[OPEN] The end of the storm

[watermemory]

Who ⬤ The team members and ANYONE!
What ⬤ The mission was a success! Time to face the music from friends and family.
When ⬤ Just after the tower expedition
Where ⬤ Outside Kaigo no Bou, probably moving around
Content Warnings ⬤ References to violence and horror imagery


All at once, the rains cease.

The damage remains, both to the city and to her inhabitants, but reality reasserts itself, and the ill wind that's blown through Jigoku-cho has—for now—come to an end.

Emergency services have borne away the injured, including the Daitengu and the freed Enma, leaving a gaggle of people emerging into the night.


[This is an OPEN IC MINGLE. Go forth and icly rubberneck or speculate or collect your friends back home to get some rest or yell at said friends for taking risks without telling them they were chosen for this mission out of some misguided attempt to get them to not worry. Who would do something so stupid, anyway.]

Comments

[watermemory]

[The whole time, as events wind down after the shadowy being says its parting words—"They cannot save you"—picking up the pieces in the wreckage of the Enma's sanctum, trying to formally shake hands with Billy and Hu Tao and instead getting caught in a tight-but-not-unwelcome hug from Cain, then the long, long ride down the restored elevator... the whole thing begins to take an unreal sheen. By the time they hit the lobby, the only thing stopping Minato from falling asleep on his feet are the nagging bruises all over from being thrown across the room.]

[Well. That and the glimpse of the being's face. Its smile is going to be haunting his dreams for some time. He doesn't want to think about that part.]

[There's another whirlwind of activity as they hit ground level. Faction leaders are hustled away by medical staff, Toraguma is yelling about something but Minato has gotten to a point where Toraguma yelling can bleed safely into comforting background noise. He's going to sit at a bench in the lobby, cradling the camera in his lap like a cat, and for the first time since midnight, catch his breath.]

[holeful]

[Fukuda is not the first on the scene to greet those emerging from the tower, which probably is partly because of the contraption he's lugging behind him. He's attached a volleyball net to a boogie board, which allows him to drag the net along the ground more smoothly. He's using the gathered net like a bag, which for some reason is full of towels (half of which already have bloodstains), a watermelon, a first aid kits, and an assortment of leftover snacks and drinks from the beach party.

Is this helpful at the point he actually gets here? Hard to say.]

Ah, I wasn't sure what state everyone would be in, so I just grabbed anything I thought people might need!
[He's trying his best... ?]

[ganashara]

[ The sound of the bike's engine cut through the quiet of the square outside the tower as Lio cut his way through to the entrance, killing the motor and peeling off his helmet as he dashed inside.

He was mainly there for two reasons; check in on Minato and his boss, and check in on Cain. Most other things were secondary, but it wasn't like he wouldn't recognize everyone else.

The building was still starkly dark, with the power out, but everyone had enough lights that he found them fairly easily. ]

Boss! Minato! Cain!

[21towin]

[In the meantime, Billy went ahead and snuck away to enjoy a night on the town. Preferably one that was quiet and calm. He found it in a small grill and bar restaurant. Tucked away in some quiet part of the city near the edge of the Tamamo territory. It was early in the evening now as he sat himself down at the bar. This was meant as a form of celebration for him. Both for having done his own part in the tower, and for his recent promotion.

The latter of which came with a handy bonus.

There was also the matter of actually grabbing something to eat. Following the whole blood rain thing he hadn't eaten since the beach. It was difficult to with the stress of, well, everything.

Leaning back in his chair, stomach grumbling loudly in abject impatience to be fueled, he scrolled through his phone in idle boredom.]

[himbosupreme]

[It hadn't been long after Cain made it outside that he basically collapsed in the streets and was readily tucked away at his new apartment with roommates and the white wolf in tow. Having realized he still had dregs of his magic power, he'd used it all in straight up tanking the entity at the top of the tower.

He was spending a fair amount of time in bed, but as long as Megumi let them in, he was more than happy to recieve visitors. Aurora too was sitting on the bed, alert and tail slowly wagging.

Once he was fully rested, however, nothing was stopping him from being a complete and utter menace as he burst into the hospital and other places, trying to catch up on everyone he needed to.]

anna (oc) | tamamo | team toraguma

[notched]

[ She comes out of the tower with the rest. She has not tried to take her coat back from Cloud just yet, he needs care more than he needs to return her belongings. But now she is standing at the base of the tower watching as he is taken away, looking small without her armor and looking definitely spaced out. She had taken a little of the sedative that was prescribed to her to control her frenzy, but the the pressure of the curse still has her... floating.

She looks startled when people come up to her, pat her shoulder, and answers in halting non-statements. Someone could use... a little ground, help. ]