The Mist-IC

[Ettins of Sphericus]

Arrowhead has blown! This goverment-ran lab, doing studies with an axelarator has appered to simply vanish from the face of nationstates. With it, an unadentafied white cloud has been spreading, now blanketing both the laboratory and a nearby town. Radio transmishion from the town have stopped and when we where able to boot up a webcam to get a veiw from inside the cloud... This:

Help needed to get to the bottom of what has happened... and to find out what that $(*^ing thing was....

OOC: Yay! It's the IC thread! Get role-playing fokes...

[The Shee of Sphericus]

Driveing in, Albert turned his car to park, clipped the laser to a hook on his coat and stared out into the mist. Nothing could be seen but foggy white...

[JuNii]

ooc: a link to the sign up thread would be nice... especially since the Sign up is in Forum 7 and how many days passed since the mist enveloped the town?

[Arnastianity]

John arrived at the mist and tried to give Albert a fright with his stealth bike but instead he tripped whilst going to the bike and Albert started laughing at him. John started moving in with his cesor radar thing,"im detecting someone or something a few hundred metres away, oh wait there are 2 no thre- OMG there are 15 things out there, something went wrong they multiplied!"

Albert asked" how can you know its them not the other allies coming with us?"

"because humans appear blue on the radar but other things apear re-"

they heard a screaching scream...

[JuNii]

it's been 3 days since the Mist enveloped the "Trucking Funk" Truck Stop. Three days since Lexa and her friends pulled in to grab some snacks and refuel their Winnebago... Three days filled with screams, nightmares and...

She looked at the 'Specials' board... now a list of those who have died.

she took off her dented and battered helm and mopped her sweat glistened hair. hehehe... well, I was planning on joining the Grand Melee the Fan Faire would be hosting. Just never thought those years of battering and being battered on would come in handy... She fingered Grande Morte, her huge double bearded battle axe as the heavy silence dragged unwanted memories up from the depths of her subconcious.

The first night... when those things started swarming and some poor family tried to run to the safty of the diner... she showed them how fast and deadly the huge weapon could be, slicing though large tentacles that seemed to form from the mist itself. She remembered how Max "Maximus Tork" Wellington tried to use his tricked out staff to scatter as many of those spiderlings (a name they gave the small spiders) before being webbed by that... she sighed as she tried to forget the screams as those webs burned through his silk robes and through his flesh as he was dragged off into the vapors.

Sharon "Silverleaf" Rocca kept up a deadly stream of arrows, Using her skill in archery to chase off the larger, dog-like creatures before she was impaled by three of those giant mosquitoes... Lexa closed her eyes, remembering her large bloated body as the poison did quick work in killing her.

Peter 'Pete' Nicolson... how he tried to make a run for the winnebago... in an attempt to bring it closer so that some can go for help... she didn't know which was worse... the long tortured scream that echoed from the mist... or the abrupt way it stopped.

Mitch and Match... the twins. excellent swordsmen, but better theives. with Lexa taking charge, they were helpful in fortifying the truck stop... but when those insect thing broke through... they were also heroes... right up to the end.

Six of them on this journey... now she was the only one of her group left. TPK Total Party Kill...

Lexa took a swig from the warm beer bottle and looked at the other survivors... 15 of them... now they were down to 6... 3 children, 3 adults and Lexa. what was left of the defenses were weak... she doubted they would hold out the night... but that wasn't her worry. no. they had a more pressing concern. the food supplies wouldn't last much longer. wouldn't matter if they did survive. each fight they won only meant another hour or two to starve when the last of the food went out.

She knew they had a couple of days worth in the bago... but... her thoughts were cut off by a low roar just outside the diner.

Lexa Johnson put on her Helm... Gripped her battle axe and in a couple of Breaths, Lexa Johnson, high school teacher, was no more. all that remained was Regina Lupine... the Wolf Queen.

OOC: gonna say that the Truck stop is about a couple of miles from town.

[New Amerik]

The Katamari Landshark purred as it sped down the road, it's driver headed for the town where, "That extra-dimensional mist keeps coming through," according to the driver's professor's. When at last, it reached the border of the mist, the driver parked it for a moment.

Jenny Fowler walked out of the car, interested at the cool texture of the mist's eddies as it dissipitated slowly. She slammed the car door shut with her hips, then walked around to the trunk. Fumbling a moment for the keys, she clicked the trunk open and grabbed her fireaxe. Closing the trunk,she then went back into the car, before smiling and gunning then engine.

Still quiet, the Landshark dissapeared into the fog.

[Dimoniquid]

"Alright, our main priority is to locate the missing specimen, and take it down. If it breeds... well, we're screwed."James said. He slid his gas mask on, and gave the thumbs up. The doors opened. He walked out, taking note that mist was so thick that a flash light wouldn't work. "Okay. What notes do we have on it?"
"Well... the first specimen likes to nest in damp environments. Just like the whole of this frigging town." A scientist said, looking at the clipboard. She walked forward, and the door closed with a clunk.
"Aaannd we're on our own. Okay... anything else?" He asked.
"Well... the most dampest place is by... "Trucking Funk" Truck Stop." She said, continuing to walk forward. "I suggest we take a truck."
"Alright.... lets get going. To the truck stop! It can't of spread that far. How far is it?" James asked again, setting his FN Minimi onto the truck, and jumping on. He unfolded the bipod, and set it on the roof, digging it into the metal. Two large dents appeared, and when he tried to move it, it was pretty sturdy.
"A mile or so away. Lets go." She replied, stepping into the truck, and revving the engine. One of the soldiers followed her, and rest jumped onto the back. The car jutted forward, and went in the direction of the stop.

"Okay, lets check. The lights are off... so we better check the back in case of anything cutting the power. Jenson, Fadden, you're with me. Amy, Jones, you stay in the struck. If you see anything, drive off." James said, taking his Glock 22 and sliding an extended magazine into it. He slid on the laser pointer, and jumped off of the back of the truck. He walked round, and opened the door.

[The Shee of Sphericus]

Standing his ground Albert saw the truth. The things hadn't mutaplied, rather they where ONE thing. Tentacules. They lunged forward, wrapping around the smartcar and began to pull it in... just as albert raised his disinagrator-pistol and turned the tentacule into yet more mist. Well, smoke anyway.

[JuNii]

"Lady?" a small voice behind her spoke. Suzie, one of the three children was awake and looking at her. Fear in her eyes.

moving quietly, Lexa knelt down next to the scared girl.

"are we going to..." she sniffed the final words of her question away.

"no little one. we're going to make our way to freedom. you're going back home to where your grandma and grandpa are waiting for you."

"But... Mommy and Daddy..."

She carefully scooped the child into her arms... the little girl traced the links of her chainmail armor with her finger. "Your Mommy and Daddy are in heaven and they are watching over you. We will survive and we wil beat this."

The truck stop shook as something huge passed nearby. the rest of the survivors awoke with a start. the three children began crying as the only other woman tried to keep them calm. the other two men held their rifles and shot guns in a club like manner. without bullets, clubs were the only way they could be used.

"Gonna try for the Winnebago again." Lexa whispered. whatever it was out there, it was walking in a circle... either that or it was a parade of em... and they were getting closer to their small shelter.

"You nuts lady?" one of the truckers whispered back. "we can't stay here," the cook replied. "another swarm of those demonic bugs and were all"

the woman loudly coughed and drew the cook's attention to the children as they watched the others, warning him with a look to watch what he says.

"err..." the cook looked embarrassed as he turned away.

"with the results the same... rather we fight than lay down." Lexa spoke with determination.

"is that the teacher talking or the weirdo." the trucker asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Both. you expect your High School football team to give up just because they're behind when the second half starts?" Lexa drew herself straight. Looking the trucker in the eye. He saw the pain of losing her friends and also the strain of the almost constant fighting was taking on her... but he also saw the determination to see this to the end. "No Lady... definitely not!"

Lexa laughed. "I am certainly not a lady."

the Cook joined in. "yep, you certainly ain't"

one of the little boys piped up. "you mean you're a guy?"

the huge elephantine creature paused as laughter drifted through the mist... but it's curiosity was diverted as a smaller predator slinked it's way past. tracking the sound.

[Dimoniquid]

"Okay, come 'ere... eyes open, guys." James said, after his team followed him in, "Okay, split up. It's most likely that it's at the back, but our other priority is to get survivors. You two take the back, I'll check the front."
"Aye sir,"One of his soldiers said, and headed for the back of the truck stop.
"Anyone here? Any survivors... you know... not like this is the apocalypse, or anything..." James said again, lifting up his gasmask.

[The Shee of Sphericus]

Booting up the computer albert began to write his first report from the mist.

The mist itself seems to be not simply composed of water vapor to say the least. Rather, scans have turned up organics, as if it was some kind of...

CRASH! The car jolted as something that looked like a croc with caterpiller legs and a crablike shell crashed against it snapping with a jaw that looked like it had came from that human horror movie, "hunter wasn't it" Albert thought in extrame fear as the car nearly tipped over. Then, remembering himself he hit the gas and the car took off away from the creature.

[Arnastianity]

John got grabbed by a tentacle "what the" it started pulling him "FAAAAAAAAAA...." he was never to be seen again nor his bike

[Violet Beauregarde]

Michelle Larson awoke with a start. "W-where am I...?" She whispered to herself, noticing quickly the lack of lights, the only form of illumination came from a very faint glow from the mist she saw outside the barred, reinforced windows of the building she was within. Michelle remembered slowly over the course of several minutes what had transpired: She had been on a vacation, seeing the sights of the nation, from the big cities to the smaller towns like this one. Her two aids had seen a strange mist approaching in the distance, and had rolled her in here, into this abandoned government structure in the center of town. The aides had told her they'd see what was going on, that they'd be right back. Next thing she knew she was in here, alone. She waddled slowly forward, her blueberry body sloshing as she did so. "...;;;" Michelle began to panic as she saw movement in the mist outside, followed by large tentacles beginning to pound on the tough windows. "Oh my god!" Michelle said as quietly as her piercing fear would allow. She knew the things outside would be held at bay by the barriers, for now. MIchelle waddles into a corner, her body still sloshing, and began to pray someone would rescue her from this hellhole.

[JuNii]

"Ok, I'll make a run for the bago and drive it to the door..." a hand is placed on her shoulder. it was the trucker.

"As I said lady, you're nuts." before Lexa could retort, he continued. "if you think you can do this by your lonesome, what you gonna do, drive while swinging that thing?"

Lexa stared at the man then nodded. she handed him the keys "Don't wait for me. If I should stumble and fall, you have to get the winnebago to the front and get everyone else outta here."

"Lady..."

"No buts! They are the priority..."

"Anyone here? Any survivors... you know... not like this is the apocalypse, or anything..."

they paused as they heard the voices.

"that sounds like it came from nearby... " The cook crept to one of the tables sporting a hole in it. looking through... "there are people out there!"

"QUIET!" you know those spiderlings are attracted by sound as well... Lexa grabbed an empty glass and chucked it out one of the many holes in the tables used to shore up the windows. she stuck her hand out to wave to the people who turned when the glass shattered outside.

[New Amerik]

Crusing up through the city streets, Jenny noticed two things. First, there appeared to be a mass of tentacle's attacking a fortified building. Quickly, Jenny tried to scan her memory for anything useful from her Biology courses. "Let's see, this looks like a Verid Land Kraken, encountered mainly on the East Coast, likes fish, other squids, and red meat. Darn, how the hell are they here?" She sighed. If the Land Kraken was bothering to attack the building, someone must be in it. She drove the car to one side, away from the tentacles as much as possible. Getting out of the car, she grabbed her axe and dove onto the ground. Seeing the tentacles, she wisely opted not to close in.

Instead, she pulled her EPEP pistol. Flipping the safety off, she set it to setting 7. This mist would help keep it relatively cool. She shouted, "Oy, Kraken! Over here!" As the tentacles began moving, she tryed to find what would be the center spot, where the mouth would be. Picking a suspect, she let the plasma bolt fly, impacting the Kraken and causing an squeal and a hiss of fried squid. Seeing the tentacles beginning to spasm, Jenny knocked on the door while keeping her pistol trained for any threats. She dodged a tentacles as it flailed, then tripped as another one knocked into her shins. Swinging out wildly with the axe, she was rewarded with a fleshy pulp as it hit flesh. Quickly, Jenny scrambled back up, before cutting a hunk of tentacle off for further study. She hurried to the doorstep of the building. She turned the bright Green Cross emblem towards the door, letting anyone there know she was part of the New Amerik Hall. And then, she waited on the step, her eyes tracking the mist for any surprises.

[Violet Beauregarde]

Michelle saw the tentacles being attacked by what seemed to be a person, who was at the doorstep of the building. "Oh!" Michelle realized her salvation may have arrived, so she waddles almost painfully slowly towards the door, unlocking it. "Hurry! Get in!"

[New Amerik]

Finding the door opened, Jenny ducked inside. Slamming the door shut behind her, she looked at the person who had let her in.

"Oooo..kay," she said, not used to seeing many people of that....skin tone or girth. "The Emperor above, I didn't know the Hall started an offshoot in this country. You're either the damn weirdest doktor I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot, or your'e a Genetik who's creator had an artistic streak."

Standing to one side, she looked around the room, trying to see if this had any information about he project she was looking for. Seeing none, she asked the strange woman, "Listen, I just came into this town, I had to pass a truck stop full of people who'll probably die before too long, and I'm searching for the source of this mist. I'm with the Hall. Whatever happened, we're eager to get our hands on it. You see anything about, like, an Erasorhead project or something like that?"

[Violet Beauregarde]

"I-I really don't know what's going on...my aids...they left me here, they said they'd be right back. I just woke up here, I don't even know what's happening. I'm just trying to survive in here..."

[New Amerik]

Jenny sighed. Wrong building. She vaguely remembered an old United Affiliates of Japan saying, some kind of 'meme' . "Guess my objective is in another castle. Well, shit." She decided to go back to the truck stop for now. Maybe someone there would have an idea of where information could be found.

"I'm not staying here. I'm going back to that truck stop. If I drive crazily enough, these creatures have no way to catch me. Here, catch," taking her EPEP pistol, she dialed it down to setting 3, then tossed it at the woman. "I'm leaving. If you want to come with me, speak now. Otherwise, you'd better try to barricade this place as best you can."

Jenny pulled her metal arm out, then with a show of will an identical pistol barrel popped out of her wrist. She waved her arm, letting the training of using a built-in come back to her. When satisfied, she strode back to the door.

"So, you coming?"

[Violet Beauregarde]

Jenny sighed. Wrong building. She vaguely remembered an old United Affiliates of Japan saying, some kind of 'meme' . "Guess my objective is in another castle. Well, shit." She decided to go back to the truck stop for now. Maybe someone there would have an idea of where information could be found.

"I'm not staying here. I'm going back to that truck stop. If I drive crazily enough, these creatures have no way to catch me. Here, catch," taking her EPEP pistol, she dialed it down to setting 3, then tossed it at the woman. "I'm leaving. If you want to come with me, speak now. Otherwise, you'd better try to barricade this place as best you can."

Jenny pulled her metal arm out, then with a show of will an identical pistol barrel popped out of her wrist. She waved her arm, letting the training of using a built-in come back to her. When satisfied, she strode back to the door.

"So, you coming?"

Michelle caught the pistol with some difficulty. "I-I guess. I'm kind of...bulky, but I guess I've got your back."

[New Amerik]

Jenny open the door, flung her arm out, then ran out the door. She waited for a few minutes, then quickly dove into the driver's side of the Katamari Landshark.

"Come on, our dead buddy's going to attract friends. We gotta roll!"

[Violet Beauregarde]

Jenny open the door, flung her arm out, then ran out the door. She waited for a few minutes, then quickly dove into the driver's side of the Katamari Landshark.

"Come on, our dead buddy's going to attract friends. We gotta roll!"

Michelle managed to waddle into the back. "I'm sorry!" Michelle was squished into the rear of the vehicle, looking about for creatures. "Go go go!"

[New Amerik]

As the scavengers came across the Land Kraken, they heard a strange noise. That noise was the sound of a car's tires screeching as the car took off, into the mist. It's destination? The "Trucking Funk" Rest Stop.

[Violet Beauregarde]

As the scavengers came across the Land Kraken, they heard a strange noise. That noise was the sound of a car's tires screeching as the car took off, into the mist. It's destination? The "Trucking Funk" Rest Stop.

Michelle peered around, still observing the surrounding area for creatures. "Um...miss? I trust this gun functions like a normal pistol?"

[JuNii]

Lexa watched as the armed men moved past the truck stop... not stopping, even stepping on the shards of the glass she threw out.

What the... "Quiet." she whispered to the other survivors. "they're obviously hunting for something, and we're obviously not the objective..."

a couple of hours pass and no movement outside the truck stop is noticed. She turned to the trucker and tossed him her keys.

"My job, is to get you to the winnebago... your job is to get that bago to this door, get the rest inside and drive towards civilization. If I go down, you don't stop for me, you don't turn you don't even slow down. Got it?"

The trucker gripped the keys and nodded.

she nodded to the cook. he quietly opened the door and the Winnebago retrieval team slipped out. Lexa, or "Regina Lupine" as her personality switch took over moved quietly towards the winnebago They made their way around the corpses of fallen friends and family as the Winnebago got closer.

then she heard it. the *clickclickclick* of many insectoid legs she nodded to the trucker and he broke into a run as the mass of spiderlings seem to spill out of the mist. changing angles, Lexa moved to intercept as much of those she can... metal shield held ready as she swung Grande Morte one handed at the nearest spiderling splitting it width-wise the others changed target as one became readily available. the *Twip* of spider silk was her only warning to raise her shield... barely catching the mass of webs that were shot out to her.

the hissing as the webs started to melt the metal shield filled her ears. 20 seconds she kept swinging, clearing as much of the large spiders as she can.

"I'm at the bago! Hurry!" a voice drifted out of the mist.

"GO! DO YOUR JOB!" Lexa shouted back as she cleaved though two bodies that lunged forwards.

She didn't hear the engine turn, her focus on other more pressing things. but it was a welcome surpise when the bago drove over the mass of spiderlings as it headed towards the Truck stop.

Many of her opponents lay crushed, but many more began to follow the bago... this was not wanted.

Throwing the ruined remains of her shield at those chasing the bago, she followed up with two throwing hatchets. the spiderlings's aggro was successfully re captured.

drawing a short sword and panting heavily, she started swinging at the nearest spiders. trying to delay the inevitable, buying time for the others to get out.

She heard the Bago's horn honk... but couldn't spare the breath to shout out a reply. A few seconds later, she heard the bago's engine fade into the mist.

Good luck Lexa thought as she felt her arms grow tired.

One of the spiderlings got though her defenses and Lexa found herself knocked backwards with the huge thing now sitting on her chest. she brought up her axe's handle in time to block it's fangs from sinking into her unprotected face. meanwhile, she sensed, more than felt, the others skittering towards her, biting whatever part of her body they could reach.

Fortunately, her Full Chain mail armor stopped those fangs from getting through. she thrashed as she tried to get the, now three, spiderlings off of her... letting out her final battlecry, Lexa was determined to make them work for their meal.

Her roar of anger seemed to echo through the mist... until she realized that it wasn't her roar but something else... something that was attracted to the battle, something that rained death on the spiderlings as they tried to kill this metal clad warrior.

A large silver beast tore out of the mist and began rending spiderlings by the truckload to pieces. the first thought that came to Lexa's mind was "Moorcock" Maximus Tork's Displacer beast familiar... except this thing had scales and it was silver. The tentacles were still there tho...

Drawing her mind back to the fight, Lexa was startled to find that the creature had swiped the three spiderlings off of her and she now got back on to her feet. together, she and her now unusual ally circled each other, watching the other's back and in short order, what was left of the spiderlings quickly vanished back into the mist.

Panting and out of breath, Lexa turned to thank her ally only to find it on it's side. blood(?) oozing from many wounds. with strength quickly vanishing, Lexa dragged the large beast into the now empty truck stop and re barricaded the doors.

Need something to remove the poison... think Lexa... she fretted as she lifted the huge, Tiger sized beast onto the counter top.

her eyes fell upon an unopened package of bread. Bread poultice... that should work... she quickly made the pasty stuff and carefully wrapped it around the creatures wounds... then opening one can of their dwindling supplies of spam, she mashed up a bit and put it on a plate next to the creatures head which... surprisingly, licked her palm in a friendly manner. You helped me beastie... like hell I'm letting you die.

then, with the last of her energy gone... she lay down on the floor and was quickly unconscious.

OOC: yeah, new critter... think Displacer beast but with scales instead of fur.