Winter Events!

[soulsword]

Who; Illyana + Open
What; Event stuff
Where; Streets+Buildings+Wherever
When; Throughout the Month
Warnings; TBA

A. I Know The Secrets That You Keep

Illyana hadn't stopped thinking about what that little thing had said on the tellphone since it had happened. The fact that it had mentioned souls wasn't lost on her and she was...less than happy about it. Not that she had told anyone. No, of course in typical Illyana fashion she had, instead, chosen to avoid people entirely since it had happened on the 9th. Anyone that might have been used to having her drop by to bother them would find she was distinctly (perhaps blissfully) giving them space. Yeah, that was it, she was granting them space. It wasn't because she was desperately trying to find where those voices had come from. It definitely wasn't becasue the idea of something threatening her soul bothered her.

Nope.

Definitely not.

Tonight, like many nights before, she wandered the streets hoping to find some clue or something that might lead her to those voices. As she walked one lamp went out above her. She looked up, scrunched her face up.

"Looks like city maintenance could use some work," she said aloud to nobody in particular. Then, as if on cue, all of the lamps started going out one by one. Then there was the hot breath, something whispered, and Illyana....laughing. Well, that was a weird reaction, wasn't it? She pulled a glowing sword from her chest for light in place of the burnt out lamps and announced:

"You'll have to find a better secret than that."

B. Mechanical Fighting

[ Another evening, another bit of wandering, this time Illyana finds herself cornered in a side street with a basket of rather unique items (candles, chalk, herbs, the things you might think of for a ritual)by some rather strange creatures. She lowers her gaze to them and then sighs. It's an exasperated sigh, one from someone that just doesn't want to deal with it. ]

Gonna summon some eldritch terror or are you plotting to magic a special dagger again? One chants out

She'd need an innocent soul first! I bet she knows just the one

[ Oh, well, that was not the thing to say. Her eyes further narrow and she places the basket down, reaching into her chest to pull out the soulsword. ]

Wanna say that again you little mechanical imps?

[ ooc: will match prose or brackets, your choice! ]

Comments

[asthecroweflies]

"I think something's going on." He should have known better than to think he could lie to Illyana, but that didn't mean he had to elaborate further.

"Have you heard anything?"

[soulsword]

"Gee, you think?" She teased a bit, though there was a slight edge to it that indicated she wasn't pleased with it. "Whispering. That's all." A lie.

[asthecroweflies]

"Yeah, it's what they're whispering that's the problem." But her reaction explained a few things to him. She was out here because they were both dealing with the same thing, and to spite her demeanor suggesting otherwise, it was bothering her too, maybe as much as it was getting to him.

"Maybe being alone is the best idea, love."