Oct Event Log - Portal Chaos

[serpentinthegarden]

The glowing portal shuddered before slamming shut behind them. It had seemed like a good idea at the time... go through the portal in order to close it from the other side. And it had worked! The portal was closed, the school was safe but the heroes who had worked together to close the portal were now trapped on the other side. 

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Through the Portal
( Loki, Crowley, Alec, Beetlejuice, Sho )

Silence fell as soon as the portal closed leaving the small group standing in the middle of a crossroads. The ruined archway that ran along the top of the cliffs hinted that there might once have been more of a civilization in this world but now there were only the two pathways, one that ran down the hill into the face of the brilliant red glow that hinted at a flow of magma beyond and one that curved up a hastily cobbled together set of stairs. Of course they were free to stay right where they were as well, here in this craggy passage with the imps peering down at them from every rock and crevasse.


Rescuers
( Aziraphale, Harry, Lena, Eleven, Mal )

With the battle won most begin to relax. There was the wounded to see to and the damage to the school to repair... but gradually the more tuned in students start to notice the missing. Roll calls that were taken but never completed for some were not around to answer to their names. Then one of the injured students comes to and mentions having seen the missing students disappearing through the imp summoning portal. Clearly they were trapped on the other side and it was up to their fellow students to work out a way to bring them back!

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cw: crass comment

[creepyoldguy]

"Fella, if you want to flirt with a demon there's a few right here. You don't have to go find the first sulfur demon you run into," Beetlejuice called to Alec in between mouthfuls of some sort of food he'd picked up. (It was the closest thing that he'd ever get to home-cooking, after all.)

He did think Loki was probably right. There had to be better places to see than this section of New-Hell.

To Crowley as an aside, "D'ya think he's compensating?" with a chin thrust towards Sho's wings.

[serpentinthegarden]

Crowley looked to Alec, shaking his head a quick once to say without speaking... 'Don't flirt with the demons.' That would be too odd given they were trying this whole family thing that he was clearly failing at. Though he supposed... this wouldn't be his first failure would it?

Sho's wings seemed to hover over them like a backdrop. Big, flashy, and yes perhaps compensating for something. Who could say? He had never met the kid before and he wasn't the least bit interested in doing math with him. Not his subject math.

"He speaking in tongues?"

That did some times happen in Hell to those who were unprepared or unusually susceptible to it's influences and it would explain why very little of what the kid had said made any sense to him.

The imps were simple creatures and very easily influenced. They quite readily took to Loki's mental suggestions and ran en masse towards the demon. Ready for a fight the dark winged demon had raised it's hand to smack at the insects who had dared to challenge him but now he found his hand covered from fingertips to elbow by nasty biting and clawing imps. The demon's howl of surprise was deafening but it was distracting enough to give them all time to slip away... if that's what they wanted.

[scotch_egg]

Alec realized three things in quick succession.

The first of which was that he would always be a human that no one superhuman took remotely seriously for good reason and that would be the same no matter how good he became at magic, he'd still be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The second of which was that he was posturing for no reason and while he tried not to feel humiliated by his own foolishness, his brain refused to listen to his commands.

The third of which was to be distracted when facing a demon the size of a small hill was a really bloody stupid idea. The creature barked a laugh and rose, backhanding him before he had time to react. Driving the breath right out of him.

He managed to come to as he was hurtling through the air and managed to use the wings to cushion the fall but landed hard on some blackstone rocks, bouncing once before scraping his back against the heat. He was at the base of the mountain again, arm throbbing, staring at the orange red glow of the perhaps sky and wanting the ground to swallow him.

Someone would come for him he was fairly sure and though he'd like to think he'd rejoin them under his own steam, he knew he wouldn't manage. So for the moment he lay there blinking upwards and wishing the ground would swallow him.

[grim_heaper]

Sho laughed, seeing the other getting backhanded. He ignored all the derogatory comments about himself as he sent Jungle Boomer towards the large demon, staying just a bit behind. Noise as meat(...???) shields wasn't cowardice, it was strategy. After all, that was what disposable mooks were for.

He applauded as he approached. "Not half bad. Of course for a target, he was so zetta slow. Tell you what, when I claim this UG for myself, I'll add you to the roster. +1 Reaper, that add up for you? Take me to your Composer and I'll challenge to a Reaper's game here and now. Winner take all! I'll find my beauty in this inverse matrix and run this UG with my flawless calculations. And I'll FOIL anyone who tries to stop me! First Outer Inner LAST!" he proclaimed happily as more Noise formed around him in a show of strength.

He leaned back while standing, as if unconcerned, hands in his pockets while his wings leisurely opened and closed. "SOH CAH TOA," he said as if satisfied that he was clearly the undisputed victor here.