monsters and the kids who become them and the people who fight them

[theguideless]

Date & Time: 9/2 – 9/12, various times
Location: All throughout the city
Characters: See tags
Summary: A lot of people have to put up with an increasingly unstable kid
Warnings: Fightytimes violence, body horror, dead things



IN THE FAR-REACHING FUTURE OF AN ALT-EARTH, MONSTER-BASED ATTACKS ARE CONSIDERED ESPECIALLY RIDICULOUS. IN EXSILIUM, THE DEDICATED TRANSPORTS WHO ENDURE AND INVESTIGATE THESE VICIOUS HAPPENINGS ARE MEMBERS OF AN ELITE SQUAD KNOWN AS EXTRA-UNLUCKY BASTARDS.

THESE ARE THEIR STORIES.


The following threads coincide with the established timeline posted here and are arranged chronologically for participants' use if need/want be.

Comments

[ex_bandai157]

[ A roof? Why not, but that's certainly unexpected.

Mildly: ] I don't know.

[ What, do you think he touched it or anything. ]

Finding blood wouldn't be surprising given the nature of his injury, especially if the blow came from the front. [ Which he's not convinced it did (was he transporting something that staged an escape?), but it's hard to say. ] But even then, it wouldn't be this kind of a mixture. It'd probably take a chemical analysis to see what else is in this.

[ How do you feel about taking a few steps away from the trunk, let's do that. ]

What did someone hear about the roofs?

[neveraskedforthis]

[ Who knows. Maybe your superpower includes being able to analyze slimey stuff without needing any equipment.

And yeah, definitely stepping away. This is the sort of stuff you let other people look at. ]

Do you know anyone with the necessary equipment and knowledge to analyze this? Because I think it might be relevant to this case.

[ It's starting to look more and more like something out of a bad horror movie. Some slime-spewing monster. Well fuck. ]

One of the occupants heard a noise coming from their roof, right after this-- [ Vague gesture towards the car ] Like a thud. So I want to take a look, since he didn't check it out himself. I'm allowed.

[ex_bandai157]

[ He might've been able to if only he had his suit. ALAS. ]

No, I don't.

[ With a frown, because he agrees that it's almost definitely relevant. He sighs, then takes a look at the roof, though it's hard to see from here if there's anything up there. ]

Do you have a way up?

[ If he activates his Hundred Power, he could probably just leap up there, but that may not help Adam much and anyway it'd be better not to waste the five minutes if they have another way up. ]

[neveraskedforthis]

Didn't bother to ask. There might be a fire escape.

[ But why use a fire escape when he can just JUMP HIS WAY UP ... it's not a particularly high roof, given it's a rather traditional country house.

So whether or not Barnaby decides to join him, Adam will be off to--

Find himself a dumpster, and stack it on top of another dumpster. Right next to the house. Then he'll jump onto that, and from there, onto the roof.

DON'T QUESTION HIS METHODS. ]

[ex_bandai157]

[ ADAM WHAT.

Well that's one way to do things, and since it's probably faster than trying to find a fire escape, he'll go with it. Once on the roof, though, he'll take a moment to add - ]

They'll want us to come back to fix that later.

[neveraskedforthis]

[ Fix the dumpsters? Pffff, like Adam cares--he just shrugs. It's not like him to clean up his own messes. And it's not like a dumpster pile is hurting anyone.

SO. WHATEVER. He scans the roof for anything unusual and, wouldn't you know it, he finds something pretty quickly. ]

Over there.

[ Aaand more or less carefully heading over to examine a certain dent that looks pretty fresh. ]

[ex_bandai157]

[ Ohh, that reminds him of some people he knows, but he doesn't comment on that. Instead, he heads over to that dent too, frowning. ]

Something big enough to tear a car in half...

[ ...could've conceivably left a dent this deep, he doesn't say aloud, and he doesn't think he needs to. Instead, he looks up and ahead, looking for any others - their person or monster or whatever might've jumped down onto the street from here to attack (or no, that would've left even more damage) or else used the roofs as an escape route.

And sure enough, he can see more roofs with big indentations in them. ]

There's a trail.

[neveraskedforthis]

[ Adam checks out the roofs in the vicinity--it's a bit hard to make out from here, but he can definitely see it.

So that means... ]

Big and heavy with strong legs.

[ He considers this, then looks at Barnaby, inquiring. ]

Did you want to inform others first?

[ DOESNT EVEN ASK IF THEY'LL FOLLOW IT, DUH, BECAUSE THEY SO WILL ]

[ex_bandai157]

[ He's seen enough scenes left by NEXT to add: ]

Possibly superpowered in terms of strength.

[ OBVIOUSLY THEY WILL. At Adam's question, he nods - he would've agreed regardless of circumstances, but the fact that his partner is here now gives him the extra incentive to be a little more cautious. ]

Everyone should know if there's something dangerous attacking people in the city.

[ And if they find something unexpectedly fierce - all the better if other people know. ]

[neveraskedforthis]

All right. Let's do that first.

[ ooc: OK SINCE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO FIND THAT SHIT DURING THE NIGHT IF THEY FOLLOW THE TRAIL.... I have an idea.

How about we do a time skip here and jump over to the next thread--I propose Barnaby makes a network post first informing people of their findings so far, then later we can EDIT it when they encounter the monster, because Adam's eyes have an image capture feature--so he can broadcast whatever he sees DIRECTLY TO THE NETWORK AS AN ADDENDUM.

y/n/maybe??]

[ex_bandai157]

[ THAT SOUNDS GOOD or adam can even have his own post after, depending. I'll get the Barnaby post up tonight! ]

[neveraskedforthis]

[ awesomesauce~ I'll see about tagging the other thread then. ]

[neveraskedforthis]

THERE WE GO