and nods her head slightly.

Without making a sound, a tear in space opens behind Lulubell, and a shower of knives come shooting out.]

1/2

[luxuresombre]

[...Hm?]

[gosh it's lucky that she has super duper special enhanced senses]

[luxuresombre]

[Shifting into a blackbird, flying straight up before twisting out of it and falling to land in a crouch next to Yukari.]

[Also, definitely might be some laughing in a less-than-sane way. She's been aching for a fight, and after all, she's feeling impulsive today.]

[Going to be a panther trying to get its jaws onto some part of you now.]

[supraliminally]

[Yukari snarls like an animal, enraged, and pulls a massive heavy mace from nowhere, swinging it hard at the leaping animal's head. She's strong - stronger than any human has the right to be - and absolutely determined to kill.]

[luxuresombre]

[She avoids a blow to the head, but it still catches her on the side and sends her tumbling. It distracts her enough to jar her from the shape and leave her human again for a second before her arms extend into scythes as she rushes to the side.]

A... blunt weapon? Inelegant.

[supraliminally]

You think so?

[Yukari holds the mace above her head, two handed, and charges forward, like she's going to try swinging it down on Lulubell's head --

Only to disappear into thin air --

And reappear again to her left, finishing the swing.]

[luxuresombre]

[She sees it in her peripheral vision enough to lean to the side so that it catches her on the shoulder, but it's definitely enough to knock her flat for a few moments before she lashes an arm to the side, trying to get a slash in on Yukari's side. Standing, but with a little stagger; she uses the momentum of the stagger to carry another swing through with the other arm.]

[The laughter has risen in volume, though it's tinged with pain a little.]

[supraliminally]

[Yukari is silent now. The first blow she parries with the mace. The second, though, she takes -- raises her hand as if to catch it, like it was a punch, but of course it's a scythe and it splits her hand between middle and ring finger, down to the middle of her forearm.

A jolt seems to go through Yukari, like an electric shock. The sclera of her eyes go dark, as though they've been flooded with blood. She drops the mace.

Her mangled fingers, which ought to be useless, twitch to life, twist impossibly. Digging her fingernails in where the scythe ends and the wrist begins.

Yukari yanks Lulubell towards her and attempts to clamp her jaws (they're spread wider than a human's jaws should be, now) around the other woman's throat --]