Grey December/January

[Cordyceps sapiens]

Jan 10, 2015 1:22:40 GMT Grigor Mortis said:

Jan 10, 2015 0:58:19 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I send a flash of cold through my HD, attempting to freeze both the ink and the creature. The roots keep growing, trying to penetrate the creature so thoroughly that the holes resemble a second vascular system. I also channel a hole through its flesh straight to outside and immediately flee. I completely remove my HD from the creature, tearing out roots everywhere. Stuck roots simply stop having a physical presence. The creature is riddled with holes, being almost as full of empty space as it is of flesh. Any kind of body structure is heavily damaged and the Egg's structural integrity should be failing.

*The egg falls apart, and the Core emerges from the shell, glowing red. It looks like a massive lizard fetus, with glowing spiral eyes.*

*the Ghost hurls large concentrations of bone fragments into each eye*

[Grigor Mortis]

Jan 10, 2015 1:27:19 GMT Cordyceps sapiens said:

Jan 10, 2015 1:22:40 GMT Grigor Mortis said:

*The egg falls apart, and the Core emerges from the shell, glowing red. It looks like a massive lizard fetus, with glowing spiral eyes.*

*the Ghost hurls large concentrations of bone fragments into each eye*

*The boen fragments pierce the core, and colorful liquids start flowing from it. It begins to pulse red, as if counting down.*

[Cordyceps sapiens]

Jan 10, 2015 1:28:30 GMT Grigor Mortis said:

Jan 10, 2015 1:27:19 GMT Cordyceps sapiens said:

*the Ghost hurls large concentrations of bone fragments into each eye*

*The boen fragments pierce the core, and colorful liquids start flowing from it. It begins to pulse red, as if counting down.*

*Ghost imitates the pulsing with her ethereal flame*

*Cordy use TK to pull the thing as far away from the escape route as they can*

[Xward]

Jan 10, 2015 1:28:30 GMT Grigor Mortis said:

Jan 10, 2015 1:27:19 GMT Cordyceps sapiens said:

*the Ghost hurls large concentrations of bone fragments into each eye*

*The boen fragments pierce the core, and colorful liquids start flowing from it. It begins to pulse red, as if counting down.*

*Xward focuses on his danger sensing abilities to try and find out what the pulsing is for*

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

I float towards the fetus, and face towards it. My augers and drills in my beak begin to spin, and eventually produce a shrieking whine. I point the beak at the fetus, and the beak expands, turning from a cone to another funnel shape. I expand the fetus, each organ and concept turning into a thin strand connected to the core at one end. All of the strands stretch out, like hair pulled by static electricity. I try to carefully remove all of the corrupted ink from each and every strand, using my HD to scrape it away, removing it from every different organ concept. I attempt to remove and vaporize all pulsing concepts as well, to prevent explosion.

[Grigor Mortis]

Jan 10, 2015 1:38:24 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I float towards the fetus, and face towards it. My augers and drills in my beak begin to spin, and eventually produce a shrieking whine. I point the beak at the fetus, and the beak expands, turning from a cone to another funnel shape. I expand the fetus, each organ and concept turning into a thin strand connected to the core at one end. All of the strands stretch out, like hair pulled by static electricity. I try to carefully remove all of the corrupted ink from each and every strand, using my HD to scrape it away, removing it from every different organ concept.

*You manage to succeed in removing every bit of Black Ink from the being.... but it fails to cure its corruption. It slowly slumphs to the ground, before melting. The exit is now clear.*

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

Interesting. Well, that didn't work at all.
I release the HD, letting it turn back to its neutral form.
I turn to see which members of our group survived, and who needs rescuing.

[gobby gobberson]

Jan 10, 2015 1:45:52 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

Interesting. Well, that didn't work at all.
I release the HD, letting it turn back to its neutral form.
I turn to see which members of our group survived, and who needs rescuing.

Eh, I'm over here...

[Louis]

Jan 10, 2015 1:45:52 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

Interesting. Well, that didn't work at all.
I release the HD, letting it turn back to its neutral form.
I turn to see which members of our group survived, and who needs rescuing.

*Louis is just sort of wandering aroud, with no idea what to do*

[Cordyceps sapiens]

Jan 10, 2015 1:39:25 GMT Grigor Mortis said:

Jan 10, 2015 1:38:24 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I float towards the fetus, and face towards it. My augers and drills in my beak begin to spin, and eventually produce a shrieking whine. I point the beak at the fetus, and the beak expands, turning from a cone to another funnel shape. I expand the fetus, each organ and concept turning into a thin strand connected to the core at one end. All of the strands stretch out, like hair pulled by static electricity. I try to carefully remove all of the corrupted ink from each and every strand, using my HD to scrape it away, removing it from every different organ concept.

*You manage to succeed in removing every bit of Black Ink from the being.... but it fails to cure its corruption. It slowly slumphs to the ground, before melting. The exit is now clear.*

FINALLY. MUCH HAS OCCURRED. WE REQUIRE TIME TO COGITATE. 
*Cordyceps fly off towards the exit. The Ghost vanishes, presumably into their mind someplace.*

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

I fly over to Shrigul and put her into the sling.
You are safe.

[gobby gobberson]

Jan 10, 2015 1:51:31 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I fly over to Shrigul and put her into the sling.
You are safe.

*Shrigul checks on the pisshrimp once more*

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

I point to Louis.
Shrigul, do you think that rescuing Louis is possible without great risk to ourselves?

[Durga]

*For a while now, just above the Autarchs, there seems to be a being sitting in a steel folding chair. On the back of the chair, there seems to be a message in some strange language. 'DIS GON B GUD' reads the massage. I'm sure it's all very mysterious. The figure itself seems to be sitting back and thoroughly enjoying the show. it wears an eye-stabbingly bright yellow cloak which seems to obscure it's face in shadows, despite what the lighting might normally allow to be visible. from the shadows, one can see nine strobing eyelights arranged in a circle. it seems to be muttering to itself*

Huh. I knew The Wedding was going to be interesting, but this is quite different than what I expected. Over twenty five pages so far! So much pain! I do hope at least some will survive.

*the chair drifts downwards, in between the Autarchs*

What do you guys think? I'm putting my money on the big chain guy. Maybe the blue one?

[gobby gobberson]

Jan 10, 2015 1:57:47 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I point to Louis.
Shrigul, do you think that rescuing Louis is possible without great risk to ourselves?

...I do not know... I don't want to get the babies injured, but I don't want to leave him... I think you need to ask others...