hide and seek

[realitymods]

[A fair amount of time after Wolf's transmission, the lights go out, stars and all. When they snap back on a minute later, anyone currently on the Plane will end up at the gates of a run-down, darkened city that looks a bit like old Tokyo, except with the same Plane sky overhead. There are bent and beat-up posters plastered all over, with illustrations of some horrible monsters and a riddle.]

To win hide and seek,
hide from darkness and seek the light.

[The monsters aren't out yet, and there are no residents to be found except the Plane's captives, but there is an eerie, empty feeling about the place.

On closer inspection, this 'sanctuary' is really a dead end. The buildings surrounding it are high with boarded windows, and the alleyways are quick dead ends.

Also, no one has powers anymore. Sorry!]

[ooc: plot start! There will be a post for prisoners going up in a couple of days.

Threadhopping/threadjacking is much encouraged. Don't worry about order, as I will be jumping in occasionally to screw everything up :D]

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[realitymods]

[There are a lot of supplies in this building. Some of them might be useful, canned food and such. Some maybe not quite as useful, like old magazines and newspapers written in something that looks like Japanese. They're all dated, yellowed, from at least 1980.

There's something glittering in a corner, small and gold and easy to overlook. Unless you shine a light on it.]

[decrypts]

[ oh, what's this?

man, that lantern is coming in handy!

he picks up the key, turns back to hawk and holds it up for him to see with a bit of a quirk of his brows. ]

We're just finding stuff all over the place. What do you think this goes to?

[ how about it opens something, genius? ]

[most_feared]

[That's good. A clear path is what he needs. But he wants to get there as quick as he can, stop that snake from bearing down on the other guy.

And if he doesn't he just wants to stop the damn snake.

He sprints ahead, fast, glad that he's in this younger body because it does take the edge off running. He gets to manhole, jams one of his blasters in it, gets out of the way as he aims the other.

He shoots. It should make a pretty good sized explosion; even at his distance something he'll have to brace himself. But it'll also mean he'll be down one weapon, which seems kinda important.]

[betrayedtwin]

[North can hear that thing gaining on him, but he isn't surprised. A thing that size could easily catch up to a regular human like himself. It's a good thing he got the message to Patricia and his sister when he did...]

[Unfortunately, he has no idea that Kay's going to do what he's going to do. North's eyes are on his trackers and sees that thing closing in on his rifle, but he's hit the end of the clip and there's no time to put in a new one. So he dives to the side to wrongfoot (wrongscale?) the snake monster, his body slamming into the tunnel's side as he switches guns. If he's going down, he's not going to do it while reloading.

And while he's firing off every last bullet in the chamber of his SMG, that's when he hears the explosion.]

[behisequal]

[Though his powers are no longer with him, Loki's senses as a warrior are still in working order. The color starts to run out of his face as the full-scope of this creature's size becomes apparent.]

You really could say that again.

[He's never seen this manner of creature before, not made of materials such as those, anyway. One thing's for sure, though: his daggers are going to be absolutely useless against it. Still, they're the only weapon he has on his person.]

Something around here has to be important to this creature for it to show itself now!

[Loki's muscles tense again, the adrenaline beginning to pump through his body as he readies himself for an attack. None of his usual tactics will work. He'll have to face it head-on--and without the use of Gungnir. He wishes he had brought it with him, but nothing can change that now.]

[realitymods]

[There's a horrible screeching of metal on concrete as the snake hits its brakes, so to speak. But there isn't much to be done for the laws of physics. It slams into a nearby arch, and that's when it gets caught in the explosion. The entire tunnel fills with smoke and debris, and the resulting shockwave is enough to knock a grown man off his feet and then some.

When the dust clears a bit, the snake seems to have stopped moving. It's laying across the tunnel, the lights along its scales flickering, its jaw wide open.

And then... and then it starts to pull itself upright, one eye hanging out of a robotic socket, the other still fixated on North's location. It rises to its full height, taking advantage of part of the ceiling that's caved in, and leans forward to snap at the gun-toting agent.]

[most_feared]

[Well, damn. At least he knows he made a dent. He lunges backwards down the street, shooting at the remaining eye. If it's going to go after them he's going to make it a confusing hunt.]

[desertdaggers]

Well… at a guess, something marked with that diamond. But I can't recall having seen anything like that…

We'll just have to keep looking. If our luck holds…

[betrayedtwin]

[North has all he can do to dodge the debris. It's a damn good thing he has his suit on, too. He can hear bits and pieces ping and fly off his armor, but a good-sized chunk surprises him and smacks his helmet just hard enough that it makes him sees stars, knocking out one of his helmet lights. It's long enough that he's only able to bring his SMG back up and fire the rest of the clip he's got when the snake snaps him up.]

[spiritofadventure]

[Castor is nothing if not perceptive. She scans the room slowly, assuring herself that the shadows are simply that until...]

Woah hey, back it up...what's that?

[decrypts]

[ sounds like a plan to him. he hasn't seen anything like that around them yet, either.

so he shrugs, nods slightly, sticks the key in his pocket. ]

Works for me -- there's not much else we can do right now, anyway. At least looking might actually get us somewhere. [ you hope, at least. ]

[realitymods]

[Bam. That's it. The snake eats North in one gulp, and then... surprisingly, it tries to bury itself back in the tunnel, sufficiently satisfied for now.

It might be Oh Kay.]

[realitymods]

[You found a key! It's shiny and gold, and it has the symbol of a sun.]

[vengefulagent]

[Wash comes closer, his eyes catching what Castor's did. He doesn't pick it up--she's closer to it--but he keeps his lights on it.] Huh. Wonder what that goes to. [More to the point, why is there a key there at all?]

[spiritofadventure]

Dunno...

[Castor inches forward, sliding the key towards herself with her foot, and only picking it up once it gets closer.

Once it's in her hand, she stands and dusts it off, twisting it around to examine it from all angles in the light of Wash's helmet.]

Pretty thing, though!

[rememberstime]

[He also glances towards the gates.] Well, we can head over there and find out.

It's probably better if we start moving now that we have it. [Maybe he's a little paranoid, but he can't imagine them being very safe. Maybe less so now that they have a key.

[rememberstime]

[He mostly keeps in step with the other. Dave's steps are cautious and his attention isn't even forward.] I guess we're just playing a game we didn't volunteer for then. I'm game. [Not like they have a choice.]

[lamb_of_gold]

I agree.

[It's paranoia well-founded. Mu glances around, then nods in a direction.]

It may be safer if we parted here, and rendezvoused at the gates.

[vengefulagent]

I guess. [Judging beauty really isn't his thing.]

Let's go find where this goes to. It has to be nearby.

[rememberstime]

That's fine by me.

[He hadn't finished scoping out the area. There was also probably more than just one of the keys (although he was terribly suspicious of them just finding it in a hilt of a sword that just happened to be there).]

Guess I'll see you there then.