Silken Snare (12) : Destiny City has an extensive history with problematic arachnids, and 2025 is not the year to shake that up. Large, sticky webs have appeared all over the city. Maybe it is a silly prank like the papers say, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it’s all fun and games when you’re stuck to the near-invisible net strung low to the ground or tucked away along alleys or pathways. They can trap anyone who even just brushes against them. It’s possible to be stuck in one for hours. The more you struggle, the more the threads tighten, clinging like a cocoon and it feels like being swallowed whole. If you listen carefully while caught, you might hear something moving above you. You might even feel something heavy dip onto the web next to you, chattering ominously. You never see it, but that in itself is a mercy. Something will always chase it away. Eventually, the strings will lose elasticity and you may be able to free yourself if someone isn’t able to rescue you–they just need to make sure they don’t get trapped, too. The threads can leave behind deep lines and bruises, so be happy that’s the worst you walked away with.
A street rat. Several actually. Were they gnawing on bricks? Lowering her binoculars, Hestia gave that particularly alleyway a look of deep dismay. This city was truly in shambles lately. "Nothing on this block," she intoned to her night's partner, Borax. She especially liked patrolling with him during holidays, always in hope that one of the seasonal abnormalities would take a shine to the man and leave him in increasingly embarrassing situations.
It didn't happen nearly enough, but never let it be said that Eternal Hestia wasn't an optimist!
Tonight they had another purpose, though. There was several newer members to the team, and more veteran ones that simply were...a little soft. Members who could use a little...safe torture. As a team! To build up some familiarity with both each other, and the situations they may find themselves in. And what better way to do so than to find more of those obnoxious dice that loved to abduct people each autumn?
Getting close enough to be within in reach of the things wouldn't do though. So searching out a decent grouping of them at a safe distance, then calling in team members was the plan. A plan that had yet to bear fruit, but again. Optimist!
Bringing the binoculars back up she intoned, "I've noticed that Tincalconite remains at a basic level. Are you properly supporting his needs as a senshi?" Though what she really wanted to grill him on was why Faustite seemed already familiar with him. But she wasn't sure what she would do if it turned out Borax had bullied or exploited the difference in rank and power, so Tincalconite was a safer subject to both inquire about and also be somewhat unpleasant to Borax over.
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