[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

A cw also mouth/mud horror

[zunesareawesome]

[Peter can't exactly push him off, he's also sort of...a rocky, sludgy, muddy thing. He can sort of...extend parts of himself to crawl, and he's starting to try and stretch further to make sort of muddy tendrils to try and slap at him.]

Enoch, come on! Get off!

[Yeah, he doesn't feel the cold anymore, but he's kind of concerned about everything else.]

[warriorscribe]

I'm sorry.

[Enoch wants to make everyone who needs it warm and craves contact more than ever but he also values what other people want still, even if he has difficulty seeing things as they are. He slides off and crawls a little out of his way so they can move alongside each other without Peter's larger mass engulfing him or tripping over him or whatever would happen if something that wasn't quite solid was in his way.]

I was trying to help. I'm so warm now, I could likely protect someone from the cold.

[zunesareawesome]

I'm good, I'm not cold.

[Peter pushes on forward, always crawling forward, no matter how heavy he was. He feels a little bad about yelling at him, though.]

Look, I just...I'm really weirded out by everything and this is just...all of it's a lot to deal with, okay? I'm kind of used to being shaped like a person!?

[warriorscribe]

Hmm...Perhaps none of us are cold. Or those of us who are, don't mind.

[That's kind of disappointing. But there were people who weren't taken, right?]

It's all right. I'm not certain what I am, either, but...I'm going to go against everything Miller believes in. I'm going to use this to help people, to protect them. That helps me feel a bit better about it.

[zunesareawesome]

That's actually a good thing? That's like the one good thing about this? I like not being cold.

[He tries to focus on Enoch next to him, as he continues his slow, steady crawl.]

How...how can you use that to help people? How can you protect people like that? [A pause.] You got some cool powers, too?

[A lot of people around here had pretty cool powers.]

[warriorscribe]

I'm warm, Peter, warmer than any blanket anyone could find, warmer than even my body as of arrival! I can protect them from the cold, and would be the least intrusive traveling companion possible, malleable like this.

[The more he talks about it, the more he starts to really believe it, fueled by his perpetual state of excitement.]

He wants me to be afraid like I was, he wants me to hurt them, to scare them - I might be unable to avoid a bit of a scare, but if I can warn them first, surely that will take the momentum out of everything else Miller had hoped this would be!

[zunesareawesome]

I guess. I guess that could be pretty helpful.

[He gets being perpetually excited about things, but you're way too stoked about all this, bro.]

Is that what happened? Miller turned us all into gnarly monsters to scare folks, hurt them? That sucks! I mean, I'm all for a good fight but I don't wanna hurt innocent people!

[Unless they couldn't help it. He's afraid they might not be able to help it. Right now he pretty much just wants to crush everything in his path and people can probably get out of the way in time, which is good, but what if they can't?]

[warriorscribe]

[After having his body and mind turned into weapons against innocents and friends so many times before, of course he's excited to have the opportunity to make this attempt backfire! Who wouldn't be?]

It's what he always does, and always has done, even if he claims it was only in the course of doing something else. Perhaps his need to hide from Eve now means he can't exert the same control on all of us - most of us seem to be ourselves, bodies aside.

[Beckett's one of those exceptions, he sees... Either he quietly lost his mind in there or he's one of the ones Miller did get to...he'll just have to double down on it not working for everyone, show Miller he won't let it demoralize him. He'll comfort and protect everyone! Miller will see.]

And since you don't want to, you don't need to. Surely there is a way to prevent accidental harm. You're quite large like this, but what if you were to find and hold something that makes noise?

[zunesareawesome]

Well, Miller sucks.

[Just saying. He has to say it out loud.]

I just hope we...stay ourselves. And don't get worse. Like, you know, monster-movie worse.

[He wouldn't be averse to crushing the town to nothing, though.]

Maybe? I guess I could get some pieces of metal like a windchime or something...

[Nah. Peter trails off, sounding unenthusiastic. He's finding that he really doesn't want to. It was so much easier to just crush everything in his path, sucks to be whoever's in his way...]

[warriorscribe]

[Really, Peter?]

You...ah, don't sound like you want to do that.

[zunesareawesome]

I do? I totally do.

[He totally doesn't.]

But I mean, like...people should see me coming anyway, and it's their fault if they don't. They should be paying more attention!

[warriorscribe]

And that might just be the first step to becoming worse, Peter.

[Says the guy who will eventually almost kill one of his friends by mistake and won't be able to understand it.]