EVENT: HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: October 24 - October 31
Location: Throughout Exsilium
Characters: ALL; tag yourselves in
Summary: The Transports return from their mission to find the island crawling with monsters.
Warnings: Violence, possibly injuries (notify a mod if there's cause to add a particular warning!)

The Transports return from their mission to Medieval Russia, but the Initiative Hold is eerily deserted. Normally, their would be a number of Initiative personnel prepared to meet the Transports at the end of their mission for debriefing.

Instead, there is only silence.

That is, until a distant thumping sound can be heard. It is growing closer, and suddenly the beast is bursting into the room. It lets out a roar and charges. Within minutes, it is easily defeated, but damage has already been done -- it collided with the Transporter machine, which is now making a low fizzling sound and lets off a couple sparks. The commotion is enough to draw the attention of the few remaining Initiative personnel who still inhabit the Hold, who arrive immediately afterwards. They are able to tell the Transports two things: that the machine is broken and currently unable to sent anyone back in time, and that the island has been overrun with aggressive, mutated beasts sent by the United Earth. They have been under siege for months, with the island's population reduced to a mere fraction of what it had once been.

Comments

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Well, that's a far cry from the usual seven thousand unacceptable points he gives trolls around here.]

Yes, we hatch. I know it's probably unconwential an' weird considerin' the way you humans go about reproducin' but trust me, your ways are just as weird an' freaky to us as the idea a' hatchin' probably is to you.

[onblackwings]

It's not that unconventional or weird. [ That with a small smile, and she's completely given up on being bothered by that weird accent of his. ] There are plenty of respectable creatures that hatch. Really, birth is the strange one.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[...]

Wait, really?

[onblackwings]

Really. [ finally, someone she can dis humans to. Hopefully he doesn't think it's too weird, coming from an apparen human. ] Most creatures hatch, you know. The ones that don't are in a minority.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Diss all you want bro, he hates most of them aside some exceptions.

Even then he'd be hard pressed to defend all but one of them.]

I get that, but what I'm surprised by is you recognizin' that it ain't weird.

Most a' your kind just go around speakin' as if their ways are the be all an' end all of biology, with ewerythin' else just bein' unnatural an' inferior or weird, which couldn't be further from the truth.

[onblackwings]

[ That "your kind" talk is starting to bother her, but it doesn't look like there's anything she can do to correct it without outright giving herself away. ]

Humans are presumptuous like that. [ She tries to make it sound apologetic, but that doesn't go too well. ]

[caligulas_aquarium]

You're tellin' me. Don't get me started on the outright dismissal a' killin' no matter what. You know most of 'em were harmlessly knockin' out the guys they were fightin' durin' that little scuffle they called a war?

Absolute nonsense. Kill or be killed on the battlefield, it's simple black an' white logic an' they can't ewen get that right either. No wonder if any of 'em died durin' that situation an' if they weren't properly finshin' off their opponents it's their own fuckin' fault at that.

[onblackwings]

[ Eridan, what is this, you're just raking in the points. She looks a little impressed to hear all this from him, a smile curling one corner of her lips. ]

That's ridiculous. They should have decimated them as soon as they had the chance. I think the entire bunch could stand to listen to you more.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Annnd now it's her turn to win points in his book, because this may very well be the first time in his entire life someone's said he should be listened to.

So, he sounds a little surprised near the start there.]

W-...well, yeah!...yeah. 'Course they should. I keep tellin' 'em but noone ewer listens. Ewentually if shit goes bad you heard it from me; I tried to warn 'em. I told 'em.

...

You're not half-bad, though. For a human. You get it. Kind of a refreshin' sorta thing to see in a hold full of cowards.

[onblackwings]

[ Ugh, there goes the smile. This disguise is getting seriously annoying, so... so, she'll put it aside, just for a moment. A really impulsive moment.

She flips her hair over her shoulder (another move she's seen humans do, and she's quite fond of it), looking haughty. ]

I think you'll find that I'm a good deal better than that, and something far superior to human.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Oh?

[Well, whatever. He'd be happier knowing he gets along with a non-human anyway.]

So what are you? You look like one, so excuse me for not bein' aware.

[onblackwings]

[ ...Oh, shit, now that she's cleared up that non-human-ness, she's not sure she wants to totally blow her cover. She frowns, deliberating. ]

Obviously I look like one, that's the point of qhen. I can look like anything I want.

[ Question: EVADED. Chyeah, she's smooth. ]

[caligulas_aquarium]

So...what, it doesn't matter then.

I mean I guess if you can be anythin' you want there's fuckall importance to it.

[onblackwings]

[ what. scowl! ]

Of course it matters. I'm still a dragon, and superior no matter which shape i take.

[caligulas_aquarium]

...

You're a what.

[onblackwings]

[ no wait. she hadn't meant to just give it away without a big show of dramatics. dammit. ]

I don't think I stuttered.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Well I didn't expect a' fuckin' dragon of all things!

Dragons on Alternia can't do this whole shapeshiftin' thing so excuse me for bein' skeptical.

[onblackwings]

[ skeptical what!! Watch her take instant offense at that word right there. ]

Do you not believe me?

[caligulas_aquarium]

You're seriously owerestimatin' the amount a' shits I giwe about what you are to be that amount a' skeptical. You could be an undulating monstrosity of the furthest ring for all I care.

I just didn't think, y'know, dragon. Since that ain't a thing Alternia dragons, y'know, do.