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.
>Each header will be set for a date and/or area.
>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

[the_other_eight]

Just me.

[Pepper heard the body hit and her head whirled in it's direction. How many of these things were there? She wasn't sure that they could fend off many more of them.

Though if Tony knew about these things he'd probably be out here already. Though Pepper figured Natalie knew him well enough to know that already.

She kept thrusting the flaming torch at the pieces, backing in Natalie's direction.]

What's going on?

[She honestly wasn't sure she wanted to know.]

[tendnottoweep]

If I had to guess, I'd say the barrier isn't holding up anymore. At least this is all that's coming through so far... [ The undead she can fight. The massive expanse of ocean above them and on all sides... not so much.

The corpse that just fell... well, it doesn't quite get up. That would require more bones and muscles to be intact than currently are in this case. It does start moving toward them, and Natasha levels her gun at it without actually firing. ]

I think you should start moving toward your suite, Ms. Potts. I'll be right behind you.

[the_other_eight]

[Pepper's attention is distracted to the creature now slinking it's way toward them.]

That was my exit.

[They're pretty much surrounded on all sides now.]

[tendnottoweep]

[ Natasha mutters something under her breath, her expression going blank and calm - almost unnervingly so - as she calculates the creature's approach, the angles of attack, the routes to either of their suites. Her tone's just as calm as her expression when she speaks, her eyes on the jiangshi rather than Pepper. ]

Don't move from here. If any more get close, do me a favor and scream.

[ And then she's running at the creature like a big cat breaking from cover, all deadly grace against the jiangshi's clumsy awkwardness. An intact creature would present a challenge, but in the state it's in, it's all too easy for her to target the weak points in joints and broken bones and take it apart, all but literally, with brutal efficiency. ]

[the_other_eight]

[Pepper jumps at the sudden absence of Natasha. Recovering she pulls out another flaming torch and continues to thrust it at the advancing pieces of creature.]