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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2025 4:32 pm
Quote: Poultrygeist (15) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke. Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth so characters can still use an NPC youma battle as well as this one for growth purposes. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Tilting her head to the side, Carmeltazite stared at a clutch of freakass eggs. What she was looking at didn’t resemble any kind of nest that she recognized. They were a little bigger than the jumbo chicken eggs that she could get at the store and kind of… discolored?
Frankly, something about them creeped her right the ******** out. Especially with the whole bit in the news about leaving the damned things alone. Why were they supposed to leave them alone? They weren’t youma eggs. As far as she’d been able to ascertain, youma didn’t lay eggs. And if some did, it sure as hell wasn’t in the middle of the ******** park.
“Oh, I do not like this,” she muttered. She wanted to reach out to gently poke at one of the eggs with a finger. It was only the thought that there was nothing sexy about xenomorphs and facehuggers that stopped her. Crouching by one clutch, she saw a little metallic sheen just to the side of the eggs and poked at it curiously. She wasn’t sure what she’d expected it to be, but a cute little emerald star charm had not been on the bingo card. Still, it was cute enough and didn't seem to have anything to do with the eggs. It was probably safe enough to squirrel away.
LP since guilds are back, i'm just getting this set up over here ♥
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 2:02 pm
Labradorite had taken up the task of investigating these weird eggs and headed to the park in order to do so. She sighed as her heels clicked on the pavement. "I wonder what's caused this now."
When she arrived she was happy to find a comrade in arms. The agent smiled as she joined Carmeltazite. "Hello." She said carefully looking at the eggs as she noted the weird shape and size of the stooping down to join the other.
"Are you here to investigate these too?" She took out her poster and softly poked one of the eggs with it. At least it was a useful weapon in some form. Though fairly useless for anything other than poking eggs.
"Oh I'm LT Labradorite, but you can call me Labs if you'd like." She added introducing herself since she'd just kind of butted in.
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 2:21 pm
“Carmeltazite,” the lieutenant replied. She was a little surprised to meet another officer like this, but hey. The world was weird sometimes. And Labradorite (seriously, who picked these damn names?!?) was saving her a great deal of trouble by poking at the eggs in her stead. “And I don’t know about investigating, that sounds way too damn formal. I just wanted to check things out.”
The back of her neck was prickling, like she was being watched from the shadows. Turning her head slightly, she was convinced that there was something big moving around. Flapping her hand to get Labs’ attention, she pointed with her other hand towards where she saw the movement. The frustrating thing was that she couldn’t feel anything energy wise, so there was really no way to tell who or what they were dealing with. Did the aliens Staurolite had mentioned have auras? She didn’t think he’d mentioned anything like that.
Keeping close watch on the shadows, she decided to try and act as if her nerves weren’t strung tighter than a violin.
“So, I’m guessing that we probably didn’t have anything to do with the freaky eggs?”
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:13 pm
Labs grinned, "Nice to meet you Carmeltazite." She said as she slowed in the random poking of the eggs. There was a chuckle from the lieutenant when the other said it sounded too formal. "Sometimes you just got to make it sound good in case someone's too close by."
There was a wink before she paused and looked around before going back to the eggs. It was as if she felt something watching them. Wondering if it was whatever laid these, "I hear they leave a very foul smell when they're broken."
Labs paused when she saw a small violet star charm that she'd uncovered with her poster. It was then that Carmeltazite caught her attention and she looked in the way that the other was pointing, "No, it seems not. I can't explain why but it doesn't feel like a youma."
The other answered, before catching a glimpse of red eyes int he darkness the noises getting louder. "Do you think we've pissed off whatever laid these eggs?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:56 am
”It doesn’t feel like anything,” Carmeltazite said bluntly. She was already liking this whole situation less and less and hearing that the eggs were effectively stink bombs was not helping anything. And the increasingly agitated noises coming from the trees was only adding to her distaste. “Well, if I was going around and layin’ eggs, I don’t think I’d be super thrilled with a pair of randos pokin’ at ‘em. Probably a safe assumption whatever it is is pissed.”
Instinct had her bring Bonk Daddy out of subspace. As weapons went, he was not super effective? But he was what she had, so she’d make the best of things. But, before she could say anything else, something their size rushed from the shadows, screeching and clucking furiously as massive claws kicked out at them.
“Holy ******** what is even,” she breathed as she dove to one side and threw her furby as hard as she could for the monstrous bird’s face. She could hear as it hit the beak and made a weirdly hollow thunk sound. Followed by garbled furbish and clacking from Bonk Daddy. Summoning him back to her head, she looked to Labradorite and made a face.
“And we’re sure that’s not a youma, right? It would have an aura if it was a youma, right?”
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2025 11:56 am
Labs gave a soft chuckle, "I guess it's I can feel it watching us." She glanced around to see if she could find it. "But yeah it doesn't feel like anything in an aura sense."
Labs nodded when Carmeltazite said it was probably pissed that someone was pokeing at it's eggs. "Yeah. I'm sure I would be too, I wonder where it's at."
There was a pause as she took her poster -- that was going to be really effective against this creature. "Oh ********." was about the only thing that came out of Labs mouth when the massive demon chicken charged at them and aimed a claw.
She dove out of the way getting grazed on the back. "This is not good." Labs was debating, "Right that is not a youma... I don't know what it is but it's not from here."
She rolled over and popped up on her feet taking a defensive stance. "I don't know if it'll work but I can see if I can use my - poster as a blind fold type deal. I need it distracted though I think." She wasn't sure she could cover it's eyes with it watching both of them.
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:17 pm
Not a youma, check. So just a big, stinky, weirdass bird. Great. She listened incredulously as Labradorite suggested using a poster as a blindfold and made a mental note to never complain about the cosmic roulette wheel that had granted her a furby.
"Seems a little too risky," she said, heaving her furby at the bird's head once again and landing a strike near it's eye. She watched as the awful thing stumbled backwards and crushed some of its eggs underfoot. "We're in a park, just find some rocks and chuck 'em! That thing almost got you, don't give it another chance."
Shooting the other lieutenant a grin and wink, Carmeltazite gave her strongest argument.
"I don't know a thing about first aid, so you're kinda boned if you let that thing getcha."
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:54 pm
Labs nodded when the other thought about the idea of using her poster as a blindfold. Perhaps it was too risky and then there was the suggestion to use sticks and rocks.
Labs dismissed her poster quickly, "You're right I should've thought about that." There was a squeak as the chicken came racing after her and she moved quickly finding a decent sized stick that was perhaps good for hitting the chicken with like it was a pinata. "AHAH! This should work!"
There was a pause when the chicken zoomed past her and knocked her over with it's wing, "Oi!" She was lucky it wasn't the talons she didn't want to be shanked by a monster chicken. She got to her feet and aimed the stick towards it's head hoping to be able to smack it.
"Yeah I don't want to be gotten by the oversized chicken. At least you have something perhaps more useful."
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:12 am
Bonk Daddy? Useful? The thought made Carmeltazite laugh in delight. Still, she couldn’t be a hater. The furby was slightly more useful than a poster. Plus he could keep her company on patrols.
Okay. He was a pretty good weapon. She’d always loved multitaskers.
“Our weapons are as useful as we make ‘em,” she said, chucking the furby once more, this time aiming for the chicken’s legs. This time, she connected with the knee and the bird stumbled, trodding over more of the eggs and crushing them.
“Looks like your intel about the eggs being duds was right on, though.”
Pity the bird wouldn’t stay down, though. Maybe it was just too hateful to give up once it had a target. And honestly, as gross as this thing was, she didn’t really want to hurt it. Like, it was just a dumb, weird animal doing dumb, weird animal things. She’d be happy if they could just manage to make it retreat.
“So hey, I don’t know about you, Labs” she began, “but I really ain’t lovin’ the idea of maiming or killing a bird defending her nest. Any ideas for getting this b***h off our backs?”
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:56 pm
Labs nodded, "Yeah true, mine is largely good for paper cuts at the moment -- I need more for it to act like a newspaper."
The lieutenant nodded when the other said the intel on the eggs being a dud was correct. "I'm just glad they're not some sulfur baby because that would perhaps be worse than this crazy lady chicken."
She seemed to think about how to get rid of the bird and looked at the eggs, "I . . . don't know for sure but I'm with you on getting her to just ******** off." The chicken had turned it's sights on the lieutenant and was charging towards her. Labs squeaked moving out of the way and aiming a kick for the knee hoping to slow down the demon chicken while she thought.
"I don't think chickens care for loud noises we could try that ... or chucking one of the eggs and running for our lives if she goes after it ... um dumping water on her might work?" She was speaking out loud now trying to figure out possible solutions while keeping an eye on the thing.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:37 am
Throw the eggs themselves? While she couldn’t say she was in love with the idea, it had the most merit given they were devoid of gooey insides. And if all this squawking and attacking was to protect the eggs, then surely Mama B here would care more about getting her eggs back than chasing a pair of innocent lieutenants.
“Eggs it is!” she declared, bending to scoop up a couple. Hefting the first, she thought it was heavier than expected for being empty. Well, it wasn’t important. She’d ponder the biology of Giant Terror Chickens some other time. Watching said chicken, she took careful aim and launched her egg at the bird. Which seemed startled to see it’s offspring flying through the air. But not so surprised that it tried to avoid the egg.
“That thing,” Carmeltazite said, as she watched the egg shatter upon impact with the great, feathery bod, “is not normal. Y’know, beyond the size and anger issues.”
Throwing more eggs and watching them break, the lieutenant thought that the bird was starting to look a little confused and sad. Though, in fairness, she’d feel the same if someone was launching babies at her.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:19 pm
Labradorite picked up some eggs after Careltazite agreed that sounded like the best choice and started trying to lob them further away behind the bird to try and get it to turn it's back to them so they could skedaddle out of dodge.
"I know and the fact it's not a youma concerns me. Like where did it come from?" She was honestly surprised at the weight for the eggs since they were actually empty. It was kind of crazy to think the eggs would be this heavy empty.
The fowl was watching it's eggs and turned it's back at the ones that went further. "Do you think it's safe to exit stage left?" She figured the chicken was probably sad and perhaps she'd try to make it up to the chicken later.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:25 am
”Does it really matter where it came from, though?” Carmeltazite asked seriously. She’d lived in Destiny City long enough to know that sometimes, weird s**t just happened. She had vague memories of people claiming to have encountered Bigfoot in the park one winter. Sure, she’d laughed at the time, but come on. And weren’t people going on about a ghost train a year or two ago? As far as she’d been able to tell, those stories had stopped pretty abruptly with the change in seasons. So why not a big, angry demon chicken?
“It’s Destiny City, Labs! Sense doesn’t have to be made!”
They were running out of eggs to throw and there was no way that she was going to try and go past the bird to get to any that had sailed over its head. Though she watched a couple break on impact with the ground. Each broken egg seemed to deflate the chicken further until its squawking sounded more like a forlorn wail. It moved like it was confused now, stumbling around and somehow managing to crush what eggs hadn’t been broken earlier. Okay, yeah. It was probably safe enough to skedaddle.
Half-heartedly throwing the last of the eggs she could see, Carmeltazite watched it bounce off of the feathery back and land on the ground. Just in time to be crunched underfoot by its parent. As she began to back away, she realized that there was nothing left of the nest. Every egg had been shattered. The big chicken seemed to realize this as well, throwing its ugly head back and producing the most unnerving wail that the lieutenant had ever heard.
Suddenly, the chicken monster erupted into oily, smelly smoke, leaving nothing behind. Not even a single, ragged feather.
Staring at the now empty space where it had just been, Carmeltazite turned to stare at Labradorite before turning back to where the chicken had been.
“Umm… yeah. Yeah, I think we can exit now,” she said a little numbly. What was even the ********?
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:41 pm
Labradorite laughed, "I guess not, I just hope it's not a mini Harold or something."
She admitted as she make a face when the chicken made an ungodly noise of sorrow and erupted. She made a noise as she waved her hand trying to clear the air of the stank that permeated through everything.
"Good, good." She said softly walking backwards in case some how the chicken came back with reinforcements. "Hopefully we'll meet again; Carmeltazite!"
There was a swift nod of her head and as she retreated she added, "Lets collab sometime to steal energy!"
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