Starlight Festival [EVENT] [OPEN]

faces look ugly when you're alone

✖ Nador Vakarian
✖ boom.
(nador, take that as you will. I'll adjust.)

Cheers erupted as the two knights clashed. Spears against shields, arms against arms, their knees clamped their horses tight as the horses galloped in the opposite direction. The winner was not clear, but the crowds did not care. They screamed loudly and yelled the names of the two knights, urging them to return and clash once again. The jubilant clamor persisted for a long time.

Indeed, it persisted for too long a time.

Heads started to turn as a few people realized that some of the screams were not from the jousting spectator. People looked around, wondering why the outcries did not stop while they had stop screaming. Loud voices were heard, not from the Castle Area, but from the Town, the place where the rest of the festival was still celebrated.

Only, the noise heard was not of celebration. It was of panic.

From the eastern part of the town, crimson light started to spread. Drunk people in the festival shielded their eyes, wondering why the sun had risen so early. Only when the reddish glow started to expand and spewed fireballs did they realize they were not seeing the gentle rays of the morning sun.

Castle Town was on fire.

The blaze started in the dense residential area of Castle Town East and rapidly spread, blanketing the whole eastern Town in a matter of minutes. The combination of wind and the dry night made the conflagration soared out of control. But then, the western part of the town started to burn also in an unnaturally fast way, something nature could not do by herself.

Too late the Guards realized it was a deliberate act.

And too late still they reacted when waves of terrified citizens scrambled towards the festival area, screaming in panic and horror at something chasing them from their houses. The incoming stampede of people clashed with people already packed in the Castle Town Square, resulting in chaos and utter confusion as people stepped on and hit each other in their frenzied fright. Screams, prayers, and curses were uttered, all to no avail.

At that exact time, three things happened simultaneously.

First, the people who were unable to reach the Castle Town Square suddenly fell as their bodies were hacked down. Hordes of Moblins and Bokoblins emerged from the burning residential area, their fangs fierce and their eyes shone in malice. With their clubs and fearsome tridents they slaughtered any civilians and soldiers alike who stood in their path; an unstoppable deluge of monstrosities. They came from all directions: West, East, and South, somehow getting past the infamous Hyrule Castle Town Walls which could only watch helplessly as the ground it had protected so long were trampled by these deathbringers. The Moblins and Bokoblins moved in unison, chanting their alien battle cry among the pitiful pleas of the people, and their destination was clear: converge at the Castle Town Square itself where the masses of people were packed together. Slaughter would ensue.

And while all this was happening and the Guards scrambled confusedly into position, the second thing happened. Several Guards suddenly slumped, falling forward and lied motionless, a dagger stabbed deep into their back. Their fellow Guardsmen could only watched in shock, this ambush took them completely off guard. Soon the Guards in the Castle Town Square fell one by one like dried leaves, the only hint of their assailants were a flutter of robes slithering sneakily among the uproarious crowd. In one well-timed strike, most of the Guards were disabled like they had never existed.

And as if this was not enough, the third thing happened. Someone had hid carts of dried haystack disguised as bottle crates and now in this confusion they set fire to it. The resulting flame quickly raged out of the control: in no time at all most of the stands had become infernal bonfires.

Chaos, confusion, deaths... Years later, scholars would pore over the account of this night’s tragedy and gave it a name: The Night the Stars Cried.

Monsters closing in on the perimeter, the Guards disabled, and now fire burning in their very center, the masses of people in the Castle Town were in mortal peril. There was only one direction they could go: the northern part, where the gates to Hyrule Castle still maintained properly. And on they ran like wild beasts, desperately trying to avoid the looming death so close to their skin tonight. But they would not be able to reach safety in time, no. If the Castle Guards were not mobilized out of the Castle, there would be no hope for the majority of the populace. Complete bloodbath would be the closing symphony of the Starlight Festival this year.

Was there still hope?


Eastern Castle Town

Defense: Non-existent
Eastern Section Town Guards (Non-Existent); Eastern Section Town Wall Guards (Non-existent)

Threat: Decreasing rapidly
Bokoblin (Threat: Low); Moblin (Threat: Low)

Casualty: Extreme



Southern Castle Town

Defense: Non-Existent
Southern Section Town Guards (Non-Existent); Southern Section Town Wall Guards (Non-existent)

Threat: Decreasing rapidly
Bokoblin (Threat: Low); Moblin (Threat: Low)

Casualty: High



Western Castle Town

Defense: Overwhelmed
Southern Section Town Guards (Non-Existent); Southern Section Town Wall Guards (Overwhelmed)

Threat: Decreasing
Bokoblin (Threat: Low); Moblin (Threat: Low)

Casualty: High



Central Castle Town (Starlight Festival Area)

Defense: Feeble
Central Section Town Guards (Minimal strength)

Threat: Increasing rapidly
Bokoblin (Threat: Low); Moblin (Threat: Low); Assassins (?)

Casualty: Moderate



Northern Castle Town (Hyrule Castle & Barracks) (Jousting Arena)

Defense: Very Strong
Hyrule Castle Guards (Full strength); Hyrule Royal Guards (Full strength); 1st Redwing Batallion (Full strength); 2nd Batallion (Full strength); 3rd Batallion (Full strength)

Threat: Increasing
Bokoblin (Threat: Low); Moblin (Threat: Low)

Casualty: Negligible

Note: After this all rights belong to staffs! I am only writing the opening. I am not sure about the monsters strength so please feel free to change!