[log] Monster Mash [semi-open]

[rubikscomplex]

Characters: Clayton, Enoch, Dio, House, Miranda, Clem, and Quark
Location P10 - BUILDING 110
Date: Day 041, evening
Summary: Gas Station slumber party! Following a monster attack.
Warnings: Will add as necessary, but general House disclaimer for insensitivity.

[The evening is drawing in around them as Miranda and House make their way toward the gas station. It's a somewhat familiar road to tread, at least, and there's the promise of his meds at the end of it... also people to distract the irritating woman walking with him from his company.

Epps should be good for that. He seems like the sort.

There's a sudden hiss from somewhere behind them, when they're still a good distance from the building. House glances back, then does a double-take when he sees a four-legged shadow monster pounding across the snow after them. That... what is that? It doesn't look like a robot. It doesn't look anything but absolutely real.]

Six o'clock!

[The words are snapped out as House turns, gauging the thing's speed. It's moving too fast for him to reach the gas station in time, which means improvising.]

Comments

[cloneprincess]

- Well, I suppose we're going to be here a while.

[ Might as well, then; Miranda lets herself get as comfortable as she can, under the circumstances. ]

Back home, the galaxy was under attack from a race of aliens called the Reapers. They were incredibly powerful and incredibly advanced; if anything I know of might have the technology to bring us here and keep us this way, it would be them.

[warriorscribe]

["Galaxy" is not a word he knows. He knows of the true nature of planets and stars and the space outside the atmosphere, but doesn't know anything beyond that. He skips it in favor of delving into the theory, thinking he can ask about it later.

It means he utterly misses the scope of Miranda's problem, unfortunately.]

And these Reapers of yours would have the motivation to capture us and put us here?

[The fact that demons make almost too perfect of an explanation is one of the reasons he's gathering other theories. He doesn't want it to be demons. He's never been equipped to handle a demon prince, and he's already been tortured and possessed by one. He doesn't want to be up against them with even less support...]

[cloneprincess]

[ She makes a frustrated noise and shakes her head. This is where the theory falls apart, especially in the face of a competing one. ]

Not any that I can work out. From what we've seen, they either convert their captives into mindless slaves or destroy them to aid in their own reproductive cycle.

[warriorscribe]

So there's no reason at all for this from them...

[Enoch's good at hanging onto an idea for better or worse, at least, and he finds a reason her theory could sort of hold, however likely or unlikely:]

Might it be someone using their technology or methods?

[cloneprincess]

[ A complicated expression flits over Miranda's face before she nods and makes a noise that might, from a certain terrible point of view, be called a laugh. ]

That sounds incredibly possible. To what end, though, I don't know.

[warriorscribe]

...I suppose we need to learn something more about that first. Motive has always been missing, hasn't it.

[He slumps a little, but quickly straightens back up as it gives the monster on the other side of the door a little leverage.]

I suppose it's a strike against my own theory that I can't imagine why demons would do this, either.

[cloneprincess]

So you don't think we're in some kind of hell, then? Punishment for our sins?

[ That is what demons do, isn't it? ]

[warriorscribe]

[Not in his world. For surprisingly logical reasons.]

...Are demons considered agents of God where you come from? The demons I know are not interested in teaching us we were wrong, and in fact one doesn't need to do wrong to be taken by them. They are only interested in expanding their own power.

But... [he averts his eyes again.] ...it would not be unusual for someone corrupted by a demon to believe it is their own fault.