rocks fall everyone dies

[golemized]

[ The communicator comes on deep in the darkness of the ship, having been jarred by the movements of its owner. There is only one person on the ship whose footsteps are this heavy, the glinting of crystals and white runes revealing Shale's identity to anyone who may recognize them. It soon becomes apparent, however, that the golem is not walking, not running, but fighting -- her large, stone arms are swinging, her targets making loud, inhuman noises of pain. Still, they keep coming, claws scratching along the floor of the ship.

Shale bellows and some of the creatures hiss in pain. There's just enough light from the magic in her crystals and the screen of the communicator that the next time Shale takes a swing, a creature is reflected, caught on camera. Despite the golem's heavy assault, she's being pushed back by the pack of manticores, close quarters making it more and more difficult to fight the way she's used to.

Then, quite suddenly, the camera angle tips. For a moment, it catches the ceiling, then the manticore that's attempting to leap onto Shale. Something bright is knocked off and away by the claws reaching toward Shale's shoulder -- a crystal, perhaps, and it falls clattering away into the darkness. Then, all three -- golem, communicator, and manticore -- fall.








And fall.
















And fall.




























And fall.


























And, eventually, land. The camera stays on for a few moments longer, but nothing is moving save for a blinking red light, illuminating the now-crushed bodies of the manticore and the golem. Shale is hardly in as bad of shape as the creature, but both look like they've fallen into a singularity and couldn't get up. There's no movement, and the runes etched on Shale's stone dim, then flicker out completely. After a few moments more, the communicator times out as well -- and the red light, presumably, shines on. ]

((ooc: Quick explanation: deep within the ship, Shale accidentally found herself some manticores that some of you may remember from the stasis sickness event! While fighting them, she managed to fall down one of the creepy holes and, ahaha, remember those black holes from the maze and how they'd crush you? Well, that happened to her (and the unlucky manticore that fell with her). Congratulations, TQ, you've found one of the few things that can quickly kill a golem! Also, you know, everyone's probably going to die horribly. Yeah. That too. Much love to the mods for giving me a way to kill Shale in a horrifying manner, and I'll still be around with my other characters! ALSO: Quinlan has dibs on the crystal that fell off her.))

Comments

not here;

[fraud]

[ oh.

he's not cut out for this place. ]

text; open but with ping for comms

[puppydogeyes]

[ALERT sent to COMMUNICATIONS]

Someone get a location on this.
Comms.

text;

[stacked]

you promised me monsters, boss.

[ guess who's SUPER EXCITED ]

text; open but with ping for comms

[cargojet]

I can get you within an error of three or four decks either way, but only from where she was. We're getting fragmented data otherwise. Nothing helpful.

text;

[psychometry]

I can track. Let me help.

text;

[circumitus]

what is it you plan to do once you have the location?

voice;

[faderbroderson]

...We killed all the ones in the science labs. There must have been more in another part of the ship.

text;

[sufferances]

I can assist.

a little after people are rounded up and sent out

[goldshirt]

Tyke? Can I get a report? How close are they?

text;

[chromosomes]

I'll be there as soon as we have the location.

voice;

[thatsaflaregun]

All right then, sistah. You've got plenty investigating. I'll stick around here, see if there's anyone else missing, make sure no one wanders too far out until we know it's safe.

[He knows if he goes out there, the temptation to investigate that fucking red light will be too great. And he did promise Jenna.]

Can I ask a favor though?

voice;

[cargojet]

[ His first reaction is silent horror. His second--well, he has to say something. She's dead, and that death has to be worth something. People have to be more careful; more cautious.

He sounds deeply grave, sick, stomach twisting. ]

Next time one of you thinks that wandering off into the corridors on your own is safe - no matter how strong or clever you think you are - I'm just gonna replay this post to you. Maybe just that sound.

You've been warned.

not here.

[triedtobe]

[ well shit. ]

Not here; Open to action though because whelp

[magewarden]

[ Shale.

Shale, you are not indestructible. What were you doing? He looked for you after you woke, where did you go?



Why did you not take him with you?

Any of them --

He's not even going to accept this. He can't accept this.

It isn't possible. He can't have failed -- have failed again, so badly, be losing companions in this maker-forsaken place --

Shale was always the one that would mock him for ridiculous things, so why --

He can't.

Which simply means he is going to have to find her. Where is that? How do you even make -- it doesn't matter, he will just walk until he finds it. Then he will find Shale and get her out and everything will be fine. ]

[ladytactful]

[ Yes, walking, looking like a mess, that's just the way to get a certain other Ferelden to ignore you. You still look a bit like shit. ]

Daylen?

Not here

[justamobster]

[ Monsters. And holes. A dead golem, and a missing little girl.

... Shit.

He can't keep sitting on his hands like this. He can't. ]

[not here]

[yardbird]

...

[If only Murphy isn't currently too preoccupied looking for a little girl in the halls of the ship -- knowing that those fuckers are still stalking the place would be a great thing to know right about now.

[Welp.]

[not here]

[staytofight]

[See, don't be so quick to tell people one thing

because you'll jinx it into another.]

not here

[backstabbing]

[but that's certainly one way to kill a golem.]

NO GUYS HE'S TOTALLY HERE UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE TO RESPOND SOLELY WITH ACTIONS

[bloodplay]

[WELP]

[not here]

[picnmix]

[ FUCK YOU SPACE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL FUN AND GAMES ]

voice

[staytofight]

[... What a shame, losing people. His biggest regret is not speaking to whatever the hell that person was--because Shale sticks out like a sore thumb. But he's quickly over the thought, biting on his thumbnail.]

Now that's something I've been wondering about.

... It appears we have creatures out there to kill. Anyone sees any, let me know; I'd love to go hunting.

voice

[tofindthesun]

To kill again. [not as quiet and soft as he usually speaks. but whether that's because of shale's death or the manticores themselves.. well.] The last were hunted months ago.. or so we thought, it seems.

I would not suggest going alone.

action; for the team going to the scene, anywhere between the rendezvous point and the scene

[chromosomes]

[ He's got a team and two of Tyke's dogs. Half the team isn't on SEC but he knows Godric and Quinlan, and if the ones coming with Quinlan are anything like him... well, they should be fine.

Should be. A golem should've been fine, too. ]

Recon and retrieval only, people. Any of you decide that's not enough for you, I will stop you. We stay together and we keep our eyes open.

[ Reaper's wearing his combat armor, has his handgun and his assault rifle and the grenades he got in his locker. He looks like he's going to war. As far as he's concerned, they were all in one from the moment they got on the damn ship. ]

action;

[circumitus]

[Rey is not accustomed to teamwork. She goes solo and that's usually the end of that, but it hasn't always been that way.

[She was a soldier, after all, and she can do reconnaissance. There's not much that she can can, but there is that. Aside from her own assault rifle and a pistol provided to her by Security, she could probably do with being more heavily armed and protected like Reaper there.

[Not that she needs to be. Her own skin is oftentimes protection enough.]

Ten-four.

video;

[ringbearer]

[ and frodo, frodo is sitting in horror. shale had saved his life in that horrible nightmare of his home, and now she was falling and she was his friend though she was strange and how--how--]

Shale!

[ there's little point but the hobbit's eyes are wide, stricken with grief ]