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[X]Come back here, meat
After a few moments of consideration, I opted to start cracking my ribs open and prepare the hollow cavity of my chest for company. Not that I expected the plastic tote of proteins to have much in the way of conversation, but maybe this was just the logical endpoint of reading Alice Through the Looking Glass as a child and forever holding a secret affection for tea parties. Whatever dressing I might apply to it, leaving this thing to grow unsupervised sounds like the start of a bad idea. I know how I tend to react when something small and living and not-fast-enough crosses paths with me, it seems safe to assume a disconnected part of me might do the same if it encountered something large and living and middle-aged, like Dad. Once my ribs have enough flexible connective tissues between them to move, I start scooping the meatslime up and into my gullet.
Then I have to freeze in place and devote all of my attention to processing what is occurring. Because this?
This is amazing.
I don't tend to feel a whole lot, since I died. Emotions are kind of like a more vague form of breathing, in that I can do the motions but it's kind of a chore and it doesn't tend to get me anything. Anything I feel is dulled, and the best I generally manage is fleeting, bitter amusement. Physical sensation is only slightly better, since eating is satisfying and rapid shifting of my body makes enough chemical reactions to produce heat. But this is more than just satisfying, or even tasty. This flesh is my flesh, but it's also
not. It's grown, evolved. Even if it's just from stray crickets and mice, this flesh has had experiences of its own. And now, I can reunite with it.
It makes me feel happy.
I don't have a heartbeat or tears, so I extrude several fleshy tendrils from my back and let them wriggle around in the air in excitement. This is so much better than anything else, and I can't decide if I'm trying to savor the experience or rush to consume it all at once.
More!
I want more!
I want to divide and grow and recombine, I want to feel so h a p p y
By the time I finish off the tote of flesh I'm almost dancing in place, letting my ribs undulate in time with my lashing tendrils, and I find myself making a high-pitched, wet keening noise in my throat. I quiet down and take the time to reconfigure my tendrils into something closer to tongues, and carefully scrub the inside and outside of the tote, to make sure not a single cell of me is left behind. I hadn't forgotten why I'd come down here to retrieve it in the first place. I did however start to wonder where I could refill it and leave it to develop that won't result in avoidable, tragic, admittedly delicious consequences.
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Topic: Deadpan
In: Boards ► Locations ► America ► Brockton Bay ► Protectorate ► Wards
JJohnson (Original Poster) (Verified PRT Agent)
Posted on April 22, 2011:
This thread is for discussion of the Protectorate ENE Ward, 'Deadpan.'
Deadpan identifies as female, she/her.
Deadpan's official ratings are listed as:
Brute 4
Changer 3
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► Bagrat (The Guy In The Know)
Replied on May 30, 2011:
Looks like there was an encounter between a Protectorate patrol and ABB forces today, around 2:30 PM. Assault, Battry, and Deadpan were present. Notable because this is the first time the newest Ward has been spotted out and about since her debut (video of that can be found here <link>)
PRT is only counting it as a success, which leaves a lot to the imagination, so post your links if you've got 'em!
Edit: Some shaky cellphone videos <here>, <here>, and <here>
► SuzieQ
Replied on May 30, 2011:
Hard to say anything, really. Deadpan just stands there
► Josh1989
Replied on May 30, 2011:
Does it matter? It's always fun to watch Battery punch a dude or two
► Funhouse
Replied on May 30, 2011:
First!
Check out that video, right around 0:23, see the manhole cover near Deadpan shake? She slipped into it without being very visible, so cool
Edit: damnit, not first
► MigrantHero
Replied on May 30, 2011:
Huh. Looking at it, both #Funhouse and #SuzieQ are correct. The manhole shakes, and then she stands there, waaaay too still. A decoy?
► MarrianeOhMarriane
Replied on May 30, 2011:
Oh ye of little faith, check <this> out! I caught thw whole thing from the building across the street.
Deadpan goes still around 0:15, the screams start around 0:52
If she got into that drug den through the manhole/sewers I don't want to imagine what the ABB encountered
► Weeaboo21
Replied on May 30, 2011:
So she's Hanako of the Toilet now?
► Lethal Mayhem
Replied on May 30, 2011:
#Weeaboo hardly, I don't even know the reference and I think it's wrong
the vids posted so far show the start of the raid, but <here>'s picture of the aftermath
For those too tl;dw
4:35 Assault tries to call to Deadpan
4:58 he shakes 'her' shoulder and the costume collapses, there's just a skeleton
5:04 some fresh screams from the property next to the drug den
Turns out next door was the office and money changers
They were not prepared for the whirlwind of eyes, teeth, and fingernails
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"Regent," Lisa said, as she nervously licked her chapped lips. "
Alec, you don't want to do this."
"Yeah? I'm sure you know best, don't you, Tattletale?" Regent's skin was pale and clammy, save for a flush on his cheeks from a fever. His dark curls were matted to his forehead in sweat. By comparison, grue looked calm and composed, even while holding a gun to the underside of his jaw. But of course, that was only because Regent wasn't letting him move. Even then, small twitches betrayed his lack of control on the other Undersider. Regent tipped his head back and laughed. "Well, you're wrong! For once you're wrong, Tats! You don't know anything!"
His voice cracked as he repeated, "You don't know
anything."
Tattletale's brain was racing, her eyes not far behind as she took in as many details as possible. There had to be something she could use here, some secret or quirk or weakness that could prevent a murder-suicide. The Undersider's lair was as it always was, perhaps with fewer cans stacked in a pyramid. Grue's control over his body had been robbed in his sleep
(Would have needed at least three hours to assume control. Dark bags under Regent's eyes-- has not been sleeping, at least four days)
and Regent was swaying slightly on his feet. His once-immaculate poofy shirt had slipped down, exposing the dark shadow of a small bite mark, sitting on his collarbone. Red veins of infection spread out from it in an unnatural spiral.
(Recent weight loss, has not been eating. Wound acquired during PRT breakout has not scabbed over but proceeded directly to scarring. Infected. Not a product of natural pathogens. Symptoms include insomnia, paranoia, aggression...)
"You don't get it. I don't get it. Nobody gets it. There's something so wrong and right and I can't tell which," Regent sucked in a ragged breath. Grue twitched a bit more, which did not escape Tattletale's sight. Regent's control was slipping as he got more upset. If she unbalanced him enough, would Grue be able to break free? It was a horrible calculation. It was worse that she felt she could make it.
"All that time being Daddy's plaything, the moment anything hard comes by you dive right back into being played with," Tattletale hissed. "You didn't even run away, did you? You were let go, because you weren't useful enough to stay."
Regent stared at her for a moment, then gave her a brokenly sardonic half-smile. "You think I care about them, or what they think? We'll be together again whether I like it or not. I don't think you--"
Heavy footsteps on the stairs, and the sound of panting breaths. The door opened, drawing all eyes to Bitch as she returned from walking her dogs. The blunt-faced woman caught sight of the gun and her eyes widened. Regent held out one arm with his fingers poised like a gun. Grue mirrored his actions, and pulled the trigger.
He missed.
Bitch yelled, then whistled and pointed at the pair of them and let go of her dogs' leashes. "
Hurt!"
The trio of dogs surged forwards. Brutus, the rottweiler, leaped at Regent while the other two dived at Grue and latched onto his leg and arm, the leather of his costume providing little protection from their jaws. Regent had even less, and he screamed when the dog began to ravage him with fang and tooth. Still in thrall, Grue turned his pistol towards Brutus, and
BANG
Regent's head opened outward and sprayed red and gray across the wall. Tattletale's breath heaved, and her hands shook around the handgun she'd pulled from the back of her belt. A thin trail of smoke rose from the barrel.
Once Bitch had called off her dogs and Grue had shaken off the residual numbness from Regent's control, the remaining three Undersiders stood in a semicircle around Regent's remains. Tattletale kept staring at the red and black spiral that adorned Regent's shoulder, and didn't look up until Grue finally asked:
"...what do we do with the body?"
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