<@[13]IS-ST> The next hour for the ritual site is hard work for the runners and more esoteric items are needed, and the battle keeps raging on the island, garou and other things die screaming.  The can occasionally catch sights of garou they know, still up and moving, thank goodness.
<@[13]IS-ST> Then as midnight rides high in the sky, something thrums through the whole battle field.  You are suddenly reminded of the first nightmare you ever had.  You know the one, when you were but a baby, and didn't even know there was a world, but suddenly you knew it hated you and wanted you dead, bloody and screaming as it happened if at all possible.  A nightmare you didn't even know
<@[13]IS-ST> you had carried with you all this time, but there is it.
<@[13]IS-ST> The Sky Shatters, and that nightmare crawls through the scar.  (http://prntscr.com/owzcyv)  Its come for you, and just you in this battle.
* [06]Kazumi_C hisses out, speaking to herself. "It's too soon, they're not ready for this."
<[13]Dahlia_Kane> Holy hell.. what the fuck is that?
* [10]Valrun{ghostsight} pauses as she sees this thing, and for the first time that evening, she looks shaken
<[06]Kazumi_C> "It's an alien, Dahliah. A thing from another world, another reality... it's a Nexus Crawler."
<[15]Hannah_C> 3[{Hannah}] 14 looked up at it, her eyes went wide at first, but then she remembered the vision from the night she was killed, it was like icewater splashed on her fear and then hate rose up, as she just stomped one foot forward and howled a deep roar at it in defiance.::
* [13]Ariyah tensed, the grip on her rifle tightening as that blanket of cold dread settled in around her and slowly with that same sense of horror that kept ones eyes from peering too deeply into the closet or under the bed lest there be something to find, her gaze lifted to the sky. 14<s>"Daralagdo sapana." 6 She whispered, referencing something about nightmares to herself in her
* [13]Ariyah 6native tongue.
* [06]Kazumi_C says this is a kind of resigned, "We haven't got one chance in ten million" way. She looks to her kinswoman and shakes her head. "It's not for us....."
* [13]Dahlia_Kane froze staring. "I'd only heard legends... from garou who spoke in pure fear of such a thing..."
<@[13]IS-ST> (ML- Malachi)  "HOLD STEADY!  KEEP TO THE WORK!"  The legend's words are like a cold bath of water, and people snap away from the terror inspired by this thing's arrival
* [10]Valrun{ghostsight} turns away from the horror and returns to tending to the theurges, making sure they have water or food
<[15]Hannah_C> 3[{Hannah}] 14 looked to Malachi and she snorted with a nod, his words on top of the hatred that she was feeling refueled her from the weariness she'd been feeling, she'd caught a second wind and now moved with the same purpose as before.::
<@[13]IS-ST> A few of the younger Theurges have to be pulled from the circle, having passed out.
* [09]Aidan[1agg] swallows, having paled a bit at the arrival of the nexus crawler, but she turns back to the task at hand.
 [06]Kazumi_C shook her head and snapped out. "Ignore it.... it's not coming for us, that's just the sword... keep your eyes out for the hand that wields it."
* [13]Ariyah tore her eyes from the thing as Malachi's voice reached in and shook her free from the fear that had momentarily gripped her heart, looking over at the Legend she found her grit again and prepared for battle like she'd never experienced.
* [13]Dahlia_Kane darted to the theurge tending to them. She smiled sweetly, a regular florence nightingale there with a happy smile and a meal or words of encouragement
<@[13]IS-ST> Crys is standing there looking at it, bloody tears rolling down his cheeks as he continues to stare at it.  The nightmare thing looks over the battle field and for a moment they can feel that fracture again.
* [06]Kazumi_C walks up to Crys and slaps him as hard as she can. "SNAP OUT OF IT DENFATHER!" She lowers her voice down. "We need you here...."
<[14]Tanner_C> Jesus Christ Mary and Joseph what in the fuck is that.. :he says as he spots Crys as he moves to shake the den farher
* [09]Aidan[1agg] glances at Crys, but keeps running items, pausing momentarily as she feels that fracture again
* [13]Dahlia_Kane turned as she looked to the fire pointing at it.
<[15]Hannah_C> 3[{Hannah}] 14 looked at the fire tilting her head as she was running.:: "Blue fire?" ::She then looked up at something, not the direction of the fight, it was the other side of the boat.:: "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?!" ::she pointed up...waaay up, and it was away from the fight, of course it was mostly barks and yips in Crinos.::
* [10]Valrun{ghostsight} furrows her brow a little as she watches the fire, not sure what this means.
* [09]Aidan[1agg] glances at the fire, tilting her head a bit, then looks to Hannah and where she is pointing
* [14]Tanner_C looks up where Hannah pointed.. "Umm what the hell
* [13]Ariyah shifted her gaze from the cerulean flames to where Hannah was pointing, adrenaline making her heart thunder in her ears as she attempted to pay attention to everything at once.
<[13]Dahlia_Kane> It's not a chemical change either...
<[13]Dahlia_Kane> Valrun.. any idea?
<[06]Kazumi_C> "It's an illusion, focus on your tasks." She snaps out, looking back out to the battle.
<@[13]IS-ST> There is a moment of stillness and then suddenly from the Chimera a large flock of birds take to the air, Circling and throwing themselves at the Nexus Crawler.  Eagles, Hawks, Kestirals, Buzzards, and all time of raptors, including many that are extinct, attack the Nexus Crawler.  As Hannah points to the aft of the Whaler they can see what managed to sneak up on the boat.   The
<@[13]IS-ST> thing is a massive bulbous this with leather skin and tenticles that end in giant crab claws, there are four sets of leather wings along its back and an ever changing number of red, compound eyes.
<@[13]IS-ST> Some here will recognize this foul thing, as it rears back its truely titanic form, bringing its powers to bear against the boat.
<@[13]IS-ST> The Unwordly monster stikes down at the Boat with a ship-cracking force, its shadow falling over everyone, about to deliver death to them all.
<@[13]IS-ST> The blow lands...in the water, setting the boat to rocking wildly from the massive wave it generates.  The garou and kin suddenlly realizing that they have actually all been about 40 yards or so from where they thought they where.  The illusion is shattered and the fire at the center of the rite suddenly burns yellow again.
* [10]Valrun{ghostsight} lets out the small breath she has been holding
<[06]Kazumi_C> "Ohhh..... it was OUR illusion.... very clever, I like that!"