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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.
seal_clubs_you: (And he cooks too!)

[personal profile] seal_clubs_you 2011-06-13 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike gives Gabriel a grateful look. He reaches back into his pack and pulls out an MRE at random, glancing at the packaging once it's in front of him. He grimaces and laughs.

"Chicken fajita. Somebody up there hates me today..." He doesn't really seem bothered, though. It's probably the worst of the MRE assortment, but he's actually still eaten far worse. He sets up the flameless ration heater and starts warming his government-issued horror. "I wonder if throwing these at the monkeys would make them run. They could fling all the shit back at me that they wanted and I'd still win."

He grins over at Gabriel, so the other man knows he's just griping for fun. It was a contest among the men in his team, to come up with the most disparaging remarks they could make about their meals before they actually ate them. The logic was that if they insulted the food enough, they might lower their expectations to the point where the actual eating was a pleasant surprise in comparison.

"So, did you get dragged out of your world and into a little green room, too?"