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Crack in the Walls: Dorm 3

Who: Anyone either involved in the Dorm 3 Quest or for those wanting to shelter in Dorm 3. You can shelter there without being involved in the questing.
What: Dorm 3 as an Emergency Shelter/trying to get things turned back on.
Where: Dorm 3 and the tunnels below.
When: June 13-onward.
Notes: For the first three days feel free to make normal just being locked in a shelter things. The actual questing stuff will happen in closed threads.
Warnings: Sirens, blood, gore, creepy monster elements.

The alarms have sounded and people have begun to move. Everyone knows about getting to the closest shelter. For the most part, this is an orderly move, but there is some panicking. The council and various npcs are out shouting for people to get a move on. Water is coming in rapidly. When the alarm first sounds it’s up to people’s ankles, and then when the final alarm rings and the doors start to close, it’s up to the average person’s knees. Once the outer door is sealed, there’s feedback and communication is off.

John has never liked Dorm 3, it always gives her the willies, which when you’re a ghost, is something that really shouldn’t happen. But she was bringing supplies to Dorm 3 when the alarm goes out, and being as she’s a doctor, she’s just going to be over here taking charge if you don’t mind. Getting people into the large gym-like area, John does her best to remind people to set up food and sleeping supplies, but let’s be honest, she’s a ghost and she doesn’t always think of food and sleeping and fun.

Besides, there’s the giggling and the feeling watched that’s present from even when the first siren went off and before it. It continues in the night, and the power flickers here more often than the rest does.

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The warning hadn't been enough to be prepared. No, there probably wasn't anything that would prepare someone for the all-encompassing silence that followed Loki's words. The shock of it caused Mera's mind to waver slightly, and the walls of water around them seemed to shake like jello, occupants, and all.

Mera was a fighter as well, she could have been useful against their singing adversaries, but that would require her to stop what she was doing, and she doubted anyone but herself and maybe Loki could fight unencumbered underwater.

Enis didn't miss a beat or hesitate in her actions. She reached into the wavering wall and pulled one of the creatures into the dry path. It wriggled trying to get back into the water and screamed angrily. Enis left the creature to the other two and grabbed another one.

She didn't hesitate when the walls wavered or when Loki's spell fell over her senses. She was set to do one thing and that was to destroy all targets.

If one got close to her she'd slit it's throat, otherwise she focused on pulling them out of the water where they had the upper hand.

Despite the warning, Carol does falter when silence falls around her. It only takes her a second to recover, though, and without the song tempting her to give in, she fights more ruthlessly. One after another, she plunges and slices with her blade, the creatures nearest to her falling in quick succession.

Unfortunately, she isn't paying full attention to her surroundings and doesn't realize how close she is to the watery wall. A creature grabs her from behind, pulling her in.

Carol's abduction happens to Loki's left and he pivots, throwing one of his daggers into the water with more force than is humanly possible, but it misses hitting anything vital, plunging into the creature's shoulder. It does loosen it's grip, though, and he uses his freed hand to throw a wave of energy at the beast just beyond the wall to drive home his point, careful to avoid crushing Carol beneath it.

At least the assailants seemed to be thinning.

Loki and the others were impressive fighters. Whether that was because of training or need didn't matter, what did matter was the fact that Mera was more than grateful that they were with her. It would have been impossible to surmount the women otherwise.

Closing her eyes slightly, she reached out with her abilities and started shoving as many of the remaining creatures out of the water as her divided concentration would allow.

Enis was no longer in control of her actions and the program fueling her precise attacks had no desire to save the woman who had been pulled into the water behind her. Enis screamed in furry, trapped within her own mind as her body continued to fight for its survival.

Her hand shot out, fingers curling around the siren's arm to pull it out of the water far enough to slide the gleaming silver of her blade across its throat. Thick plasma coated her knife as she sought another of the creatures and another. Without the use of a wider network, there was very little that her sensors could detect on their own.

Her blood red eyes turned to look up at Mera as her voice called above the echoes of the turning water. "How many are there?" Even if Mera had no way to tell, she was at a further vantage point that could see yards around their current position.

Once she's free of the creature's grasp, Carol rushes forward, nodding quickly in thanks to Loki as she gasps in a lungful of air. It's apparent the crowd is thinning, and she's grateful for that. She can feel her body tiring, and being a human, she isn't sure how much longer she can keep fighting.

She fights a bit more cautiously, darting forward to take down a siren, then backing away for a quick rest.

Their battle continued, and they seemed to have the singing sea creatures on the run, which was a pleasant surprise. All those fighting were formidable, and they were even impressing Loki somewhat. Soon, there were no more enemies to be found, and he breathed a sigh of relief, bending to wash his daggers clean of their filth as he let his spell of silence fall.

"Well, that was impressive."

As the fighting subsides Mera makes her way to the rest of the group, hands still outstretched to prevent the wall of water from crashing in on everyone.

"I suggest we keep moving." As she speaks the water in front of them starts making a path toward their destination. "I'd prefer not to keep this up indefinitely." There's a small smirk on her lips though. It may be partly a joke.

Enis stopped and waited, listening and watching the curling currents of water around them. It looked as if Loki was right. The creatures were gone... for now.

She felt the system inside of her head disengage and once again Enis was in control of her own body. Her red eyes slowly turned back into bright vibrant blue while dots of blood swelled at the corner of her eyes. Enis wiped the blood away before they could fall as tears. "I think we're close." The depth of the floor looked like it was beginning to slope back up a few yards away.

"Let's go." This time Enis waits for Mera who was in control of the water and followed at her side. Her blade didn't leave her grip despite the relative peace.

Now that the fight is over, Carol breathes a sigh of relief. She keeps her knife at the ready as she follows behind Mera and Enis.

"What were those things? I'm used to fighting off the dead, but the dead are generally predictable. At least...in my world." She looks to Loki, assuming he might have the most knowledge about otherworldly creatures.

"Sirens, if I were to guess." Though given their behavior, he wasn't stretching his knowledge too far. "They lure their victims into the water to drown and devour them, as the tales go." He smiles, bending to a corpse of one to wipe his blades clean if their blood along its drying flesh. "Though I suppose they aren't tales, are they?"

He does smile at Mera as he joins the rest of them. "You mean you can't keep this up all day?"

"Only as long as my arms don't get tired." She smirks back, moving her hands down a bit as the water waves inward.

Once they reached the next stretch of land, she lowered her hands, and the walls of water made their way down and back into place. Her eyes also became their normal color.

"They look similar to the Siren's of my world too. Perhaps weaker." Enis had never seen the creatures that existed in the deeper parts of the ocean but she knew of their existence from her fathers notes. From what she knew, they didn't come up from the water often due to pressure constraints. This species likely can't dive too deep and instead live towards the surface of the water. Not that any of that information helps them now.

She exhaled a sigh as they came to a doorway at the end of the hall. This was similar to the last one though the word scrawled next to it read 'Finish it', written in blood just like before.

Enis checked the door and pushed it open slowly. On the other side was a large room that faded into darkness on the other side. The water looked deeper but at the center of the room was their goal. She glanced back at everyone and weighed their options. "Mera." Her voice was oddly placating. "Could you push the water back around us? I'd like to try sending an electric shock into the water. It might give someone time to get to the center and finish this."

She wasn't mentioning that it'd make her pass out in the process but that seems like a minor detail. Hopefully, someone will drag her out instead of leaving her to die. Not that she'd feel sad if she died.

Carol watches as Enis opens the door, but she can't see much through the darkness. Compared to the others, she feels a bit useless, but she'd held her own against the sirens.

"What's in there? I can't see much, but if you tell me what needs to be done, I'll do it."

Loki could only assume more of the same dwelled within that water, but he wasn't foolish enough to voice that opinion. It was also possible there was something far worse lurking beneath the surface. Not that he didn't feel he could handle it.

He shook his head, at Carol's question. He really had no idea what was down there. To Mera, he smiled. "Your move. I'll handle whatever doesn't stay put. Enis," he looks to the younger girl, "you and Carol are responsible for getting this repair taken care of. We'll make sure you don't die."

Has anyone ever told you that you're a brilliant tactician?

[She means it too. With that said, she raises her hands as her eyes begin to glow that unnatural blue, and the water to recedes once more.]

Enis's eyes narrow at Loki. "Are you sure? You can probably do the work with Carol faster than I could. I can send a shock through the water and delay all of the creatures here." If Loki was sure, then Enis would follow his plan but she felt as if he wasn't dividing their strengths well.

She had seen him fighting and while he was good, there was error in his movements. If he was to face the creatures alone with Mera holding back the water... this might not end well for them if he fails.

"We don't have a lot of time. We need to get this taken care of now, before they start coming." She's ready to sprint down the pathway created by Mera, knife out and eyes searching the water. There's nothing she can say about how the others fight, considering she isn't the best fighter, but her voice is still firm.

His chin rises without a choice of his own at Mera's compliment and it's with a confident smile that he nods to Enis. "Your mind is a computer. I'm willing to bow to the superiority of your thought. Carol is adaptive enough to follow your orders. Mera controls the water, and I'm more durable than the three of you combined. The plan follows."

He makes a motion and moves into position. "Just don't screw it up."

[It's the same as it was the last time. Bodies flopping on the ground, helpless to do anything without the water. This time, however, Mera recedes the water further, climbing it up to the walls so the creatures have even fewer places to return to the water in.]

"Yeah, fuck you too." Enis replied back to Loki before following Carol to the center of the room. She ran as fast as her legs could take her and skidded to Carols side as they neared the center console. She was trusting Mera and Loki to hold the creatures off but they could always sing again which meant that her and Carol needed a plan quickly.

"Do you know about this? I can program anything but we need to get access to it first." Which might be more difficult.

Carol frowns at the equipment in the center. "I'm not great with technology. Is it on?" She reaches out cautiously to touch it.

"What do we need to do with this?

Loki had honestly been holding back, letting the others help, but these 'sirens' were becoming more of a nuisance than a means to alleviate the boredom of this place. Mustering the strength of parentage and his centuries of training, he threw both of his knives at two separate targets forced to the shallow waters Mera moved to the walls, felling them, crushed the head of another with a telekinetic spell that flashed from his palm, then conjured his blades back to his hands to repeat the process, grinning like a fool.

It wasn't often he got to show off.

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