By the Campgrounds, Saturday

[lockestheway]

The blasted heath might be trying to devour the entire island, but it still hailed from one focal point. The campgrounds, now grey and full of ashes, held the source of the taint. A rock, so strangely hued, so alien-looking. The fissure it was in produced bubbles now under the last rays of the sun, sending the water trembling.

It was time to do something about it.

It would take work to draw all the grey out of the land, but concentrated effort might do it. After that, removing the rock might work - at least if the professors of Miskatonic University were right.

That was the plan.

But there were monsters on the horizon, playing and eating around the blasted heath, and they would not take any of this lightly.

Be ready, Fandom. It’s going to be a long day.

[[ this is your finale post, folks! hold on for the ocd up, NPCs and crazy PCs here. ]]

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Arrive!

[lockestheway]

Assemble at the source of the blasted heath. Discuss the plan, get ready, get going!

Re: Arrive!

[trigons_child]

Healing people was what Raven did best, but that wasn't working. She'd never tried to heal land before, but nothing was going to stop her from trying her best to put an end to this and save her friends from the infection transforming them.

Re: Arrive!

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex was going to use everything at her disposal to try and fix what was going on with the island. Even if it didn't work the first time around, she wasn't going to stop until something did.

Re: Arrive!

[raspberryturk]

Reno, stun baton. Stun baton, Reno. Really, it was kind of a given by this point around here, wasn't it? He would beat things up, other people would do the fiddly shit that he preferred to steer away from, and when this was all said and done it would be something else for him to look back at fondly.

Yep.

Re: Arrive!

[wrongkindofsith]

There was a fight on the horizon, so there was Cara. Simple really.

In addition to her agiels, she carried her bow and a full quiver of arrows.

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[badnewsandwit.livejournal.com]

Alistair was there, and jittery. He was learning to cope with the ache in his head, but he hated standing by idly more than anything. He needed to do something. This looked like something.

Re: Arrive!

[longislandiceme]

Well, if there was fighting to be done, Iceman was going to make an appearance. Even if he was still somewhat uncomfortable about his, um. New look. Strangely enough, that didn't matter to him so much at this particular moment, though. Except for how, considering his arms were lined with spikes and his fingers were actually claws, he really hoped people realized he was on the side of the good guys here.

Re: Arrive!

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

William wasn't much for fighting- well, beyond simple fisticuffs, anyway- but he knew what had to be done to be rid of the stone, and he figured it was his duty to see that through.

Re: Arrive!

[withasword.livejournal.com]

Kate was keeping her saber drawn and firmly in hand. She fed a little magic into the blade while she waited, watching the glow spread over it and feeling for any flaws, any weakness. It was fine. She knew she must have checked it a thousand times in the last couple of days, but it was a habit she couldn't quite break.

Belt pouches were stocked with herbs, a canteen of kerosene, throwing knives... All she thought she could need.

She was ready. Ready and rocking slightly on her toes in impatience.

Re: Arrive!

[selfhelphero]

Billy had been keeping his involvement in things limited to patrolling from the nice, safe sky, but he'd reached the point where he couldn't just hide anymore. So, he was here, sans costume, hoping he could find some way to help.

Re: Arrive!

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan's sword was out of it's pen-shape and strapped to his back; not that he was expecting to fight, no- he was here to help with the healing, first and foremost, but he also figured better safe than sorry. Who knew what mutated things would come at him when he got to work?

He stalked around a bit, trying to get a sense of how this was actually going to work. He had some ideas, but he was definitely open to suggestions regarding specifics.

Re: Arrive!

[exboywonder.livejournal.com]

Nightwing didn't mind that he was out here in costume in public. In fact, he kind of enjoyed that. He was a showman, after all. But it was weird that he was out during the day. Sure, it were gray enough that it probably didn't matter, but he wasn't Grayafternoonwing.

Still, he had birdarangs, a gliding suit, and a rocking mullet. He was ready.

Re: Arrive!

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

After having to walk a fully competent young woman home from the library last night, Wesley decided enough was enough. He arrived at the blasted heath with a gun in hand, prepared to take care of this once and for all.

Re: Arrive!

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Where else did people expect Surreal to be today?

But for all that she was a witch who wore the Green, she wasn't here to 'cleanse the land' or whatever else their Queens were going to try. That wasn't her. Oh, she could brew a few poisons that only Black Widows usually knew, and had a few other tricks up her sleeve, but what use was Craft when she had Titian's stiletto at hand? In Surreal's experience, when it came down to survival, a blade would always win.

So she waited, flipping the weapon hilt-over-blade as she waited, throwing knives at her wrists and two additional - and longer - wickedly curved knives at her waist.

Re: Arrive!

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

Ramona had her large hammer slung over her shoulder, giving off a faint blue glow. She wasn't looking happy or relieved, just yet, but the idea that there was something to hit and it might actually help? That was good news.

Re: Arrive!

[gastronomistic]

Vincent was no Henry Deacon, but frankly, Henry wasn't around, and neither was Allison Blake or even Fargo. Which meant it was up to Vincent to pitch in and help out where he could.

He'd been here awhile now, and his cafe hadn't been destroyed once. He wasn't about to let this threat take it out.

Re: Arrive!

[glacial_queen]

Finally. Something to do.

Healing the land. It was what she was born to do. It was something for her to focus on, something she understood down to her bones. And something distracting enough that Karla could focus all of her attention onto that, rather than on what would happen if they failed.

If they did, she had a promise to keep.

Re: Arrive!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules arrived, his arsenal at the ready. He'd heard that some of the blasted villains were the good people of the town, so he knew today the Shield of Perseus would be his best asset.

After all, he didn't want to lop the limbs off of people who would quite miss them. But temporarily turning them to stone, well, that was a better plan.

"...I do hope they aren't immune to petrification," he said, to no one in particular.

Re: Arrive!

[smartestone]

Hermione wasn't really a fighting type. She could do it, and anytime she'd stepped outside the last few days, she'd gotten very good at blasting things away from her with her wand. But magic she was good at, and if there was something she could do, she would do it.

Besides, she was good at being the voice of reason in case anything happened. She was also here for that.

Re: Arrive!

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer was there, Hyperion in hand, materia and Ifrit ready to go.

Re: Arrive!

[capt-maxfactor.livejournal.com]

Jack was there with his sword.

Mostly to yell at his squirrel employees for turning into monsters and how they shouldn't expect backpay or health insurance--vet care?--for the days they'd not been working, of course, but he was there! With a sword!

This didn't happen often.

Cleanse the Land!

[lockestheway]

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Cleanse the Land - Team Magic

[lockestheway]

Where you will be shoving that blight back into the stone where it belonged.

Team Fighty

[lockestheway]

Patrol the blasted heath, looking for any beasts trying to get near the squishier people. There’s plenty of them... and they’re hungry.

Re: Team Fighty

[badnewsandwit.livejournal.com]

Alistair had a sword that hummed with lightning, and a keen sense of just where those beasts might be dwelling at any one time. He was making good use of both, cutting down creatures stumbling too close to the campgrounds with efficiency.

He occasionally checked back, just to see how the mages were doing.

Aftermath!

[lockestheway]

You... succeeded at something. But what?

The fissure hasn't vanished, and the land immediately around it still looks terribly grey. It doesn't feel wrong, though-- like a scar.

The monsters that had been attacking don't seem to be turning back yet - but they're not attacking anymore. That's something, right?

Re: Aftermath!

[glacial_queen]

Karla, bleeding from numerous cuts, sagged back against a tree that still felt almost...dusty?...and surveyed the area. To most senses, it looked exactly the same as it did before. But beneath her feet, she could feel the land rippling as new life started leeching back into the soil, rejuvenating it from far below. The whole thing felt like an wound infected would freshly lanced; not yet healed, but clean now and able to do so.

She thought that meant they'd won?

OOC

[lockestheway]

Poke us here for NPCs!

And just plain poke us here for questions.

Re: OOC

[trigons_child]

Can we poke you to see if you make noises like the Pillsbury Dough Boy?