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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:24 pm
Prompt 15: Poultrygeist 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.
After the sun set the alien woman left her apartment to begin searching through the city until she found one of the nests. She spotted a man in pink, a Page, she didn't recognize the man. She waved and called out to him.
"I see I'm not the only one looking into these things tonight." She offered a hand in greeting. "Hi I'm Corporal Vaylin." She introduced herself. "Sooo do you anything about these?" She asked pointing at the nest.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:19 pm
Pergamon, admittedly, wasn't sure what to make of the woman before him. She didn't look like a Senshi--not that he really knew all that much what one looked like--and he couldn't flee her aura, but she obviously wasn't human. Also, she introduced herself as a Corproal, not Sailor Anything, so....
Perhaps a different sort of alien? Well. That was fascinating.
He took the extended hand and shook.
"Pergamon of the Moon," he introduced himself. It felt strange to do so, still, just a little, but...he was never going to get used to it if he didn't try. "Pleasure to meet you, Corporal. I don't think I'm familiar with your organization, but...I suppose my curiosity can wait." As much as he wanted to learn everything there was to know, they had another curiosity before them.
"I only know a little," he said, carefully nudging an egg with his foot. "And only because I've overheard people talking." Namely, students gossiping in the halls and on campus. He looked around, frowning. "I've yet to see any sign of the protector these eggs are supposed to have, so the rumors go, but perhaps that's for the best."
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:48 pm
"Nice to meet you Pergamon, my situation is kind of complicated but for simplicity sake I'm part of the Vanguard of Velencya." She offered as an explanation to the Page.
She walked over to get a closer look at the nest and eggs. She took a scan of the eggs with her CommTech. "Looks like the eggs are empty?" She says confused about the results she was seeing. She also smelled a terrible sulfur smell. "Do you smell that?"
"Also wait did you mention a protector?" As she asked that she spotted a piercing red eyes staring at them in the darkness. A guttural, rasping cluck roared out as the monstrous fowl stalked out of the darkness. Vaylin hand instantly went to her energy blade igniting it in the darkness. "Look alive we're not alone here!" She warned.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 3:33 pm
The Vanguard of Velencya. Well then. That certainly wasn't the way a Senshi or Knight would introduce themself, in Pergamon's limited experience. He'd have to ask Imnolu or Heibing about them; maybe they would know something. Or perhaps he'd have to find another opportunity to ask more questions of one of them directly.
Today was not that day, apparently.
"Ah, yes, that's...what the rumors have suggested. Empty eggs, a foul smell..." He wrinkled his nose, displeased. Probably he would have done better to come with backup, or with a better weapon than a journal...pretty as it was, even in its slightly faded state, and well as it had sort of served him, it wasn't going to be much against a demonic chicken.
"Ah. Yes. There it is," he moved away from the nest, but not fast enough--the thing that might once have been a chicken seemed to see that he was the one closest to its nest, made perhaps the most horrifying buh-GAWK sound he'd ever heard, and came charging at him.
"Oh, hell," he held up his book, as if that might protect him--and, to be fair, he was able to get it between the chicken's beak and his face, so that was something. He brought back his book, swinging it to whack the creature on the head.
Which really just seemed to make it angrier. Damn.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:25 pm
Vaylin moved quick when she saw the demonic chicken strike at the Page. She rushed the giant poultry while Pergamon tried to fend it off with his book. She slashed its side with her energy blade sending a current of energy through its foul smelling body to scramble its brains.
The creature began to peck at the sky instead of the Page. " Get behind me, I reversed it's perception but that won't last for long." She advised. "Do you have any magic?" She asked as she leveled her blade to strike at the monster again.
Once the Creature regained its sense it began to strike at her as she parried its attacks with her sword. "I don't think this is a youma, but it's also definitely not a normal Earth creature!" She didn't know what to make of the foul creature.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:59 pm
Whatever Vaylin's sword did to the rooster, it had clearly distracted it enough that Pergamon could get away from directly in front of it.
"No magic, I'm afraid," he said, "but that's a useful trick." Perhaps she was as unfamiliar with Knights as he was with her people, since she didn't know PAges had nothing.
But they didn't have time. The bird was distracted, and Pergamon moved to circle around it--
And heard a crunching under his feet.
"Oh dear," he said, as the revelation hit--the eggs, the nest, he'd stumbled into them, and the chicken-creature made an awful noise--
And then it vanished, in a plume of smoke so foul it made Pergamon double over coughing.
"Oh, that's vile," he gasped, tugging off his cravat and bringing it up to his face like that might filter any of the awfulness. "But destroying the nest seemed to...chase it away?"
Well. At least it wasn't vengeful.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:08 pm
Vaylin continued to parry the chicken's strikes until suddenly monster vanished in puff of noxious smelling smoke. The smell was awful Vaylin covered her mouth and nose. "Whatever you did it worked at least." She said looking at the Page.
"But we should get away from this place, this smell is unbearable and we don't know if it'll come back or if there's more of them." She said motioning for the Page to follow her as she took of from this section of the park.
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