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Beyond the End
An oh nos it's the apocalypse meme.



Congratulations.





...what, why? Because the world's ended, is in the process of ending, or will start to end shortly. I'm talkin' fireballs, earthquakes, the dead rising, various foreboding entities from myth and legend showing up as foretold in the last pretty epic battle, floods and famine and disease, everything. Despite this, you? You are a survivor. You have overcome all the odds and are making the best of what's going down.

Well.

Maybe. I mean, I don't know. You might be a cynic who's not really making the best outta anything and you're still existing. I shouldn't assume.

If you need it, pick up your dice and roll for your disaster.

1. Floods. Rather self-explanatory. Pretty passe, but you gotta respect the classics.

2. Global Armageddon through something, probably war, gone horribly wrong. Like a nuclear apocalypse. You know, one second everything's awesome, the next you know you're suddenly in Fallout.

3. Some sort of slower decay of the world through possibly natural forces. It's like the world turned ever so slightly on its axis and everything started to decay. Crops died. The climate shifted. The ice caps started to melt and the world slowly started to become an oven...or maybe the opposite and everything began to slowly freeze.

4. The world exploded. (Or is exploding or is going to explode.) You're channeling your inner Kal-El, basically. On the bright side this could lead to space adventures and those are fun.

5. Zombies. Again, self-explanatory, but you gotta respect the classics.

6. Some sort of war, again, but this one involves what passes for canonical spiritual influences doing some epic last stand in a battle for all of humanity's souls. You know that one myth you thought was just that - a myth - involving...I don't know, King Arthur returning in the hour of Britain's greatest need? Yup. Got a canonical bad guy who was just believed to be a myth told to scare small children but was actually sealed somewhere or another? Yup.

7. Aliens invaded. Kind of similar in theme to some of these other things but I'm trying to cover all the basic angles. Space, spiritual, explosions, zombies....

And yeah, if you want to do something else go do something else! The world's ending, nobody's gonna care how it ends.

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[sol_hol]

Lia was pretty out of it and when the sun came out, like literally, she would have been so jazzed to just flop down and soak it up. Unfortunately, the more light she had bouncing around in her head, the faster she remembered what had happened. At the moment, she was still operating at normal human thinking speed, and that was sort of lame because, as usual, her face was an open book.

Naw, that wasn't obvious enough. If she were being honest with herself, she was really more neon-sign-ish.

She recalled something about being at work, that totally earned the pensive-bored-working-frown for a minute, then there was this thing in a sector somewhere and she went out to check it out. Totes routine. It was a meteor or something, foreign body or whatever that alert stood for. Her look of contemplation was marred, momentarily, by a look of horror as she recalled the little aliens caked to the thing. That look increased in intensity and adopted a little disappointment as she remembered getting face-hugged by one.

If she had a trachea she totally would have been concerned about chest-bursters. For once, it was super sweet she didn't.

She shot him the apprehensive look of someone who had been punked and who had, in response to said prank, accidentally burned down the house. Lia had no idea what day it was, or like...when it was...or how long she'd been out, but she was used to calculating things in picoseconds so any amount of lost time was mega, ultra, uber worrisome.

"Oh man, I got whammied didn't I?" And she really didn't want to know but totally had to for like so many reasons, so she winced a little and asked: "How bad is it?"

[lowkeyangel]

He nodded. "Big time."

Lia was really the perfect delivery vehicle for the clumsy little pink badge collection that was this species' way of taking over. But maybe the two of them could reverse it, so long as she kept all the glory for herself. Gabriel still wanted to stay under the radar, away from the attention of curious heroes and villains. And the pagans who occasionally came into contact with them.

"It's not too bad right now. Couple cities are all decorated up with face-friends. But everyone's kind of having a nap, right now, so if we mobilize like in every sci-fi movie in existence, we should be okay."

Gabriel was casual about almost everything, the one exception being his family. An invasion really didn't get under his skin. And his little face-off with the starfish hadn't made him worry any more. So as he filled her in, he shrugged — like he was reading off game stats of the World Series.

"Are you okay?"

[sol_hol]

"A bit wiped," Lia admitted readily and paused about half a second. Fortunately, Loki was a pretty close friend, as close as she had anyway, so he merited the full, you're totes not judging me because we have to save the world and you want to know if I'm gonna snap, response. "And sorta super freaked out, but alien plus face? Pretty standard reaction, right?"

Lia shrugged and puffed up as she figured out where they were. It was a good distance back, but Loki was fast. Like even by her standards, so that was cool. She peered off in the general direction of the mayhem and frowned. This was gonna suck. Not too bad, she was sort of a hack so long as Supes wasn't under the starfishy influence, but one of them had just smacked into her and made things waaaay awful, so she took a moment to think about it.

"I got this, totally, but...if I get whammied again can you like, keep me from making this super bad?"

[lowkeyangel]

"I'd be worried if you weren't," Gabriel noted, shrugging. No one really liked being used as a puppet. Sure, angels had to ask, but sometimes the experience wasn't exactly the best. He and his vessel were just about as close to True as you could get, but less perfect situations ended in drooling and fried brains. And demons? That was just a whole 'nother party altogether.

He gave another little shrug at her question.

"Don't worry. You get another facial decoration and I'll use the same method again. Easy peesy."