PLOT: WISE SNAKE'S EMERGENCE

[theearth]

Who: OPEN.
When: March 9th, Sunday, daylight hours.
Where: The business district of Locke City.
What: An enormous snake monster is pissed.
Warnings: Violence.

[The alien explodes silently - but it explodes.

First in a small cloud of hot (rose-scented) gas - those there to watch its final moments will want to step back.

A ripple in the air pulses - heavily - from where it once was, with absolutely no sound and color, but penetrating force. Anyone standing within two miles of the point of origin will feel a push, with those closest guaranteed to be knocked off their feet and temporarily dazed. Cars swerve and crash. Staff in the nearest office buildings launch into disarray. There’s no shielding from the blast - it can be felt through walls, through structures, in the air, and underground.

And it is felt underground.

The entire business district starts to shake, abruptly, jarred to a stir by some movement. It rises over the span of a long half-a-minute to the magnitude of December’s earthquake.

Tuning Towers experiences the worst of it - windows are smashing and objects are shaking loose and falling from the upper floors.

It finally ends - with screaming - as the head of an enormous pink snake breaks the lobby floor.

It flows its way quickly out of the hole it’s made, breaks itself another hole ever so politely through the main entrance doors, which were not meant to accommodate a twenty-foot-tall-and-wide exitor, and as it draws the last of its tail out after it, the quaking dies down.

It’s now roaring its way through the streets of Locke City’s business district - all several hundred meters of Wise Snake, emerged in the flesh (or stone?).

No regard for the walls of buildings, streetlamps, civilians, stopped and blindly pulled-over vehicles, anything else on its course - in a frantically-awakened, unrestricted rampage.]



[ OOC: This is part two of the Season 1's finale. The first - the assault on the farmhouse - is here; pertinent plot posts one and two. ]

Comments

OPEN; healing offered

[envisaging]

[ After doing what she could at the farmhouse - and recovering from what the hell just happened - a somewhat battered Sierra continues on with those who follow the...well, appearance of a new threat. She's got a crossbow on her now, but until she's in proximity, she's not sure how to use it...

Then it clicks, and she'll actively provide cover, although she stays well back.

Those from the farmhouse will recognize her as one of the signed-up medics, and it's possible to spot her providing magical first aid and make the connection otherwise; she's getting progressively slower as things go on, but she's trying. Eventually she'll be able to drop the bow-and-arrow act and focus solely on playing medic when a tall boy with dark hair and swords starts acting as her guard. If approached at that time, Noah may answer as well. ]

[enguarding]

[ When Sierra texts, telling him to stay away from the business district because of a giant snake, Noah's reaction is of course "wow I better go down there right away", mainly to track his sister down. Did Sierra really expect her younger brother to listen?

After trudging through absolute chaos and mayhem, losing his favorite baseball bat and gaining a flame-y looking dual sword set, he finally spots his sister. Wielding a crossbow. Which, at this point, barely phases him. He's got dual swords and suddenly knows how to use them, why wouldn't Sierra have the same luck with a crossbow? ]

Sierra Mist! [ That's shouted over the din of insanity, as a tall dark haired boy with swords hacks his way through some dumb mini-snake, finishing it off just to get through to where his sister is. ]

[envisaging]

[ Sierra's first thought is spoken aloud, despite herself. ] Noah?

[ She whirls, bow still drawn, because no, it can't be Noah, she'd told him very emphatically and specifically to stay home -

Oh, of course it's Noah. She should have known. The incredulous look on her face says she didn't, though. Now isn't the time for scoldings, but she almost starts in on him. Almost, until her expression sharpens and she draws the bow tight again, releasing an arrow at her brother.

No, over his shoulder. Heads up, Noah, you've got company. ]

[enguarding]

[ When Sierra shoots an arrow in his direction, he freezes and thinks Oh no she's really pissed.

Then he realizes she was aiming over his shoulder, duh. He whirls around in time to see the arrow strike another one of the snakes (good god they're everywhere), and in time to jump out of the way of it's angry rearing. Dancing out of it's way, Noah glances back over his shoulder at Sierra while taking a defense stance and preparing to strike. ]

Are you okay? [ SHE JUST SHOT AN ARROW AT A SNAKE SHE'S PROBABLY FINE, NOAH. ]

[envisaging]

[ No worries, Noah. No matter how angry she might get with you sometimes, she will never be angry enough to try to murder you with an arrow.

Though she does look frustrated that he's there, although...she could use the help, really. Someone covering her back, and Noah has the swords, and she's seen them before, back when her town was attacked and he'd come to save her - ]

Yes! But this isn't - it's not safe!

[enguarding]

[ Their parents probably would have been a little displeased if one of their kids murdered the other. ]

Um, duh! Why do you think I came down here?

[ #noahlogic ]

[envisaging]

That's why you shouldn't have come down here!!

[ DAMNIT NOAH WHY CAN'T SHE TRUST YOU TO STAY PUT. Even if you seem to be alive and well and have random ass swords to help protect both of them here. ]

[enguarding]

I came down here because you were down here! Like I'm going to let you fight snake statue monsters on your own! What kind of brother would I be?

[ Also he wanted to see the monsters, because omg what. ]

[envisaging]

The safe kind! Which is the best kind!

[ Because then they're not in danger of, I don't know, BEING CRUSHED or something!!! ]

[enguarding]

You're not safe, why should I be? Least this way I can protect you!

[ says the guy who just got swords like, what, not more than an hour ago and arrived with a baseball bat ]

[envisaging]

Because you're my little brother!

[ Who is taller than her and has been for years but DETAILS ]