the crush
The tunnel pulsed with pain, but so did Hadama ’s moonlight.
It radiated in a low, silvery mist, flooding the broken corridor with a cool, healing glow. Bruises faded, cuts sealed, and cracked bones found themselves whole again beneath the celestial balm. The breath it gave them was brief—but precious. A moment to regroup, to breathe in more than dust and fear.
Noah thrashed in his bonds, chest heaving beneath the weight of absence. But then—a spark. Not of magic, but of will. Gritting his teeth, the hunter shifted—not fully, not smoothly, but enough. Talons burst from his fingers in a half-shift, and with jerking, sawing motions, he began to tear at the web that held him. Slow. Clumsy. But it was working.
He wasn't free yet. But he was fighting.
Below, the ground trembled once more.
The Mirewyrm struck again—an unseen slam from somewhere deep beneath. Cracks spiderwebbed through the ceiling, stones jittered loose, and the scent of freshly broken voidrock spilled into the air. But this time, the tunnel held.Sah ’s magic surged into the earth like roots digging into stone, reinforcing the walls and ceiling in all directions. Where there was weakness, he filled it. Where the wyrm pressed, the hybrid pushed back harder.
And this time, the island didn’t win.
But then—the air fractured again.
With a flicker like light skipping off water, the Webvex reappeared—farther down the tunnel, its legs twitching with too many joints, eyes gleaming like dew in a spider's dream. Jack was ready. A blade of air magic split the tight air and hissed toward the void spider—but the creature shifted just aside, twitching its body unnaturally to let the attack pass harmlessly through.
In return, it fired.
A bolt of webbing lanced toward @Hadama—but it missed, slamming into the wall beside him with a splat that immediately hissed and melted into void-touched stone. The creature’s many eyes blinked as one—and then it was gone again, flickering out of sight with that stomach-turning ripple that marked its unnatural movement through dimensions.
Silence returned—but it was loaded. Heavy with things unseen.
The Mirewyrm waited below.
The Webvex circled above.
And Noah still wasn’t free.
Your randomly assigned posting order isHadama, Jack, Noah, then Sah. You have 24 hrs to reply.
Hadama HP: 639/800 **armour cooldown
Jack HP: 270/300 **armour cooldown
Noah HP: 507/580 **trapped in void webbing, 141HP/200HP
Sah HP: 593.5/610 **armour cooldown
Mirewyrm: 48/888
Webvex: 888/888
Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well.
REMEMBER: KQs are rewarding but dangerous. They may cause death and/or permanent changes to your characters.
Mirewyrm (Rare): The Mirewyrm is a colossal void entity, vaguely serpentine and dragonlike, that tunnels through stone as though the rock were liquid. Its body is plated in black, semi-metallic scales that shimmer with deep-space reflections, constantly shifting and rearranging like something unfinished. It has no eyes, and its mouth opens sideways in a jagged, spiral maw—a gateway rather than a mouth, lined not with teeth, but with coiling tendrils of voidlight and gravity.
Webvex (Rare): A massive, void-corrupted spider that stalks The Crush, the Webvex is an ethereal predator capable of phasing in and out of reality. Its translucent, oil-slick body pulses with alien constellations, and its many limbs jitter with unnatural, twitching grace. Where a face should be is a single, spiralling maw that consumes sound, memory, and reason. It spins crystalline void-webs that cling to magic, thought, and flesh alike.
It radiated in a low, silvery mist, flooding the broken corridor with a cool, healing glow. Bruises faded, cuts sealed, and cracked bones found themselves whole again beneath the celestial balm. The breath it gave them was brief—but precious. A moment to regroup, to breathe in more than dust and fear.
Noah thrashed in his bonds, chest heaving beneath the weight of absence. But then—a spark. Not of magic, but of will. Gritting his teeth, the hunter shifted—not fully, not smoothly, but enough. Talons burst from his fingers in a half-shift, and with jerking, sawing motions, he began to tear at the web that held him. Slow. Clumsy. But it was working.
He wasn't free yet. But he was fighting.
Below, the ground trembled once more.
The Mirewyrm struck again—an unseen slam from somewhere deep beneath. Cracks spiderwebbed through the ceiling, stones jittered loose, and the scent of freshly broken voidrock spilled into the air. But this time, the tunnel held.
And this time, the island didn’t win.
But then—the air fractured again.
With a flicker like light skipping off water, the Webvex reappeared—farther down the tunnel, its legs twitching with too many joints, eyes gleaming like dew in a spider's dream. Jack was ready. A blade of air magic split the tight air and hissed toward the void spider—but the creature shifted just aside, twitching its body unnaturally to let the attack pass harmlessly through.
In return, it fired.
A bolt of webbing lanced toward @Hadama—but it missed, slamming into the wall beside him with a splat that immediately hissed and melted into void-touched stone. The creature’s many eyes blinked as one—and then it was gone again, flickering out of sight with that stomach-turning ripple that marked its unnatural movement through dimensions.
Silence returned—but it was loaded. Heavy with things unseen.
The Mirewyrm waited below.
The Webvex circled above.
And Noah still wasn’t free.
Your randomly assigned posting order is
Hadama HP: 639/800 **armour cooldown
Jack HP: 270/300 **armour cooldown
Noah HP: 507/580 **trapped in void webbing, 141HP/200HP
Sah HP: 593.5/610 **armour cooldown
Mirewyrm: 48/888
Webvex: 888/888
Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well.
REMEMBER: KQs are rewarding but dangerous. They may cause death and/or permanent changes to your characters.
Mirewyrm (Rare): The Mirewyrm is a colossal void entity, vaguely serpentine and dragonlike, that tunnels through stone as though the rock were liquid. Its body is plated in black, semi-metallic scales that shimmer with deep-space reflections, constantly shifting and rearranging like something unfinished. It has no eyes, and its mouth opens sideways in a jagged, spiral maw—a gateway rather than a mouth, lined not with teeth, but with coiling tendrils of voidlight and gravity.
Webvex (Rare): A massive, void-corrupted spider that stalks The Crush, the Webvex is an ethereal predator capable of phasing in and out of reality. Its translucent, oil-slick body pulses with alien constellations, and its many limbs jitter with unnatural, twitching grace. Where a face should be is a single, spiralling maw that consumes sound, memory, and reason. It spins crystalline void-webs that cling to magic, thought, and flesh alike.
