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…

Comments

[sizedoesntmatter]

Yugi had moved a few steps away before he even realised just what was going on, mostly because his main focus had been checking just how his friend was doing what he was doing. It... was a hologram, right?

But he looked over toward Romeo and saw what he was doing, so rushing over he started to look around to see what he could use as a weapon to at least beat the monster off him.

All he could find was rocks. So that would do. Throwing them was a smart idea right?

[luckydragonsfoot]

Hologram or not, it doesn't matter- Katsuya struggles to maintain grip on both dragon and pony, forced to let the latter go when they're especially close to the ground. "NH- Kaseri!"

The ponyta whinnies- apparently fine, and throwing forward a bout of confusion in attempt to disorient anything near. Panicking, Katsuya searches his pocket with his freed hand- trying desperately not to feel reminded of another fight he's had before.

He can't go back for her after all- those things are already targetting someone else.

"Dammit..! Oii, dragon..! Yugi was th' one who summoned you, so g't over there!"

With an obedient roar, the dragon beats their wings- it's not exactly a large distance, but the gaps can be filled with other creatures after all. Charging a blast of electricity- pure light, in the case of anyone who isn't Katsuya- Blue Eyes launches their 'Burst Stream' toward what stands between it and Yugi.

Katsuya meanwhile prays the range on pokeballs is more than he thought. "NH- RETURN..!"

Back into the ball Kaseri goes- albeit some time after she's been dropped into the fray again.

[unfavorableinstigation]

And all the while, Nita's focusing on her spell, on that memory of brightness surfacing closer.

(Faintly, she can see and feel all the last-ditch plans being made to keep her safe, everyone protecting each other. She's touched, and more than that proud of them.)

As she reaches the end of the spell, she concentrates the collective memories of stone - then blasts it back out, seeking contact with each and every one of the monsters in the area.

(Including those trying to hide in the ceiling...)

If possible, she wants it to chain, to leap its way from monster to monster back out of the caverns, to the source of these beings-

But if that doesn't take, she'll settle for clearing out the Burrower's hiding place, for now.

[only_one_wei]

Wei Wuxian is just holding on, best he can, throwing everything he has at the monsters that were targeting his team mates and friends. He was running on fumes at this point, but wasn't about to stop until the monsters did.

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.