romania ♔ in the end of the night i can feel you breathe

[pickyourbattles]

♬ Night - Zola Jesus

WHO || Willow, Paige, Nathan, Henry, Aurelius, Dovan [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights travel to Romania to investigate a mysterious, magical fog
WHERE || Romania
WHEN || April 11th [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

February in Romania isn't very comfortable, so hopefully everyone bundled up for this little trip into the countryside.  The appearance of a mysterious bank of fog into which several locals have gone inexplicably missing upon entering, has caused Wynn to speculate that it might be connected to the mist that appears when the Veil brings people from other worlds.  Could this be the first instance of a door going the other way?  If so, here's hoping it's a round trip...

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[olreliable]

[Pauses near Aurelius so that she can help him with the equipment if he needs it. Mostly she's just staring at the fog and trying not to shake in her boots- with fear and excitement both?? It's a confusing time for the little witch.]

Right! So transmitting. [And not thinking about the 'in case' part if they can avoid it.] We should do that.

[autorevive]

Right, you nerds get on with that — meanwhile, I've brought whiskey. [he pulls a flask out of his backpack. yes he's dora the explorer.] God, I hope we don't run into gypsies.

[pickyourbattles]

[ with a 19 computer use check, aurelius gets the equipment out and set up with some assistance from willow, turning the machine on and setting the frequencies. ] We'll need to plant down these stakes at the edges of the fog.

[somepagesturn]

Ooh! I'll take them. [Paige is just... eager to help over here.]

[olreliable]

[Willow grins at Paige. Such a helper. She stays near the equipment, looking over everything, so intrigued by it all.]

What sort of data does this stuff even collect?

[wanttobeahero]

[ Henry's standing fairly close - not wanting to hover, but curious and intrigued - and ready to help if it seems like they need it, though for the moment, it seems better not to get in the way unless asked for help. ]

[pickyourbattles]

You know, I'm... not actually sure. I can't say I particularly understand it all. Sir Trinall talks about magic in terms of vectors and quantum ... fields, and who knows what else.

[autorevive]

[nathan has already decided to take a seat with his flask while all the nerds do the nerd-work.] So you don't actually have a bloody clue what you're doing?

[BETRAYED. by nerds.]

[olreliable]

Hey! [Willow shoots Nathan an annoyed look.]

Maybe I can help? Not that I understand...all that stuff, but I get some of it? [computer geek over here yo. And idk she's been working with zero so maybe she knows more about a thing.]

[somepagesturn]

Be nice! [Paige yells from over here, as she sets up her stakes.] We're teammates. Let's see some teamwork here.

[she puts in the last one and gestures to Willow.] Willow's got the right idea.

[ironsides]

Lis'sa said we just have to turn it on and it'll send all the information back to her lab! But go ahead and help the lad, don't see how it can hurt. [ he grabs one of the sticks and moves to plant it in the ground, nodding for the others to do the same while will and aurelius fiddle with the readout ]

[autorevive]

[UGH FINE. HELPING. nathan grabs a stick, gets close to aurelius, and decides to brighten his day with] D'ya reckon one of these would fit up an anus?

[olreliable]

[With computer use of 23 and knowledge technology of 28, I just assume that Willow becomes an expert on this device while they are setting up the sticks. She pauses briefly to glance up at Nathan and look horrified.]

[pickyourbattles]

E-excuse me? [ oh my god no you're going to break him ]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige pulls her whip out and cracks it on the ground... probably nowhere near Nathan, because she rolled an 8 attack, but SHE WASN'T TRYING TO HIT HIM SO IT'S OKAY. She just wanted the crack noise to get his attention.] Leave the poor boy alone. I'm not above giving you a good switching.

[autorevive]

[nathan laughs with shocked glee.] Shit!! I didn't realize we had a dominatrix in our ranks!

[somepagesturn]

[TURNS RED.] Wh-what?

[autorevive]

[through fits of laughter...] You're a bloody torture mistress!

[ironsides]

Now, now, minds out of th' gutter, children. We've a job to do.

[somepagesturn]

[Paige awkwardly rolls her whip back up so she can attach it to her hip, still beet red.]

[olreliable]

[Willow will just turn the machine on to try to... forget about ... what just happened.]

[autorevive]

[nathan puts the stick in the ground and stops trying to torture ppl. bless.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ Thinking it wise to just not say anything at all - and also hiding his expression of partial horror because Why an anus? - after Henry gets his stick planted in the ground, he clears his throat and straightens, folding his arms loosely over his chest. ]

[pickyourbattles]

[ when they draw near enough to the fog line to plant the sticks, they'd each feel a chill of dread creep up their spine as they found themselves sensing the cold radiating off from the mist. for all the times in their lives that they've walked through fog, they would find this particularly surreal - as it doesn't move away in front of them, but rather sits there firmly in place, almost like a wall.

aurelius and willow spool up the machinery, and soft red lights flicker up at the tops of each pole. numbers began flashing across the readout, and there's a soft beeping noise intermittently as it transmits all the data it's picking up instantly back to knights hq. willow is able to interpret the data more or less as it scrolls by, enough to recognize that something is very, very weird here. this is something some very powerful magic, enough to be pretty much throwing off the machine, going beyond what it's capable of registering. ]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige backs away from the wall of mist, frowning deeply, as her hand goes to her cleric symbol pinned to her chest.] D-do you feel that?