http://fakethulhu.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] fakethulhu.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2011-10-29 06:25 pm

DRAIN YOU OF YOUR SANITY

WHO: The Emissary and co. versus everybody
WHERE: Off the coast of Battery Park and throughout the City
WHEN: Just before midnight October 31st (technically November 1st)
WARNINGS: Violence and frightening imagery
SUMMARY: Drawn by Illidan’s magic, a demon from beyond reality has come forth to help the Betrayer doom the world. The battle that saves or destroys everything has begun. Happy Halloween, Cityverse!
FORMAT: Paragraph to start, whatever works after.

It came.

The Moon of midnight on All Hallow’s Eve shone wetly on the waters of the City’s Harbour. From beneath the surface a rumbling could be heard, as though emanating far, far below, within abyssal depths and ancient fathoms that could not possibly be there. First there was a ripple, then a wave, then the creature began to arise from the waters. It slid upwards and upwards, rising smoothly and continuously out of the ocean like a living edifice, a vast Thing ancient and immovable, a walking island sunken no longer. The head then the shoulders then the wings then the misshapen body came forth, yet still more of Its bulk remained beneath the waters, with slow thighs beginning to move It towards the City. All around it the sky and the ocean seemed to darken with an almost positive quality, as though jet-black ink was spilling into the universe itself. The Emissary had come.

Water flowed off Its body in torrents, mixing with drool and ichor. An unending series of sickly slopping and slobbering noises came from the twitching forest of tentacles around Its mouth, the product of a ravening hunger. The ocean heaved immensely around the Titan form, waves thrashing from the power of Its body. How to describe such a thing? How to even conceive of such horror, outside of madness or nightmare? That immense octopus head crowning the terrible body, those dragon-bat wings sprouting from Its back, those rubbery, sea-green scales, the mingled and loathsome aspects of the reptile, the mollusc- and the human! For it was on two feet that It moved, and with two arms did the Emissary reach out toward the morsels It slavered for.

An aura of panic and despair announced It, greater than any herald’s trumpet. Merely to look upon that incomprehensible shape and its alien geometry was to gamble with one’s sanity. Its very presence emanated a sense of immeasurable insignificance and absence of meaning, as though all the Earth was plankton in the presence of a whale. It moved with a shambling, unwholesome motion that had nothing to do with clumsiness, gathering speed. A mountain walked or stumbled! Toward the City, toward the Well. Toward the end of the world.

[ooc: goddamndoomchat is open on AIM if anyone's interested! There are some people fighting the Emissary who have not been slotted into threads yet; we will work those out as we go along! The raid against Illidan in Central Park will be posted by Jill later. Have fun everybody!]

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Can you fight them?" Lyra asked, using telekinesis to toss an approaching spawn back. When she spoke, it was with a tone and force that was not normally in her voice.

"Those things are attacking people and wrecking the City- and we have to stop them from doing either."

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[personal profile] yelloweyesdarksomething 2011-10-31 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not sure. I can't really eat them. Maybe I could stomp them?"

He thought about it. Now that he was actually called on to do something, he didn't know how to react. Can he fight them? Wait, what was he talking about. He already did.

"I kicked one out my window earlier."

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Keep kicking them- all the way into the river if you can."

A few large shards of glass embedded themselves in the spawn. Lyra turned back to look at the Monster.

"Can you do that? I can stay with you for a little while."
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[personal profile] yelloweyesdarksomething 2011-10-31 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah I can, maybe - -"

There was another one coming up behind them. He moved forward, the shadows still concealing him. So what he did exactly was unclear, but the spawn was shoved back, sliding across the pavement before smashing into a wall.

"Um, I'll try for the river next time."

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-11-01 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Good. Hit them as hard as you can, and keep them from hurting people!" Sometimes, it felt good to order people around.

Lyra sent a flurry of glass shards into the creature's face, several of them nearly a foot long. Hopefully that would keep it down.
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[personal profile] yelloweyesdarksomething 2011-11-01 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay! I can do that!"

His voice cracked a little. But he continued shoving the monsters away. At one point one of them threw a car at his head. It bounced off, knocking him off his feet.

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-11-01 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Lyra gaped, then used telekinesis to lift the car and toss it back at the spawn before turning to the Monster and checking on him.

"Are you all right?"
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[personal profile] yelloweyesdarksomething 2011-11-01 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh? Oh, I'm fine. That was pretty rude of them."

The Monster stood up, a bit confused. It was weird. For the first time in a while, he wished he had his normal body back. He was pretty sure he wouldn't get knocked off his feet then.

"See -- oh, you can't. I'm okay."

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"You're sure?" Lyra asked, while Pantalaimon shifted from looking terrified to just baffled.

"You're stronger than I thought!"
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[personal profile] yelloweyesdarksomething 2011-11-02 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
The Monster shuffled in the dark. He seemed to be all in one piece. Yep, all the limbs, still there.

"Maybe I made a good saving throw. I guess I'm not as human as I thought I was."

He wondered what else he had kept. It was difficult to tell. Maybe being human was just one more level of disguise, like the darkness. He puts away the thoughts quickly. Thinking was hard.

"Are you guys okay?"