Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

[ironwood]

Characters: Any and all PCs
Date: January 20th - 23rd
Location: All Sectors
Situation: Tu Vishan continues swimming along the ocean floor after his monumental dive, but it turns out there are a whole bunch of undead that want in on the party!
Warnings/Rating: Underwater situations, violence, potential gore; to be updated as noted.

>See the comments of this post for various situations and areas available for tagging.
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>Feel free to start your own header for specific situations.
>The Palace subplot will be run in a separate log.
>Refer to the two OOC posts for further details. 01 | 02

Comments

[sophos]

Batman. [She mutters it, shaking her head. Another jiangshi makes a grab for her shield, undead fingers clutching at the edge. She tries to swing it away, but accidentally dislocates the arm instead.]

[But she's not all that fazed. She takes her knife and shanks it up into its chest, which is enough to get its hands to slide off her shield. She ducks into a roll, coming up behind it to stab it again, in the lower back. It goes down with a kick said wound, but Annabeth pulls her shield up instinctually, with good measure, given the blind zombie has gotten back to its feet.]

We need to get some fire. They're not gonna die without it.

[withoutaworld]

I've got some-

[ Rikki has to break off to counter a sudden lunge. The zombie runs right up her sword, which is kind of a problem - now she can't actually use the sword, and she's basically left holding a hilt attached to a monster trying to eat her face. She decides to drop it rather than fight over it and probably get bitten, and sweeps its legs out from underneath it before backpedaling to a safeish distance, shield held up warily.

The zombie starts to get to its feet fairly quickly, and Rikki grimaces a little. The sword's still stuck in its chest. Just great. ]

Oh, screw it... [ She pulls something her belt and tosses it at the zombie's feet, backpedaling a little more urgently this time and beckoning for Annabeth to do the same. There's a loud crack, and then the zombie - and the zombies closest to it - burst into flames. ] Incendiary grenades. I don't have a lot, but what else am I gonna use them for?

[sophos]

[Annabeth darts when Rikki beckons, then gives a whistle of approval for the grenade.] You can still conserve them - you know, try not to use them unless there are multiple zombies within its reach.

[She scans the area. The grenade took out two, with a third fruitlessly attempting to put out some flames on its arm. But there are two more approaching, lured over by the sounds and souls.]

Can you get your sword back? [She's not sure it's in the ashes or not.] We can corral them, then you should be able to get the rest with just one more grenade.

[Her brain's already making calculations and going a mile a minute as to making just that work, and she probably looks super focused. She's hardwired for this.]

[withoutaworld]

[ Oh right. Big booms draw zombies' attention. Duh.

Rikki darts over to a still-smoking corpse, kicking it cautiously to make sure it's not going to lunge and bite her or anything before she leans down to wrench her sword out of its chest. It's blackened and smoking a little itself, and she can feel the heat of it through her glove, but her glove's protected enough that it doesn't actually hurt. She eyes it dubiously for a moment, and sighs - she's pretty sure you're not supposed to light your sword on fire if you want it to last long, but whatever. It'll work for this.

She turns, orienting on the zombies, though she does keep half an eye on Annabeth. ] How do you want to do this? They're not exactly cooperative with the going where you want them to, after all... [ It would be one thing if they were like people and would actually attempt to not get hit or cut, but they just don't care. They don't back off, don't defend themselves, just attack. ]

[sophos]

It should cool down eventually. Just don't do anything too drastic with it. [It's an offhand comment once Rikki retrieves the weapon, but Annabeth nods at it regardless.]

[Her eyes scan over the jiangshi. Look up, over, around. Aha. A smaller alleyway, and it looks like there's a balcony on the second floor of one of the buildings.]

Well, they want our souls right? We use ourselves as bait. See that alley over there? [She gestures ever so slightly with a tilt of her head, not wanting to alert the jiangshi, who have started to collect themselves and seem to be doing some calculating of their own.] If we got them all down there at once, it's probably narrow enough. We go up, you throw down, boom.