slowmountain: (to be squashed: ANTS)
slowmountain ([personal profile] slowmountain) wrote in [community profile] smash_logs2015-10-03 08:09 pm

[Open] Sunday Strolls

Who: A Mountain, Campus and You.
What: Watch your heads, cause someone's not watching their steps. There's destruction afoot.
When: October 4th.
Where: All across campus.

As far as Sundays went, this one was pretty typical, despite the lingering blood moon that persisted well into the morning. If you disregarded that, you could certainly call it lovely. The air held the crisp kiss of autumn's chill, the breeze rustling the fire hued foliage of campus. Eventually the sun's golden rays chased away the moon, bringing with it the deep blue of the sky.

It was entirely possible to forget anything bizarre was happening on such a nice day. Monsters, earthquakes, pssht. Those didn't exist today.

At least not until the first rumble echoed off the edge of campus. And then the next. And the next. And the next. Each one closer, stronger, rattling everything that wasn't fixed in place. The more astute in their panic might have noticed that it was far too rhythmic in its shocks. It was like a heartbeat, or a particularly strong footstep down rickety stairs.

Or perhaps they just noticed that a huge foot had come crashing through the roof of whatever building they happened to be in. Probably a striking detail, that.

The mountains, it seemed, were out for a stroll.



The colossal beast was ambling without a care in the world. The school buildings it was walking over (and through) posed no issue for it. Clearly it was just enjoying the fine Sunday like anyone else would. The mountains it had apparently wandered down from must have looked too boring, or maybe that little wolf thing had been making too much of a racket.

Either way, it was here and it was peacefully walking directly through Smash Academy.

[Open log! You may want to react to the happenings, or help people evacuate! Maybe there's something to be done about the creature? Watch your step! Questions and plotting can be found here! ]
trustycrowbar: (The Strong Force)

[personal profile] trustycrowbar 2015-10-09 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[It all happens very fast. Gordon realizes that the huge hoof is actually headed his way and backpedals with the launcher, but Joel's shot causes it to lurch and bodily hit the surface of the earth with a shockwave that sends him to the ground, and the rocket launcher to the side.]

[As Zero speeds up, he's halfway to his feet.]

I can ride. [With a frictionless car of his own he's gotten more used to blazing, idiotic speeds lately, but since it's a bike and not a car, the launcher stays on the ground as he heads for the bike.]

What about you, Joel?
golonghorns: (Ow my face)

[personal profile] golonghorns 2015-10-10 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Joel was flung to the ground by the shockwave, but he didn't relinquish his gun. He landed hard and felt something in his back twinge Most Unpleasantly, to put it mildly. But as soon as he was able, he shoved himself back up on his feet.]

Don't worry. I can ride.

[Couldn't be any harder than a cross country jaunt on a Harley with your dopey kid brother.]

Get me close enough and I got nail bombs and Molotovs I can use.

[Not to mention El Diablo. He was more than a little stoked that the gun had been so effective!]
awakeningwill: (lock and loaded)

[personal profile] awakeningwill 2015-10-10 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
All right. Don't crash my bike. I'll meet you on top.

[With that, Zero jumped off the bike and unsheathed his paralyzer whip. Aiming at the lowest part of the mountain above them, he dash jumped as high as he could and fired it like a hook shot, snagging onto the underside of its leg. He pulled himself up and grabbed onto the monster, traversing it with surprising speed. Jeez, look at him go.

When you had a robot's grip and infinite stamina, not to mention the ability to walljump sheer 90 degree surfaces, climbing a living mountain wasn't hard.

Anyway, he's leaving you two the hoverbike to get around and scout for weak points easier. Be careful with it.]
trustycrowbar: (Looking back)

[personal profile] trustycrowbar 2015-10-12 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
Gordon straddles the bike and watches Zero launch into the air as he waits for Joel to climb on. He REALLY needs to get a grappling hook for his suit, one of these days.

"--Alright, hold on!" He yells and hits the repulsor, and the bike launches from Zero to Oh My God in about six seconds.

"Keep your center of gravity low!" He yells back over his shoulder as the bike lurches onto one of the ridges on the beast's collapsed ankle. "I don't think the bike is built for this much weight, and this thing might get up at any time!"

By "this thing" he means "the very ground they happen to be speeding along." Just to make that clear.
golonghorns: (Do not want)

[personal profile] golonghorns 2015-10-13 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, Joel got it. And when This Thing AKA The Ground started to heave itself upward, he was very busy trying to keep his center of gravity low.... but not so low that he slid off the back and fell dozens of feet to his probable death.

"Jesus this thing moves..." He muttered more to himself than anyone else. He wouldn't mind one of these for his own use. He could have had Ellie to Colorado and back in no time flat...

...it was weird, how often she popped unbidden into his memory. All he could think was how much swearing would she do if she could see him now?

"If the bike loses grip and we fall off and die." he said as close to Gordon's ear as he could "It was nice knowing you."
awakeningwill: (speedrun)

[personal profile] awakeningwill 2015-10-13 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, settle down, guy. There were just a bunch of guys climbing your leg to try and kill you.

Zero had reached a rocky ridge on the giant's... shoulder blade, maybe? It resembled something like the structure of a building, maybe a balcony, only jutting out from the tough, hairy hide of a mountain. At any rate, a good place to hang onto while the monster was giving itself a good shake.

But he couldn't stay there forever. And despite the trouble the other two men were having, Zero couldn't let himself be distracted either. The school was already suffering more and more damage, the longer they took. It was time to be a little reckless.

Before the colossus could raise its head completely, Zero dash jumped from his spot onto the horn, then immediately leapt again to launch his whip at the upper ridge of the mountain's face. He dangled there for a second as the monster shook his head, but shot himself up to reach the top of its head at the earliest opportunity.
Edited 2015-10-13 08:46 (UTC)
golonghorns: (Grimdark)

[personal profile] golonghorns 2015-10-15 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Joel was used to keeping his eyes peeled for small details others might overlook. Despite the fact that the monster was going crazy and he was entirely unsure of how long they could expect the bike to keep moving smoothly.... he could see something shining up there.

"Get us close to the back of its head!" he said to Gordon. "I think I saw somethin' up there!"

He pulled a duct taped tin can out of a side pocket in his backpack. It was a nail bomb.
trustycrowbar: (Smarmy phase shift)

[personal profile] trustycrowbar 2015-10-19 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Gordon had, by that time, landed the bounding bike on their makeshift road with a thud that could knock fillings loose, bits of metal on the bike scraping the rocky armorescent plating and kicking up showers of sparks. Sorry, Zero.

"Hm?!" He risks slowing to a crawl for a moment to follow Joel's indication, and something else catches his eye. A rocky shoulder process that, as the beast raises his hoof, angles down into a ramp...

"Hold on. I've got an idea!"

Oh hell. He revvs the repulsor and aligns with the ramp in the scant second that the beast is resting. Then he punches it just as the shoulder flexes again, making their planned launch procedure suddenly and terrifyingly obvious.
awakeningwill: (downward stab)

[personal profile] awakeningwill 2015-10-19 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whoa, nelly. With the giant throwing back its head like that, the momentum sent Zero flying up into the air by his whip. He disengaged before he was flung too far off course, and before he was smacked around like a ragdoll. From the sky, he could see the slight glimmer amidst this dark, ominous patch on its head - was this another weak point? It had to be.

Charging his sword, he positioned himself above the mark (because changing direction mid-air was totally a robot feature) and thrust it downwards in a Sky Chaser stab. It was a strike strong enough to split stone on impact, surely it had to do some damage to this mountain.]
golonghorns: (Strained)

[personal profile] golonghorns 2015-10-19 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Shiii--

[Gordon. How did you get so good at being a daredevil hoverbike rider on the shoulders of a giant mountain beast? Was that a university level course offered at the school?

As they approached the back of the creature's head, he saw Zero aiming for the same glowy spot he'd seen. He brought El Diablo up, one handed, and loosed off a shot. The area was big enough that he and Zero could both attack it without any worry of him accidentally shooting Zero.]