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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.
culver: goodjobself @ dw (living in fast forward)

a.

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-12 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[It had been over twenty-four hours since Kate had left to help with the evacuation efforts. It had been twelve since her last contact. In times of crisis, they had always agreed on checking in once every two hours, at the very least. Nill had waited for as long as she could, but Kate hadn't come back and the phones were down. There was only one option left. Naoto's blade is slung across her back, Heine's Luger is at her hip, and she tries to ignore the trembling in her hands.

When she had gone out to look, she hadn't expected to stare up into the jaws of a monster so vast that for the first time in so long, her legs start to shake.

They collapse.

It is dark for what seems like ages.

Brightness returns, and it is like opening her eyes for the first time. She is on the concrete, her jeans and shirt torn, boots and hair covered in dust. Some miracle of fate is all that kept her from getting crushed by the debris that lay all around her. She stands, still unsteady, and wipes dirt from her face, looks around. The streets (everything is crushed, all that's left of some buildings is rubble, she can't think about how familiar it all is) are empty, except for a shadowy figure or two in the distance.

The steps towards one of them feel so heavy, but she cannot stop moving.]
Edited 2014-01-12 04:10 (UTC)
crab: (38 █ the path is too narrow)

[personal profile] crab 2014-01-13 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ His search is aimless, without direction or any clear destination, and so, it is pure chance, that he catches sight of her, walking towards him. The way she looks reminds Karkat of the way he feels, and he doesn't even need to think about it, when he changes course to approach her. ]

Nill. [ He calls, raising a hand. Not in a wave, so much as a simple method of drawing attention. ]
culver: goodjobself @ dw (nowadays)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-13 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[She recognizes his voice immediately, and relief replaces the daze. Nill's steps quicken until his face is no longer obscured by the curtain of floating dust. Karkat is safe. The phrase repeats itself in her head like a mantra, because right now it's all she has to grasp. Kate might not be, Renee might not be, but Karkat is. It matters.

She doesn't even think before moving to hug him.]
crab: (43 █ that you're such a failure)

[personal profile] crab 2014-01-14 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ And for once, rather than tense up or pull away from the contact, Karkat merely lifts his arms to return the hug, burying his face in Nill's shoulder and holding her tight. ]

Are you okay? [ His voice is slightly muffled. ]
culver: outboxx @ lj (give me everything)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-14 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[For a moment, she lets herself forget that the world is falling apart around them. She's hugging a friend that she hasn't seen in what feels like ages, they're just saying hello. His question shatters the brief illusion, of course, but it was nice for a few seconds.

She nods instead of answering, pressing her cheek against his head. Nill presses her fingers into his back, a silent reciprocation of the question. She doesn't want to say anything.]
crab: (38 █ the path is too narrow)

[personal profile] crab 2014-01-19 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Misinterpreting the press of fingers against his back, as Karkat has a tendency to do-- ]

Right, okay. That was a pretty dumb question, sorry.

[ He pauses briefly, preferring to talk into her shoulder rather than break their embrace. ]

This apocalypse is a lot shittier than my one was.
culver: angelofdog @ dw (show me how you burlesque)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-20 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't even care about the misunderstanding. She's still hung up on the fact that he's still alive.

Finally, she finds her voice.]


I am sorry you have to go through another one.
crab: (43 █ that you're such a failure)

[personal profile] crab 2014-01-25 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay. I kinda had this one coming, anyway. [ He lets out a heavy sigh. ] I was responsible for the end of this world, in my reality. Suppose it's only fair that I go down with it, eventually.
culver: emergency @ dw (dear agony)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-29 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think that is fair.

[Because nobody should have to go through this once, let alone twice.]