[Well. In succession, Jason tackles a fiend; the other one swipes at Bradley's back, drawing blood; Ben blasts at the third one that had initially attacked him, about to leap at Jason.]
Bradley, look after Marshmallow!
[He quickly places the cat on the ground, before firing another blast at the fiend that attacked Jason. Said cat is running around wildly, having no idea what's going on right now.
The fiend pinned underneath Jason, meanwhile, snarls and attempts to snap its jaws at his hand.]
[LOOK. He didn't want it to jump on Bradley or Ben!! His Bs!
The fiend can snap at his hand, but it's the one he raises up to just, like, punch the shit out of it. Does this hurt his hand? Yes. He really said he's going to fist fight this terrible fiend in front of God and everyone. Fuck guns. He will punch his problems.
But it's fine because he's also trying to get up so he can book it.]
[Jason can fuck up his hand as much as he likes. Once he gets off of the fiend and books it, though, Ben will send one last blast to at least knock the fiend off before flying out with Jason and Bradley + Marshmallow.
They're not pursued by any more fiends, at least, as they escape the cavern. The entrance through which they fled is dotted with mushrooms, while a creak runs nearby. In the distance, a village can be seen.
Ben hovers in the air, giving them both a worried look. Now that things seem to have calmed down, Marshmallow wriggles to try and get out of Bradley's grasp and jump back onto the ground.]
You guys all right?
[While their injuries might not be terrible, Jason and Bradley will both start to feel a tingling sensation from wherever the fiends drew blood. Gradually, they'll find themselves getting... hungry? Very hungry, in fact, until it reaches a near starving state.
And while they can't see it on themselves, they might see it on each other: the edges of their sclera are starting to turn black.]
He's shaking his hand a bit as they slow down from their wild run from the fiends and the cave. He glances from the village in the distance to Bradley, and Ben, and Marshmallow.]
Yeah. A little... hungry?
[Well. He was a little hungry...? Now he's... a lot hungry? He raises his hand to look it over; the tingling is weird. His chest, too. Why... is it tingling?]
Actually... a lot hungry...? [He's so hungry. He doesn't know shit about himself, but yeah. He can see it on Bradley--the eyes.] Hey--you okay? Your...
[Ben sounds? worried? Marshmallow hides behind his ankles, still not sure what's happening.
But as the hunger settles, so do—other urges? With each second that ticks by, Jason and Bradley will both feel the need to destroy. To devour, to kill every living thing they see. Not necessarily each other—though they aren't exactly allies either—but as for anything else... they are so hungry, and they so badly need to lash out, tear everything else apart.
If they are still headed toward the village, he will slow to a stop. Not... a good place to be, he thinks, when he's feeling kind of messed up. HE ALREADY HAS ISSUES WITH ANGER, DON'T DO THIS TO HIM.]
I... think we're sick. [He isn't sure how else to put it, honestly.] Ben... you and... you and Marshmallow... should go. Get away from us.
[Ben crouches down to whisper urgently to Marshmallow, who darts into a bush to hide. Then, Ben stands back up, hovering off the ground as he gives them another concerned look.]
I'm not just leaving you two.
[But it doesn't seem as though he knows what to do either.
That urge to eat, to kill, to destroy grows within Jason and Bradley, and there's only one living being in the vicinity right now—]
[Cloud and Sebastian, who'll have found themselves within the familiar cavern at first, presumably make their way out. And thus, this is the sight they come across.
A young-looking figure in blue, floating above the ground with a distressed look on his face. (A cat in the bush, if they look closely.) Jason and Bradley, with black sclera, looking as though they're about to lose control; they're within the first stages of corruption. Curable, but in only one way. Otherwise, those who've been contaminated are lost for good.
Once more, Cloud and Sebastian know: this is the day that the calamity struck, when a certain spirit became a fiend.
Meanwhile, Cloud and Sebastian's arrival might at least distract Jason and Bradley, even if only in the sense that there is now more they must destroy. Their minds are on the precipice now—flickering between moments of sanity and the hunger, the rage, the near irresistible need to attack any of the three before them.
[ his backstory does not clash with this recognition of jason and bradley, but it does cause a moment of ?!
of course he doesn't have much time to consider things before sebastian's throwing himself in the middle of the fray, so he's just going to follow and place himself between sebastian+ben and jason+bradley, not taking his sword out yet because that's a. big sword to stab people he knows with.
[There isn't much else to say here other than he is starving and feral, and he wants to destroy something terrible.
And Cloud and Sebastian come out of the cave at just the right moment. He really has a hard time with controlling it. He looks--for a moment, surprised. He should... no, he knows...?]
Cl...oud...?
[But there's a roughness to his voice, a hunger. And then he just charges them. What's he going to do, swing with his fists? Yeah probably. If Sebastian is in front, he's likely going for him out of necessity. Sorry, there is a big dude running at you, buddy.]
[His eyes widen for a moment. He knows Sebastian. For a moment that recognition means Bradley doesn't go for him, even though he's in front, as he passes by and lunges for Cloud-]
Rr...rrun.
[He's rapidly losing his sense and sanity. The desire to eat and tear and destroy is overtaking his better judgement.]
[Though the question, really, is how. There are truly only so many options here.
Hovering by Sebastian and Cloud, Ben looks as though he's about to send a blast towards Bradley and Jason; however, he freezes up instead, given the damage he'd likely do to them.
They're my friends too! ...Well, um, Bradley is, I don't really know the other—
[ —he hears running footsteps and turns to see that "the other one" is, in fact, barreling toward him right now ready to punch him. but we got a 19 so it seems he at least gets to dodge this one successfully, even though it's accompanied by an undignified yelp. ]
[ okay, well, he doesn't expect to be tackled by a wizard while he's distracted by jason trying to eat sebastian, which is how im justifying this 7, that bradley just surprises him and gets him before he decides to take his sword out. surprise nyoom.
he tries to kick him off reflexively, or just wrestle him off altogether. he does not have a qualm about yeeting bradley the fuck away from him because it's not stabbing, it's just bodily violence, and that's less terrible. he will address ben while he does so: ]
Hey, you! You're a spirit, aren't you? A fully formed one?
[ cloud, earlier, to sen&ren: that's stupid. what's the point of saving two humans if it just creates more fiends cloud, now: i have changed my mind ]
[Sebastian is too small and slippery to catch with dorito arms. Once he goes by, he whips around, but struggles to a halt.
He's truly hanging on by a thread. What little bit of coherency is left is mortified by how powerful the urge to destroy, and eat, and destroy more is. He grabs his head with both hands and groans through his teeth.]
B...oth of you... Get o...ut of here...!
[He lifts his head so suddenly again. The black of his eyes might as well be a void. He rushes again without thinking, without restraint. Cloud this time. He'll just destroy Cloud.]
[ sebastian also turns to look at cloud with wide eyes. he hadn't really understood the situation when he ran out here hoping he could somehow just stop their friends from dying and save everyone, but hearing it put that way, he remembers what both cloud and ren had said about the cure for the corruption and goes pale.
he looks back to ben. ]
Hey, um— I-I'll tell you how we can save them, come on.
[ assuming ben's new form allows for it, sebastian's going to take his hand and try to hide them both somewhere nearby for a minute so they can talk through this while cloud... hopefully manages to deal with the others. ]
[ great thank you sebastian he might be good at banter during fights but he is not here for being stuck with the job of expositioning "how do you feel about suicide for the greater good" to a guy they just met. SO glad this is now sebastian's job.
Cloud manages to kick Bradley off and jump back up to his feet. He's still not exactly keen on using his giant murder sword on either of them, but it does have a wide blunt side. Cloud's never used it like that (unlike--what? who? this is not the time for headaches dismiss the thought) but he doesn't need to defeat either Bradley or Jason, he just needs to stall.
So he takes it out as a kind of blocker between himself and Jason, using it as a makeshift shield-- it's good for protecting his general body, but as I have experienced numerously while playing ff7r, completely shit when you are being multi-targeted by enemies who are trying to gnaw on you. They are usually dogs, but in this instance Bradley is not that far from it.
which is to say he regrets not wearing sleeves right now so much when bradley chomps down on his forearm RIGHT ON THE HEALING BITE FROM HIS FIRST CYOA? OH COME ON ]
Shit-- [ it hurts and he reflexively tries to knee bradley anywhere he can reach so he can shove him off without either stabbing him or letting go of the sword with either hand, because he's pretty sure if he goes one handed in defense position with jason right there it will go badly ] Snap out of it!
[ they won't, there's only one cure, but he kind of has to at least try to not advocate for death of a teen spirit even if said death would also nicely prevent the apocalypse, because the stupid spirit said they were family and he is not a monster ]
[The sword is still effective at keeping Jason’s big ass self mostly away. He grapples it with one, but has the other to reach out and dig into Cloud’s neck and shoulder. Good thing he has a single pauldron on the correct side.
For a brief moment, there is a second of clarity in Jason’s black eyes, then it’s snatch away as quickly as it had come. He hates his teeth. He’s… hungry, but it isn’t even that he wants to eat Cloud.
He wants to destroy him? There is an immeasurable desire in the pit of him to obliterate, and for what? Where did these come from and why did he become like them?]
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It lunges for him and Bradley runs for it. If it catches up, it catches up.]
Jason!?
[What are you doing?!]
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Bradley, look after Marshmallow!
[He quickly places the cat on the ground, before firing another blast at the fiend that attacked Jason. Said cat is running around wildly, having no idea what's going on right now.
The fiend pinned underneath Jason, meanwhile, snarls and attempts to snap its jaws at his hand.]
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The fiend can snap at his hand, but it's the one he raises up to just, like, punch the shit out of it. Does this hurt his hand? Yes. He really said he's going to fist fight this terrible fiend in front of God and everyone. Fuck guns. He will punch his problems.
But it's fine because he's also trying to get up so he can book it.]
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Bradley is going to try to scoop up Marshmallow and keep running.]
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They're not pursued by any more fiends, at least, as they escape the cavern. The entrance through which they fled is dotted with mushrooms, while a creak runs nearby. In the distance, a village can be seen.
Ben hovers in the air, giving them both a worried look. Now that things seem to have calmed down, Marshmallow wriggles to try and get out of Bradley's grasp and jump back onto the ground.]
You guys all right?
[While their injuries might not be terrible, Jason and Bradley will both start to feel a tingling sensation from wherever the fiends drew blood. Gradually, they'll find themselves getting... hungry? Very hungry, in fact, until it reaches a near starving state.
And while they can't see it on themselves, they might see it on each other: the edges of their sclera are starting to turn black.]
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He's shaking his hand a bit as they slow down from their wild run from the fiends and the cave. He glances from the village in the distance to Bradley, and Ben, and Marshmallow.]
Yeah. A little... hungry?
[Well. He was a little hungry...? Now he's... a lot hungry? He raises his hand to look it over; the tingling is weird. His chest, too. Why... is it tingling?]
Actually... a lot hungry...? [He's so hungry. He doesn't know shit about himself, but yeah. He can see it on Bradley--the eyes.] Hey--you okay? Your...
[He motions to his own eyes.]
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Yeah. Kinda tingly 'n hungry?
[His eyes? He looks at Jason's and frowns.]
Yours are turnin' black?
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[Ben sounds? worried? Marshmallow hides behind his ankles, still not sure what's happening.
But as the hunger settles, so do—other urges? With each second that ticks by, Jason and Bradley will both feel the need to destroy. To devour, to kill every living thing they see. Not necessarily each other—though they aren't exactly allies either—but as for anything else... they are so hungry, and they so badly need to lash out, tear everything else apart.
They're becoming fiends.]
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If they are still headed toward the village, he will slow to a stop. Not... a good place to be, he thinks, when he's feeling kind of messed up. HE ALREADY HAS ISSUES WITH ANGER, DON'T DO THIS TO HIM.]
I... think we're sick. [He isn't sure how else to put it, honestly.] Ben... you and... you and Marshmallow... should go. Get away from us.
[BEN TRIED SAVING THEM BEFORE AND FOR WHAT]
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This is not a feeling Bradley is used to. He doesn't have anger issues, he lets his emotions go freely. Whatever has a hold on them is working fast.
Were they supposed to die in that white void?]
Go. Right now.
[He drags a hand against a tree and starts moving away from the group, away from this village.]
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I'm not just leaving you two.
[But it doesn't seem as though he knows what to do either.
That urge to eat, to kill, to destroy grows within Jason and Bradley, and there's only one living being in the vicinity right now—]
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A young-looking figure in blue, floating above the ground with a distressed look on his face. (A cat in the bush, if they look closely.) Jason and Bradley, with black sclera, looking as though they're about to lose control; they're within the first stages of corruption. Curable, but in only one way. Otherwise, those who've been contaminated are lost for good.
Once more, Cloud and Sebastian know: this is the day that the calamity struck, when a certain spirit became a fiend.
Meanwhile, Cloud and Sebastian's arrival might at least distract Jason and Bradley, even if only in the sense that there is now more they must destroy. Their minds are on the precipice now—flickering between moments of sanity and the hunger, the rage, the near irresistible need to attack any of the three before them.
It's time for choices to be made.]
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...and once more he's just going to go running out into the middle of things when he shouldn't to address ben. ]
H-hey! These are your friends, right?
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[ his backstory does not clash with this recognition of jason and bradley, but it does cause a moment of ?!
of course he doesn't have much time to consider things before sebastian's throwing himself in the middle of the fray, so he's just going to follow and place himself between sebastian+ben and jason+bradley, not taking his sword out yet because that's a. big sword to stab people he knows with.
unfortunate. ]
Shit. You two... What the hell happened?
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And Cloud and Sebastian come out of the cave at just the right moment. He really has a hard time with controlling it. He looks--for a moment, surprised. He should... no, he knows...?]
Cl...oud...?
[But there's a roughness to his voice, a hunger. And then he just charges them. What's he going to do, swing with his fists? Yeah probably. If Sebastian is in front, he's likely going for him out of necessity. Sorry, there is a big dude running at you, buddy.]
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Rr...rrun.
[He's rapidly losing his sense and sanity. The desire to eat and tear and destroy is overtaking his better judgement.]
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They're like family—help them, please!
[Though the question, really, is how. There are truly only so many options here.
Hovering by Sebastian and Cloud, Ben looks as though he's about to send a blast towards Bradley and Jason; however, he freezes up instead, given the damage he'd likely do to them.
So, uh. Good luck, y'all.]
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They're my friends too! ...Well, um, Bradley is, I don't really know the other—
[ —he hears running footsteps and turns to see that "the other one" is, in fact, barreling toward him right now ready to punch him. but we got a 19 so it seems he at least gets to dodge this one successfully, even though it's accompanied by an undignified yelp. ]
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[ okay, well, he doesn't expect to be tackled by a wizard while he's distracted by jason trying to eat sebastian, which is how im justifying this 7, that bradley just surprises him and gets him before he decides to take his sword out. surprise nyoom.
he tries to kick him off reflexively, or just wrestle him off altogether. he does not have a qualm about yeeting bradley the fuck away from him because it's not stabbing, it's just bodily violence, and that's less terrible. he will address ben while he does so: ]
Hey, you! You're a spirit, aren't you? A fully formed one?
[ cloud, earlier, to sen&ren: that's stupid. what's the point of saving two humans if it just creates more fiends
cloud, now: i have changed my mind ]
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He's truly hanging on by a thread. What little bit of coherency is left is mortified by how powerful the urge to destroy, and eat, and destroy more is. He grabs his head with both hands and groans through his teeth.]
B...oth of you... Get o...ut of here...!
[He lifts his head so suddenly again. The black of his eyes might as well be a void. He rushes again without thinking, without restraint. Cloud this time. He'll just destroy Cloud.]
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L...leave!
[Bradley is kicked off of Cloud but only for the moment.
Whatever sanity he had is leaving him. Clarity is a distant dream as he lunges and tries to bite into Cloud's arm. Rip. Tear. Consume. Destroy.]
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Y-Yes?
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he looks back to ben. ]
Hey, um— I-I'll tell you how we can save them, come on.
[ assuming ben's new form allows for it, sebastian's going to take his hand and try to hide them both somewhere nearby for a minute so they can talk through this while cloud... hopefully manages to deal with the others. ]
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Cloud manages to kick Bradley off and jump back up to his feet. He's still not exactly keen on using his giant murder sword on either of them, but it does have a wide blunt side. Cloud's never used it like that (unlike--what? who? this is not the time for headaches dismiss the thought) but he doesn't need to defeat either Bradley or Jason, he just needs to stall.
So he takes it out as a kind of blocker between himself and Jason, using it as a makeshift shield-- it's good for protecting his general body, but as I have experienced numerously while playing ff7r, completely shit when you are being multi-targeted by enemies who are trying to gnaw on you. They are usually dogs, but in this instance Bradley is not that far from it.
which is to say he regrets not wearing sleeves right now so much when bradley chomps down on his forearm RIGHT ON THE HEALING BITE FROM HIS FIRST CYOA? OH COME ON ]
Shit-- [ it hurts and he reflexively tries to knee bradley anywhere he can reach so he can shove him off without either stabbing him or letting go of the sword with either hand, because he's pretty sure if he goes one handed in defense position with jason right there it will go badly ] Snap out of it!
[ they won't, there's only one cure, but he kind of has to at least try to not advocate for death of a teen spirit even if said death would also nicely prevent the apocalypse, because the stupid spirit said they were family and he is not a monster ]
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For a brief moment, there is a second of clarity in Jason’s black eyes, then it’s snatch away as quickly as it had come. He hates his teeth. He’s… hungry, but it isn’t even that he wants to eat Cloud.
He wants to destroy him? There is an immeasurable desire in the pit of him to obliterate, and for what? Where did these come from and why did he become like them?]
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EXCURSION COMPLETE.