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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.
ecphrasis: mollyhooper @ LJ (hee.)

[personal profile] ecphrasis 2014-03-17 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Good-bye, nice spider abs. Molly smiles anyway, and shakes her head, holding her hands up.]

No, I'll be alright. They aren't charging for food from the vending machines, so I won't starve. Just be gentle on that arm.
incywincyhero: (spidey: hop like a bunny)

[personal profile] incywincyhero 2014-03-19 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Gentle is my middle name! Actually, it's Hyphen. But I'll be careful, I promise. Just look out for yourself, all right? And not just because we need the doctors.

[Another hesitation. Then he lifts the hem of his shirt again, just enough to access his belt and one of the slips of paper he keeps with Spidey's comm number on it. He's never remembered to have business cards printed, and now it's probably too late.

He reaches out and presses the slip into her hand, at the same time as he pulls his mask up over his nose just long enough to give her a peck on the cheek.]


Call me if you need anything. And thanks again, Doc!

[With that, he's out the door-- still sore, still battered around the edges, but with a lightness in his step that wasn't there ten minutes before.]
ecphrasis: hollow-art.com (smile.)

[personal profile] ecphrasis 2014-03-22 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She has a response prepared, really. It's going to be sort of witty and probably make him smile a bit. But then he's handing her a piece of paper and--a kiss? Molly is floored. Usually, people only kiss her cheek when they want something. But she's already helped Spider-Man, so what's this all about? Her cheeks go pink and she clutches the paper like it's her last lifeline on God's green earth.]

I-I will! Be careful out there. Please.

[It's lame and not at all clever, but she just stares at the door until the nurse tells her that she has another patient. Only then does she snap out of her stupor, tucking the slip of paper into her pocket for safekeeping, smiling.]