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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.
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[personal profile] corviform 2014-01-13 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
He can only gawk at the other, as if rather than play with gravity he sprouted an extra pair of ears and began to speak in gibberish. He swallows hard, trying to find the right words to say, but coming up blank.

Thinking... actually quite difficult. More feeling than thinking since he's found himself within Atropos, confined to a dying City.

"Is this really the time for that?!"

While his outburst is hardly what one could consider harsh, he does let out an exasperated noise that conveys his confusion and disappointment Steve can be so gleeful when possibly faced with imminent death.
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[personal profile] auntyquated 2014-01-14 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Just because Steve could keep up a facade (she did not actually suspect it was a facade) didn't mean Gilbert, the poor dear, had to come apart at the seams over it all. Sharon tapped the fan now in her hand against Gilbert's upper arm, startling herself after the fact.

Where in all of creation had that fan come from?

For a very undignified moment, in the middle of being swallowed and, for most intents and purposes, obliterated, Sharon Rainsworth stared down at her own hand like it was some sort of hideous stranger.

Then she blinked, smiled, and held out a hand to Steve. "Please, forgive Mr. Gilbert's manners, he's a bit out of sorts. As we all are," she said, eyes flicking upward, though any direction would do. "Tell me, what have you seen as you've traversed the remnants of the City?"
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[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-18 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Much of Sharon's drama with the magical fan had been lost on Steve who, ultimately, only caught some baffled looks before the lady righted herself back into the conversation. He hardly questioned it, circumstances being what they were seemed quite fitting for a look of confusion now and then! Besides, Gil's shouting had held most of his attention, being rather startled and confused himself, about to speak up before Sharon had the quicker tongue and mind to.

"I'm...certainly not offended," Steve replied at last, slowly, still assessing and looking between the two of them. He shook his head, smiling apologetically. "Indeed, it's very understandable, given these highly abnormal conditions. It's taken hold of a majority of the City I've passed through, actually!" He scratched at his cheek, glancing past them and over his shoulder...and up, back where he'd floated in.

"I'm afraid it's made tracking patterns and key triggers difficult at the moment..."
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[personal profile] corviform 2014-01-18 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
But where did that fan come from?

Gil's attention is split between Steve's answer and the mystery of the fan. He no longer has the energy to yell, but he still requires a few seconds to pace his breathing before he can say anything again.

"Then..." he swallows, lifting his gaze from the fan to the strange sky way above them. The crackles of yellow looking more like... veins? "There isn't a way to leave this part of the City?"
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[personal profile] auntyquated 2014-01-24 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Ignore the fan, Gilbert. It isn't important!

"Or the City as a whole," Sharon said grimly, or what she thought was grimly. In reality, much like her current heartrate, her voice was much too high. They both had the technical ability to move into places that existed between dimensions, and could do nothing about moving out of here right now.

How frightful! How vexing!
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[personal profile] remarkablyspry 2014-01-26 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm.

Steve's scratching finger curled against his cheek, then slid down to his chin to give him a more thoughtful appearance while his eyes lifted and looked beyond and about his two found and fairly sound companions.

"Well," he started, his tone musing, "for how far I've traversed, most of my greatest strides from place to place have occurred in the midst of gravitational destabilization – not unlike what you witnessed me experiencing just moments ago! But it's an unruly bit of travel, and I've found limited control in navigating or even in its spans of time.

"Worse yet," he added, looking back down at them, "I discovered the anomalies extend to the physical person more often than not in those cases! It's quite unsettling."
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[personal profile] corviform 2014-01-27 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
If it's a great power blocking theirs, he would have picked up on it with no thanks to the ability to sense via his left hand. However, not a prickle or sharp pain shooting up his hand and into his arm and shoulder has occurred. Either way, it leaves him wary.

Gil swallow hard this time, looking at his left hand briefly and cursing under his breath that Raven's power is useless here.

"What do you mean?" he tilts his head back in Steve's direction.