A Sinister Legacy [PART 2] [OPEN]

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WHO: Students and faculty of the Institute, plus some unfortunate SHIELD agents caught in the crossfire
WHAT: Sinster did something, ah... sinister... to Martha, and now the school security systems are attacking anyone and everyone that might interfere with his um... sinister... plans.
WHERE: The Institute
WHEN: STILL ON THE 25TH. TRUST US.
WARNING(S): Violence hooooo

As a reminder, there are THREE ways to be involved with this event:

1. Help the SHIELD agents on the front lawn survive against the school security systems! This will be combat heavy and will involve NPC assists from Nick Fury

2. Help protect other students, and those who can't fight, get to safe places! Not every section of the school is as automated as others and there are places that Sinister's infection of the security systems hasn't reached. This can be combat heavy or not at all, and will involve NPC assists from Storm

3. HELLIONS your girl No Girl needs help. Also the Professor and Logan. Your job is to head to the sublevels and break in to the most heavily secured area of the school and stop whatever is causing things to go haywire, and possibly stop Sinister himself from whatever he has planned. As usual, you will be assisted by Emma.

Comments

[rhiaofdruma]

The trees tried to bat Melinda away. Odd as it seemed... the trees were... clearly trying to protect the small girl. Branches wooshed loudly in a wind that wasn't felt, was only seen in the swaying of the uppermost boughs.

As the branches moved to deflect Melinda, she'd catch flashes of the girl's eyes, wide and pain filled - the only part of her besides the red of the blood and berries that did not blend in with leaf and bark.

Occasionally she'd whimper or moan as the branches shifted her this way and that as they tried to protect her... but the trees knew as little as Rhia did about what had happened... and about what she needed. Perhaps even less.

[littlerabbit]

Melinda tried to duck under and between the branches to reach the girl hidden at the centre but was pushed back again and again with nothing but a few scrapes and bruises to show for it. She assumed that the trees strange behaviour had something to do with the other student's mutation and knew all too well how hard that kind of thing could be to control when your mind was filled with nothing but panic and pain.

"Please. I know it hurts, and I know that you're scared but do you think you could make them be still. I can't help you if I can't reach you."

She had no idea if her pleading would have any effect, even if the girl could hear her, but it was still her best hope. She eyed the branches wearily. If Riha wasn't able to calm the trees down, or whatever it was that needed to be done to make them stop moving, then Melinda would have to try and use her own power on them. The problem, of course, being that she wasn't very good at using it on anything other than people. But there was a chance she could make it happen and last resort or not she still had to consider the option.

[rhiaofdruma]

Rhia heard her and whimpered a bit. She tried to sit. Tried and failed. She took a deep breath in so she could speak to the trees and couldn't. she screamed in pain from the attempt. She needed to fill her lungs to speak to such stately elders and... she couldn't.