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sʜɪɴᴏʙᴜ ᴋᴏᴄʜᴏᴜ. 🦋 ([personal profile] wingclip) wrote in [community profile] citylogs2023-08-20 01:10 am

(open) flightless, she tries to glide instead

WHO: Kochou Shinobu ([personal profile] wingclip) & you!
WHAT: august event log & semi-catch all!
WHERE: the newly opened mall & other parts of the city
WHEN: month of august
WARNINGS: gen violence warn on shinobu's end, others pending??




» THE MALL


[Malls may as well be small cities folded within themselves.

This is what Shinobu had decided the moment she stepped inside to explore the building. Towering levels and long expanding platforms lined with shops spread out before her, advertising items from clothes to various accessories. She imagined someone could spend several hours in such a place and never get bored, and she certainly wasn't losing interest anytime soon.

After all, she had been locked inside for about an hour already.

As usual she takes the sudden turn of events into stride, using her time to explore a few shops, dimly lit as they are. She's able to navigate well enough and if one looks deep enough they may find her in a department store meant for stationary and cute items.

Before her are a row of dimly lit goldfish nightlights. They look interesting enough with the way she peers at them with a finger on her chin. She's never seen anything like it before, and considering there were no animals in this city... she can't help but be charmed.
]

There's something rather calming about them, don't you think?

[Oh, she's peering up at you now.]



» THE MAINTENANCE ROOMS


[A few more hours in and she's beginning to lose some of her precious patience.

It's obvious that further exploration of the mall is needed, but she's only one person and the building is gargantuan. Nevertheless she trudges on, her usually confident and calm smile slowly dimming as she takes corners and peers into vast hallways. She's been at this for a while and the occasional sound of footsteps other than her own isn't lost on her either.

By the time she reaches the end of one particularly long hallway and reaches the crossroads she's at her wits end, her face quietly concerned as she considers each side.

RUN.

SAFETY IN NUMBERS.
]

How generous of them.

To think a coin would be useful by now... [She murmurs to no one in particular, thinking of her youngest sister and feeling pain twist in her heart. She shifts her weight from one foot to the other. Maybe you can help her make a decision on this...]



» THE MAIN HALLWAYS


[The demon slayer has lost track of how long she's been trapped inside this place. That detail, however, is miniscule compared to what she's focusing on now.

The sensation first crept up to her after finding the fork in the hallway and from there it progressed, from a thought, to a feeling, to a sensation buried in her skin.

Despite there being virtually no other sounds (other than the mechanical humming within the walls) she swears she can hear a chuckle in her ear, a sneer further down the hallway. A figment she cannot recognize or even comprehend continues to catch the corner of her eye, until she finally does catch a glimpse of its obscured facial features after giving a brief chase through a long corridor.

White, gleaming fangs.

The shadow darts into another corner, almost gleefully avoiding her widening gaze.

A single thought resonates in her mind and paralyzes her limbs in that moment. If she didn't notice you before she's noticed now and she's reaching out with one delicate petite hand--

To grab the front of whatever you're wearing, her eyes bright and desperate.
]

Do you have a sword? A sword! Any kind of weapon?!

Anything!


[She's small but her vice-like grip won't relent just yet. She needs something, anything—

She needs to find that (demon) and kill it before it kills her.
]




» WILDCARD


(I'll leave this section for anyone who wants to drop their own starters or divert from the event all together! I'd like for this log to be a catch-all as well for august things I wanted to get to so please feel free to start any of our ideas off here!)

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