With the tooth and a long way down right beside him, Melvin turned and looked up. It was strange and uncanny to see a wall of swirling sand and bodies, both dead and alive, moving up above up until it broke to the blue sky above.
Looking out, he saw a blur pass up ahead, and with one desperate lung, he climbed and grabbed onto it. It was a pole. Something from a tent maybe, but it was stuck in the moving sand and was far better than holding onto a tooth. Grabbing it, he clung on and hoped he didn't go down further.
Peyton was damn near blind and deaf when she stepped into deep sand. Wind buffeted her, making her stagger, and she dropped momentarily to her knees as a horrendous stench filled her senses. She gagged, twice, grabbing at her scarf to draw it up and over her nose and mouth as she struggled back to her feet. She'd heard the Sahara was awful, it'd made her fear for Taym, but this went beyond expectations. The smell was intense, coating nose and throat, and Peyton took short, shallow breaths just to keep her breakfast down.
Then the sand beneath their feet began to shift, cascading downward, rolling. She watched it, suspicion and dread clear on delicate features.
That can't be good.
Warrick agreed, hackles raised and rumbling unhappily in her mind. As the slope increased, the Sun backed up, a few slow, careful steps, but it did little good. As the points of sharp teeth and bodies rose out of the shifting sand the slant grew to such an extreme angle that Hunters on all sides bag to spill downward, towards those razor sharp teeth, and whatever lay hidden at the center. Peyton included. She stumbled, falling, and dug hands and feet into the sand in an attempt to anchor herself.
It worked, barely. She'd stopped, but she was frightfully close to those sharp teeth and what she imagined to be some enormous maw, ready to swallow them all down.
[Distance: 21 HP: 50]
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She was afraid to move. Every tiny shift resulted in sinking another few inches further down. She was afraid even to breath. There was nothing to hold onto, nothing to grab should she slip, Peyton was stranded, and she didn't have a ******** clue what to do.
<Don't move, Screechheart.>
Not planning on it. She hissed it at him, but even as the words flittered through her mind she knew that that wasn't a long term option. The sand still shifted even as she did nothing. It was slow, gradual, but she could feel it.
Carefully, oh so carefully, she turned her head to peer over her shoulder. She was looking for Noah, looking to see if he'd managed to avoid the teeth and get away. What she saw was Cami, holding on for dear life, and worst off than herself. "Hang on!" Her eyes slammed shut as she slid another foot, and she flattered herself against the sand, drawing and holding a breath.
Everything stilled, and pale eyes peeked open. Teeth grit, she rose back up, peering over her shoulder at the Sun trainee teetering on the brink. "Just hang on, Cami!" That's all they had to do, just hang on. Help was just around the corner. She flashed the magenta haired girl a smile, trying to be reassuring, but it was short lived.
She slid, dropping quickly this time as a wave of sand from above disrupted everything around her. "No." Fast and faster, she sank down that slope. "********!" Being still didn't help now. She scrambled, digging at the sand with hands and feet, trying to crawl upwards, but only fall further down until those towering teeth surrounded her and unsolid ground beneath her disappeared altogether.
There was nothing to hold onto, she fell, disappearing into the pit with a last frightened scream.
[EATEN]
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In case Noah wanted to see is girlfriend get eaten.
Distance: 19 - 10 = 9 (See you on top, suckers!) HP: 45/50
Keep going. Just keep grabbing your blurry shapes! We can't stay here with this pole!
Saliva was in a panic, and Melvin wanted nothing more than just to stay where he was at in some delusion of safety. It was hard enough to see with the sand, but now he didn't have his glasses.
The most he could do was look for shapes and hope they weren't sinking down with him. Above, he spotted another blur sticking up from the ground, and at the risk of falling back down, he lunched up and pushed himself up to what seemed to be another pole. It seemed he was around some campsite that had fallen into the sand and he was glad for it.
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[ Awesome fun Sahara times ]
Milo could have sworn he heard Inoke somewhere but in this twisting vortex of sand it was a little hard to tell exactly who was around him. But he could hear Noemi, confirming she hadn't reached the center just yet and she seemed just a little panicked. (Yeah... just a little...)
"Still here, Noemi-chan ~" He called out to the short Mist. "Think the goal here is to not get to the center, keep headin' back!" Like he was doing so well to give any advice. Fumbling in the sand, getting it everywhere - including inside his mouth and making no progress at all.
Well, maybe that person over there could help, they could pull their strengths together and get each other out of this mess - nope, nevermind. Dead body. Awesome...
Noemi shuddered as sand moved her closer and closer to the gaping jaws. She didn't want to be eaten, no she did not. Even with Milos sort of encouragement slash task, she didn't feel herself moving away from the teeth.
When she saw another body closer to her, she hopefully called out, "Milo? Milo is that you?" And as soon as it shifted closer and she grabbed on, she stared into not a Milo face but a strangers. A dead strangers. A high pitch scream emitted from the mist as she flung herself away from the body and closer to the jaws.
Eventually her scream was muffled by choking on sand.
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:48 am
jack distance: 15 + 10 = 25 HP: 45/50 1/5
Oh good: laughter, chimes, and squeaks. Gang was at the moment still alive.
The problem was that for all of his struggles, Jack was slipping past. His teeth grit and grounded as he fought for purchase, instead cut by teeth as he slid past all three of them. "********..." And people were getting eaten too. What a degrading and boring way to go out as a hunter.
"Less madness, more sand swimming. Preferably not near the teeth," he drawled. "Someone grab something to form a line so that we don't get eaten."
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r u ready 4 s**t phone posts
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i hope u r
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cuz here I am
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distance = -1!! (0)
Finn sighed. Was that Jack's booming voice he could hear, carried to him on the howling, fetid smelling, sand grain slinging wind? He was sure it was him, and in true Jack style he had to go and spew some kind of logic in a situation that was nothing short of complete chaos, as if anything anybody did could actually work. Squinting out through the blinding whirls of sand, he could see the giant thrashing about, could see him, and many others, being dragged further in.
Still too close for comfort. He thought to his weapon, receiving a lightly growled affirmative to his comment on the situation, before he summoned his weapon again, using it to haul himself to yet another post, yet more distance away. He trudged through the sand, fighting against the pull, each step taking him further, leaving his "friends" behind to fend for themselves.
The instant that Edgar stepped through the portal, his princess went missing, lost in the whistling wind and shifting sand. It threatened to tear his crown away from him, so he pulled it off preemptively and hooked it to the belt around his waist instead.
"Princess!" he called, hoping that she might hear him through the chaos, but the sound was consumed by the sand and the screams of others.
And he might be too, it seemed - he lost his footing, and began to slide down into--
No. No. There were blood-covered teeth that burst forth from the sand, other Hunters pierced and torn to pieces as they slipped towards the center, where nothing but a terrible demise awaited them. It was the most horrible sight that he had ever laid eyes upon, even after staring at a headless body. Instinctively, he reached to try to grab onto anything, but only managed to paw uselessly at the sand.
The more he struggled against the sand, the further Edgar fell. He collided with the blunt side of one of the pointed teeth, which startled him so terribly that he lost the ability to breathe for a moment. Everything blurred, and his eyes began to sting from the wind and the sand, but he refused to give up.
Not until he found his princess.
He summoned Caoimhe and drove the weapon into the tooth, hoping to get enough leverage to keep himself from moving closer towards the center of the pit, and shielded his eyes with one hand. Maybe he could find her. Maybe he could rescue her, if he just tried hard enough. If he could actually really do something for the first time in his life, instead of simply pretending, maybe he could save her life.
Eventually, by some miracle of good fortune, he managed to catch a glimpse of her nearby. With a deep breath that filled his throat with sand, he clenched his hand around the dagger and reached towards her.
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:08 pm
[ Awesome fun Sahara times ]
He could hear Noemi call out for him, possibly mistake him for someone or something else - the only conclusion since he didn't see her suddenly appear near him as he continued to fight against the sand.
Somewhere else, Jack's suggestions and commands to form a line could also be heard. It was a really idea, he concluded in his head and almost attempted to summon his weapon to serve as an anchor like he had tried to do last time. Or at least grab hold of someone else, to gain some sort of reach. Koume protested, reminding him what happened last time.
But any of those attempts, even if he listened to his weapon at all, didn't seem to happen this time as he was suddenly struck by - or perhaps even ran into - some sort of object. A body, a tooth, some sort of other object caught in all of this, Milo wasn't sure. It had hurt though, enough to garner a short hiss.
"Aa s**t!" It turned into. Realizing how close he was to the center with all those more rows of teeth.
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distance: 18 + 10 = 28 (doing real well Milo!) HP: 35/40 (45/50?) 2/5
Well obviously not the teeth, Nora, he thought rather sarcastically in an attempt to drown out Yzalin's whining about proper mission briefing and footing. He continued to ignore her as he watched people slide closer to the maw and then inside of it. He hoped there weren't rotating razor blades of death in there...
He looked up, looking for a foot hold and found a pole! He didn't know where it came from, but there was a pole! He grabbed it and wrenched himself up and farther away from the beast's mouth. Ahhh... minor moment of safety.
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:39 pm
[ Awesome fun Sahara times ]
Near he he spotted a hunter he was unfamiliar with (Bradley) but there was little that Milo was able to do. He couldn't grab hold of him, being a little too far out of reach and from his perspective he probably would be grabby the poor guy down with him.
That was not how he wanted to make friends.
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distance: 28 HP: 35/40 (45/50?) 3/5
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[ Awesome fun Sahara times ]
Swimming in sand was not exactly the same as swimming in water, Milo had learned this the last time had 'visited' the Sahara. A more solid mass, despite how fast moving and it coursed all around him. But really, there seemed to be very little other options in order to get himself out of the pit and onto more sturdy land - there didn't seem the options of hopes or chained weapons this time around and grabbed hold of one of those pointy teeth things was just right out.
Once again, however, the sand proved its might and power as Milo continued to battle against it. Churning and moving objects at its own will and pushing yet another object in his path to knock him off the course he fought to maintain. "Aa s**t!" The Sun exclaimed again, feeling the pull grab hold and the distance between him and that dreadful center close onto him fast.
"Be safe, Noemi-chan!" At least he managed to yell out before he slipped past those last rows of teeth and into the jowls of the beast of the sand. Milo would have wanted to apologize for dragging her alone, but hey he though it might have been different, it might have been not this. Just not enough time. Hopefully Jack could help the timid girl in his stead.
Once again, Milo was eaten by a giant something or other.
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