Appearance
22 July 2008 01:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skonen_bladesThe gangs have come to talk about peace. This should be interesting.
Here come the Skarlitanes. They’re anorexic and shiny with skinplant leather. It’s hard to tell the guys from the girls with hardly any fat on their bones and masks over the top halves of their faces.
Keystroke is their leader. She lurches from heel-click to heel-click. Their awkward gait is a trick. It makes them look weak and starved, ready for conquest. It’s a lie. They’re the most dangerous amongst us.
That’s why there were scheduled to come last. With the rest of us already here, they can’t get up to any funny business in close quarters.
The Angels are here with their white eyes, fluorescent halos and tattooed wings. They seem calm but they always do, the bastards. The SirCuts are gathered down at the end, pissed off because they’re going to have to do this analog with no brain-chatter. Even the lobsters showed up with their water-misters, already wanting to get back to the water. Five other gangs and a few reps from the smaller families pepper the rest of the table.
Two organized crime journalists hang out down at the end of the table.
Scanners must be bathing this place with sonar pings, Geiger counters and microwaves. The hotdogs gave every person a sniff before they were even allowed out of the parking lot. There are no detectable hidden mikes, nukes, bombs, firearms, or innerbody surprises here.
It’s still uneasy. Everyone’s here, right? One bomb and the balance of power would be thrown into a year-long battle in the streets of the city.
It’s going to be a long night but hopefully we’ll be able to figure out what to do with The Object that’s shown up in the bay.
It’s a big metal ball. It seems benign but it’s the size of ten city blocks, perfectly smooth on the surface, and no one noticed it arrive. A giant impact wave did not attack the city, it didn’t crash down from the sky or rise from the ocean. It was just there this morning.
All attempts to contact it have failed.
We have to unify until we establish it’s status as a threat.
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Here come the Skarlitanes. They’re anorexic and shiny with skinplant leather. It’s hard to tell the guys from the girls with hardly any fat on their bones and masks over the top halves of their faces.
Keystroke is their leader. She lurches from heel-click to heel-click. Their awkward gait is a trick. It makes them look weak and starved, ready for conquest. It’s a lie. They’re the most dangerous amongst us.
That’s why there were scheduled to come last. With the rest of us already here, they can’t get up to any funny business in close quarters.
The Angels are here with their white eyes, fluorescent halos and tattooed wings. They seem calm but they always do, the bastards. The SirCuts are gathered down at the end, pissed off because they’re going to have to do this analog with no brain-chatter. Even the lobsters showed up with their water-misters, already wanting to get back to the water. Five other gangs and a few reps from the smaller families pepper the rest of the table.
Two organized crime journalists hang out down at the end of the table.
Scanners must be bathing this place with sonar pings, Geiger counters and microwaves. The hotdogs gave every person a sniff before they were even allowed out of the parking lot. There are no detectable hidden mikes, nukes, bombs, firearms, or innerbody surprises here.
It’s still uneasy. Everyone’s here, right? One bomb and the balance of power would be thrown into a year-long battle in the streets of the city.
It’s going to be a long night but hopefully we’ll be able to figure out what to do with The Object that’s shown up in the bay.
It’s a big metal ball. It seems benign but it’s the size of ten city blocks, perfectly smooth on the surface, and no one noticed it arrive. A giant impact wave did not attack the city, it didn’t crash down from the sky or rise from the ocean. It was just there this morning.
All attempts to contact it have failed.
We have to unify until we establish it’s status as a threat.
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