╔════════════════════════════════《✧》════════════════════════════════╗ It’s funny. If you had told me a year ago that all this was real, I would have called you insane. I would have laughed in your face and told you to get a life.
Things like monsters don’t exist, right?
Now, I know better. The world I have fallen into is strange. It's only safe where there's light. The only things I can trust are those like me I find in the city beyond the broken gates. We woke up here, not sure how we arrived, and no idea who brought us here. We are trapped in these ruins. Don't trust the talking shadows.
All we know is it is dangerous to be alone...
If anyone finds this journal, know that there are things in the dark that no one is meant to see. Nobody is meant to go beyond the scope of our reality, and into the black. The shadows are alive here, and they know nothing but hunger and greed for life.
Because I think that’s where we are…. ...Trapped in the darkness.
Siren's Call - Not Found When I hold it, Cass, I can feel it's draw... – Small Artifact – Pendant – Once daily use – Refreshes at midnight When pendant is activated, level 1-5 creatures in a 10 foot radius will obey holder for 3 rounds. [ Pendant is small and silver, shaped like a shield. A small round sapphire is set in the center ] Amara's Ego - Not Found Cass... they're scared of the light... it hurts them... – Small Artifact – Bracelet – Once daily use – Refreshes at noon When bracelet is activated, it creates a 5 foot diameter circle of light for 2 hours [ Bracelet is beaten brass with a large orange crystal in the center, bangle style ]
Tear of Aegis - Not Found I hate this... we're trapped... – Small Artifact – Brooch – Once daily use – Cooldown 24 hours from use When used it sends out a blastwave that hurts shadows. Radius 10 feet diameter circle. 2 foot safety circle from caster. [ Brooch is a crystal shaped like a tear. Pure white when available for use, black when used ]
Pharoah's Lament - Found / Equipped by Tiel I can smell the decay from here, Cass... – Large Artifact – Sword – Multi-use item Can be used as a standard sword. Never needs sharpened. Can be called upon to give the user a large boost of strength. However, it will also dull their senses so they wont notice when they are hurt. --12 hour cooldown-- [ Katana style sword. Black blade with red runes on it. Wrapping on the hilt is gray and red. Small black marble hangs amidst the tassel. ]
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XXXXXXXXXXThe Base
Full Name: Darren Alphonse Savros Nickname: Ren Age: 36 Gender: Male Race: Human
XXXXXXXXXXThe Background
Bio: A quiet hunter. He was tracking some creature through the woods when he fell, a crumbling cliff leading him to his fate. He woke up in the city, confused.
He's found his first friendly-adjacent face, Tiel.
XXXXXXXXXXThe Little Things
Likes: surviving Dislikes: shadows, surprises Personality: Ren is serious but has a dry sense of humor.
XXXXXXXXXXThe Appearances
Height: 5'11" Hair: Brown Eyes: Gray Scars: Patchwork of scars up his arms and across his chest
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XXXXXXXXXXThe Base
Full Name: Satiel Amara Harrison Nickname: Tiel, Mira Age: 32 Gender: Female Race: Human
XXXXXXXXXXThe Background
Bio:It's been almost a year and she still can't remember anything from before she appeared here... Tiel was one of the first to arrive in the ruins. She had appeared in the basement of a white building, and she was there with three others: Toumas, Richard, and Amelia. During their travels, figuring stuff out, they found 'the journal'. This gave them basic information about the city they were trapped in, and a few general bits about some artifacts that they might find, as well as monsters. Toumas was the first to die, about a week after they arrived. Tiel found her sword a month later. Richard and Amelia died soon after. Then, Tiel found Hitomi, Nerys, and Nahme. They traveled together for a while, and survived for almost three months together. Finding Mercutio was a blessing, because he came with fighting ability. Two months after that, the trio disappeared. While looking for them, Mercutio was killed.
Now, Tiel is alone once more, trapped in a city she still doesn't understand. But she knows more than anyone else.
XXXXXXXXXXThe Little Things
Likes: Quiet moments Dislikes: Monsters, Prying questions Personality: She is focused and serious when it comes to her work. However, once you get to know her, she has a wicked sense of humor, and a habit for jokes that can often toe the line. She will more likely answer in grumpy or sarcasm than anything else.
XXXXXXXXXXThe Appearances
Height: 5'4" Hair: Dark brown Eyes: Green Tattoos: Tribal snake wrapped around her right arm Scars: Straight scar across three of her fingertips Piercings: Three in her right ear, four in her left, cuffs on both sides
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 3:19 pm
The trek through the wintery forest had been long, and the hunter was running out of steam to keep chasing after the creature that so eluded him. His steps were slowing in the snow, and everything on his body was frozen. There was a large part of him fairly certain that once he caught up to the creature, they might just expire together in these woods, never making it back to collect payment on the bounty that had been posted.
But he continued onward, steps less sure than they had been at the beginning. But they continued. And that somehow had to matter.
There was a point when he rested against a tree and looked around himself, realizing that the creature had led him full circle. He was right back where he had been an hour previous. A sort of frustration rushes through him, and he leans back against the rough bark, his gray gaze going to the sky.
He was getting too old for this.
Pushing off the tree, he gathers himself and finds the newer tracks, following them once more. It took a few more hours before he truly started to feel helpless. Then, the creature appeared at the edge of the trees in the distance. The hunter pauses, looking at it, his heart skipping a beat as he realizes the almost human shape to it. The eeriness of it being almost, but not quite.
It was then that the rumbling started, and he could feel the cliff-side he stood on crumble below his feet. His gray eyes didn't leave the creature as he fell, and he watched as it moved calmly to the edge of the crumbling rock, watching him with a curious sort of ominous focus as he tumbled into the fog below.
Somewhere before he hit the ground, he lost consciousness.
When his eyes finally flickered open, confusion lay in his features. For one, he was warmer than he had been only moments before. He could feel the frost melting from his clothes as he lay in the ruins of a city, nowhere near the cliff and forest he had been in prior. Waking here, in a new place, he felt unsettled. Nervous. Out of his element.
Groaning as he sits up, his hands travel over his chest, as if feeling for the crushing wounds that he should have after falling from the height he had. The last memory of that crumbling rockwall, and the impassive face of the creature above him lingered in his mind, causing nothing but chills to roll through his skin.
He was alive.
But this was not where he had fallen.
His gray gaze moves around the room, taking in everything he could see. Brown peeling wallpaper. A cracked and broken wooden floor. Cement blocks of rubble laying around him, as if he had fallen through the roof and to the floor rather than down to a river as he had expected. And he didn't feel like he had fallen here. There was no bruising to indicate his harsh landing.
Just... dust and frost.
Swallowing, he stays in his seated position, wondering if maybe he had died.
Perhaps this was the afterlife.
Maybe... this was hell.
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:33 pm
She had been watching the ruins for a long time from her perch up on the roof. Her sword rested in her lap, snug against her shoulder as she sat there, one leg popped up, her arm hanging off of it. The red sunglasses she had taken from Valiant were on her face, sliding down her nose.
Tiel was tired.
Tiel was dirty.
Tiel was annoyed.
All of the things inside of her, and those were the three that lived the longest inside of her. A cigarette hung between her lips. The old thing had been with her for the months she had been trapped in this damn city. Yet...she hadn't lit it yet. For when we get out... he had said. Mercutio. Her lips turn in a frown through the cigarette. Mercutio... Clenching her fist, she scoffs and takes the cigarette, tucking it back behind her ear again. Where it had lived day after day in this hellish place.
Where she left it, hoping that soon, they'd figure out what the ******** was going on.
Then, she saw the familiar light again. That flash of blue that indicated that someone else had arrived. She pushes slowly to her feet, stuffing the sheath of the sword through her belt. Her red button up shirt flaps around her, the color less bright than it had been when they first arrived.
Unsurprising to anyone who looked in on this travesty, baths were few and far between.
Running one hand through her brown hair, she drags it into that low ponytail once more, her bright green eyes focusing on the building where the light had originated. Guess she was all that was left of the welcoming committee.
She hadn't found their bodies yet.
But she was starting to think that the trio of misfits weren't here anymore. Somehow... they were missing from a place where there was no way to leave. Other than dying, anyway.
Tucking one hand in the pocket of her black jeans, she sighs and starts towards the edge of the roof. A few hours left of daylight. Maybe she'd make it with time to spare. Get whomever had fallen into this nightmare prepared for what was about to come. Dropping down onto the ladder, she half climbs and half slides to the bottom. Then, taking to the road, she walks carefully to the destination.
Just because it was daylight, didn't mean that there weren't other things lingering in the shadows. All she needed was a Reaper to ruin her day. Or a Wailer. She supposed the second she would hear coming, however. Making it to the building where she had seen the light, she goes inside, staying in the hallways that were filled with light. Shadows were dangerous, after all.
Finally, she lands eyes on the new guest. He was sitting in a pile of rubble, looking as lost as the rest of them. But something... was off about this one. He seemed... more out of place than the others. Stuffing her hand back in her pocket, she looks him over, then frowns.
"Well what the ******** is this then?"
Her words come without introduction, and she stands there, wondering if maybe she was going a little bit nuts at this point.
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 9:38 pm
The hunter heard the footsteps coming towards him. There was a part of him that was rather curious what kind of demon would be coming his way. What kind of hell was this, that he was driven into by the creature he had been hunting? Would he perhaps have to fight his way out of this strange location?
Or perhaps he was overthinking it.
Once the woman arrives, however, he is not sure if he is more surprised by the vulgar words spilling from her lips, or her appearance. Trousers and a shirt that wasn't even tucked. Her hair messy. Her whole self dirty. It was like an apparition that he naught knew how to handle all together.
Then, he finally gets his mind together, gray eyes keeping tight to her face, unsure of where else to look. Perhaps her sword, but even that seemed dicey territory, all things considered.
"What?"
The single word. Not what he had meant to say in the least. But that's what his brain supplied as he stared at the strange woman before him. Groaning, he leans forward, then shambles to his feet. Boots were unsteady on the floor. His leather pants and duster seeming too warm in the territory he was in now. Unbuttoning the jacket, he takes it off, leaving himself in his white tunic beneath.
Folding the garment over his arm, he looks around once more, considering. Letting his thoughts meander as he thought about what to say to the strange figure that was perhaps still staring at him as rudely as they had been moments previous. Walking to a window, he leans out the broken pane, taking a look at the city around them.
That, however, was a terrible plan.
The buildings caught him by surprise. The tall, winding glass of them, shimmering in the sun. As if made by hands far more skilled than any he knew. And the destruction that spanned miles around them was something to be awed at.
As if something horrible had happened here.
The most startling part, is there were no trees. No forests. No cliffs. Just flat, broken cityscape as far as he could see.
Looking back to the woman, he speaks softly, his serious tone strained.
"Where...is this place?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 12:14 pm
Tiel could feel her entire face wrinkle as he looked at her, his expression holding that weird mix of shock, surprise, and confusion. This was going to be a whole adventure. She thought she had her hands full with that fairy chick back in the day, trying to explain why they weren't in a more natural place.
She had been here too long.
At his single word utterance, she folds her arms over her chest, cocking one hip to the side as she taps one foot impatiently. She really needed Mercutio. He was the friendly one. The one that knew how to make people comfortable without cracking jokes. Taking a breath, she releases it slowly, trying to remember how to be comforting.
To be human.
It had been a while.
Meanwhile, her green hues remain on him while he stands, walking to the broken window before looking out to the hellscape that they were trapped in. She watches as he takes it in. As he lets the thoughts percolate through his brain. Judging by his attire, he was from some pre-technology era. He would have to play a lot of open-minded listening games from here forward if she was to keep him alive in any sort of way.
Judging by his weapons, he was a hunter of some sort.
Hopefully a monster hunter, because Bambi wasn't really what they were concerned with here.
His next question had her smirking lightly. Where is this place, indeed. There were a lot of peaky answers she could give him. Sarcastic floats that kept her from going quietly insane. Dark quips that would answer zero of his concerns.
After all. She had been the first to arrive here. And now... she was all that remained.
"Well it sure aint Narnia."
Unfortunately, her mouth often opened before she finished deciding what to say. Walking over, she glances out the window, sniffing lightly.
"You know as much as I do with this view."
Looking at him, she shrugs, stuffing her hands into her pockets.
"We just call it the Deeps. Nerys called it the Shadowlands once. 'Tomi just called it hell. But really... I think hell would be preferable to whatever this place is."
Then, scoffing, she turns on her heel, moving to the doorway she came through. Stopping in the arch of it, she looks back at him.
"Well? C'mon. Lingering here will just lead to problems. Gotta find a sanctuary before it gets dark."
She'd explain more on the way. Or she wouldn't. Tiel hadn't really decided. But... he was alive. And she needed someone else who was living to keep her from losing it.
