South Side Fires Part 1
| South Side Fires Part 1 | |
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Spider as ST, Locust, Firefly, Seth, Tilly, Griffiths, The Swarm |
Undercity South Side Fires Plot part 1: Smoke and Pain. Part of The Swarm Pack heads down into the Undercity with Griffiths to start working on suppressing the fires and the spirits that spread them. Replying to the Undercity Prince, Tillo Protz, who is looking for hands to help put out remnants of fire that he and his can't reach without risking final death or causing more problems. |
+----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ There had been some talk recently of a new group going down into the undercity to explore the Wound. Everybody has heard how nasty it is and few have been daring enough to get close. Perhaps this new group wants to make a name for themselves. Standing outside a plain black 'Kidnap' van the group is making themselves ready to go inside. They don't look at all loaded to go in and get into a huge fight. Most of them don't even have weapons. But they can take a peek, right? This is where Nisha and Griff happen to stumble upon the gang, just heading into the belly of the beast. The undercity is just plain disgusting. It is rank with corruption so thick it doesn't take any special senses to detect it. Rot and disease, even chemicals can be picked up down here, almost to the point of being overbaring, especially for those with stronger senses... Rats the size of cats and roaches the size of mice live in this area, growing like mutated beasts from whatever feeds them. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:19:01 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Griffiths +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Griffiths looms out of the darkness like a surprise hillock - pulling a heavy raincoat up around her bulky shoulders, peering suspiciously into the gloom. What light there is to pass around reflects off of her eyes, like some soggy coyote. A damp rag covers her nose and mouth, reeking of alcohol and herbs. She's waving a flashlight around in her hand - largely for show, and for comfort. "...Evenin', lads. Odd place for a game of footie. What's the occasion?" She squints from underneath her many layers of fabric - her silhouette lumpy and indistinct. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:24:40 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Tilly and Seth walk along with the group that's formed, the pair in athletic apparel that makes it look more like they're going to the gym or out for a jog. As they walk they explain to their pack and the others that join them, "It gets pretty nasty down there. Fire, smoke, horrible spirits, and creatures ridden by all that are drawn to the wound. Mixed in there are the Pure and cultists that follow the Pure or worship spirits or try to get power from a place like this. All around, everything is dangerous." Seth talks just loud enough to be heard, looking to Tilly to back up his words as they explain what they've seen before. "Fire is always a beast... but," Looking to Firefly he grins then looks to Tilly as she adds, "I'll hang back, watch the van and the exit to make sure you don't get stuck in there. I'll pass on word if things get dangerous up here." Seth gives her a nod, a quick kiss to her brow and a whispered word in first tongue before he shifts into his dalu form. With a voice deeper and gruffer as they're entering the parts of the Undercity where they won't been seen by most /normal people/ he motions, "I can lead the sacred hunt ritual to set the denizens of this place as our prey." +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:26:57 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Firefly has been pretty quiet while they were coming down into the Wound itself. She'd been tagging alongside Tilly, Seth and Laughs-at-Death while marveling at the corruption all around her. Even though the place was rife with suffering and all manner of malignant forces she seemed excited as a kid at Disneyland. "Y'all really think it's that bad?" Of course she is teasing, her eyes are peeled as are all her other senses. "Anyways, y'all just let me know if you need me for anything. I won't let you get burned, but you can't run off out of my sight or nothin', just a reminder is all." +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:31:21 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ The last one to come out of the van is a behemoth of man in the form of Locust. He hops out and lifts his head up to give a bit of a feral yipping from his mouth, "This place don't look so bad...." He mutters, stalking his way through the area now and giving them others a wide smile, "We am not even sure what's done there?" He looks to them with a raised brow head tilting back and forth as he grumbles a bit, "I'll take the lead." And with that the big meaty biker begins to head in unless anyone stops him. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:37:26 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Spider hangs back some mostly due to the fact that there is a good deal of FIRE down there and his player is also running the scene. But he's here! Ish. He is back up mostly and NOT involved in fire fighting cause he's a big scaredy cat. As they descend into the underworld and the corruption hits them, they can already hear the sounds of activity and it seems to be all around them, very hard to pinpoint, hitting every wall and rebounding right to their ears. The walls are wet and slick should anybody be unlucky enough to touch them. One might think it was condensation, but mere water doesn't smell that terrible; like urine and feces left in a jar in the sun for a week. Skeletons, mostly all picked clean, litter the ground in these catacombs. They come in all sizes, many of them rats as if even the rodents have fallen into such depravity of cannibalism. With Locust taking the lead he will find it is dark down here and Griffith's flashlight shining back and forth helps very little. If anything it only adds to the confusion. It twists and turns a bit then comes to a crossroad, still sound coming from every direction, though the smoke and scent of burning flesh gets stronger from the right it seems. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:42:03 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Griffiths +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Griffiths shakes the flashlight - a little embarassed in front of the far cooler customers. She stows it in her enormous coat - rolling her shoulders with the crunching of bone and the twanging of sinew. The hunt was... music, to her - her feet falling in behind the Uratha before she even had a chance to give her name. "G..Griff." She finally croaks. "I'm Griff. Huntin'... one spirit in particular. You got me on the hunt, an' I'll throw my shoulder to anythin' you want - just... you see a fucker named You-Soon? The nasty little shit is mine." As she walks and falls into rank, she gains a few metres in height - overcoat creaking with the ominous stress of overtaxed fabric. Matching Dalu for Dalu, her hands sprout in fine-blonde fur and knife-like nails. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:47:20 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Be that as it may, Firefly had very keen senses and had no problem seeing in the dark. She didn't much like the flashlight being in her eyes so she made sure to stay behind Griffith while she wielded it about. Unlike the other two she could not take Dalu at will and instead continued forward in those little boots of hers which were getting messier the longer they mucked through all the shit. "This place is disgustin' y'all." Firefly states the obvious with a pout but soldiers onward. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:53:21 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Seth is in his dalu form and trying to find a space to do his ritual he doesn't seem able to complete the rite. Growling he throws up his clawed hands and then shakes his head. "It seems it's not the time or place for the hunt." Nodding to Locust and Firefly he gives Griff a polite nod of greeting as he introduces them all, pointing back to where they left Tilly and Spider to call out their names as well. With a rough grunt he shifts once more, turning into his near-wolf form, all sleek black fur and piercing blue eyes as he pads along with the group. +----+ Fri Nov 04 19:56:52 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Locust seems perfectly at ease as he travels down further into the caverns, laughing as he looks at the walls, "Smells like some of those whore houses we went to back in the day in Reno." The behemoth laughs, a hand almost touching the wall, but he thinks better of it. He turns around for a moment to look at Griffith, giving a wave of his hand, "I'm Locust. You crazy as hell coming in to join us on this adventure." The deep sound of laughter rumbling from his big chest, but he continues to keep an observant eye out even if he isn't the stealthiest of beings. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:03:21 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ As Locust reaches his hand out and hesitates, for just a moment the slime coating the catacomb wall reaches back. A tendril of goo attempts to make contact with the hand but he draws away just in time to deny it. With direction from the Uratha, Laughs-at-Death, Locust turns to the right where the scent seems to be most unbearable. It declines for a bit and twists around, critters scamping underfoot in such numbers it is likely they get stepped on, which one might thing would be only bad for them, but damn it keeping footing isn't hard constantly twisting ankled because a huge rat is under your foot. Where they are going? Hard to tell. One might thing AWAY from the smoke and scents of burning flesh...but then some rush toward it. There is no real reason to what they are doing. Confused. Lost? As the group continues on the smoke does get thicker and as it enters nose and mouth it tastes...greasy, like hot lard. Also of note, the temperature is steadily rising as they continue in this direction, and rather drastically. The sounds of voices are split by screams suddenly and they do not stop. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:12:24 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Griffiths +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Griffiths idly scratches her hip with her claws, calling ahead to Locust. "Y'know, if Reno's like London? Walls are the sweetest smellin' thing in that house. Mark you, this place is givin' me nostalgia. If we turn the corner, an' you see a fried chicken shop an' two pidgeons shagging, it'll be just like home." The screams ahead give her pause, the Cahalith hunching over - tensed up and ready to spring forward if anything tries to get the jump on them. The rag over her mouth can't hide the growl - rumbling deep in her cavernous chest. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:15:40 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ The rising heat was a comfort to Firefly as they descended further. Where others may have been sweating she was only smiling. "Y'all feel that?" The beast inside of her reared its ugly head as her hackles began to raise despite her innate immunity to fire. When the screams kick up, its par for the course. The curly haired Kindred looks to the rest, wanting nothing more than to rush and see what all that ruckus was about - but she was smart and wouldn't just run off. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:25:15 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Laughs-at-Death huffs out a breath and a soft sneeze at the smoke that fills his nostrils. Shaking his large head he makes a low growling sound then speaks in the first tongue << This is that shit we talked about, the rats are scared of whatever is happening. >> Looking in the direction of the screams he tries to slink in the darkness, hoping his dark-furred body will be hidden in the darker shadows as they move forward to investigate. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:26:58 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ The little glob of shit that pops out at Locust, causes him to furrow his brows, "What the fuck is that jizz?" He grumbles and makes sure to distance himself further from the wall now. He pauses as the rat's duck and weave between his feet, coming down to his knee and sniffing at the air, "These little fuckers are all sorts of confused. Some of them even heading towards the god-awful smell." Then those screams comes and he begins to laugh waving a meaty cinderblock sized hands towards the commotion, "Sounds like someone just did their taxes." +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:34:47 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ They know they are going in the right direction as the screams are getting louder as is the greasy smoke which is soon clinging to them and making each one feel as if they have been sprayed down with well used cooking oil. It sticks to everything. What is worse though, is it seems to be the same thing covering the walls, thus the sensation of thousands of worms or maggots crawling all over is felt by each one as well. Something feels alive in this stuff. After a little longer there is light coming down the tunnel of the catacombs. Moving further it opens up into one of the many caverns in this place. Stalagmites rise up from the ground like spikes and some reach from the ceiling as well. Bones litter the place, everywhere. Not all are animal either. Many are humanoid now in here. The smoke floats to the top here, making the ceiling hazy at best and all but blotting out whatever is forward. The way is obscured but the sounds of screams are still coming for inside the cloud of greasy smoke. Something(s) in there. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:36:07 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Griffiths +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Griffiths eyes the smoke with a mistrust so profound that every single muscle in her body is coiled like a spring. Her gold-ish eyes flick through the greasy, choking, maddening gloom. Her hands yearn for something to claw at, twitching. Her teeth yearn for something to bite at, chattering. "Never run with your set before. This kicks off, we all charge in until the problem dies? I'll be right be-fuckin'-hind you, yeah? No fear, bruv." +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:40:30 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Although Firefly did not comment on the plan that Griffith puts forward she gives a reassuring nod to the other before eyeballing Seth and Tilly to see what their plan was. For now though the small statured Kindred will pull out her lighter and flick it open. Once it lights the flame is drawn into her palm and made to grow larger, dancing around her hands as she moves to the fore. "I'm right behind unless y'all want me to take point," Firefly says softly. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:48:30 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Laughs-at-Death isn't sure who can understand him other than Griffiths, so from the darkness he hides within he growls softly in the First Tongue << Locust and Firefly are tough, guard Firefly so she can use her fire, Locust can get in there to fight with me, and you if you like to get in close. Just remember they're friends, not foes. >> Sniffing at the air he takes in their foe and then looks to Locust to see if he's ready, blue eyes going to Griffiths and then Firefly before he starts to move forward, ready to attack. +----+ Fri Nov 04 20:51:55 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Suddenly ther screaming stops. Whatever was making that noise, now mere groans eminate from them. The voice sounds perhaps male and speaks barely loud enough to be heard begging, "P-p-please. Kill. Me. Please. Kill me." Still, the greasy smoke makes it nearly impossible to see anything beyond the point where it is thickest about fifteen meters ahead. The orange light flickers through the smoke and and shadows dance in it. Now the heat is getting stifling for some. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:05:55 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Locust waves his hands at the others and then places a hand to his lips. Oh, sure now he wants to be quiet, "There something in that cloud that is alive." He grumbles and focuses his gaze on it, studying for a bit longer to see if he can tell what it is exactly, "I'm with Griff dawg though. I saw we just go in and wreck this shit." Those eyes narrow and he tilts his head up, focusing for a moment before. The concentration is broken for a moment as he hears the voice, "Oh fuck this haunted house bullshit....." And suddenly the massive biker bursts into a swarm of...well...Locusts that flutter about. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:08:02 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Griffiths +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Griffiths throws off her coat, letting the heavy garment flutter and float away into the hellish, sticky pestilence. Even in Hishu, she stands a good seven foot tall - so as a Dalu, this woman stands head and shoulders over regular height. Her hairy, meaty hands dig into sewer-muck and her back seems to split open - a tsunami wave of fang, claw, and blonde fur exploding down her spine. Within seconds, she's in Gauru - a walking tank of a Werewolf, bounding off into the smoke. She snaps her jaws at anything she might find - heralded rather apocalyptically by that thick cloud of biting bugs. She throws her head back in carnal rapture, an ear-shattering howl offered up to the others. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:14:30 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Laughs-at-Death preps to move in, planning on circling to make a flanking move before calling out the others << There is something in the smoke. I'll flank. >> Moving off he is a sleek black shadow in the darkness and smoke as he preps to hit this thing from the other side of the group once they strike. Set he doesn't make a noise before he strikes, launching in to try to tear into the figure in the smoke as the opening salvo. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:17:42 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Firefly exploded into the flames at a glacial pace compared to the Uratha around her, but she was always quick to react and that means she is actually wading through the smoke first. Out of habit she sings to herself as she tosses the flame back and forth, making it grow larger and brighter as she strode deeper. "Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run...." Unless they were right next to her they probably wouldn't hear her little mantra as she conjured hellish flame. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:29:07 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Locust mayu have been the the first one at the head of the pack, but he is a little slow to the charge. He does begin to run in with the others maybe just at a slower pace being the big dumb ox he is. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:30:13 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ If they thought the feeling of that greasy smoke was bad before, when they actually ENTER it, the stuff feels as if it is crawling all over them. They have the sensation of it slithering against them, as if it nearly has form...but not quite. Lucky them because on top of that it burns, not enough to actually do any lasting damage, but the feeling is like their flesh is searing. The group will come to realize they are indeed NOT alone in that smoke. Firefly is a bit quicker and the first inside. She will almost immediately stumble on the old wooden tables with bodies on them. Flesh is being stripped off in layers with red hot blades. Then she realizes they are not dead. All three are still alive, barely whimpering in the agonizing pain. Griffith's war howl is what catches the attention of Cremation. Hearing that sound split through the smoke and fill the cavern, this spirit of fire and death reaches out to end the threat. The others are somewhere in this smoke. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:37:45 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Firefly has her lighter and seems prepared to use it in order to invoke her abilities but then she feels the fire spirit. Having never tried this before she is unsure if it will work but the Dragon reaches out to try and smolder the flame until she can dwindle it down to nothing. +----+ Fri Nov 04 21:48:57 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Laughs-at-Death slips through the smoke and darkness. In his near-wolf, dire wolf form he shoots forward and attacks Emphazima, biting and tearing into the spirit as flames flare up and singe the wolf's black fur and make him howl in anger as he backs off, shaking his head and breathing out smoke while spitting out charred bits of the spirit. +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:07:23 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Coming up close to the 3DB Locust just laughs, "Hey fuck face...." Without much warning other than that the big biker lunches one biker booted tree trunk of a leg and smashes it at abouts where the sternum of a normal human would be. "Go on. Get!" +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:25:57 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ The smoke is nasty stuff. It sticks to their skin and causes searing pain, even going into their lungs if they breath in. Luckily half of them don't NEED to breath, but then there is that whole fear of fire thing. Cremation, a spirit of Fire and Death with the visage of a pile of smouldering ash with human skeleton poing out in places. It sends a wave of hot embers at Griffiths and she decides it might be better if she moves back to guard the flank. Firefly witnesses this and calls on her power of the Ordo Dracul, smothering the flames of Cremation and it hurts the spirit, diminishing it a little. In response to that Emphazima a spirit that looks like a cancer patient with black lungs sticking out of it's body, sends a wave of white hot smoke at Firefly, but it does nothing to her. Fire supression FTW! Then Laughs comes out of the smoke to bite Emphazima, coming away with a mouthful of hot flesh that burns his mouth. IN response Third Degree Burns extends his upon Laughs the pain of being engulphed in flames, skin burning off and cripples the uratha momentarily. This prompts Locust to put a boot in 3DB's chest, sending him sprawling to the cavern floor. This is an all out brawl! +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:31:06 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Firefly +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Once she realized that the fire spirit was affected by her psychic abilities she is delighted and lets loose. Using an effort of will and forcing her vitae to mystically empower her, Firefly reaches out and begins to compress the two opposing fields of energies that were between her hands until she felt the spirit dwindling rapidly this time. Far more rapidly than she had expected. All the while she laughs,"Awww ain't this the most fun I done had in a real long time," she mutters. +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:39:46 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Seeing the effect of the kick didn't have as much oomph to it that he wanted. The goliath biker bends down letting out the most feral of growls that radiates through the canals. The vitae is sent pumping through his already muscular body causing the his muscles to ripple and swell, "Time to get what you wished for." He growls out with a flurry he just starts punching and kicking, screaming with his fangs popped out. He is just a whirlwind of destruction beating anything that gets into his face. +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:41:35 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Laughs-at-Death +-------------------------------------------------------+ Laughs-at-Death goes into overdrive as the fight goes on. Spurred on by the pack and the pain from the smoke and the fire. Roaring the dire wolf tears into the spirits with his claws to keep from burning his mouth and muzzle. Working with the vampires he knocks over the spirits, claws, and does all he can to tear them apart until they finally finish them off. +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:42:30 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Spider +----------------------------------------------------------------+ If you play with fire, you're gonna pee the bed. Well that is what grandma always said. It's bullshit, but what is true, is that you WILL get burned. The combined might of the pack is overwhelming. While Firefly uses her pyrokenesis to crush the fire of the spirits, Locust just lays into them with those heavy hamhock hands. Triple H style. While he is beating their ashes, Laughs starts helping by clawing them, sundering the physical forms. The spirits are no match for the pack, but they get their licks in as well. Cremation chars Laughs with his blash of white hot ash. Third Degree Burns is able to put the pain of a hundred burning children into the mind of Firefly, and Emphazima makes Locust feel as if his lungs were on fire, even if he doesn't breath. Not to mention every time they hit one of the spirits their flesh is seared. It is a hard won battle, but finally the trio of malevalent spirits dissipate to go find a place to slumber. Along with them the smoke goes away, clearing out to leave the display of carnage. At least a dozen corpses in the area, recent ones, with the three still barely hanging on with their skin peeled off with hot knives. It is an atrocity to behold, but...a little less so now. +----+ Fri Nov 04 22:51:52 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ +----+ Locust +----------------------------------------------------------------+ After all the smoke and dust settles Locust rises up again, shaking his hands that are scalded with the burns and coughing like he smoked a few to many black and milds at the bar the night before, "Well...." He pauses and snorts, "...That was a little harder than I anticipated." He lets out a low chuckle and moves to help up anyone who might need helped up, "Think we might wanna go rest for a bit. I'll Bee rub some cream on my body." He raises his eyebrows up and down, waiting for the others before making the journey back towards the van. +----+ Fri Nov 04 23:02:22 2022 +----------------------------------------------+ | |