"Wait, what? Cutting up the dead?
That's monstrous! >:o "
A low moan escapes the lips of the trapped nurse.
Agrippa moves to investigate the door in front of him He cracks the Sunrod and hold it in front of him to illuminate his way.
Agrippa will open the door if he can.
Lizzie accompanies Heinrich.
"Wait a minute mister Heinrich, you can't march up there unprotected."
Shield raised before her, and mace at the ready, Lizzie walks alongside him.
The nurse moans softly, likely in great pain judging by the messy leg wound. As you approach her eyes flutter open and she rasps, "Water... Some water... Please?"
Crystal follows behind Heinrich, an arrow nocked.
The scene before her is an undoubtedly pitiable one, but something causes the hairs on her neck to stand on end.
"...wait. Something's wrong here."
Filbert currently trying to unstrap his waterskin looks at Crystal quizzically.
"Have you looked around there's a lot wrong here"
But her warning stays his hand.
From parched lips, the nurse croaks, "Please help?" She looks at you plaintively.
Hmm. Our undersized friend is quite correct, there isn't much here that IS right. However, we cannot in good conscience allow a sentient being to suffer...can we?
Agrippa puts his rapier away and moves to give the woman some water.
"Can't say what is amiss here except for the obvious. But regard this Heinrich. What are we after and would be in this direction? Changelings that's what. A healthy sense of caution is advisable, certainly when one of us seems to have apparent reason not to trust this."
Luxina stays away from the woman and draws her club.
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
Gosh I must sound awfully harsh right now. But I wouldn't have lived right now if I didn't have a healthy sense of distrust of others. certainly elves and most other folk as well. Not easy living as a dark-skinned elf that's not exactly a drow but often regarded as one. Prejudice... pah... Luckily I make my living in the dark places. Well used to make... where was I again? Oh right...Insanitorium of hell...
Momijii was horrified at the state of the bodies, that someone would cut strips from them was quite disturbing. Then again this whole place had been very disturbing so far so why should she be surprised at that? When they heard the low moan of the nurse Momijii's first thought was to go check on her and, as Heinrich began to go forward the monk agreed, he shouldn't risk himself like this, "Here, let me." She moved close to him and spoke quietly into his ear, "If something is wrong I'm better able to defend myself from the attack without a weapon than you are."
Agrippa shrugs off the help As if. he replies, his proud nature showing I'm quite capable.
"You're right, people shouldn't suffer needlessly."
Heinrich manages to pour a little water from his canteen for the elderly nurse. Much of it dribbles down her chin but some passes her patched lips and she perks up a little. In an uncertain and aged voice, she says, "Praise the gods, but you are a kind one! Let me take a closer look at you, my eyes are not what they where and I would know who I should thank."
Crystal coughs when the stench of rotting meat hits her nose.
Crystal is right, something is wrong here. But what ?!?!
However the stench of rotted meat is almost overpowering. "Deal with her quickly, the guards can tend to her long term...we need to leave here. This place is wrong."
Filbert will move back towards the hallway, to alert the guardsmen that a victim lies here.
Agrippa moves closer to the woman and says Wait. What's this, curious. No smells of putrefaction or defecation. Interesting. Agrippa steps away and watches the woman carefully
She looks at you with a puzzled expression and asks in a tremulous voice, "Is there something wrong?"
"What's wrong, Heinrich?", as the cautious man steps closer to the woman.
Looking at the woman, then back at the others, Lizzie's puzzled.
"You mean to say..she's been there, yet no sign of...erm, excrements?"
An expression of 'EW' shows on her face. For a reason she doesn't know, she steps back as well, it just seemed the logical thing to do.
Agrippa answers the questions put forward
Yes. There are many things currently wrong. However, the most pressing is the lack of olfactory evidence that you are in a most dire state.
to Lizzie, Agrippa retorts
Correct, my slight of build yet not slight of mind, friend. There is no excrement. However, we might be, as the saying goes, "hip deep in excrement" very soon.
Agrippa cautions everyone away from the woman.
Tell us good Madame. What is your name?
The old lady seems frightened by a group of obviously armed folk discussing such things and stammers, "Nn n n n Nurse Oathday. And and and. And you are whom?"
Filbert pays the woman little attention as he look back and forth between Agrippa's and Lizzie's conversation They want to discuss whether the old lady messed herself?? Shaking his head Filbert turns back towards the hallway continuing his previous action.
"Hey behind the barricade, there is a nurse up here. She's injured, once we move on you need to tend to her." at least if you have a decent bone in your body.
After a few moments the guards fetch their captain. You tell him what you found, only to get a sarcastic reply, "Really? You expect us to fall for that!? Pull the other one mate! There's no way some nurse managed to survive in these tunnels for nearly a week... I mean look around you, there's been more than one battle here as they tried to get in, and they sure have been hungry judging by the awful sounds that come at times."
If you do look around, what he says appears to be true. There are various suspicious staines, deep scratches and more then a few broken crossbow bolts.
"A WEEK!?!?!" Filbert exclaims. "We just woke up an hour? ago...
As he looks around, the evidence is surely over whelming that this isn't that just happened. Turning around
"I think you might want to back away Heinrich." Filbert says as he steps back beside Luxina, little bits and pieces of rubble beginning to swirl around the jeweler.
"A week huh? I wonder how we survived all this time while in the care of that mad changeling."
Things don't add up... My mind's racing to a conclusion of some sorts, but I can't grasp it. I have a feeling I know more... Bah... All this is making me crazy.... Luckily we're at the right place for that eh Lux?... Shut up...
Filberts warning rings out and the nurse stares at you all dumbly. For a heart beat nothing happens, then a look of feral glee crosses her face. With horrid fascination Heinrich watches as 'Nurse' Oathday's skin ripples and coarsens, revealing a monster with a long thin, horrid pink tongue and a gleaming blood-encrusted dagger. With a strange grating voice, the thing shrieks, "Doctor Oathday will see you now! I shall cure you of your inferior flesh!"
---> PASS
---> FAIL
---> PASS
---> PASS
---> PASS
---> FAIL
@Filbert & Momijii That sanity damage bypasses your Sanity edge so you pick up a lesser madness. You (well the group) were suspicious, you saw it coming, but that only made it worse! Captain York was right, there's monsters everywhere. Until you get a good nights sleep and can properly reflect upon things (and maybe after - up to you), you're going to find it hard to believe strangers are not actually blood sucking monsters. This includes Captain York and Co, takes one to know one right? For now I'd like you to RP this, rather than it having any specific game mechanic.
Doctor Oathday's 'surgery' is open!
Initiative rolls:
COMBAT ORDER
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Luxina Tenebris
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Doctor Oathsday
Good guys are up.
Crystal responds to the nurse transforming into a hideous monster the only way a rational person can. Namely, by opening fire.
Agrippa grabs some tinctures from his belt pouch and swallows them. Tastes..mucilaginous. Agrippa says and then Keep her busy, I'll make sure she sticks around
As Heinrich steps away from the creature to take his potions, Filbert unleashes the haunts surrounding him, at the creature. I knew it, I knew it I knwew it! "YOU"RE NO NURSE, MUCH LESS A DR!"
Afterwards he backs away from the 'DR'....
Momijii's relief was palpable when the woman didn't attack but instead began to talk to them. She felt a great deal of sympathy for her, trapped like that in this hell hole. When the guard told them just how long they'd been trapped in this place the she just couldn't believe it. She agreed with Luxina, here was no way they'd survived this long if they'd truly been here a week. Still, maybe there was something they weren't aware of at work, she certainly hoped so. She'd been so preoccupied with these thoughts that, when the nurse changed so horribly all of her worries were validated, the nurse was a monster, those guards could be too and, oh gods, so could her companions! Her eyes were wild as she decided that removing the one monster she was sure of would help settle her mind for now, she'd deal with the rest if she had to...please don't make me have to.
Assured now of her suspicions Momiji adopted her normal stance and, adopting the nature of a rampaging dragon, she charged through the terrain and her "allies" to try and take out the one monster that she knew was there.
[dice=charge at the "nurse"]1d20+6; 1d6+4[/dice]
"Away with you, you filthy mongrel!"
Luxina walks up to the 'doctor' and attempts to whack 'her' over the head with her club.
Lizzie's eyes grow in surprise.
"Not..not a normal nurse!! O_O
I will protect my friends, have at you!"
Filbert's haunts propel rubble at Dr Oathday, but their aim was off. He retreats to the far wall.
Luxina steps up the monster and lashes out with her club, taking it by surprise. The club connects with a meaty slap!
Lizzie draws her morningstar and sprints towards Dr Oathday, but skids to a halt just short due to all the rubble. Her weapon flicks out and hits the spot where the monster's head was moments before.
With a rush of wind, Momijii weaves sinuously between you and in a flying kick jumps over Lizzie and catches the 'Doctor' full on the chest!
Moments later the monster's throat sprouts the fetching of an arrow, accompanied by the twang-thwack of Crystal's bow!
Heinrich downs an alchemical preparation!
Doctor Oathsday shanks Momijii in the left arm, leaving a nasty cut, and then brushes past attempting to retreat!
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Luxina Tenebris
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Doctor Oathsday
Filbert Springbit, Luxina Tenebris, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Crystal Delphi and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Momijii converted the cry of pain as the horror before her left a nasty stab wound in her into a focusing shout as she turned the failed attempt to dodge the cut into momentum for a swing of her fist as her monstrous foe tried to flee.
Crystal takes another shot.
Lizzie steps back up to the freaky nurse.
"You hurt her!"
Luxina moves after the 'nurse' and tries to whack her again with her club, this time at her back.
"Nightmares should stay in dreams, not wander around freely in reality."
Moving to a clear shot before the other block them again Filbert slides to the left, , sending his haunts forth once more.
Pulling the shot at the last minute as Lizzie and Luxina move toward the nurse.
Agrippa spits his formulae at the fleeing "Doctor"
Stick around. he quips
As the doctor flees Momiji lashes out with a kick, but the pain distracts her and she misses.
Filbert's haunts fling several pebbles with great force in the general direction of the fleeing doctor, but the recoil nearly bowls him over and they go wide.
Luxina tries to chase after the doctor, but the rubble underfoot proves tricky and she nearly falls over while swinging her club.
Filbert Springbit
Luxina Tenebris
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii <----- WE ARE HERE
Crystal Delphi Action posted
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Action posted
Doctor Oathsday
Momijii is up.
Not planning to let one more monster go to hide and try and hurt her by surprise once more, Momijii stepped over and slammed both fists in rapid sequence at the fleeing thing, hoping that she could kill it quickly.
Momijii's fists pummel Oathday, rocking her back with sickening force. Crystal draws again and sends a second arrow slamming into Oathday's arm. The force was so great it went straight through. Oathday lets out an inhuman howl.
To add insult to injury, Heinrich spits a gobbet of something horrible all over her and she finds herself stuck fast!
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Luxina Tenebris
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Doctor Oathsday
Filbert Springbit, Luxina Tenebris, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Crystal Delphi and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
A small smile crosses Filbert's face as Agrippa spits at the fleeing creature, becoming a full fledged one as the creature is entangled in the fast setting goo. "Hah! never seen that before"
"come little ones, while they are stuck strike quickly"
Luxina whacks with her club at the now stuck 'Dr' Oathday.
Agrippa smirks and draws his crossbow
-Posted with Wayfinder
Lizzie looks in surprise, as Momiji comes jumping over her, to kick Doctor Freakshow in the chest.
"Whoa..how'd you...erm, never mind..i was busy attacking that evil doctor."
Filbert simply couldn't get a clean shot, too many bodies pummeling Oathday. Bleeding and screaming, Oathday gets turned to paste by the pummeling blows from Luxina and Lizzie. It's probably just as well the light is dim in here, for it makes a stomach churning scene. You lot most defiantly need a bath now, likely new clothes too.
COMBAT OVER
Crystal glares at the doppelganger corpse. "Well, that was a thing."
"We need to find someplace secure to rest for a bit, I think--Momijii's been badly wounded, and I'm spent of the most of Pharasma's favour."