<![CDATA[Blood & Bone - The Junkyard]]>

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 Eclipse Territory.

The blood moon seems to take them both by surprise. Étienne Blanchard, leader and boss of the Eclipse, is somewhere outside of the confines of the Junkyard. Ophelia Warde, colony leader, is far from Lake Armdale. In any other situation, the two may not have crossed paths. But tonight is different. Tonight, the moon's colored crimson and dark blue shadows become eerie red paths. The Infected have become frenzied, blood crazed and united in hordes, told by their haunting howls that fill the air.

Ophelia stumbles upon one of these hordes, and she is forced to run, lest she become another victim of this night. The hordes' fast and sooner or later they will overtake the colony leader. She may well have faced death had she not, quite literally, ran into Étienne.

Now the two must face the coming horde together, whether they like it or not...

Event Mechanics

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OPHELIA x ÉTIENNE [ BLOOD MOON ]

Event Mechanics

TAG Ares Wheeler
NOTES N/A

It's early, too early, but the man knows they'd have to get an early start to the day if they planned to get to their destination for the day. Night wasn't the time most people wanted to be driving, but especially when the roads were covered in Infected during the night, it made sense to limit most traveling to the daytime only. It's gotten warm enough within the past few weeks that Étienne finally got to sleep in nothing but his underwear again, no longer cold from the brutal winter nights. Yet a chill still sets across his skin as he throws the covers back, and a small grunt of complaint draws his attention to the massive wolfdog splayed across his bed.

Glasgow is still sleeping, if evident by the way his legs twitch occasionally — chasing a rabbit? A soft, sincere smile spreads across the Boss's face as he leans over to give the animal a good pat, before he stands up and gets dressed for the day. He dresses light, stuffing extra clothing into the pack that he slings lazily across his shoulders once he's done. By the time he's ready to head outside of the shipping container he called home, Glasgow was already awake and bouncing around near the entrance.

“Not today, I'm afraid,” he tells the wolfdog with a heavy heart, giving him another pat before he leaves his 'apartment', closing the door behind him much to the reluctance of the beast. Glasgow didn't like being locked up — and Étienne, likewise, didn't like leaving him locked up — but when he wasn't in the camp to watch him, there was just too much potential for havoc which he would then be informed of by his advisors and— It was a whole thing. The man pinched the bridge of his nose between fingers as he thought of it, but quickly shook the thought away and began to make his way down the rickety scaffolding that served as the pathway between 'apartments', his destination clear.

It didn't take him long to get to Ares's home — stopped only a couple times to be greeted by Eclipse members — and when he finally did, Étienne cast a long gaze over the doors before deciding to grab the comms device from his pack. He texts the younger man that he was waiting, rather than choosing to knock and potential disturb those still sleeping.

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TAG Ares Wheeler
NOTES N/A