Who Will Defend Us?

[ngm_villains]

Manhattan
Central Park
April
1:26 pm

The portal from Limbo opened easily and without triggering the wards that warned those mystically sensitive of what was happening in the city.  S'ym's erstwhile ally had seen to that.  Not that S'ym trusted him further than he could throw him, but he had been truthful enough in what he could provide. 

Other demons, made temporarily invisible, followed him out of the portal.

"You all know S'ym's plan," he said.  "Raise hell out there.  Make the humans panic.  The more chaos we sow, the weaker our ally makes the barrier between dimensions.  And when that happens, he says this world will belong to S'ym!  And what's good for S'ym is good for all of you!"

The demons began to cheer.

S'ym puffed on his cigar.  "But it's gonna take all of you doin' what we do best.  Killin' folks, corruptin' this world, just like we done before.  Only there ain't no X-Men here to stop us this time!  No little Darkchylde to ruin things!  This time... this world... will... be... OURS!"

The demons flew off, ready to raise hell. 

Comments

The Financial District

[ngm_villains]

The huge Wall Street bull suddenly came to life, tearing after cars and people.

Re: The Financial District

[hellkitten]

Liza had been enjoying a day in the city. She had made a stop specifically to get a hot dog at this amazing little stand right outside the Bowling Green station. She was enjoying her food, when she heard a commotion coming from the park.

Re: The Financial District

[ngm_villains]

The giant bronze bull snorted and charged, flipping over a car with its horns.

Re: The Financial District

[hellkitten]

Liza dropped her hot dog. She could see the demonic energy crackling around the bull, like sewer gas that had caught on fire. She reached into her bag and snapped on a bracelet that contained one of her mother's old Cat's Claw lines and ran at the possessed bull statue, scenes from a cheesy rodeo movie flashing through her mind.

Shopping District

[ngm_villains]

In the shopping district, department store mannequins were coming to life, terrorizing shoppers everywhere.

Re: Shopping District

[didnotwant]

Marion had been on her way through here. There is a nice store a bit off the beaten trail that has more Southern looking clothes that don't look trashy. She had just wanted some new boots since the ones she has had for years are starting to come apart.

She takes one look at the chaos and sighs.

"At least they ain't carrying silver." She goes to step in and put a stop to this.

Re: Shopping District

[catlikereflexes]

Apparently, you couldn't just go shopping in the city for a day anymore. Frankie had been enjoying the trip down from the institute into the city for the day when she'd noticed...evil mannequins.

Well, it was New York, after all. Still, couldn't have people being terrorized by evil mannequins.

Frankie leaped around people, getting civilians out of the way as she made her way towards the mannequins.

Re: Shopping District

[ngm_villains]

The mannequins marched like soldiers, occasionally picking up something to use as a weapon against people, and otherwise causing chaos up and down the street.

Broadway

[ngm_villains]

On Broadway, street signs, lamp posts, even fire hydrants were coming to life to attack people.

Re: Broadway

[sorceress_supreme]

Sofia had been returning from Julliard - where she'd just taken down a leanan sídhe imitating a professor, taking the lives of several students as a result. She'd decided to go up Broadway when... - Yup. This is happening.

It was chaotic. Water being sprayed everywhere, lamposts dropping their lightbulbs like bright little glass bombs, posts attached to the street signs bending and snapping as the signs tried to skewer innocent passers-by.

Oh, hey. Must be Wednesday.

Re: Broadway

[ngm_villains]

A fire hydrant covered a group of people, spraying jets of water like a fire hose, while a pair of mobile street signs reached out to grab them.

Re: Broadway

[sorceress_supreme]

Okay, that? That was no good. Especially when the fact of the matter was that Sofia was someone who tended to be severely depowered when she was outside of Limbo, and she couldn't pull on Limbo's energies to power her spells.

No matter, though. Pre-Sorceress Supreme, Sofia had done just fine as a warrior witch.

For the most part, at least.

Taking a deep breath, Sofia concentrated and channeled her willpower into a strobing orb of magical energy. Citrus orange and sickly green light pulsated in Sofia's hand before she loosed the magical bolt on the mobile street signs. Immediate danger first, blow drying spells later.

Midtown

[ngm_villains]

Under crowded midtown traffic, taxi cabs suddenly started coming to life, changing into monstrous forms... sometimes with their drivers still inside.

[vesper_verde]

Ever since the offices of Veridian Dynamics had once been under threat from dinosaurs and partially destroyed by dragons, Marcelo Alencar da Silva made sure his employees were well prepared for New York City superhero weirdness. When taxis started attacking people outside the offices, the office went onto threat level 2: everyone to stay in the offices and off the streets.

Which really didn't apply to him. He locked his office and disappeared into another room to ostensibly not work next to huge windows. He was actually putting on one of his experimental new Vesper suits. This was one way to test out his company's new technologies.

Making sure he had his newest voice modulator on under the suit and geared up. He used a back entrance to get to the roof and his ever portable wingpack right out of his briefcase to get above the streets.

Vesper dove at a rampaging taxi and then folded in his wings to flip himself so he'd land feet first on the taxi's hood. He grit his teeth and hoped these boots had better impact resistance than his pair at home.

[ngm_villains]

The taxi cab reared up and attempted to dislodge him by shaking, it's grill opening into fangs.

[vesper_verde]

Vesper almost swore; his teeth clacked together from that impact. He was slightly off balance on the landing, and he was completely off-balance when his landing surface reared up and shook. He fell back against the windshield and tried to grab onto something to hold on.

He wondered how sturdy those windshield wipers were after his hands closed around them.

Greenwich Village

[ngm_villains]

In the village, mail boxes, street lamps, street signs, even wrought iron fences started coming to life.

This being the Village, hardly anyone noticed.

Re: Greenwich Village

[fear_the_rider]

Tommy had taken the information given to him by Rose and decided to go looking for this "Strange" guy who might be able to tell him more about the Rider. He arrived in Greenwich Village and decided to start looking around, trying to figure out the best way to find this guy.

When the street lamps and things started coming to life, Tommy sighed deeply. He'd just gotten here. Why was this happening?

And why was no one reacting to it?

Re: Greenwich Village

[atlanteanhellion]

The Village was, by and large, a super awesome place to go hang out because it was the one place just weird enough that no one gave two bits about a girl with a trident (though Kassi was getting better about not hauling it everywhere.) But today...the weird was extra special.

"Oh this can't be good."

And no one was really reacting. Except that one guy watching it all with resigned irritation.

"I take it today is not dancing streetlight day here, huh?"

Time to read the trident.

Central Park

[ngm_villains]

The demon led Sophia to Central Park, where mystical barriers were currently keeping everyone else out.

Re: Central Park

[sorceress_supreme]

The magic there was strong. It pricked Sofia's skin and tugged at her insides the closer that they got to Central Park. The demonling kept on muttering in its own language, and for the most part, Sofia let it. Dogs barked, cats purred, demonlings muttered in failed defiance. It was a thing.

"So, what's S'ym planning? An ascension? An apocalypse? A quinceanera?"

Re: Central Park

[ngm_villains]

The demon shrugged. "I dunno! He doesn't share this kinda stuff. Just said he had some new ally..."

[ngm_villains]

Under the various assaults, the barrier shattered, like sparkling glass, vanishing as it fell.

S'ym was there, waiting for the heroes, with a handful of demon soldiers. "Well, well, well, look who decided to show up on S'ym's doorstep. S'ym would feel disappointed... if he didn't have company already. You heroes are too late. The spell's finished."

[ngm_villains]

In a pillar of flame, Dormammu appeared, towering over everyone else and wreathed in flames.

He looked upon the heroes and the city, and laughed.

[didnotwant]

Well goodness. This isn't good. The big werewolf makes a low growling sound intent on finding a way of actually attacking. She knows Dormammu is too tough to attack out right as she is fairly certain he could kick her butt from hear to Texas.