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!]

[personal profile] coolstorybrogan 2011-11-04 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Grunt, on the other hand, didn't really have much luck when it came to taking cover behind cars and corners. He was big, and there wasn't a lot of good solid cover on the streets. That was okay though, he didn't want to take cover from these creatures. They didn't have any advanced weaponry, so it was already difficult for them to even break through the krogan's shields, much less his fortification if he ever used it.

It wasn't the best fight he'd been in, but there was something rewarding about charging through a group of enemies, tearing them apart with point blank shots or his bare hands.

"There are still more in the store," He says simply, nodding to Tali in acknowledgment, but that's it. He hears the whirring of machinery in the building, and he's going to find out what it is... Hopefully and enemy. Garrus did say there would be better ones here.
out_of_time: Jack running with a gun (We're running out of time!)

[personal profile] out_of_time 2011-11-05 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Meanwhile, Jack had found out what Grunt had- that there were still more enemies in the store, too many for one human to take on with a chainsaw. He came running out the shattered window, awkwardly lugging the tool with him. Behind him, in the darkness of the store, things could be heard moving and slobbering.

He saw Grunt and inferred that despite his fearsome appearance he was one of Garrus' allies. Jack could tell this by how many dismembered monsters surrounded Grunt's path toward the store. He made a decision, improvising with the knowledge that there were only seconds before the demons in the store became the demons outside the store.

"Jack Bauer, C.P.D," he said, before turning off the chainsaw and holding it out to Grunt. "I need you to take this and cover me while I get something from my car, right now. There's no time."
gofortheoptics: (Daemon)

[personal profile] gofortheoptics 2011-11-05 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Tali'Zorah." She could introduce herself and the others, since she knew Grunt's focus was going to be on tearing things apart -- and she could only assume he knew Garrus, if he was part of the CPD.

"And that's Grunt," she said, nodding to the krogan shortly before firing off a few rounds from her shotgun into the nearest advancing creature. "You're right -- we're running out of time. I'll have Daemon cover you as well, in case anything gets too close." And sure enough, the little purple orb bobbed up next to Jack's side, glowing faintly. Not wanting to keep herself exposed, she pressed up against the solid wall of the building and started to fiddle with her omni-tool. Maybe she could get something useful out of the security systems in the store. Hm. Overloading the circuits would start a fire, and that was probably not the best plan.
spacebatman: (Now What?)

[personal profile] spacebatman 2011-11-05 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Garrus took his turn at finding what cover he he could, again holstering his pistol and drawing forth his rifle.

Then he realized just what Jack had put in Grunt's hands.

"This is going to get interesting very quickly, isn't it?" A pause. "Also, even more like a horror flick."

Who gives a Krogan a chainsaw? Really. Garrus just hopes it stays as dangerous as it runs out of gas... but in Grunt's hands, anything would stay dangerous!

[personal profile] coolstorybrogan 2011-11-07 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Tali's intuition is right. Seriously Jack, do you know what you have just done? You're just given a berserker one of the most gore-friendly weapons of all time.

And sure enough, the krogan's gaze pretty much focuses only on the weapon in his hands and the way the teeth on it start to move menacingly as he starts it up again. It was going to be a bloody instrument, one that would take a lot of uptake so that it didn't jam up, but the efficiency and brutality of it were all that Grunt could have ever asked for, and before anyone could say anything, he turns out of the aisle, severing the tentacled arm of one of the creatures before shredding through his chest cavity.

The look on Grunt's face should have said it all, but he's practically a kid in a candy store at this point. "Vakarian, Tali, I like this guy!"
out_of_time: Jack in combat gear (Jack attack.)

[personal profile] out_of_time 2011-11-08 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ideas of genius often border the fine line of insanity. Giving a Krogan a chainsaw is one of those ideas. But the fun Grunt was having bought Jack the time he needed to root around in his wrecked car. "Nice to meet you," he muttered, not really paying attention to Tali and the others. He was focusing on the job at hand, which was to pry something out of the trunk and heave it to his shoulder.

It was silver-and-blue and futuristic-looking. After being modified by Ted Kord following its 'acquisition' in Greenland, there was almost no analysis on Earth that could link the former Vulcanus plasma shooter to its previous owners. It was high-tech, efficient, reliable, not very subtle, and capable of melting steel.

He called it Chloe.

"Stand clear!" He yelled, turned around, took aim at the first hostile he saw, and fired. There was a bolt of blue light and a zapping noise, and then the demonspawn exploded into scorched, slimy gibs.

Field test successful. Jack hoisted the plasma gun.

"All right, let's clear this area!"