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.
"So after calling The Flaming Dumpster Man and offering to help only to be treated so strangely, I'm really wondering what the Negaverse does to its people," Hybris chatted, careful to not let any chance to throw the man under the bus go to waste.
"Maybe it's in the training? Or there's something in the water?" And here he took a sip from the bright neon green footlong novelty drink completely with silly straw that they'd picked up from a late night festival stand. Giving Belenos a pathetic look, Hybris added, "Thank you for joining up with me tonight. I love Starfest, but there's always something a little scary about it, too! And knowing there's a mad arsonist running around..." he gave a little shudder and inched closer to the senshi he'd declared The Peary Strongest Girl In The World.
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 9:43 pm
"So there's one of those weirdos from the Negaverse going around lighting dumpsters on fire, and you wanted to join them? I don't know that there's only something wrong with the Negaverse folks," Belenos teased, bumping shoulders with Hybris. "And of course. We gotta stick together!"
She did a little twirl for emphasis, loving the way her skirt swished.
Then there was a sound that made her stop, narrowing her eyes into the darker parts of the street they were on.
"Did you hear an sick-sounding chicken just now?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:05 pm
"Well, not like...in person. But I could, you know, keep in an eye out. Just in case I stumbled upon a lost General King who just needed a warm drink and directions home." Which was true, often after a few drinks Eles needed help getting home.
Hybris watched the the twirl of skirt with full appreciation. "The upgrade looks so good on you." He would have gone on, curious about the apron-like piece, when they were very rudely interrupted by a weird and rather unpleasant sound. And then...
"What's that smell?" And then he leaned closer to her and inhaled, "No you smell wonderful, it's definitely not you."
From the darkness came the menacing scritch of taloned feet across asphalt, nearly drown out by the slow dragging of heavy feathers. A beak emerged from the shadows, bearing all the menace of a chef's knife in a slasher film.
Shifting slightly to put Belenos a little more inbetween him and whatever that was, Hybris pulled out a baggie full of bird seed from his subspace. "Do you this it's ah...just a little peckish?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2025 6:46 pm
Man, Belenos was out of the loop. A General King was missing? She needed to pay more attention instead of just doing her own thing. But she suspected asking Hybris for the update would result in strange answers that went in circles. She liked the guy, but he was.... weird.
"Uh, thanks," she said, bemused and unsure if that was truly flattering or not.
She looked out at the terrifying, large bird, a slow sense of horror gripping her finger by finger. "I don't think so. Did we, uh, maybe pass by one of those weird egg nests and not notice? Or—"
The thing screamed and charged them and Belenos shoved Hybris down an alleyway.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:34 pm
The giant bird thing screamed and Hybris was screaming right along with it. Before he could fully hide behind Belenos, the Baddie of Pears was already shoving him out of the way and toward the alley. As he fell back, Hybris made sure to throw the bag of bird seed at the thing, just in case it was a vegetarian and not an opportunivore like most other birds.
"Do you think that's what laid those eggs?"
Nothing about the thing looked appetizing in the least. With Belenos between him and immediate danger, Hybris brought out his phone and quickly consulted his maps. "The closest mirror is two blocks away. Unless..."
They fought it?
No, absolutely not.
Instead he passed a hand in front of his face, turning into a perfect copy of Belenos. "Let's confuse it?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 3:29 pm
Belenos grinned at Hybris, taking a moment to check herself out. She rarely got to see herself from such interesting angles, after all, and even in the midst of being attacked by a giant bird thing, she couldn't resist the opportunity. Man, she loved it when Hybris used his real magic.
"Sounds good to me," she said, using her magical strength to give herself a boost as she ran towards the evil chicken and leapt over it, screaming furiously.
The chicken had indeed been distracted by the birdseed, if only for a brief moment of confusion. Once one of its targets was running, however, it began to run at Belenos, squawking and coming to a full stop when Belenos leapt over it and.... it faced an identical person. It tilted its head and gave a soft "bawk?"
Belenos kept running, trying to keep as quiet as she could, then turned around and pulled off her shoes, chucking one at the evil chicken. "Quack quack, stupid bird!" she shouted.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 3:43 pm
The other Belenos trotted after much slower at first, angling toward the other side of the thing. The confused and in increasingly harassed birdthing took one shoe to the head, and then another to its bedraggled a**.
"Bawk bawk, chickenhawk!" The other Belenos sang out, skirt twirling high as she sashayed down the street at a near running pace. When the creature lunged at her, though, there was a high little screech and then she was running flat out.
"To the right! Second floor balcony!" Thankfully whoever owned that apartment knew the importance of A Good Mirror at All Times.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:07 pm
God, Belenos adored Hybris. He was so much fun. She noticed she was nearby the thing's nest, or at least what seemed like its nest, and she trashed the eggs just to be safe. They all turned up empty, but she'd rather have them destroyed just in case. Those things didn't need to breed. Ever. Before the demonic chicken could turn around again, she followed Hybris up to the balcony.
"Got it, come on!" she shouted to him, diving into the mirror with gusto. The familiar feeling of mirrorspace curled around her and she continued until she fell out the other side. She wasn't sure exactly where she'd gone to at first, focusing more on calming her racing heartbeat and steadying her breathing. She just hope Hybris managed to follow her and escape as well.
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Jumping up to the balcony, the other Belenos was just about free when a looming, feathered figured rose up behind her. She screamed as a sharp beak snapped at her fair, taloned feet caught at her skirt, and stinky feathers beat stink air into her face. With a cry far more pathetic than anything that would come out of the real Belenos's mouth, the fake Senshi of Pears scrambled into the mirror in relative safety and mostly one piece.
