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Freya Crescent ([personal profile] lancingintherain) wrote in [community profile] snowblindrpg2015-10-10 08:50 pm

[network] @crescent; to die historic on the furry road [open]

[usually, the worst thing about waking up is remembering how hungry she is. But this morning, as Day 45 breaks cold and overcast as usual, the worst thing about waking up is remembering that last night, her friend got literally eaten by a monster.

She has to warn people. She couldn't save Mami, but maybe she can help others. So once she's mostly talked herself down from numb grief and fear, she turns on her tablet's video function. At first, it's aiming at a wooden tabletop, but she tilts it to show a drawing. For having been drawn last night in the dark in the hazy, panicky aftermath of mortal peril, it's pretty decent:



She clears her throat and starts to speak, her voice low and breaking despite her efforts to keep it steady.]


Four days ago, I was traveling with Alphonse Elric's group. We were attacked by this monster here. [a gray-furred, four-fingered hand moves into the video to tap at the top left of the picture with one sharp claw.] It was... well, if you've seen Alphonse, you know how tall he is. This one was taller. It had... light, instead of skin. Like what we see on the videos, sometimes. I'm not explaining it quite right, but... we got away.

[she swallows, then takes a shaky breath and points to the drawing on the right.]

Mami Tomoe and I—she's a young human girl; some of you have met her—we were on our own, yesterday. This monster attacked us last night. We—I tried to...

[she breaks off, planting her hand flat on the table to stop it from shaking. When she speaks again, her voice is hard.]

...It swallowed her. It ate her whole. That's what they do. Now we know.

[she points to the bottom drawing.]

It said things to me, before it—before it ate her. Spoke right into my head. "I want it"; "I am here"; I wrote down what I could remember. And there's something else. All of the other monsters I've seen have looked, well, they've looked human, or something like it. But this one... oh, it's easiest to just show it.

[the video swings dizzyingly as she picks up the tablet, and she taps on the screen to turn the camera. At once, the view of the tabletop and wall becomes a view of her very inhuman face, framed by her pale, tangled hair and large ears. Her eyes are tired, and her muzzle is streaked with dark, dried blood.]

...It looked like me. Like one of my people. But it... it ran on all fours, like an animal. ...I don't know what any of it means. But one thing's the same—and if anyone who's just arrived is watching this, you'd better listen. [her voice turns cold, and she looks straight into the camera.] If you see a monster, you run, got it? You run away as fast as you can, and get inside, and block the door. There's no fighting them. No fighting them at all.

[OOC: HOT GOLLY DAMN, there are enough threads here to feed a whole village of cute, thread-starved orphans. I'm capping the number of threads where it is. No more replies please, you beautiful people.]
cloneprincess: (13)

video, @lawbringer

[personal profile] cloneprincess 2015-10-11 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, ate her whole? Spoke to you psychically?

[ That all sounds... insane. More insane than anything else they've encountered here, if only because it doesn't fit with the general pattern of what they've seen. Maybe that's limited sample size; they've been encountering more and more monsters and new patterns would inevitably emerge.

That, or it's possible Freya was hallucinating. ]


Do you think you could explain what happened in order? Take your time.
0thingsonmymind: (pic#9471494)

text, @totheark

[personal profile] 0thingsonmymind 2015-10-11 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
itwants you?

*Or the girl it ate, maybe.*

how light in steadof skin?
rubikscomplex: (Default)

@hotstud_xxx; audio

[personal profile] rubikscomplex 2015-10-11 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He should really be more concerned with the information being relayed. The fact that one of those things swallowed a girl whole is interesting as well as horrifying. Presumably she's being carted off to the morgue for safe-keeping. The fact that the creatures are now speaking is even more interesting. But there's one over-riding thing here. Something that he absolutely needs to comment on.]

Holy shit, you're a furry. And your 'people.' Are you an otherkin?
fifty: (pic#1309591)

@starspangledhero; video

[personal profile] fifty 2015-10-11 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
It ate her? [America can only think back to Sealand, who had died and come back. No one had been there except Sealand, so he can't know, but he can only imagine the monster eating him, too. God, a kid, Sealand's just a kid, the girl who got eaten here is just a kid.

He's not incredibly surprised by Freya's appearance, at least; he's friends with an alien at home, and he assumes this is a similar deal.]


Did it keep chasing you after? Are you okay? [It looks like she was bleeding at some point, but there are a lot of things that could cause that here.]
0thingsonmymind: (Watching)

[personal profile] 0thingsonmymind 2015-10-11 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
maybe.
can you SHOW me?

i am new here


*That's totally an answer to that question.*
swatsflies: <user name="peachhoney" site ="livejournal.com"> (I probably bonked my head)

@zd; text

[personal profile] swatsflies 2015-10-11 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He has Shumi and Moombas where he's from and will assume she's some how related to them. Maybe she's what the female of their kind looks like?]

You have blood on your face.
Are you okay?
It's not still going after you, right?
silverfuller: (Ged nach pòsda e feasda)

voice; @haurchefant

[personal profile] silverfuller 2015-10-11 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
I am sure you are far lovelier than whatever this beast was.

[And yes he saw that she looks decidedly non human. But flattery aside.....]

Any monster can be fought, can it not? We'd need only find the right weapon....

[Saying that his voice sounds more cold. He's not sure what a "human" is, but he understands "young girl" and any creature that runs off with the young, well.... That's a creature that needs to be destroyed. Deep inside he feels his sense of honor sneer at the thought of just running from a threat that preys on the innocent.]
maskintape: (into the earth)

@TW; voice

[personal profile] maskintape 2015-10-11 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit. I-- shit.

[ Okay, Tim. Play it cool. Be sane and reasonable and focus on the monster that FUCKING ATE SOMEBODY. Don't be an idiot. ]

The tall one -

[ TIM NO ]

- did - did it have a face?

[ TIM NO ]
maskintape: (you take the number of aliens)

[personal profile] maskintape 2015-10-11 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tall. Faceless. Hard to look at. A degree of being unable to remember things about it. It all sounds pretty fukken familiar.

OH HEY LOOKS LIKE THE TIM TRAIN HAS STOPPED AT "SHIT I INFECTED U" TOWN YET AGAIN, DOES IT EVER STOP ANYWHERE ELSE
]

Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm - did any of you get close to it? Did any of you get sick after?

[ If people who've never seen the thing before are now seeing it, well. That removes any possibility that it isn't here, doesn't it. ]
0thingsonmymind: (Watching)

[personal profile] 0thingsonmymind 2015-10-11 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
*Oh, look, video of creepy shit from Jay on a public network. How surprising :|*

jay died.

*He saw his name on that died-and-came-back list and this sure sounds like he didn't survive it.*

is thatthe only glitch es?
maskintape: (by the number of)

[personal profile] maskintape 2015-10-11 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I've - I've never seen anything like that one. The tall one doesn't eat people, either, not not like that.

[ Unless the other one didn't eat the girl the way Freya thinks it did? She could still be alive.

Alive in an alternate hell dimension, of course. Being toyed with and dragged around and drowned over and over. But still! Alive.

Super.

Tim's just. Going to go quiet for a bit.
]

TELL MY WIFE I SAID I'M DEAD [backdated action thread, day 44]

[personal profile] fataliteas 2015-10-11 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mami hikes her backpack a little higher up on her shoulders and picks her way through the snow. She's reached the point of being so worn down that she feels hollow, and there's an awful sort of relief in that. No more sadness, no more fear. Only dull, familiar pangs of hunger and the fog of sleep deprivation. She's been quiet since they've parted ways with Alphonse and the rest — not so much withdrawn, or secretive, as empty. Going through the motions.

So when building 44 comes into view and she speaks up, her young voice is ragged at the edges and hoarse, strained. As if her vocal chords had begun to forget how to produce articulate sound.]


If we find shoes in my size, I'd like to preemptively stake a claim.
silverfuller: (Thogadh is a leagadh mi)

[personal profile] silverfuller 2015-10-11 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I am. I arrived only a day or so ago.

[There is a shifting of chain mail as he lifts a hand to his chest, not that she can see the gesture.]

New I most certainly am but I am also a warrior born and shan't stand by and do naught if there may yet be a way to defeat these monstrosities.

You say weapons pass through them? Does this mean they have no corporeal form?

[personal profile] fataliteas 2015-10-11 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
There's other children here. We could use them to trade. Or to burn, eventually.

[The joke doesn't register. Her tone is patient, too patient. More like the absence of emotion than the careful control of it. She shrugs and keeps walking ahead.]

It's not so bad. I would settle for some pants.
rubikscomplex: (possibility | yeah maybe)

audio 4ever

[personal profile] rubikscomplex 2015-10-11 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that what the Burmese are calling themselves these days? Sick fursuit and all, very realistic, but you should probably hand over the animatronics to someone who could do something more useful with them.

Like devise some sort of clamp to keep Ratigan and company from opening up wide enough to swallow somebody whole. Weird they're collecting people like that now. Wonder what's changed since that last round of injections. Was she one of the ones who didn't get sick, by chance?

Skin light guy sounds interesting, too. What I wouldn't give to actually catch one of these assholes.

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