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Alexander Varista ([personal profile] amberhearted) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2014-01-20 08:24 pm

town meeting, alien breaking hoa rules

Who: OPEN
When: January 25th, Saturday, 5:00PM and onward
Where: Elian Price’s house – specifically, the basement
What: The Numbers discuss how to go about addressing the alien in the farmhouse. Nothing could go wrong, certainly?

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massivescale: (aw nah son)

[personal profile] massivescale 2014-01-28 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Luke's sword rebounds off the snake's neck with a scraping shhhang!

He did well to extricate himself from harm's way, however.

By the time it regains balance and stability, one of Gerald's bullets balances ricocheting off - just under and beside one of its eyes, which does, indeed, distract it. It turns its head to the man and sweeps toward him, and anyone else who might be standing near or on the way to him - it's caught by two of Sophie's spikes, interrupting its course to be cut off fully by ice crystallizing in the air snapping around its neck and anchoring it.

It breaks free with a good hard heave of its head with a shattering. Sophie and Toshiro have, between the two of them, bought the group about five seconds.
theboywiththebook: (pic#5100439)

[personal profile] theboywiththebook 2014-01-28 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Why wasn't it working? Why couldn't this thing just do what he wanted it to do and just turn into a toy like he was believing it to?

He would've stood there for another couple of seconds just to try and believe it away still, but getting grabbed by Toushirou made him realize that the snake wasn't just going to wait.

Henry moves back, take a few good running steps backward by the guy with the gun. They couldn't make this thing explode, Toushirou made that pretty clear. "Still working on just believing it away!" frustration pretty clear in his tone.

And yup. He's just going to hide behind Gerald still concentrating on that stupid statue and use his power to Believe into a tiny snake toy.

songoftimaendtimeagain: (Breathe and focus.)

[personal profile] songoftimaendtimeagain 2014-01-28 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Luke sees Henry's no longer an unsheilded target on the front lines and takes his opportunity while the snake is distracted to back up significantly. He wasn't doing any damage, and Toushirou and Sophie seemed much more effective at keeping the snake occupied than him. And with all the rocks and ice and bullets involved, he figures it'll probably be better all around if he just gets out of the way and lets them work.

But now that he's not right up in front, he's fairly useless. He doesn't have any ranged attacks, so standing on the sidelines here means he can't do much of anything. He looks over to Toushirou, making sure one more time that he's up and unharmed.

"All I can do is hit it! I'm going to help people get out!"

Luke waits for some kind confirmation that they don't need him anymore. A word or even just a nod, before he turns and heads towards other areas of the basement, looking for somewhere he's needed.
centurian: (human ✮ mad gun skillz)

[personal profile] centurian 2014-01-30 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Under normal circumstances, Gerald might've been somewhat impressed with himself for hitting such a small target (and without a scope no less), but these weren't exactly normal by any stretch. Not to mention, now the snake had decided that he made a good target. Just as planned.

Too bad that he hadn't quite thought of what the plan would be after that.

Thankfully, Henry was out of harm's way for the time being, and it looked like that other guy had gotten out of the way. But, they didn't have a lot of time. And, to be perfectly honest, Gerald had never exactly seen himself as a leader. But someone needed to step up here, and as the adult in the situation (and the one who the snake was currently eyeing like a tasty treat), he was going to figure out the best way to contain it.

"We're going to subdue this bastard." Okay, maybe he shouldn't have sworn in front of the kids (with magical powers), but...

"Frozone!" That had been what Sophie had called him, right? "you think you can coat the snake a bit more? Sophie! You think you can surround it with like a spike cage or something?" Christ, he was giving orders to kids to fight, but desperate times called for desperate measures, right. His gun is still drawn, but he's pretty sure that's not going to help him.

Seriously, if this doesn't work, he's so screwed.
metalbent: official show art (= bandit. foot slide.)

[personal profile] metalbent 2014-01-30 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I can break a hole to outside if you think we could get it out there to blow up," Sophie offered to Toushirou, in response to the exploding comment. That was a thing she could definitely try to do. Wasn't like the basement was doing so hot anyway, from a quick glance around at the other battles. Though if it did explode at them, she thought she could throw up some sort of shield, or at least keep the ceiling off their heads.

Or maybe that was she hoped she could. Random Sword Guy had darted away, so he was getting out of her immediate range of concern, and hopefully wouldn't get himself squashed or something.

Believing it away...? Oh, right, hadn't he said something on the network about that...? Well, whatever, as long as he didn't get hit by the snake she was cool with it. Gerald's words were a lot more immediately relevant; assuming Toushirou would go along with this plan long enough for her to do what was asked - if it was frozen a tad, it might stick around long enough for it, Sophie tried to do what was requested. She jerked her palm down at an angle, hard, and then the other up, and...

Sophie sent spikes out of the floor, trying to surround the snake as asked.
icy_heavens: (Judging you)

[personal profile] icy_heavens 2014-01-30 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Nobody's exploding anything!"

Is he the only one that understands that? It's not just about it being in the basement. It's that the explosion could be bigger than any of them can handle, or might cause a chain of explosions when the other snakes die. Which would probably wipe out anybody who doesn't have some kind of immortality going for them.

He glares up in Gerald's direction for a second. Did the guy seriously just call him that? Ugh. But whatever. No time to worry about that kind of stupidity. His idea is as good as any that's been thrown out, and they need to act fast.

It's a more concentrated effort this time, and he tries to make the ice as cold and rigid as he can. And it crackles further down the snake's body than his previous effort. If only he can get this thing properly fused to the ground.
massivescale: (talk shit get bit)

[personal profile] massivescale 2014-01-31 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Both the spikes and the encasing of ice keeps the snake blocked and weighted to the ground - from halfway along its body down at the moment. It makes use of what of its neck is free to swing into a good enough position in which to reach around or between the stone not-bars around it and take another swing - at Gerald and the lad behind him.

Mouth open - limiting its reach some.
theboywiththebook: (pic#5100439)

god i apologize for the lateness

[personal profile] theboywiththebook 2014-02-02 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Still not working. Still not working. At this point Henry's given up on the whole believing thing on the snake and is taking full cover behind the man. The man had the gun and Henry had a bat. So, if ANYTHING Henry's just holding his bat up and ready to swing away if that Snake just got past Gerald...or worse.
centurian: (human ✮ CRIME SCENE)

not as much as I do

[personal profile] centurian 2014-02-07 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well, on the bright side that sorta managed to put the snake's plans to a bit of a halt. On the minus side, the snake takes another swing at him, and Gerald barely moves out of the way, with the snake ripping a hole in the sleeve of his shirt.

(If the situation had been less urgent, he might've lamented that he'd liked that shirt)

The worst part of it was that now the snake had a clear view at Henry. He debated on firing another shot with his gun, but they were almost past that point now.

No, he needed the guys that could actually slow it down. The ones that had already proven themselves.

"Hey, Sophie! I need some back-up over here, stat! And Frozone, get the other kid out of the way while the snake's slowed down."

Damn it. He was supposed to be protecting the kids, but here he was, leading them straight into the fight.
metalbent: official show art (- bandit. ready to rumble. let's roll.)

[personal profile] metalbent 2014-02-09 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Did someone say backup? ...And haha, he totally just called Toushirou Frozone. Sophie gets the feeling that's going to come back in the form of will you knock it off already when they're no longer in immediate danger. But since they're in immediate danger, she doesn't spare more than a second on that fleeting thought, before starting to move.

Feeling pretty sure he wanted help re: Henry, Sophie brought her hands up, trying to build roadblock walls in front of the other kid as a stop-gap measure. Toushirou had pointed out blowing the damn thing up was a bad idea, so...

"Hey! If I open up a hole to the outside, think we can get it out there?"

Where, you know. Blowing it up would be more of an option. If they...also got it away from this place.