Tuunbaq Attack - Open Log

[thetuunbaq]

The tuunbaq paws at an ice-cap. The wind whips up the snow, lightning flashes above illuminating the quick work it makes of the ice. Two swipes from its massive claws and the tunnel is open.

The tuunbaq crawls through. It can smell the fresh meat waiting for it on the other side of the ice.


((This is an all-purpose thread for the tuunbaq attack! Inside you'll find various jumping-off points for characters at different stages of the attack. Please jump in and respond to your heart's content, and add any additional threads and character interactions.

Happy Tuunbaq Day!))

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[thetuunbaq]

It lays its eyes on Sheehan first and destroys the last remaining obstacles in its way to get to him. The tuunbaq runs right to him, knocking him back into a wall with a claw and then bearing down on him.

[heyboss]

Sheehan is thrown back against the wall and sucks in a breath as he watches the creature on top of him. Everything hurts. The room is spinning. He has to focus. "Goddamnit, Anna! Go!" he yells, fumbling for something, anything. His fingers grab a bit of wood and he brings it forward, aiming for the tuunbaq's face.

[una_persson]

It's Sheehan yelling that decides Una's course of action. She follows noises to Anna's cabin, just in time to see Sheehan fall under the *Tuunbaq*.

And there's poor brave Anna clearly about to charge in with what looks like a toothpick.

Una lunges forward and grabs Anna by the arms, jerking her backward. Una catches her and wraps her arms around the girl's body, pinning her arms to her sides, and heaves her away as fast as she can.

[thetuunbaq]

Sheehan's gets in a single hit to the tuunbaq's face before it brings its mouth down over his head and bites.

It leaves him there, wanting him to be found just like that.

[nextrightthing]

Anna yelps, shouting in surprise and crushing despair when she's grabbed, dropping her stick as she's being yanked and bodily pulled from the room. When she sees who has her, she remembers Sheehan's words. Tell Una that I'm sorry. She stops struggling and clamps her mouth shut, even though she wants very much to keep shouting and to go back to help him.

She looks back to the room just in time to see the tuunbaq lunge in for that final bite. It takes everything inside her to not scream, making only a muffled noise as her knees buckle.

[una_persson]

Oh for Christ's sake, don't look.

Una just keeps moving, hauling Anna away until they get to the ladder leading up to the deck. Una shoves her unceremoniously at the foot of the ladder. She'll apologise later.

"Get above. Now. Into the rigging if you can stand it. It's safer there. It'll just trap you if you stay below."

[nextrightthing]

Anna doesn't fight her, and despite losing her footing for a moment, she gets her feet back under her quickly and moves with Una as best she can, only tripping over her feet slightly when she's shoved at the ladder. There are tears in her eyes and on her face, but Anna reaches for Una's arm, her expression set and determined. "Come with me. Don't stay down here."

[una_persson]

Una is about to protest, to say she needs to account for everyone below, but it's coming. And she's no good to anyone dead.

"Right you are," she says. "Go. I'm right behind you."

Her throat is painfully tight, but she can cry for Lester later.