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bigby | The Abomination ([personal profile] enblightened) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2021-11-06 08:47 pm

☣️ hellbent | OPEN

Who: Bigby the Abomination, OPEN
What: Catch-all for November, which includes the Sleeper Farm. Will be specifically marked.
When: November
Where: Various locations to coincide with the event
Notes: Will be continuing TDM threads in this log as well! In addition, if you desire a more specific prompt let me know. Alternatively, please feel encouraged to make your own as well.

Content Warnings: Body horror, violence, mentions of trauma, previous torture and mutilation



☣️ I. OUTSIDER'S RESPITE

[There is much to explore in this new place.

The hamlet of his world had been much smaller, of course. The districts easy to navigate, a bit more life coming to it bit by bit. Here, the Trench feels much more like a true city, and that quite honestly makes him feel uneasy. A place with such a thick population is a high potential for danger to others. He dislikes it, feels his guts wrench; a flash of fear, a flash of excitement, and he grinds his teeth to find his focus.

Calm. Easy. People have been nothing but accepting, and it would be terrible to ruin such kindness thus far. There is no danger, not right this minute, not now.

After a bit of breathing to ease his mind, Bigby lets out a soft huff of air and lets himself go exploring. Despite the warm greeting he'd been given, he still clings to his old clothing; his shroud, tattered and patched a dozen times over, ragged and sad to see, and his trousers no different. The man still has not bothered with shoes, his bare feet against the ground. The rattle of his chains can be heard easily as they still bind around his body to this very moment.

In Lumenwood, he is crouched by one of the many patches of flowers. Despite both of smell of the flowers and the stench of blood, they are beautiful. It has been too long since he's last seen blooms of this kind. There's almost a smile on Bigby's face. Almost.

Most other places are a bit too populated to really help his stress levels, but eventually Bigby makes his way back toward the shores, finding an odd comfort in Sanguine Station. It reminds him of the tavern of the hamlet, and it is much smaller, more quaint here. Not the most adequate place for meditation, but he does take a drink and keep to his own corner.

Truly, though, he can be found walking through most places, taking stock of what feels safe -- and what certainly will not be.]



☣️ II. SLEEPER FARM

[Waking in bondage is not unusual.

Waking in more chains than he remembers ever donning onto himself is another matter.

Should you have the misfortune of sharing a stall with Bigby, he jerks awake, his eyes wide and green. For a moment, he feels blinded with fear, struggling in what he's been shackled with. His heartrate increases, and he breathes uneasily.]


No-- no, I escaped, you wretches! I escaped you all!

[The memories pierce him horribly. A burning brand to his head, searing his skin. The delight his torturers took to him, to make him repent, as if he ever had any say in whether or not he would be cursed, as if he ever wanted to be. Calling him sinner, cackling in his pain, the years he counted!]

It'll have your meat, grind your bones! You know this!


☣️ III. A GIBBOUS MOON

[He feels it. Boiling in his blood, his heart, its instincts howling inside of him.

So he leaves the city as evening starts to roll in. The moon will be strong tonight, and so will it. Something that Bigby needs to prepare for.

Ah, that time of the month? the jester would cackle, as if the joke had never been told before. Somehow, having the matter made light made the burden that easier to carry.

In any case, Bigby leaves, clutching his cloak to himself. When he spots anyone else, he'll mutter:]


Do not be out late. It is a difficult night, and one never knows what lurks out there.
nautmagical: (My head is spinning 'round)

1 - Sanguine Station

[personal profile] nautmagical 2021-11-07 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Either fortunately, or unfortunately, for Bigby, the Station is in Vasco's neck of the woods. Or, rather, neck of the docks. He never quite roams too far, between renting a room at the Achelliac, and throwing in with whichever fishing ship was going out that day. A low position for a Naut Captain, but anything to get off the shore and back onto the sea again.]

[The strange malady seems to have passed, and food has regained its proper consistency. All the more reason to stride into the Inn, dropping down a few pieces of beach glass on the counter.]


Evening. [... he's not a pirate, but boy does he sound like one. It's only when he receives a drink that he steps away from the bar and - oh. There's someone in his Corner of Mystery already.]

Evening. [He even tips his hat to the man - to Bigby.] Seems we've a like mind for seating arrangements.
notimeforfailure: (Suspicion)

[personal profile] notimeforfailure 2021-11-07 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lysithea thinks briefly before nodding.]

Let's visit the School of Mutter. Dangerous research is essentially their specialty. I'm sure I've visited laboratories before with all sorts of bizarre specimens scuttling around.

Barring that, the hunters may have some suggestions, though I suspect they aren't used to containing targets quite this diminutive.

We'll use the Lamp Friends.

...What is your name, by the way?
nautmagical: (Default)

[personal profile] nautmagical 2021-11-07 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
No need. I'm not so picky as that.

[There's amusement in the words, under the Naut's drawl. He waves a gloved hand at the Inn around them.] Plenty of other chairs in the house. More gratified to see I'm not the only one with the habit of dramatic corners.

[The tattooed face creases in a grin, like he's just made a hilarious joke. Pale eyes flick up and down the stranger, noting the chains before offering up the appropriate hand.]

Captain Vasco, of the Nauts, if that's got any meaning to you.
laminae: (ummm)

[personal profile] laminae 2021-11-08 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Fern nods a little at this, absently reaching up to rub his right upper arm. Cool, good, this is a good option.]

Hah, yeah... I get it. This is just - something I'm still getting used to. The - the talking about it thing, and not just mental vaulting it again. [He reaches up gesturing at his head like he's locking a chest.]
notimeforfailure: (Default)

[personal profile] notimeforfailure 2021-11-08 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Lysithea. Lysithea von Ordelia. A pleasure, Bigby. As you point out, I am a mage by training.

[Though she doesn't mind 'sorceress.' Much preferable to 'witch,' which is what she occasionally got.]

...To be more truthful, I'm working as a baker right now. But I still have some contacts in the School.

Shall we?

[And here, perhaps, they might speedily locate the closest teleportation point, travel to the school, unearth some sort of magical jar for collecting live specimens from an entomologist's laboratory, and resume their plan once back in the vicinity of the boardwalk.]
nautmagical: (Default)

[personal profile] nautmagical 2021-11-08 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's a good spot for such a thing.

[A quick, sure grip on Bigby's hand. Then he lets it drop. No need for weird handshake posturing here.]

[He just casually takes a seat in a nearby chair.]


Ah, well. S'pose one day I'll find one of my brothers. A pleasure, Bigby.
nautmagical: (The wolves are out)

[personal profile] nautmagical 2021-11-08 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles, wryly. Sipping at his drink before replying.]

I could think of far worse men to share a drink with. First thing you did, you offer me your rightfully claimed seat.

[Listen, you spend enough time in San-Matheus, you run into a lot of people who thought they were miles above you.]

Or maybe I've run in lousy circles, of late.
droptheious: (And you make a neat gun)

[personal profile] droptheious 2021-11-08 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay, I got what you meant. And yeah... it really is.

[At least in Trench, it seems the death penalties are less, but that makes him...nervous. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.]

Wow, I wish everyone was like you. See how easy that was!
laminae: (messed up)

[personal profile] laminae 2021-11-08 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. Learned that the hard way.

[The hard... murderous... death-y way. Those are bad memories, and Fern slumps.]

O - okay. Thanks. I will.
notimeforfailure: (Serious)

[personal profile] notimeforfailure 2021-11-09 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[She should probably ask about the whole horns and fangs thing at some point. Now doesn't seem to be an auspicious time for traipsing down traumatic backstories, though.]

If not, you're willing to stand around and wave your arms out in the open?

I'll create a perimeter of glyphs that will corral it towards the trap. Once there, when it's busy with your bait, you'll have to contain it without getting infected yourself. The container will seal itself once closed with the application of a little bit of blood to the edges.

[She glances at the vileblood and its frothing toxins.]

And I'll do my best to detour just one fish away from the horde.
unsheathedfromreality: (feel the hunger of awakening)

II

[personal profile] unsheathedfromreality 2021-11-09 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[The--thing--sharing Bigby's stall is a mass of black feathers with the oily luster of a beetle's back. It is still as something dead up until the shouting starts; it gives a convulsive start, a dozen golden faceted eyes snapping open and rolling blindly in their sockets.]

((...I know that voice.))

[And maybe the other man recognizes his, though it's coming from something very different from the pale fanged gentleman who met Bigby on the beach.

The eyes shut again. Illarion(?) heaves himself upright with a rustle of feathers and a clanking of chains. A moment's needed for him to orient to time and situation (the heavy weight of chains on his limbs, the overwhelming scent of blood, the fear in his companion's voice), and then--
]

((Breathe, friend. You're still in Trench,)) [maybe,] ((and I need your help.))

[It isn't always the case such an appeal worked in the face of intense emotion, but it's worth making.

Especially since Illarion's certain he does need help.
]

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