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abraxasnet2023-04-08 09:34 pm
unwings) wrote in abraxasnet2023-04-08 09:34 pm
Entry tags:
- castiel; the hanged man,
- commander shepard; judgement,
- dean winchester; the lovers,
- geralt of rivia; the hanged man,
- gideon nav; strength,
- istredd; the high priestess,
- jesper fahey; the wheel of fortune,
- kyle; the hanged man,
- louis de pointe du lac; the lovers,
- lucifer; the devil,
- michael; the emperor,
- nanaue; the fool,
- obi-wan kenobi; death,
- steve rogers; the hierophant
@everyone (cw: pit shrine related gore)
It’s time we address the behemoth released from the shrines.
For those who weren’t in the pit, we shared the cavern with 4 occult shrines that produced a steady flow of blood. When the exterior of each was removed, a second was beneath - an armored figure with a spiked halo knelt in prayer, bleeding from empty eye sockets. Save for one other - a standing, armored skeleton-like humanoid carrying the upper half of an iron maiden, and wielding a spiked ball at the end of what appeared to be a chain of its own small intestines.
When the last of these shrines were opened, pillars of writhing flesh struck through the pit’s ceiling. Later, it was apparent these were the monster’s legs, and some were crushed underfoot when it began to retreat from its cage.
Proximity to the shrines caused a flood of sinister whispering and visions of a shadowed figure, and those of us succumbed to the ritual’s effects felt a certain draw to them. It’s unclear if the acolytes were hoping we’d interact with these shrines, as they never intervened, but the monster’s escape caused the eventual collapse of the pit and did them no favors.
Did anyone in the rescue team see where it went, after it broke off from the cavern? Best we learn what this creature is and what it’s capable of before we encounter it again.
There will be a cross-faction book exchange and research effort hosted in Istredd's domain regularly. Please come by if you’re interested in helping with this, sharing books not available in your faction, or any other pursuit of this world’s knowledge.
And, if anyone’s seen Dean Winchester - in the Horizon or otherwise - Sam, Jo and I would appreciate a word.
For those who weren’t in the pit, we shared the cavern with 4 occult shrines that produced a steady flow of blood. When the exterior of each was removed, a second was beneath - an armored figure with a spiked halo knelt in prayer, bleeding from empty eye sockets. Save for one other - a standing, armored skeleton-like humanoid carrying the upper half of an iron maiden, and wielding a spiked ball at the end of what appeared to be a chain of its own small intestines.
When the last of these shrines were opened, pillars of writhing flesh struck through the pit’s ceiling. Later, it was apparent these were the monster’s legs, and some were crushed underfoot when it began to retreat from its cage.
Proximity to the shrines caused a flood of sinister whispering and visions of a shadowed figure, and those of us succumbed to the ritual’s effects felt a certain draw to them. It’s unclear if the acolytes were hoping we’d interact with these shrines, as they never intervened, but the monster’s escape caused the eventual collapse of the pit and did them no favors.
Did anyone in the rescue team see where it went, after it broke off from the cavern? Best we learn what this creature is and what it’s capable of before we encounter it again.
There will be a cross-faction book exchange and research effort hosted in Istredd's domain regularly. Please come by if you’re interested in helping with this, sharing books not available in your faction, or any other pursuit of this world’s knowledge.
And, if anyone’s seen Dean Winchester - in the Horizon or otherwise - Sam, Jo and I would appreciate a word.
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[She's unsure how to feel about it potentially roaming around somewhere. On the one hand, it didn't seem to dislike them. On the other...it was hella fucking big and did trample a bunch of people to death. Not ideal.]
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It's escape is what caused the collapse. It was days gone by the time the pit finally caved in.
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But wouldn't it have just ended up in the ocean and drowned? Or do you think its like...bigger than the ocean is deep? Not gonna lie, I have no clue about any of this shit. The planet I spent most of my life on didn't have an ocean.
You'd think a huge-ass creature like that just rampaging around the place would have got people talking.
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It survived sealed into an undersea cave for who can even say how long, without food, sunlight, or perhaps adequate oxygen. Who can even say how ancient this beast is? Perhaps it's a marine creature by nature, but if it didn't head towards the land, I don't imagine it'd submerge itself in an ocean it wasn't certain it could survive. All creatures have some basic instinct towards self-preservation.
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Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll just want to live out the remainder of it's terrifying days far away from everyone else.
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Despite the blood and whispers and horror pit.
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Maybe we'll get lucky and its only interested in stomping the people who imprisoned it. Can't say I'd blame it.
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If it's counting descendants of the people who imprisoned it, that's still quite a lot of people to be stomped.
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