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driftfleet2016-08-06 08:40 pm
huaaaaagh) wrote in driftfleet2016-08-06 08:40 pm
in which things do not go as planned
Who: Kirito, OTA
Broadcast: Y
Action: SS Paisley
When: Today's fine!
( video )
[The view switches on to reveal Kirito in the Spriggan avatar, crouched low with the camera tilted up towards him. Looks like it's on the ground.]
Okay, I'm using the comm so I have a record of what this looks like. I tried to encrypt it to make it private, but that's not my augment, so who knows if it worked. Feel free to ignore!
[He finishes fidgeting with the comm, tilting it at just the right angle, then disappears behind it for a second before reappearing at a distance, one hand lifted above his head.]
Þeír hræða nótt dýpt, renn helvegr!*
[As he begins, the full spell materializes in front of him in gold text and rotates around his body; when each word is spoken, it flashes white and vanishes. Once the full incantation is done, his body is consumed by a tornado of dark smoke, obscuring him from view. There's a muffled roar, and a burst of fire immediately following, and suddenly the room rumbles, knocking the comm off-balance.
When the smoke is clear the only thing visible is the cargo bay ceiling. There's a moment of scuffling and an "ow, geez!" in the background before finally a thumping of footsteps, heavier than someone ought to have with Kirito's stature. Through the smoke, one might catch fleeting glances of curled horns, dark fur, and glowing red eyes.
When at last he speaks, his voice is oddly distorted, something off about it.]
Whoa, okay, uh- crap. ....Paisley crew? Maybe don't go to the cargo bay for a while...?
( paisley )
[Anyone who happens to feel like wandering into the cargo bay despite his warning will find a ten-foot-tall hellbeast hunched over in the corner trying (and failing) to look inconspiculous, chanting quietly and looking kind of pathetic, appearance aside.]
[*Kirito's spell is Norse. Meaning, "Frighten them, depth of the night, and chase them along the roads of Hell."]
Broadcast: Y
Action: SS Paisley
When: Today's fine!
( video )
[The view switches on to reveal Kirito in the Spriggan avatar, crouched low with the camera tilted up towards him. Looks like it's on the ground.]
Okay, I'm using the comm so I have a record of what this looks like. I tried to encrypt it to make it private, but that's not my augment, so who knows if it worked. Feel free to ignore!
[He finishes fidgeting with the comm, tilting it at just the right angle, then disappears behind it for a second before reappearing at a distance, one hand lifted above his head.]
Þeír hræða nótt dýpt, renn helvegr!*
[As he begins, the full spell materializes in front of him in gold text and rotates around his body; when each word is spoken, it flashes white and vanishes. Once the full incantation is done, his body is consumed by a tornado of dark smoke, obscuring him from view. There's a muffled roar, and a burst of fire immediately following, and suddenly the room rumbles, knocking the comm off-balance.
When the smoke is clear the only thing visible is the cargo bay ceiling. There's a moment of scuffling and an "ow, geez!" in the background before finally a thumping of footsteps, heavier than someone ought to have with Kirito's stature. Through the smoke, one might catch fleeting glances of curled horns, dark fur, and glowing red eyes.
When at last he speaks, his voice is oddly distorted, something off about it.]
Whoa, okay, uh- crap. ....Paisley crew? Maybe don't go to the cargo bay for a while...?
( paisley )
[Anyone who happens to feel like wandering into the cargo bay despite his warning will find a ten-foot-tall hellbeast hunched over in the corner trying (and failing) to look inconspiculous, chanting quietly and looking kind of pathetic, appearance aside.]
[*Kirito's spell is Norse. Meaning, "Frighten them, depth of the night, and chase them along the roads of Hell."]
action
The cargo bay looks fine? The fire doesn't seem to have injured anything in there (and God, he was half-hoping his half-empty crate of t-shirts would've been affected.)
He's not sure what he's looking for, so he'll call out,] Kirito? Everything okay?
action
Kirito's tucked away behind a couple of stacked boxes, a pair of horns and a snaked tail sticking out.]
Um, yeah. Everything's just fine!
action
[Also horns and a tail, but if someone's trying to play hide and seek, Stefan won't verbally call him out.
He's gonna walk over, curling his hands into fists just in case there's an actual monster on board.]
Since when could you cast magic?
action
It's not real fire. And uh, since I woke up, I guess. I think the Atroma did something.
action
[He pauses, finally putting two and two together. Hopefully the Kirito-beast isn't permanent.]
You don't have to hide from me. I'm pretty sure I've seen scarier in the mirror.
action
[On himself, that is. But fine, he'll peek over the edge of the box.]
Rawr?
action
................]
Uh. [He's not terrified, but words. Stefan's struggling to find them.] What exactly are you supposed to be?
action
action
action
NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED HIM THAT QUESTION BEFORE]
Be...cause it looks kind of cool, I guess? And scary! It's a great way to startle an opponent in a fight.
action
Well, yeah - but what do you do after they're startled? Turn back?
action
[Which. In the context of a virtual game, is a perfectly acceptable thing to say and do. In real life, though...
Shit, he should probably rethink his fighting method if he ever uses this here.]
action
[Stefan winces, clutching his forehead. Of all the dumb, stupid things to trigger a memory, it was this.
Give him a couple of seconds, bro, and he'll be fine. He'll grumble about hellbeasts and echoes, but he'll be fine.]
action
[Stefan comes across as normal so often he sometimes forgets.]
action
[The headache subsides, leaving him with memories of older brothers who routinely fed from college students and peers who indulged in the best-tasting prey and - and monsters. Monsters, the whole lot of them.]
I'm not sure what would've happened if you tried it here.
action
[That just seems like trouble on multiple levels.]
action
[He'd trust the kid with the whole world, if it really came down to it. That matter settled, he gives Kirito-beast another once over.]
So... how long does this last?