You Won A Town. They LIVE!

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Looking at her, Adam sighes and sit down by her. He lays the shovel down so it's within easy reach and then... Well, he starts to talk.

"Now miss, I ain't gonna pry into why it is you're crying. That ain't right and proper of me and I was raised to be right and proper as best I could." Adam is staring up at the sky, noting the stars and moon in particular.
"But I am a gravedigger and gravekeeper by trade. I've seen many as has cried themselves until they crossed whatever waters was troubling them. I've also buried many, far too many, of those as couldn't let go of the past and let it tear them apart." He drones on, the words drifting in the air, solemn and calm.
"Miss, whatever is in your past that hurts you so, I beg you to please let go of it. If not all of it then at least some. Because in all honesty ya seem like a decent enough a sort and I don't want the things that plague you to drag you down so far that I end up having another grave to bring roses to every year. So whatever grieves you, just keep this in mind. The past is gone. The dead are dead and buried. That which is done is done. The only thing you can do..." The gravekeeper states simply, calmly, his voice the very hum of the wind in a cemetery on a clouded day, as he stands and holds his hand out to her. "Is keep moving forward and living. Because you owe nothing to them as is gone. They're gone. Ain't your fault and ain't nothing you can do to change it. So let go miss. Please."

 

[Demjou]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Tired, annoyed, and damp, Damien bids goodnight to the librarian and makes his way back to the apartment for a shower and some rest, giving the minions free reign till morning. Maybe tomorrow he can track down Brad and work things out or something.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Brad steps through the forest portal, and is taken aback by the weather. It feels like hurricane force winds are thrashing along the grass, with swirling clouds full of lightning. Fires are started by the lightning only to be extinguished by the rain. Brad snaps a few photos, and then goes to get the fuck out of dodge.

 

[Latewave]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Everyone except Brad heads to bed.

Brad however.
He ventures into the Forest portal, unaware of the danger that waits there. When he gets their It's storming and raging yes, but you can see it. The figure born of corruption. The first born. it's touch is rotting away the plant life around it. It's eye catch light of you and light up with pleasure. You are now it's prey.

Unluckily, or rather lucky for you a large branch gets blown off by the wind and slams you back through the portal. Breaking your leg but saving your life.

Gained
Broken Leg
Protection of the Winds F--

On the other side.

Tex spots you quickly.

"Ouch. What'd you get into a fight with? Cause that looks like it hurts. Luckily I do know some first aid. I'll treat you for the moment and we'll bring you to my sister."

Later on that night
Everyone is in Bed
Though Brad is rather medicated.

A Dream.

A skull with glowing green eyes. It's smiling face betrays the corruption spilling from it's mouth. It looks like it's laughing.

And you awaken to the second day.

What do you go off to do.

Save Brad that is bound to the city for a day or two.

EVENT
Biggs was hit by lightning.
Alpha took a bath.
Secretat watched his mistress sleep
Parer fixed a thing
Harriet got lost.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Brad wakes up from his drug induced sleep. He tries to sit up, but he seizes with pain. Fuckin shit. His leg is all bandaged up, and it feels like its broken pretty badly. He takes a moment to collect himself, and looks at the breakfast that his minions brought. Suddenly he remembers. Death, storm, a dark figure, the branch. THE CAMERA. He grabs for his camera, and takes a look at the most recent photos. He then yells at his minions, "Get everyone else in here right fuckin' now. I don't care if you have to drag them here. We need to talk." His minions then leave the room hurriedly and bang on the doors to everyone's room, and try to bring everyone to Brad's room.

 

[Demjou]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Idly ignoring the being of air attempting to drag him somewhere in favor of taking the time to get dressed and grab a few things, Damien finally follows the annoyingly insistent creature, calmly munching on the breakfast his increasingly lovable minions as he's led up a flight of stairs and to another apartment, where upon entering, he finds Brad reclining in a chair, a obvious injury on his legs seeming to have been partially treated and put in enough bandages to form a legion of mummies. Remembering the previous night, he feels he has to ask.

"Good morning. Uh...I didn't happen to cause that leg injury somehow, did I?"

 

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Adam wakes up and drags himself out of bed. He does a few stretches and sits down on the bed, inspecting the thing Parer fixed, patting the minion on the head and congratulating it on its craftsmanship and work ethic. Then, he follows the minion and nods his head at Damien and Brad.

"Mornin' to you gents."

 

[MasterBlade]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Adeline walks out of her room, silent and expressionless. She follows Adam with his minion duties, determined to get a word in.

"I morn not because of what I've lost, but what I am losing. This town binds me from my duties while my family dies without my presence. They are not gone, but if I cannot give what I owe, what they NEED, then I can only act as they slowly fade. And that I cannot let go of."

She then walks, with secretat, to the forest portal to check in on what damage might have been caused by Brad's tree.

 

[SupahKiven]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Hensworth opens his eyes with a sigh. Overslept again. Maybe it was because he was getting old. He glances over to his night stand where Alpha is sitting, asleep, in a glass of water. He smiles, patting the minion on the head. Alpha stirs, but doesn't awake. He pulls himself out of bed, surprised when he picks up on the insistent knocking. He pushes it open to find Brad's minion there. "Oh. Hi." He follows it to Brad's room. "Ah. Morning gents. What's the commotion?"

 

[Demjou]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"...Well. Someone's rather impatient. Didn't even wait to hear what you had to say. Biggs, Wedge. Would you two kindly go bring her back?"

Waiting till the two addressed minions have saluted and marched out the door to fulfill their orders before turning back to the others in the room, pulling out a coin to continue his magnetism practice.

"So. I spent yesterday exploring the forest outside of town. Found a new specimen, killed another one. What did you guys get up to? ...And seriously, I didn't break your leg, did I?"

 

[Latewave]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

And now everyone is in Brad's room for Briefing. Even Adeline who tries OC knowledge.

Bad Adeline.

Now you can talk now.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"About time all you fucks got here. Now shut up and listen. The only reason that my leg is broken is because, if it wasn't, I'd be dead right now." Brad waits for everyone to take it all in, then begins to talk once more.

"After Thoth went all batshit on me back at the fuckin library, I managed to book it out of there and went to the goddamn portal, thinkin that It'd be safer than a library full of tentacle rape chains. I was fuckin wrong. I go through the portal, and the first thing I see? Is this load of death defying horsedick." Brad then hands the camera around, allowing everyone to take a look at the photos of the storm and of the ring of death around the silhouette.

"That right there, WHATEVER THAT FUCKIN THING WAS, scared me fucking shitless. I fuckin saw it and I couldn't move my goddamn legs. Felt like my goddamn life was being eaten away. My vision started goin black just in time that I could see a fuckin tree branch nail me in the face, and back through the portal. Next thing I know, I'm back here and my leg is broken. Now I can't walk, and we have a motherfucking angel of death right outside our door. Now I called all of you asses here today to find out what the hell we're going to do about this. Any bright ideas?"

 

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Adam looks at the photos in a bit of shock. The... thing in the photos is absolutely horrendous. Looking up at Brad, Adam seems a bit lost in thought. It takes several small moments but eventually Adam thinks it all through and speaks up. "Alright, I can tell from the photographs that this is just inside that realm Hensworth, Adeline, and myself were at yesterdee. So, I'm thinkin' none of us head there for a day or two at least. Something like that seems like it'd be liable to stick around, especially after seeing something come through."

 

[SupahKiven]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Hensworth examines the picture and thinks for a moment. "Alright boy. First off, calm down. Swearing enough to build a ladder to high heaven ain't gonna help ya much." He looks at the photo again. "Maybe this thing is connected to that Corruption they mentioned before. Perhaps it's nocturnal. I don't remember seeing hide or hair of this creature thing at all yesterday."

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"Hold up... this corruption... does it look like black goo?"

 

[Demjou]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Well...it's certainly a detailed photo. "...Quite honestly, I'm surprised he's coherent enough to relay this after a experience like that. I don't think a chunk of swearing is out of line. Best thing to do would probably be to avoid that area at night for a while, maybe scout out the area during the day as a group. Personally though, I think at least one person should bring this to the library, see if we can find more information on what it is."

...Damn that thing is ugly...Huh, kinda reminds him of one of his ex's.

 

[SupahKiven]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"Yes, I suppose a bit of swearing is in order. That thing is uglier than a rat with the black plague. And as for the corruption, I'm not sure. I haven't seen any of it." Hensworth shrugs. "All I know 'bout it is that it's there in the forest realm and possibly in the other ones. Why?"

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"...Because I think I saw some." Brad checks on the camera, and yep, the black goo is there. He shows it to the group.

"I saw some of this near a cliff, and when I got close, golems formed nearby. They were tough bastards too."

 

[Demjou]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"Self-Animation, from a semi-liquid substance in response to your approach? Fascinating! Hmm, maybe if I find a way to properly contain it and prevent it from spreading I could retrieve a sample for study...But how to do that...maybe gravity modules? Or perhaps a vacuum? Or maybe..."

...Yup. He's off on another tangent.

 

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"Alright then, if we're planning on scoutin' at day and plannin' at night, I'm reckonin' we gather some medical supplies from the shop and see about gettin' some information from Thoth if possible. Don't want to take no risks ifn' we can." Adam states calmly.

 

[SupahKiven]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Hensworth lays a hand on Damien's shoulder. "Hey, son, let's uh... let's save the science for when we actually have it, alright? In the mean time, why don't we figure out how we're going to deal with this goo." He nods at Adam. "Alright, that's a good start." Hensworth suddenly perks up, as if he's got an idea. "Hey, I just remembered something. There's still that thing in the forest. The uh... bug thing. Bug queen spawn thing. Adam, what's that thing called?" He elbows Adam lightly. "Remember the thing that Uthane talked about?"

 

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"Aye, that I do. Broodmother. More specifically, broodmother to them beetles we fought yesterdee." Adam nods, head tilted slightly right as he thinks back. "It's infesting Uthane's forges and he's asked us to at least clear them out since we won't be able to find the things we need to get them back no otherwise."

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Brad's face turns white after a moment. "Oh fuck me. There was something else there too, after I killed the golems. It looked like a... wolf monster or some shit. It was there, across the gorge, and then it was... gone."

"Nobody goes back into that portal until we find out what the hell we signed up for alright? I'm not gonna let anyone die because of this shit. What we need to do now is find out what this is, and how we stop it. I hate to go to that pretentious fuck, but I need to see Thoth. Anyone wanna give me a lift?"

 

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"Hold on now, you can't go wandering around with that leg." Mori says suddenly, calming Brad down. "Now if'n you need to talk to Thoth that bad I'll go get him and inform him of what you've discovered. In the meantime though, you're staying here till that leg fixes up." Adam then looks around and comes to a realization. "We gotta warn everyone in town to stay away from the basic forest portal. That thing, whatever it is, is probably sticking around waiting. So if we're done here, I'll head out and get Thoth for Brad here fore I grab some supplies and head off to that water portal. I'm thinking we should at least map out the immediate areas of the other two fore we make any concrete decisions."

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"No, I need to talk to Thoth about some other stuff too. It'll be easier if I go to him."

 

[SupahKiven]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Hensworth strokes his chin. "Wolf thing? Hmm... Yes, I suppose the best course of action would be to ask about these things before heading anywhere but town." Hensworth reaches for Brad. "Don't worry boy, I'll be gentle. We'll have you back in bed before you can say 'What in the name of Colonel Sanders.'" He grabs Brad and picks him up bridal style. "C'mon gents, we've got questions to ask." Hensworth causally strolls out of the room.

 

[Moronis]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

"I'm right behind ya there Hensworth." Adam says simple and quick, following on the big man's heels just as Aider stops him by tugging on his shirt. "Hmm? What is it Aider?" Adams asks, wondering what the minion is concerned about.

"What we do while Lord is gone?" Aider grumbles out, slight worry showing in his eyes.

"Nah you stop that. I am not your Lord. I'm just Adam. A gravedigger. But if you're that concerned, I'm reckoning you ask around town and see if there's anything you and the lads can fix, alright? Now take care o' yerselves. I'll be back fore the day is out." Adam chuckles and pats the worried earth child on the head before finally leaving the apartments and heading to the library.

 

[Demjou]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

Watching as Hensworth carries Brad out of the apartment, Damien turns to Adam hoping he can answer why he's trying to take Brad back to bed that way, only to see Adeline still where she was set down. Quiet, still, and unresponsive, it seems strangely...wrong for her to be in this state, though she's much more tolerable this way.

Knelling down in front of her, he gives her head a mild prod. "Hey. You okay? Hello, anyone in there? Hey, Adam, any ideas man? Adam? Where did he go damn it!" Turning back with a sigh he continues prodding her a bit, wondering if he's gonna have to shock her awake, or carry her somewhere. Bad karma just leaving a girl in a dudes house like this. Even if he isn't home at the moment and probably could care less about her.

"Tesla. Would you go follow those guys, and keep video and audio logs? I get the feeling I'm gonna be here for a bit."

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

As he leaves, Brad looks at his minions more clearly for the first time since yesterday. They look... different than before.

Martin stands (floats???) taller than the others now, and the orb in his chest glows more brightly now, as do his eyes. His arms are longer, and his fingers(??) are long and slender now.

Joan is darker now. As in literally darker. Her form looks like a dark stormcloud, and the orb in her chest has gotten longer, more elliptical. She's sparkly too, but not in a nice way. It looks like tiny ice crystals are forming within her form.

Carl, is also darker. And it looks like he's put on some weight. He's wider now, and his form is more windy than cloudy. His eyes are farther apart, and the orb in his chest... looks like it split into two smaller ones.

Harriet looks... well she looks a bit less now. Some of her darker clouds have lightened up, and she looks more like fog now. Her chest orb has gotten flatter too.

Finally, Florence looks like cotton candy now. Her clouds, like Harriet's, have gotten lighter, but also more puffy, like a cumulus cloud. Her eyes and orb also got a bit brighter.

 

[Latewave]

Re: You Won A Town. Night falls. Do as you wish.

With the Trio of Brad, Hensworth, and Adam.

They have reached the Library.

Say hello to Thoth.

Hello Thoth.

With Adeline the Comatose, and Damien the White Knight.(Not really.)
Basically Damien is poking Adeline. Might he try Water?