Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering

[seeksherownsalvation]

WHO: Everyone who's signed up for the Shadow Märchen plot and the people who get involved with them.
WHERE: All over the City.
WHEN: February 1st through February 9th. Specify the dates when you tag in.
WARNINGS: Probably a lot, since this is a festival of dark sides.
SUMMARY: The City plays host to a twisted theater of the mind as numerous imPorts become darkened, monstrous versions of themselves.
FORMAT: To be chosen by the thread-starters.

The start of a new month shouldn't mean anything special for the City--but this time, it does. Even if it's only because of an accident.

The pull of despair within each victim might come from nowhere, or it might seem like the most natural extension in the world of their current circumstances. However it manifests, the results come quickly: one living shadow all too eager to broadcast its nature far and wide, attached to a monstrous witch that warps the world around it in order to feel at home.

Where once there was an ordinary building, there now might lurk the entrance to a distorted dimension controlled by one of those witches. Where once there was a friend, there's probably now a monster. Can't find the friend that's become this monster? Don't worry too much about missing the chance--the familiars of their witch roam the streets looking for those who can be dragged into the labyrinth.

But take heart: what's within is still the same familiar person...in its own way.

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[necronomicod]

Luckily for them, as the cage gates swung shut the Shadow seemed more content just to cackle madly. Kanaya and Nepeta were stuck on the opposite sides of the golden birdcage; its door seemed to lock without any appreciable mechanism to hold it shut, and its bars were just close enough to not be able to squeeze through.

It swayed back and forth as she laughed, paying no attention to the little trolls before her.

[glowsferatu]

It took Kanaya a moment to catch her bearings, to recover fully from the psychic barrage, but once she had, she found a better clarity to meet her situation with. She knew what was still important here.

"Keep moving!" she shouted to Nepeta. "Don't let yourself be caught!" Taking in her surroundings in that small cage, she was relieved to find that it hadn't sprung any nastier surprises on her. At least not yet. She didn't intend to stick around to see if that might change, she had ideas than the shadow's insistence that her imprisonment would be eternal.

Opening a portal beneath her, she dropped through the cage's floor and down onto the deck of the battleship that made of the shadow's body. As she made a rapid charge toward the torso's base, she drew her weapon once more. Maybe she could chop the whole thing down, if she cut deep enough.

[shipper]

"Right!" Nepeta shot back with a nod, grimacing slightly as she finally freed her hand from its painful position. The dull throb was something of a blessing, the constant ache reminding her just why she was here and clearing out the remnants of the mental fog the glub had ushered in. It was time for her to go on the attack again.

Kanaya seemed to be sharing the same sentiments from the looks of things, making Nepeta's own decisions a relatively easy one - scrambling up the slick sides of the cage she began clambering through the sea of tentacles to begin her assault on the shadow's head anew. It was about to sorely regret ignoring their presence; now it would have to deal with a double assault.