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Random Event  The Unlucky [ Blood Moon ]    seryna x zander
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SERYNA x ZANDER [ 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 in Stronghold.

Entrusted with a mission to do a drug run of the Spades' specialty drug, rancor, Zander Noble passes by the secret location that houses the underground blood den, The River Styx. Upon doing so, he ends up running into Seryna Constantine exiting the establishment. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time just so happens to suit their meeting, when the blood moon appears overhead and chaos ensues. The appearance of the blood moon forces all Level V Infected within the immediate vicinity to change into their more feral nature, including all the patrons of The River Styx.

It is an unfortunate circumstance that Infected venom acts as a sort of pheromone to call other Infected to come and feast, and being equipped with rancor is like a death sentence. The patrons grow hungrier than ever, the screams of the human employees being able to be heard from outside the club. It's only a matter of time before the Level V's are drawn out, to feed on the rest of Stronghold.

But they might have only one specific person in their sights...


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Posted 10-10-2021, 09:31 PM
Played by potatochips    10 Posts Seryna Constantine
After it was over, she should've felt euphoric yet just as always, Seryna was riddled with guilt. Even when the excruciating pain of starvation was replaced with warm giddiness, her then pale as moon pallor had turned rosy, and even when her wilting hair had returned to its golden glory, no amount of physical improvement could take away the heavy shame of having succumbed to the monstrosity that she had become.

Had she any, she would've teared up by then, anguished by her circumstance. Yet strangely, ever since becoming as she was, Seryna only ever cried once. Any of her performances where she was shown in tears was with assistance to eye drops.

With her head hang low in shame, she exited the den, hardly even making eye contact with Kane, a friend of sorts. Seryna wanted to run back to the Opera House, or to her small apartment, bury herself in layers of sheets, and pretend that everything was alright.

Yet just as she was stepping out, there was a palpable change in the air, something which twisted at her guts and made her skin feel like it was lit on fire. Against her wishes, her fangs elongate and the painful pangs of hunger riddled her once more. It was irrational, she knew that, yet it was beyond her to control it.

Golden eyes brightly shining in the darkness, Seryna turned her head to follow the scent of blood, her sights landing on a familiar face. With the inhuman speed of an Infected, she crossed the distance between her and her prey, grabbing him by the neck and raising him a few feet off the ground.
Tag Zander Noble
Posted 10-13-2021, 10:32 AM
Played by    13 Posts Zander Noble
Tonight was supposed to be no different than any other night. Zander had put his younger siblings to bed earlier that night, his parents yet to return from their jobs. As soon as he was sure they were all asleep, he'd left the house to head to his 'job' that he still had yet to tell his family about. Working with the Jabberwockies somehow seemed like something he didn't want to bring his family into — especially not after he'd been threatened by the Ace — which meant that he often did drug runs by moonlight. It worked for him, and somehow, worked for the gang as well — not everyone liked doing drug runs during the night. Zander couldn't really blame them. Stronghold was somehow even more eerie at night. Like a gigantic, skeletal ghost town.

The young man shifts the pack that hung off his shoulder, eyes turning skyward to try and get a glimpse of the night sky. But where he found himself currently, tall buildings and jigjaw-like architecture made it nearly impossible. Letting out a soft sigh, he adjusts the pack once more, this time hearing the audible clinking of bottles falling against one another.

Rancor. The one drug he truly despised.

While he didn't do anything of the sort himself, and therefore didn't really have any problems running the drugs, there was something... Unwelcome about carrying around a load of Infected venom. Because, to be fair, that's pretty much what it was. Even though he didn't have much experience with the creatures, he knew that they were the cause of his father's death when he was younger, and therefore harboured a hatred towards their kind. But, a job was a job, and he couldn't exactly pick and choose what he wanted to deliver. Which is how he currently found himself in the Night Forum.

Zander had been doing this enough now — not to mention, he lived not far in the slums from his current location — to know exactly where he was going. He knew he was close. Sneakers smack against the sidewalk as he hurries his pace now, but he's slowed once more when a dark figure suddenly stumbles out from a building in front of him. The Jabberwocky frowns slightly as he tries to get a better look, but his vision seems to go weird on him for a moment as a red light suddenly streams down from below. The stranger suddenly whips their head up to look at him, and all at once he recognizes them — the nice lady from before!

"Oh, hey—! Woah, woah, what the fuck—!?" he starts out calling to her, but in a blur she's suddenly upon him, dainty hand snatching him around the throat and dragging him into the air. He immediately clamps his hands around her wrist, feet struggling as she's somehow strong enough to lift him clean off his feet — what the fuck was that about!? He's too distracted by her feat of strength that he doesn't even notice her eyes or fangs at first. Glass clinks as the pack falls from his shoulder.

"What're you doing lady!? Put me down!" he demands with a cry.

Tag Seryna Constantine
Posted 10-17-2021, 03:02 PM
Played by potatochips    10 Posts Seryna Constantine
The insect which struggled against her hold made her salivate. It smelled so good. The only thing stopping her from drinking him dry was the feeble recognition of his other scent, one which the small part of her brain recognized as familiar.

Struggling against her monstrous instincts, Seryna brought him closer to her face, eyeing him more out of hunger than actual curiosity. When finally, his identity dawned to the human part of her brain, both panic and worry surged within her. "You...shouldn't be here."

Seryna turned her face away as she brought her free arm onto her lips and bit down hard, using the pain to push herself back to her senses.

Then, bodily turning him over, she sought for the other overpowering smell that made her want to rip him apart. Finding it was coming off the bag slung over his shoulder, she plucked it off him and with the little sanity she had left, threw it away.

Next, she looked around for a place to hide him in. The screams which came from club told her it wasn't safe to be there for much longer. And more than keeping him safe from her friends, Seryna should keep him safe from herself.

With the use of her hypersensitive senses, she found another, less occupied building and cradling Zander against her body, made the jump from the street to that place. Then after throwing the door open, she flung him inside. "Now no matter what you hear, you stay put in this building... and... and find some kind of weapon to defend yourself with..." she instructed before taking a nearby metal dumpster and plugging it into the doorframe she destroyed.

Seryna then planted herself right outside the building, chomping down on her own arm everytime she felt close to being overpowered by the dizzying hunger pangs.
Tag Zander Noble
Posted 03-01-2022, 01:10 PM This post was last modified: 03-01-2022, 01:11 PM by Seryna Constantine
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