RE: Masks 2
07-31-2019, 03:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-31-2019, 03:25 AM by Cidellus.)
Nocturne listened to Maria, his face obscured behind his mask. At the end, he looked at the floor a moment before looking up.
"We just need to see what the situation on the ground is," he said. "Once we figure out what we're dealing with, we can start to plan. It'll take improvisation, but sometimes these things call for that."
"We're landing! ETA one minute!" shouted La Chat from the cockpit above.
The Demon quickly finished up her enchanted bandanas and left a number of spares on the ship, just in case. Then everybody stood up and prepared to disembark. The ship stopped in the air and came down, landing softly on the streets of Rainwalk. Then the loading ramp came down and they stepped off...
To most of them, the city looked pristine. Clean streets, undamaged buildings, celebratory balloons flying up above, banners hanging from the street lamps, and normal well-to-do citizens walking the streets with a bit more pep in their step than usual.
To Maria, the city looked like hell. Windows were broken, many of the walls had bullet holes, plenty of blood lied in splatters along the streets and sidewalks, and seaweed banners were hanging from the street lamps. The citizens walking the streets were still peppy and well-to-do, though they looked a bit sickly. Observing closely, Maria saw that a number of them had gills, or fins, or clammy skin, or glazed eyes. Rather than balloons, she saw freakish jellyfish floating through the sky above.
Through Polybius, Ken was sensing a LOT of interference. The poor drone could barely see anything, and was occasionally stuttering as it moved around. Seemed that SOMETHING was interfering with them. At the same time, Theraea saw that there was a hint of some sort of Other about the townsfolk, but she couldn't tell what was up with them. She'd never seen anything quite like it, it was like they'd done the dimensional equivalent of swimming through a really gross swamp.
Cheerful, jaunty music was playing and seemed to be coming from a square nearby.
"We just need to see what the situation on the ground is," he said. "Once we figure out what we're dealing with, we can start to plan. It'll take improvisation, but sometimes these things call for that."
"We're landing! ETA one minute!" shouted La Chat from the cockpit above.
The Demon quickly finished up her enchanted bandanas and left a number of spares on the ship, just in case. Then everybody stood up and prepared to disembark. The ship stopped in the air and came down, landing softly on the streets of Rainwalk. Then the loading ramp came down and they stepped off...
To most of them, the city looked pristine. Clean streets, undamaged buildings, celebratory balloons flying up above, banners hanging from the street lamps, and normal well-to-do citizens walking the streets with a bit more pep in their step than usual.
To Maria, the city looked like hell. Windows were broken, many of the walls had bullet holes, plenty of blood lied in splatters along the streets and sidewalks, and seaweed banners were hanging from the street lamps. The citizens walking the streets were still peppy and well-to-do, though they looked a bit sickly. Observing closely, Maria saw that a number of them had gills, or fins, or clammy skin, or glazed eyes. Rather than balloons, she saw freakish jellyfish floating through the sky above.
Through Polybius, Ken was sensing a LOT of interference. The poor drone could barely see anything, and was occasionally stuttering as it moved around. Seemed that SOMETHING was interfering with them. At the same time, Theraea saw that there was a hint of some sort of Other about the townsfolk, but she couldn't tell what was up with them. She'd never seen anything quite like it, it was like they'd done the dimensional equivalent of swimming through a really gross swamp.
Cheerful, jaunty music was playing and seemed to be coming from a square nearby.