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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 1, 2013 15:15:22 GMT -6
"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Babu asks Old Gregg as they walk down the sidewalk. The shambling, pasty skinned residents of R'lyeh part to make way for them.
"Of course I do. I'm old Gregg!" Old Gregg replies.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Babu says.
"Old Gregg feels we are getting closer," Old Gregg answers.
"Why haven't we been attacked?" MH says. "They were chasing us all over the damn place before."
"Something's not right," Doc Quantum says, staring at the. "They're still looking at us but not acting."
A siren suddenly fills the air. A police car suddenly pulls up and a voice booms from its PA system. Two enormous boar-faced police step out of the car.
Oh, that's why...." Doc Quantum groans.
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Post by mh on Dec 1, 2013 17:00:28 GMT -6
"oh, hello officers, "exclaims deskboy. "i am, as you can see, an arch-deamon. I've brought these humans who want to sacrifice themselves in cthulhu's name. that's old gregg. he's my familiar."
"oh we know him, "says one of the officers, "a real troublemaker."
mh is hiding tony harrison under his shirt.
old gregg smiles.
"he has reformed, "says deskboy.
"alright, "says the officer. "it's always good to see willing human sacrifices. carry on."
they get in their squad car & drive away.
"okay, we'd better hurry." says deskboy. "oh, and we need the strength of two virgins to unearth the sword."
everyone looks at heather.
"seriously?" she says. "no."
then at taffy.
"she shrugs. "noooo, not really."
then at gill.
"fine! .. okay!" he exclaims. "stop looking at me!"
then at steve.
"i got to second base with gill's cousin fran, "he replies, "that makes me unfit, right?"
"yuck!" says gill.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 2, 2013 6:33:55 GMT -6
They continue to walk down the street. The pasty skinned denizens seem less willing to part the further they get, frequently bumping into them.
Soon, they come to the R'lyeh Public Library. More of the inhabits are milling back and forth before the steps.
"It's in here," Old Gregg says. "In the basement."
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Post by mh on Dec 2, 2013 22:07:53 GMT -6
gill notices that taffy and heather are walking with their arms outstretched, like they're hypnotized.
"taffy, what's wrong?" gill exclaims in a whisper. "deskboy, what's wrong with them?"
"nothing," says deskboy, "i hexed them a little. to have entranced females in r'lyeh give us tons of street cred. notice the possessed have backed off a little."
going around the back of the library, there's a ground level window and saboo busts it out with a rock.
"we've got the two virgins, but for the sword to become solid in this world, we'll have to have a ceremony , "says saboo.
"and we'll need a dead body!" exclaims tony harrison. "no druidic ceremony can be complete without a dead body! and not one of these possessed lot -- maybe one of the girls! not the redhead though -- we've made a connection! i'm gonna take her back and let her watch me dj! she'll be overcome! she'll be putty in me tenacles!"
"we're not killing heather." says babu.
"wait," says deskboy, "old gregg, would you happen to have a dead body?"
old gregg rolls his eyes and smiles. "like i'd come to the dark stranger's shindig without a dead body. do ya' think i'm stupid, boy? i brung my former boyfriend ol' carly jefferson with me. i got him out in his old fishin' boat. wait a sec, i'll get him. i'm old gregg!!"
gregg runs off & returns with a semi-mummified guy mounted like a fish.
"omg, what happened?" exclaims gill, as he & steve stare at carly's remains.
"we had a bad breakup, "says old gregg. "i'd just as soon not talk about it."
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 3, 2013 23:51:45 GMT -6
The group slips through the window, dragging the mounted form of Old Gregg's ex-boyfriend behind them. Placing the body in the middle of the floor, Saboo draws a chalk circle around it as well as several mystic symbols.
Saboo and Tony Harrison begin to chant in an ancient language. The body begins to glow. Soon it has begun to glow so bright they can no longer see it.
"The body has become a portal, Steve and Gill," Saboo says. "Quickly. Plunge your hands in and retreive the sword!"
Steve and Gill both grimace at the prospect. It's still a dead body. They both plunge their hands in and feel for the hilt. They both clutch it at the same time. "Got it!" Steve says as they draw it out.
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Post by mh on Dec 4, 2013 13:47:26 GMT -6
steve and gill pull the sword free, and everyone gasps, because it is perhaps the most oddly leathal looking piece of sword-based weaponry any of them had ever seen. although aged, it glowed strangely, and appeared razor sharp.
"it's like a 10th century bessie mauler, but more brutally designed, "says saboo.
"you're daft!" exclaims tony harrison. "it's a dead ringer for a xooberon griefmaker! let me wield that weapon! i'll hack the whole lot of them to bits!"
"you!?" begins saboo, and the ground begins to shake.
"we have to go!" cries deskboy, from the window where he, taffy & heather had stayed.
"cthulhu awakens!"
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 5, 2013 16:08:05 GMT -6
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 5, 2013 16:09:28 GMT -6
The group scrambles out of the basement the way they came in. In the distance, they can see the giant form of C'thulhu rising from the fountain in the center of the town square. In between the group and C'thulhu ware the denizens of R'lyeh who are moving towards them.
"Still think you can hack through all of them?" Babu asks Tony Harrison.
"We're all doomed! This is an outrage!" Tony Harrison says.
"Not yet," Saboo says. He reaches back and grabs the rolled up magic carpet from his back. He unrolls it and says, "Everyone get on." With that, they take to the air.
"Hee, Gil," Desk-boy says, handing him the sword. "You'll need this."
"What?" Gil cries.
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Post by mh on Dec 7, 2013 21:37:10 GMT -6
moving several feet above the site of c'thulhu's emergence, desky boy lifts gill
"hey, what the ..." gill begins, and deskboy drops him into a soft looking clump of bushes.
"omg," exclaims steve, looking down at the scene. "gill! the poor kid. won't he need help?"
"yep." says deskboy, and shoves steve in the back, sending him down into the same clump of bushes.
"blazes!" says babu, "d-b, I sure hope you know what you're doing."
"not really, "answers deskboy. "but it's predestined. and us demonic types are all about predestination."
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 8, 2013 14:27:58 GMT -6
C'Thulhu suddenly turns to the group on the flying carpet and a ray of energy flies towards them.. The carpet dodges just in time.
"Holy S--t! He's attacking us!" MH cries.
"Good, let him focus on us so Gil can do his thing!" Babu says.
Meanwhile, Gil is swinging wlidly with the sword with his eyes closed. "Open your damn eyes!" Steve says.
"I can't! I'm too scared!" Gil exclaims.
Suddenly, the sword hits C'thulhu's ankle, severing the achiles tendon. C'thulhu begins to fall.
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Post by mh on Dec 12, 2013 1:41:00 GMT -6
screeching in pain, c'thulhu begins receding back into the earth. suddenly gill is grabbed and is pulled in behind.
"no!" cries old gregg from the carpet. "hell no! that's my man b-tch! i'm old gregg!" and he dives from the carpet and begins pulling gill out.
sabu lands the carpet, and heather's two friends run up, looking terrified.
"we saw the burkittsville haint!" one exclaims. "she said my boots were gauche! we wanna go home."
babu looks over and sees a frightening figure beside him on the carpet, staring at him, gurgling and laughing.
"gaahhhh!!" he cries, as does taffy, heather and mh.
"calm down, "says deskboy. "that's the pig spirit of baal veer. he's come to aid us!"
"long time no see, "says tony harrison smiling. "slap me five ... slap me five ..."
and the pig spirit slaps his tenacle.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 12, 2013 16:28:06 GMT -6
"C'thulhu is hobbled, but he isn't dead," Desk-boy says. "As long as the Dark strange remains, so does R'lyeh. And if R'lyeh remains, C'thulhu can resurface. The pig spirit is going to guide us back across R'lyeh so we can take down the Dark Stranger and send R'lyeh back to its home dimension."
The magic carpet sails across the sky over R'lyeh. The citizens look up angily, shouting and throwing anything handy they can get their hands on to try and bring it down.
As they leave the city of R'lyeh, the dark stranger comes into view. He appears to be looking their way.
"Oh crap," Babu says. "He looks like he's ready for us."
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Post by mh on Dec 12, 2013 17:05:17 GMT -6
waving his hands, girgashitke the pig spirit makes a giant ham-hock with legs appear, and as it runs toward the supermarket, the townspeople immediately forget them and begin chasing after it.
"when they are inside i can seal it so that the townies can't give us anymore trouble, "says deskboy. "good call girgashitke."
"snort, *cackle* *cackle*," says the pig spirit.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 12, 2013 20:47:42 GMT -6
As they grow closer to the Dark Stranger, he bgins firing bolts of dark energy at them. Sabu makes the carpet dodge left and right so the bolts miss them.
"I hope you're ready with that sword, Gil," Desk-boy says, looking back towards the city of R'lyeh. A newly healed C'thulhu is climbing back out of the pit..
"We need to get to the Dark stranger faster!" Babu says. Sabu concentrates harder and the carpet begins to soar towards the Dark Stranger at an even higher rate of speed, still deftly dodging the energy blasts.
The ground shakes as C'thulhu begins to run towards them. "Get ready, Gil," MH says.
The carpet sweeps by the Dark Stranger and Gil swings blindly. The Dark Stranger's head suddenly falls fron his shoulders, bouncing arcross the landscape.
The city of R'lyeh suddenly begins to crackle wildly with energy, The last thing that can be heard as the city dissappears is a cry of rage from C'thulhu.
"You did it, Gil!" Steve says. "I can't believe you did it!"
Heather grabs Gil in a bear hug. As she lays a big kiss on his cheek, his eyes nearly bug out of his head.
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Post by mh on Dec 14, 2013 19:05:05 GMT -6
"oh look!" heather squeaks, her arms still around gill, "guys, there's our car!"
as her friends load their equipment, heather takes gil's hand, and writes a number across it with an ink pin. "bye everyone -- call me, hero!" she chirps, waving as they drive off.
"gil's got a girlfriend! gil's got a girlfriend!" says taffy.
"cut it out taffy!" exclaims gill, reddening darkly.
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