#APEXULANSIS

[therxtking]

Of ALL of the long term moots, how do you think each of them would be at Gordon's birthday rager?

Aw shit dog that's a LOT of muses and most of which I haven't really interacted with- some are newer but I can see going. uhh here we go:

@hxnger-unbcund Gluttony is actually here because he's a good friend and cares about Gordon. And he's also pumped as fuck for the food. And apparently he probably knows the most people here. But he's not allowed in the kitchen and he's arguing with Zoviary for being a party pooper. He does not great on the mechanical bull. Greed is here because what are all these demons congregating in these caves for? He's disappointed it's a birthday party for a rat but he'll stay because it's an awesome party and he doesn't see much of those. Envy is here for the same reasons as Greed.

@xaallo Xaallo is here because birthday rager and they're kinda almost maybe friends? Adraka told him to go be supportive. Initially he and Glutt hang out and laugh and catch up, and then spar a bit and break a table. So now he's sitting at the counter having a good chat and eating Gordon's Himalayan salt out of the shaker and asking where that baby went. Eventually he comes into the kitchen and helps cook. But he's far from comfortable with the two demons in there as well. Does either really good or really bad on the mechanical bull and keeps doing it until he beats everyone's scores. He never does. Kjoll is here because birthday rager and someone sexy who's stroked his ego in the past is here~ was GOING to be an exotic male dancer popping out of the cake but he didn't want to miss the rest of the party and is snooping around their house trying on their jewelry, scent marking their things and bed, and trying to antagonize Zoviary into chasing him to Gordon's bedroom and he's very mad at Okaal for being a 'party pooper'. Okaal doesn't know who's birthday this is or why he's here but he's assuming it's to keep Kjoll in line and tell him to behave himself and not fuck someone on their hosts bed. He's a good sport and tries the mechanical bull, and does alright!

@apexulansis Zoviary is here because Kjoll made him and he's not liking the loud riotous social function. But Gordon gave him a job to distract him and it's to keep Gluttony and Kjoll OUT of the kitchen so he's obviously doing his job right and pointing a gun at Glutt. Adraka is here because it sounded like fun and they felt bad for Gordon. And Xaallo needs to be a good friend. He tries the mechanical bull and actually does okay and has a great time at the party. Drags Xaa out to dance several times.

@skxrbrand Skarbrand doesn't know why the fuck he's here, probably followed Khazaan cause he thought he was trying to escape also what is he doing with all that stuff? He is judging everyone harshly and being aggressive, so Ira takes him outside to go fight somewhere. Kha'xanzyr thought he was boing left out of destroying the rat kingdom and is more than disappointed. He warns Gordon not to keep company with such dangerous creatures and expresses surprise the rat made it to twenty one. He leaves shortly. Khazaan has a whole brewing set up in the living room and is making concoctions to kill God. Petting Runic and telling the chefs they're using too much sugar, more blood, use more brains, they're filling and really good for you. Burn it more.

@velvetwarfare Betty is here for booze, dancing, Gordon's tiddies, and to party hard. Sitting at the counter tasting snacks, cuddling Glutt and teasing people, making fun of Gordon for being a baby. Between party and drinking games of course. And partially taking over the DJ booth. Does pretty well on the mechanical bull.

@heliinx Heliinx is here because everyone seems to be breaking into his home and surely he still adores her riiight? She's telling him to poison the food so he and her can eat everyone and loot them. She's punted out of the kitchen. Seeing Khazaan she hides a lot, but sneaks lots of food and trashes the home looking through and looting his things. Which Qhi'zhek stops.

@warhammer-fantasy-muses Qhi'zhek is here because he's a good friend, dammit. He's having a great time talking with him and Daz in the kitchen and helping make enough food for the uninvited guests. He's also keeping an eye on Kjoll, Zoviary, and especially Heliinx. Ikit is also here because he's a good supportive friend! He's loving the party, too. Not helpful in the kitchen but he loves helping Khazaan make the most lethal abominations known to alcoholism. Did not last one second on the mechanical bull.

@themosthatedbeingg Lucifer showed up dressed all nice for his new bestie with a nice gift. And very quickly ends up escalating the bullshittery of the small group of ragers in the living room. He hasn't been to a wild party in some time and he's having so much fun! He's just one of the guys! He uses his magic to help decorate. Did not last five seconds on the mechanical bull.

@onlywrath Satan arrived to be supportive of Gordon also he's not over him. He brought decorations, games, and a sick sound system to add to the DJ station. And a fucking mechanical bull of course. He's happy to meet Gordon's mother, too! He also has the highest score on the mechanical bull and no one can touch that score. No matter how hard Xaallo tries.

@vehxmence Daz is here because he was probably part of the instigation board for the surprise bash. He's in the kitchen with Gordon learning recipes and being a nuisance. Anything to see those ears shiver and that annoyed scowl on their face. And maybe he's taking an interest in their hobbbies and wants to be close to them for softer more genuine reasons... Him and Qhi hit it off as well and talk about how adorable Gordon is. He also loves that Gordon's choosing to stay in the kitchen with him rather than go party with the others. Azriel is here because he's met the rat once or twice and if Daz gets to go so does he. Az is play wrestling with Ira and chatting up the rest of the party. And eating everything he can get his hands on. And shaking Heliinx upside down to give up what she's trying to steal.

@kingbcwser (I've been following you awhile I guess?) Bowser heard surprise birthday rager and didn't care if he was invited. He's dancing and fist pumping to the music, playing music (He brought a band and DJ setup) playing drinking games, him and Betty hit it off smashingly. He bothers Gordon a bit because it's only polite to pay homage to the birthday boy also he's making all the delicious food. Did very badly on the mechanical bull but he's having a blast anyway. Threatens to take over Gordon's kingdom. Doesn't care if he breaks stuff. He's Khaz's new friend. Gordon dislikes him and doesn't know who invited them. Or who they are.

@serpentofslaanesh Lyss is here because many objects of their attention are here. They're chasing and hounding Heliinx and enjoying the party. And also snooping around in all of Gordon's things. Especially the shiny and pretty things. And trying to bother Gordon but they aren't allowed in the kitchen so they play games and get shitfaced with everyone else.

@oflostinfound Hax is here because they and Gordon bonded over nice pants, and they are not missing out on some big ass birthday bash. Does not do well at all on the mechanical bull.

@shiningsilverarmor Eos is here because it's her sweet little rat kings big birthday! She's not gonna let him go unappreciated! She has lots of fun dancing but scolds several other guests for being too rowdy and breaking his things.

@hannah-the-small Gritt and Clem are both here because the rat seemed cool, they heard rager, and supposedly no one else here will know them. And he's royalty. They can take some small things that'd sell for a pretty penny and lots of food. And get shitfaced. Neither of them try the mechanical bull and spend most of the party staying out from underfoot of others. Dancing on a table and drinking their lives away.

[xaallo]

apexulansis

“I never invited you to drink it you lecherous cretin.”

"Lecherous? Remind me who had their grubby paws wrapped around both my cocks whilst holding me up against a wall?"

[thefouraboveall]

@apexulansis / 𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐕.

His search for Tzeen'neth had led him here, in this icy-hell full of icy hellbeasts. The clime wasn't so the tastes of his kin, so the BLOOD GOD was left to forge alone through the snow and frozen rain.

She Of One Thousand Eyes. It had to be him-- the Changer; guised and goading them. Khorne marched through sleet and storm, a blade-tusked skull clutched in his talons. The snow melted around him, turning to water that sizzled off his infernal skin. Upon his back was a cape of bones and white-fur pelts, for many beasts had tried to harry his path and found only death for their efforts.

In his other hand was a native. Bright red blood, and black bones of which the Blood God was grimly fond. He held the being up by the scruff with a single hand.

" The Thousand Eyed One. You say she resides here, in this city of mortals?"

Devouring Maw. Champion of the Honorless Arena. Bringer of Ruin & Disaster-- who else could this be, but Tzeentch?

[byanyan]

@grimesucker sent 🤳 + 5 for:

ㅤbyan's family (biological, adopted, & found); feat. sol, the boyfriend (@lee-sol); lena, the older sister (@chronal-anomaly); ardaka, the parental sibling figure (@apexulansis); kit, the (sort of but not technically) younger sister (@florafound); garrett, the vaguely guardian-esque figure (@gnarledbite); & dox, the mom (@grimesucker)

[vin-robles]

"There's not really a lot to talk about."

Any idiot could make that out for the fib that it was, from the dour look on Vin's face and the way she hucked the pebble she'd been fiddling with at a passerby in the street below. Even in her little funk, she still had pretty good aim, if the ensuing scream was anything to go off of.

"Just missing a stupid festival. That's all."

[skxrbrand]

" Pussycat. Here, pussycat." Khazaan holds out a headless fish, waggling it enticingly. " Ksksksk, here pussyfoot."

@apexulansis / 𝐙𝐎𝐕 / 𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐊𝐀

[precognitor]

@apexulansis : 🜲

" Look, of all the times for you to begin doing. This. Now is the time I would enjoy it most if you would not do that. "

Fingers trace the line of his temple and Two feels his face start to heat up from a mixture of confusion, what might be anger, possibly hunger ? Man, he could go for a beef bowl right now. Swirling emotion churns in his positronic wiring casing that he would liken to an organic brain, the sound of mechanical whirring fills the air ever so softly.

Inhale (fake), exhale (fake.) He shakes his head.

" Unimportant. Unimportant, unimportant, unimportant. What is important is that we do not freak out. Freaking out will lead to problems. We don't want those. We want solutions. Let's find solutions. Okay. "

Pacing back and forth, he grips the data drive with one hand so tight it cracks under the force applied. Two's eyes dart down to it ; oops. They then dart back up to Ardaka, the kariian's scowl one noted and dismissed immediately after. They have bigger things to worry about right now than either of their stupid feelings, and Two cared more for Ardaka's safety than hurting his stupid feelings. Former took priority. Affirmative ; begin op. KASMAR Corporation wasn't gonna win this one.

" Step one. Examine our options. We could just go kill literally everyone in the area. Not an option, nevermind, stupid. Option two. We turn you into a toaster. I could definitely map a kariian consciousness, probably not even that hard. What do you guys even have going on up there that's unmappable. I can map a human I can map you. Option three ... how do you feel about cybermorphs. "

[tentaplenty]

starter for @apexulansis

"Tell me, what manner of monster did that to your face?" She usually wasn't one to ask about scars but she could sense that the one before her was no ordinary creature. For something to get the better of them...

Now that was interesting.

[heliinx]

Garden was a kind word for whatever Yeskiv was cultivating down here. Heliinx had heard rumors, scoffing at what her ally had been up to in her own time. Gardening, pah! What a man-thing past time! Of no interest to her....that is, until one of her more favored messengers went missing. Then another. All after being sent to spy.

I mean...better them than her, but her personal messengers were extensions of herself! To attack them was tantamount to disrespecting Heliinx herself! And so the she-rat had gone marching into this garden (attended by guards of course), to have words with the Kariian. Words she almost forgot upon seeing the absolute monsters being grown down here.

Poisons. Flesh-eating flora, more fit for Lustria than the chilly north. And Yeskiv attentively pruning something monstrosity or other.

" Would you mind telling-explaining to me why two of my personal-private messengers haven't been seen since I sent them to you-you?"

@apexulansis

[kharrneth]

waman soff and i dont like soff

[slaanxsh]

@apexulansis​

A winged shadow has flit over his shape a few times, easily dismissed as a bird the first and second time. But the third and fourth...awfully persistent for a bird. And large.

There is a sickly sweet aroma in the air, one that grows more potent as the seconds turn to minutes. A feather drops and lands on the Hunter’s shoulder, all pastel purples and pale greys.

That is from no mere bird.

[xaallo]

Vask had raged. She had raged at everyone, but mostly at her youngest, Itêila. How could you fall short of a warm-blood? Hissed the Praetorii, her fury joined by the judgement and disappointment of her sisters. Already proven, already established. Itêila had yet to do any of those things...and had failed to do the one thing she was assigned to do.

Vask's anger had more than just words. Running talons down the side of her face, Itêila only winced the slightest bit at the pain that bloomed beneath her fingers. The claw marks weren't yet healed. She sat there, on that miserable planet, cloaked in branches and shadows, hating the golden brat and the white hairball he'd chosen to be sweet on in lieu of them.

And then, she stood and slithered from her hiding place. A Tshekge's hate was no impotent thing. And she was done licking her wounds.

---

Far away, in the Imperial grounds of the Prime Administrative Circles, the Prince and his beau were blissfully unaware of the things their union had set in motion. They were thinking only of a bright future, a big family, and braving the challenges of life together.

The current challenge being the issue of what to wear for their wedding.

" They'll have to measure you, among other things." Xaallo says, almost warningly. He knew what his mate was like. " Unless you'd rather do it yourself?" He gave a sigh. Big political events like this were so tiring, especially when Kaldane was insisting everything be perfect and properly ostentatious in proportion to the importance of it all.

He mutters to himself, " You nervous?" He asked, projecting his own nerves in truth.

@apexulansis

[churchofdesolation]

@apexulansis

How naive of the Priestess to think being rid of the pestilent ones would be so easy. How foolish of them both to think there would be no consequences for crossing the true sons of the Horned Rat and so brazenly!

Loyalty was a concept foreign to most Skaven, but they knew jealousy, resentment, envy, and terror. And Immiq knew well how to drive his fellow ratman, how to make them squeak, what to promise them to keep their cooperation, if only for a time.

The white-furred pair, the Grey Seer and the monster that run off with her, were not difficult to locate. Everyone had heard of the oversized She-thing that had taken command of a local Skaven Clan and many had already tried, with armies and assassins both, to wrest power away from them both. All had failed and it became clear to the High Aggregate that force wasn't the key to besting them both.

But the Horned Rat had blessed them with guile as much as with plague and numbers beyond counting. Guile woud win them to day and the blood owed for the destruction of their clan and warren.

Yeskiv would recieve word of Merchant-rats bearing rare wares for trade. "For Warlord eyes only-only" according to the messenger rat who had been sent to carry the merchants words, specifically to the non-skaven of the white-furred pair...

[byanyan]

ㅤthough he's surely heard their footsteps approaching, there's no warning whatsoever before byan suddenly begins scaling ardaka's back like a fuzzy tree, a tape measure held between their teeth.

ㅤㅤ" dom'd moomf. "ㅤwords muffled by the tool in their mouth, they pull it free once they find their balance, legs securely swung over the kariian's shoulders.ㅤ" 'm takin' measurements 'cause i don't wanna play guesswork with your ridiculous proportions. "

⋆:°* ♡ @apexulansis ⋆·˚ ༘ * no pressure one-liner call.

[vin-robles]

same picture

[skxrbrand]

apexulansis

"Three quarters of a lifetime, in your case."

"Hornless."