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!]
shotyoudeadbang: (shadow rifle)

[personal profile] shotyoudeadbang 2011-11-09 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe if I was MADE of bullets!"

He pulls a long-range rifle off of his back to take advantage of the distance before the thing gets close enough to do damage. The shots fired do some impressive popping of the thing's face, but it still lumbers closer... albeit slowed.

"I figure we can handle 'em, and what the hell, probably a good thing to kill these things before they start eatin' kids or somethin'."
someonetoscold: Sandman in sand-mode, looking angry (oh no)

[personal profile] someonetoscold 2011-11-10 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That gets him to start.

"Y'think there's still kids around?"

He whips up some giant fists and tenses himself for the oncoming monster and glances around, almost as if he expected some five year old under Deadshot's bus.

"Eh, better be safe then sorry."
shotyoudeadbang: (murder everyone)

[personal profile] shotyoudeadbang 2011-11-11 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
"You trust any kind of government to be THAT thorough?" he fires back about the evacuation.

"There's always gonna be stragglers. And sure as shit, these are the kinda monsters that'll root 'em out."

More gunfire, planned with intricate ricochet patterns to push the thing over towards Sandy's waiting fists.
someonetoscold: Sandman in sand-mode, looking angry (SANDman)

[personal profile] someonetoscold 2011-11-11 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"You got a point."

Almost there...

"Let's deal with these nasties."

And Deadshot's gunfire successfully lured it. Sandman goes all out in a single double strike, slamming down on the thing as hard as he can.

"Hah! We do good together, don't we?"
shotyoudeadbang: (arm rigs)

[personal profile] shotyoudeadbang 2011-11-13 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't start pickin' out curtains just yet," he calls back, with a smirk in his voice, about as close to an agreement as he'll offer.

"But we get out of this mess alive, first beer's on me."
someonetoscold: Sandman in sand-mode, looking angry (Aw yeah)

[personal profile] someonetoscold 2011-11-13 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
He finishes it off by making an axe and beheading the sucker.

"Don't drink beer, remember? Just buy yourself another round."