Brings Himself To Trouble

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WHO: Reeve Tuesti, Open (Power Plant Gate Team too)
WHERE: Power Plant, Power Plant Gate
WHAT: Attempted Repairs, Upside-Down Trauma, Mindflayer Fight?
WHEN: October 13/14th
WARNINGS: Potential for all event TWs: blood, mouth related body horror, sentient vines/tentacles, choking, 'animal' attacks.

I. Heading To The Power Plant

The power was being irregular. Clearly it wasn't entirely the storm, because Reeve could feel his magic flickering in and out during the day.

Really, he should be wiser than to move across the city at a time like this. But here he was, moving on heavy metal crutches, with Mini moving next to him with a heavy piece of rebar. At least they are going to fight their way forward. Reeve was going to see they had power, because with power people would have a chance to be safer.

Which was of course why he was moving up toward the power plant as he heard a screech in the air. A bat. Reeve turns, reaching for his magic and feeling it surge back in answer. The man raises a hand, thrusts it out, and the fireball takes the thing right out of the sky.

"Annoying things aren't you?"

II. Unwilling Explorer and Gate Attack CW: sentient vines/tentacles, choking

This was a mistake. Of course Reeve had made it. There he was, limping through a hallway to try and figure out just what had broken the power system. Had followed some red light thinking it was an alarm. And instead... Instead something had grabbed his ankle. The injured one, of course. Because that's just what Reeve was going to deal with, wasn't it?

He shouts in distress as he's pulled away from Mini, as he looses his crutch and his bag and his tools. As he loses everything while he's hauled through the crimson hole in the wall. Hauled out through into a place of cold. His back slams against another wall in a room just like the one he'd been hauled into.

Immediately he was slammed up against the wall, another vine or whatever moving to press against his wrists, to pin him, to choke him. Reeve couldn't breathe. Fuck. Fuck.

And his head was screaming in pain from the distance to Mini, whose voice he could hear shouting from somewhere distant. He reaches for his magic, hoping to do something to save himself. In the end he manages to spark enough fire to get the things to let him go, to release him. The gate was too high for Reeve to get back through on his own. So he did the only thing he could.

Gasping in pain and desperate for breath, Reeve falls to the floor, trying to find his balance again.

III. The Gate Battle TW: Potential for blood and mouth related body horror

A day in hiding, unable to get home. With the communicator in his pocket he couldn't get back in touch with anyone on the other side other than Mini, linked as their minds still were. But there needs to be a solution to this, and Mini had explained it.

Find the monster that anchors this gate. Destroy it. Seems simple enough. Which was why Reeve was trying, despite his pain, to limp out of the Power Plant.

"How am I supposed to do this alone?" he asks himself as he moves. He's got to find a solution, with or without help.