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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92010-02-28 10:19 pm

The Challenge From Beyond - Regroup

You're the ones who are good enough (or lucky) enough to be close to Escherville. You've had the good fortune to be scooped up and now you need to regroup and get ready to take on the Nightmare King himself. Time to reorganize and gear up as best you can with what you've got. The Nightmare King isn't going to wait for you.

Get moving.

((OOC: This is for the various groups/peoples who will be fighting the Nightmare King directly or assisting in that endeavor. If your character was in one of the Challenge from Beyond Groups, tag them in here! Feel free to do some tagging back and forth and enjoy yourselves. Please get tagged in by Tuesday night, March 2nd though, so we can get the Final Fight properly organized. ))

[identity profile] daemonomicon.livejournal.com 2010-03-02 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tell me, Captain, Mr. Kennedy," Cargn says, now kneeling over Roxie's body.

"What do you think would happen, in a situation such as this, if one's greatest fear was oneself?"

Typical Seer. Answer a question with a riddle.

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-02 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cho," Alessa murmured. "I see. So she hadn't lived her nightmare yet because of all that time spent in preparation and seals. But when the King's own seal started to break..."

Well. No more needed to be said. To be honest, Alessa did feel a tiny pang of concern for Roxie, which was why Alessa afforded a second glance at the girl's body. Would this happen to her if she became consumed by the thirst of demons and inevitability? Would she be afforded such a swift death?

No, not likely. There were too many waiting for her to slip up. She could see how ready some were to end her. For that reason, Alessa would fight until the bitter end. Her death would not be a quiet one like this.

[identity profile] billy-blin.livejournal.com 2010-03-02 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's the problem with ye sighted people... Ye rely on it too damn much. Gives us an edge on ye." Blin walked over slowly, lighting a smoke as he went. He was still weary from his dream ordeal; he still wasn't happy with having given it up, and he needed to keep reminding himself of why he was better off in reality.

"Nice to meet ye again, Cargn. With flesh, no less."

[identity profile] worm-dancer.livejournal.com 2010-03-02 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"The girl has it. Did you see her eyes before she attacked the Seer?" Whom she trusted not at all. "She warned me about what happens when they turn white. The Cho are highly infectious. I suggest you all keep away from the body and incinerate it."

[identity profile] daemonomicon.livejournal.com 2010-03-02 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"No need for that, my dear," Cargn says to Sheeana.

Looking back down at Roxie's body, he speaks again.

"Do hurry up, child. We have more pressing matters to attend to."

[identity profile] trenchcoatange1.livejournal.com 2010-03-02 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Castiel appeared rather suddenly when he joined the group, right of thin air it seemed. He stared down at Roxie's body, his expression blank as always, then turned his attention to the group itself. He seemed to look through all the others, focusing his gaze instead on Alessa and the Seer.

"It is time to go," he said.

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Alessa broke her gaze from Roxie to look at Castiel. For just a moment she had to adjust her look: one would have thought she was angry at how easily he brushed what had happened aside. Then again, time was critical, and she was sure Roxie would have felt the same way. So she kept his gaze, looking unimpressed as usual.

"Yes, that's right," she said, giving one last look at the girl crumpled on the floor. "We should be going soon."

[identity profile] toariversodeep.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Slowly, the crumpled body shudders and twists, though to all mortal senses it should still be rather dead right now.

An oily-black liquid starts dripping from its eyes (http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/BloodyJess/bloody_tears.jpg) and ears and nose and mouth.

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Well that's new," Alessa said, watching.
birthmural: (angry explanations)

[personal profile] birthmural 2010-03-03 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Be quiet!" Daimon snapped. "I have heard enough of your prattle." The shock had faded and Daimon stood back now, watching.

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I wasn't talking to you anyway," Alessa replied, sounding bored. "So I don't care if you like it or not."

She was watching Roxie now. Was she still a Cho?

[identity profile] toariversodeep.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
A hand, the arm visibly seamed down the middle from where it split into the arm-leg-limbs before, twitches erratically. The paleness of her skin is gone—Roxie, or her corpse, or whatever it is, the skin is starting to crust and boil in black scales (http://www.tigerproducts.com/store/images/T/CrocodileBlack.jpg), sloughing off material with half-dried blood.

It's rather icky.
hexyeah: (noes!)

[personal profile] hexyeah 2010-03-03 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Will someone tell me what in the name of God is going on!"

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"HER dark dream," Alessa said ominously. She turned to Castiel. "If you want to go, you can, but I would hope that we could try and help the person who's been trying to stop the Nightmare King's influence from getting stronger."

[identity profile] trenchcoatange1.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Castiel is quiet for a moment, offering what appeared to be silent condolences to what had happened to Roxie. Once the moment passed, however, he looked up to the Seer and Alessa once again. "She knew the risks," he said, his voice steady and emotionless. "We all did. And we've waited too long already. If we're going to do this, we have to go. Now."

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
She glared at Castiel with venom now: he was right. It sickened her, and she was mad she doubted herself. What was wrong with her? She should have been surging forward already, not worrying about some human!

Alessa took a breath. "You are right. She did know. Let us go forward then."

[identity profile] sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Pixie looked down at the body, shocked. Stunned, even. "So that's it? We just leave her there?"

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
Alessa raised an eyebrow. "If you can restrain her, please, be my guest. Then again," she looked over at Leon, "wouldn't this be a job for the security team anyway? Protecting us from the monsters or something to that affect?"

Truthfully, she just wanted to make sure Roxie wasn't a threat to the crew: they might kill her then.

[identity profile] trenchcoatange1.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Castiel glanced over at the demon, Alessa, before turning his attention to the young, pink-haired girl with wings that called herself 'Pixie.'

"Yes," he said dead-pan. Leaving her there was exactly what he was saying. Roxie was stronger than she appeared, stronger than many of them--perhaps--realized. If she survived her ordeal, Castiel was certain she would catch up. "Unless you would prefer to wait for more people to end up like her," he added before turning away from the group and heading straight for Escherville itself.

[identity profile] toariversodeep.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
And all at once, the body straightens up to a sitting position, eyes dead and black, dripping tears that hiss and crackle as they touch the ground and scour at the empty street like acid.

THE EVENING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD SHALL COME , Roxie says, mouth twisting around an impossible three-toned voice. THE CHILDREN OF THE EARTH SHALL WAR IN HEAVEN. ALL SHALL SUFFER ON THE WHEEL. ONE SHALL WRITE IN THE BOOK. ALL SHALL SUFFER ON THE WHEEL. THE ALL-SELF SHALL WRITE IN THE BOOK.

And then a shudder wracks her, holes through her chest wheezing black slime, and she coughs violently. Hurk, hurk—she collapses on her side and vomits up twitching white things, somewhere between half-developed organs and tumors and mutated crustaceans.

And then she collapses on her back again, though now her eyes are open, and her mouth is feebly wheezing for air. Her skin is crusted black all over, half-formed with lizardlike scales, somewhere between necrosis and mutation. At the cracks silver runes shine through, as though carved into her skin.

[identity profile] worm-dancer.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
"And I have seen a beast rise up and written on the head of that beast etcetera etcetera." A clump of the creatures writhed in Sheeana's vague direction and she unceremoniously squashed most of them under her heel. "Welcome back."
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[personal profile] governmentninja 2010-03-03 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
He took his jacket off, and wrapped up Roxie in it. Once he covered her as best he could, he picked her up.

That was probably monumentally stupid, but he had had enough of this. This display was only slowing them down. Besides, his worst nightmare was himself, infected, and he managed to beat that. He wasn't as worried if Roxie's nightmare infected him.

"Listen, whatever the hell is going on with her, she'll have to get over it en route.

"Seer, you're with me. Everyone else, stop gawking, go see Nanoha for your assignments, and do one last check of your gear. There's a God who needs his ass kicked, and in five minutes, we move out to do so."
Edited 2010-03-03 13:41 (UTC)

[identity profile] demon-alessa.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
God, what an idiot. Alessa had more than enough of Mr. Shield man. Making an impatient noise, Alessa moved away from the scene, contemplating the words. If he thought he could solve all of their problems with his usual jumping into things, he could do it on his own time. Hers was too precious to waste.

"I'm going to the Captain like Nanoha already requested of me," Alessa said icily. "If you want to order people around, do it to them. Anyone with half a brain might actually pay attention to what Roxie was saying in the first place, but really, this shouldn't be such a big surprise to me."

And Alessa walked over to Kirk. This had been enough time wasted, and she figured she better start focusing on the preservation of the crew and not her growing disgust with how people reacted all day.

[identity profile] daemonomicon.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Cargn seems visibly amused by the whole scene, the odd almost-smirk an odd feature on his eyeless, scar-ridden face.

First at everyone's reaction to Roxie (because really, that was just funny to him), and then at the gall Leon had at ordering him like he was some Imperial Guard recruit.

It simply struck him amusing that an Adeptus Arbites equivalent would have the courage to order any Space Marine, let alone a member of the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Malleus.

"Let me make one thing clear, Mr. Kennedy, before we proceed," he says, the amused look fading slightly. "I have fought the forces of the Daemonic for nearly eight centuries. I know how they fight. I know how they think. And I know how to beat them."

"Therefore, if I give any command during this operation, it is not a suggestion. It is not even an order. It is something that absolutely must be done, should you wish this battle to end favorably."

"Do I make myself clear?"

[identity profile] worm-dancer.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Sheeana's eyes, total blue as they were, rolled. This was a very male thing to do here. A military hierarchy is often a thin cover for the anxieties of the participants, exactly what this creature relies on. It will only hinder us, myself especially.

She stepped forward almost between them and summoned a subtle use of Voice. "Please. The two of you are going to need to get along and be flexible if we are to be victorious." The Voice resonated on frequencies inaudible to humans. The targets, assuming they were not specifically trained to resist it, would feel a compulsion, an entirely unconscious insistence that she was right and they should do exactly what she said.

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