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.”