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]

One... two...

[oh shit]

Three.

[Now or never, team]

[pickyourbattles]

[ annnnnnd off they go~!

♬ flesh - stanton shows

the cloying fog closes in around them as they vanish into the thick mist.

when they come through, they find themselves with the mist behind them, as well as a set of big black iron gates, as if they just walked through them. they're standing on a cobblestone path or road, surrounded by oppressive blackened dense trees. it seems to be twilight, and feels like late fall. the air feels wet, and nathan stands a few feet in front of them, looking down at what appear to be five bodies splayed out across the road. the dead bodies all wear very bright, flowing, poofy clothing, stained with blood and gore now, as if they'd been savaged by a pack of wild wolves.

dovan is nowhere in sight. ]

[somepagesturn]

Oh my gods. [Paige, in true cleric faction, runs over to the bodies to see if any of them can be helped, forgetting that Nathan upset her.] Nathan, are you all right? Are they-

[She looks around.] Where is Sir Dovan?

[autorevive]

[nathan doesn't say anything immediately because he is shellshocked and might be experiencing some form of ptsd. NOT MORE DEAD PEOPLE. life is really hard for him udek.]

Looks like a werewolf did it, yeah? The bloke my mum was seeing was a werewolf but he was a twat.

[olreliable]

It could be a lot of things. [Willow pipes up, a little defensive that the first thought is werewolves. She knows some nice werewolves, okay.] I mean-- we should probably find out more about what happened before we make any assumptions about what we're looking out for.

[wanttobeahero]

Willow's right, this could be...anything. [ And he's also really fond of Cora, who is also a werewolf, so maybe he's feeling slightly defensive as well. ]

I hope Sir Dovan is okay. [ He takes a step closer to one of the bodies, kneeling, not really wanting to look, but maybe there's a clue or some sort of useful information nearby. He's worried, thinking about Sir Dovan possibly out there with whatever did this to these people. ]

[pickyourbattles]

[ make a knowledge (nature) check, henry~ ] Did everyone, er, bring a weapon?

[wanttobeahero]

[ With a knowledge (nature) check of 15, Henry peers a little closer, hoping to find something helpful. He answers Aurelius while he's at it, though. ] I have a knife with me.

[pickyourbattles]

[ it's enough to see that the wolves or whatever seem to have killed them, but not actually... mauled them to eat them. which is weird.

he would also find a scrap of paper on one of them and a map on another. ] What are those?

[somepagesturn]

I have my whip, but- [OOOH stuff. Paige gathers around Henry to see for herself.]

[olreliable]

Just a knife and some spell stuff over here. [But she's also super curious about what Henry might have found.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ Standing up, Henry holds both pieces of paper out so it's easy for everyone to see. ] There's a letter here, and a map.

These people - whatever attacked them, it just...killed them. It doesn't look like they wanted to eat them. [ Which wouldn't be normal for a wolf. ]

[somepagesturn]

They were going to save that woman I bet. [She looks pleadingly at Aurelius and the others.] Oh, we can't just ignore this. Maybe the people in the village know where to find Dovan.

[autorevive]

[just blurts out several seconds late] I have grenades!

[olreliable]

[Slow head turn towards Nathan.]

Maybe don't jump right to grenades. But we should definitely try to find out what happened. And we have a map! Which should help, right?

[pickyourbattles]

Barovia... [ aurelius frowns deeply at the name. ] I know this land. It's found on another continent in the world I hail from - from the Shadow World. [ he looks up, taking a concerned second look at the landscape ] We're actually here.

[autorevive]

So we're at your place? [he wrinkles his nose and instantly blames aurelius for why they are not dinosaur vikings rn.]

[somepagesturn]

Well, at least you're familiar with.... the customs. [you know, the... outdated weird shadow world customs.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ This is both amazing and concerning - he doesn't miss the look in Aurelius's eyes - but it's probably better not to stick around these bodies for too long. ]

Should we...check out the village then, or head somewhere else?

[olreliable]

I'm voting village. [Are they voting? Who knows.] We can try to talk to people to see if anyone has any more information. Or if anyone has seen Dovan.

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius nods numbly ] Yes, that's... likely for the best. [ he frowns down at the bodies. ] And I certainly wouldn't call myself familiar with this land. I hail from another continent entirely. Barovia has always been a mysterious and insular community - there's not even that much about it in the books I've read.

[somepagesturn]

Better than all of us. [she looks at her... bright pink camo jacket.] Let's get going. The sooner we make it to the village, the sooner we can find Sir Dovan.

[autorevive]

So we're in South Korea? [north, nathan. NORTH.] Well, fuck. Good thing I packed that holy water.

[olreliable]

[Willow's eyebrows raise slowly. Not much in books? She knows how many books Aur tends to read, so that's saying something.]

We'll just have to be... extra careful.

[She takes a look at the map and turns around to get her bearings... then lands a nat 20 nav check, so apparently she knows exactly where they are and where to go.]

I think... that way.

[pickyourbattles]

Just... stay alert. One thing I do know about my world versus yours is that monsters are ... much more common.