an anteater named antonio

ThE nArRaToR · January 04, 2019, 02:21 PM

This thread takes place on DECEMBER 31, 2018. Sorry it took so long; I’ve had pneumonia. If a pack manager wants to, for threadlog purposes, feel free to edit my post before archiving to set the correct date. According to my calculator, Rusalka will receive a positive event of 2/6 severity, and a random predator. Control of all the things belongs to the pack managers, so feel free to ignore this if you don’t wanna participate. ^^

The tempest utters a litany of banshee screams, flinging wings of water against the cliffs and churning up the shoreline. It is a tantrum like no other, and her stormhounds peel back their lips and worry at the terrain, snapping up tree and bracken, moss and lichen. Icefang-ridden gusts are hurled at each small, forlorn figure that trespasses the coast, and with her serpentine hands she charms the sea into frothing tendrils of snaking currents. Her howling rises to a screaming roar as she reaches the apex of her fury, hurling bolts of lightning and gripping the stone with roiling snarls of thunder. It is only midday, but she blackens the sky with a clotted bruise of vantablack, blotting out the sun so that the only light is hers.

She tries to yank the Blackpine trees up by their roots but does not stop to measure her success or failure. Despite herself, she fills anew the stores of Rusalka with fish and treasure from the sea, unintentionally aiding the very pests she hopes to eradicate — but this time, her generosity is even greater: a Stellar sea lion of impressive size, weighing in at approximately fifteen hundred pounds (or six hundred eighty kilograms), is washed ashore, dead as a doornail and relatively fresh. The rents in his hide tell a story that the narrator is too lazy to construct (because she has a few more of these posts to write) but you can make it up whichever way you like.

In the cleft of space where the Sound meets Drageda’s cliffs, the winterstorm’s tantrum has flushed a cougar from its sleeping place. It descends like a shadow into the territory, but whether or not it will make contact with the Rusalka wolves is yet unknown.

posted by coelacanth.