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 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! [Lyra's holding her own, although she has her fair share of bruises and scrapes. The glow intensifies around her and the daemon at her feet as several knives stab into one of the creature's heads as she heads for the other telekinetic.]
hellionated: (tekeglow)

[personal profile] hellionated 2011-10-31 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ When he reaches her, he's aware of his green glow mixing with her gold one. The spawn don't seem put off by that. He concentrates on keeping a shield at their back. ]

Did you always do the gold thing? Not that I'm complaining. I hate these things.

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes. [When she's under enough stress and using enough energy. She notices the shield as she pulls the knives out of the monster's head, and she tries to wipe one of the knives off on her shirt as she raises a shield in front of them, and scowls.]

They're more disgusting than cliff-ghasts! [And those things are disgusting, if not that dangerous.]

Are you all right?
hellionated: (tekevmmm)

[personal profile] hellionated 2011-10-31 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
I've had worse. [ But they weren't done yet. These swarms were everywhere, and there was more than just this going down. These guys were only the sideshow and to Julian's irritation, they were still strong enough to keep him busy. ]

I lost Sofia. Damn it, these things suck. [ He looks around, knowing they need a better plan than shields. They need breathing space. ] There's too many. They came from the sea. Let's put them back there.

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think we can drown them. [But it's better than nothing. More and more monsters are starting to pound on the shields, and Lyra grits her teeth and tries to think.]

But most of 'em can't fly. [So dropping them from a great height would work, right?]
hellionated: (tekehandcontrol)

[personal profile] hellionated 2011-10-31 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
I don't care if they drown. I want them gone. [ So either that meant sending them home, or killing them. He'd been doing plenty of the latter already. ]

Combine your teke with mine. We lift them high enough, we can boomerang them back where they came from. [ Whether they survived that or not didn't matter to him. ]

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah- but they seem like fish, almost. I bet they can swim. [Lyra looks to Pantalaimon, who nods. She turns back to Julian.]

All right, we'll do that.
hellionated: (tekehandraise)

[personal profile] hellionated 2011-10-31 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Worst they can do is come back for more And that might take them long enough for us to fight off the rest. [ Not to mention the big one, which some of the others would be trying to take down.

He starts expanding his shield, sending it around the demons instead of using it to hold them back. He’ll grab as many as he can carry and take them up into the air. ]

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-11-01 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Lyra copies his action, lifting more spawn into the air, and lifting them higher and higher.]
hellionated: (tekevmmm)

[personal profile] hellionated 2011-11-02 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ He works with her, combining his powers with hers until they can get the group high enough. Then he starts moving. He wants enough distance so that they can catapult these things right out of the City. ]

[identity profile] lyingbrat.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Lyra follows his lead- he has more experience than her, and she looks up as the monsters seem to get smaller and smaller.]
hellionated: (faceeyebrow)

[personal profile] hellionated 2011-11-03 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ He follows the plan, dragging the demons until they're in range. He throws them as far as he can. ]

Awesome. So only like, a thousand to go.