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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.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (for you to say i am a sweet girl ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-06-05 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Eels were worse," Ilde says, apparently seeing no problem with skipping the pleasantries - under the circumstances, or just in general. "Eels were in their territory."

The monkeys that risk the river, on the other hand, are in hers.
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[personal profile] ironshodboots 2011-06-05 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, the gods-forsaken birds are in the air." She shakes her head. "Are you doing well enough, then?"
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-06-05 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Better now-" she rolls in the water, illustratively, to show Nazca where the wound she had from the gun's backfire on their little jaunt seawards is gone, thanks to Balthier's magic. She's been handling herself all right.
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[personal profile] ironshodboots 2011-06-05 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Nazca nods, taking in Ilde's condition. "It's a good built-in defense, the river. I've been sticking close."
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-06-06 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Smart of you," Ilde says, with a genuine hint of approval - it's blatantly true that she's biased, but she doesn't especially care. It's still true, isn't it? She has a certain advantage from the fact that she's strongest here, that she can hide in the water if she needs to, but even if she didn't...well, Nazca's making good tactical use.
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[personal profile] ironshodboots 2011-06-06 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Nazca smiles, a fleeting, sharp thing. "It's what I'm used to. And none of them seem to swim very well." It made it hard for anything but the birds to sneak up on her.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-06-06 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The gesture Ilde makes with her knife, here, mirrors the fleeting smile that accompanies it. "I don't give them time to learn."
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[personal profile] ironshodboots 2011-06-07 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Nazca smiles back. "Well done. Anything I can do to help, beyond the obvious?" Of continuing to kill them.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-06-07 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"The obvious is pretty good," Ilde advises, keeping a watchful eye on the bank of the river as she bobs a little in the current that doesn't seem to disturb her when she doesn't let it.
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[personal profile] ironshodboots 2011-06-08 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"I hadn't killed anything in a long time, before I came here." Nazca doesn't seem to mind, it's just interesting.

"These things are worth the effort, though."