open rp: DEATHWORM in the halls!

[arrogantmage.livejournal.com]

Lezard and Steff had inadvertently grown a giant death worm.

All right, they hadn't grown it inadvertently. They'd done that intentionally. What they'd done inadvertently was to give it far too much growth catalyst potion, then allow it to escape Lezard's dorm-room-turned-laboratory.

Now there was a death worm slithering the corridors of Hogwarts, making its way up from the dungeons and roaming the halls at will. Mercifully, it had stopped growing at five feet in length. It was looking for food, to fuel further growth.



(( Wikipedia describes the death worm thusly: "it is reported to look like the intestine of a cow. It is the subject of a number of extraordinary claims by Mongolian locals -- such as the ability of the worm to spew forth sulfuric acid that, on contact, will turn anything it touches yellow and corroded (which would kill a human), and its purported ability to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge." Since you can't die at Hogwarts, this would make for nasty electric shocks or what have you, but wouldn't be fatal. Feel free to NPC the death worm. Attack it, flee from it, get shocked by it -- whatever you like! In the end, if nothing else avails, we're told the shoggies will eat it.

ETA: apparently the electric discharge is, er, rectally emitted ...

ETA again: let's say that if you manage to chop the worm in half, you'll end up with two smaller worms. That way some folks can actually defeat a worm without ending the RP for subsequent threads. :) ))

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[ninja-lizzy.livejournal.com]

It had been a while since Elizabeth Bennet had needed to kill any disgusting creatures. She was feeling the loss rather keenly, at least until she actually ran into the Deathworm.

Even a fierce zombie fighter had her weaknesses, and Miss Bennet's was apparently creepy crawlies.

With a blood-curdling scream, she whipped out a katana she'd finally acquired from a house elf and flailed around with it, trying to sever the creature's head.

She was unsuccessful, and in the process was hit with the electric shock from the worm.

Her scream became one of pain, abruptly cut off as she fell to the floor in a dead faint.

[igorofmalaria.livejournal.com]

Igor stared at the thing for a few moments, before racing back to the Hospital Wing to prepare himself with a welding mask, some rubber gloves and a homemade cattle prod. Hopefully whoever had created the thing hadn't copywrited it already.

"I need a sample of that" he muttered, approaching slowly.
There was a woman lying on the ground. He'd help her, he really would, but first, the worm. A quick jab with the prod- and yeah. Good thing he was insulated, but the charge burned a lot that wasn't protected, knocked him back a few feet, where he hit his head, temporarily making him unconscious.

[centauri-londo.livejournal.com]

Londo was not what you'd call the bravest of Centauri, despite his fearsome reputation as a duelist in his younger days. The scream of a young woman was enough to get his attention and send him running around the corner into trouble rather than in the other direction.

"Great Maker!" he swore at the sight of the strange creature and grabbed for the weapon that had fallen beside Lizzy.

Dueling in the court was wildly different from fighting off a large worm, but Londo stood his ground and managed to deal a glancing blow to it's hide. Not enough to seriously damage it, but enough to make it reconsider eating Lizzy and change it's course.

The Centauri knelt beside the woman and patted her cheek, "Wake up my dear, we should get moving before that thing reconsiders."

[ninja-lizzy.livejournal.com]

Lizzy's eyes fluttered open and she tried to sit up, eventually managing to do so. "What happened?" she asked. When she caught sight of the worm, though, she scrambled back away from it. "Oh dear!" she cried. "That thing is still here?" Her voice had reached an octave it did not normally achieve.

[centauri-londo.livejournal.com]

Londo hooked her arm, "Yes, it's still here, but I think I've convinced it you're not edible." His eyes kept flicking back to the worm as if he wasn't entirely sure about that.

"Come on, my dear. I think it's time we find a safer place, far from that.. thing."

[ninja-lizzy.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth got shakily to her feet. She eyed the worm creature somewhat balefully, but was in no hurry to touch it again. Besides, she still felt a little dizzy and queasy, and she thought perhaps she ought to lie down until she quite recovered herself.

"Thank you," she said, offering the Centauri a grateful smile. "It was good of you to come to my assistance. You weren't hurt, were you?"

[centauri-londo.livejournal.com]

Londo shook his head, still keeping his attention on the worm. "Fortunately, no. It seems to have decided that we are a bit too troublesome to become a snack for.. whatever that is."

He offered the sword back to her, "I found this beside you, is it yours?"

[ninja-lizzy.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth glanced at the sword, then away. "Yes," she said faintly. "But I really don't trust myself with it. I'll have the house elves bring it around." This would end up not working out so well, since the mun finds the idea of Pickles and Nathan poking at the deathworm with said katana far too amusing. "I'm sure it will be fine," she added.

[centauri-londo.livejournal.com]

He could have carried the sword for her, but Londo wasn’t inclined to argue, and the mun wants to see what Nathan and Pickles will do with a sword. “Come, my dear. Let’s get as far from this creature as we can. If the elves can recover your sword later, so much the better.”

[omg-sunflora.livejournal.com]

Let the record show that all worm-like Pokemon were typically classified as Bug-type.

Sunflora is weak to bug type Pokemon.

Hence her reaction.

"EEEEEEEEEK GIANT BUG!"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Mikami heard the scream from a nearby corridor, and started running before he could process the words. He'd realise later that his first thought had been Karasu, and that he'd still run toward the screaming. This was a good thing to know about himself. Right now, though, what he saw as he turned the corner was a giant - worm-thing, and a panicking Sunflora.

He raised his wand. "Stupefy!"

The spell hit, but the only effect it seemed to have on the worm was to annoy it. Its tail thrashed, firing a bolt of lightning at Mikami, who was struck in the chest and crashed backward into a wall. He struggled to get upright again, but for a moment he couldn't. Breathing was hard enough.

[omg-sunflora.livejournal.com]

"Oh my gosh! You meanie!" Sunflora turned around and let loose a Hyper Beam.

This caused the worm to fire a lightning bolt at her.

As a Grass Pokemon, Sunflora wasn't affected much by the lightning. Still hurt though.

"Owwww."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Mikami managed to stand, still gasping for air. The shocks couldn't kill him, of course he knew that, but it had hurt everywhere, and he knew in the back of his mind that it would be worse when the adrenaline wore off. And something had hit the floor beside him with a crunch. He suspected it was his glasses, which he hadn't been wearing.

And somehow, in spite of the pain, he felt - right. Righteous. More sure of himself than he had in a very long time.

"Sunflora...!" he called. "Stand back." He lifted his wand again, unaware of the smile that twisted his mouth. Slaying a dragon. Isn't this what I was meant for...?

"Sectumsempra!"

There was a flash of light, and the two halves of the worm fell to the floor. Mikami lowered the wand, eyes shining. "Delete," he murmured, under his breath.

[omg-sunflora.livejournal.com]

Sunflora peered a bit closer to poke at it...but jumped when the two halves started twitching then moving in earnest.

"EEEEEEKKKKKKKK!"

Unfortunately, since she used Hyper Beam, she couldn't attack yet.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

The manic smile faded abruptly. Mikami jumped backward, with a rather undignified "gyaah!", a spray of acid just missing him. He fired another Stunning spell at the closest worm, which didn't work much better than it had last time.

[omg-sunflora.livejournal.com]

Oh crap, that looked like Poison!

"Uh, uh uh..." In a panic, Sunflora played her Grasswhistle, hoping this wasn't one of the times it failed to work.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Mikami didn't know what she was doing, but he got the idea when one of the - halves - began swaying more slowly, then slumped to the ground again, asleep. This left the other one awake, though, and not in any better of a mood.

"Incarcerous!" he tried, aiming for the one still awake. Ropes appeared from the floor, pinning it down, but it was still thrashing and spraying acid. They probably wouldn't last long.

[omg-sunflora.livejournal.com]

"I'll try it again!" She used Grasswhistle again on the other one. "Ooh! Or Stupefy! Use Stupefy!"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"Stupefy isn't working!" Mikami pointed out, but since he could aim for the head more easily now the thing wasn't moving as much, he did try again.

[drunkexguardian.livejournal.com]

"Oh, what the fuck."

Lee had wandered out of Ravenclaw, wondering why the hell her nice, quiet drinking binge had been interrupted by a commotion. She had to admit, a giant fucking annelid was the last thing she expected.

"All right," she said, rolling up the sleeves of her voluminous crimson cloak and planting her feet as firmly as she could considering that she couldn't touch the ground, "You need to get your toothy ass out of here." She concentrated, building up a charge that crackled the air around her. Her eyes were blue-white now, and sparked with the energy that focused there. She released it in a burst towards the worm, steeling herself for the inevitable splatter of worm.

It didn't come. The lightning danced over the worm's skin and segments as it turned towards Lee, whipping itself around and zapping at her. Lee dodged, and the blast burned the stones behind her. She glared at it, eyes still alight with unearthly energy. "...did you just shit lightning at me?!"

Bitch, it is on.

[raistlin-red.livejournal.com]

The red-robed wizard left the sorting room after promising that he would come to visit the Shoggies in their new home as soon as he was able. He was still wearing a rather uncharacteristic smile when he rounded the corner and was confronted by the worm. He calmly reached into his belt and pulled out a handful of sand. His hourglass shaped eyes became intense as he concentrated on a spell.

Speaking in the strange language of magic, he allowed the sand to sift through his fingers, his other hand moving in a sweeping arc in the area of the worm.

The worm paused, wavering for a moment, before it continued on it's path in his direction.

"Magic resistant," he snarled. With any luck he'd be able to pull off another spell before it got too close.

[dood-cinnabon.livejournal.com]

Pickles stumbled into the Great Hall holding a bottle in one hand and a moldy sandwich in the other. He dropped the sandwich on the threshold and mumbled as he stepped into the room. He was in dire need of a more suitable lunch.

Then he spotted the death worm.

His eyes went wide and he almost dropped his bottle. The giant worm smashed its back end on the ground and a blast of lightening shot out of what should have been its asshole. It caught some poor, fleeing house elf in its shock and fried it to a crisp. Pickles gaped.

"NAAT'AAN!" He shouted, turning on his heels and running out of the Great Hall. "DOOD, HOLY SHIT, DOOD! YOU HAVE GAHT T'SEE THIS!" He bellowed as he ran down the hall. This was one of the most fucking metal things ever! Nathan had to see it!

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

Nathan wasn't convinced anything at Hogwarts could possibly be worth getting pulled away from his 100 beers for, and he was pretty sure Pickles was having some kind of drug induced hallucination... until he actually saw the worm thing, still wreaking havoc on the house-elves by shitting lightning and puking acid.

"Oh, that's brutal," he said, sounding awestruck, and apparently unconcerned about the likelihood of them being attacked next. "Hey... You should poke it," he suggested to Pickles, pointing at what looked to be a katana on the ground nearby. "Seriously, it'd be funny. You should totally poke it."

[dood-cinnabon.livejournal.com]

"Dood no way," Pickles replied immediately, taking a step back from the katana. "I'm not like...anywhere near drunk enough." As brutal as it was, he would rather avoid close contact with acid vomit. While sober. Ish. However, it would be awesome to see what it does when you poke it. So...

"You poke it. I bet it, I dunno...bet it'll vomit again or somethin'. Maybe it shits acid. Or like...blood. Dood, I wonder what color that is. Giant worm...acid blood shit." Pickles kinda wanted to see its guts. He guzzled his drink and watched as the worm crushed a house elf. It also lit its hair on fire with lightning farts. Brutal.

"Dood. C'mon. Do it." One of them had to stab it and it wasn't going to be him.

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

"God, fine, if you're gonna be a pussy about it." Nathan bent to retrieve the katana, then carefully edged closer to the rampaging death worm, which was now moving a bit slower due to constant distractions and indecision as to what target to go after next.

The first experimental prodding with the sword resulted in more acid puke, which Nathan punted a house-elf into before it could reach him, snickering all the while. "Did you see that shit? That's awesome."

The second attempt was less of a prodding and more of an outright stabbing, and it predictably made the death worm go completely apeshit, sending its flatulence lightning every which way indiscriminately as it writhed and bled.

And as Nathan quickly found out, it actually wasn't unlike being tasered.