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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2016-05-13 02:15 pm

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Mod Plot [Network Post | 1]

[They get a transmission from the outpost orbiting the planet where new displacees appear, the battered remains of the planet Phelolu. It's a priority distress call, so the message is received by every Legionnaire and all major posts on Legion World.]

[The commanding officer of the response team is a Carggite, Dr. Trez. All three of her grey-haired selves look shaken. Behind her, the main viewscreen of the outpost is cracked and consoles are sparking. The outpost has clearly come under heavy attack.]

Mayday mayday, this is Legion Outpost Phelolu, we are under attack by a 10X10 threat! I repeat, it is a 10X10 threat. Do not send a response team. I repeat: do not send a response team! We'll leave monitoring equipment on for surveillance but all personnel is evacuating the outpost.

Over!

[And that is the only message they get. She quickly reforms into one self, and leaves the console, helping a crew member that's fallen. The entire command deck shakes once. Then again. Fortunately, all members of the team escape the command deck and the hatch to the threshold room closes.]

[By the time the hull rips open, it's plenty of time for them to have escaped through a threshold gate. It's hard to see what causes the breach. There is only a flash of silver and all of a sudden a chunk of it is gone. More of it gets ripped away, and there's a brief flash of something blue and sparkling. With another flash of silver, the whole deck explodes and the camera view is lost. The monitoring system shifts to an external camera as a default so that they can see the field of wreckage outside. There is only a small, barely functioning hunk of the outpost left. The rest is a debris field that's obscuring the view of the planet. Ice dust from the vaporization systems creates a huge cloud that the barely functioning lights reflect off in the void.]

[That's when they see it looming out through the debris field. It's an incomprehensible being, a force of nature, and each sentient's mind must try to make what sense of it that it can by assigning it some kind of image. To many humanoids, what they see is the face of an impossibly huge man.]







[Despite the fact that it should be impossible for any sound to vibrate through the void, they can hear him speak, his voice thundering impossibly loud. Everyone who hears it hears it in their native language, two simple words that spell out the doom of civilizations:]

"GALACTUS HUNGERS!"

[Silver and sparkling blue streak by again and they see now what the cause of the streaks are. One is a man that looks like he's made of liquid silver, riding a silver surfboard. The other is a ethereal and graceful-looking alien with a staff, who looks like she's made out of stardust. As they attack the last of the outpost with a wave of cosmic power, the feed cuts out.]
ringslinging: at least i already paid for my adele tickets. (i got fired yesterday.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Rich. One question here, could be important:

Is Galactus technically alive?
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You might as well ask me what the sound of one hand clapping is.

[He throws his hands in the air. Even the one holding the omnicom. When the view's back on his face, he's looking exasperated. He's not really mad at all the questions, though, he's mad at how little he really knows. He's no better equipped here to take on Galactus than he was back home. Hell, without Worldmind and at just a fraction of his former power levels, he's less equipped here.]

Yes? No? Maybe?

He's some kind of cosmic...thingy from before the universe. I have no idea what that even means.

Worldmind was the one with all the answers and she's not in my head anymore and I don't even know if she would've known the answer to that.
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ringslinging: what is the maximum amount of trouble we can get into without going to jail? (we have to calibrate.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know" is actually a better answer here than "definitely not," so I'll take it.
iamresponding: (bucketless - eyebrows)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you thinking?
ringslinging: what is the maximum amount of trouble we can get into without going to jail? (we have to calibrate.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
God's literal vengeance.

Didn't do so hot against Nekron, because I guess if something's completely dead there's nothing to pass judgment on, but the Spectre is one of the things that gets the fuck me reaction from us. It might be a match.
iamresponding: (bucketless - skepticals)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
God's vengeance.

God's vengeance is your plan.

You have God's vengeance in this universe? That's actually a thing?
ringslinging: with a broke toe. they know how to fucking party on lake lanier. (i woke up smelling like chlorine)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I was God's Vengeance for a while. Until I came back to life and he had to find another dead guy to bond to.

It is absolutely a thing.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You were Gods vengeance. God's vengeance is a thing and you were it for a while.

[He just sort of freezes for a moment, processing.]

The hell, Jordan?

What haven't you done?
ringslinging: (i wish my penis had an off switch)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Come on, it's not that much weirder than everything else we take for granted.
fourstars: (unsure forever)

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's pretty weird, yeah.
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup silly me)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-05-13 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Thirding that. It is very, very weird.
captainbuzzkill: (019)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really not that weird. Really.

[He has seen things. Things]

At least it's part of a pantheon comprehensible to mortal minds.
ringslinging: (i wish my penis had an off switch)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You're saying God, a) exists, and b) that there's some kind of spirit of His vengeance, and c) that you were, at some point, it.
whyarewehere: (D)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-13 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
There's definitely a God. I know because he hates me.
iamresponding: (bucketless - eyebrows)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I'm thinking right now he hates all of us.
ringslinging: when you have to ask to resend the nude pics. (it really ruins the moment)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, don't ask me to make sense out of the theology. I'm Jewish-Catholic and lapsed in both.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Like the actual God?
ringslinging: WE DON'T HAVE MORAL STANDARDS (YOU HAVE TO STOP TELLING BARTENDERS)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
We've both been dead, why is God the hard part to swallow here?
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I was probably reformed by something cosmic out of stray molecules or something.

God is God.

[He flails slightly]

God can't exist in a universe where there are cosmic death engines and universes where death died and Lovecraftian monsters just --

[It bothers him. After everything he's seen.]

How's there a God that lets giant cosmic monsters eat whole planets? And lets monsters like Annihilus kill billions and billions and billions and billions?

And you're telling me you had a direct line to the big guy? Seriously? That he exists and you had a direct line to him. What the hell, Hal?
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ringslinging: if it was in a beer can (he would drink pee)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't...think I had a direct line?

Don't ask me what God's thinking. I don't know. Some of the time I was the Spectre's host I just remember like I'm watching from the outside in, and a lot of it I flat out can't remember at all. It's a blank.

I don't think we're meant to be able to wrap our heads around it.
iamresponding: (bucketless - unsure)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, it's just --

It means there's possibly actually a God, like for real, and I stopped believing a long time ago.

Makes me angry.
ringslinging: pointing and laughing at me (i feel like god sat there all night)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I can get that. I had a hard time with it when I was younger.
iamresponding: (bucketless - distant)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I just saw...

I just saw a lot. During the war.

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