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− | | cast = [[Bjorn]], [[Haruka]], [[Ink]], [[James]], [[Joachim]], [[Tabby]], and [[Uma]]. [[Loa]] as GM. | + | | cast = [[Bjorn]], [[Haruka]], [[Healani]], [[Ink]], [[James]], [[Joachim]], [[Tabby]], and [[Uma]]. [[Loa]] as GM. |
| summary = Some very bad Sand Creatures decided on a bad night to take the beach | | summary = Some very bad Sand Creatures decided on a bad night to take the beach | ||
| gamedate = 2008.10.16 | | gamedate = 2008.10.16 | ||
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− | Tabby sat on the beach, her bare toes digging into the sand. The woman was dressed simply in a white spaghetti strap top and a pair of | + | Tabby sat on the beach, her bare toes digging into the sand. The woman was dressed simply in a white spaghetti strap top and a pair of khaki shorts, with her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She was happily munching from a bag of trail mix as she watched the water. |
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− | Joachim had decided to step out, going for a for a late stroll along the beach. He didn't seem to have much or in fact any sort of a destination in mind, wandering amiably and randomly down the beach. A few familiar faces he spotted, waving at Bjorn as they walked towards each other. When his | + | Joachim had decided to step out, going for a for a late stroll along the beach. He didn't seem to have much or in fact any sort of a destination in mind, wandering amiably and randomly down the beach. A few familiar faces he spotted, waving at Bjorn as they walked towards each other. When his eyes found James they let him. and Joachim smiled brightly. A familiar and always pleasant smell caught Joachim's nostrils by chance and he looked around with a chuckle, always rather amused at that smell out in public, and inclined to try and head towards it with a five dollar bill in hand. He called out to Haruka as she finished played. "Sounded good!" |
Joachim was dressed as he often was, in a pair of comfortable sandals suitable for easy movement on the beach, a pair of light slacks and a t-shirt that read "Science is a verb now". | Joachim was dressed as he often was, in a pair of comfortable sandals suitable for easy movement on the beach, a pair of light slacks and a t-shirt that read "Science is a verb now". | ||
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− | Tabby grabbed another handful of trail mix, tilting her head back to pour it into her mouth. When she closed her lips over it, she looked decidedly like a chipmunk as her teeth slowly round the food down to something more manageable. Sealing up, the | + | Tabby grabbed another handful of trail mix, tilting her head back to pour it into her mouth. When she closed her lips over it, she looked decidedly like a chipmunk as her teeth slowly round the food down to something more manageable. Sealing up, the Ziploc, she slipped it into the pack next to her, drinking around for her bottle water. The airborne screeching caused her to tilt her head as she listened, swallowing down her food. "This island must have the worst songbirds on the planet." |
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− | The sound of screeching certainly caught Joachim's attention, his eyes going up to the sky, frowning. "Please be an | + | The sound of screeching certainly caught Joachim's attention, his eyes going up to the sky, frowning. "Please be an incontinent seagull... please be an incontinent seagull..." Hearing the recording worthy swearing Joachim turned, catching sight of Healani. "Healani! Aloha! Did you hear that? It kind of sounded like an incontinent seagull. I hope..." He muttered that last bit, putting on a lame smile as his attention turned back towards the sky and the screaming mimies up in the air. He grinned and snorted at Bjorn. "Stop mushing my dreams you." He nodded to Haruka. "Yeah... me either. I bet it's totally just... very large birds." He nodded to Ink, staring. "Yeah they still are... I've been here a while and I've never seen songbirds like that. Er... heard." He shrugged at Tabby. |
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− | Ink is still trying to identify whatever the hell it is that just flew over, the screeching really starting to get on his nerves if the grimace on his face is anything to go by. Ditching his | + | Ink is still trying to identify whatever the hell it is that just flew over, the screeching really starting to get on his nerves if the grimace on his face is anything to go by. Ditching his roll-up and stubbing it out with his boot, he crouches down and tries to focus, the smoke haze seeming to distract him little as he squints at the wildlife. "No feathers? Scales? What on earth? Oh and glowing eyes." Looking around, he tries to spot anyone who looks like a local. "Pterodactyls were not mentioned on the tour!" |
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− | As the flying creatures started lurching around in the sky towards them and the waters roiled, Joachim nodded to James' lighting up the waters. He grinned. "That's a good trick. Better than just jumping in!" He grinned at Ink, shaking his head at hearing Healani's words. "I dunno! I think I'd prefer it if they were | + | As the flying creatures started lurching around in the sky towards them and the waters roiled, Joachim nodded to James' lighting up the waters. He grinned. "That's a good trick. Better than just jumping in!" He grinned at Ink, shaking his head at hearing Healani's words. "I dunno! I think I'd prefer it if they were pterodactyls! What the hell are they after?" Uma's comment made him smile despite the crazy situation. "Oh man that would be awesome but it'll totally never happen." He shook his head and then looked to Bjorn, raising an eyebrow. "Lava giants? Who what now big guy?" He looked interested to hear it, though his attention was on the water and whatever might have been coming up out of it. His eyes seemed to glow with an inner light as he took in the world around him, looking out towards the water and at the people around him, eyebrows climbing waaaay up into his hairline. His eyes narrowed as he looked to the water. He pitched his voice loudly. "I think I'd rather have those flying things around. Whatever's down there is... god it's horrible. I feel like I've been dipped in inky oil and scrubbed with a Brillo pad." He looked away, disgusted. "Like.... living hubris." |
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− | Tabby kept digging in her pack and shook her head, "How I am this | + | Tabby kept digging in her pack and shook her head, "How I am this unorganized is beyond me. I swear I packed a flashlight or a lighter..." The rest of the sentence devolved into muttering. She squinted her eyes as she looked back to Healani. "Hey look, I was just drinking her beer at the bar, I paid for it. If she's going to be upended over me drinking her beer, she should put a label on that shit." The latina went back to muttering as she flipped her bag to dump the contents onto the sand, an arrange of clothes, water bottles, and Ziplocs of food. |
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− | From the water, a very, very tall being that seemed to be dark, | + | From the water, a very, very tall being that seemed to be dark, dun colored like wet sand emerged. It was man-shaped, in so far as it was a rough approximation of a man-like being. Its head was somewhat misshapen, and morphed into the slope of its shoulders. Instead of normal looking arms, they were elongated and almost ludicrously thick, with huge, hammer-like blunt ends instead of fists. As its legs carried it up out of the churning water, one of its incredibly long arms swung outward, missing Joachim with its anvil of a fist by a mere inch or two as Joachim managed to dodge out of the way of the strike. |
− | From the water skittered a second form, and it moved fast, sideways, despite the fact that it was utterly enormous. A crab made of heavy, wet, dark sand moved in the eerie light that had been created over the water, and it went straight for Uma, like it was some sort of heat seeking missile. It didn't take long at all for the crab to catch her, either, picking her up in both of its huge, front, pincers and lifting her up off the ground, one pincer around her | + | From the water skittered a second form, and it moved fast, sideways, despite the fact that it was utterly enormous. A crab made of heavy, wet, dark sand moved in the eerie light that had been created over the water, and it went straight for Uma, like it was some sort of heat seeking missile. It didn't take long at all for the crab to catch her, either, picking her up in both of its huge, front, pincers and lifting her up off the ground, one pincer around her rib-cage and the other around her legs, just above the knee. |
− | The first of the winged creatures moved forward, diving down fast at the sand man that came onto the beach and swung his massive hand toward Joachim. When the claws of that creature struck, it was hard, and the hit was loud enough that it sounded like something thudding against a filled in steel drum. Inches thick sand | + | The first of the winged creatures moved forward, diving down fast at the sand man that came onto the beach and swung his massive hand toward Joachim. When the claws of that creature struck, it was hard, and the hit was loud enough that it sounded like something thudding against a filled in steel drum. Inches thick sand sheered down off the SandMan and married with the dark, dryer sand of the volcanic beach. |
While that was happening, something else seemed to come awake from the beach itself. A long, serpentine figure moved in from behind James, where it was mostly unseen, the thing easily 9 feet long. As it raised its head to strike, though, the Wizard seemed to have some sort of lucky sense about it and moved, just as the 2 inch long fangs that the serpent demonstrated drove downward in an attempt to bite into James' flank. All it left James with was a scrape, luckily, along his love handle on the left side. | While that was happening, something else seemed to come awake from the beach itself. A long, serpentine figure moved in from behind James, where it was mostly unseen, the thing easily 9 feet long. As it raised its head to strike, though, the Wizard seemed to have some sort of lucky sense about it and moved, just as the 2 inch long fangs that the serpent demonstrated drove downward in an attempt to bite into James' flank. All it left James with was a scrape, luckily, along his love handle on the left side. | ||
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The second bird-like creature came down at the broad back of the sand crab holding onto Uma, and while it didn't manage to get nearly the hit in that the other one had achieved vs. the SandMan, there was a mark along the SandCrab's back after the avian flew past. | The second bird-like creature came down at the broad back of the sand crab holding onto Uma, and while it didn't manage to get nearly the hit in that the other one had achieved vs. the SandMan, there was a mark along the SandCrab's back after the avian flew past. | ||
− | The third Winged creature went after the SandSnake that had attacked James, and when it did so, it managed to miss entirely because that Snake was one shifty ass bastard, and the | + | The third Winged creature went after the SandSnake that had attacked James, and when it did so, it managed to miss entirely because that Snake was one shifty ass bastard, and the pterodactyl of Pele seemed to have almost no luck even coming near it. |
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− | Haruka takes a step to one side, | + | Haruka takes a step to one side, assessing the situation, then darts in along side Joachim. Or so she seems to. There she is on the OTHER side of him, too! And is that her coming up from behind the sandwhichthingie? Wow, there's a lot of her. Hopefully the critters won't figure out that she isn't even really there. |
− | As the sandy giant emerged from the water and lashed out at Joachim he swore and side stepped, leaping back to relative | + | As the sandy giant emerged from the water and lashed out at Joachim he swore and side stepped, leaping back to relative safety, a pair of wings spreading from his back to aid in his hopping back retreat. "You motherfuckers again! Goddamn it!" He yelled out over the sound of the ocean and the shrieking of the flyers. "They've got solid cores inside of them! Destroy the core to kill the sand things!" When the snake leapt at James Joachim pointed and crowed. "I knew there was another one! Oh wait. Shit!" As Bjorn shifted and charged to Uma's aid, he got a slightly silly look on his face, nodding as he turned his attention to the Sandman that had attacked him. "Right you Gumby reject, let's get funky." The sand at his feet boiled and became glass as a wave of electromagnetic energy lanced out from him in a line, blasting into the sandy golem thing and scorching the stuff it was made of. |
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The SandMan seemed like he would be bellowing in rage, if he had vocal cords. Instead, its mouth opened and it spewed hot, wet, sand out of it, as it spun on its glassy feet and tried to smack Joachim with its anvil hand again. It missed, entirely, looking more like a wind-up toy than anything dangerous. | The SandMan seemed like he would be bellowing in rage, if he had vocal cords. Instead, its mouth opened and it spewed hot, wet, sand out of it, as it spun on its glassy feet and tried to smack Joachim with its anvil hand again. It missed, entirely, looking more like a wind-up toy than anything dangerous. | ||
− | The SandCrab, after | + | The SandCrab, after squirreling itself away from the falling spike, finally managed to get enough momentum to toss itself back over onto it's legs, and made a menacingly dull 'CLACK' sound with its claws at Bjorn and Tabby. |
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The second winged creature tried to drop more lava from its mouth onto the huge, now rather glassy, crab, and it entirely missed. Instead, it made a puddle of vicous looking lava soup that slowly turned the surrounding sands into blackened glass. | The second winged creature tried to drop more lava from its mouth onto the huge, now rather glassy, crab, and it entirely missed. Instead, it made a puddle of vicous looking lava soup that slowly turned the surrounding sands into blackened glass. | ||
− | The Third winged creature came in at the snake, opening its mouth to spit a huge wad of flaming, molten rock at the slithering form of the striking snake. It hit hard, splattering over much of its back, and sizzling that sand into | + | The Third winged creature came in at the snake, opening its mouth to spit a huge wad of flaming, molten rock at the slithering form of the striking snake. It hit hard, splattering over much of its back, and sizzling that sand into unyielding glass, making it harder for the creature to serpentine its way around. |
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− | It bites her again, the fang | + | It bites her again, the fang biting deep into her leg. "Son of whore!" Healani shouts. Lifting her crutch she begins to start to beat it. Her eyes are distance and her face shows nothing but rage. "Do this you will die, Namaka you are a real bitch and are as bad as your sister. You two are two peas in a pod." This is coming out in English. She shouts again. She holds her crutch in her hand and uses it like a club. |
− | Haruka and Haruka suddenly produce two swords each, | + | Haruka and Haruka suddenly produce two swords each, one gleaming silver and blue, the other black and crimson. Each starts waving them, slicing through the air, launching fireball after fireball from the blades' tips, sending them after the sand-snake! |
Meanwhile, a little further away, Haruka and Haruka produce bows and start launching fiery arrows, too! Zoom! Zowie! Boom! | Meanwhile, a little further away, Haruka and Haruka produce bows and start launching fiery arrows, too! Zoom! Zowie! Boom! | ||
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− | Kill. Yes that crab needs to die, sometimes there just needs to be a killin. As such the enraged Bjorn runs at the already effed up crab and goes to bite it in the face, looking to finish it off. He practically plows through it trying to rend the sand all apart and bring it back to the same sand as the beach, his fur rankled as he roars his triumph over his opponent. | + | Kill. Yes that crab needs to die, sometimes there just needs to be a killin'. As such the enraged Bjorn runs at the already effed up crab and goes to bite it in the face, looking to finish it off. He practically plows through it trying to rend the sand all apart and bring it back to the same sand as the beach, his fur rankled as he roars his triumph over his opponent. |
− | Joachim watched as the flying lava thing turned his opponent to glass, breathing a sigh of relief. As Bjorn destroyed the crab, he called out. "See if you can find any glowing shards in the wreckage!" With Healani being bitten and assaulted by a sand snake, Joachim turned his attention there, speaking again in coptic as he stretched out a hand towards the nearby ocean. Water flowed through the air towards his hand, wrapping around his body as he began to move his arms and legs in a weaving, flowing pattern. The water formed into a | + | Joachim watched as the flying lava thing turned his opponent to glass, breathing a sigh of relief. As Bjorn destroyed the crab, he called out. "See if you can find any glowing shards in the wreckage!" With Healani being bitten and assaulted by a sand snake, Joachim turned his attention there, speaking again in coptic as he stretched out a hand towards the nearby ocean. Water flowed through the air towards his hand, wrapping around his body as he began to move his arms and legs in a weaving, flowing pattern. The water formed into a serpentine shape all it's own, growing until it had form and substance as a massive liquid serpent. It rushed towards the sandsnake, flinging itself at it and wrapping it up. As the two elemental serpents coiled and fought, the watery one managed to consume the other, the sand it was made up of turning to nothingness as the entropic energies reduced everything inside to elementary particles. Then, with a splash, it dissolved. For a moment Joachim was silent and then threw his hands into the air. "MOSESED MOTHERFUCKER!" |
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− | + | Leg hurting, check, blood oozing out of a puncture wound, check. Late for work, check. "Fucking sister's, now I am late. Pele keep your fucking fights away from us." Healani is grumbling. She begins to hunt down the tackle box and pulls it out. From it she takes out a roll of bandages. She beings to wrap it around her leg. Next she pulls out out a phone from her scrubs pant pocket. Punching numbers into it she shivers. Then she starts speaking. "Thank you for sending me to the wrong beach. Send Richard to the right one. I am am taking myself home and signing off for the night. " She then hangs up and shoves it back in. Leaning on her crutch she picks up her tackle box and slowly drags her sorry ass off the beach. The others are ignored. | |
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− | Uma just shook her head, looking in some awe as the bear started shambling away. "Oh! Uh... Thank you, for uh, getting me out of the WORST rendition of turnabout is | + | Uma just shook her head, looking in some awe as the bear started shambling away. "Oh! Uh... Thank you, for uh, getting me out of the WORST rendition of turnabout is fair play, ever?" She shuddered, then looked at Tabby, raising her brows. "You wanna go eat some crab claws and get like... the biggest beer on the face of the planet? Because it's literally ALL I want to do right now. Like.. two pounds of fried crab claws." Uma moved her hands with her words, making it obvious she meant two HUGE pounds of crab claws. She looked over at Joachim and nodded to him, a disbelieving sort of smile on her lips. "Well, then, I guess this just gets more and more interesting, if this shit happens all the damn time." She rolled her shapely shoulders and took in a deep breath. "Uma, nice to meet you." She nodded to Joachim, then looked after Healani for a moment, before remembering to pick up her tote and all of her playing cards. "Well, at least they didn't ruin my new deck, it has little hula girls on it." Uma mumbled the thought idly while she sorted herself out, then finally stood up. "Beer. Crab Claws. I'm gone, because nothing else is gonna do it tonight." She nodded to everyone, turned on her heels, and started sauntering off toward the parking area above the beach with an almost exaggerated sway of her hips, like she was shaking off the sensation of having to check under her feet for sand snakes on the way. |
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Latest revision as of 10:59, 21 January 2018
Pele's Crossing Guards | |
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Pele's Guardians don't like Oceanic Things | |
Dramatis Personae
Bjorn, Haruka, Healani, Ink, James, Joachim, Tabby, and Uma. Loa as GM. |
16 October, 2008 Some very bad Sand Creatures decided on a bad night to take the beach |
Location
Leeward Coast, Volcanic Beach |
Plot(s) |
On this beautiful, absolutely perfect mid-October's evening, things on the Volcanic Beach are looking pretty nice. There's not too many people out, as most of them during this time of night were off having dinner, or at the Paradise Cove luau. Instead, the dark sands of the volcanic beach welcome just a sparse number of visitors, who likely had stayed through the sunset to watch it. And now, the stars overhead and the quarter moon shines down to illuminate all of the rolling footprints in the sands as well as the glimmer of the water as it crests and then crashes to the beach. Things are pretty ideal, this beautiful, autumnal night.
Scratching at his beard, Ink seems to choose a direction at random and then just sets off, his heavy work boots crunching on the sand as he makes progress along the beach. He looks amicable enough, smiling to those he sees when he stops to take in the sights.
Joachim was dressed as he often was, in a pair of comfortable sandals suitable for easy movement on the beach, a pair of light slacks and a t-shirt that read "Science is a verb now".
As far as clothing went, Uma was wearing a simple, almost bohemian style shirt, unlaced from the waist up, that hung down around her upper thighs. The almost sheer, printed shirt looked pale peach and dark brown in the evening light, and had wooden toggles on the laces up the front. Under the shirt, that seemed nothing more than a polite suggestion at a cover up, was just a simple, vibrantly teal bikini that fit precisely, with no ties but instead normal straps holding the strategically placed triangles in place. Her long, shapely legs were bare, as were her feet, and she was carrying a tote bag over her shoulder that likely held the playing cards at one point, along with a beach towel and a bottle of water.
Beneath the birds, the water seemed to be roiling, bubbling up like some sort of thrashing was going on just beneath the surface
One of the bird-like creatures, though, stopped making screeching sounds, and moved to where it was soaring in circles over the sand, not so much over the sea anymore. Its molten attention seemed to be given to the darkened sands on the beach and less so to the roiling seas where the others were flying about.
While that was happening, something else seemed to come awake from the beach itself. A long, serpentine figure moved in from behind James, where it was mostly unseen, the thing easily 9 feet long. As it raised its head to strike, though, the Wizard seemed to have some sort of lucky sense about it and moved, just as the 2 inch long fangs that the serpent demonstrated drove downward in an attempt to bite into James' flank. All it left James with was a scrape, luckily, along his love handle on the left side.
The third Winged creature went after the SandSnake that had attacked James, and when it did so, it managed to miss entirely because that Snake was one shifty ass bastard, and the pterodactyl of Pele seemed to have almost no luck even coming near it.
The SandCrab, now without its trophy, made a disgusting, hissing/keening noise and clacked its heavy claws together before it rushed at the PolarBjorn. Bjorn being the bear he was didn't move much out of the way and therefore took a large claw as it reached under and pinched along BjornBear's inner leg, ripping out some of the fur in the process.
The SandSnake, as its primary target had taken off away from the beach, turned its hollow, lifeless, sand-filled eyes toward Healani, opening it's mouth to expose 2 inch long fangs as it gave a silent hiss and struck toward her. Its long, vicious fang struck along the side of Healani's arm, leaving an angry, red, welt in its wake. The second winged creature dove back down from the sky toward the SandCrab, this time spewing lava directly from its mouth in a dripping, hazardous beam that coated the back of the sandy creature and caused the first several inches of its 'shell' to becoming nothing but hardened, cracking, glass that smoked and popped. The final winged creature came in for an attack on the SandSnake that had just bitten at Healani, and it coughed out a ball of molten flame, dropping it near the center line of the 9 foot long SandSnake, causing that line of its body to harden into immovable glass that looked immediately smokey and almost mirror like.
Wait, is that Haruka, edging her way towards the road? Staying well back and away from the fight? Maybe it is! ... Or maybe that's her over there, picking up her beach chair.
The SandCrab, after squirreling itself away from the falling spike, finally managed to get enough momentum to toss itself back over onto it's legs, and made a menacingly dull 'CLACK' sound with its claws at Bjorn and Tabby.
The second winged creature tried to drop more lava from its mouth onto the huge, now rather glassy, crab, and it entirely missed. Instead, it made a puddle of vicous looking lava soup that slowly turned the surrounding sands into blackened glass. The Third winged creature came in at the snake, opening its mouth to spit a huge wad of flaming, molten rock at the slithering form of the striking snake. It hit hard, splattering over much of its back, and sizzling that sand into unyielding glass, making it harder for the creature to serpentine its way around.
Meanwhile, a little further away, Haruka and Haruka produce bows and start launching fiery arrows, too! Zoom! Zowie! Boom! Strangely, not a bit of sand is kicked up by any of these explosions....
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