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dr. stephen strange ([personal profile] rehandle) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2023-02-06 03:55 pm

un: strange / video

( Forward-dated to the 7th / during the Clawing. )



[ The image opens to a view of Alem from above and at great distance. It's an awkward angle, somewhere to the side of the great stone Citadel where a couple of the smaller merchant entrances open into the Crossing. The view dips and sways, wind howling across the network as the pendant that captures it sits against its wearer's chest, floating high in chill air.

Only this for a few seconds - and then the slow zoom of an approach until Alem is much larger and the small figures of people and their wares can be seen disappearing in through one of the more secluded merchant's gates, more figures closing them up behind. Another eerie stretch of nothing but the buffeting of wind and an unaware fortress, then hands raise into the forefront of the image. Precise white scars trail the backs of all the fingers and that's the last detail there is before everything happens too fast for detail.

Those hands move through two swift patterns and a pair of vibrant orange mandala burst into life. They crash together, spark, and huge angry bolts of raw magic leap from them, hot and bright as fire and travelling in violent arcs toward an unwitting target.

They strike the gate. An explosion.

From this distance, the sounds of screams and cries for action are difficult to separate from the screeching of the wind. The broadcast cuts dead. ]




( ooc: somebody got Clawed!! He's attacked one of the rear merchant's entrances of the Crossing, so there's no pressure for anyone who is frequenting the Crossing in general to have been caught up in the blast, but if you'd like for your characters to have been there to witness first hand when the spell struck/to have been hurt in the blast that is also A-OK! No obligation to tag into this post, but if you do have your character hurt please let me know here so I can keep track.

The majority of Stephen's replies will most likely come a few hours after the attack once he's fully released from the Claw, but if anybody would specifically like to reach him while he's still Clawed, hit me up oocly (the comment linked above works, or plurk/disco!) and we can do the thing. Otherwise, feel free to also use this post as a place for characters to talk amongst themselves! )
traumatology: (177)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-10 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You doing this alone?
traumatology: (bucky-104-00053)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-10 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't have to be the plan.
westviews: (DWELL)

[personal profile] westviews 2023-02-10 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She should hear from you.

Anything else?


[Definitely not eavesdropping on other conversations, here.]
traumatology: (bucky-tfatws-00038)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-10 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You think I haven't pissed off things before?
vdovy: (HAWKEYE 127)

[personal profile] vdovy 2023-02-10 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yelena is a realist. She knows that taking this guy out is beyond even her abilities. She isn't here for that, she is here to make a direct appeal to the man locked inside. If she can help him wrest back control from Rathakku, the risk will be worth it. ]

Okay, I am going to ask you something. Please consider it seriously.

Are you in control? [ She has no game plan except to get him to look within himself. To recognize the dissonance between who he is and what he is doing. To scratch at that itch until he can somehow claw his way back. ]
westviews: (OFF)

[personal profile] westviews 2023-02-10 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He's more foolish than I've been led to believe if he keeps you from the fighting.

He'll let you go.


[Subtext: she'll get involved, otherwise.]

It's a bad time to repent.
traumatology: (bucky-tfatws-00011)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-10 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've ever been there anyway.
traumatology: (048)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-11 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't want you to make some eternal sacrifice that doesn't need to be made.
traumatology: (155)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-11 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
One of your better qualities.
westviews: (VIEW)

[personal profile] westviews 2023-02-11 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be waiting.

[There's not going to be any benching of one of their top players, if she has any say in the matter. And, generally, she does have say whether other parties involved like it or not.]
cosplayqueen: (girls die to trust)

[personal profile] cosplayqueen 2023-02-11 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
He is one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. He uses magic to protect us from a bunch of threats we don't really ever find out about and aliens who invade our planet sometimes and try to murder us. Or I guess half of us is more accurate.

[Kamala exhales audibly. That's a long and sad story she rather not get into.] One of our heroes called him "Sorcerer Supreme" which I guess means he's the most powerful magic user we have.
cosplayqueen: (or something ignites in my veins)

[personal profile] cosplayqueen 2023-02-11 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not running to pick a fight with an Avenger. [She sounds resigned to that. Kamala knows she isn't ready for that so unless it's happening in front of her? She needs to stay out of the way. It doesn't make it any easier to accept.]

I don't want you to fight alone if it things get bad. You have people who will go with you, right? I mean aside from your brother. Brothers never let sisters fight alone.

[Even Aamir, a man of peace, came to her aid when it counted most.]
traumatology: (bucky-104-00044)

[personal profile] traumatology 2023-02-11 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep.

( until then. )
downswing: (theodora)

[personal profile] downswing 2023-02-11 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
This... is a hero.



( Perhaps a word misused in other worlds. )

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