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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] ofminastirith.livejournal.com 2011-05-29 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
There's someone in the water. The thought comes quickly to his mind, and he knows just as quickly that that person isn't drowning or in danger, and his instincts tell him that there isn't something quite clicking into place about it all.

He makes his way cautiously to the river's edge, not ready to fight but his sword isn't going away either.

"Who goes there?"
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (that's a good time to be leaving ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-05-29 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
While some impulses it's important to resist, others it is less so, and frankly she isn't that good at it in the first place - that's why she worries about the important ones, and tends to let everything else go. That's logical. It's sound thinking.

(She was terribly proud of herself for that one.)

So, peering up at him with a bloodied knife in hand, "Who wants to know?"

[identity profile] ofminastirith.livejournal.com 2011-05-29 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
She is-

He's spent the past year in the company of Halfling, Dwarves, Elves and Maiar (although he doesn't know the last part, but Gandalf was old when his grandfather was young and so it wouldn't have surprised him). Before that he spent the better part of his life fighting the hordes of Mordor. And then he died. And he was brought here. Even today's events haven't felt that unusual in the grand scheme of his life.

Still, this is a different kind of -xenian? That's the word they use- than the ones that live in Middle Earth. And he is not easily surprised, so congratulations.

After a pause, he replies, "Boromir, son of Denethor."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (and the pampered heir to hell ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-05-29 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The knife doesn't go anywhere - it's dangerous up there, above the water, and Ilde has places to be - but whatever she is, the little fairy isn't interested in threatening him. Her tail is part-visible through the water, constantly moving to keep her where she is, but she's still not rising too far.

She considers for a split-second, then says, "The birds don't like magic." She'd seen that, on her way here, so if he hasn't got any, he should probably avoid getting in a fight with them; some free advice, while she's here.
Edited 2011-05-29 14:56 (UTC)

[identity profile] ofminastirith.livejournal.com 2011-05-29 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Boromir nods, as way of thank you. "There are similar creatures where I come from, but these serve a darker purpose than any crebain."

He looks around, quickly, to check for any oncoming assailants, before addressing Ilde once more. "Do you know if there is anyone to help the people of this city?"
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (that woman speaks eighteen languages ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-05-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
She thinks for a moment, rolling backwards in the water as she does (equal parts restlessness while she's thinking and just plain showing off; this is what she is and she's proud of it, it's right, that place in herself that was always just slightly out of reach is there now, perfect and whole and sometimes in the water it all clears and she feels as if she's finally as she always should've been), then flicks her tail behind her and swims closer, lifting half out of the water to point in the general direction of Brock Marsh. "Hellsing is fighting there." A beat, and a warning: "It's worse that way."

[identity profile] ofminastirith.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Boromir looks relieved, for a moment. "Thank the Valor for that. A city as large as this one, and so few defences." That last comment has something of a scoffing tone to it.

He regards the being before him, unsure what the protocol is here. She's not an elf; there is probably not another creature like her in his world. He remembers the Halflings tales about their journey to Rivendell, of things he had only heard of in stories as a young boy. Finally, he settles on a slight bow and, "Thank you, river-daughter." Then turns to go.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (never never dip your quill in ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-05-30 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
The term of address charms her, and from behind him she calls, "Ilde- my name is Ilde Decima-" before she dives deep and disappears.