#alts.event

[altsalvationhq]

It’s been an hour since the last child fell.

Some tried returning, others are grieving or lost, but the whole of the emotions to the newcomers is despair and anger. And while the paramedics are still looking for the injured to help and our heroes are trying to gather information from the children to know how best to assist them the sound of what can only be described as an Earth-shattering rumble is both felt and heard.

Everyone stops and stares at the hole in the sky. A wave of bright crackling fire envelopes the mirrored city above them and swallows it whole. Like an ocean wave, it covers everything and splashes around the rims of the opening. Whatever is stopping people from re-entering through the hole, is also preventing the destruction from that world from getting out. The world continues to burn until the hole and the world eventually fizzle and fade out.

What probably took months or a year to transpire for the kids and their family seems to be done in a few long moments. The flames pass, there is nothing but quiet and a large black abyss. What was there is gone and the blackest of skies a universe can have is shown as the portal slowly closes.

All of New York witnessed the end of a world. And the children witnessed the loss of their home and lives as they knew them once to be.

AFTERMATH

Most of New York was hit by the freak lightning strikes and has suffered some major structural damage. Some roads have been blocked by rubble and people have been trapped in their homes. Police are coordinating with rescue personnel to help clear paths and make sure people can get to and from safety as quickly as possible. Some schools are currently being used as shelters for the moment, hospitals are filling up, the military has been called in for support.

A lot of government officials are questioning what is going and want to know what the world hoppers have to say for themselves however where our heroes have learned and stopped treating the children as hostiles the soldier have not and will not see them that way. They are under orders to arrest and interrogate those they catch. S.H.I.E.L.D has gotten word about this and sent a message to our heroes. On top of that, news outlets are beginning to report on the situation worldwide, though not much has been said aside from what was seen at the event. 

Children who have fallen and are injured are being seen too but with what information has been gathered by our heroes they have decided to herd all the children they can together and get them somewhere safe where they can learn more information. Currently, there are two places of shelter for the children have been provided by Tony Stark and Charles Xavier.

HOUSING

Avengers Mansion is an enormous mansion, a city block wide-scale mansion in Manhattan with three floors, to basements, as well as many other amendments that you might see at the Avengers compound. Tony Stark has bought and set up this facility with his AI JOCASTA running the ins and outs of it when he’s not around. Children are invited to stay here especially those of the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D members. There is a floor each dedicated for boys dorms and girls dorms and upon moving in, everyone will be randomly assigned roommates.

As an alternative to the Mansion, Charles Xavier has opened the doors of his School for Gifted Youngsters, but due to having less space compared to the Mansion, the school is only open to mutants. Like the situation Avengers Mansion, the School will be doing dorms as well, randomly assigning roommates to those who choose to stay there. 

While it isn’t mandatory that children choose to stay at either shelter, it’s highly recommended, at least until they manage to get on their feet. A big concern is making sure everyone is off the streets -- it’s February, so even though spring may be here soon, it’s still cold.

NOTABLE AREAS

The Avengers Mansion has three floors, a basement and a sub-basement. Part of the third floor is designated for quinjets, computerized navigation aids, radar and communication systems. The other part of it has been changed to the boy’s dorm. The second floor houses the girl’s dorms, as well as any other private quarters for members of the Avengers who have requested it. The main floor and grounds contains the kitchen and dining facilities and a library. The backyard has a garden and patio as well as enough foliage to ensure privacy and security. There is a security system on the property, as well as a fence, intended to keep intruders out. The basement contains recreational, training and medical facilities -- a gym, a pool, game room and combat simulation room. The sub-basement is primarily used as a lab, but also contains a meeting room and the Avengers’ computer system.

Located outside of Salem Center in Westchester County, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. The grounds have large, open fields with a surrounding wooded area and a lake. The school itself contains two floors, a basement and two sub-basements. The ground floor contains the kitchen, dining area, living room, library, classrooms and Professor X’s office. The second floor is dedicated to the dormitories. The basement is primarly used for storage, laundry and various power systems. The first sub-basement is used by the staff of the school with their own dormitories and also houses the medical facilities, a gym, a pool and a lab. The second sub-basement is used for the X-Men, containing the Danger Room and Cerebro, as well as various meeting rooms. The X-Men sub-basement is non-accessible to anyone who isn’t an X-Man, though access to the Danger Room may be allowed if you’re accompanied by one of them.

OOC NOTES

You are more than welcome to continue past threads, but please refrain from starting new event-related ones!

Please message us to let us know whether or not your characters will be taking up residence at the mansion or the school !!  Keep in mind that, due to the smaller scale of the school, that’s specifically for mutants. Your muses don’t have to stay here, but it is heavily encouraged!

[altsalvationhq]

❝Salvation; noun - preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss.❞

It was too late to do anything. There was nowhere to run and hiding would only prolong the inevitable. The sky turned red a long time ago, and the lighting that sprung from the clouds produced by the universe’s debris currently clouding the top layer of their atmosphere destroys anything or anyone unlucky enough to be struck by it. Its the end of the world for them.

For some of them.

Huddled with their children, in the Avengers Tower, Heroes have allowed Villains and Anti-heroes alike to join as they occupy the many floors to say goodbye to their children. All unknowing as they know that this truly is a final goodbye. The Arce Reactor currently powering the tower, the last beacon of any power, left on the earth is on a timer to set off every last bit of power it has for hopefully one miracle. 

And there are only a few minutes left on the clock.

...

Another day in New York, nothing is amiss and everyone is going on about their day. Until the first lightning strike stopped a car in its tracks causing a major accident. Emergency personnel are on the scene but the panic from the accident is still heavy in the air. Where did a random lightning strike come from on such a bright sunny day? But then others strike in central park, and another on the side of a building. What weather could create lightning-like this? People look to the sky for questions and what they find forming there horrifies them. The sky is slowly ripping open and the image of a destroyed and barely distinguishable New York is shown to them. A horrifying reflection of their home. 

And then other portals began to open. Smaller than the one in the sky, and with people they’ve never seen before. They can see some forming in the sky and assume they're being attacked. And even if they’re wrong something bad is most certainly happening. the streets of New York are in complete chaos.

What's happening;

The perspective of Kids: The end of the world is coming and you’ve known about it for months. You’ve either tried to help projects made to hopefully save the earth or maybe you’ve just been trying to keep people or yourself calm as the end over the universe drew closer and closer. But its all been for naught. There’s nothing anyone can do and you’ve either accepted it or not. You've all been given equipment by SI made personally, so you’ve been told, by Tony Stark. 

Little do you know that as you spend the last of your moments with your family, friends, or whomever you are with at the moment the device that’s supposed to be designed to help you during this time is also ultimately what will save your life.

Before you can react or even know something has changed the device has activated and you are engulfed in light. You are headed for Salvation. 

The perspective of Parents: A large portal appears overhead and the news is on the seen plastering the video on every tv in the country, hell even worldwide. Everyone knows something is happening and what you’re seeing is terrifying at first glance. It's like a mirror has broken a hole in the sky and revealed a new york shadowed in red with horrible loud sounds of nightmarish lighting for you witness. The lightning both being heard, seen and felt as it breaks through the portal. 

The cities in panic and you’re either watching from your home, down on the ground helping people out or assembling. No one knows anything about what’s going on or where this portal came from but it's only causing more panic on the streets with every second it's visible, which has already started to lead to some devastating chaos on the streets.

Whatever plans you’re coming up with, or things you’re doing on the ground, however, do prepare yourself for random strikes of lightning, and the sight of people either appearing randomly on the ground, roofs of building, or quite literally falling from the sky.

Things to know;

The giant portal in the sky is the original universe the kids are coming from. The universe inside that portal is unreachable. Any attempt to get in is immediately struck down, very literally. If you get to close you are attacked, sometimes by the actual lightning from the destruction going on in the world to some actual force field keeping anything from entering. Any air crafts that are commercially operated have been advised to detour and land as soon as possible.

The kids are either appearing randomly in the streets, in homes, in a location similar to where they were in their universe or actually falling out of the sky. I leave that choice to everyone but I suggest that you come up with a landing strategy for your character if they are falling from the sky. Also, all devices made to allow the kids to travel to the universe have been burned out, they are more than likely sparking or crumbling apart so as not to be used to reenter the dying universe they originated from.

Avengers, SHEILD operatives, or anyone with access to advanced tech got a reading off of the main portal and therefore can find the other portals the kids are traveling through. All readings are seen as hostile. At the moment as there has been some destruction from the storm going on inside the portal having struck buildings and the streets below. Not to mention the chaos and panic the situation has provided as a whole. Heroes are asked to air on the side of caution and attack at the hint of hostility as this is seen as an attack at the moment. They still don’t know who is coming out of the portals and while they’re disappearing behind whoever is being left, those entering are considered dangerous till proven otherwise.

This event will go on from Jan 26th to February 8th 

Please tag all your event posts Alts.event001

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Have Fun!