Getting arms and meeting new people...
Mar. 27th, 2013 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Atlanta is a strange city. Anything taller than three floors is ground down by magic wave after magic wave. Electric street signs are busted, missing or replaced by their more primitive kin. The tarmac of the streets is cracked as are the cement of the sidewalks and plant life has gone wild. Yet despite all this, the humans of the city rebuild...except here in Unicorn Lane. Here magic and the wild are the apex predator and not just during the Magic Waves. Things hide and quiver in the shadows. What people live here do so because there is simple no where else in the city that will accept them. It is dangerous. It is unpredictable and it is where Andrea is hoping to buy some guns on the sly.
Point in fact, she's already bought the guns and is currently sitting in what is left of a small city park, or what was once a small city park. Now it's more a mid-sized city jungle complete with unidentifiable and eerie animal sounds. The animal sounds are leaving her alone for now and so she is making sure her purchases (two Glocks and a submachine gun) were worth the effort and cost. She's also got a perfect view of all the windows and doorways to the empty shells of three apartment buildings that surround the park's entrance.
Point in fact, she's already bought the guns and is currently sitting in what is left of a small city park, or what was once a small city park. Now it's more a mid-sized city jungle complete with unidentifiable and eerie animal sounds. The animal sounds are leaving her alone for now and so she is making sure her purchases (two Glocks and a submachine gun) were worth the effort and cost. She's also got a perfect view of all the windows and doorways to the empty shells of three apartment buildings that surround the park's entrance.
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Date: 2013-03-28 02:28 am (UTC)This is very distinctly not Milliways. The sounds, the smells - though Felix is not usually a very olfactory person - even the quality of the light is wrong.
And, of course, there's the fact that he seems to be in a very abandoned building. He doesn't know of any of those on Milliways' grounds.
Well, the first thing to do in an unfamiliar situation is to gather information. Crouching, Felix makes his way toward a doorway to get a look outside.
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Date: 2013-03-28 08:00 pm (UTC)"Whoever's out there, find someone else. I'm not in the mood tonight."
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Date: 2013-03-29 02:28 am (UTC)Felix slowly steps out to give her a clear view of him, hands open and away from his sides.
"I don't mean any harm," he calls. "I am just... lost."
It's true, and perhaps more importantly it looks true. Or at least, his clothes (rough, loose cotton tunic and pants, well-worn leather boots, and a sword sheathed at his waist - this last clearly the highest-quality part of the outfit, by a huge margin) don't look like they would be from around here.
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Date: 2013-04-02 05:18 pm (UTC)"You picked a hell of a place to get lost in," she replies easing up a bit. As if to punctuate her words, an eerie howl sounds from several blocks over. "I can help with directions if you'd like to tell me where you were heading?"
[OOC: Would you like Andrea to smell of a hint of Milliways on Felix? I'm fine with the awkward way or easy way. ]
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Date: 2013-04-03 02:52 pm (UTC)"I was trying to find a bar," he starts, trying to decide how much to say. "I have been there before, but not in a while. It's called Milliways."
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Date: 2013-04-05 04:24 pm (UTC)Oh there's a comforting thought.
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Date: 2013-04-05 06:28 pm (UTC)"I'm not actually sure, off the top of my head. I usually find it by following landmarks. I must have missed one this time."
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Date: 2013-04-05 06:33 pm (UTC)That should be general enough that any normal bar in Atlanta could pass, though maybe specific enough if he's talking about the magical one.
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Date: 2013-04-05 10:22 pm (UTC)Like it or not (and he doesn't), that's definitely an identifying feature.
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Date: 2013-04-11 03:40 am (UTC)Hey, is that yowling getting closer?
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Date: 2013-04-11 11:26 am (UTC)It does sound that way.
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Date: 2013-04-15 08:02 pm (UTC)"Okay. Sorry," she says finally holding out her hands in a friendly manner. "Both doors I know about on this world are in very secure areas and would piss off a lot of people if it were discovered random people could walk through them. I have a box of matches from the bar if you want to try and summon a door? If there is anywhere that will work it will be here."
And of course now is when the yowling stops. Andrea sniffs and spins to face a darker shadow within the buildings shadow. "We might need to take care of something first."
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Date: 2013-04-16 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-17 03:27 pm (UTC)"Okay, I'll make this quick. I'm Andrea Nash and welcome to Atlanta, Georgia. That's the city and state by the way. Andrea's World 101 time. Magic and technology are wonky here. If you can do magic, you may not be able to while the magic is down, it comes and goes like tides. Of course we are in what is locally called Unicorn Lane which has it's own rules. There are pockets of magic here that are permanent. There are also lots of monsters and worse here so our friend in the shadow may be something that wants to eat us."
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Date: 2013-04-17 11:49 pm (UTC)"I'm Felix. No last name. Anything I should know about the monsters you have here?"
His decade-plus of experience fighting monsters will probably help, but it's nice to know about any peculiarities before they hit him (literally or not).
He's also going to check to see if his magic is available, like Andrea mentioned; if it works, his eyes will start to glow faintly yellow.
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Date: 2013-04-18 02:07 am (UTC)"Well, that's the trick. Magic isn't too picky about who it listens to. We get all sorts of monsters, from any culture and some even from games people used to play. I've fought vampires, werewolves, sea demons and have even seen a giant brass fish. We'll have to play it by ear."
Felix's magic is there though it might feel weird. ANdrea is watching the alley so misses the slight yellow glow.
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Date: 2013-04-18 03:07 am (UTC)Well, one good start in a fight is to divide the opponent's attention. Felix makes some rocks fall in an alley off to the side. Nothing too far away, especially since he's not sure how well his powers will work here, but he should be able to manage enough of an angle that the monster can't look at them and the sound at the same time.
Unless it's a chimera or similar; that has crossed Felix's mind. But even if it is, distracting it and knowing that should be helpful.
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Date: 2013-04-18 03:32 pm (UTC)"That was you?" Andrea whispers, just in case the shadow can understand them. She steps a few paces away from Felix so they don't make one convient target.
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Date: 2013-04-18 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-22 07:22 pm (UTC)"There's no need for a fight. If we stepped into your territory, we're sorry and we'll leave."
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Date: 2013-04-22 11:56 pm (UTC)Diplomacy having never been one of his strong points, and certainly not one he's had opportunity to practice on non-humanoids at home, he lets Andrea do the talking. Possibly his sword doesn't make the best counterpoint, but he's not putting it away just yet.
[OOC: Ooh, displacer beast. This is going to be fuuuun.]
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Date: 2013-04-28 03:38 pm (UTC)"Son of a bitch!" Andrea snarls at her now useless guns. As the magic rises, street lights wink out to be replaced by a dim green glow from enchanted vapor filled glass tubes the locals call fey lanterns.
Andrea shots seem to have either missed or have had no effect on the creature.
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Date: 2013-04-29 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-13 07:48 pm (UTC)Andrea for her part hasn't been staring gap mouthed but dropped her now useless guns and pulled out a crossbow from over her shoulder. She loads arms it just as the beast leaps at her and she dodges to the left while firing.
"I missed?!?" She yells at the clatter of the bolt hitting the wall behind the beast is heard.
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Date: 2013-05-15 04:49 pm (UTC)...And watches as they clatter to the ground around the beast, producing little more than a clatter. The creature snarls.
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Date: 2013-05-24 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-24 03:41 am (UTC)Hang on, was that crack there a minute ago? It looks like it's getting bigger. And leaking light...
A bunch of rocks burst out of the crack, spraying upward. A lot of them go right past the beast, but others pummel its underside.
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Date: 2013-05-30 08:35 pm (UTC)The creature roars and is knocked up on it's hind legs but it's tentacles shot out to hit Andrea square in the chest. Her face contorted in pain, she grabs one of them with her left hand and yells out, "I think there's some sort of magical distortion field around our kitty her. Messes with your aim."
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Date: 2013-05-30 10:20 pm (UTC)Felix sends a burst of healing energy Andrea's way. "Perhaps some way to hit an area instead of aiming at it specifically? Is that something you can do?" Despite her introduction earlier, Felix really has very little idea of Andrea's abilities.
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Date: 2013-06-13 01:02 am (UTC)"I swear it's listening to us," she calls out nervously as she bends to snatch up a rock and throw it at the creature. Now that she knows to alter her aim, she hits it and it yowls.
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Date: 2013-06-13 01:41 pm (UTC)Aiming is not really one of his strong points, but rocks are. He points his sword at the beast, his eyes glow briefly, and a lot of rocks fall out of the air above and around it.
Indeed, that's quite a lot of rocks, since Felix is still adjusting to the power-up. Enough that even if the creature survives the pummeling, it'll have trouble finding stable footing until it gets away from where it was.
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Date: 2013-06-14 02:34 am (UTC)She fires, hitting the beast in the chest which makes it roar in protest, and has another bolt loaded.
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Date: 2013-06-29 05:25 pm (UTC)The world seems to roll up into a ball, about ten or twelve feet across, between the three of them. Felix's touch sets the ball spinning, and then his outstretched hand sends it shooting straight at the beast. And even without the rocks, it's hard to evade something that big going that fast. The ball bursts as it hits, restoring the world around them (such as it is).
(It's a bit of illusion, and a bit of metaphor, and a lot of pain. Not necessarily one of Felix's favorite tactics, but he's getting annoyed.)
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Date: 2013-07-05 05:50 pm (UTC)"Keep backing away and this can all be over," Andrea shouts out at it as she loads another bolt. She hates killing animals.
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Date: 2013-07-20 06:04 pm (UTC)He lets his eyes flash yellow, although he doesn't actually cast anything, and shouts wordlessly, flinging his arms wide. Hopefully that'll get the beast to just run off.
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Date: 2013-07-21 03:58 pm (UTC)"Well I think that's over," Andrea says with relief. Things could have gone much worse. She reaches into a pocket and pulls out a book of matches with the familiar Milliways logo. "Let's see about getting you on your way now."