[OOM] Kazic III.

[stuck_mynock]

Jaq is sat upon a clifftop, staring outwards into the distance.

There was someone in the trees earlier, watching from afar, but he's gone now. Jaq doesn't suspect he'll come back soon.

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[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

They are starting to manifest more bizarre things now: One of them opens his mouth impossibly wide, revealing a multitude of large eyes. From the pupils, pasty white heads, like those of small babies, bulge out, eyes screwed shut.

Another has eight tentacles burst from his back, tipped with spikes. Another starts to grow larger and larger, skin stretching and breaking as he grows.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Not on this scale." Guppy says.

"Try and aim for death by fluid loss." He says. "Stop chopping off, start slashing on the surface."

[ostro_goth]

"They are going to turn into a thing too bizarre to live," Teja ponders, hacking away.

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Guys, we're getting over our heads here! Need something else!" Kate yelled as she continued cutting and slashing, barely blocking some of the blows.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Near the back, the babies-heads-monster rears up, eyes and potruding faces glowing orange-red as the other monsters fling themselves aside. A moment later, each face lets loose with wide blasts of energy, merging into one and crackling towards the three -

- and then there's a figure in the way, tufty-headed and longcoated, arms out against the blast. There's a few minutes of struggling, and then the blast splits off into a dozen beams, moving off in every direction.

Atton vanishes again with a rush of air, reappears for moments in the paths of the beams, deflecting them away, flickering in and out of view as he speeds about, until eventually, all the beams are moving down towards the babies-heads-monster.

There's an explosion. The monsters go scattering out of the way, and Atton reappears in front of the group and lifts one hand, letting the explosion ripple up an invisible wall without harming them.

When the smoke starts to clear, the babies-heads-monster can be seen in, mangled and burnt but mutating: Human legs sliding out of any uncharred flesh.

Atton breathes heavily.
"So. Yeah. Hi."

The monsters that scrambled out of the way are starting to return now.

[guppy_sandhu]

"...sweeeeet."

Guppy raises his sword to get ready for the monsters.

"Boy am I glad to see you. Any tips on handling these things?"

[ostro_goth]

"Greetings, Atton," Teja says, blood dripping from his naginata and his hands. "Had I known that you were coming, I would have enjoyed this much more."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"About damn time, Atton. Been just telling these two how much we're loving the vacation spot you picked out," Kate snarked in a friendly fashion as she kicked and pulled her blade free again.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Eyebrow lift.

"I got here as quickly as I could," Atton says. "These definitely aren't native to this world. Or any other that I've seen."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Atton, we've seen... we've seen Jaq." Guppy says, feeling that he can't really not mention it.

[ostro_goth]

Teja casually slices another approaching monster in two, then turns to listen to the conversation of his friends.

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, hoping this is alternate universe. Had enough messing with time already back home."

Kate continued to hack at another one, "Any ideas where they're from?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's fascinating, Guppy, and mentioned at a completely appropriate time."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Sorry, I thought it might be important." Guppy says, scowling and charging towards the next monster.

He makes a mental note to go on some sort of training course in how to handle difficult space-time situations.

[ostro_goth]

Teja hacks at the next monster, slicing it into two parts -- at least for the time being.

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Guys, ugly killing monsters? Let's focus on fighting just them," Kate called to them before slicing a tentacle off.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton pauses for a moment, then blurs through several of them, sheathing his sword as he stops on the other side. Several of them fall apart, but they quickly start to just grow out into new monsters.

"If they just keep growing appendages, we're not going to get anywhere."

[guppy_sandhu]

"I was trying to get them to exsanguinate."

[ostro_goth]

"If I had a flame-thrower, one might incinerate them," Teja says, "or with explosives, blow them apart and burn them, at the same time."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Ok so cauterizing isn't enough, bleeding's not doing it. They got to have a weakness. Shame it's not ice, there's plenty around here."