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CASTIEL (angel of thursday) ([personal profile] unwings) wrote in [community profile] abraxasnet2023-04-08 09:34 pm

@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.
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[personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2023-04-11 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Listen, at this point I'm going to take any information I can get. I've been a historian for sixty or seventy years now and only recently learned everything we thought we knew was incorrect. So you never know when a discovery could happen.

I don't know what Dean looks like, but if anyone wanders in the library I don't know I'll ask.
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[personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2023-04-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Michael shared helpful information with me in the past, I hope that he will continue to.

[ Yes, Istredd apparently likes angels and they like tolerate him, go figure. ]

It would. If he is alive and I can help you find him, I will.
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[personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2023-04-26 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad, Castiel, that must be a relief.

[ Lucifer won't be glad and obviously this brings up the same concern about the danger level for both of them, but he is genuinely glad for Castiel. ]