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The Sins get dropped on Skygarden
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Avarice slides on behind Pride. "We'll come back and get you guys," he says over his shoulder.

They catch up with Wrath and Sloth as they pull up near the anomaly. Avarice hops off and steals the other transport once Wrath and Sloth have vacated it.

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Wrath walks closer to it, eyes narrowed against the bright light, seeing just how close she can get.

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The... phenomenon... is approximately cylindrical, about twenty feet wide at the base, gradually narrowing as it blasts its heat into the sky, almost like the flame of some cosmic blowtorch.

If she gets up close and then squints hard at it, there's a smudge of not-quite-so-brightness in the middle, a faint shadow that almost looks like it might be the blurry silhouette of a person. But she won't have long to look at it, because after a couple of seconds at that distance, she starts being repeatedly struck by lightning.

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She retreats some. "I think someone's doing that," she comments to Sloth.

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Apparently Sloth brought a tea set with him, and has in fact made tea. He hands her a cup. "Some tech we missed being developed?"

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"I...have no idea. If it is technology, it's something we should've heard about being developed. Besides which, we have no idea how we even ended up here. We weren't above a planet when we started going down. And yet..."

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Sloth hums, and they watch the anomaly while they wait for the others.

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Ten minutes later the others arrive, Pride and Gluttony sharing one transport, Avarice, Envy and Lust precariously balanced on the other.

Lust bounds off the back of the transport and proceeds to lay out a couple of bright, check blankets. "There, proper picnic," e declares brightly. "What is it then?"

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"Seems to be a person at the centre of it," Wrath explains. "And it starts hitting you with lightning if you get too close."

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"You lobbed a grenade at it yet?" Avarice asks, excited.

(Pride's roared 'no' probably startles any nearby wildlife.)

"Okay, so we start smaller." He hefts the remains of his bardiche. "Gonna miss you," he says mournfully.

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"You have at least two others on the Cardinal," Pride points out, amused, even as Avarice launches the remains of his bardiche at the anomaly.

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It goes in, and is briefly visible melting in the heat before it's lost in the general glare.

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"Well then," Wrath says as she refills her tea cup.

They spend a while throwing other things into the anomaly. Stones, sticks, a spare battery lamp from one of the vehicles.

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All are summarily destroyed by the blazing pillar of fire. More flammable items go much faster.

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Avarice and Wrath share a look, and Avarice shifts so he's lounged over Pride taking up all her attention.

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Wrath carefully unhooks her bandoleer of grenades and slides one off (key still in), tossing it up and down in her palm a couple of times.

Then she hauls back her arm and-

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Pride's head snaps around as Wrath throws the grenade into the anomaly.

"I said no," her tone is approximately that of someone scolding a naughty puppy.

Avarice and Wrath are too busy watching the grenade to care.

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A billow of white fire plumes out of the pillar where the grenade hits, but it doesn't reach far enough to touch any of the Sins.

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Avarice springs to his feet, punching the air. "Woohoo!" he cheers.

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Envy has sprung to his feet as well, and Wrath is laughing in delight.

"I'm surrounded by children," Pride decides, shaking her head. "Shouldn't we...I don't know. Consider leaving?"

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"How?" Gluttony asks, holding a box of scones out to Pride. "The Cardinal is still scuppered."

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"I want to know what's going on here," Wrath nods to the anomaly, taking a scone for herself. "And I mean. I don't think any of us are picking up on any radio signals. Which means it's not like we're gonna get bombed from orbit."

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"If there's anything I should've squelched I can't find it," Avarice says, flumping back down beside Pride. "And if they've got tech good enough to hide that we deserve to be bombed from orbit."

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"Speak for yourself," Lust retorts. "The galaxy would be bereft if I was no longer in it!"

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Avarice stares at eir for a moment, trying to formulate a response. He gives up, throws his hands in the air and laughs.

"What can you say to that?" he asks the group at large.

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