JOE x ARES [ BLOOD MOON ]

Tonight was supposed to be just an ordinary lunar eclipse.

But something’s different this time around. The full moon is already high in the sky.
Clouds shroud it from sight one minute, and the next they’re gone, revealing the moon to
no longer be its usual white light, but rather something much more sinister. As though
bathed in blood, its reddish hue gives off a frightening appearance.

It’s a blood moon.
It's a late night at Lake Armdale.

Looter Ares Wheeler has been assigned to spy on the burgeoning new colony near Lake Armdale for the Eclipse. Though he is unable to get close to its newly erected fences, he finds a member of the colony scouting its perimeter - Outcast guard Joe Salinas. Silver moonlight becomes veiled by dark clouds and the night blankets both figures in shadow. When the clouds roll away, they reveal a crimson moon, turning the world around them to shades of red and black.

At first, the night is as quiet as when it was silver and blue. Somewhere in the distance, an owl croons, its deep, baritone notes flittering between rustling leaves. Then, the owl falls silent. The crickets stop baying. The world is silent, suddenly and eerily so. And then a cacophony of growls resounds. They are the carnivorous, menacing snarls of Infected, only it's far too loud to be a single pack of Ferals. No- it's a horde. And they've detected the collection of warm, fleshy bodies that form the colony. Striking red eyes appear in the inky shadows behind Ares.

Only Joe and Ares lie between the hunting horde and the drifter colony.

Event Mechanics

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