post-impocalypse: a field trip

[farfromgrace]

Vengeance is a Hell that cannot forget the past. Places of violence sometimes waver and reveal their old scars, bullet holes reappearing in fixed tables. It hasn't even forgotten the fall-- white chalk outlines in some of the alleys show bodies bent and crumpled at fatal angles, bodies that if stared at long enough show the pale shadow of wings at their backs. Some of the damned have claimed these angel bodies, hoping for a patron in hell or a weapon against it should they ever stir-- or a favor from Asmodeus, if they bring a waking one to him.

Beyond that, the cramped jumble of a city has the look of a place that belongs in a film noir, the light that's cast from the sky here washes out colors, and at night the fog comes in across the dark water and envelopes the city. So, in opposition to that, the occupied buildings are garish and loud on the inside and with their neon advertisements on the outside, demanding attention and refusing to bow to an environment that seems to want them silenced.

Space suddenly shifts, in a jarring, nauseating way, and you're falling into a landscape that's definitely a city, but not your Tokyo-F.

And land, unceremoniously, in an alley, the portal closing behind you. Nothing special about it, covered in peeling advertisements, full of shadows, littered with broken bottles and crushed cans and other kinds of garbage.

No one seems to have noticed you yet...

Comments

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ If he has any difficulties getting the lid off, she can always summon up her Heart Weapon to cut it loose from the hinges. ]

Do you mind if I watch you work? I've only ever seen Intensity do this once before...

[asonoficeandfire]

[the metal actually just. molds at his touch, so it comes off easily]

I don't mind. I'm still learning how to use it, so changing a larger piece like this is different.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Well then she's going to crouch down close to get a good look at it. ]

Fascinating. It's like you're making pottery without a wheel or clay....

[ and a bunch of metal... ]

Does it feel like anything when you're working with it?

[asonoficeandfire]

Ah... I suppose that's a good description of it.

And hm. I think it's similar to how my ice powers work from back home. Though I can create ice from thin air. With this, I actually need metal already in existence.