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capemods ([personal profile] capemods) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2014-01-07 04:57 pm

of those blackholes & revelations

WHO: All imPorts.
WHERE: Atropos.
WHEN: January 7th to January 14th.
WARNINGS: Death and destruction.
SUMMARY: Atropos has risen in the night, and the inevitable has come: with her jaws she shears away the City from Earth and swallows it whole.

But the City is not yet dead.
FORMAT: Whatever you please.



The formless mass of metal haunting above, hovering like a lunar tombstone, begins to take shape. Asteroids plummet into the cheeks, the eyes, carving out bone structure. Her features howl with fury, with triumph, as she stares down below, savoring her conquest. A cavity opens. Metal swoops to form jagged, angry shears. Her teeth are born.

She waits as the world rotates, its spin more wobbly than it used to be.

And then she leans down to feast, her bite vampiric. She takes the City and then some, and all that it encompasses, so that every single imPort is captured. She takes the time to drink in any stragglers, any imPorts elusive to the City's thrall.

She holds the City on her tongue as she draws back her fist to punch the world.

And then teeth close to the shuddering, glass shattering vibration of a cosmic laugh. The jaws close, and there is no light for about an hour -- until Atropos begins to siphon solar energy from the sun into her veins. She is dissatisfied with its dying tint, or perhaps she cannot stand the redness of color, so once she injects this energy into her her body (her most intimate domain), she turns it bright yellow again. The universe within her is illuminated.

The City is a floating chunk of broken skyscrapers and puckered asphalt streets. The trauma of consumption has wrecked the usual infrastructure: buildings are half collapses, or skeletal, vehicles are flipped and strewn across the layout. Whatever vegetation that is still clinging onto life has rejoiced under the return of normal sunlight.

You can breathe. It isn't too hot, or too cold -- it's unusually pleasant, in fact. The sunshine veins that light your world are not overwhelming. There is no blue sky to complement the atmosphere, and whatever water still in the City will be constrained to the bottled kind found in shops.

But there are other floating pieces of worlds, and they might have water. Or food.

If you live in the City, your possessions should still be in the City. While about 76% of the natives have fled the City (which had gotten the brunt of focus over the past week), there are still some natives who were too sick, too sentimental or too stubborn to leave.

You'll find that your powers work normally, though you can't teleport within Atropos. You probably wouldn't want to teleport outside of her, anyway.

She swallows, and the City gentle glides down a slick throat. Dust and particles create stunning visuals, like the aurora borealis, except in warmer colors. Light reflects so easily from solar veins and starstrewn flesh.

While you can breathe easily, gravity is fickle. Physics is often defied. Atropos was never one to play by the rules.
remarkablyspry: (⇒ how very peculiar this is!!)

[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-10 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
His head tilted to the side, much like a dog's would at a curious sound; her remark fit the bill for him to justify it. Steve's arms folded slowly and he hummed, considering what she'd said.

"More localized than a single city?" he wondered aloud, eyebrows lifting. "How often have you experienced events of this caliber?"
smarterthandad: (quantum encoding)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-01-10 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, once it was a bunch of insane gods specifically after versions of my Dad from multiple timelines, so they built a weapon that would have cracked the planet if we'd used it more than once," she said as though that were the sort of thing most people had on tap as a story to tell at cocktail parties. "Regardless, this wasn't confined to the City. It's likely that some form of the universe remains, but it's not one with physical laws compatible with our kind of life."

Val found that an utterly fascinating possibility. Too bad their sensors were gone and all she could do was draw inferences. This must have been what chicken pox felt like, she imagined--a constant itch you couldn't do anything about, except there was no vaccine for intellectual curiosity.
remarkablyspry: (⇒ blatant shock/surprise!!)

[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-11 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
His head tilted the other way as she explained, still wearing the same impressed expression.

"Goodness!" he declared. "Other worlds certainly are quite lively, aren't they? And this one, too.."
smarterthandad: (The fuck is this.)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-01-12 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It was Val's turn to cock her head as Steve gave the sort of emotionally off-kilter response she associated with someone in shock or suffering from a concussion. "Are you all right?"

It didn't occur to her that she might be the weird one in this conversation.
remarkablyspry: (⇒ is that normal??)

[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-18 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
"So far so good," he said after a beat, giving her a queasy kind of grin. "At least, I assume so, based on my limited understanding! I don't think I'll find a whole lot of information on how to properly monitor the physical and mental reactions an organic body will have in such an unstable environment..."

But then, given the way this girl was talking...

"But...would you? Considering your experience..."
smarterthandad: (Do we know it won't make things worse?)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-01-19 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, were you not originally human?" No big deal. These things happened. "Your body is probably much more fragile than the one you're used to, assuming you had any kind of physical existence to begin with."

It seemed like a sound assumption. Most species were tougher than humans, especially the non-organic kinds.
remarkablyspry: (⇒ blatant shock/surprise!!)

[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-23 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Physical indeed!" Steve nodded, brightening just a little. It was good, very good to be able to talk on something he knew well compared to all the oddities swirling around him. "But as a machine. I was an android built by Doctor Donald Pocacchioo..."

He startled, hearing his voice take a much more mechanized tone. "Oh! Oh, my!"
smarterthandad: (Leave that to me.)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-01-24 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, this Dr. Pocacchio seemed to have done a better job than Hank Pym, since Steve hadn't tried to kill her even a little yet.

"Interesting. You might still be an android. Lemme see." Her mother's powers were useful for more than just force fields, and with a moment of concentration, Val made the front of his shirt and skin beneath it invisible, checking for flesh and blood or metal and plastic.
remarkablyspry: (⇒ blatant shock/surprise!!)

[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-26 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"I, I must emphasize," sputtered Steve, looking down with increasing worry. Val's trick was just as unsettling as the vocal change, and he felt his stomach churn...watched it churn, actually! All the while little gears at his joints clicked and spun. "This...this is highly irregular!"
smarterthandad: (Do we know it won't make things worse?)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-01-28 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm. Bio-mechanical. This is fascinating." Steve's distress wasn't making much of an impression--like her father, when Val was in science mode, it took a lot to get through to her.

"I take it this hasn't happened before?"
remarkablyspry: (⇒ ok wait i'm listening!!)

[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-29 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Indeed not, miss...ah..." Steve faltered, only just aware of having no name to address her! But in trailing off, he gave her the opening to carry on as she wished, and, seeing how much more in control she appeared, it suited him just fine.