MnM 3E - Gargoyles: Defenders of the Night (IC)

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2009

Victorious, the clan stood atop the police precinct watching the SWAT team deal handle Moriarty and his goons. Even from your perch you can see the bindngs that prevent them from using their powers... And also lets you all see when the would be archmage looks up and glares at you.

"Well, that's not creepy or anything." The Steel Clan robot that fought by your side says in Xanatos' voice.

"You would say something like that." Morgan said, your human friend added with a roll of the eyes.

You returned to your home, pleased with your victory over another would be conqueror. With false dawn cracking the darkness of night, you each take your perches, assuming a stance to pass the day, looking forward to the healing rest that only a day as stone can provide...

The first cracks of sunlight break the horizon, and the tensing of your skin as the process where it turns to stone takes hold...


2015

* Earth-Prime: June the 5th, 2015. Just another test run at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Nothing spectacular.
* Earth-4856: June, the 5th, 2015. A catastrophic engine failure rocks the Carrier, home base and interdimensional ship of the superhero team The Authority...
* Earth-3982: June the 5th, 2015: A superspeed-brawl between the Flash and his arch-nemesis Professor Zoom releases a tiny amount of strange particles...
* Earth-278: June, the 5th, 2015: To synthesize a new element, inventor Tony Stark builds and operates an improvised particle accelerator...
* Earth-9556: June, the 5th, 2015: Doctor Strange collapses a minor hell-dimension that Dormammu was using as a mustering place for an invasion...

A number of other, similar events happened in other universes, a conjunction that was statistically as close to impossible as it could get. But when you have infinite possibilities...

A massive quantum shift rocked Earth-Prime and all nearby dimensions, followed by a catastrophic disturbance in the substrates between the worlds.

Wounds opened in the fabric of the megaverse. And as they healed, the worlds, more than 100 of formerly-separate universes, merged, centered on Earth-Prime.

Suddenly, dozens of people in costumes appeared, followed by entire new landmasses and new cities...followed by new stars in the skies...and new physics. Accidents that should have killed people now gave them superpowers while those who had landed in this new world had to adjust to a world that knew them only as fiction.


2020


It's been three nights.

When you first Awakened it did not take long to realize that something was wrong. Your positions were not their norm - some of you were closer than your usual perches. The roof was completely wrong and the sounds and smells of the city were not the same. And then there were the gryphons... two massive creatures carved in exquisite detail. Mikaela had examined them immediately - and she determined they were somehow Gargoyle Beasts - alive but trapped in stone like others with you. Others that you recognized. But too few to be the whole clan...

The next thing you noticed was the empty spot - as if there had been another of your number perched... the ground was littered with broken stones, some still recognizable as a former statue... a smashed gargoyle. With a heavy heart you identified Christian, a smaller Gargoyle who had been filled with life... always quick to laugh, quick to joke...

That's when Glenn Morgan appeared on the rooftop. There was surprise and elation on his face when your old friend saw you, and then he saw Christian's remains and he was just as saddened as you all. He tried to explain as best he could... It had been 11 years since you last awakened... apparently Moriarty had laid a curse much like that had affected the original members of the Manhattan Clan... but one a curse that was broken much sooner than the original...

Morgan spent the better part of the first night explaining to you what had happened... Reality had crashed in on itself. Merged. Worlds of fiction and non-fiction became one amalgamated melting pot... Yes. Superman, Captain America, Buffy, a few Disney Princesses, Starfleet Officers (and or course enemies of all of them...) among so many others... You were stone of course when it all happened... Morgan spent the first few years acquiring you from collections and other locations and then keeping you together and then he acquired the church which had become your home while you slumbered. Every night he came up to the roof to check on you, hoping the curse would lift, never knowing the conditions to release it as Moriarty refused to divulge it...

A proper collection of Christian's remains had been seen to and a [url=https://gargoyles.fandom.com/wiki/Wind_Ceremony]Wind Ceremony[/b] was performed by Mikaela. The statue pieces were pulverized and scattered to the winds from the roof of La Sanctuaire....

On the second night and third, Mikaela ventured alone into the city while Morgan continued to answer your questions. But he had no answers as to what befell Christian - there were no cameras on the roof to protect you should you awaken... something that the mortal now regretted...

And now... at dusk of the fourth night, the sun is setting, your stone shells are cracking and you awaken once again to face this new world...
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The stone cracked and fell away, Cassielle's legs separated and she stood up from her kneeling mermaid pose. The world around her smelled different, which was ironic. She could not describe why it was different but the fact she could remember it being different was a slap in the face she received every sunset. The others are awake now. She knows she's supposed to know them. But she is still trying to internalize their names.
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Israfil stretched, the remnants of the Stone Sleep flaking off of him. He looks first thing to the parapet that Christian was last on. No one had since perched on it for day - maybe out of respect, maybe because the minstrel would glare at anyone who tried.

"Cassie." he greets the Mergoyle with a wave. "I'm still 'Izzy'." he says helpfully. He blows any stone dust from his Flute and gives a few expert notes to ring out into the dusk-lit sky while looking out over the new horizon.
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Evangeline

The young gargoyle stretched, the stone encasing her form shattering and falling away as dust in the wind. "Good evening everyone!" she said, popping around and hugging those who would accept it, trying to lighten the mood and also because she was relieved they weren't still stone!
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Dina

Dina brooded as the sun dipped down beneath the city skyline, a faint glimpse of light still left in the air, a memory of what had been.

He had become very talented at brooding. Lately, he had a lot of practice with it.

The pain felt good. It felt real. It was a reminder of all that had been lost. All that they continued to lose. His hand turned over, revealing the small fragment of stone within. He had kept it close the last few nights, the last thing that he felt before going into slumber, the first thing that he felt when he awoke again.

"How can you ever forgive me, my brother, my love." his voice barely a whisper.

The other hand reached into his belly pouch, pulling out a medication bottle stuffed with cotton. The cotton was removed, the fragment placed within, and all of that hidden once more.

Dina carefully put a smile back upon his face, hiding from the pain. "Good evening to you all." His deep voice rolled forth, more of a friendly growl than the chipper tones of his clan mates.
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"I know, Izzy," Cassielle says. "I just don't remember all the things you do." As Evangeline approaches, Cass sees her hug everyone and she decides not to rebuff her this time. "Good evening," she says as they embraced. It is extremely awkward as Eva probably wasn't sure Cass wanted a hug and Cass wasn't sure she should hug. But no one was hurt, thankfully. It may have lasted a bit longer than normal as well. Awkward.
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Stone Skin cracks to reveal the faint glow of lava within - a spider's web of the very Earth's fury made manifest as the shell starts sloughing off like a miniature avalanche.

In contrast, a cute growly yawn erupts from the beast as she stretches off the rest of the shell. In a parabolic mirror to magnify the adorableness, a much higher-pitched growly yawn erupts from nearby, twin to the first. Ariel gives a wide doggy grin and licks the stone dust from Min's face. Min giggles, a tinkling of happy in the night. The sound of it are as cymbals that play amidst the notes of the song that Israfiel graces them all with.

Both Min and Ariel happily accept Evangeline's offered hugs. The Gardog is warm to the touch but not hot. Ariel stands so as to shield the sight of the shattering place of the fellow they lost from Min, just as sure as she'd shield the girl from a bullet or spellblast. Min, for her part doesn't seem to notice only taking joy in the last light of the sun's rays, herself a reflected ball of sunshine. Min will try to stay in Evangeline's arms, the miniature Gargirl content to be carried.

"Good Evening, All." Min says brightly. "What are our plans this night?"
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Cavall sniffs around and then bounds over to Ariel, growling and barking playfully.

Morgan holds back a little - just as he has done since the night that you first awakened, to allow you your space.

"Good evening my friends. I don't think I'll ever tire of the sounds of you waking... Have you decided if you want to make this small section of the city your new protectorate?"

It was a question that had been brought up after Morgan finally convinced you that none of the heroes had found a way to undo the Merge and it looked as if it was permanent... there was no going home, little point to relocating to the site of the old clan. There were precious few of your allies and none of your enemies... So why not start fresh? Still, it was not an easy decision to make...

So many options lay before you... and yet this section of the city you could tell from your first flights through the neighborhood that they could use your help...

You had first awoken on Monday, so tonight was the first real night that the Nightclub below you would be open for the weekend... already the sounds of music and preparation drifted through windows...
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Evangeline

The gargoyle carefully attaches the cub to Ariel, knowing both will be more comfortable with Min where she is supposed to be and turns to Morgan. "We haven't really decided on anything. Everything is so new and different here." she sighed. "I want to though. It needs protecting."
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Izzy pauses in his flute playing. "Yeah, but I'm really interested in attending your club tonight. Music must've changed a LOT, not only with the years, but this Merge-thing as well." The aficionado could hardly wait.

"And you were saying that we won't really standout and cause panic?" he asks the club owner.
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Dina

Dina prowls deeper into the enclosure, but pauses a moment.

He turns and kneels before Ariel and Min, his head lowered, "Princess." a soft laugh, no longer as bright as it was, "And Princess." He reaches out, offering his hands to the two girls.

"I had intended to work on doing research tonight. Perhaps one of the local cameras saw something of the attack? Some hint as to who snuck in?"

But looking back, "I may look in later to the show. What kind of music did you say that it would be again?"
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Evangeline

She listened to the others, tail twitching nervously. "Perhaps some exploration would be in order? We know nothing of this new world we find ourselves in. Nor do we know who would make a good ally or who would not be." she shrugged. "The club would be as good a place to start as any." she tickled Min and petted Ariel fondly.

"We need a territory and a safe place for the young ones and we need to find a way to wake our brothers and sisters still locked in stone-sleep." she stretched her wings out before folding them neatly around her like a cloak. "We will not be a whole clan without them."
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[Are there others still in Stone Sleep?]
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Spectrum wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:46 pm Dina

Dina prowls deeper into the enclosure, but pauses a moment.

He turns and kneels before Ariel and Min, his head lowered, "Princess." a soft laugh, no longer as bright as it was, "And Princess." He reaches out, offering his hands to the two girls.

"I had intended to work on doing research tonight. Perhaps one of the local cameras saw something of the attack? Some hint as to who snuck in?"

But looking back, "I may look in later to the show. What kind of music did you say that it would be again?"

Min giggles incessantly from atop her royal mount but takes Dina's hand and kisses it like a courtly gentleman would do a proper lady. The gender role reversal just added to the merriment of the scene. Ariel leans in to lick the proffered hand from Dina and accepts the pets from Evangeline with stately grace and a 'harrumph' of pleasure. Min squirms at the tickles and swipes playfully with half-formed claws. At Evangeline's however Ariel will go over to the two Gryphons and paw at the Garbeasts. Though not officially part of the clan, and no one recognized them, it was troubling to see anyone trapped as they were. Min likewise runs tiny hands over the unyeilding flanks.

"We could go out patrolling too." She offers. "Maybe find a seer or mage to learn more about the.... cuwse." she says with a softening of the 'R' sounds.
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Evangaline (Evie)

"We can certainly lend aid to those who need it as we explore and set territorial markers." she smiled. "Evil takes many forms after all. I am sure it it as active in this new world we find ourselves in as in our old one."
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