"owwwwww..." The white-haired lady stirs and starts rubbing her eyes.
...where am I?
The doctor starts measuring the wound she inflicted on the man's leg and causing him to writhe in pain, and screech "Oh gods help me!" The doctor starts pacing examining various implements, and jotting down notes. She comes close to the cells as she does so.
Luxina tries to break down the bed she was sleeping on for anything useful.
Having just had the most horrifying nightmare Mimijii awoke with a start. It was then that she realized there was someone looking at her. Not knowing who this other person was she started to say something and realized she didn't know who she was either. She heard the man on the table scream and looked over to see the person in a coat circling him. She growled and sat up as her cellmate began trying to break a bed into pieces. She looked at the person circling the man and felt compassion for him, whoever he was, no one deserved such treatment.
She felt a strong desire to help him, as if she needed to atone foWWWW! Touching upon the thought of atonement brought searing pain to her mind and she steered away from it. She looked at the door to the cell she was in and decided that she should try to break it open. She focused her mind and body and brought her will to bear then struck the door in an effort to force it open.
Hearing Luxina struggle, the Doctor suddenly wheels to face Luxina and screams "Quiet!"
Crystal sees what the strange elf nearby was doing and tries doing the same.
Which doesn't work.
Angered the doctor points an accusing finger in your direction and shouts, "IF YOU DON'T STOP THAT YOU'LL BE NEXT ON THE DISSECTING TABLE!" She fetches several dubious looking tools from the side table, and inspects them, a sharp hunting knife, a broken glass bottle, a sharpened garden trowel. She inspects each of them as if trying to decided which one to use next. The man strapped to the table moans in pain.
What the? I'm sure she didn't look like that before.
Luxina slowly backed away, eyes fixed upon the doctor staring at her.
"Make me."
With that said she tries to break a piece form the foot-end of the bed.
Lizzie looks curiously at her surroundings, and when the pretty looking woman tried to force the door, she approached it too.
From the back of her mind, she had an impulse to do something daring.
She grabs the closest object to hold in front of her as an improvised covering instrument, and whatever she could use as an improvised weapon.
"Lady, could you step aside please? :3", she said with a smile.
"If this works, be ready. Maybe grab something to use as a weapon."
When Crystal steps aside, Lizzie leans with her back against the cell wall, then charges forth.
Crystal tries again...
Agrippa wakes, groggily. He notices the gnome near him. What is going on? he thinks.
Agrippa's mind begins racing, going through scenarios and calculating the best course of action. He hears the commotion from the other cells and uses that distraction to search his cell thoroughly.
The jeweler groggily opens his eyes as the screaming man's voice enters his subconscious. At first he can only see the gray of the wall and shudders remembering the pain and the yellow fog within the Grey city.
the lady, she tried to help me... looking around to find Mimijii, he spots the blood spattered doctor and the poor soul strapped to the table.
no, this isn't right, it can't be right. No one is this cruel
Moving up to the bars, he see the others trying to get out of the cage, I can help them, I think..
Concentrating on the table with the tools, he focuses on the broken shears or something simillar, willing his haunts to move them to the dark elf, from experience he knows he can't get them to the lady that helped him.
Looking at the tall man moving around next to him "the Dr has the keys"
Lizzie give it her best shot, and causes the metal door to ring like a gong. Unfortunately she bounces off and having got a sizable bruise.
The Doctor snarls at Lizzie and screeches, "WHAT PART OF STOP THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?"
With the Doctor's back turned, the man struggles in his blood-slicked bindings and manages to get a leg free. Desperately, he kicks the her in the small of her back, throwing her up against Lizzie's cell!
The doctor slams up against the wall and hisses with anger! She notices a pair of garden shears floating past and lashes out with a fist, they skitter over into the corner!
Luxina curses at her misfortune about not able to break the bed at all.
"If I had some tools I could get us out of here. You! Woman! Have you got anything small and tough on you? Pins, nails anything like that?"
Luxina calls out to Momijii.
"Owowoww....that sure backfired....but hey, music...."
Crystal tries to snatch the keys again...
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Aggravated at the lack of success from her attempted jailbreak Momijii shook her head in aggravation and replied, "No, I don't." She focused and decided to try one more time to break the door. Her blow was so far off that she cried out in pain as her palm struck the door incorrectly. "Damn!" She looked at the doctor and demanded, "Hey, over here you sadistic fool, come and take on someone who isn't restrained. Or are you too much of an honor-less cur to do so?"
"Bah, there goes the easy way out."
Luxina begins tearing out the matress of its straw filling and trying to form a sort of torch from it, binding the straw together with another set of straws.
"Hope this works."
Crystal manages to swipe the key chain off the doctor, who doesn't notice because she snarls at turns on the restrained man. Her face shifts as she does so revealing something horrible! The creature is mottled grey and hairless, it's frame slender and frail, with gangly limbs and half-formed facial features. Worst of all its eyes are vacant and white.
The prisoners in the cells are forgotten as the monster chooses how to slay the historical man, who is screaming himself hoarse.
---> FAIL
---> FAIL
---> PASS
[dice=Lizzie "beads" Tamar']1d20+2[/dice] ---> PASS
---> FAIL
---> FAIL
Crystal, Filbert, Luxina & Momijii are spooked as per Fear & Sanity rules That's a -2 on perception and vs fear effects but +1 on init initiative checks. If the 'doctor' murders the man then you'll have to save again to avoid being shaken. Note this wont happen every fight, just when something particularly nasty happens.
Luxina ignites the torch she holds in her hands by using her will to ignite it.
"Hey ugly! Look what I've got."
Hope this works. I want that thing gone as soon as possible. I don't like it, not at all.
Crystal unlocks her own cell first, then will rush around to the other cells to unlock them.
"Hey over here! Someone can use this to fight!"
Luxina holds out the torch for anyone to grab and use as a weapon, until her cell door is opened though.
Crystal quickly opens her door freeing Lizzy and then she opens the southern door letting Momijii and Luxina out. Finally she races over to free Heinrich and Filbert. She turns to see the monster raise a smashed glass bottle high over the cowering man, clearly aiming to give him a particularly messy end!
Lizzie steps forward to grab an implement to use as a weapon.
Luxina moves out of the cell, trying to bypass any of the Doctor's possibilities to strike her, then thrusts the torch into the 'Doctor's face.
Agrippa surveys the situation, unknown assailant, unknown allies, unknown man on the table. Not a particularly brave man(or is he?), Agrippa hesitates to throw himself in harms way. Instead he opts to move towards what he hopes might be an exit.
Momijii was spooked by what she was seeing, there was no way that this...thing, was natural. She knew there was also no way that she would let the "doctor" kill this man if she could help it. Then, all of a sudden, the door swung open as a vaguely familiar human opened it with a key she'd somehow obtained. With a feral grin the woman's posture changed, she drew upon the power of...something, she wasn't sure what but her posture shifted to become aggressive and she stepped forward to the doctor. She gave a roar of anger as she slammed first one first forward and then the other in a one two combo.
Crystal glances back at the doctor & doppelganger squaring off (or rather, a doppelganger preparing to put a chunk of broken glass through a sadistic doctor's face), and grabs a fork to use as an improvised weapon.
She recoils a bit as the Tian woman roars in anger and starts throwing punches. Wow. Someone angrier than me.
Filbert still shaking his head at the botched shears transfer, is surprised as someone passes by opening the cell he is in. Looking up in surprise "T-thank Y-you."
She was one of those running from the fog, in m-my dream? How could that be I've never met her
Shaking his head to keep his self on task he looks around to find the Dr about to kill the man on the table.
Bits of straw from the jail cell begin swirling around the gnome. Gathering all of his 'haunts' to him, he concentrates and sends them directly at the Doctor.
"Oh!?!" the jeweler exclaims in surprise as he'd never done before.
Initiative rolls:
Combat order:
Luxina Tenebris
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie “Beads” Tamar
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The 'Doctor'
Momijii
Luxina tumbles out of the cell, trying to evade the monster's attentions, but the creature is too fast to be human and it's claws rake across her body leaving triple tracks of fire!
The monster then turns it's attention back to the man it was about to murder but before it can do that Filbert burst out of the cell and surprises everyone including himself. A whirlwind of debris blasts at the monster, rocking it back!
Lizzie finds a sharpened garden trowel covered with suspicious stains, not the best of weapons but for now it will have to do.
Heinrich moves to see what's round the corner and he finds a cold, iron furnace which hunkers in the corner of the basement, its four-foot-square door gaping half open. Nearby sprawls a heap of gory clothes and other dubiously flammable trash.
The monster almost casually notes the now armed Lizzie and with incredible speed is facing the gnome. It lashes out with it's awful filthy claws, Lizzie dodges one but the other catches her and opens her up from sternum to navel. The pain of it, oh gods the pain...
Momijii steps forward and punches the monster, her blow landing with a meaty thwack! The monster rocks back and Momijii's next blow goes wide. The monster sports several nasty looking bruises.
Luxina Tenebris <----- WE ARE HERE
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The 'Doctor'
Momijii
Crystal Delphi
Luxina Tenebris, Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar' and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Agrippa hears the fighting behind him and he hastily begins searching this area for something he might use to defend himself.
Trapped like a rat! is all he can think.
Luxina winces in pain as the claws raked across her body.
You've had worse...right? I'm not sure....
She continues her fiery attack on the fiendish doctor.
Despite the injuries, Lizzie somehow didn't want to back down.
"Come on people, there's a bad one to be punished for this."
Seeing the injuries that the creature is giving out to those in close proximity, the jeweler wisely backs away; yet when the other gnome calls for action, he begins gathering his haunts up once more directing again at the doctor.
Luxina's torch sears the monsters face, and it howls with pain and indignation - how dare inferior flesh inflict pain like this?
Filbert's haunts pick up a several small items and fling them with bone crunching force! The fiend reels back and lands more or less onto Lizzie's improvised weapon which cuts deeply! The monster screams and gets burned again by Luxina and slumps down on the floor. It twitches for a while but it's dead.
Combat over!
"Desna be praised, you killed her!" calls the man still partially strapped to the table, "Er a hand please? I can't get these restraints off."
Near the boiler, Henrich finds several bags stuffed full of gear, which you distribute among yourselves.