Brand follows close behind letting the trackers lead. "I got your backs." He positions himself to the side wher he can dive into the bushes or see the trail ahead for traps.
Maria silently walks behind Brand, staying in the middle of the pathway.
Nodes her head an waits to see who go's on
You head out rank and file into the dark forest following the trail of blood off the beaten path. As you venture deeper into forest, along the way you begin seeing old worked stones, ruins, rotten wooden buildings and huts, odd luminescent fungi growing and glowing brightly in the shady insides of the buildings. Small animals wandering around, you feel an odd though pleasant energy flowing throughout the area.
There's something here... Not sure if I can pinpoint what... - says Bump, feeling the odd energy flowing. He touched Shiva's shoulder to contain the animal, while circling his eyes around.
Brand stops and readies for action.
In one of the ruined buildings you see something small, the size of a child. it peaks out only briefly before retreating back in the building.
There! - Bump points one of the ruined buildings to the others - I saw something retreating inside. Come!
He almost immediately moves, signing to Shiva to follow.
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I have a bad feeling about this.
Maria follows bump.
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"What can go wrong?"
I don't have to be anywhere near you to hit you for that.
looks around a bit worried, hold her weapon close and follows the group.
The group walks toward the ruined building following Bump, the inside of the building is dark, too dark to see without light. However in the doorway you all notice shattered porcelain bit's and pieces, Some have blood on them.
Light first.
Bump holds and signs Shiva to wait. He looks at the others, as if waiting for one of them to pull a magic trick to light the path. He starts, however, reaching his backpack for a torch.
"Err why have we stopped, are you having problems seeing in this darkness?"
She whispers.
Yes. Was that... not clear?
"O sorry, I'm kind of new to this, but its all very exciting"
Looking inside the now lit building you know see more shattered porcelain along the floors. Placed and sitting along the walls you see dozens of small dolls, all seeming to be made of porcelain. A long since dead skeletal body shoved in the far corner of the room, a horrible stench emanates from it, you see fungus growing from the corpse.
Maria goes into the room, inspecting the dolls away from the gross fungus.
Brand follows Maria in, "Watch for traps."
Waits at the door, taking out a kind of medical mask from her medical kit and a small jar, she takes some Greece like substance and rubs it under her nose, then slips the mask over her lower face.
Form it she says.
"The smell of death is always vexing, so what do we have, by the looks of it some evil looking mold, I would keep clear of that, air barn spores and such, odd looking dolls. lets see."
Bump waits as the others do their checks, and signs to calm his "sister".
She says in happy voice excited voice
"Well now, this is interesting, The Dolls on the shelves seem to be magically infused, yes. You know that reminds me of that bards song. The one where a father buys his three young daughters each dolls with the money he got from killing an evil witch. Only to find out they where the witches creations, coming to life at night and killed the three unsuspecting children and thire mother while they slept. Father comes home, into the blood socked house, goes mad and forever more traits the three evil dolls as his three daughters.Grate tail, had the whole Inn on baited breath."
She stops and looks at the others,
"What? I like grim tails"
She says happily.
"Suddenly the fungus corpse is less creepy."
Bump looks at Rosalyn and sighs. The brawler would never get used to certain urbanisms - as much as he was young, he was forced to mature much earlier.
"Play with ah corpse um fungi don't seem wise but eh no traps."
Very well. - says Bump, protecting his nose from breathing too close of the corpse, and pushing Sheeva behind him - We should investigate, then, I guess.
He pulls his weapon and shield, and approaches the dolls.
I saw something moving around here, though, so we're not alone.
C'mon. Can't waste time. Anything important about these dolls? Maria urges the others to follow her.
Not bunking with her.
"We saw something moving in here. I really don't want to think it was the creepy dolls. Unless there is another exit . . . "
"If it was up to be I would burn the whole place down from the outside and see who came running out. But by all means go in and have a look around. I'm going to stay out here until I know its all clear."
She says with another smile.
Maria shakes her head, luckily speaking to one of the people here who can actually see her do that. Like a smoke signal. Will let the target know exactly where we are.
But I could crush the dolls. See what happens.
Looks on with a dumb and sheepish face.
"O, yes I did not think of that, yes that would be bad"
Maria handles this the same way she crushes every obstacle in her way.
She instead chooses to fire a small cluster of needle-like rocks at a doll chosen at random. As opposed to the normal massive stone.
Bump was visibly shocked by Maria's engaging one of the dolls to attack it, but quickly tried to recompose himself and assume a defensive position, in case combat would break out somehow. At the end of the day, maybe it could be a good guess... Since those dolls were creepy anyway. He just signed Sheeva to stay on her toes.
as Maria attacks, five of the dolls begin to move with an odd grace. one of them catching the rocky spike loses it's arm but is still standing
they each draw daggers and move as if to attack and kill you
"Holy crickies the ah demon toys are ah moving." Brand shrieks eyes wide at the crazy sight.
Maria shoots Bump a look before the dolls spring to life. It seems to say, "what a pansy."
AGH! She immediately jumps at the sight with a high-pitched shriek, like a pansy.
"O dear, I was only joking about the evil dolls!"
She says,
"Tell me when you want me to burn the place down"
She says taking a step back from the door.