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The klaxons blared in the creeping fog of the neon demon night...

The Traveler

First Post
The Mother of Atrocities smiled a whore's grin, her scrabbling, mewling children sweeping as a pale tide through the alley.

The Tiktokman chimed thrice, and was silent.

Dollars for dinars, dinars for deutschmarks, deutschmarks for dirham.

A dead raven was impaled on the subway tracks. The hobo prophets took it as a sign and moved en masse to the industrial district.

A miracle happened in the park. The statues were seen to weep a substance not unlike Chanel Number Five. Several cults to Our Lady of the Seven Year Itch gathered until they were dispersed by the police, rubber bullets and tear gas raining on their own personal Rapture.

A gash opened in Wall Street, and the civil works stigmata bled ledgers and soiled lingerie. It was quickly cordoned off, and those that witnessed it were taken to the debriefing camp.

The Twins claimed another victim, unaging girlish faces twisted in ecstatic rictuses as they dragged his carcass down into the catacombs.

The Viaduct Hangman practiced his art, sacrificing nine of his followers off the bridge in a most reverent salute to the God of Wednesday.

The Last Virgin decided to learn to fly. The hobo prophets read his entrails and proclaimed that the Boy King was born.

All the newspapers are in the last tongue. Babel's Tounge. Incomprehensible to all, but understood on the bowel level.

A voice of warning cried out in the urban wilderness, pleading against the plodding tide.

But everyone knows you don't listen to voices in the wilderness.

The Tiktokman chimed four times.
 

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Henry

Autoexreginated
The hooker barked four times at the Blood Moon; clearly, the mad aphid was imminent.

:)

Seriously, those are some evocative images you've given us. How about:


The Governor's Ogrish son glared out of the barred window, straining at his bonds. Tonight, he would revel in the sights and smells of the city. He would partake of that which he had been denied - or would die trying.

Without the Book of Bonding, all was lost. The Worm would be freed, and the town and its innocent souls would be forfeit.
 



Mallus

Legend
Some of it could use a little editing. Some of it is really, really lovely.

You do a better Grant Morrison than Grant Morrison has done in years.

And I don't know what I'll use it for, but I'm stealing the God of Wednesday... and the statues weeping Chanel Number 5.

"F**k the Revolution being televised. Its going to be metaphysical. Riots broadcast on the soul channels...."

Hmmm, and I thought I was getting to old for this sort of thing.
 



The Traveler

First Post
The Sin Eater went spiraling into Hell, leaving his corpulent shell behind, a million tiny cruelties trapped in his rolls of fat. Nobody mourned him, for he had mourned them all in turn.

Urchins made a ragged kingdom of castoffs among the broken glass. Threadbare dukes and contessas held court and set upon their jester with shivs. The banquet lasted an entire week, and the Duchess of Lost Dolls kept his skull as a talisman.

Thursday's Child is scared of thunder. His epileptic fits wrack his frame as his fevered mind remembers a red-bearded figure. His hand clutches spastically at the toolbox, but he cannot stop his fingers from shaking as he touches the hammer.

Jenny Greenteeth washes burial shrouds in the storm drain. One of Morrigu Morrigan's little mothers, gathering up good boys and bad. As the gunshot rings out, she has her vindication.

The Dipsomancer's eyes stare blankly ahead, sight robbed from him by his holy bourbon, muttering flawless divinations from his quivering, moist lips.
 


Testament

First Post
It's Unknown Armies, isn't it? The reference to the Dipsomancer just gave it away.

Its like all the weirdest parts of "The Authority" smunched into one thread. Love it.
 

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