exiles_misc (exiles_misc) wrote in exiles,
@ 2012-10-21 16:39:00

Entry tags:

"generation hexed", crusader, dorrek, goblin, gwenny, mystic

Generation Hexed
Three years ago, Xarus Tepes, son and slayer of Dracula, united the warring vampire sects under a new banner. They followed his new vision for the future, a future of vampires empowered in a fashion the world had never seen. A melding of vampire and mutant blood, ushered in through fire and blood. In another world, he might have only sent forth one suicide bomber, in San Fransisco, but in this one, he sent many. Overnight, across the United States, the ranks of the vampire nation swelled, bringing mutants and other superhumans into the fold. Some resisted their new natures, many did not. With the aid of the X-Men, Dracula eventually was restored and then resumed control of the vampire nations and restored order, but the swell in the ranks represented a fundamental shift in power amongst the supernatural community. Almost overnight, other camps began responding. Otherworld tested its pact with the British Isles, soliciting humans to serve as scions of fey magic. Tribes of lycanthropes went on offensive strikes into isolated communities to spread their own condition. Things that lurked in dark places offered more power in exchange for fewer souls.

Now, the world has a new face. Fields of wild magic dotted across the globe render technology moot within their territory, and magic is nearly commonplace. Sentinels and Hulkbusters were repurposed and reshaped into magic-powered golems and armors of hideous might. The world has become the stuff of the Brothers' tales, before Disney and modern media got hold of them. Cities run the gamut from overgrown by restored wilderness, to reshaped into gleaming spires of otherworldly beauty, to ruins.

Where and when the Exiles arrive, it is night by all appearances, but there are no stars, and what appears to be the moon high above is featureless and pristine. By all appearances, they are in what was once a suburban neighborhood, but the homes now are either falling apart, or fortified and bearing runes and hex marks across their structures. Swathes of thornbushes have replaced flower-beds and lawns, and spikes of iron ring some of the properties, seemingly the remains of automobiles, torn apart by bare hands and claws.

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	brit_sorcerer 2012-11-12 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Flames of the Faltine!" Quinn yelled and green flames shot out toward the faeries. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notallhunkydory
2012-11-13 06:08 am UTC (link)

Dory yelps when the fairies start biting, and the ones who bite hardest get blunted-spike protrusions to their nasty little faces. His wings become hard and shiny, like the protective casing over beetle wings as he drops to one knee, bringing Gwenny down with him. He wraps an arm around her as his feet and other hand sprout claws that he digs into the ground to brace himself for whatever Sarah's calling down on their heads.

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exiles_hero
2012-11-13 06:10 am UTC (link)

The fairies swirl around the Exiles from all sides, forming a ring which rises, then seems ready to fall inwards on them. It is cut short by a door slamming open, a rapid grating of wheels over wood and stone, and a shotgun blast. A hundred tiny voices cry out in pain and thump to the ground, crawling away into the underbrush. Panic breaks out and the swarm begins to scatter.

"The rolly-death comes! Away! Away!"

A blonde man, missing most of one arm and all of one leg, has rolled down to the street in a wheelchair, a still smoking shotgun held with one hand and balanced with a prosthetic claw. "Iron bird-shot and rock salt. Does the trick for most things." He looks down then abruptly rolls the chair forward over a crippled fairy. "Boot heel or retreads do the rest." He turns the gaze of his one good eye on the Exiles.

"I'm Captain John Walker. Who the *%$@ are all of you, and what are you doing with that shield, young lady?" He loads another cartridge as he stares straight at Sarah.

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rogue_star
2012-11-13 07:45 am UTC (link)

Quietly, Sarah is grateful. Summoning the storms takes a lot out of her. Trying to stop them once they've started even more. She could have done it, again - but now she won't have even more of a headache and be totally exhausted.

A little of that relief goes away when she hears the name. Its a different guy, sure. Might be a better class of Walker... but their last encounter left a bad impression.

"Captain Walker, my name is Sarah Rogers. This shield belonged to my father, Steve Rogers. Who we all are is a long story, but thank you for dealing with the swarm before we had to take more extreme measures."

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	bornlucky 2012-11-14 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Neat trick," He says glad to see those faries gone, "Name's Casey." He did not really recognizing the Walker name. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brit_sorcerer 2012-11-15 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	"Braddock," Quinn said. "What the bloody hell is going on here?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_pal 2012-11-16 06:13 pm UTC (link)
	"Gwenny Lou Sabuki, Captain" Gwenny says respectfully as she crawls out from under Dory. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goblin_savior 2012-11-18 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	Macendale doesn't say anything, preferring to stay in the background and let the others talk. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notallhunkydory 2012-11-19 09:54 am UTC (link)
	This is a place with fairies in it. While this particular man isn't likely to have some supernatural truth-sense, Dory doesn't trust that one of his allies doesn't. He also stays quiet, rolling his shoulders and flexing his wings. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

exiles_hero
2012-11-19 04:01 pm UTC (link)

Walker nods to those who reply politely, but arches an eyebrow at Quinn. "Where you are, limey, is in the middle of a darkland patch. I don't know what your fairies back home get up to, but this is how the local bloodsuckers make themselves at home." He doesn't lower the gun, but he moves just to the side of the walkway up to one of the more fortified houses.

He seems about to say something, before two giant forms swing down from the trees, one of them snatching him out of the wheelchair, amidst a flurry of curses.

"What about the outsiders?" One of the vampires snarls.

"Forget them! We bring in Walker and we'll get double whatever the reward on them would be!"

"Double up on this, suckerheads!" Rogers' hook on his prosthetic arm switches out for a stake, and he plunges it into the chest of the one grappling with him. They go into a freefall, as the other vampire rushes after them.

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	rogue_star 2012-11-19 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	No. Oh no. Why did it have to be vampires? Sarah whirls the hammer. "Dory, catch Walker." she calls, launching herself upward, leading with the hammer towards the other one. She can't quite help but briefly put Storm's face on it, but doesn't let that stop her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_pal 2012-11-19 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	"One thing I'll never really get the hang of in this job," Gwenny bemoans with utter earnestness. "All the gosh-darned monsters." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brit_sorcerer 2012-11-19 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Shield your eyes!" Quinn yelled to his teammates. "Light of the Seven Suns of Cinnibus!" He yelled. A scorching brilliant white light blast came from Quinn. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notallhunkydory
2012-11-21 06:15 am UTC (link)

"On it!"

Dory flexes leg muscles evolved for gravities higher than that of Earth and propels himself into the air. His wings crumple and melt into his preferred, bat-like formation -- but he'll keep them folded until he's caught Walker. He's not planning to fly, he just wants to slow their descent enough to get his feet under him.

Being in the air when Sarah gets going seems like a phenomenally bad idea.

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	goblin_savior 2012-11-24 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Vampires, eh? Okay, he could work with that. A pair of pumpkin bombs materialized in his hands. "Burn you undead assholes!" He flung them at the monsters. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

exiles_hero
2012-11-25 03:46 am UTC (link)

The stake from Walker already had been a mortal blow to the Charniputra vampire, but the subsequent attacks reduce it to dust in record time.

The remaining vampire was about to dive after the human when the sun-blast hit. "How the hell--? Stupid cheating mortal magicks!" It hisses in rage, and takes off, body smoking as it endures a pain it hasn't had to imagine in years.

Walker is caught by Dory, and allows himself to be brought back to the ground, brusquely pushing away and balancing on his one good leg once they're on the ground. "Somebody bring me my wheelchair." He huffs, looking around the group thoughtfully, before giving a whistle. A young woman in glasses and not much else hurries out of the house he'd come from moments earlier. "Ashley, pick up two of yours and canvass the neighborhood. If the one they chased off comes back, with or without friends, I want to know ahead of time.

The young woman nods, and then... changes. It wasn't the seamless shapeshifting that Dory had just demonstrated, but more like a full-body sneeze that left some kind of bear-creature where the human had been a moment earlier. The creature settles onto all fours, gives a brief bellowing call, then takes off down the street.

Walker nods as she leaves. "Good kid. Used to be a paralegal."

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	rogue_star 2012-11-25 05:39 am UTC (link)
	Sarah remains up high for a few moments, composing herself. She really, really had hoped to never have to deal with vampires again. She's back to herself by the time she's back within easy sight of anyone. "Seems like a lot of things are different than they used to be. We could use some catching up." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brit_sorcerer 2012-11-28 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	"I need a beer or ten," Quinn said. He was tired and just wanted to get plastered beyond belief to forget about all of this and dull the pain of the migraine. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goblin_savior 2012-11-29 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Jason wills the gilder back down before it dematerializes, dropping him lightly to the ground. Coming from a world full of demons, he is decidedly nonplussed about all this. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bornlucky 2012-11-29 01:08 am UTC (link)
	"Make that twenty beers then," Casey says. Better to do something that made sense to him in the normal world he was from. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_pal 2012-11-29 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	"...Sarah, what's the job here again?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2012-11-29 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	"Stand together - I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean us, but there seems to be different factions here. Might have something to do with it. Sounds sort of like the whole 'must all hang together or we will all hang separately' bit." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notallhunkydory 2012-11-30 04:31 am UTC (link)
	"Gonna be hard to figure out who's supposed to be hanging together against what without information," Dory says, stepping away to retrieve Walker's chair. He brings it back over and sets it down with a flourish. "So, if there's a place we can go and you can tell us what's going on, sir, that would be great." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

exiles_hero
2012-12-04 05:47 pm UTC (link)

"'Different factions'..." Walker grunts. "Little girl, you don't know the half of it." He nods to Dory as he settles back into his chair, then rolls himself sharply up the sidewalk. "Inside, now. Streets aren't safe to talk."

They should all be able to enter the doorway without a problem, save for Macendale, who will be stuck with the equivalent of walking face-first into reinforced glass.

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	rogue_star 2012-12-04 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Sarah lets the little girl comment slide for now - it just renews her general dislike of people named John Walker... but this one is still better than the previous. "Which is what you're supposed to tell us about. I'm getting the general idea though." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)