3592/The Bearer of the Ring

The Bearer of the Ring
Date of Scene:	08 January 2018
Location:	Apartments - Southside, Metropolis
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Green Lantern (Cruz), Slipstream, Kaelyn Silverleaf, Danger Girl

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Green Lantern (Cruz) has posed:
Jessica Cruz was in her 'fortress of solitude', glaring at the ring with the twisted 'x' pattern on it. "Feed me... bring me some fear!" it chants softly over and over again. "Alright, fine..." she mutters. "If it will shut you up, you twisted thing." Insane giggling comes from the jewelry as it cloaks her body in a sickly-green outfit and puts its emblem around her right eye. She clicks on the news and there's a breaking story about an apartment building on fire. "There. Plenty of scared people about to be burnt to death," she mutters sarcastically.

The twisted ring just giggles again as she emerges from her house and flies towards it at high speed, floating there, staring at the flames. "Let the harvesting commence! Get to work, stupid cow!" the ring chants. Jessica had other plans - she wasn't coming to be a grim reaper but tricked the ring into thinking she was. Her plans are far more heroic as construts started forming around her - spiky tentacles and various other things, looking like a growing eldritch terror, formed out of sickly green light. "Let's go," she murmurs, shivering, the flames rather ferocious as she slowly approaches from the air.

Slipstream has posed:
Having played in a tournament in Metropolis, Drake is currently across the street, watching the fire as he sips on a bright orange smoothie. He and his team is staying at a hotel a few blocks down and went out for food. As they watch the apartment, he glances down at the news alerts that come through on his phone. He is still in his team uniform, a bright blue and silver with the word DYNAMITE on the back and the number 25. Static is written across his chest with the letters NY behind it in bold gold font.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Soo she was in Metropolis, and picking up stuff that really is a bit beyond a broom and a 'bottomless' backpack. So Kaes out, driving slowly in her pickup, this being a Hennesi Raptor F150.. Basically a behemoth of a super-powered picup truck. The vehicle can be seen rumbling down the street before she slams on the breaks, seeing the apartment fire.. The giant 4x4 skids to a stop swirving slightly to the left before Kae stares "Jeeze.." She mutters and looks around, not seeing any emergency vehicles yet. Kae guns the engine and yes, she runs it up on a nearby yard, the truck's massive tires barking a bit as the 4x4 pulls off the road and comes to a bouncing, jarring stop near a tree...

Kae bails out of the vehicle, locking the truck as she makes her way -toward- the fire... First and foremost, prevent the fire from spreadding... She draws out a rod, aka a wand, motioning to the nearest edge of the fire as she begins muttering an incantation as a ward that will allow people to travel through it, but not fire begins forming to trap and keep the fire from spreading in this direction....

Danger Girl has posed:
Abbey Chase was between expeditions. While working on the various journal submissions she planned to write up based on her last, she'd hit the mental break barrier and decided to get out for a while. So off to Metropolis she went.

After a pleasant lunch and some window browsing she decided to take a walk before heading home. As fortune would have it, she found herself on the same street as the apartment fire. A blink of surprise and she started walking more quickly toward the site. The fire department didn't seem to quite be there yet. maybe someone needed help?

Green Lantern (Cruz) has posed:
Jessica Cruz doesn't hear any sirens - the fire department must be slow on the uptake. She moves towards one of the windows on the upper floors, the eldritch constructs expanding and multiplying, until tentacles grab a windowframe and rip it out, smoke gushing out as she floats in, the sickly green glow visible from that window... as the first firetruck siren starts to approach. She looks at the woman clutching a baby to her chest. "Mmmmmmmm.... yes.... the fear is delicious!" She smacks her hand to quiet her ring as she picks the woman up in a fireman's carry to lift her and carry her down to the ground.

Said woman started coughing and whining about her other child still in there as the 'eldritch entity' returns to the apartment building. "Wait... what ARE you doing? You came to be a hero?" taunts the ring as she returns. "Well... yes. You fell for it - there's plenty of fear around here. I just didn't plan on watching these people die. The ring grumbles as she finds the six-year-old hiding in a closet. "Come on out..." she cooos.

Slipstream has posed:
Spying the flying super hero heading to the apartments, Drake takes out his phone and mounts it on his shoulder holster to record. "Hey chat." He says to the thousands of viewers that ping in to watch him. "Check it out, I think it's one of those Lantern heroes that Zapp is always talking about. That's pretty cool." He says, then takes another sip off his smoothie for a few tugs, followed by a lick of his lips. He tilts his head out to the faint sounds of sirens in the distance, then back to the apartments as he tilts his head. "Huh. I hope the people inside will be okay.." He trails off, then glances down at the chat room he holds in his hands via a small external display. "Go in there and save people? Yo, I hang out with the Legion, I'm not /one/ of the Legion." He laughs softly. "What can I possibly do?" His eyes do glance back and forth at times, watching curiously. ".. I'm sure everything will be fine."

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae continues her chant, her voice a carrying whisper that seems to reach many times further than it actually should, as those wards begin forming in places, and spreading to connect one with the other. Another set of wards now begin forming on the other side of the apartments, opposite the first one and spreading rapidly as water might spread on a pain of glass. A third, and then a 4th wall begins forming, these spreading upward, and meeting at a sharp corner to quickly, and effectively enclose the raging fire... "Cmon.." Kae mutters as she holds her hands aloft, the chanting finished, but needing the wards to connect and make sure the fire cant go any further...

As she looks around, Kae notices others and calls to Drake then, Abbey, if they're within shouting range "Don't stand there, C'mere, I've got a few warding rings I can hand you, will protect you from the fire long enough to grab people and evacuate em!"

Danger Girl has posed:
Abbey Chase starts to run as the fire begins to seemingly spread, more smoke billowing from the multi story building. Frowning, she is quickly in full sprint to close the remaining distance. She skids to a stop, looking to Kaelyn ass he is shouted to. "Warding ring?" She walks over quickly. "Uh.. okay? I've seen crazier things. Guess it can't make this any more crazy than what I'm already panning to do, right?" Taking the ring, the blonde turns and darts into the alley between the apartment and the next building try and find a fire escape stairway. Succeeding, she looks around, finding a dumpster just close enough to scramble atop to then turn and leap at the lowest rung of the still stowed ladder.

"Good thing I'm used to making jumps like this just by the tips of my fingers..." she thinks in a moment of amusement just as her fingers do succeed in grabbing the ladder. Calming her swaying body, Abbey begins to clamber up, pounding on windows as she works to toward the top floor, "Fire! Get out! Fire!" she shouts. Hopefully she can help and not become a hinderance herself!

Green Lantern (Cruz) has posed:
Jessica Cruz finally retrieves the little boy and drops him to the ground, still cloaked in an eldritch abominations' worth of sickly green construct that seem to writhe with a life of its own. Without a word Jessica goes back to the apartment building and... looks arond. Seeing a glowing structure starting to form around the builidng. A girl using the fire escape ladder. Antoher doing some kind of sorcery. Someone texting across the street. She returns inside the window she tore out and starts pounding on other doors, yelling "Fire! I can help you out!" All the while, her ring starts a soft maniacial laughter which is inreasing in volume - it sounds extremely pleased with itself. "Ah... this will be fun..." the ring croons as she hears a thumping in another apartment and breaks hte door down, getting a large gout of smoke in her face which makse her cough. That sickly green glow might be visible from the street as she tries to go in to see who's in there - but it's so hard to breathe -the smoke is so thick...

Slipstream has posed:
"Oh. Hey Kaelyn. I didn't know you were in town." Drake says as he puts the smoothie to the side, then slips his chat box into his back pocket after tapping it off. Still filming on his shoulder, he steps forward and reaches out to take the ring, sliding it over his hand. He nervously looks to the building, then takes in a deep breath. He pushes through the front door after sliding a pair of goggles down over his eyes that he tugs from his backpack, ensuring they are sealed against his face. He can feel the heat rising from within the building as he starts to move along the first floor, then up to the second as he bangs on a few doors, yelling about the fire. He starts up the next floor, the one that Jessica is currently occupying as he uses his phone as a flash light through the smoke.

Danger Girl has posed:
Abbey Chase gets to the top floor and can't get the occupant's attention. If they're even home. But she CAN see a lot of smoke beginning to billow within. She reaches back to the holster at the small of her back just under her jacket and draws the weapon. She doesn't shoot the weapon, she uses it as a tool - in case of emergency, break glass. Smoke begins to flow out the window and she instinctively ducks away before realizing the ring does appear to be working.

Knocking away shards of glass from the frame, she climbs inside, "Anyone home?? Fire! Come to the escape stairs!" she quickly moves room to room trying to find out if anyone is home and, indeed, there is a woman in the apartment's spare room on the floor. Dropping down, she frowns, "hey. C'mon. We've got to get you out of here. This whole place is gonna go up soon." She tries to help the woman up and they slowly work their way toward the fire escape. Soon they're out on the fire stairs and begin the slow process to get down to the ground. "c'mon, MFD, we could really use you about now!"

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae peers at Drake curiously "Gonna take the ring and get in there to help? Itll help protect you, when ya get to someone, talk to the ring, I'll know yer there and can pull ya and whoever ya grab out.. She says and then talks to Abbey, through the ring... "If you run into trouble call for me, I'll pull you out, I can also pull you and whoever you get out and ya can go back in... Im setting up the circle now." she says, and sighs before taking a deep breath, and well making the circle...

Green Lantern (Cruz) has posed:
More fire engines are arriving. But Jessica has another problem. The ring is laughing manicially now. "Oh, what's so funny?" she mutters as she tries to see if anyone's passed out in the smoke. "What's funny, stupid cow, is that I am going to finally make you experience true fear. You were chosen to annihilate this world. You have failed!" The glow winks out from Jessica as the ring rips free of her finger, floatnig there in its malevolent splendor. Jessica's normal clothes were revealed - a stained tank top and shorts, her right arm riddled with vein-like scars. "Fare ill, oaf!" The ring flies out, smashing the window and flies away. Jessica is now in a bad way as she got turned around - with no life-support from the ring anymore, she falls to the ground, coughing helplessly, trying to crawl her way out. "Worst... rescue attempt... ever..." she mumbles, trying to find the door in the blinding somke.

Slipstream has posed:
As he hears the sound of breaking glass through the smoke, Drake pushes forward as he holds his phone out in front of him. "Hey!" He calls out with a loud cough in his throat. "Is someone in there?" He pushes up against the wall, using his foot to nudge the door open a bit more as he waves a hand back and forth in front of him. The light of his phone tries to shed as much light as possible as he pokes himself into the room that Jessica is in. "Hey." He calls over to her, not recognizing her in the change of clothes. "Take my hand. We'll get out of here together." He says as he holds his hand out to her.

Danger Girl has posed:
Abbey Chase continues helping the woman she had found down the narrow fire stairs, "You're doing good. Watch your step. You're doing just fine. The fire department will be here soon." They have made it down to the next floor. others are trying to climb out as well. It's becoming something of a congested mess but at least people are getting out?

Green Lantern (Cruz) has posed:
Jessica Cruz just mumbles something about rings as she takes Drake's hand when proffered. By now all the emergency vehicles are here including several firetrucks, EMTs, and ambulances. Jessica has severe smoke inhalation and her right arm looks like it got burned - though the scar pattern on it is strange. "Thanks... the ring left me..." she mumbles. "I'm... free..." She then collapses and passes out right as the firehoses begin their work.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae peers around and calls to Abbeys Ring "You need me to teleport you out with people? She asks curiously, not able to see inside, after having finally closed the ward... She moves now to the buliding and looks up.. "Ummmm, yaaaahhhh... sooo water and ice spells.." She mutters and she adds to the whole fire-hoses mess, she begins summon and create her own jets of water which begin raining down on the top of the building, blasting through walls and starting to flood into the building as well... "Need to know if you want me to get y'all out? Drake, if I remember right? You ok? Do you need an evac?

Slipstream has posed:
Sliding an arm under her legs and another around her body, Drake hefts her up and carries her down the stairs as he holds his phone between his teeth to use it as a makeshift flash light. He holds his breath as long as he can until he makes his way out the front door. Coughing loudly with smoke stressed tears in the corners of his eyes, he kneels down and places her on the ground so that the EMT's can tend to her. "Hey." He says down to the speaking ring. "I'm out and got a girl with me. Didn't hear anyone else up on the floor I was on."

Danger Girl has posed:
Abbey Chase is working her way down. She blinks at the communication from the ring. "Uh, no. I think we're okay. Just a group trying to get down the back fire escape. We're all below the second floor now. Most are getting clear of the building already. But thanks. The ring did help. There are firefighters back here now. I'll, uh, come around and give you your decoder ring back?" she asks a bit breathlessly.

Green Lantern (Cruz) has posed:
Jessica Cruz was loaded up into an ambulance to be taken to the hospital as the firemen get to work on putting the rest of the fire out. Fortunately, there were no fatalities in the fire - just several peope in the hospital - the wards of Kaelyn were credited with ensuring that the fire didn't spread to anywhere else.

Meanwhile, deep in space, as a dark green ring flies away muttering thoughts of vengenace, a bright green ring is heading towards Earth...

Slipstream has posed:
Sliding the ring off, Drake hands it back to Kaelyn once he meets up with her, then pulls his chat box out of his pocket to glance down at the thousands of emojis and other lines of text flooding the screen. He glances over at his shoulder device with a shrug of his shoulders. "Calm down, chat. It was nothing, really. No .. no I'm not going to join the Avengers now." He is heard mumbling as he heads back down the street towards his hotel where his team waits. ".. No, I'm not going to join the X-Men either ... or Doctor Doom. You guys probably inhaled more smoke than me. Geezus. Some of you guys are dumb. Thanks for the two hundred dollar donation Roger five twnety. No, I'm still not going to walk around naked downtown with an S painted on my chest."

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae grins a bit as her rings returned and she nods to Drake... "Hope it helped... She speaks to Abbey now.. "Can either just hand it back or I can teleport it back to me. Thanks for the assist..."