[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[kishin asura]

Theta just looks on as stuff happens

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
Gunner looks over at her, him looking like something out of horror movie to be honest.
"...Boo." He says, making an even worse face, in an attempt to seem goofy.

[thewizardguy]

@RavenTLark
She hears something akin to a chuckle resonate through her mind. "Why child, a question has more purposes than one. It is not for me, for all I might wish to know I am already aware of. The question was for you." The image seems to shift, fixating on particular events, particular stories. Some seem to contradict one another, however, a single scene depicting her own death, another depicting her on her father's throne. An array of potential futures, some horrifying and others merely confusing. "Fate is a fickle mistress. She will lead you through good or ill, all towards the inevitable end. But she is far from all powerfu, and aside from your destined demise there are a hundred possible paths open to you. If you but reach for them."

Two images appear in Raven's mind. The first depicts a tall, pale figure clad in black. He seems to be wielding a sword, facing a warior clad in flames. The image depicts the pale figure's blade striking true, even as the warrior's fist rips his head off. The second image is of a planet, seen from afar. Not quite a planet, no..... a space station. A construction of ungodly size, surrounded by a strange haze of twisting runes and wires. Around it orbit two smaller stations, each equipped with a mighty cannon. However, it was all overgrown, quite probably completely nonfunctional.

"Merely by interacting with you, I give you a chance to change your fate, girl. This is a chance few are given, even among the greatest of heroes. When the time comes, place faith in your own strength. For if you do not, all may fall." With these parting words, the being seems to recede from raven's consciousness. As if it had never truly been there at all. At the same time, she would feel an undead approaching her, Mithiash having picked up on her aura.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Theta chuckles a bit

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
He soon picks up a bit of severed nose, and swallow it, popping it into his mouth like one would an olive, before that part of nose slowly regrows. He goes though eating all the bits of torn off face, peeling them off of the craggy rocks.
"..You ever tries yourself? Strange tasting your own flesh." I say, before slurping up some severed eyelid, and eyebrow flesh.

[CreedTheChimera]

@supertinyking@kishin asura
Creed crouches next to Raiden and pokes him with Clarent's sheathe repeatedly, before looking at the other three people. "So, what's going on?" He asks, nowhere near fazed by the man eating himself and actually considers his question, no matter if it was addressed to him or not. "I think some wacko chopped some meat off my arm one time and cooked it. I taste good..." His stomach then growls again and he looks at his arm, as if seriously considering self-cannibalism just to not be hungry, before his eyes dart up to the others and he returns to focusing on the poking of Raiden, poking various parts of his body to incite some reaction, voluntary or involuntary.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

"True that." Theta says

[Wraithblade6]

@supertinyking@raventlark@thewizardguy

As Mithias walks towards Raven's direction, he gets distracted by the two demons playing cards.

He narrowed his eyes at them distrustingly. Demons were never a helpful bunch, but they were all the denizens of Hell, so Mithias would undoubtedly have to deal with them. "No. I am not looking to strike a deal." Truely, he had enough of deals for one lifetime. "I'm looking for Ozzy Corest."

[RavenTLark]

@Wraithblade6 @thewizardguy @supertinyking

Raven wondered at the meaning of what the Void had said but her senses told her that she didn't have long to think about it. She could feel something undead coming her way, what she couldn't sense is what exactly it was, for all her years living in the Underworld she knew not what it could be. She sensed that it had stopped for the moment and she took this as her chance to find out what it was and possibly who it was. Raven jogged silently to where the feeling was coming from and saw only a man, strangely pale, and some creatures, which she knew from experience, were Demons. The man looked like he didn't trust them one bit and she didn't blame him, Demons have never been trustworthy, they're traitors. She decided that it would be best to keep in the shadows, for now at least, until she knew what he was but that didn't mean that she was going to leave, quite the opposite. She would watch from her place in the dark, watch and listen to the group.

[supertinyking]

@Wraithblade6@RavenTLark
"You're lookin for the boss?" The short demon asks, and he looks across to the sucubus sitting across from him and then back again.
"Aye, I'll take ya to em...gonna have to ask you hand over your sword first thought buddy. There's been an increase of morons trying to kill the devil within hell. I mean, you'd die horribly either way, but this way it'll be cleaner." The demon says, holding out his hand, with twelve stubby little digits, for the vampire's sword. His hand looks oddly the cleanest part about him, it being devoid of the strange ashen grey smudges covering the rest of him.

"..What do you think he is?" Ozzy asks, leaning over Raven's should to watch, him somehow having snuck up on her while she had been spying. He then chuckles, leaping back, quietly, as to avoid no doubt the retaliation Raven may throw out. "Oi, oi, calm yourself....just having a bit of fun messing with you." He chuckles, quietly.

[RavenTLark]

@supertinyking

Raven tries to elbow him in the face but misses thanks to his leap," Who are you?," she asked him in an angry whisper. She was not impressed with him sneaking up on her, she had been so interested into what the man and Demons were doing that she hadn't noticed him behind her. She was a little ashamed at how she had put her guard down so much but that wasn't going to stop her from being annoyed at him. Raven also noticed that he was a Demon as well, obviously stronger than the others but still a Demon," Look, don't you have anything better to do than sneaking up on people?" She could tell that he was enjoying himself, a bit too much if she said so herself but she figured that that couldn't be helped.

[supertinyking]

@RavenTLark
"Ironically I don't have much else better to do, until a friend of mine returns from a vacation...damn it Bob, of all the times to go off on one of your random adventures..." He says, that last bit under his breath in a grumble. He then goes back to focusing on the events at hand. "Anywho, I want your honest guess who the pale man with the sword is..or...I should say, WHAT the pale man with the sword is..." He chuckles, being interested in what assumptions she may make.

[RavenTLark]

@supertinyking

"What, so you want me to make a fool of myself? I can't say that I didn't expect it. Fine, I think that he isn't human, how's that for a guess?" Raven had decided that she wasn't going to fall for small tricks like that. She didn't know for sure that he was trying to trick her but he seemed to her like that sort of person, well, Demon. "With the noise you're making I will find out soon," she told him in a derisive tone.

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura

Saeid sorta seems disturbed by this.
"...You two are a very strange couple." He says, looking to the faceless bounty hunter, and then the mutant.
"Couple?....Well, damn, I guess we sorta are." Gunner says, looking over at Theta. "..Well...sorta. Depends." he say, being a bit confused..or, he looks confused. Hard to tell without much of a face.

[Wraithblade6]

@supertinyking

Mithias stands unmoving as the demon extends its hand with an innocent grin. Yellow eyes flash at him threateningly from underneath black brows. The demon realized that if he got any closer, he was going to lose a hand. Mithias frowned and didn't hand over his weapon.

Clearly the vampire wasn't a noob and wouldn't fall for the basic tricks. "Hilarious." Mithias said tauntingly as he nearly tapped his foot with impatience. "I don't care if you help me or sit at that card table for the rest of eternity. I will find Ozzy if I have to comb the entirety of Hell myself. And yes, I have that kind of time. But if you or any of your scumbag kind get in my way, then I will finally find out what demon blood tastes like." Mithias summoned a second sword in his other hand. He'd see if the demon said anything else interesting, but then he was going to simply walk on.

[supertinyking]

@Wraithblade6
"Becareful who you bite into....some of these creatures aren't as clean as I am." We warns, sitting back down at the make shift card table, before he goes back to playing his card game. As Mithias would no doubt start to walk by, he'd hear a rather loud racket, like leather being torn in two with one's bare hands. When he'd look back, the one demon, the short fat one would be mysteriously gone, on the table where he was, a loosing hand. The Succubus on the other hand, would be sitting there with a devious grin, and with some ashen smudges near her mouth.....before Ozzy would step forth from the shadows, showing no interests in Mithias, as he'd be walking right towards the Succubi.

@RavenTLark
For poor Raven who may of been watching while berating Ozzy, she'd see the small fat demon loose the card game, and then the Succubus simply reach across the table, quickly, her mouth becoming a large maw of razor sharp fangs, as she devours the smaller demon in a bite.
"...Damn it, I liked him." Ozzy grumbles, before leaving the shadows, as to confront the Succubus.

[Wraithblade6]

Mithias spins around defensively at the ripping sound, just in time to miss most of the gruesome act. He sees the succubus licking her voluptuous lips.

"Ozzy." Mithias lowers his weapons, but still looks slightly confrontational. "You've been watching me already? You must know everything that happens in this dimension."

[supertinyking]

@Wraithblade6
"Hey, someone has to keep this place flowing, otherwise shit like that..." He says, thumbing at the Succubus, "Would happen rampantly...speaking of." He starts, before walking over to the Succubus, and doing something most sane people would never do. He shoves his arm down her throat, her mouth turning into the maw of fangs once more, but she oddly is the one looking terrified. Soon, Ozzy pulls out a much chewed up, but barely alive, demon....with some difficulty due to the demon's fat structure. The poor sod now has switched his ashen grey smudges for bile burn marks, and his hands are missing most of his digits. Ozzy shakes him, much like one may do so for a wet bit of plastic to get the bile off, before literally punting the demon into the distance with a brutal looking drop kick.
"So, what the hell are you here in hell for?" Ozzy asks, the Succubi running off, as if expecting Ozzy to spin around and kill her.

[Wraithblade6]

Gross.

Mithias looked to be some combination of sad, angry, but also depressed. "I have come to tell you bad news, my friend, and as harsh as it may be, I have to know how you're going to respond to this." He paused, not wanting to have to do this. "Drac is dead, Ozzy."

[supertinyking]

@Wraithblade6
"I know." Is Ozzy singular reply, him now sitting on the make shift poker table. "..Well....as dead as he gets." He adds, and he..doesn't...seem bothered at all.