16142/A Strong Web

A Strong Web
Date of Scene:	21 October 2023
Location:	Manhattan - New York
Synopsis:	No description
Cast of Characters:	Julia Carpenter, Hercules

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Julia Carpenter has posed:
Julia is playing tourist in the park to kill a few hours before she can pick up her daughter from school. Exiting the zoo, sipping on a coffee she bought from one of the vendors, she glances around the area to determine where she wants to go next. There's a quick glance to her phone, tucked away again as she starts towards the fountain.

She's dressed down, jeans, a fitted shirt, and one of those fuzzy jackets with a hood that she hasn't bothered to put up. Leaves all that strawberry-blonde hair free and streaming around her. It's been a good day! She had breakfast with her daughter, bundled her off to school, cleaned house, had lunch in Manhattan, and spent the afternoon at the zoo. Nice, relaxing... just perfect for interruption!

Hercules has posed:
It's a perfect day.

But no one under heaven ever experiences such things for long. There's a thudding boom in the skies, echoing like it's coming from some far off place and getting unexplainably closer. Perhaps it was a storm? Some lightning and thunder to literally rain on the parade?

Maybe.

But it was not Thor Odinson coming from his high palaces. It was not Zeus coming from the peak of Mt. Olympus. Instead, as the BOOMING echoes of a clash drew nearer...it was clear it was between a God and some beast from the great beyond.

"HAHAHA!" Echoes the laughter of a battle-hungry Hercules, punching a creature that looks to be built like a minotaur of ancient legend straight into the earth, making a crater in the ground as the titanic Hercules lands atop him to bury him further into the earth. "I did not give you leave to challenge me here, Ephialtes, but know that doing so has made your days numbered." He growls, his hair long, his face fully bearded, his eyes so oft weary and kind fallen to the rage of battle.

The Minotaur roars back in his face and Hercules cracks his knuckles.

"So be it."

He's wearing pants that tuck into work boots on his feet, his shirt torn from battle but his physique was showing in it's full display, revealing a Herculean build in it's very definition.

Julia Carpenter has posed:
Julia frowns, glancing up into the sky. Doesn't look like rain.. and that doesn't sound like thunder. Then the vibrations reach her and her eyes widen. This is... not good.

"Hey, you guys, get out of here. Big fight, some of those superheroes. Get everyone out you cna find!" Julia calls out to a pair of cops that are patrolling the area, tossing her coffee into the garbage and starts skirting her way towards where... Hercules is beating the holy hell out of a minotaur.

An airborne bench catches her attention and Julia carefully has the psi-webs form around it, anchoring the ends to a tree branch to keep it from slamming into a pair of fleeing people. Never quite so glad as she right now that her webs don't have to come from her.

She moves around the area, quickly, quietly, helping to hustle people out of the area, clear it for the titanic brawl taking place, under the guise of a concerned citizen. Then she lingers nearby, watching, just in case.