Posted by Archosaur on May 20, 2009, 10:17 pm
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The Fall 4 Its Good to Be King The Feast While the City Center submerged under the assault of the colossal crocodile, a crowd gathered by the shores of Old Town to watch and cheer. This was a mistake. The water erupted in an explosion and a wave of thirty to forty foot crocodiles burst upon the crowd. Most ran screaming as a score of the reptiles held squirming victims aloft to be swallowed into their expansive throats. Some were unable to flee; trapped under the bulk of the during the reptile’s rush, and farced to listen to pleas replaced by a liquid gulp, and to feel a squirming lump pass down the scaly throat unto the swollen belly of the beast. The swarm of ravenous crocodiles waddled up into the town, chasing the fleeing townsfolk. A few tripped, and were greedily snatched up, quickly swallowed down as the creatures pursued their helpless prey. A group of fleeing townsfolk became trapped by the brick walls of a cul-de-sac, and the crocodiles closed in. The crowd held their arms outstretched in a pitiful display to ward off the multi ton leviathans’ advance. The crocodiles simply stuffed their jaws into the crowd, and began swallowing the writhing forms two or three at a time. One had the skill and luck to escape between two reptiles with maws stuffed with people, the hands trying to reach out for him before the rippling muscles of the throat pulld them out of sight. As he clambered between the bloated bellies, he tried not to think about their gurgling and the muffled sounds from within. By this time, many of the townsfolk had gathered into one of the larger stone buildings, hopefully strong enough to repel the crocodiles gathering around it. Others had run back towards the shore, now that the waters were empty of the massive predators. This was another mistake. The waters of the river swelled impossible, then erupted to reveal the onrushing 60’ jaws of the world’s largest crocodile: Sobek.

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Posted by Archosaur on May 20, 2009, 10:19 pm, in reply to "The Fall 4"
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Food Chain The crowd at the shore stared up, paralyzed in awe. The roof of the mouth passed overhead, as the bottom jaw scooped up the crowd from the mud. People flew back into that fleshy cavern, rolling across the tongue. Some tried desperately to climb up the slick sides to escape, before the fanged may slammed shut about them. The great leviathan seemed to stare coldly down on the onlookers, before raising his huge head for a massive swallow. The people of Old Town screamed, not just in horror, but in despair. They had hoped that this creature, awful as it was, would save them, but he saw them only as food. Truly, they wondered what might protect them. The leviathan then simply strides over many of the people and buildings, momentarily spared only to be crushed flat by the reptile’s enormous, hanging, gut. As the gigantic predator approaches the croup of smaller crocodiles, they pause to look up, the wriggling limbs of their human prey still protruding from their jaws. Most crocodiles are cannibalistic: readily feeding on smaller members of the species, and this leviathan was no exception. Like a bull croc raiding another’s nest, he reaches down to pick them up one, by one, depositing the rotund reptiles into his throat pouch. The humans still trapped in the jaws and throats of the crocodiles have a view of the reptiles squirming and rolling about; trying to escape out of the jaws with their short limbs. All light disappears as the massive croc raises his head, and his hugely bulging throat ripples as he swallows over a hundred tons of living crocodile and human flesh. Inside the massive belly of the crocodile, the still surviving people of the City Center can hear the vast reptile thrashing about. Some have managed to grope and push past their fellow man to get closer to the throat flaps. Even though escape has proven to be impossible, the air is somewhat fresher, and they have survived longer than their fellows, digesting behind them. Suddenly, the muscular flaps of the throat begin to give way, success! Instead of the expected burp or human victims, comes a swarm of angry forty foot crocodiles, some with flailing victims still clenched in their jaws. There in nowhere to evade as the multi-ton reptiles dive into the sea of flailing human bodies. They lash out with their jaws, snatching up more people, who can barely struggle before being swallowed alive, devoured twice in one day. The massive crocodile lets out a satisfied, rumbling belch, and then turns his attention to the large building that the crocs were attacking. Unlike the smaller reptiles, the massive crocodile has no difficulty with this building. Massive neck muscles bulge out as he swings his armored head into, and through the building, destroying the upper stories in rock and gore. The people of Old Town wail in horror as the great jaws creak open and begin to descend into the tightly packed people of the first floor. The head disappears inside, yet all can hear the loud, wet sounds, as the gigantic reptile roots around inside. Then, all can see him lift up his huge head, throat bulging under the weight of hundreds of people, limbs waiving pitifully between fangs, their wails audible for miles. Then the awesome jaws gape wide, and the vast throat ripples with a wet slurp sealing their doom. Over a hundred people wiped out as if they were no more than just a snack, and indeed, to the great crocodile, that is all they are. He gazes down as the horror-struck residents of Old Town with a cold and calculating eye. They think to run, but are interrupted. A massive bellow rumbles across the ruins, and all eyes turn in that direction.

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Posted by Archosaur on May 20, 2009, 10:25 pm, in reply to "Re: The Fall 4"
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Clash of the Titans The slow, deliberate metronome booms of an advancing titan shake the earth. Advancing from the waters is a massive biped: a colossal spinosaur 120’ high, and 240’ long. A squirming crocodile can be seen in his 30’ jaws, the smaller beast still clinging to its human victim. The spinosaur pauses to tilt back his head to swallow the smaller reptile. As the man trapped in the crocodile’s jaws descends down the spinosaur’s throat he hopes that the great creature will use his energy to drive off the rest of these crocodiles one and for all. Riding on the neck of Megasaur, Dr. Sheryl Lynn has made the journey in her watertight poly-suit. While the skin-tight transparent material makes her appear naked and vulnerable, at the moment she is protected better than anyone on earth. The p-suit is not only made of a nearly indestructible polymer (resistant to blows as well as impervious to chemical burns) but her oxygen disc uses a purely chemical process to provide her with three days of fresh air in the sealed suit. She leaned forewords to shout into Megasaur’s ear hole. “See if you can drive him off.” The great creature rumbled in reply. “I know it is a risk; but not only can you save those people, but you’ll have a home for your growing family. Try, please, for me.” The dinosaur rumbled again and stepped, dripping, from the water. The people of Old Town fled before the oncoming talons, each footstep seeming to shake the very world. The massive dinosaur picked his way carefully through the streets and courtyards, yet still people gaped in horror, staring up at his immense scaled underside as he passed overhead. The fattened crocodile gapes wide his jaws and hisses as the intruder. The dinosaur inflates his throat pouch and emits an awesome bellow in reply, the water seeming to vibrate for miles around. The crocodile hesitates; the sound seemed to have come from a much larger creature than the dinosaur standing before him. Then, remembering that he has never lost a dominance battle, the massive crocodile gapes his jaws and charges his smaller opponent. The onrushing crocodile crushes buildings and people as his stuffed belly grinds over them. The spinosaur steps back in time to avoid the snapping jaws, accidentally squashing a few townsfolk as well. As the crocodile continues to waddle foreword, jaws snapping with the sound of thunder, the spinosaur draws away. The dinosaur runs in to bite at the crocodile’s broad exposed back, but the yard thick osteoderms protecting the reptile do not yield even to the force of his bite. The returning snaps of the corocdile’s jaws force the retreat of megasaur, as the crocodile again waddles after in pursuit. And so the battle goes for hours: the dinosaur lunges in for a nip at a flank or limb, and then retreats before the enraged crocodile. The entire population of Old Town watches from a distance, to see this epic battle between leviathans to determine the future of humanity.

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Posted by Archosaur on May 20, 2009, 10:28 pm, in reply to "Re: The Fall 4"
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Victory from the Jaws of Defeat The two titans paused, exhausted from hours of combat. Latcic acid burned their muscles, as well as a bigger danger: heat. Even though both were cold blooded, each of the muscle movements of the fight had generated heat energy. While a small reptile might dissipate this energy quickly, these creatures were massive indeed. While the crocodile was twenty four times the length of a 15 croc, and had about 500 times the surface area to release heat from, his volume was almost 14,000 times as much. In short, Sobek the crocodile was in real danger of cooking himself to death. Meanwhile, Megasaur’s blood engorged sail was carrying away the waste heat of his exertions: it would have been almost burning hot to the touch. The crocodile turned and waddled towards the cooling waters, and safety. Megasaur pursued: sinking his jaws into the tail of the retreating crocodile. The larger crocodile ignored the wounds, and continued to crawl into the river, dragging the dinosaur behind. As the water begain to foam around the reptiles, Dr. Lynn screamed “Wait!” The crocodile thrashed his tail, freeing it and dislodging the woman into the frothing waster between the colossal reptiles. As the crocodile turned to bite the dinosaur, the water flowing into those gaping jaws caused an undertow that began to suck the woman into those jaws. A massive thirty foot maw scoops her from the water, seconds before the thunderclap of the crocodile’s closing jaws. She stares about the slick, Cavernous throat pouch; Megasaur has caught her in his jaws to save her. His noble deed has cost the spinosaur: the crocodile turns, clamps onto part of the wide tail, and twists off a bloody mass of flesh. His bellow nearly deafens Dr. Lynn, and she slides to the back of the throat as the spinosaur falls into the water. As she struggles for purchase on the rubbery folds above the esophagus, a flood of water pounds down into the jaws. With the exhaustion, pain, and disorientation clouding his mind, Megasaur reflexively swallows the water in his mouth. An instant later, he realized what he had done, as he feels the bulge traveling down his throat squirm. Megasaur stands as the crocodile pauses to swallow his own gruesome meal. The dinosaur glares at the crocodile with a new emotion: rage. Bellowing he charges into the crocodile, actually sliding the larger reptile into the poly-glass surface of one of the old skyscrapers, shaking it. The few inhabitants of the building stare in horror outside as their refuge has become a battlefield of leviathans. The dinosaur begins to step around the building, clawing and snapping at the surface, retreating before the snapping jaws. The crocodile’s jaws close on a massive titanium load support for the tower. Spinning instinctively, the massive crocodile tears it loose, and the building begins to shudder. Megasaur places both claws on the cracking poly-glass, and begins to push from the other side, massive thigh muscles bulging. The people inside the building stare in horror at the snorting dinosaur as he pushes the building over on top of the colossal crocodile. A massive explosion of ruin an wreckage fills the air. When it is over, amazingly, the crocodile begins to emerge from the pile of ruins. Even such an awesome blow could not crush the massive, armored creature. Slowly, he begins to retreat, out to sea, away from this place of pain. The exhausted spinosaur stands panting for several minutes, then unleashes an awesome bellow, shaking the waters. Slowly the giant crawls onto land. He lowers his belly to the ground, closes his eyes, and begins to softly rumble as he sleeps. The people of Old Town approach warily, staring in wonder as their unlikely savior.

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Posted by Archosaur on May 20, 2009, 10:32 pm, in reply to "Re: The Fall 4"
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Passage of the Night Once the flood of water hit Dr. Lynn, the throat flaps quivered, then gaped wide, and she poured into the depths of the dinosaur. Shocked, but unconcerned for her safety, she sealed the suit, activated the oxygen disc, and turned on her green chemical lights. The chemical lights clearly illuminate the slick rippling surface of the throat passing by. She reached out and lovingly caressed the slick flesh as she heard the booming of the dinosaur’s heat. Live, please live, she thought to this immense creature she loved. I’m just another human, but now you, you’re the most powerful being alive now; the only hope humanity has. You must live, she implored. Her meditations were interrupted with a slurp as she entered the belly. She dove into the foaming acidic wash below, trusting that her suit would protect her. Kicking to the surface, she gazed about the waves of digestive juices gently lapping against the fleshy folds of her new misty world. Unfortunately, she was not alone. Some of the large crocodile swallowed earlier, were still alive in this vast organ of digestion. While most simply thrashed, one spotted her and began swimming closer. Trusting the suit again, she dove into the digestive slurry of the dinosaur. She began to feel along the rubbery, folded surface of the stomach floor. There it was. She had found the puckered entrance to the intestines. Without waiting to see if the crocodile was still following her, she forced herself into that slick sphincter, twisting and writhing. At last she felt the muscle slide shut behind her, sealing her safely in. Now all she had to do was to wait. She turned off the lights, and her world became darkness, and the bubbling sounds of digestion, a booming heart, and the distant battle. She pondered on the past few years. Megasaur and his family had become crucial to the surviving humans of the facility: protecting them from raiders and doing the work that the machinery could no longer do. More important, the dinosaur’s keen intellect had generated many lifesaving ideas, and his leadership had pulled everyone through when there seemed to be no hope. The reversal of roles was even more obvious from in here. Clearly, the dinosaurs were in charge now. Megasaur, in particular had figuratively (and literally) become her whole world, and she was sure she could not live with the thought of his death. Te battle seemed to have calmed down now, and Megasaur still lived. Smiling, she closed her eyes to sleep in the safety of the bowels of her love, protector, and now, master. The Dawn The whole of Old Town and all nearby villages had come to see the wonder of the sleeping leviathan. It was true he had saved them all, but what would happen when he awoke? Awestruck, people caressed the heaving sides, and listened to the rumble as the swollen belly digested their foes. As the days passed people wondered what to do. If they left there were huge crocodiles and raiders elsewhere, or desolate wastelands elsewhere. Anywhere else would be death. Yet this creature could kill them all also. One man stepped foreword, addressing the crowd fro in front of the gently snorting snout. “This great being could have killed us all, but he did not. He was even careful not to charge through our buildings, unlike the crocodile. He has devoured the crocodiles that were devouring us, and he has driven off the monster that would have killed us all. Since he has saved all of our lives, they are his to do with as he wishes. If, in fact he does want to eat us, I for one, will be happy to serve: it is the least way I can repay him.” As the sun came up, the sail began to turn blood red, warming the massive reptile. People stepped back, as the great reptile snorted and began to sit up. As the crowd stepped warily back, the leviathan crouched down. A massive blast of flatulence preceded a flood of liquid feces. A huge, steaming mountain formed of the remains of the crocodiles, and raiders dealt with on the way here. The pile began to stir. An arm came out. Slowly, the naked unprotected form of a beautiful woman emerged from the steaming mountain. How was this possible? Surely it was a miracle! The crowd bowed before the sight. “oh oh” said the woman, the dinosaur rumbled in reply.

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