A wide airship ('The Arena') hovers low over the beach, carnival in view. crowds linger at the docking stairs, made for public use.
Lilith - In it's internal arena, "We've got beeeef !"
(Bring the Noise' (live) by PE and Anthrax, at music start)
Flames
shoot from the stacks while the band starts to play. The crowd cheers
while two contenders stare each other down. Beef (from Gaslight) sits in the audience
watching with a laugh and his crew, eating popcorn.
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At the beach side bonfires below, the cloaked crews gather, music in the distance with the hovering ship, marketplace carnival further off the other way.
Doe and Nocturne stare into the fire, holding close, each in their own mind staring. Tendrils grow from the logs at the edge into the dirt, a figure like a tree burning grows from the center.
Lucretia - From the fire, "They're asleep. The docks."
The wooden figure stops moving and cracks from the heat, limbs burning off, they look at each other, put foreheads together and share a smoke.
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The slaver's ship approaches the docks turning it's guns to the skyline.
Docked and unloading the cannons take out the nearest buildings and wait in silence, the guards looking around for the cloaks in settling dust.
Behind each guard, a cloak reaches from the water and pulls their ankles, flopping them down hard. They drag them into the water, the loud engine echoing through the alleys.
Those who dive from deck don't come up as the ship's dragged down by the Nautilus.
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The trucks and support travel cautiously looking for their hunters. The lead trucker scans rooftops a moment, then glances back down seeing Nocturne in the headlights and slams on the brakes.
Dark.
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At the beach side bonfires below, the cloaked crews gather, music in the distance with the hovering ship, marketplace carnival further off the other way.
Doe and Nocturne stare into the fire, holding close, each in their own mind staring. Tendrils grow from the logs at the edge into the dirt, a figure like a tree burning grows from the center.
Lucretia - From the fire, "They're asleep. The docks."
The wooden figure stops moving and cracks from the heat, limbs burning off, they look at each other, put foreheads together and share a smoke.
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The slaver's ship approaches the docks turning it's guns to the skyline.
Docked and unloading the cannons take out the nearest buildings and wait in silence, the guards looking around for the cloaks in settling dust.
('Snoop Bounce' by Snoop and Rage)
The
engine roars, they turn.
Harpoons strike the ship's underside, the decks begin to flood.
Harpoons strike the ship's underside, the decks begin to flood.
Behind each guard, a cloak reaches from the water and pulls their ankles, flopping them down hard. They drag them into the water, the loud engine echoing through the alleys.
Those who dive from deck don't come up as the ship's dragged down by the Nautilus.
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The trucks and support travel cautiously looking for their hunters. The lead trucker scans rooftops a moment, then glances back down seeing Nocturne in the headlights and slams on the brakes.
Dark.
('That New Funkadelic' by Ice Cube)
In
the morning the receptionist drives, flashes of nightmare, drowning and
dark cloaks taunting, all around a mist passes, curling around the
forms of profane beasts, airships nearly seen attaching them in flashes.
In a flash between the wire-form, his head, back and much of his face is covered, expression desperate.
The worlds blend in a thick twirling smoke following him as demons watch from high. The sounds of Sanctuary battle cries and roaring demons fade away.
A gate opens in the road, the nose of the Nautilus appearing, responded to by the beasts while on the ground the vehicles come. Many re-purposed from the stolen caravans, followed and swarmed by Amazon bikers, all cloaked and masked.
Doe and other drivers of their own weave among them, doing as they do. Nocturne ejects while above a team of angels, their armor personalized and battle torn, fans out for the rooftop watchers.
As the world changes those uninvolved fade away as though non existent, those involved shown with their demon's wrapped around them. Soon after the demon stands alone.
The receptionist jerks the wheel suddenly as his beast panics at the sudden charge, all on ground and in the air target the fields of beasts in the streets, the war begins.
He skids the car as the beast leaps from him to charge, him and all else fading away.
As the scenes of battle show and spread through the city, the music fades to the next song in silence otherwise, black and white grain.
In a flash between the wire-form, his head, back and much of his face is covered, expression desperate.
The worlds blend in a thick twirling smoke following him as demons watch from high. The sounds of Sanctuary battle cries and roaring demons fade away.
A gate opens in the road, the nose of the Nautilus appearing, responded to by the beasts while on the ground the vehicles come. Many re-purposed from the stolen caravans, followed and swarmed by Amazon bikers, all cloaked and masked.
Doe and other drivers of their own weave among them, doing as they do. Nocturne ejects while above a team of angels, their armor personalized and battle torn, fans out for the rooftop watchers.
As the world changes those uninvolved fade away as though non existent, those involved shown with their demon's wrapped around them. Soon after the demon stands alone.
The receptionist jerks the wheel suddenly as his beast panics at the sudden charge, all on ground and in the air target the fields of beasts in the streets, the war begins.
He skids the car as the beast leaps from him to charge, him and all else fading away.
As the scenes of battle show and spread through the city, the music fades to the next song in silence otherwise, black and white grain.
('Gimme a Pigfoot' by Bessie Smith)
The
cloaks pound through the beasts, clearing their paths, their prey
unprepared for the new environment and weaponry, they begin to retreat
pursued.
The credits start to roll.
~ The Baron Dances with Erzulie in her club, Legba walks into his house in the swamp, song on the stage.
Most are caught before departing and taken down, their killer absorbing them and roaring to the next.
~ The unseen man pushes the boat with the pole through the swamps.
The view moves over the broad city and into darkness, credits continuing.
The credits start to roll.
~ The Baron Dances with Erzulie in her club, Legba walks into his house in the swamp, song on the stage.
Most are caught before departing and taken down, their killer absorbing them and roaring to the next.
~ The unseen man pushes the boat with the pole through the swamps.
The view moves over the broad city and into darkness, credits continuing.
~ after credit ~
Mikal in Lucretia's tree.
Lucretia - "Does he know ?"
Mikal - "You mean why he can't seem to get a name to stick ? He does now."
Lucretia - "You told him."
Mikal - "I did. And I think there's a reason he's never been past that gate."
Nyx - In darkness, "So what makes a man a Gargarean ?" A laugh, the song ends, "Hmmm ... how about a guy who shows up for a change."
Sternum crack.
Nyx - "The end."
Lucretia - "Does he know ?"
Mikal - "You mean why he can't seem to get a name to stick ? He does now."
Lucretia - "You told him."
Mikal - "I did. And I think there's a reason he's never been past that gate."
('Harder Than You Think' by PE at 2:35)
Doe drives brooding through the night, fade with the end of the song.
Nyx - In darkness, "So what makes a man a Gargarean ?" A laugh, the song ends, "Hmmm ... how about a guy who shows up for a change."
Sternum crack.
Nyx - "The end."