It never quite made sense why her original creator would add tiny storage ducts behind her temple panels and connect them to her eyes for discharging featureless water in droplet form until now, Wanda thought, a pair of symmetrical bits of water trailing down her cheeks.
Red Crown leers through the forcefield, still chuckling. "Ohh, did you like that one? HA HO!" ... The forcefield flickers. The capsule begins to hum louder and louder, then rock from side to side. The stream of energy begins to fly out of the machine a bit too fast, causing Red Crown to panic momentarily. Then the tendrils of emerald green energy whip around... to Muscles' body! A voice booms out over the area, broadcast by some sort of machine that amplifies voices or something.
Dr. Quint: "Crown! The artifact is fluctuating! It's out of control! WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN THERE?!"
Ignoring the reprimand, the mostly healed Red Crown glares at the capsule with a bewildered "Hee Ho?" as the adjacent generator hums to life and bristles with emerald green energy, casting it off in arcing bolts to the original! The entire unit of six capsules lights up and a set of wires from the top of each ignites with wild sparking green energy, rushing along the connected bundle of wires as a single thick strand to the chambers above! With a calamitous roar of thunder and lightning an immense earth-shaking bolt of teal green energy rockets down the wires and surges into the generators, bathing the entire area in a vivid green glow! Crash! Bang! Boom! ROOOOOOOAR-SCREEEEECH! The capsules explode and the light begins to fade... a single black figure rises amongst the light, standing as tall as Red Crown. A few after-bolts of discharge ricochet down the bundle of wires as it comes loose and swings back and forth, discharging a few bolts at random where they disperse with smaller thunderous booms.
Red Crown: "... Hrmm? Hor ho?" He glares at the figure and holds his palms up, beckoning his lost scythe to appear suddenly in his hands. "What's this?"
With the final echoing boom of thunder the green haze fades away and an adult owlbear drops to all fours, steadily stalking towards Red Crown. A hulking, heavily muscled bear with a dignified squat owl's head and big, wide white eyes, his light gray fur topped with vibrant silver-white feathers, colored like a freshly minted coin. His thick limbs end in wide paws with little claws, the pads echoing along the floor as he advances on the menacing fey a few heads taller than he is.
"Ha He! Ha Ho! Bwa Har! Is this a threat?!" He raises his scythe before him mockingly, but in a stance ready to slash.
The owlbear lets out a low, gutterly growl, a territorial warning. "As if anything will change because you're fatter!" Stopping before Red Crown, the owlbear rises back, bringing it's front legs off the ground as it takes a steady step forward with one of the rear, moving with a bit of an ungainly waddle, but stomping down with intense force that immediately rights it's balance and distributes it's weight evenly. Red Crown begins to draw his scythe up to block and for a quick counter as the owlbear brings both front claws in with great upward swings to maul.
BOOOOOM! A wave of emerald green energy floods in a split-second behind the owlbear's motions, appearing to reinforce the impact as his paws connect with the scythe blade on the left and the bent wood on the right, the room shaking as both instantly crack and shatter, unable to deter the owlbear's fierce attack! The claws slam into Red Crown's chest directly, producing a small explosion of green power! The owlbear growls under it's breath, it's neck feathers and fur fraying wildly as the growl rises and rises until it opens it's beak in a triumphant screech! Time stands still for a moment as the full force of claw and muscle-bound arm play out across Red Crown's chest, his teeth gritting... before he loses his defensive focus entirely in a wave of overwhelming pain! He screams out in the esoteric fey tongue, the only intelligible line being an old sailor's curse: "HOOOBAEEEBAAAAAA!", or the rough fey equivalent of Holy Fucking Shit!
The explosion of energy loses all form and rockets out as a shockwave that cleaves a line halfway into the floor between the owlbear and Red Crown as time speeds up again and the full discharge of force sends Red Crown flying some hundred feet, flying through one of the unused capsule generators(and punching two holes clean through it for each side) before crashing into the forcefield generator, demolishing it cleanly in another thunderous explosion of green energy. The forcefield sphere shimmers once before disappearing and the way is cleared, a small walkway appearing to bridge the gap Red Crown leaped.
The owlbear looks to Red Crown for a moment, his mended wounds having opened again, his scalp once again bare and scalped... Red Crown is impaled upon the metallic debris of the forcefield controls and twitching as wires connected to it discharge plain old regular non-green electricity into him, the great Red Cap King now great at being dead. The owlbear... turns, and regards you all sternly, a proud and majestic creature, 8 feet tall when standing like this and looking strong enough to count as four Karvans rolled into one.
It rushes you all and throws it's huge arms out... and Muscle hugs everyone, hooting merrily. It seems he's big enough to hold more than one person at a time now! The center of the platform ahead seems to be separated from the rest of the floor that holds up the capsules... it looks like a very large mining lift that the rest of the architecture was built around. It has labeled levers and offers a path upwards.
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Topic: Spontaneous Fae Events (Week 3 Finale) (Read 8889 times)