Gods of L.A.

"Oh shit," Hermes cursed as a squid's tentacle dived for him, the hostile situation forced him to reach for his concealed laser pistol which he fired with relish at the squids.

Okay, there's no time to strategize what to do in this situation, so Neith had just gone down to running and gunning every squid she came across, though at extra care considering how there's civilians in the mix.

"Woah there buddy!" she said as she jumped over an incoming squid low sweep. "This ain't no hentai."

Neith have looked over to the machinery and see that he's negotiating with the god. With bullets. That's good, one less thing to worry about but then her eyes glazed over to the two fancy women. "Hey, ladies!" Neith shouted out in between shots. "I don't mind you gawking over something but I rather that you either do it somewhere safer or help us out a little."

edited 19th Nov '15 4:29:13 PM by sgtpendulum

The Pier

Inari sighed and shook her cane a little, letting its changed shape melt away like water. Underneath was a sword, nondescript in almost every way, with a wooden sheath and a plain, unadorned hilt. She tossed the sheath into a nearby sand dune, sinking it deep enough to stand straight up, then took a stance. The blade was black, darker than the night, and as the krakens began to approach, Inari started cutting, her blade biting deep and quickly littering the pier with chunks of cleanly sliced squidflesh.

"<I think we've run into something troublesome here, my lady,>" Inari sighed. She looked over at one of the other few people still on the pier, a woman running around with a bow. "We'll be fine," she called. "Do you want to do something about that man in the water?"

"Please do!" Hephaestus continued on against the torrent of water, pushing himself against Kanaloa with hands outstretched, searching for any purchase—preferably on the God's neck. "Gimme any sort of opening and we'll be good!" Clearly the nets wouldn't work on a guy able to guard himself that closely, so with his right hand Hephaestus emptied his net gun, tying up any crowds of squid he could hit. He left the nearly-invisible net he made so long ago in the chamber, though; who knew, maybe he'd get a shot.

Pier

Amaterasu couldn't help but frown at the events transpiring. She recognized Hephaestus and Neith, but as for the Watery Fellow, she had no clue. That was not important however, what was important was the safety of the civilians, and their protection from his aquatic wrath. Amaterasu took a step forward, producing her mirror from her robes, the embers trapped inside the woodwork visible even from a distance as she held it. "Cease your attack, Fellow Deity!" She called out before she held the mirror aloft, a torrent of flames spilling forth from the center, headed straight for the mass of captured tentacles.

Mummu calmly walked by as the squid was attacking, narrowly dodging the tentacles

"Enjoying some anime?" he snarked, simply observing

"You know - I think I know how you could defeat this thing, but it will cost you. Simple, rather sparing. Hurry up, no guarantee this will last"

"Think it over... I promise you will not regret it" he says, dodging another tentacle

Is this going to lead to a "keeping the balance" spiel? Because the humans are pretty damn self-destructive on their own. Anansi thought. And a park is a horrible place to cause chaos.

"Well take your damn destruction elsewhere! I like this park!" Anansi shot back.

edited 21st Nov '15 11:02:49 PM by svenorzokarkoff

The Park

Nusku stared at Ansani for a moment, before shrugging. "Very well, I was never dead set on the park. Assuming I can get Tsetse to stop rampaging, very unlikely, we will take our arson elsewhere. But I shant be putting out any fires."

The Pier

As most of the squids got pushed up in the net, they actually very easily squished and broke up into small tiny gooey monster squids, the size of squirrels. They were much faster than the large ones, quickly jumping all over the attacking Deities and attempting to crawl all over them and in their clothes, biting at what they could. Most of them got singed and charred from the fire, but they were quick to multiply.

edited 21st Nov '15 11:16:29 PM by Saturn

"Please fuck off!" Hephaestus roared at the guy offering shit. "I've got enough shit to worry about in my own business, I ain't gonna go into any deals with a..." The mono-eye swept over to him. "With you. Props on the anime joke, though, bit of a better taste than what I had planned. Anyway."

The eye swept back to Kanaloa, but stopped halfway, fixing on another bystander that had spoken up earlier, and was doing a great job of not dying. "Hey! You too! Fuck off with the violence stuff, I already threatened him and he didn't do anything. You supposed to be someone special too? How about you gimme a hand here."

Kanaloa hadn't made any moves to stop Hephaestus from plodding ever-closer to him, and now he had range. "I'm busy giving fuckface here both of these, you understand I'll need some extra!" Hephaestus slipped into a lower stance and surged forward; he shifted himself to not take the full brunt of the water cannon and threw his arms towards the rogue Deity, trying to get a few good rabbit punches in on his gut, throw him off-balance. Then again, a quick jab from VULCAN would still blast a hole in a truck.

Off-hand he also sent a call to Persephone's flower shop. He'd need to throw out a few more taunts, maybe ones that would actually work this time. She was one of the few deities from the old days he still kept in contact with, and one of the few that had gotten a real job and actually grown the fuck up since then.

edited 22nd Nov '15 7:55:23 AM by Taco

The Pier

"<Ah, there's no end to them,>" Inari sighed, slicing deeply into the mass of squirming squids, moving constantly to avoid getting caught. "Hey, metal man, do you have that handled over there? Things are not going well over here."

"Why does bad stuff keep on happening to me?!" Hermes complained as he transformed his attackers into fried squids, he dodged blows with remarkable ease and began wiping the squids off in his area merely with his speed alone. Eventually, the laser pistol ran out of power and Hermes was forced to fight hand-to hand with the squids, leaving him in a vulnerable position.

Surrounded, outnumbered, and desperate, Hermes scanned the area for any weapons that were available, which happened to be a large spoon. He picked it up and started ferociously stabbing the squids with it in the eye. Talk about animal cruelty, the squids lashed out in pain but the agile god jumped back just in time to blind even more of the creatures. Some reasonably curious people stood stupefied at the dock as the deity combated the sea monsters with a common household utensil. This was not to say that Hermes looked absolutely ridiculous with it. On the contrary, he gave the impression of being totally marvelous to the spectators.

Nyx focused her weight on Tsetse, pushing her to the bottom of the divine mass and dissolved again once they hit the ground, reforming a few feet up. She was a little battered but the primordial goddess had seen much worse.

"Now, little spark. Are you done or must we have more of this incessant squabbling?"

Anansi blinked, then shrugged. "Sure, I can live with that." He said, happy that one of his favourite places wasn't about to be burned into a crisp. "I just saw her..."

A loud crash from nearby drew his attention. "...fighting another deity. Think that's her?"

"Ah yes, help the machine out with the man in the water-" Neith said as she shooting down the squids when it suddenly cut up by the net and turned into even smaller squids.

It was when the squids got multiplied further that Neith started to panic, especially when the squids started to go up her legs. The squishy sounds it makes when they made their way quickly up her skirt made her squeamish. She dropped her bow in panic and just started to toss them over the pier, generally aiming it towards the hawaiian god, as a taste of his own medicine, though her throws aren't exactly the most accurate.

The clever Hermes, devious as ever, had a plan. The idea came from out of nowhere, as if a sudden thunderbolt of inspiration hit him. His eyes started searching for power lines so he could electrocute Kanaloa and the squids, and turn the fight into the greatest seafood cook-out in history. There were many power lines running through the area, but he needed help.

First, he would have to tell the others about it. This situation was not the suitable environment for a friendly discussion with armies of squids darting in and out of the water. Second of all, he had to clear the water from civilians, for he could not risk any casualties today. Thirdly, they had to trust him...

Hermes saw a woman that dropped her bow, he had to come to her aid first since he didn't want to lose a potential ally. He would work up his way to the others later, because they had weapons and their life wasn't in immediate danger. Quickly, his feet dashed towards Neith to talk to her.