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~It's surprising how losing your hair suddenly makes you realise how vain you once were. As the final clump comes out in his hand (rather be bald than have a stupid-looking fringe) and his skin start splitting along its newly-healed seams he briefly considers lying back and letting whatever else is in this Level take him. But escape is necessary and he won't let a little thing like being too weak to breathe stop him. God he was glad he wasn't with anyone right now. If anybody saw what was happening... downstairs... they'd never take him seriously again.

Making it through Seven had been difficult and his feet were nearly bloody stumps from all the sharp garbage, but pain was something he had gotten used to. The dull heart-wrenching ache was worse than a stabbing- at least that would have been something he could appreciate- and he had wanted to tear off his own feet to stop it, but gritty resolve won out and he had made it to Six, wearing nothing but a threadbare smock and linen trousers, found among the sewage of the lower level.

The first thing he does upon arrival is sear his own feet on one of the more hidden bulls- anything to distract from their pain and the nausea and the general brain-freezing depression of suffering through a Hell worse than anything he did to his boys. It's pretty much all his body can stand and he crumples against a wall, allowing himself an unhappy groan. His insects crawl over his body as if he were already a corpse and he doesn't bother to slap them away; like a dying wildebeest.~

Date: 2010-01-09 09:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
I got very good at climbing very fast.

*Barty stops, crossing his eyes as a bee hovers above his freckled nose, he pauses for a very long moment, watching, raising up his hands in an attempt to squish it, but it deftly escapes his death clap at the last moment*

So what are you in for, Bee Boy?

Date: 2010-01-09 09:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
*ever an Englishman, in fact often too much of one, Regulus hadn't said anything as their new little friend had climbed aboard, even though the prospect of him pulling both Barty and this man is both laughably impossible without any help as well as a new level of demeaning (it is one thing to pull Barty, but for anyone else to join in is practically slavery) - now though he peers over the edge of the cart and looks in at them with a suspicious and unfortunately eyelashless glare of suspicion*

Yes, I'm rather curious of that myself.

Date: 2010-01-10 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
*Barty shoots him a very wide, very unregretful smile - despite the torture it wrecks on his peeling cheeks* I got a little trigger-happy too. With my father, among other things.

Date: 2010-01-11 06:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
*Barty's eyes grow very wide as he replies* A TWO-BY-FOUR WOULD BE A MERCY HE DOES NOT DESERVE. He's in Eight, you know. On my first go up I shoved him into one of the big machines. Haven't seen him since. I like to think he's been turned into cereal and has become part of a healthy breakfast for demon spawn Hellwide.

Date: 2010-01-11 07:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
Barty, that's no kind of talk.

Date: 2010-01-11 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
SILENCE, REGINA. I'll talk as I please.

And yes it is. That's one damnation Hell got spot-on, really.

Date: 2010-01-12 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
*Barty opens his mouth, his entire sordid life story ready to pour out in his usual fragmented babble, but he stops, realizing that if he starts then they'll likely run out of eternity before he runs out of words - instead he settles for the obvious*

He had a terrible moustache.

Date: 2010-01-13 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
*still very unsure of this new guest and his strangely pleasant ease speaking with Barty, Regulus is taken slightly aback when spoken to directly; he had always been a nervous boy but in life he could cover some of it up in the presence of company, now his fingers skirt around the handles of the cart under this casual scrutiny*

It's rusted. If you would like to give it a pull I'm sure you'll find it's very difficult to move.

Date: 2010-01-13 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
Certainly. However, that brings us to the most important question. Why are you so keen to travel wherever it is you want to get to with us?

*Regulus hides his nerves for a moment in an attempt to get answers - he may not be terribly good at being authoritative, but he's terribly good at being suspicious, and really the statistic isn't a secret that typically those who don't fear others have some reason - real or imagined - to believe that they themselves could be the one to be feared*

What is your name, if you don't mind my asking?

Date: 2010-01-15 09:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
Barty Crouch, Jr. and that is Regina - once upon a time he was a Regulus but he's since forfeited his man card, you see. His penis is no longer valid.

Date: 2010-01-15 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
*cuts Barty off with a Look* My name is Regulus. Black. Not Regina.

Date: 2010-01-19 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
Wander aimless and lost and hope to not be devoured?

Date: 2010-01-19 06:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
I've never liked that plan. Last time we tried that plan it backfired magnificently, after all, if you'll recall, Barty.

Date: 2010-01-19 07:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
Yes well IF YOU'LL RECALL, Regina, you wouldn't allow me to enact my build-a-large-drill-and-tunnel-back-to-Earth-plan. There are no other plans after that one.

Date: 2010-01-19 07:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wetandbothered5.livejournal.com
I still find that to be a bit too grand a plan.

Date: 2010-01-19 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madlymirthful9.livejournal.com
Clearly you lack imagination.

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