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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] scorpiontongue.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
"If they were, they would surrender!" Jysiri wins points for staying on task, as Kriv has little patience for the instinctive actions of people in a panic. (Especially the ones that inevitably look back and trip, which is just rage-inducing.)

The frogs do not move quickly, but the devastation wrought by their greedy pirahna-hunger is thorough. Those monkeys caught between Kriv and the thousand mouths soon find themselves forced to choose between two bad ends, and the rest driven back as best as may be done with the business end of his glaive. But such is the aggravation of fighting a large number of very small enemies: some always slip through.

[identity profile] jysiri.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
That makes sense! None of this sits well with the currently-saurian peacock, but that makes it a little better. At least it's not people. He is going to avoid thinking about those birds, though.

He will hide behind Kriv. That is an excellent plan, and he can even hold a defensive stance and help keep some of the creatures away, while the frogs and the dragon do their good work.

Talking, really, can wait until they are not in so much danger.

[identity profile] scorpiontongue.livejournal.com 2011-06-11 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
And that, at least, may not take too terribly long. The unnatural frogs flow to the left around them like an angry tide, cutting with terrible efficiency through another patch of the primate-swarm. Kriv whirls to the right, glaive-blade cutting down what he can while the strange 'little cousin' goes to work behind him and the thousand mouths guard both their backs.

It is too soon since his last battle (and the battle before that) for any more arcane dramatics in this fight. Thankfully it would seem that they may not be needed.

[identity profile] jysiri.livejournal.com 2011-06-14 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
A lack of dramatic magic is good - that means Jysiri can stick close by. He can only hope that they're going to wade through this mess toward safety, but falls far too easily into following the dragon-man's lead. He would give just about anything right now to not have to deal with this, and letting someone else call the shots is the next best thing. Augh, horrible, horrible, terrible tasting monkeys!