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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: bubblemilk @ lj (if i die young)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-13 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[The bag is as full as it can be and she's just slinging it over her shoulder when she hears the doors crash. For a moment, she thinks that maybe the gravity has shifted again, and that the church is going to rise or fall around her. One hand goes to Schnitzel's collar, she braces herself--

But it isn't gravity. It's Kate.

Relief replaces the anxiety and uncertainty. She runs down the ruined aisle, past crushed pews to help pry the doors out of the way. Schnitzel races along behind her, barking loud enough to echo. She reaches for the first part of Kate she can grab a hold of, her mental voice pouring out almost too quickly.]


Are you alright? I couldn't find you. What has happened?
gevurah: (batwoman: spn with lesbians)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-14 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kate ushers forward, meeting her halfway to pull her against her form. Her heartbeat, that had been erratic and on the verge of exploding from her chest, finally easing back into a regular pace. ]

I'm fine. God...

[ She lets out a soft sigh. ]

I was worried about you two.

[ She reaches her free hand for the dog, stroking her ear lightly. ]
culver: watchet @ dw (beer in mexico)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-15 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Schnitzel whines again, sitting close to Kate's legs to accept the pat. Nill wraps her arms around the woman in turn, trying to even out her breathing. She had begun to fear the worst, that Kate had been killed or worse, had been injured and without help.

But none of that matters anymore, because Kate is here, alive and safe. well, as safe as anyone can be at the end of the world.]


We left just before the darkness came. We were looking for you.
gevurah: laughs he who laughs last (scooby doo where are you?)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-15 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kate doesn't let go just yet, as if Nill will truly slip from her the way the rest of the City did as Atropos sank her teeth into blocks of concrete and steel, swallowing what she could and the remainder of the City lost to a void. ]

I'm here now.

[ Her gaze drifts to the door. ]

Did you see anyone else?
culver: ajna @ dw (wild one)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-16 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[The maw had been enough to make her faint, but Nill can't bring herself to feel embarrassed about it. She was sure that she had died right then and there. Waking up had been so confusing.]

Not here. But other people survived.
gevurah: (gone shooting cult leaders)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-17 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[ She tears her eyes from the doorway, focusing on Nill. She rests a hand atop of Nill's head and sighs. ]

We'll be alright.
culver: goodjobself @ dw (lady marmalade)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-17 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Nill believes her.]

There is food and water here if you can carry some.
gevurah: (need a pantless cowl)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-17 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kate nods again and pulls away, her hands flicking her long cape behind her shoulders. It's a little worn out, but there's no blood visible on the fabric or the parts where her skin peers out from tears. ]

My bike was wrecked, so we'll have to move out on foot.
culver: watchet @ dw (teenage dream)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-18 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Kate has always looked so intimidating in her costume. Right now, that might be a good thing. Looters are everywhere.]

That is fine. Where are we going to go?
gevurah: (red herrings everywhere)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-18 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ She purses her lips, her thoughts zoning in on one idea: ]

The Porter. If she's still around, she might be our ticket out.
culver: goodjobself @ dw (living in fast forward)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-20 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[That... is a very good idea. To be honest, Nill hadn't had any idea other than to survive. But now they have a direction.]

We had better get moving.
gevurah: (need a pantless cowl)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-20 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Some of the buildings are unstable, so debris is still falling. Stay close.

[ She whistles to signal Schnitzel. ]

Come girl.
culver: emergency @ dw (dear agony)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-22 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Schnitzel trots over to them, away from whatever she'd been sniffing, and waits obediently, tail wagging ever so slightly.]

Lead the way.
gevurah: (new 52 maggie is insecure)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-23 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kate offers her hand for Nill to take. It might be childish, but right now she couldn't care less with the city crumbling apart all around them and the unusual sky above with vein-like streams of sunlight peeking in.

It's almost as if they've stepped onto the set of a disaster movie, but it feels more than real. ]


I'm not leaving this time.

[ No more running. No more apprehension. ]
culver: outlands @ lj (u make me wanna)

[personal profile] culver 2014-01-25 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[There isn't any hesitation before Nill takes her hand. Kate is an anchor. With the world falling to its knees around them, Nill knows she can trust her. She smiles.]

Then we will be just fine.
gevurah: laughs he who laughs last (scooby doo where are you?)

[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
We will be.

[ She repeats. There's a part of her that fears the worst, but she forcibly moves past it with each step the two make out of the church.

Glass and broken wood crunch beneath her boots as they get closer to the torn down door. She moves aside so Nill can get through first, getting behind Schnitzel to carefully lift her so her paws don't step on anything sharp. ]


Easy girl.