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<blockquote data-quote="Ashy" data-source="post: 1893362" data-attributes="member: 312"><p><strong>Intro, Part II</strong></p><p></p><p>As you turn your heads, the air shimmers like on a hot summer’s day. At first, you think it is nothing more than heat, yet soon, your eyes make out the forms of many very large things. Lumbering, yet with a silent and fluid grace, these <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=17583" target="_blank">massive construct-creatures</a> move nimbly in and around the lines, their shapes hard to pin down with your eyes; dull basal voices drone outward from their forms.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Silver"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“Proceed to the S&S’er’s......Please remain in your assigned lines......Proceed to the-”</span></span></span>, over and over again they repeat, like a broken record.</p><p></p><p>These large robot-like things seem to carry a large shield affixed to one arm, while from somewhere in their massive bulk snake several whip-like tentacles. Occasionally, with these rigid appendages they gently pick up one of the naked (and it is at this point that you realize that you, too, are completely naked) line-standers and plop him down into another line.</p><p></p><p>They gently herd you until you near the infinite span of doorways. Above your door, written in cold, almost militaristic lettering is “C2”; it is a bold, thick, black font – it hurts your eyes to look at it. As you avert your eyes, you then see what you are being directed towards – an <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=17584" target="_blank">S&S’er</a>, apparently.</p><p></p><p>This new, strange thing is a conglomeration of biology and technology – what appears to be a robotic flying machine, of sorts. It is adorned with two, long, massive tentacles sprouting from its mid-section and a thick trunk of smaller, red tentacles growing from its belly. Atop this strange device sits a large green lizard with eyes like onyxes. Around its neck is an equally ebon collar – the lizard takes no notice of you, however, as it is quite busy gobbling up all of the eldritch mosquitoes that are flying about. As it eats the magical mosquitoes, the lizard’s forelegs fly across some sort of control panel atop the flying device.</p><p></p><p>In response to this new stimuli, the bottom device, which you hear someone in a line to your left (line “C4”, you believe) call a “snagger”, reaches out with one of its longer fore-tentacles and picks up one of the individuals in its line. It pulls them inward, towards the trunk of smaller tentacles, which then begin wriggling in seeming delight. The snagger’s red tentacles slither all over the newly captured person, a bald dwarf, you believe, lingering on his forearm and his navel for a moment or three. As the snagger sets the wide-eyed dwarf down, you notice two things: first, he now has something small, withered and black hanging from his bellybutton and second, the skin beneath his mosquito-given tattoo is now the purplish-green of a bad bruise on the mend. The raised, Braille-like marks of the mosquito-tattoo itself is the pale coloration of a dead and bloated fish. Needless to say, the tattoo stands out quite readily.</p><p></p><p>The dwarf shakes his bald head in disbelief and then steps through the dark doorway into whatever lies beyond...</p><p>---------------------------------------</p><p>OOC: No actions yet, one more section to post! Sorry - soon - I promise! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashy, post: 1893362, member: 312"] [b]Intro, Part II[/b] As you turn your heads, the air shimmers like on a hot summer’s day. At first, you think it is nothing more than heat, yet soon, your eyes make out the forms of many very large things. Lumbering, yet with a silent and fluid grace, these [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=17583]massive construct-creatures[/URL] move nimbly in and around the lines, their shapes hard to pin down with your eyes; dull basal voices drone outward from their forms. [COLOR=Silver][SIZE=3][FONT=Courier New]“Proceed to the S&S’er’s......Please remain in your assigned lines......Proceed to the-”[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR], over and over again they repeat, like a broken record. These large robot-like things seem to carry a large shield affixed to one arm, while from somewhere in their massive bulk snake several whip-like tentacles. Occasionally, with these rigid appendages they gently pick up one of the naked (and it is at this point that you realize that you, too, are completely naked) line-standers and plop him down into another line. They gently herd you until you near the infinite span of doorways. Above your door, written in cold, almost militaristic lettering is “C2”; it is a bold, thick, black font – it hurts your eyes to look at it. As you avert your eyes, you then see what you are being directed towards – an [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=17584]S&S’er[/URL], apparently. This new, strange thing is a conglomeration of biology and technology – what appears to be a robotic flying machine, of sorts. It is adorned with two, long, massive tentacles sprouting from its mid-section and a thick trunk of smaller, red tentacles growing from its belly. Atop this strange device sits a large green lizard with eyes like onyxes. Around its neck is an equally ebon collar – the lizard takes no notice of you, however, as it is quite busy gobbling up all of the eldritch mosquitoes that are flying about. As it eats the magical mosquitoes, the lizard’s forelegs fly across some sort of control panel atop the flying device. In response to this new stimuli, the bottom device, which you hear someone in a line to your left (line “C4”, you believe) call a “snagger”, reaches out with one of its longer fore-tentacles and picks up one of the individuals in its line. It pulls them inward, towards the trunk of smaller tentacles, which then begin wriggling in seeming delight. The snagger’s red tentacles slither all over the newly captured person, a bald dwarf, you believe, lingering on his forearm and his navel for a moment or three. As the snagger sets the wide-eyed dwarf down, you notice two things: first, he now has something small, withered and black hanging from his bellybutton and second, the skin beneath his mosquito-given tattoo is now the purplish-green of a bad bruise on the mend. The raised, Braille-like marks of the mosquito-tattoo itself is the pale coloration of a dead and bloated fish. Needless to say, the tattoo stands out quite readily. The dwarf shakes his bald head in disbelief and then steps through the dark doorway into whatever lies beyond... --------------------------------------- OOC: No actions yet, one more section to post! Sorry - soon - I promise! :p [/QUOTE]
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