Derrik!
Sieg!
Dr Jones!
Daisy!
Grendel!
Mikey Jay!
Koran!
Marcus Greer!
TBD: Radsworth! Al'Torac! Yingzen!
SquizEEEEK!!!!
Y-you're just a figment of my imagination, Turuko-San! And yet.... I am feeling very tired.... I'll just rest my eyes....for a moment....
The gyrocopter descends and settles in the high grass near the bamboo grove. Dr Yamamoto cuts off the engine and closes his eyes, drifting off to a sleep troubled by nightmares of rampaging Kaiju destroying the world....
Derrik slowly approaches through the Muk and grime. " Grendel.. You have been deemed too evil to live.. There shall be no flesh for you this day, For we have come to hunt you... " He sees the Mighty Grendel and raises Dawnbringer high above his head, crashing down with thunderous force to hew lesser creatures in half.
Derrik's mighty blow with Dawnbringer cuts deep, but Grendel roars defiance, still standing!
NNNEEEEEEIIIIIINNNN!!!
For an instant, Sieg experiences a disconcertingly vivid feeling of déjà vu.... He is no longer Sieg Aelfbrecht, he is the warrior Beowulf of the Geats.... And he is no longer waist deep in bog water inside Grendel's barrow mound, he is standing in the torchlit mead hall Heorot.... And the blood gushing from Grendel's wound is the blood of his murdered kinsmen.... A hot rage burns through Beowulf/Sieg as he beholds his ancient foe once more....
As night falls over the Land of the Rising Sun, a powerful and ominous wind rushes inland from the sea.... Huge tidal waves pound the south coast of Okinawa.... Terrified bands of survivors abandon their coastal villages and flee inland....
Gojira rises from the depths and sets a massive foot down on the beach, shaking the ground and knocking over a stand of palm trees.... The King of Kaiju opens its great maw and gives voice to an ear splitting honk!
YYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAARRRRKKK!!!!
The fleeing villagers scream the dreaded name of the towering, Earth-stomping nightmare:
GOJIRAAAAA!!!!
The ogre mage is buffeted by tidal winds and hears the distant call of Gojira....
Gojira has arrived.... I'd better awaken the silly Dr Yamamoto....
Arise, Dr Yamamoto! Gojira has come to Okinawa! You had better seek some kind of shelter, my favorite mortal clown! I'd hate to see you squashed under his gigantic foot while you were sleeping! Hehehehe!
The mad scientist awakens with a start, sweating and gasping from the nightmares he was having.... Now he wakes to find his nightmares become reality!
Gojira!! He's here!! I.... I must find shelter....
The mad scientist fires up the gyrocopter's engine and pilots the vehicle up and away into the night sky....
At a U.S. Army base on Okinawa, a good number of American soldiers still hold the fort, protecting the local survivor population from monsters and cannibals as best they can....
Gojira arrives around midnight at the base, his coming heralded by terrified scouts, and a hasty and desperate ambush is laid for him.... When the King of Kaiju makes his terrifying appearance, half the soldiers lose nerve and flee in mindless panic.... The rest bombard the colossal saurian nightmare with rockets, grenades, tank rounds, and everything else at their disposal.... But they might as well have been pelting The Lord of Monsters with snowballs! Their assault merely enrages the mighty Gojira!
The King of Kaiju stomps the American military base into smithereens, and bakes the ground with beams of white-hot radiation and force that disintegrates armored vehicles and soldiers caught in its lethal path....
Bolts of fire burst from the spines running down Gojira's back and tail after every beam he spits from his great maw.... These firebolts melt the combat helicopters that buzz like mosquito or gnats around Gojira's head, peppering him with ineffectual machine gunfire....
That's right, you little f!!&ers.... I'm the King of Kaiju, b&@$#es!.... Hmmmm.... My old playmate/wrestling partner Mosura lives on this island.... Probably sleeping.... I should go wake her up to play with me! It's more fun to stomp on cities with a friend who likes humans trying to stop you! Hehehehe....
BRREEEEAAAAAARRRRRKKK!!!!
*Gasp!* Moll! Do you feel that strong wind through the bamboo? Do you hear that distant call!?
I feel it, Lora! And I hear the call! It's Gojira! Some damned fool has gone and awakened him again!
We must sing the Mosura no Uta! We must awaken Mosura!
No kidding! Let's get to it....
The two Shobijin fairies fly above the massive cocoon in the midst of the great bamboo grove and begin to sing a haunting melody and countermelody, resulting in a duet with eerily beautiful harmonies....
There it is again.... The fairies' song.... I'm sure of it....
Mosura opens her multifaceted eyes and emerges from her massive cocoon....
BUZZZZZZZUUUZZZZZZUUUZZZZZZ??
What's up, fairies??
Speaking in turn, the Shobijin fairies explain to Mosura why they have awakened her....
Can you not feel that strong wind from the sea, mighty Mosura?
And can you not hear that incessant braying?
BUZZZZZUUUZZZZZZZZZUUUUUZZZZZ!!!
Right! Gojira is on a rampage again! What else is new!? That stupid, naughty dinosaur! I will try to talk some sense into his tiny little saurian brain!
Mosura's great, multicolored wings fan open and a wind rushes through the bamboo grove.... She launches her colossal form into the night sky and flies southward toward the sounds of Gojira devastating fishing villages....
Derrik! (Acted)
Sieg!
Dr Jones!
Daisy!
Grendel!
Mikey Jay!
Koran!
Marcus Greer!
TBD: Radsworth! Al'Torac! Yingzen!
Eeeeek! Eeeeeek!!
BUZZZZZZZZUUUZZZZZUUUUZZZZZZ!!!!
Gojira! What are you doing!? We've had this conversation before! It is naughty to stomp on people's homes and places of business! What's the matter with you!?
Mosura flies into Gojira's line of sight and hovers in front of him, some 90 ft away....
BREEEAAAAAARRRRRKKKK!!! REEEEAAAAAAARRRKKK!!!
Mosura! Buddy! What's up! Have you come to join in the fun? We should wake old Anguirus, too! Where does that spiky bastard like to sleep, again?
Gojira picks up a jeep and hurls it into a hangar....
BUZZZZZZZUUUZZZZZZUUUZZZZZ!!!
No, I'm not here to "join in the fun", and I don't think waking Anguirus is such a great idea.... You know how testy he gets when his naps are disturbed.... You need to take it down a few notches, big guy! Look what you've done to this army base! It looks like a big field of rubble now!
BREEEEAAAAAARRRKKKK!!! REEEEAAAAAAARRRRRKKKKK!!!!
I know! I still got it.... But stomping this piddly s$*% is boring.... I wanna go to Tokyo tomorrow and knock down some skyscrapers.... You in?
Gojira smashes a weaponized humvee under foot....
BUZZZZZZUUUZZZZZZUUUUZZZZZ!!!
No, I'm not in! Think of all the poor people whose lives you'll be destroying, Gojira! You must stop this madness, return to your bed in the sea, and go back to sleep!
REEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRKKKK!!!
Wow, you are a real wet blanket, Mosura.... You should loosen up a bit, girl, have some fun! Besides.... I smell something....fishy.... Something ain't right, know what I mean? It's like.... Somebody's already come and rampaged here and sucked up all the fun.... Like these people have already been terrorized by something.... It's got me curious.... I think we ought to investigate!
BUZZZZZUUUZZZZZZZUUUUZZZZZ?
Huh? What are you talking about, Gojira? Somebody else has already terrorized the people of Earth?
GRRRAAAAAAARRRRRGGG!!!
It's just a feeling I have in my gut.... Unless that's a blue whale thrashing around in there....
BUZZZZZZZUUUUZZZZZZZUUUZZZZ!!
Okay, we'll check it out tomorrow.... But I think you'd better settle down for tonight, big guy.... We have a busy day tomorrow....
YYYEEEEAAAAARRRRRKKKK!!!
Yeah, I guess you're right.... It's late.... That bed of green stuff looks comfy....
Gojira lays his enormous form out on the bamboo grove, flattening thousands of stalks, and narrowly avoiding crushing Mosura's cocoon....
Mosura crawls into her cocoon and resumes a lighter, more temporary slumber than her decades-long hibernation....
Meanwhile, in Sarasota....
The Jaeger League continues its exploration of Lido Key and the extermination of the lingering minions of Cthulhu to be found there....
St Armand's Circle is retaken from otyughs, cloakers, fleshdregs, sinspawn, and faceless stalkers under the command of the Slime-Shrouded Master, which finally has it's come uppance at the hands (blades) of Plad, Udo, Remy, and Walrus, who beard the aboleth in its lair with the aid of water breathing potions and other magic items designed for underwater adventuring....
The resorts are cleared of cultists, cannibals, and the monsters that lord over them--a horned, ape-like ceustodaemon known as the Horned Daemon of the Hotel, a lamia named Mama Morsels, and a denizen of Leng known as the Cruel Master of the Holliday Inn....
South Lido Beach and the swampy mangroves of the nature trail provide the greatest challenge in the monstrous form of a froghemoth known as the Croaker in the Mangroves.... The beast takes casualties, sadly, before it is laid low by Remy's mighty fauchard....
Plad had tried to edge in on the monstrous Croaker in the Mangroves, but those crushing tentacles did him in.... The life was squeezed out of the elf by the mighty brute!
Seeing his friend crushed by the merciless coils of the Croaker in the Mangrove, Udo roared a furious Dwarvish battle cry before charging headlong to his death in the monster's slavering maw!
The bodies of Plad and Udo are thankfully intact for a proper burial....
Sieg's vision flashes red as his mind is transported back. Another time, another fight, yet somehow still very much the same.
In Old English: "You will trouble Hrodgar's men no more, creature!" he says, and charges at Grendel.
He slams the creature right in the jaw with his fist, and just as before grabs at him.
He then mightily slams the creature to the ground with a great roar of effort, and tries to solidify his grip.
After Sieg's grappling, Allison casts Mythic Phantasmal Killer (DC 29) on Grendel.
Daisy flies into the best position from which to fulfill her role as field medic and activates her liberating aura....
Will save vs DC 29 phantasmal killer plus brutal surge fails!
Fort save vs DC 29 succeeds!
Grendel feels Derrik's blow and recognizes another hero-soul as it stares with burning coals of hatred into Derrik's eyes.... Then Beowulf is there, grabbing him again.... And the nightmare vision of a spectral Beowulf looms large above him.... But this is just an illusion!
Beowulf/Sieg loses his grip for an instant, and the monster strikes....
Claw rips Sieg's mannfleisch for damage....
Claw rips Sieg's mannfleisch for damage....
Bite deals damage....
A total of 87 damage out of Sig's mannfleisch!
Unhand him, you big bully! Or I'll unhand YOU!!
Fleet speedy powerful raging Sword of Sif deals slashing damage....
Mikey Jay chops off both of Grendel's arms with a single stroke of the Sword of Sif....
Grendel groans a final breath and collapses....
So Sieg actually takes more like 105 damage....