Yes! Quiet...finally. I forgot my earplugs at home. Poor guys...too bad a priest can't cure them. If it can be, that is. What's behind door number 3? the gnome says as she follows Raynard into the room.
The doors to both stairwells hang open, and chained to each landing at the top of the stairs within is a single lunatic. As with those in area D1, they begin shrieking as soon as they see you approach.
Tiny Pebble is at his master's side.
(Tremor Sense 60')
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"Nectanebo take the sword from Pai's haversack. It might come in handy. We need to ... get out of here. Is everyone ready to move?"
Nectanebo seems to have already appropriated the sword somewhere along the way. He gives the screaming meemies on the ground one last look before moving on with a hunch of his coat-laden shoulders (again showcasing but one of the reasons for his "title"), his coat either tightening or being tightened around himself once more as he does so.
Yeah...let's get this over with...this place is making me cranky...not a good thing... Lini says her brow furrowing.
But I'm shutting these guys up...gonna drive me nutty...and wind up in here... she says as she gags the inmates.
[b]downstairs works for me too[/ooc]
Tiny Pebble gives Pai a thumbs up and a wink after a quick conversation with Igor in Terran.
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Igor nods as the other prepare for the action ahead.
"Not to worry Pai. We have our eyes open here and our feelers to the ground so to speak. The action is all downstairs but I feel that there is something important that we need to find here. Call it a hunch."
"We should move on and clear the ground floor as soon as we can."
D6. Storage: This room, as well as two of its three closets, are used to store all manner of mundane equipment used in the asylum (primarily leather, buckles, chains, ropes, and tools). The westernmost closet is a toilet. This room serves as a hideout for 2 lunatics who have recently murdered a third and are playing (imaginary) cards over his body and using
pieces of him as gambling chits.
They look up at Raynard as he opens the door, scream, and attack. The first graps a mop, and the second has decided to fight with a bottle of something, perhaps a disinfectant.
Tiny Pebble runs into the room and attempts to slam the closest crazy (Blue) back down to the ground.
Hang on Droogi...can't get in there right now...you'll have to wait. Go back up Pebble and Raynard...if one of them backs out...go get the baddies![/b]
Ceilings are about 10' high.
@Pai - do you have access to the map? You don't even have line of sight on either of the foes.
Igor moves in, but misses his target. Igor slams red with a blast of energy, and then Raynard easily cuts him down. Red falls with a grunt.
In that case, Pai's electroshock is more than the remaining inmate can handle, and as his eyes roll into the back of his head, he drops like a bag of wet goo.
There is nothing of real value in here.
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Pai's all conflicted for a moment. Sure, that was a grisly murder that just happened in there, but...that statement could apply to what she just did, too. To be better than them, I have to have better reasons. Is that enough? Quietly, she flies out of the room and asks: "Where to next? Surely we don't have to kill everyone here, but they're all bound to be confused and angry and unreasonable. They weren't already executed for reasons."
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Igor shakes his head in resignation at Pai's comments.
"Leaving people in that state in worse than death. I am not saying that we should be aiming at eliminating these crazy people but we have the right to defend ourselves at the very least."
"We need to be here to help save the city. We have little choice in the matter."
We should just bind them so they can't hurt themselves or others. then when we're done here, we can send in the city officials and they can deal with the poor souls. I'm not having any blood spilled because of someone's madness unless necessary.
On it.. Lini says, grabbing some rope and binding the inmates and tending to their wounds.[/ooc]+11 Heal..is that autostabilize with a take 10[/ooc]
Igor checks the inmates, and one is dead but the other may yet survive. Applying bandages and ropes, he is now secure.
Lini notices that while she doesn't have the time or skill to truly understand these lunatics' psychoses, there seems to be more at work here than is typically natural. Perhaps some may have been docile before they were committed, but she guesses that the treatments they endured have resulted in violent temperaments and a universal disregard for safety.
Lini's face turns a bit dark after examining the inmates.
Someone needs to have a reckoning and pay for his misdeeds. Droogi, we have a real bad man to go see...you ready, pal? she says to her companion. Droogi growls in acknowledgement.
Let's go.. she implores the others as she heads to the west.
D7. Library: This room contains a wealth of books covering madness, its causes and treatments, and many other grisly topics like anatomy, necrology, and studies of deformity and disease. Many of the books here hint at the Old Gods and their cults, but none are specifically related to the troubles currently plaguing Carrion Hill.
A single lunatic hides under the northern table, ogling a well-illustrated book that catalogs methods of torture. He giggles with glee!
D11. Lecture Room: Five lunatics are here; one stands at the podium to the east end, whispering nonsense and gibberish to the other four who sit in rapt attention in the audience. All five lunatics shriek and rise to attack, producing homemade knives made from broken chair legs and sharpened bones when they do so.
We'll come back to this guy, Droogi...the others need us I think...come on! Lini says as eh heads in to deal with the room of inmates.
Watch that room though...there was one guy there...didn't want to leave you guys shorthanded.
Two sets of stairs lead up the sides of a stage. They are up on the stage.
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Her brow darkening, Pai growls: "So Keeper Crove is abusing people until they turn into monsters? Now I don't feel so bad about what we have to do to him. Let's get moving, before the slug shows up."
Nectanebo nods gravely once he catches up. "Well that's not very nice, is it? Not very sporting, either..." His gaze wanders over to the dismembered corpse the other two had been gambling over (and with parts of?), and the frayed ends of his long coat begin swaying in some otherworldly wind. "YOU THERE. We're off to get revenge. Want in...?"
Just like that, the dismembered corpse reassembles itself (however imperfectly), ravaged flesh sloughing off fresh, bloody white bone, and rises to the Vulture's side!
Nectanebo and his latest 'find' make their way to the library, prepared for battle but keeping a cautious distance to start with.
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Igor thinks of sitting this one out but decides to go in shrugging his shoulders as he enters the room behind the others.
"Very well." He half mumbles to himself. It is clear that he is not pleased to be using his limited magical resources on these madmen as opposed to more worthy opponents.
He launches a force missile at a random madman (Yellow).
The elemental stays close to his master and is ready to pummel any of the crazed lunatics if they get into range.
Igor drops one where he stands, not killing him, but the lunatic lies on the floor crying.
Pink and green both grab chair legs and move to attack. Droogi tries to react, but the haphazard movements of the man keep the cat confused.
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Leaving the maniacal man in the library, Pai flies down the hall to help her teammates. She enters at the top of the door, sees that there's an attacker *right there*--"Eeep! Yikes!"--and slowly backs away diagonally toward the ceiling, hoping to avoid getting hit. She stops in a good place to send an electric blast right in his face.