OUTSIDE HANK'S TAVERN:Oldschool, not wanting to seriously hurt the thug nick-named Cutthroat that had transformed into a hideous 10 foot tall bestial dragon-like humanoid, kept his grip on him as he drilled a pulled punch into the back of his head. The blow merely glances off of his scaly tough hide. The Dragon-Beastie thug taunts antagonistically, "Izzat all you got, punk? The old ladies down at the nursing home punch me harder when I rob them for beer money!" He continues getting lippy as he squirms and flaps his wings attempting to free himself from Oldschool's grip, but Oldschool still has him held enough to limit his mobility and keep him from flying.
=====
One of the Bat Boys thugs laying on the pavement on the other side of the lot gets up, his head ringing from Shockwave's stun blast. He begins rousing his fellow Bat Boys and trying to get them to the van.
=====
The thug named Dopey, his head now 12 times the size of his body writhes and convulses for a moment then his forehead splits open spewing forth a fountain of glowing green mucousy slime that dries into a fine brown-red dust that fades away. His head shrinks back to normal size, leaving only an indented cleft scar in his forehead where it had split. He curls up in a fetal position and babbles incoherently, "I saw Him! I saw God! He has a golden head with Three Faces! I am Unworthy! He lives on the moon! He Watches us all!" then faints.
=====
Spellbound sees Oldschool wrestling with the mouthy Dragon-Beastie and the disgusting eruption of slime from the deflating head of the thug Dopey as she moves with her field of Darkforce energy into the street to gain a look inside of Hank's Tavern. A reflective field of Eldritch energy surrounds Spellbound as she begins quantum shifting the energies of her tapping of the Darkforce Dimension into a potential to emit raw plasma energy.
From outside the Darkforce field, onlookers only see a large cloud of black, impenetrable darkness moving into the street. But from within the Darkforce field, Spellbound feels a synthesthetic world in reverse, a black-and-white photographic negative vision of reality drawing upon the shadows for illumination. The bulbs of streetlamps cast small shadow-like auras that blot out the glow of the surrounding environment that is illuminated as if under a floodlamp by the night sky. At her feet atop a garage door laying in the street, the corpse of a man, the lead guitarist of the band she was watching earlier, rests peacefully in death, his torso ripped from abdomen to chin.
Out of the mouth of light formed by the missing garage door near the front entrance of Hank's Tavern, Spellbound senses five bar patrons run out, some entering the Darkforce field and stumbling. blinded by its inky darkness. Within the bar, lines of shadow emitted by pin-spot lights on stage sweep and briefly blot out the photographic negative visions of a Lycanthrope ripping out the throat of a dancing bar patron, dropping him lifeless to the floor. One of the Flashing Blades thugs that claim this bar as their turf strikes the Lycanthrope across the neck with a lead pipe, which only serves to get the Lycanthrope's attention. Other bar patrons continue to dance, curiously unfazed by the carnage around them. A Flesh Golem smashes another dancing bar patron in the face with a mighty fist that bursts his skull like a sledgehammer nailing a cantaloupe, killing him instantly. The bassist of the band smashes his guitar across the Flesh Golem's back and it turns to face him as the hero Shockwave flies in and spins him around with a shoulderblock that does not take the Flesh Golem off his feet.
Suddenly, there is a flash of intense blackness that blurs to a gray haze as the negative image of Flashdance appears in the bar, wielding his baseball bat.
=====
=====
INSIDE OF HANK'S TAVERN:Shockwave sees Oldsschool restraining the Draco-Beastie as the woman he shielded with a sonic force field disappeared within a cloud of inky black imprenetrable darkness emitted from her coat sleeves. He flies into Hank's Tavern through the missing garage door over the heads of fleeing bar patrons just as the bass guitarist of the band that was playing smashes his guitar across the shoulderblades of what looks like a huge Halloween Frankenstein's Monster. The large creature's hands are pasted with blood and gore as it roars and turns to face the bass guitarist. Dropping his shoulder, Shockwave rams into the Frankenstein's Monster, spinning it away from the bass guitarist to tower over Shockwave as he lands and turns to face the stage. The Monster's face is filled with rage as its attention is drawn to Shockwave. Behind him, the bass guitarist runs towards backstage.
=====
[ooc: welcome to the game, Elixir!]It was a Tuesday evening and Evan McMillan had heard on campus that the party band Snotch was playing at some dive in Times Square called "Hank's Tavern." He was acquainted with the bass guitarist Colin Sontag from an English literature class they were once both enrolled in at Empire State University and his band that was a staple at various fraternity parties. There is an upcoming Halloween party, and Evan was asked by his own fraternity to check out Snotch's performance to see if they might want to play a show on Halloween night.
He arrived at Hank's Tavern around 11pm and watched Snotch play through a set that included covers of Prodigy's "Omen" and Machines of Loving Grace's "Butterfly Wings." They were a very good techno rock cover band, their original material somewhat contrived and less crowd pleasing. They break into to a cover of "Uprising" by Muse, and the dancefloor is packed with gyrating, joyous bar patrons.
That's when Evan saw her.
Evan doesn't remember getting up to dance with the alluring goth girl with shocking white hair in a sheer silken bodysuit, barely concealing her might-as-well-be nudity with graceful twists and turns of a long ribbonous scarf as she danced.
She seemed like she was singing, or at least lip-synching with the band as she danced, and Evan felt a sense of bliss come over him. He continues dancing as she seems to float, gracefully swaying her hips and snapping her fingers to the music, drawing more onto the dancefloor to dance with her.
Evan dances as a creature that resembles a Werewolf emerges from a crackling ball of lightning onstage and rips Snotch's lead guitarist, sending his body flying through the garage door at the side of the stage. Another creature that looks like a movie Frankenstein's Monster emerged from a second ball of lightning and pounded someone into paste before knocking the head off of another dancing customer. Colin smashes his guitar against the Frankenstein's Monster as bar patrons begin fleeing in terror. Something in blue flies across the bar and strikes the Frankenstein's Monster, diverting its attention away from Colin.
And Evan continues to dance with the goth girl, entranced by her phantomous allure even as the Werewolf tears the throat out of another person dancing next to him. Some rough looking guy on rollerblade skates rolls up and hits the Werewolf with a lead pipe, drawing its attention.
That's when Evan realized he was dancing despite no music playing, the bar filled with screams of terror and atrocity. Oddly, other bar patrons continued to dance, blissfully unaware or perhaps indifferent to the carnage around them.
And then there is a flash of light behind him, and the goth chick is nowhere to be seen.
=====
Flashdance sees the garage door near the front entrance of Hank's Tavern get knocked out by a flying body as Oldschool grapples with the Dragon-Beastie. He sees Shockwave fly into the bar as a cloud of darkness obscures the front of the building. He hears people screaming in terror and animalistic growls and roars and teleports inside of the bar...
...emerging from a flash of light beside a small dancefloor full of people dancing even as a creature that looks like the movie Wolfman rips the throat out of one of them and Shockwave faces off against a hulking brute that looks like Frankenstein's Monster.
=====
[ooc: all deaths that have occured in the bar to this point will not penalize anyone's Karma. That ends now. From here, you're all in Karma conscious lifesaver mode.
Declare actions and roll initiative. Evan McMillan / Elixir is no longer affected by Dansen Macabre, for now ]