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WHO: ANYONE ( outside the sim )
WHERE: New Magellan
WHEN: During Phase Two
WHAT: Cassius Rescue Mission!
NOTES OR WARNINGS: Violence, monsters, possible death, etc

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> WELCOME TO NEW MAGELLAN

The mission is simple: get Cassius before Johann can delete him. Simple.

The Displaced slip between cities through the gates, arriving in New Magellan with ease and moving on to the laboratory where Cassius is located. It's frigid, the southern tip of the South American peninsula a collection of dry, cold islands, and creeping wintery chills, the temperature as unfriendly as the mission they're moving toward.

Cassius's map leads them on a road outside the city which brings them to the laboratory quickly enough and they're able to get into the facility itself with little trouble.

It's not until they're inside that the trouble begins.

> WHO KNOWS WHAT MAY BE LURKING

The laboratory is devoid of people, seemingly abandoned, and it's not hard to see why. Once they get inside, the monsters set upon them. Some are the same golden-eyed creatures that have become strangely familiar to the Displaced, all sorts of creatures just slightly off in some way, their DNA altered, modified, spliced, warped.

◉ A large snake, except that it also has four small legs (two near the front of its body, two near the back) which allow it to skitter around rather than slither, making it much faster than any snake has a right to be. It's large and strong enough to strangle its victim, making it difficult to remove by a single person. Don't let it unhinge its jaw, it's got way too many teeth.
◉ A hyena-creature with impressive amounts of agility, due to the fact that it seems like almost all of its joints are double-jointed. It can turn its head almost completely around as well, making it an extremely skilled hunter. Its fangs protrude from the top of its mouth in rows of three like a shark. Even if it's disemboweled or it loses a limb, this creature will still continue to attack in a frenzy.
◉ A stag beetle, except that it's the size of a medium-sized dog. It's still able to fly and its pincers can do damage if it's allowed to get too close. Worse than that, they tend to move in swarms of three or four. Beneath the hard shell are human-like eyes with dilated pupils that follow shadows and light.
◉ A humanoid creature that stands on two legs. Its eyes glow in the dark, catching bits of light from a distance. Upon closer inspection, the creature has snake-scale skin, a long, flickering tail, and claws for hands. These scales are incandescent in nature, shimmering whenever they're underneath enough light.
◉A sloth-like mimic that cries from a distance for help from hidden, high places. Once it hears a voice, it can mimic it, drawing someone in toward it due to it sounding like another Displaced. Getting too close will leave them within reach of the creature that's all arms and little else, leaving a toxic and poisonous trap to weaken its prey. Its hiding places include the rafters, where it may drop on those looking for their friends. Under certain lights, the slothly creature's eyes are humanoid in appearance, sharp and aware — yet still gold.
◉ Humanoid creatures that give off a thick, putrid smell of decay. Not unlike zombies, they move sluggishly, but upon closer inspection, it appears that something is off about these people. They have claws, sharp rows of teeth, and skin that flakes off with every shuffle of their feet. Potentially some early or later stage experiment of the snake-skinned humanoids. They're highly aggressive and will follow someone with the intention of attacking until they're incapacitated.
◉ A cross-breed insect that looks like a mix of a wasp and a mosquito, but is only the size of a dime. Its sting can draw out a large amount of blood, sedating the individual. The toxin that they inject will leave large, red welts, depending on the efficiency of the immune system. They're blotchy and painful. Once they have found a target, they will swarm around that individual all at once.
◉ A naked creature resembling a dog with a reptile's body, with patches of hair. This creature has long rows of crooked fangs protruding from its lips, mouth and tongue, with a large, dilated eye. It has sharp scales on its back to keep it from being touched, but it has a thirst for blood. This creature will attempt to surprise its prey from around corners, jumping onto someone's shoulders with hopes of sticking to them and drawing blood like a reptilian tick.

In addition to the type of monsters seen previously in the research facility outside New Amsterdam, there is an even more horrifying threat, a new monster:

◉ An overwhelming brand of eyeless, bipedal creatures with large rows of teeth that are 7-to-8 feet tall. They're both incredibly aggressive and violent, ready to tear apart anything that comes close to them with open jaws. It'll almost seem like they're inflicted with an insatiable hunger. They're fast, strong, and merciless. And they are not an easy kill.

All of the monsters, both new and old models, will rapidly regenerate and continue to fight even with mortal injuries, unless they are taken out with a killing blow (a head taken out, their heart located and removed, or they're burnt to a crisp). No matter how physically unsettling it may be.

Hopefully someone brought a flamethrower.

> OOC NOTES

This is part of the SAVE CASSIUS PLOT and so it's located outside the simulation, but everyone that has since been woken up by Gabriel and Tony and brought out of New Amsterdam can also participate. For more details, please see the mod write up HERE. This is just for the infiltration/monster fighting, the success or failure of the mission will be addressed in the aftermath post.

Threaded | Flat

ZALDRĪZES [before transformation]

[In truth, Daenerys had been holding back the transformation for the better part of a few days. Having a power fueled by anger and adrenaline when you were a naturally angry person turned out to be both a blessing and a curse.

They have virtually no time to plan -- but even the Mother of Dragons has learned the value of measured assault especially when dragonfire happened to be involved.

If she was not careful, she would quickly become just another enemy for the other Displaced to fight.]

I will clear a path. Experience tells me that this would work best if someone stayed by my side.

[Or multiple someones.]

Volunteers?

DRACARYS [after transformation]

[A full grown dragon easily dwarfs castles and walls, but Daenerys Targaryen's transformation is not quite so large. The transformation itself would not have been a pretty sight to behold, and while there is a recognizable determination in her eyes, there is also a marked reduction of restraint.

A So long as a Displaced remains in physical contact with her, she is easy to command and control. There is a separation of woman and beast, where Daenerys seems to be directing an entire other piece of herself while the empathy bond remains active. Emotions are stronger and overwhelming at some points, but simpler in nature. Mostly, there is anger. And with anger, comes dragonfire.

B But if a Displaced loses hold of her for an extended period of time, the dragon rapidly deteriorates into confusion. She is less sure of her steps, more furious in the way she barrels forward and in what she attacks -- but she is considerably less discriminatory in whom she aims for. It is an advantage, in its own way -- because she is less concerned about whom she strikes, she strikes with much more ferocity. But, for reasons she's made clear, it would not be wise to leave her this way for long.]

[OOC: Feel free to PM or hit me up on discord @ Kayleesi#3402 or

stabs if you want to talk specifics. For planning purposes: Daenerys will need to have some kind of physical contact with one of the other Displaced in order to stay on task. If you want to talk success or failure regarding that, hit me up. :) I'm open to anything.]

one fighter with a sharp stick ✧

[ as far as plans go, this is exactly up jyn's alley. six assholes and an aggravating robot. luckily the people outside the sim learned quickly how to work together and organize a rescue mission -- unluckily they had to push that plan up at near hyperspeed, so they're working with a little less wiggle room than anticipated.

still up jyn's alley.

she fights like a demon, almost as ferocious as the beasts themselves, throwing her entire weight behind her blows. however vicious jyn may be, the monsters are relentless, coming back from her every blow despite how many times her drives her fists and truncheons into their bodies. she manages to get one disoriented enough to duck into a doorway, just out of sight, so she can dig into her bag, pulling out a bomb. ]

Cover me, [ she says to whomever is near. ] Detonator needs to be reset.

we'll find a way to find him ✧

[ there aren't enough bombs to clear them all -- jyn had only hung on to the two when the plan had changed and there wasn't enough time to make more, nor is an emp even useful against the monsters themselves -- but jyn is determined to find cassius so she doesn't slow down battling her way through the monsters as she follows the little dot to find her buddy.

at one point she laughs, truncheon jamming into a shimmering snake-humanoid's maw before it sparks with electricity that arcs through the creature's body, shaking around the truncheon that jyn only just manages to keep a hold on. it slumps to the ground but she knows it won't be out for long so she leaps over it. ]

That's not even a real number.

[ who is she talking to? herself? the monster? the ai in her head telling her the ever increasing odds of their success because she asked him to do so as an assurance that he was still alive? it's probably that last one but who is to tell. ]

We need to clear this hallway.

wildcard ✧

( go where your heart takes you or hit me up @ baleinette#3692 )

Edited 2020-06-03 20:54 (UTC)

HEY GUYS I GOT THIS

( you know those scenes in action movies where everything suddenly starts going in slow mo and the protag does the cool action move thing? this is kind of like that. tommy's chest glows a bright blue as everything within about a 2 meter range of him just slows, barely moves at all but if one looks close enough, they can see that the monsters coming at him are still sliding forward just. barely.

and tommy? he's grinning right in the middle of it. taking his time to swing his fist forward into faces, shove monsters over into each other and hop right out of their space as the glow dulls and the chaos resumes. monsters fall over their feet, smack into each other, take bits out of one another, all that gross monster stuff before they realize their target has actually moved.

and tommy's raising a fist up in the air in celebration before yelling, )

Next time try chomping on someone your own size!

THAT STUNG A LITTLE

( battered and bruised from what was probably one too many monster fights, tommy opts to try something else.

namely: tearing off panels from whatever he can find and ripping out every wire, cord, and movable object he can find that looks like it may belong to something of mild importance. he turns, holding a handful of wires with what's left of his hair sticking up in close to every direction and yells to the closest person he can find, )

Did it do anything yet?! I'm running out of stuff to pull out!

( does he really know what he's aiming for here? probably not. but he's going for it anyway. )

WILDCARD

( yolo. )

i. it's time to slam now.

[ cassian has now been to several cities on this planet, and he's sure new magellan is theoretically fine, but there are too many monsters in the way of really appreciating any of it, not to mention the ai countdown hanging over their heads, the rescue plan pushed up a lot sooner. good thing he's great at working in a rush! why is this his third experience storming a heavily armed enemy stronghold? and the second one today? ]

[ it helps that he's never going to run out of ammunition, so to speak, while they're on the ground here and making their way towards the facility. the earth is his ammunition and it's a very comforting thought. ]

[ the eyeless, eight foot tall monsters are the worst, quickly becoming the biggest threats. one of them speeds towards him and whoever is nearby, but he holds out his hand to stop the other person. ] No. Wait.

[ the creature's speedrun is interrupted as cassian curls his fingers into an almost fist, and when he opens them back up wide, the earth beneath it literally explodes. cassian is far enough away to avoid any pushback, but it's loud like a bomb; the dirt and rocks and beast together soar through the air from the force of it. it's probably not dead, but at least it's delayed. ]

ii. we got a real jam going down.

[ once inside, the monsters don't really lessen, cassian just has less to work with. but his control over metals has gotten better with time, so really it's just working with a different, more precise tool. ]

[ however long it takes them to move through the facility, to find cassius's room, cassian plants himself outside it fully anticipating being boxed in. he forces the metal door sealed as an extra barrier, with barely any time to spare as one of the weird doglike reptiles bounds into the hall. unfortunately for it, cassian is already ready. his chest glows and he pulls down a piece of four foot long piping from the ceiling, flinging it almost like a whip to encircle the monster's neck. it squeals and stumbles, falling over as cassian tightens the pipe, choking it out. ]

I was not going to touch it with those scaly spikes. [ he pulls one more time, blood or something like it gushing out of the creature's mouth and new sudden neck wound before the piping rips right through, decapitating it. ]

We have to hold this position.

iii. wildcard.

[ hit me!! romanitas#5368 @ disco ]

Edited 2020-06-05 06:00 (UTC)

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daenerys targaryen (ota)

jyn erso ✧ open

tommy shepherd ( open )

cassian andor | ota