2012-06-30
From Gothpoodle
- Scenario: The Big One
Log
Sun May 20 2012
- Daisy has a conversation with Ruth about Jed.
- Daisy goes to Tolliver's at 8am to discuss killing her family.
- Rakoczy interrupts to discuss his Plan B.
- Tolliver invites Eva via Solomon's shower.
- Discuss Daisy's and Rakoczy's plans.
- Daisy goes upstairs and calls Pete Black, he can't help her get in touch with Santa but agrees to help get Maggie out of the city.
- Tolliver checks to see if Mia is home.
- Daisy calls Gail and asks her to meet her at home.
- Eva goes to meet Solomon for Sunday brunch.
- Tolliver heads over to Mia's and convinces her to come.
- Tolliver sends Tolly, Perry, and his staff out of town to his vineyard.
- Eva and Solomon call their children, Eva talks to her grandmother.
- Peter and Gail are waiting in the coffee shop when Daisy gets there.
- Peter takes Bo, Maggie, Tina, and Oliver away amid the sound of sleigh bells.
- Daisy talks to Gail (and then Sarah) about the Darkhallow ritual.
- Daisy spends much of the afternoon preaching fire and brimstone to your family.
- Everyone meets at Tolliver's at 3pm and heads over to be let into the stadium.
- Mary Pleasant and the ghosts already at park, hiding in the shadows.
- A magical storm is gathering, like the confluence of many powerful ley lines.
- The Senior Council, Julia, and Stenstrom arrive at 5pm.
- Eclipse begins at 5:15pm, gates open at AT&T park, Giants batting practice.
- Oakland A's batting practice starts at 5:45pm.
- Batting practice ends at 6:25. Giants come onto the infield.
- Roycroft and his men show up and call the game, begin evacuating people. Those remaining in stands: McGraws and scattered angels.
- Thralls move to block people leaving, FBI guys and Mia open fire to clear the blockages. Eva and Tolliver support with magic.
- Daisy takes Jed and goes to confront Roycroft.
- Ghogiel drops his illusion, revealing Cain and the Denarians (disguised as Giants). The real Giants flee the field.
- Cain touches the baseline to activate his shield and trap the spell's energy and then walks to the pitcher's mound.
- The Knights and the McGraws engage the Denarians.
- The Senior Council try and counter the shield and the growing spell, to no avail.
- The angels stay in the stands, waiting.
- Tolliver creates a threshold around the stadium to contain the spell if it gets out.
- Eva and Solomon join the Senior Council in trying to bust down the shield.
- Stenstrom and Julia kill Azariel in a massive magical battle.
- Steven and Evelyn try and talk to Cain, but he can't hear them through the shield, even with Daisy amplifying their voices.
- Daisy's brother Eli is turned to stone by Sheireil, Theuniel merely points at Uncle John and he dies, and Jed's sister Margie is torn apart by Theumiel's ravens.
- Daisy's brother Eli is turned to stone by Sheireil, Theuniel merely points at Uncle John and he dies, and Jed's sister Margie is torn apart by Theumiel's ravens.
- John's prayers call forth a holy radiance which pains and weakens the Denarians around him, allowing the Knights to get in three kills:
- Jed kills Theumiel in a rage when the light scatters his ravens and forces him to coalesce.
- Boutros slays Ghogiel when the light disrupts his illusions.
- Juan kills Sheireil with his eyes closed, focusing on her screams of pain from the light.
- Tolliver consumes his Soma potion and attempts to open a door to the Nevernever.
- Cain completes his spell and breaks the "circle" to release it.
- At 6:32 the eclipse reaches totality, Cain breaks his circle, and the earthquake begins.
- The gates begin to open. Eva and Legba put the gate to hell in the basement.
- The Fallen (including those from the coins), the dead, and demons appear.
- The angels already present engage with a blow of Gabriel's horn.
- Dumont tries to kill Cain and is instantly slain by the reflection of his magic.
- Stenstrom and Robert work to hold the stadium together, protected by Julia.
- Kaplan accompanies Steven and Evelyn, approaching Cain, but he kills all three of them (and it pains him greatly).
- Zomiel raises the bodies of the dead to fight for the bad guys.
- Gail begins the Darkhallow ritual at Daisy's behest.
- Grace works to counter Denarian magic, assisting the Knights.
- Daisy disintegrates the corpses Zomiel.
- At Gail's urging, Tolliver and Grace leave, going down to the field.
- Roycroft, standing alone against a horde of demons trying to get through, detonates a suicide bomb under a hundred crucifixes, causing immense devastation.
- Julia engages Zomiel, who almost kills her but for Tolliver's shield, and she beheads it.
- Catharial concentrates on breaking the ranks of the McGraws but Ruth is matching him, Daisy disintegrates it with faith magic.
- The Angels and the Fallen have almost wiped each other out.
- Eva opens the gate to Heaven downstairs, Michael and the angels charge out to join the fray.
- The Ark rises from the earth under the pitcher's mound at Cain's prompting.
- Steven and Evelyn rise from the dead and panicking Cain.
- Cain destroys the Ark and the Outer Gates open (a growing lake of mordite "fire").
- Arsalan and Eva try to hold the gates closed.
- Tolliver puts a San Francisco in the way.
- Daisy exorcises Abaddon as he's killing Arsalan, who destroys him with his death curse.
- Michael and the remaining angels engage the Outsiders.
- Julia and Stenstrom attend to the wardens.
- Eva closes the gate and the earthquake stops.
- The Faerie Mothers arrive to rebuild the world.
Fri Dec 21 2012
- Beginning of the new world, seven months to the day after the end began.
- Daisy remembers to kill Cain.
- The Senior Council departs.
- The FBI guys get the normals out.
- Tolliver confirms Mia is still alive.
- Steven and Evelyn depart without a word.
- Ruth has broken down and many of the McGraws are in bad shape.
- The Knights of the Cross and John shake hands and part ways.
- Gail goes to see if she still has a house.
- Daisy calls Perry to get rooms for her family.
- Larios has a word with Tolliver when they leave.
- Daisy takes her family to the hotel, gives them food and gets them settled.
- Grace, Solomon, Eva, and Tolliver go back to his house, his staff and fourteen-month-old Tolly are there.
- Eva calls home, talks to her father, is told Jeanette is back at school and Nicky is expecting in two months.
- Daisy takes Ruth and Jed home, finds it abandoned, puts Ruth to bed.
- Daisy calls Peter, Bo, Tina, Olly, and Molly appear in the coffee shop with a Christmas tree, fully loaded.
- Tolliver's staff produce dinner.
- End with a Major Milestone.
Babies
- Oliver (Apr 30 2011) (20 months, names body parts, feeds doll, new words)
- Tolly (Oct 5 2011) (14 months, eats with fingers, toddles well, responds to instructions)
- Molly (Maggie) (Dec 25 2011) (12 months, mama and dada, walks alone)