necrolord: <user name="thebutt"> (brick and mortar thick as scripture)
ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴜɴᴅʏɪɴɢ ([personal profile] necrolord) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-03-06 02:02 pm

06 . the sleepy town expedition.

Who: [personal profile] necrolord, Gideon, Harrow, Paul, Kaworu, "Shannon," Mako, Ford, Shiro, Ruby, Luna, Faith, Willow, Ezra, Zhongli, Perell.
What: An intentional family-and-friends roadtrip to a forbidden holy ruin. A less-intentional catacombs adventure.
When: 3/14.
Where: Sleepy Town and the Catacombs.

Content Warnings: Sleepy Town-typical themes of grief, loss, and surreal landscapes. Catacombs-typical horror per the March event. Also, note all the usual warnings of this character.

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arclightning: (fight | punch)

[personal profile] arclightning 2022-03-12 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mako had been poking his way through the ruins of the shops—the pizza place is still here, surprisingly, though it looks like Kuvira's mech stepped on it—when he hears Ruby's alarmed shout spiralling high through the still air. ]

Shit. Should've known—

[ They were bound to run into trouble eventually, right? This isn't so different from the past version of the town they'd been through together, although much less on fire. Mako shoves a fragment of antler he'd picked up into one of his many pockets, holds out both hands, and presses flames in a steady stream at the ground to lift himself up and out of the wreckage.

It's very cool. It also puts him face-to-face with Deerlona, who lets out a shriek that sends Mako's hair flying back. He lands with a thud on a rooftop near Ruby, wide-eyed, and wastes no time in sending a jet of flame at the massive thing, trying to keep it on edge and not looking at them.
]

What is this thing?!
Edited 2022-03-12 21:16 (UTC)
onekindsoul: (pic#15218823)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2022-03-13 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[It a very cool move and normally Ruby would have commented on it. As it stood they were in a very deadly situation and decided to hold back for now.

Still she's glad to have him by her side to face off with this thing.]


Don't know exactly! It's like a deer beasted out- But it's way worse than any of things back around town.

[Ruby doesn't have a lot she can do to slow it down without directly countering Mako's flames at the moment. So instead she aims her rifle up at the things legs to try and keep it off balance with high impact shots.]

How are you with ice? We might want to try freezing it's limbs- see if that slows it down a little.
arclightning: (yell | he set me up)

[personal profile] arclightning 2022-03-16 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Been getting better—

[ Mako shouts as the massive thing wheels toward Ruby, screaming anger to the broken sky. It ignores his latest burst of flame, but that's fine. ]

I need to be close, though! Keep it distracted!
onekindsoul: (When you don’t know)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2022-03-18 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
That'll have to do!

[Ruby eyes he creature as it comes toward her. She waits until the last moment and activates her semblance to avoid getting hit in a flurry of icy rose petals. When she reforms she stumbles but regains her footing. She's playing a dangerous game to keep herself as just out of reach bait.]

Can do- But do whatever you're going to do fast!
arclightning: (firebending | kick it out)

[personal profile] arclightning 2022-03-19 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
On it!

[ Mako can't let Ruby take the fall here. He vaults himself off the roof, taking advantage of her distraction to drop to the ground with flame cushioning his fall. Down here it's dangerous: the beast's hooves are everywhere, tearing up the ground as it charges after Ruby. It's like the mech all over again, too big to fight like this, but Mako has a plan based on something he saw Korra do. He just has to work very quickly. As the beast pivots, roaring unholy sounds into the sky, he flings himself forward, moving like Korra taught him, all flowing, sharp motions that draw up to a point. Ice bursts from the ground, out of nowhere, encasing one of the beast's entire legs. It already starts to shatter as it screams, and one arm comes smashing back down toward Mako, but he leaps out of the way, vaults off a the half-broken side of what used to be the pizza shop, and skids along the ground next to its other leg, shoving ice up that one too. ]