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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.
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Unibeam)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-01-13 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Tony was handling this as best he could, all things considered. Focusing on something to do was better than focusing on the worst parts of it. If he could just keep himself focused, he didn't think about how out of control this was.

There was no fighting it, obviously. No electronics to speak with or manipulate, just the sheer knowledge that they were in something, and it didn't have a vast network of electronics or anything for Tony to interface and communicate with. No way to get more of the scope he needed, and he had to use his actual ears, and his actual senses, instead of the digital senses he was used to.

He doesn't rely, he's trying really hard not to create yet another crater in the ground, but he does acknowledge her with a nod, before he's trying to land, wavering slightly, and trying very hard to just crash, but sparks fly and he's scraping against other pieces of concrete and metal while he tries to come to a stop.

He was moving a bit fast for his own good.
]
klutziness: colorise_icons @ LJ (trouble)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-01-13 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sees that he's coming down hard, and decides that right beneath him is not a good place to be at this moment. She bounds out of the way, changing to her White Mage dressphere as she moves, just in case. She's sure that he's crash landed a time or two before, but that doesn't mean she can't help him out once he's on the ground.]

Just uh, give a wave if you're alive?
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Don't even try it)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-01-14 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ It was hard, but he stiffly shifted, fighting to get out of the position he was in. Trying to turn at least enough so that he wasn't face-down in concrete.

Thankfully, he was hearty enough that this only hurt, not enough to really do him in.
]

I'm fine.

[ Even if that did sound more like a pained grunt. ]
klutziness: colorise_icons @ LJ (your love is my drug)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-01-15 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Rikku is next to him in a flash, crouching beside him. Except once she's there she isn't totally sure what to do next.]

Sounds like you're in rough shape, actually. Where can I help you?
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Phew!)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-01-16 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's kind of struggling to get up, but he gets there, the metal head shaking back and forth after a moment, and he shifts to a sitting position. ]

I'll be alright in a few minutes. I just need to get everything back on track.

[ The faceplate popped off, hovering above his head, and he just gave her a smile. ]

Promise, it takes a bit more than that to do me in.
klutziness: kupokweh @ LJ (young)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-01-17 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Somehow, she manages to smile back at him.]

Yeah, I should've known. But with everything that's going on, a girl's gonna worry.
liverletdie: (Iron Man | I pontificate occaionally)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-01-19 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, if you weren't worrying it wouldn't really be a proper apocalypse, now would it?

[ There's a wry smile on his face, before he starts to get up. ]

You alright?

[ He turned his head toward her, finally settling and standing straight, finally back to business, and well, Rikku and he had been through a lot. He was allowed to be worried about her. ]
klutziness: colorise_icons @ LJ (it felt good on my lips)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-01-20 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Now he gets a laugh, short as it is. Sometimes it's hard to take things seriously when you're around Tony.]

Guess not. And yeah, I'm fine. Just trying to keep it together.
liverletdie: (I am tired of this emp bullshit)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-01-20 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
More than we can say for the rest of this, huh?

[ He asked, indicating the rest of the City crumbling around them. He shook his head, but the bemusement was only a faulty mask for coping with the situation at hand. It wasn't working, but at least it was something of an effort. ]

Hey, at least if we can stay together, we can probably get through this, somehow.
klutziness: homette @ LJ (bullshit.)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-01-22 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rikku has always tried to be the merriest in any group, but it's sort of hard when the laws of physics are breaking down everywhere you look.]

No kidding. [She glances around. Rubble is everywhere, both floating and crashing into the ground.] So, bossman, where do we go from here?
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Static in my head)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-01-28 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's the big question, isn't it?

[ He sighed, running a hand across his brow, looking more the worse for wear. ]

We need to find someplace safe, don't we? We need a homebase.
klutziness: castledust @ LJ (lucky strike)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-01-31 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhere that isn't already ruined, and hopefully won't be while we're in it. [Yeah, fat chance.] Any ideas?
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Futurist)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-01 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist right now, unfortunately. I've been doing a lot of recon, and there's not much. This place is pretty thoroughly destroyed, I'm afraid. We're not going to get anywhere that safe yet.
klutziness: colorise_icons @ LJ (it felt good on my lips)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-02-05 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[For a few moments, Rikku is silent. This place had been her home for years, an actual home, and now it's falling apart around her. Stupid jaws in the sky. Stupid porter. Stupid--]

What about the porter?
liverletdie: (Pure Intention Juxtaposed)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-05 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't been able to find her either. If she's out there, she's hiding herself pretty well.
klutziness: perky_klepto @ LJ (honey i'm good)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-02-08 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe an extra set of eyes will help.
liverletdie: (Proposing)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-08 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. You planning on helping me look for her?
klutziness: chocofeather @ LJ (everytime we touch)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-02-08 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[She grins widely.]

What've I got to lose?
liverletdie: (Siiigh)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-08 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Good girl. Come on, we'll start here, and start hunting around. See what we find.
klutziness: klutziness @ DW (circles)

[personal profile] klutziness 2014-02-09 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods, and takes a deep breath.]

It can't be much worse than what we've seen, right? Lead the way.