War: Horsemen of the Apocalypse Log #2 - 3rd to 5th June

[ferrisbuellean]

WHO: War and YOU!
WHERE: Everywheeeeere!
WHEN: 3rd to 5th June
WHAT: Second part of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse Plot. This means War! Time for grumpiness, arguments, fighting and all out war between friends and foes as the War ring takes it’s hold. Spread via close proximity to the ring, this can be caught at any of the main hero cities throughout the stated dates thanks to a well travelled lawyer and his camera crew. Characters affected by the ring’s power will first feel levels of irritation, which will give way to all out paranoia, temper tantrums and violent tendencies only hours later.
WARNINGS: Possibility for extreme violence, death and other potentially disturbing scenarios. Please state in headers if you believe there to be anything extra needs to be warned about.

It starts with little more than a thought. That little niggling feeling in the back of your mind when you know it’s going to be a bad day. You can’t quite put your finger on where it came about or why, but it’s not hard to notice a rise in irritation. Someone coughing too loudly, some idiot cutting in front of you on the sidewalk or in a car, even your best friend telling a joke that suddenly sounds like it might be a personal dig at you: it’s all enough to set you on edge. You might try and ignore it, but little by little that aggression starts bubbling to the surface, weighing you down until you just want to snap.

It’s okay to let your thoughts be heard! Better to say what you think than keep them bottled inside. Better to get a little physical than leave yourself unheard. So maybe you were a little rude to someone. You might have even punched a guy just for walking nearby, but it’s to be expected. It’s their own fault.

But those feelings don’t stop no matter how much you yell and shout, or how determined you are to silently brood and glare. Soon it becomes apparent that someone is out to get you. It could be those guys who have been staring you down, or that friend of yours that’s obviously been stabbing you in the back. Maybe it’s those spies that have been sneaking around your apartment complex, or the Walkers that have slowly started to shuffle their decaying bodies through the streets. Whoever or whatever it is, you know that it’s up to you to get rid of them! It may be an idea to team up, after all there’s plenty of others out there who you could form a strong alliance with to help right the wrongs and fight the evil, but if there isn’t you know you can go it alone and still win.

Try to find a weapon or get yourself to a vantage point. Anything that will help you win this war!

Just try to save some for the rest of us.

Comments

[andaway]

[There he goes again. At least this time he'd kind of been expecting it so it doesn't hit him too hard, but he's still really close to smashing into the nearest wall.]

I can't. Not while you're acting like this.

[boobwindow]

[ She keeps putting distance between them, moving at near super speed to put as much of it between herself and him. It's hard to focus -- to reconcile that she's struck someone who means almost the whole world to her, but then there's that voice in her head reminding her the only reason Kal ever paid her any attention was out of that misplaced obligation, if not because she's a second-rate Kara. ]

You don't have a choice.

[andaway]

[Kal knows better than to try to get too close to her now, but he isn't going anywhere. He keeps following her, maintaining some distance but making sure she's always well withing hearing range- their own hearing range, anyway. But it's a relief that she only seems to be hitting him if he gets too close, or Galatea earlier. Whatever is making Powergirl so mad, it isn't enough to make her want to willingly hurt innocent people.

Because while she's using very valid reasons for her anger he still has no doubt that something (someone?) is pushing her over the edge and making her take that final step towards anger.]

You're right, I don't. But that doesn't change the fact that I care.

And I am sorry if I haven't been good at showing it.

[boobwindow]

[ She throws her hands over hears, trying to block out the sound of his voice. It's hardly effective when she knows he's not all that far from her, so she ups her speed and takes off in an entirely different direction. If she goes to De Chima, he'll find her.

She decides to go somewhere he might not think right away to look. Somewhere that reminds her of the life she was building back home, but isn't it either. As angry as she is, she wants to curl up somewhere and be alone for a while and not have to think about Kal, or her Kal, or Galatea or Kara.

Shutting out the world is the best course of action right now. ]

Well, it's too late for that.

[andaway]

[It's a lose-lose situation, isn't it?

If he tries to catch up with her he's making it worse. And if he lets her go... well. Would she go back to seeking Galatea the moment Clark isn't around? Or would she focus on someone else? She seems to be slowly going back to herself, so maybe the effect of whatever had taken a hold of her is wearing off.

Can he take the risk?]

What will you do if I leave you alone?

[boobwindow]

I don't know! Just shut up and stop pretending to care already!

[ She does her best to turn down her hearing so she isn't picking up on whatever he has to say next. Luckily, rather than deciding to punch a person or a building, she lands at the garbage dump just outside the city and punches through a thick stack of metal to blow off some of this steam.

She won't be responding after this, occupying herself with punching and bending metal before she buries herself in a corner. ]

[andaway]

[He's definitely making this worse. This isn't one of those things he can just talk through. But at the same time... 'Pretending' to care. Rao, has he really messed up so badly? He doesn't try to keep on talking. He'll just keep an ear out for her from afar. But before he leaves he sends her a text, in the hopes that she won't crush her phone:

I do care. And I'll be listening. If you want to talk just say my name.]