tushanshu_logs | EVENT | LANDFALL | KITHIKA

EVENT | LANDFALL | KITHIKA | BOTTLE

Characters: ALL!
Date: February 12th - 28th
Location: Kithika, inside the bottle
Situation: The discovery of an artifact from the first war against Malicant reveals the land of Kithika within a dimension of the Death Plane... and just happens to be contained inside a bottle.
Warnings/Rating: Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

OOC INFORMATION ♦ CITY OF KEELIAI ♦ INSIDE THE BOTTLE ♦ THE WORLD EATER
Arriving in Kithika is unpleasant for the most part. Transport through the glass vessel deposits you in the middle of a thick and murky swamp, with air so hot and humid it feels as though one is breathing through a wet towel. This is a place of perpetual night and there are no celestial bodies visible overhead through the twisted vines to break up the blackness, making the only light visible that which comes clumps of marsh fungus that emit a steady glow in a variety of muted colours: pale blue, whitish green, watery mauve. The only other light comes from those who can generate it themselves and that will reveal numerous broad-leaved trees, in some places standing too thick to move through. Below, knee-deep water laps in swirls at their legs, accompanied by the occasional slithery feel of something moving in the bracken against wet limbs, gone before it can be identified. A variety of strange noises from creatures of the swamp fill the air with buzzing and hoarse croaking, interrupted by the screech of mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds darting past and hungry for a meal.

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OOC NOTE: Characters will not be able to progress past the Temple and the Grounds for 48 IC hours after which point, the way to continue onward to find the dragon will be discovered. The second log will be posted on the 17th, to help spread out the tagging. Thank you!

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Of course Teddy's first reaction to seeing the swamp was 'fly over it'. No one would want to cross through it on foot unless they had to. However, now he was beginning to regret his decision as he attempted to wrestle out of the clutches of a tree branch. It was like he'd fallen into a duel with the walking trees of Lord of the Rings or something. he slashed at the branch with his claws, which bought him some time to get away, but not before he nearly had his eardrums burst from the shrieking.

He glided to the ground and let himself drop to the ground, just missing the swamp water. It looked like he would be grounded with everyone else. "Is anyone else seriously regretting their life choices yet?" He really hoped he wasn't the only one.

Miles had suited up and headed for the Palace as soon as Milyn made her Network post, but he's still stuck in the swamp alongside everyone else. Webswinging from tree to tree didn't work, nor did jumping across them. Branches moved out of nowhere to block his path.

Nearby, someone big and green was caught in the branches just like Miles, but he had the advantage of claws to cut himself out. Or disadvantage, judging by the awful screaming noise that followed.

From up in the trees, Miles raised his hand. "Uh, yeah, me too."

Teddy looked up in the direction the voice had come from. It was dark and murky in the swamp but he could still make out a masked face that looked familiar. One of the Spider-Gang. If kept running into them like this he would eventually have to learn to distinguish them all from each other. But right now there wasn't time for that.

He made it to his feet just in time to avoid one of the branches swooping down towards him. "Glad I'm not the only one. What do you think is the deal with these trees?" Another shriek pierces through the air, but this time it was from a distance, not caused by Teddy. "Maybe their plan is to give us all such huge migraines that we just give us."

Miles slithered his way out of the tree's hold and dropped to the ground, walking over to the green guy. "Maybe. But I'm not giving up. We have to fix whatever's happening to Keeliai, and whatever the solution is, it's through these trees."

An incoming branch swiped at their heads, but Teddy grabbed hold of it and tore through it with his claws. "I'm not giving up either! There's too much at stake and we need to help everyone that's back in Keeliai. I just wished for once things could be a little-" He clawed at another branch. "-easier!"

"Easy's not exactly in the job description, in my experience." However limited Miles experience may be. "Let's just try to get through these trees."

He turned and began moving in the direction he was going earlier. He didn't get very far before his way was blocked by some low-hanging branches. Frustrated, he leaped over one, then laid into the other one with a venom blast, which, unfortunately, made the thing scream again, but fortunately, got it out of his way.

Teddy managed to claw through yet another branch in time to see the other hero shoot his venom blast. Not that he really knew what it was. He has certainly never seen his world's Spider-Man do that before. "What was that? I mean, it's cool at all, but I've never seen it before." He dodged as another branch swooped down towards him and jumped over it.

"It's, uh," pause to dodge another tree branch. "It's called a venom blast." As far as he knows, Peter's Spider-Man was never able to do it, or able to go invisible like Miles can. He shrugs. "I dunno, it's just something I can do." How do you explain the superpowers you got from a genetically experimented-on spider? And really, is now the time?

"Oh, cool-" He grabbed a branch just before it could whack him in the face and broke it in half, followed by ear-splitting screeching. Teddy didn't seem in the mood to push for more information. It was hard trying to have a conversation when trees were attacking from both sides. "Clearly these things were never taught any manners."

Miles lets out a breathy almost-laugh, wincing at the high pitched scream. "Heh. Yeah." He'll let the green guy do the breaking, and just focus on dodging as best he can. He's able to duck and jump and flip over a few more as they make their way through the swamp.

"So. You do this sort of thing often?" Wow, Miles. What a great conversation starter. Not. "I mean, not the whole 'swamp-inside-a-magic-bottle' thing, but the hero thing."

Mark's reaction was also to fly over it and, like Teddy, soon found that that was a bad, bad idea. But unlike Teddy, Mark's super sensitive equilibrium had been completely thrown off kilter by the shrieking, causing him to fall from the sky like a lead balloon and crash into the water below.

"H-Help," he managed to croak. All that could be seen in the direction of the voice was a yellow, finger-less gloved arm. By that point the rest of him had sunk into the swamp water.

Teddy was attempting to claw through another group of aggressive branches, set on slowing him down. He shredded through one and was just about to take on the other when he caught sight of a figure falling from the sky and into the swamp water, causing a loud splash. He grappled with the branch for another moment before hurling it aside and racing towards the water.

"I'll be back for you!" He shouted over his shoulder at the branch before diving into the water and swimming towards the arm sticking out above water. Teddy took a deep breath and dove under, wrapping a large and green arm around Mark's waist before pulling them both to the surface. "You really need to work on your landings, man."

Mark took a huge gasp of air as soon as he was pulled from the swamp. Being able to hold your breath for hours was useless if you didn't first inhale any air before having to hold it. The gasping is followed by coughing, because apparently he sucked in some water and his body wasn't too fond of that. Once the coughing subsided, he wiped his mouth off onto the back of his hand and gave Teddy a sheepish grin.

"I swear to god I'm not normally like this." Mark winced. Something didn't feel right. He reached up to touch the lobe of his ear. Upon examining his hand afterward, he found blood. Great, it ruptured my eardrum.

While Mark worked to catch his breath Teddy swam on his side, slowly and steadily bringing them closer to shore. He was a decent swimmer, but he wasn't used to swimming in this larger, bulkier form. Much less with the additional weight of another person. But he managed to keep them afloat.

"Good to know." His breathing sped up the longer they went, making conversation strenuous. But when he noticed the blood he couldn't help but react with concern. "Are you alright?"

Once Mark caught his breath, he lightly tapped Teddy on the arm to say you can let me go now.

"I'm fine." And almost to prove it, he wipes his hand off on his costume. Yup, that makes it all better. "The shrieking was unexpected."

He pulled his arm away reluctantly and let Mark swim on his own. Teddy didn't look like he believed the other guy one bit about being fine. But it wasn't as if he could do anything about it. He couldn't heal other people unfortunately.

"Can you still hear okay out of that ear?"

Man, this stuff was gross. Hesitantly Mark pulls himself out of the water and hovers, stopping just inches above it out of fear the trees would start screaming again if he went any higher.

Mark gives Teddy his best look of confusion. "What?" Then after a second, he smirks. "Just kidding. I can hear fine. My inner ear is just a little oversensitive because of my powers."

Teddy pulled himself out of the water behind him but remained grounded for the time being. He carefully wrung the worst of the water out of his clothes with clawed hands. Unfortunately, it helped little and his clothes clung to his form uncomfortably.

"Jerk." He grinned and shook his head. "Well, that will make getting you through a little difficult. And very uncomfortable. Unless...you think you could get through without having to cut through the trees."

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shorttempered - 2014-03-03 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

"Do I get anything nice as a booby prize if I say 'yes'?" Behind the mask she winced, and raised hands to her ears as she went from the heavy branches of one tree to the trunk of another before somersaulting onto the ground to join Teddy. While her Spider-sense was definitely helping her avoid the worst, it wasn't doing much for helping her poor ears.

"I'd web myself up some nice earmuffs, but then I wouldn't be able to hear anything."

A branch shot out towards her on her descent to the ground, but Teddy deflected it with a fist before shredding through it with his claws. He was sure she could have handled it, but he was a team player at heart. And team players didn't leave allies to deal with evil attacking trees alone.

"At this point I don't think you would miss much if you couldn't hear for a little while."

"Thanks." It's pretty hard to pin a spider down, especially one whose spider-sense is as fine tuned as May's, but she still appreciates the save on his part.

"I don't know about that, considering what sort of nasty surprises could be waiting. I don't want to be oblivious to someone needing help."

What sort of hero would she be if she couldn't help because she didn't hear anything? Besides one preserving their hearing for the future.

With so many people battling the trees the shrikes had become nearly constant. Teddy wondered if they would even be able to hear someone calling out for help through all the other noise. But he figured she was right in being concerned.

"Let's just hope our hearing isn't permanently after all of this is over."

"Yeah, I'd rather keep that intact if I can." Even if that'd be typical Parker luck- Benjy losing his hearing was bad enough, but they were able to restore it. Her too? That'd just be overkill.

"How's your luck going with getting through all this?" She waves at the surrounding swamp.

"Alright. But I haven't had anyone to compare it to until now. I think I'm having an easier time of it then some others, though." Not that he was glad other people may be struggling, but right now he was more focused on getting himself through the swamp through hell.

"What about you? You seem to be doing okay."

"I've been able to keep on top of what the trees are trying to do and I'm not actively attacking them, so I haven't been having a hard time there. I'm preeetty sure I'm lost, though. Not that it's easy to tell."

She flexes her shoulders into a shrug. "For the most part I just keep heading towards the screaming trees when they're close by."

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