Re: The Savage Brawl [Round 2: Giant's House]
04-28-2010, 04:39 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by SleepingOrange.
All this waiting and watching had been horribly out of character for the avatar of chaos. Every instant it stayed silent and hidden instead of rending and breaking was an eternity of internal torment, but from the looks of things, it would be necessary. Old and intelligent enough to understand that sometimes you have to move away from your goal to advance towards it, Ekelhaft knew it had little hope of killing all its enemies at once, especially as chummy as they were getting. The conversations Ekelhaft Jr had been relaying seemed to indicate that they were bent on targeting the ooze first.
Pushing down the habits of millennia, Ekelhaft had continued its infiltration of the wall. Dissolving scads of lacquer, pressing through ancient xylems, it proceeded slowly through the house, gradually approaching the other contestants.
Insanity was literally in the walls.
The piece of Ekelhaft that was watching its enemies bubbled to itself with boredom. It had ben easy to evade the prying eyeless eyes of the kebabs and easier still to stay out of the sight of the actual contestants, but it loathed simply hiding and waiting. Despite the fact that it was created specifically for scouting and sabotage, its nature gave it no love for the task.
It didn't like that it had to lose track of Calm and Diego as they wandered away to find God, but it considered the others a greater threat, so stayed to watch them. It pondered the continued absence of Ziirphael, but idly and to no real end. It could easily hear what they group was talking about, but this gave it little insight into the cyborg's bizarre actions. It scraped its teeth into the wood of the table, creating random scratches into the surface to amuse itself. Ekelhaft, and by extension Ekelhaft Jr, was good at random.
Midstroke, and shortly after evading another sweep by a cherry on a skewer, all hell broke loose.
Gravity reversal had no salient effect on the slime in the walls; it had nowhere to fall to, and no organs that particularly minded being upended. Still, it meant bizarre things were happening, and with this group bizarre events promised more bizarre ones. And more violent ones.
The ooze, which had been navigating solely by sensing for its opponents' minds, tentatively punched a small hole into the wall and extended a single eye. The scene that greeted it was... confusing and glorious, and soon became more so as a screaming giant thundered into the room and began turning to crystal.
The smaller blob was significantly more impacted by the gravity reversal. And subsequently very impacted by the impact. The table cracked and splintered under its own weight, legs falling like... Well, like colossal table legs. There really isn't much of an appropriate simile for something on that sort of scale.
Ekelhaft Jr was able to stay mostly out of the way of the dangerous side effects of the reversal; the same couldn't be said for one of Gourmand's kebabs, which was pinned under a piece of wood, the scale of which defied adjectives. Noting that the giant was unaware of it and Ekelhaft Jr, and the others had also failed to notice... What could be the harm?
The slime leapt on the scout, rending, tearing, and burning, for the moment completely oblivious to its surroundings.
All this waiting and watching had been horribly out of character for the avatar of chaos. Every instant it stayed silent and hidden instead of rending and breaking was an eternity of internal torment, but from the looks of things, it would be necessary. Old and intelligent enough to understand that sometimes you have to move away from your goal to advance towards it, Ekelhaft knew it had little hope of killing all its enemies at once, especially as chummy as they were getting. The conversations Ekelhaft Jr had been relaying seemed to indicate that they were bent on targeting the ooze first.
Pushing down the habits of millennia, Ekelhaft had continued its infiltration of the wall. Dissolving scads of lacquer, pressing through ancient xylems, it proceeded slowly through the house, gradually approaching the other contestants.
Insanity was literally in the walls.
The piece of Ekelhaft that was watching its enemies bubbled to itself with boredom. It had ben easy to evade the prying eyeless eyes of the kebabs and easier still to stay out of the sight of the actual contestants, but it loathed simply hiding and waiting. Despite the fact that it was created specifically for scouting and sabotage, its nature gave it no love for the task.
It didn't like that it had to lose track of Calm and Diego as they wandered away to find God, but it considered the others a greater threat, so stayed to watch them. It pondered the continued absence of Ziirphael, but idly and to no real end. It could easily hear what they group was talking about, but this gave it little insight into the cyborg's bizarre actions. It scraped its teeth into the wood of the table, creating random scratches into the surface to amuse itself. Ekelhaft, and by extension Ekelhaft Jr, was good at random.
Midstroke, and shortly after evading another sweep by a cherry on a skewer, all hell broke loose.
Gravity reversal had no salient effect on the slime in the walls; it had nowhere to fall to, and no organs that particularly minded being upended. Still, it meant bizarre things were happening, and with this group bizarre events promised more bizarre ones. And more violent ones.
The ooze, which had been navigating solely by sensing for its opponents' minds, tentatively punched a small hole into the wall and extended a single eye. The scene that greeted it was... confusing and glorious, and soon became more so as a screaming giant thundered into the room and began turning to crystal.
The smaller blob was significantly more impacted by the gravity reversal. And subsequently very impacted by the impact. The table cracked and splintered under its own weight, legs falling like... Well, like colossal table legs. There really isn't much of an appropriate simile for something on that sort of scale.
Ekelhaft Jr was able to stay mostly out of the way of the dangerous side effects of the reversal; the same couldn't be said for one of Gourmand's kebabs, which was pinned under a piece of wood, the scale of which defied adjectives. Noting that the giant was unaware of it and Ekelhaft Jr, and the others had also failed to notice... What could be the harm?
The slime leapt on the scout, rending, tearing, and burning, for the moment completely oblivious to its surroundings.