LOCK YOUR DOORS, SHUT YOUR WINDOWS

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

Characters: Her Imperious Condescension and YOU!
Setting: The hallways or wherever you want. Just specify!
Format: I'm starting in action, but I'll match.
Summary: The Condesce has arrived -- and she is DISPLEASED.
Warnings: The Condesce is a warning in herself. Expect violence.

[The sleep paralysis had served little purpose but to infuriate The Condesce even further than she already had been. She had felt the stray threads connecting her to her lusus snap, which would have meant that the Vast Glub would begun to take Alternia by storm in no less than five minutes. Tyrian purple irises dilated in rage when she had realized she couldn't move.

But it was likely that all of the Tower could hear her scream in fury when she was finally able to move her jaw. It wouldn't be hard to pinpoint the source once she was out in the hallway. Her Imperious Condescesion was an imposing figure, decorated in various jewelery of vast expense, christened with a crown and holding a trident. She had wasted no time in shedding the gaudy suit she had been given.

She would find who had brought her here, and she would make them pay.]

Comments

[foretolds.livejournal.com]

[Terezi hears the scream, along with half of the tower. Her first thought is that a crime has surely been committed, and so she is immediately off to investigate.

But when she smells Feferi's mulberry scent, mixed with a healthy dose of rage radiating off a clearly adult troll, she turns right around and tries to sneak off. The cruelty of the Condesce is infamous, and she certainly doesn't want to be around when the empress is angry.

Of course, she's probably already been spotted.]

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[This is a thing that is true. It's been quite some time since she's seen a wriggler of any kind, so the second she sees Terezi darting away from her, she barks firmly, any previous tremor in her tone dissolved.]

Halt.

[bubbleglub.livejournal.com]

[DOOP DOOP IS THAT TROUBLE SHE BETTER GO INVESTIGATE--

...

Yeah Feferis turning right back around and high tailing it out of there with a fucking VENGEANCE.]

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[UH NO? Granted without Gl'bgolyb connecting the two of them, the psychic lash isn't nearly as powerful as it could have been, but she doesn't spare mercy on this version. Still, it's only meant as an attempt to immobilize her so that she can walk closer to get a better look.

Because last she remembered, the younger tyrian still had a few sweeps left to hit maturity...this one was definitely older than six sweeps.]

[cocksprite.livejournal.com]

[ man, that's a lot of hair. ]

Nice weave.

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[That's...a flying orange alien of a race she hasn't conquered yet. So Davesprite gets a eyeful of a rather disgusted looking Empress, because christ that's an ugly color you're wearing.]

DAMNIT DAMNIT wrong account sorry about that

[parappa-strider.livejournal.com]

[Huh. Angry as fuck troll screaming down the halls. Welp, nothing new here. Except that she was kind of giant as fuck with tons and tons of hair holy crap. Plus she looked a lot like that one chick he had a spontaneous rave party with earlier that week.]

What's got your panties in a twist?

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[Dave gets a face full of trident for his trouble. Which is to say its about an inch from his face. She has so many other things to be worrying about right now, and instead she's surrounded by CHILDREN.]

I don't have time for you, worm.

[fifty]

[America either doesn't notice the fury or doesn't care.]

Man, there are a lot of you trolls here.

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[He'll notice it shortly if he takes a good look at her for a moment or two. After all, her hair is practically an eldritch god all on its own.

However, that statement gets her attention. Perhaps she can get something useful out of this one.]

Oh?

[quarkylass]

[ Staring

Backing away and
Staring
really hard

Oh my god oh my god oh my god scary old lady troll ]

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[The Condesce meets Jade's eyes evenly, the corners of her lips turning upward in a very sinister, manic grin. So many children at the worst possible moment in time.

Perhaps they could serve as a nice outlet for her anger.]

[comboherooo.livejournal.com]

[A scream means trouble! And...well, much as he fears another bad run with those medals, Eiji's heroic tendencies speak louder than his common sense.]

[He'll round the corner, and soon come to a stop. One of those grey people he keeps seeing, but no one else.]

Is everything alright, miss? I heard a scream...

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

You will address me as Empress or The Condescension.

[She turns to meet his eyes evenly. There is no warmth or good intention hidden in her's.]

[pchaaair]

[So Tavros heard the scream! And now he's on his horsaroni to go check it out because WHAT IF SOMEONE IS IN TROUBLE??? He could... possibly help them somehow! Maybe! Even if he's feeling the effects of the wounds his collarmate has, he still has to try. He's going to try his hardest to be confident for this.

But then he sees who it is.

Yeah, this horsaroni is getting turned around as quietly as possible so that he can try to gtfo.]

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[Look down, back up, what's not moving, your horsaroni because Condesce has it! Even if she had to do it psychically.

She knows those horns -- it had been a few sweeps since she saw them last (and she didn't remember the Summoner being confined to a chair of all things), but she knows them.]

Well well.

[discipleo.livejournal.com]

[Screams were screams and sometimes happened, but as Disciple found out, they should not be investigate if attached to a furious empress.


Shit.

She weighed the options. On one hand, running away might be good. Great even. On the other, an angry empress was just going to hurt people. Indecision left her standing there, rooted to the spot and an uncharacteristic word slipped out]

Fuck.

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[Oh, that's a voice she knows. The Condesce finds Disciple's eyes without too much trouble, and her grin spreads to reveal her rows of shark-like teeth.]

I suppose this is my lucky night, isn't it? You cost me a good Executor, you know.

It's about time I returned the favor.

Iiii, hope you weren't planning on not getting a million tags

[thekidsare0kay]

[Sollux heard the scream and didn't really care, but ambled generally in that direction anyway.

He stops dead when he sees who it is, though, his eyes widening. Unlike his friends, he doesn't abscond, but he doesn't approach, either. It's obvious who this is, and all he can think of is what Psiioniic told him.]

...Fuck.

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[...oh. A yellow blood -- one of the more useful of the lower castes! But it was yet another wriggler...who looked strangely like her Helmsman. She was beginning to get sick of seeing them.

But the Empress makes sure that her narrowed eyes meet his -- she's already mad enough from waking up here instead of starting the journey back to Alternia.]

[allthefeelings.livejournal.com]

[Eridan, naturally, had heard the scream, but he hadn't paid it much mind. There was no end to the amount of irritating levels in this building. If he was prone to it, he probably would have screamed by now. As it was, he was leaving his room for the only real reason he left it anymore, which was for food. He didn't want to die. He just didn't want to have to deal with people right now, really, even if nobody had been reacting to his sulking and he was thinking of bringing it out to the public just to impress upon everyone how much he didn't want to talk to them.

Like this, he was making his way through the hallways, only at the first sight of the Condesce he stopped, a look of slight concern on his face.

Wow. That was. That was the Condesce. She was here. The Condesce was here. Oh god oh god oh god someone had to tell Fef. Now, however, it was probably too late to bolt out of the hallway. He was too close to her. So instead, hedging his bets, he bowed.]

Empress.

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[She had noticed a more familiar color out of the corner of her eye, so when she turned to gaze upon Eridan, she was pleasantly surprised to find him bowing. Leave it to the highbloods to properly respond to their Condescension.

Of course, when she got a better look at him, she couldn't help but let her light smile spread ever so slightly to reveal the whites of her teeth. He looked so much like Dualscar, though she never would have pictured him wearing glasses.]

Ah, a proper upstanding Alternian denizen. What a pity it is that you're here, instead of back on the homeland.

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

The first sound of that scream froze him in place, blood pusher pounding so hard in his thoracic cavity that his knees threatened to give way. He knew that scream, knew it well, though he'd never heard it anywhere near that level. Her. it was Her. She was here.

Just that one sound was enough to nearly obliterate the Ψiioniic, leaving only the Helmsman behind again.

When she appeared he was pressed against the wall, eyes wide and whimpering, tiny crackles of blue and red electricity passing between his horns. The latter wasn't so much an attempt at aggression or defense as it was pure, unthinking panic. He was away from his post, he was disobeying, she was already angry and there wasn't a fucking thing he could do about it.

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

Finally. Finally someone familiar that she could use instead of kill. The downside was that he wasn't hooked up to the ship so they could depart, but the plusside was that she doubted his conditioning would allow him to stray very far from her side at any rate.

"I suppose it's only fitting that you would be here as well," the Condesce replied sweetly, smiling her fake smile. Her eyes, of course, didn't miss the electricity darting to and fro in the atmosphere, and it caused her brow to furrow slightly. "Though I expected a better greeting than this, especially from you."

[princesspowaful.livejournal.com]

[This little human has no tact when running into trolls in the hallway]

YOUR HORNS ARE HUGE!

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[Wow, this one is loud. She stares Molly down deadpan.]

How astute.

late to the party

[hiivemiindiing.livejournal.com]

[ Pollux and Castor are, in fact, trying to enjoy some dinner. the problem here is that, well... they can't decide. rather, they're kind of switching back and forth between eating this meal or trying to find something different.

maybe Castor is the one that voices the thought of 'maybe we just shouldn't' while Pollux just says 'that's fucking stupid. of course we should.'

there sure is heavy lisping there. ]

[cullionfish.livejournal.com]

[Sure is...what exactly is that?

Condesce looks extremely fucking puzzled at what she's looking at. That's...not her Helmsman. Is it?]