Final: Blue and Purple

[voidtreckermods]

Blue: A Call to Arms

On the sixth night (G10) since arriving in the Gry coves the fighting is the heaviest than it has been all week. What’s more anyone who tries to sleep that day or night will find their dreams are the clearest yet. Darkness, downward tunnels, fear yes but a clear calling. A draw. A call for help. A cry to arms.

The caverns are a flurry of activity but by the morning (G11) the elders address the cove. It is clear. The Burrower wishes them to descend. Furthermore if the aliens have been having dreams as well then it is clear that they are invited.

Not all can go of course, the caverns still need defending. But any who wish to may. The morning is spent preparing for the descent, or rather making sure that there are still defenders of the caverns and that everything is in order for them to descend.

Purple: A Plan for Aid

The fighting is still thick and fast but the morning of the seventh day (G11) brings another flurry of activity. The teenagers who had been growing restless all week can be found gathering in groups.

If approached by anyone who isn’t a Terran adult they will let them in on the secret. The Gry were going down to the dweller. The Gry dream forums have been full of Gry teens talking about this, worried their god is in danger. Worried they are in danger and going down there will mean certain death.

So of course the Terran want to help and their adults have not been listening. They have found one of the entrances that they believe will go down into the dwellers domain. They plan to strike out by noon and won’t say no to any one who wants to go with them.

It’s a steep entrance, going almost vertically down into the darkness below. They are pretty certain it leads to the dweller.

Meanwhile the monsters are still attacking the city with increasing numbers and almost every Terran is engaged in some level of fighting.

The Descent (Please specify team colour.)

The tunnels down from both the Gry coves and the Terran tunnels are steep. Even the Gry and Terran themselves struggle with the descent and voidtreckers will definitely need to use climbing equipment. It takes most of the day and into the evening to climb down. The air is dry and thin the further down they get but their SCA keeps them going.

The Terran and Gry have no such technology but they are better acclimatised. It’s a long climb down through the darkness.

Meanwhile... (Please specify team colour.)

For those that don’t descend there is still plenty to do. Monsters are still attacking, though as night falls they dwindle, as they begin to rush down to the cavern below. Still there are pockets of monsters around that need dealing with.

Parts of both tunnel systems are in need of repair. Down in the Terran tunnels the areas that had been collapsed still need a lot of work, though all the citizens have been rescued. The Gry systems are less structurally damaged but they are a mess and the clean up operation will take a while.

Deep Dweller

Finally the dark downward descent leads into a huge cavern. In the centre of the cavern there is a large, grey creature easily filling the space. It looks almost like a grub, if a huge one. It is hard to ascertain if it has eyes or a mouth even but it moves, slowly up and down as if it is breathing.

The elder Gry make respectful gestures towards it, the younger ones follow suit, a little more hesitantly. The Terran teenagers mostly seem some mixture of horrified and amazed.

There are four large entrances to the cavern, the two that the two groups came down and two other large ones from elsewhere. There are also numerous small ones, high and low in the walls. The two groups arrive at roughly the same time and it is not long before they have company…

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[adregem]

Overhearing Glorfindel's plan of attack and Allen's strategy to support, Roland nods at them both and tries to keep the monsters at bay with the melee fighters. This would hopefully redirect their attention to those fighting back, versus those in the team itching to reach the center. "We'll cover you guys!" he yells in the chaos, brandishing his Wyrm Talon once more.

Roland runs to an area where he can clearly see as many of the monsters as possible, and focuses his energy into the Arms Band wrapped around his right bicep, a clenched fist held close to his chest. When he feels the energy build up to an overflow, he lets go, his arm extending from his body and unleashing a crescent-shaped blast that didn't do much in terms of damage - in fact, it would do very little in that regard - but could effectively halt the movement of the monsters by dropping them to the ground, leaving them open to attack by just a few seconds. He's crossing his fingers that his Pressure Drop might even stun the enemies phased into the ground from Kitty's handiwork.

"Go!"

[silentwoof]

Whisper could get some elevation with her Wispon, but carrying a guy like Glorfindel would make it minimal at best.

So, rather than weak, individual shots, it was better to do what she could to help their secret weapon get into position. If that meant taking the risk of wading right into combat - and getting a few cuts across her arms as she swung a hefty hammer around - so be it.

[voidtreckernpcs]

Glorfindel's dash to the centre carves a path as monsters shatter or scatter out of his way. Many flee to the ceiling, where a large group of them are gathering in the space over the Dweller.

More monsters disappear into rocks as Kitty phases them in, they clamber out eventually but it takes a while, precious time saved.

A wave of energy flies from Roland, sending monsters sprawling, a whole area of stillness in an otherwise chaotic cavern.

The monsters that remained standing launched themselves at Whisper and Cassie, clashing with them, desperate claws swiping at them both.

[laurefindil]

"Let's do this!" Glorfindel said to Allen. "How fast can you go?" He's debating going dark again, or just staying lit up. If Allen is fast, they'll get close enough to destroy the monsters without giving them a chance to flee.

He wants to go brighter, to protect the others, Cassie and Whisper, but fears that if he does, he will hurt them and the being they came to protect.

[mynameisallen]

"Not like super fast, but still pretty fast." Basically it wouldn't take the other all that long to get to the point they would need to get to where they were needed to be. So he quickly made his way over "just grab on okay, or I can always carry you."

[nutkrusher]

As the monsters close around her, Cassie looses another shadow kick through the outside of them. It may not knock out all of them, but it will get her through one of them and out of the circle.

As soon as she's out, she begins to charge her qi again, letting her tonfas glow, remaining on the move to make herself a harder target for the monsters to follow.

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty feels she's doing little more than dodging at this point, though she does get a hit every once in a while on a monster that's coming at her. As she jumps back, she happens to glance up at the ceiling and catches where a lot of them were converging.

"Guys!" she calls. "The Dweller!"

[voidtreckernpcs]

More of the monsters seem to be getting the idea now, climbing to the ceiling and getting closer to the Dweller, a mass of them clumping together on the ceiling.

Glorfindel is almost in position, his protectors fighting off monsters as he moves. They may sense something happening in the rocks around them, a faint glow beginning to show.

[laurefindil]

The Song the rocks were part of was changing, changing to something older and more familiar to him in his current state. He grabbed and held onto Allen, warning him and the others, "Cover your eyes, all of you!" as Allen got him into position.

He burst as bright as he dared, timing it to what was about to emerge from the rocks. He wasn't sure if his efforts would be needed, from what he sensed, but he would give his all, nonetheless.

END~ Thank you all

[voidtreckernpcs]

The spell builds until all of a sudden the cavern lights up from the bright glow from Glorfindel, at the same time monsters, even those in the shadows begin to shatter as the memory of light hits them all. Monsters shatter, falling before those so desperately fighting to keep the Burrower safe.

There is a pause, another and yet another. No more monsters pour through the walls. Any monsters that somehow survived the blasting of light from those fighting at both entrances crumble now. Everyone in the cavern will feel a deep sated peace fill them. The terror and fear those in the Gry caverns had been feeling fades into deep satisfaction.