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mallowhallow2013-05-03 10:16 am
allseeingtongue) wrote in mallowhallow2013-05-03 10:16 am
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T002 - Terezi and the Hydra - Video
The video opens to a view of Astralfield; a set of buildings in a mishmash of architecture and in some disrepair, a wide broken-up street. The a moment there's nothing to be seen. Then a small body comes flying through the air; it's Terezi. She skips twice along the ruined street like a stone skipped off water, thin limbs flung everywhere; she plows to a halt in a pile of rubble.
Almost immediately after the hit she comes springing back to her feet; she's hardly hurt, bleeding only from a deep set of puncture wounds along her left upper arm; teal has sheened her shirtsleeve flat to her grey skin, and long streamers of her blood have wound their way down to her fingertips. There's a big teal bruise along her right cheekbone - but she's grinning and with a wild shriek of laughter, flings herself forward. She snatches up her swordcane as she passes it, brandishing the blade, and what she's fighting steps into view to meet her rush.
It looks like a cross between a dragon and a fish, fins and scales and long writhing necks with myriads of sharp teeth. It's white all over, mostly, save some of the heads and limbs are eerily translucent, like clear jelly, showing delicate traceries of veins and thin ash-grey bones like fishbones. With a shrill cry Terezi plunges in and swipes her sword down; a white head rolls free. A webbed hand sends her tumbling again, and from the stump (which bleeds a clear liquid) the white flesh bubbles into glass-like forms that begin to crystallize into a pair of heads. As they form and take full shape, the clarity of the flesh begins to turn opaque white.
Anyone familiar with the Greek Hydra will realize that Terezi's tactics aren't going to kill it...but that's okay, she's actually trying to see how many heads she can make it regenerate.
She plunges in again, and takes off a finned limb and part of the long whip-like tail this time. The creature roars, a lung-rattling roll of sound, and one head whips down to bit her cane. It lefts her up and shakes her, and from her inventory fall a few items; a scalemate, a pair of sneakers, a bottle of apple-juice. Now it's clear how her pillow-phone came to be loose. With a sudden liquid whip of its head, the creature throws Terezi again. She soars through the arm, limbs akimbo, and her back lands directly on the pillowphone, blacking out the feed and shutting it off.
Action entries go here please, video replies go on this one!
Almost immediately after the hit she comes springing back to her feet; she's hardly hurt, bleeding only from a deep set of puncture wounds along her left upper arm; teal has sheened her shirtsleeve flat to her grey skin, and long streamers of her blood have wound their way down to her fingertips. There's a big teal bruise along her right cheekbone - but she's grinning and with a wild shriek of laughter, flings herself forward. She snatches up her swordcane as she passes it, brandishing the blade, and what she's fighting steps into view to meet her rush.
It looks like a cross between a dragon and a fish, fins and scales and long writhing necks with myriads of sharp teeth. It's white all over, mostly, save some of the heads and limbs are eerily translucent, like clear jelly, showing delicate traceries of veins and thin ash-grey bones like fishbones. With a shrill cry Terezi plunges in and swipes her sword down; a white head rolls free. A webbed hand sends her tumbling again, and from the stump (which bleeds a clear liquid) the white flesh bubbles into glass-like forms that begin to crystallize into a pair of heads. As they form and take full shape, the clarity of the flesh begins to turn opaque white.
Anyone familiar with the Greek Hydra will realize that Terezi's tactics aren't going to kill it...but that's okay, she's actually trying to see how many heads she can make it regenerate.
She plunges in again, and takes off a finned limb and part of the long whip-like tail this time. The creature roars, a lung-rattling roll of sound, and one head whips down to bit her cane. It lefts her up and shakes her, and from her inventory fall a few items; a scalemate, a pair of sneakers, a bottle of apple-juice. Now it's clear how her pillow-phone came to be loose. With a sudden liquid whip of its head, the creature throws Terezi again. She soars through the arm, limbs akimbo, and her back lands directly on the pillowphone, blacking out the feed and shutting it off.
Action entries go here please, video replies go on this one!
[Text]
Are you all right?
[He has no idea when or even if he'll get a response, but he really hopes the answer will be yes. Yikes.]
[Text]
1 4M JUST F1N3!
TH4NK YOU FOR 4SK1NG
>:]
[Text]
You're welcome, I suppose. I looked like a -- painful fight.
[At least, the bite wound did. Ouch.]
[Text]
1T'S ONLY 4 SM4LL B1T3
WOULD YOU L1K3 TO COM3 JO1N TH3 FUN?
[Text]
I've only been here a very short while, so I don't quite feel up to fighting hydras, thank you.
I wish you all the best with it, though.
[Now concentrate before you get bit again!]
[Video]
He whistled a little, impressed.]
You alright? Need any help? [A pause.] Or want any help? [Since she had seemed to be enjoying herself.
If she even got any messages right now.]
[Video]
I am quite fine, thank you!
I do not need help, but you are welcome to come join the strife!
It is a most worthy opponent.
[The sudden gleam of many many sharp pointed fangs being bared in a smile cannot be missed.]
[Video]
You're in...Astralfield, right?
[It was a little hard to tell from the video, but he'd done his fair share of exploring the districts, and he's pretty sure he recognized it correctly.]