[log] Event: Metamorphosis, Part Three

[snowblindmods]

Characters: everyone
Location: all around town; note location in subject line
Date: Night 415 onward; note time in subject line
Summary: They break out and they wake up.
Warnings: extreme body horror, unreality, eldritch horror, absolutely definitely 100% include warnings in subject lines/before your comment if the subject line isn't long enough

Comments

cw: body horror, potential being burned/poisoned/covered in ash to death accidentally

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sheena: A body that boils like magma. Skin cracking and bursting like the crust of the earth above a river of lava. Sparking and smoking, belching poisonous gas and hot ash and flames that engulf like a city preserved beneath an eruption. ]

A - Anomaly walking (through the tunnels).

[ Where? Where are they? Sheena has no idea. All she knows is that for the first time since arriving, she's actually warm. Too warm.

Warm as Hell, as a matter-of-fact.

A quick glance would trick a person into believing that she's perfectly normal--except for the cracking skin and sparks and gas that shoot from her hair occasionally. Ash follows her with every step, and her hand burns the walls around her with every touch, leaving a hand-shaped scorch-mark in its wake.

It feels like her blood is literally boiling, and as she watches as the skin breaks apart and reforms again and again, a flame shoots out of her hand and hits the closest person.

Who barely reacts. ]

You...That didn't really bother you, did it?

B - All about the Town - Anomaly.

[ Despite her appearance and abilities, Sheena is still Sheena, and all she wants to do is help. She thinks she's figured out a way to do so without hurting anyone and ventures from place to place, waiting for someone to show up.

And when they do, she won't hesitate to speak. ]

I can help keep you warm for the night. I think. Will you let me help?

[ ooc: A lot of options here: Non-anomalies: Stay or go, depending on time of day, of course. Going means risking the outside. Staying means risking Sheena accidentally killing you with gas, ash, or fire - (if this one, please let me know which one for accidental death you'd like/or if you want to be surprised). Or, you can tell HER to go, but she'll still stick around, trying to help anyway. And possibly kill you with gas. (Or total survival!) Of course, fellow anomalies won't be affected by her and are welcome to join her. ]

C - One hell of a nap - Human.

[ The moment Sheena wakes up, she knows something is wrong. For one thing, she had been standing in room 24, and now she's lying down in it. For another, she's pretty stiff, as though she hadn't moved for a while. And her head hurts, as though she had hit it on something.

Sitting up slowly, she starts to speak, but has to swallow a few times as it's parched and she can only squeak. ]

Coma? Again? What the hell is going on?

[ Directed to anyone and everyone around her. ]

A

[cahooted]

Surprisingly enough... no.

[Flynn slowly lowers a branched arm, still with a very startled expression on his face as he stares at Sheena.

He glances down at his body of wood and vines and paper and... pretty much anything inflammable in the book. Once he's sure he really did take no damage, he glances back up at her.]

Whew! For a moment there I really thought this was it?

[He pauses and studies her, well. Boiling body.]

... Does that hurt?

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sheena shakes her head in disbelief. Wood. Fire. Normally, the two don't mix well, so she's more than surprised that he's still standing there all right. ]

So did I. You're sure you're all right?

[ Not that she doubts him, but she's still in shock by what just happened.

She looks down at her hands and the parts of her body that she can see for a moment. She gives a small shake of her head.]

Not in the way you'd think. It kind of tingles--but it doesn't stop. You know what I mean? Almost like an itch that just won't stop.

How about you? Do you hurt anywhere?

[cahooted]

I think? I mean, as 'all right' as I can be, considering?

[He hasn't forgotten all the suffering. All the pain. All the nausea and coughing and blood. Still, he's just as surprised at the outcome here because yeah, that should be impossible?]

I... yeah. I think I know what you mean, sort of. It doesn't tingle, but I feel something?

[His vines move back and forth. It's so novel, so fascinating.]

I feel good. In fact, I feel really great? I'm warm and not freezing, which is what warm implies, I know, it's just... I feel really good?

[ninjainviolet]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

[ She looks down at herself, remembering the past few days. She hadn't expected this outcome--even with House's declaration. Not surprisingly, there's got to be something she's missing. ]

Hard to put into words, isn't it? More..."uncomfortable"? But even that really doesn't come close. [ She shakes her head. ] But I can deal with it, you know? Like ignoring an itch.

[ She smiles as she watches his wines move. ]

Despite shooting off flames, I feel pretty good, too. I can't remember the last time I was warm here. I mean, really warm. [ She wriggles her fingers easily. ] It's like the first time all over again.

[ She tilts her head. ]

If we're warm, do you think the others are, too?

[cahooted]

Sorry to hear that. But I'm glad it's just uncomfortable and not worse. Man, they did quite a number on us...

[He should probably be more horrified about this. Should he be more horrified about this? For some reason it's really hard to be. He's just so happy about not being cold and he really likes his vines.]

I know what you mean. I'm not sure what I like better, being warm or not being in pain. Both at the same time is just incredible?

[He looks around.]

I really hope they are. After that room I really think we all deserve it.