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A Shadowy Cabal (Mod Acct) ([personal profile] synergismus) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2011-05-27 08:05 pm

plot } the creatures descend.

Who: Everyone!
What: Creatures descend!
Where: All across the city, although attacks will be most fervent at its heart.
When: Friday/Veerdi evening and into the week.
Notes: Slow and back-tagging is, as always, permitted. If you are confused, look at these two posts for more information.
Warnings: Violence, creepiness, swearing knowing these characters.
On Veerdi, the presence of the creatures reaches a fever pitch. Something has provoked them into launching an all-out assault, though it is one that begins slowly. The pipe-crawlers, generally harmless though they may be, are seen across homes in Baedal, sneaking up through the pipes and into bathtub drains or sinks. They come by the dozens, and their keening makes most homeowners nauseated--but it's their appearance that leads to a number of distressed Network calls.

This is just the distraction for the rest.

The call of the crawlers draws in the armored, sickly creatures with the tiny primates carried inside of it. They are inelegantly lumbering, but much faster than one might expect, and certainly hostile. They trudge across the city, barreling over anyone who gets in their path and leaving them half-crushed in the street. They're certainly unsettling in their obvious unhealthiness, and the disease-ridden animals they carry are downright vicious, especially once they escape (messily, bloodily) from their fleshy cage.

It's the birds that are the worst, though; the cleverest, and the cruelest.

These strange black birds are resistant to typical attacks and flying in large groups. They descend on pedestrians, picking at their eyes and faces, ready to rapidly tear flesh from bone until there's nothing left but skeletal remains. They fly out of range when they can, only to divebomb anyone who might think they've escaped.

[identity profile] nojudge.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Recovered, Balthier smiles, and stands up, ready to haul himself up over the side and get back on land - and back into the fray. "I'm afraid being still around you for too long won't do," he tells her, and hops up over a rock. Leaning back, he gives her a bit of a lazy salute. "You'll figure out all my secrets. Thank you for the hand, Ilde."
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-06-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I like secrets- fair trade." That's mostly a joke - in that while she does very much like to know other people's secrets, she does not expect to be paid in them for fishing people out of the river. (Although it might make life more interesting if she took up lifeguarding for people she doesn't actually like very much-)

"Don't fall in the river again," she advises, pushing off the rock into the water - her feet are replaced with fins before she's all the way under, but she keeps diving and she's swiftly out of sight.