Taylor Varga

by mp3.1415player

Taylor has a bad day that ends in a locker. Everyone has heard that one. It goes somewhat differently after that, as her call for help is answered by something from a lot further away than one might expect... A story in which Taylor makes a very large friend, the world gets confused, and Danny comes into his own.

144. PHO and WTF

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Topic: A new Family Member!
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay ► Family Sightings
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On Feb 19th 2011:

Well, there's another one...

Yes, people, yet another Family member has arrived here in Brockton Bay, home of the Weird, Disturbing, and Scaly!

About an hour ago, according to my contacts in BBPD, Saurial was spotted in the company of a friend, or actually, a cousin! Not a sister this time. Her name is apparently Ianthe, she's about seven and a half feet tall, bipedal, only four limbs plus a tail. Looking at the photos I'd guess that she's probably considerably lighter than Raptaur, although she obviously shares a lot of features with our Panacea-Steed :)

My contact said she was a sort of blue-purple color, but I must point out that calling her Barney is likely to end in tears... So don't. We don't know enough about her yet to make jokes like that.

Note the eyes are a different color from Saurial's, Raptaur's, or Kaiju's yellow-orange, a sort of unsettling green like a cat with a lightbulb in its head. No idea what this means yet, if anything.

She and Saurial were apparently out on the town, the latter showing the former around, when they intervened in an operation involving Miss Militia, Velocity, a number of E88 members, and a shitload of guns those guys were trying to steal.

It didn't end well for the three that legged it! Although apparently it did end quickly.

Miss Militia found the three gang members lying on the ground with Saurial restraining them, although from what I understand it was Ianthe who took them down. I'm not sure what the method was so far. If anyone has any more information please submit it. It can be added to the Family Watch thread as well, if Macdjord would please do that?

Photos so far are this, this, this, and this. No video yet.

I'll keep everyone updated with what turns up in my research.

One thing to note, though. This is the first time that two of the Family have been seen together. Does it foreshadow more of them? Are they going to visit en masse? How many of them are there, anyway?

Update: Video here, courtesy of Reave, our friendly PRT agent

Update 2: Apparently "Ianthe" is greek, it means "Violet Flower." Make of that what you will...

Update 3: Best guess so far for the method used by Ianthe to neutralise the E88 gangers is some form of drugged dart or other projectile. Audio analysis of the short video clip turned up a distinct "pop" sound immediately before that middle guy passed out. There's no sign of a weapon on her so is it something inherent? A gun-finger or something weird like that?

So many questions, so few answers. The Family in a nutshell :)

Update 4: Ianthe herself has joined PHO! The first Family member to do so. She's confirmed it was a drugged dart and that she has built-in weaponry to launch them, which brings up some even weirder questions...

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►Dingbat779 (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Another one? Good grief.

This is getting just a little ridiculous, people! Where are they all coming from? And more to the point, where do they GO?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I kind of like our new reptilian overlords, but... How many are going to end up wandering the streets?

Me very puzzled.

►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

She's really pretty, don't you think? I like that color. I'd love to see it in the daylight.

►Aegis (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

You have the oddest priorities sometimes, Vista ;)

►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

She's just got good taste! A mere boy wouldn't understand :)

►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Thank you! You get it, right?

►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Now she's giggling. I get nervous when she starts giggling. Especially like that.

Horrible things tend to happen...

►MZenny
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I wonder if Ianthe likes eggs as well? :D

Business is pretty good these days.

►Glare
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

You and your damn eggs...

►MZenny
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Hey, some of us have a living to earn, you know!

►Jormungandr
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

You begin to see, my friends. The Demons spread. Soon all will know the terror. They will build their temples to unholy Dark Gods, creating that which Man was not Meant to See.

I warned you.

They come from Below...

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►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Oh for fuck's sake, he's back *fuming*

And stop capitalizing random things, it's really irritating, you weirdo.

►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Maybe he has a point!

I mean, obviously they're aliens, but I've been thinking about it and alien demons are a possibility too! Right? It makes sense.

►Bladeworksfan (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

You are both very odd people.

I mean, the giant lizards make more sense than either of you do, and they scare the shit out of me!

►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

They're not demons or aliens, they're just really nice people. Stop being so mean :(

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Your city is becoming very peculiar in more ways than I can count, and in case you were unware of it, Brockton Bay had a fucking odd reputation even before those guys turned up! Lovecraftian horrors idly wandering around eating eggs and jumping minor criminals is... weird.

Isn't it? It's not just me? It seems weird to me.

►Loki Thorson
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Brockton Bay? Surely you mean Innsmouth?

Shit.

I wish I hadn't said that. Now I want to go and hide.

Under the bed.

With a light...

►Assembler
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I looked it up, Ianthe means violet flower in Greek. Maybe she's from Greece?

Or probably the Mediterranean, at least. I mean the sea, not the area!

►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I have a short snippet of video available. Most of the recording was classified, but I've asked and this part can be released, so here you go.

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Thanks, Reave. Woah, that was... strange. She just pointed at that E88 idiot and he stopped moving. Some sort of Blaster power?

►Pyrite
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

It looked like she pointed her palm at him, not her fingers.

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►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Yes, you're right, I watched it again. Weird. No visible beam or anything obvious like that.

►Loki Thorson
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I ran the clip through an editing program and boosted the audio, here. You can hear a definite pop sound, then that guy twitched and relaxed. If I had to guess, it was some sort of projectile weapon? It sounded like an airgun to me.

►Electric_Techpriest
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Sleep dart? Something like a tranquilizer dart would do that. But it worked amazingly quickly, I've never seen anything that fast before. Do drugs knock you out that fast?

►Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Not normally, no. We sometimes use dart guns on villains if it's the best way to drop them, but the fastest drugs I know of take maybe thirty seconds to work, sometimes a little less if the perp is really worked up. That took, what, two or three at most? Very impressive.

And I wonder what she used the first time? They seemed pretty lively for people who had been tranquillized, normally they take ten or fifteen minutes to come around and are very groggy for a while. Those guys were fine based on how loudly they were shouting!

►Kingbob (Verified BBPD Officer)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

According to a friend who was on the squad with Velocity, he heard Ianthe used some sort of rapid-acting paralytic drug to take them down. Which is effective, if a little creepy.

Hey, though, they're E88. Creepy is probably good for them :D

A couple more photos here and here.

►Assembler
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

So two different drugs, then? I wonder how many she has, and where the weapon was. I couldn't see anything in the video and there's nothing on the photos either.

►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I don't have access to that information, but I agree, I can't see a weapon either.

►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Thanks, Reave and KingBob, I've updated the root of this thread with the photos and video.

►Mandabar
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

This is slightly ridiculous. Yet another new ability for the Family! At this rate they'll have at least one of every power classification you can think of :)

So what's Ianthe? I'd think Brute goes without saying. Blaster too now. What else?

►Kingbob (Verified BBPD Officer)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I can't verify it at the moment but some of what our people overheard sort of implied that she might be a healer or something like that.

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►Ianthe
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Hi! I like your city!

The people are interesting, but the hunts aren't very difficult. Cousin Saurial told me we had to let them go after we caught them, or at least give them to your law enforcers. I was a little disappointed, but they were pretty easy to catch, so I guess it wouldn't be fair to eat them.

They might be diseased, actually, one of them was stale. Maybe I should have fixed him?

I can tell I'm going to have fun here!

►Dingbat779 (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Um...

What the hell was that?

►Electric_Techpriest
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Someone being a fuckwit, I think. Or just a basic troll. Ignore it, maybe it will go away.

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Cowboy? Is that you?

Techpriest's description certainly fits :)

►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

AARGH!

Stop saying things like that!

No, it wasn't me!

►Ianthe
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

It was me. Doesn't my name come out on this thing? I was sure I did it right, but your human technology is a little odd.

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Is it me or is this strange?

Again.

►Loki Thorson
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

If you really are one of the Family, prove it. None of them have PHO accounts that I've ever seen.

►Ianthe
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

How do I prove it?

►FCVanillaIce
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

A photo showing the use of your power or something like that is the normal way for a cape on PHO.

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►Ianthe
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Oh! I see! All right, I can take a picture, this computer machine has a camera, I think. Hold on, I need to ask Cousin Saurial how it works.

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

How about this?

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Jeebus. The teeth.

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I believe you, personally :)

►Valshax
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

:O

Oh. My. God.

And is that Saurial behind her?

►Jormungandr
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

The Demons now use our technology against us!

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

*sigh*

Please go and jump in the bay. With any luck one of them will eat you.

No, that's mean.

I wouldn't want to poison some innocent giant lizard. Just... go away.

►BrocktonBayMod (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Thank you, Ianthe, and welcome to PHO. I have updated your status. Please read and abide by the rules which are found at the top level of this forum under "Rules."

Fairly obviously :)

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Hi, BrocktonBayMod. That's an odd name, but you humans are funny like that!

We like you anyway.

Thank you for the status update thing.

Mojiizen, we're not allowed to eat humans. I asked.

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

:O

I... am not sure quite how to take that...

Good?

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►Glare
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Hi, Ianthe. Nice to have you answering questions.

So, how did you take down those E88 gang members?

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

I shot them with darts, it seemed the quickest way. Cousin Saurial was nice enough to take me on a hunt while she was showing me this fascinating place and those three strange people were running. She said she'd let me do it, which was nice of her. Based on your physiology, I formulated a drug that would safely paralyse a human and darted each of them. It worked really well. But then when it wore off they started getting really loud while we were having a nice talk with that Miss Militia person so I had to put the noisest one to sleep for a while. His packmates seemed to go quiet then which was good, I was getting a headache.

►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

How did you shoot them? None of the images or video we have show any weapons.

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

My weapons are built in, I spent some time designing them when I knew I was coming here. They seem to work well.

►Macdjord
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

That actually raises more questions than it answers :0

►Assembler
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

What MZenny will want to know is if you like eggs :)

►MZenny
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

She does, Saurial brought her to my shop and they bought several boxes :D

►Glare
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Oh, for...

Shut up about the damn eggs!

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Eggs are nice. I like eggs.

►Zjunrei
Replied On Feb 19th 2011:

Most people cook them first ;)

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►FCVanillaIce
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

So I was on the Boardwalk just wandering around minding my own business, and thishappened... :D

►Mandabar
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Glory Girl, she's behind you! BEHIND YOU!

Fuck, that was hilarious. They jumped about three feet in the air

►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Poor Glory Girl! That was so funny.

I know her from school, and her friends. They really should look behind themselves more!

Ianthe is really nice. My friend and I talked to her and Panacea for a while when we met them earlier this afternoon. I was right, she's really pretty, her scales have this sort of rainbow effect when the light hits them right. She's got a strange sense of humor but it's a funny one too.

I like her a lot.

►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Photos or it didn't happen.

►MZenny
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

That's sort of rude, Cowboy

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Sorry, you do know who he is, right?

Rude is normal for that idiot.

But I'd like to see photos as well.

►SenorEel
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Everyone knows who Cowboy is. His fame is such that we've heard of him all the way over here.

I'm not sure if that's good...

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Thanks, IguanaGirl, I found you a very interesting human as well. You have good taste!

Not that I know what you taste like. I'm not allowed to do that.

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Cowboy, don't. I know what you're thinking, just don't.

You sad, predicable little pervert.

►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

You want to taste her?

Can I watch?

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►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Oh, for fuck's sake. I knew it...

►BrocktonBayMod (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

*sigh*

Do I even have to say it? You're right on the edge again, my friend.

That's two. You get one more and you're having a time out for 24 hours, Cowboy. I'm not kidding, this is getting annoying.

Again. Grow up, please.

►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Firstly, eeugh. Cowboy, you are a nasty person. I don't think I like you.

Secondly, here's some pictures my friend took of me next to Ianthe.

►White Fairy (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Cool, thank you, IguanaGirl. And just ignore Cowboy, most people do. For very good reasons.

She is pretty, isn't she?

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Thanks very much! I like my scale color too, it took a lot of work to make it like that.

►Assembler
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Make it like that? What does that mean?

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

It might be best not to ask. She might tell you...

►Tiny_Swansong
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

I agree, IguanaGirl, Ianthe does look very nice. For a seven and a half foot tall giant lizard woman, anyway :)

Please don't eat me, Ianthe

►Mandabar
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

She can't eat you, she's not allowed to, remember? :D

►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

I checked with Cousin Saurial again, she's very firm on the whole not eating humans thing. She says the same as Cousin Raptaur, that humans are just like people, and we'd never eat people. I can see their point :) You guys are so interesting! I really have to think of something to help you stop being so fragile.

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►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Um...

I'm not going to comment on any of that. I'm just going to try to pretend I didn't read it.

►Filipinosberman
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Ianthe has been around the Yard quite a bit in the last day, she seems nice. She was driving around in Panacea's truck with her today, hanging her head out the window like a big scaly dog!

It made a lot of people look twice, for sure. But she seemed to enjoy it.

►Pyrite
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

I saw that! :)

They drove past me on the freeway. So Panacea has a big blue truck, now? It was very shiny. The giant lizard accessory was terrifying... I mean, interesting!

►Glare
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Here's a video I found in another thread from someone who was watching that practical joke on Glory Girl and her friends, and the aftermath when they were talking. Go to 1:34 and listen. What did Ianthe say?

►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

She basically implied she could remember Brockton Bay being covered in ice, I think.

►Sothoth
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Which was (googles) um, over 12000 years ago!?

That's... impossible. Right? Please tell me that's impossible.

Or that I just heard it wrong.

►Glory Girl (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

I heard the same thing and I was right there.

I am... not entirely sure it makes me any less confused. And some of the Family are friends of mine.

Confusing friends.

►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

OK, I'm definitely right! Aliens. I'm telling you, it's aliens.

Possibly demonic ones, but it has to be aliens. They've visited before and have probably been sleeping in their generation ship parked in orbit.

Of Mars or something, or the Simurgh would have shot it down.

The only real questions are how did they get here and what do they want?

►Winged One
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

I'm scared...

How many are there?

My entire family is thinking about moving. Can we book a trip somewhere else? Anywhere? Please?

►Dingbat779 (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Hey, Winged One, haven't heard from our favorite troll for weeks! How are you doing?

You'd need to find a way off the planet, I think. I sort of get the impression that the Family won't have much trouble getting anywhere on this one :)

And no, Cowboy, I don't believe they're aliens, demons, or demonic aliens. Or even alien demons. You and Jormungandr should learn from a classy troll like Winged One, he or she is at least funny and not just crude or creepy.

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►Winged One
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Thank you, Dingbat779. If I visit Brockton Bay one day, I'd love to meet you.

But I don't think I will, not with them hanging around!

Sometimes I think I can see them from here and I get worried, even though I'm quite a way away...

The world has become very strange in the last few weeks!

►Jormungandr
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

Those who consort with ancient demons become theirs. The Healer was the first. More will come, as I foretold. Did you not all learn I was right when the great one Kaiju arrived?

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:

I can't decide whether I want to strangle him, or myself, when he says things like that. Either would mean I wouldn't need to read it any more...

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Topic: Make it stop looking at me.
In: Boards ► America ► Brockton Bay ► Family Sightings
Zjunrei (Original Poster)
Posted On Feb 21st 2011:

I like Thai food.

Anyone who knows me knows that.

I go to several Thai restaurants pretty regularly, but this place is my favorite. Yes, the same place where Saurial and Panacea had meal weeks ago. For some reason that seemed to do some good to their reputation ;) The only problem now is you have to book about a week in advance.

My family and I were having a nice meal there tonight to celebrate my oldest kid's new job. There was a large group of people having a good time at the back, about twenty of them, which we noticed when we came in but didn't pay much attention to. But about half-way through our own meal, my daughter noticed that the group actually included seven of New Wave!

No wonder half the restaurant was listening to them and trying not to be obvious about it!

Of course, we ended up doing the same. I got some photos, here, here, here, and here. I finally recognised the tall skinny guy who seemed to be the reason they were there, it's the DWU guy Daniel Hebert, the one who called Kaiju in last week! Apparently it was his birthday, from what I could hear. I think the kid next to him is his daughter. They all seemed to be having fun, and they sure eat a lot :)

So why is this in Family Sightings, I hear you ask?

Because of this.

Yes. That's Ianthe. She turned up about half an hour later and just wandered in, asked for Danny Hebert, then headed over. Apparently the Family wanted to give him a birthday present...

You wouldn't believe how quiet the place got when she came in! The manager, poor guy, just froze and watched. Pretty much everyone else did as well. I was so surprised I almost forgot to get my phone out.

The present was...

I have no idea what the present was. Aside from the creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life!

I mean, look at it. Photo, Photo, Photo.

What the fuck is that? How does it do that?

Even looking at the photo makes my head ache. I could swear I'm seeing the front of it and the back of -it at the same time :O

If you've read Lovecraft, you're probably already running... It's like a little piece of R'lyeh broke off and landed on that table. How the hell those two girls who were poking it with things could do it without throwing up I have no idea. Almost everyone else was staring at it like they expected it to go for their throats.

The Family are weird. Everyone knows that. I just think we may have slightly underestimated what 'weird' actually means.

I need to go and lie down with a pillow over my head, now. Looking at those pictures again has made my brain itch.

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►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Um, wtf?

That photo is moving. I swear, it's a still image, I checked, it's not a GIF or anything, but... it's... MOVING! How is it doing that?

And I swear I can hear a strange sound coming from somewhere when I look at it.

►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Oh my god, that's horrifying. What IS that?

►Bladeworksfan (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Wrong. That's what that is.

►FCVanillaIce
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

I think I just got a terrifyingly good idea of what Non-Euclidean actually means. Now I can't stop seeing it.

How do I stop seeing it?

►Glory Girl (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

You think that's bad, I was actually THERE! It's way worse when it's only three feet away. That's about fifty miles closer than you want to be.

I could swear it was looking at me. I'm pretty sure it still is.

How my crazy sister could stick her finger into it I don't even want to ask.

There were some very fucking strange things at that party, Ianthe was the least strange of them, trust me. I don't want to think about the coat.

►Loki Thorson
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Coat?

And my eyes hurt looking at those photos.

►Glory Girl (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

I said I don't want to think about the coat. I mean it.

We do not talk about the coat.

►Electric_Techpriest
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Now all I want to do is talk about the coat :D

Edit: Just looked at the photos oh god why did I look at the photos?

►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

The coat was nice. That... thing... wasn't.

I nearly threw up.

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

That's Eldritch, that is. You can see it by the way the dimensional walls are crumbling. Soon the things will come from the woodwork out.

I need sleep.

I wish I could sleep after seeing that.

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►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

We thought it was a nice little ornament. The full size building is much prettier, I agree, but the little model is good as well.

►MZenny
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Full size?

Forget it, I don't want to know. I have a horrible feeling Lovecraft may have been more right than I want to think about. If that thing has Cthuvian writing on it, I think we need to throw it into Mount Doom as fast as possible.

►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Someone posted some video of the... thing... in another thread. Before watching it, please understand that it's much worse than the still images.

Much worse.

If you really want to see it, go here.

Don't say I didn't warn you. I'm going to get drunk now. Very, very drunk.

►Winged One
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

That is the most fucked up thing I've ever seen, and I've seen shit that would turn you white. Or possibly into a pillar of salt.

I wish I drank. I may take it up.

►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

That's...

I can't put into words what that it.

But I want one.

►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

You have to be kidding me. Please tell me you're kidding me.

►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Please.

►Macdjord
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Now I'm really worried. Can reality take much more of this? Vista was bad enough on her own, I've actually seen what she does when she makes space her bitch.

This is worse.

►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Hey! I like what I can do!

►Macdjord
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Sorry, Vista, I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just... slightly worried? Yes, let's go with slightly worried.

Soul-searingly slightly worried. :(

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►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

I still want one. It gives me so many ideas.

►Mandabar
Replied On Feb 21st 2011:

Ohh shit. That sounds ominous.

I think we may need to evacuate the universe.

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Topic: A new Family member, again?!
In: Boards ► America ► Brockton Bay ► Family Sightings
MZenny (Original Poster)
Posted On Feb 22nd 2011:

I sold some more eggs today :)

To another Family Cousin. Not Ianthe. There's a new one!

She's called Metis, and seems very smart. She looks a lot like Ianthe, same green eyes, but her scales are incredibly black, I mean, like a black hole black, that's how black they are! But they also seem to have a deep red edge, so when you look at them at an angle, there's this sort of shimmering scarlet effect. It looks amazing under the lights here in the shop, I'd love to see it in sunlight.

Anyway, about half past two this morning Saurial came in, which isn't all that unusual, she's a regular customer these days. Ianthe was behind her, then this new lizard, who was looking around like she was taking everything apart with her eyes.

I wonder if she can do that?

But I mean, she looked at everything. She looked at my drinks cooler and told me it was three degrees too hot, and she was right! Just by looking at it. It was a little odd. On the other hand, she's a freaking seven and a half foot tall talking lizard, so I guess odd is sort of relative these days :)

They hung around for about ten minutes, bought three dozen eggs and all my beef jerky, letmetakephotosof them, then left. Saurial even took a photoof me between her two cousins. Cool, right? She said she was showing Metis around since she'd only just got here. I asked if they'd taken down any criminals but Saurial laughed and said that for some reason there didn't seem to be much crime around at the moment.

I wonder why ;)

Metis seems nice. I don't know if she has any other powers, though. I didn't want to push too hard.

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►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

First post! And fuck me, another one? Already? If it keeps speeding up at this rate, endless swarms of giant lizards will be flooding out of Brockton Bay across the country in days.

Shit, I wish I hadn't said that.

►Gallant (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

I'm very confused...

►Glare
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

And you're in a position to know more about the Family than most of us!

You're confused? I left 'confused' a long time ago.

►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Join the club.

I'd make a joke, but I can't think of a good one.

Have a photo of a smug lizard instead. Maybe it will keep them happy.

I want them to be happy.

►Dingbat779 (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

That is a very smug lizard, I agree. But sort of cute.

This city is getting peculiar.

►Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Getting peculiar?

It's always been peculiar. I don't have a good word for what it is these days and I live here!

►Filipinosberman
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Safer?

It's definitely safer. I haven't seen an E88 gang member on the street in a week.

►Mandabar
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

A lot less ABB around as well. Can't say it bothers me.

►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Are Ianthe and Metis DWU members, out of interest? Anyone from the DWU want to comment?

►Automatonation
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Not that I know of. But I wouldn't be surprised if they end up doing that.

We're happy to take anyone who works hard and fits in. Weirdly enough, giant lizards fit right in around here :)

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►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Having met some DWU people I can't say I'm actually surprised about that ;)

At this rate you guys will have more capes than us.

►Automatonation
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

►Electric_Techpriest
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

This is getting just the smallest amount silly. What's next?

►Jormungandr
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

They come, faster and faster.

Be afraid.

►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

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[User temp banned – 24 hours] - BrocktonBayMod

That was too far and you know it.

And way too obvious. Try subtle, it works better and is actually funny. Better, try just not saying anything for a while for all our sakes. Please. I'm getting very tired of dealing with you. I know you're not stupid, some of the things you say are quite insightful and sometimes genuinely sensible, but then you go and ruin it with puerile smut. Try not to. For me? I have better things to do than constantly clean up after you.

Sorry, rant over, but he was annoying me.

►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

I'm surprised it took you this long to crack, friend :)

I'd have permabanned him a year ago.

►BrocktonBayMod (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Which is why you're not a moderator :)

►SenorEel
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

When are you going to rename Brockton Bay to Innsmouth? :)

You seem to have most of what you need to do it properly...

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Don't even joke about that! You at least have the Atlantic Ocean between you and them, all I have is land.

►White Fairy (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Like that would help.

A mere ocean?

You did see Kaiju, right? Can you spell sea monster? Let me help you, it begins with a K.

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►SenorEel
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Oh, thanks. What did I do to you?

►White Fairy (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

I just didn't want you to think you were safe.

No one is safe...

►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

:O :O

I'm going back to bed. Maybe in the morning this will make sense.

►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:

Bets?

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