switzerland ♔ the words tightening around my throat

[silverguardian]

WHO || Nyna, Cara, Felicity, Stiles
WHAT || The Knights are sent to hear about a prospective job from an art collector
WHERE || Bern, Switzerland
WHEN || April 13th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam

The streets of Bern swell with the myriad sights and scents of its industry: the wood and polish of carpenters' shops, tantalizing aromas wafting from dozens of bakeries, and the heavy oil scent of artists.  Meanwhile, hundreds of rich colors give the district an appearance of a holiday festival.  The townhouse of Asheron Coyl comes into view, perched on a small rise that overlooks the street.  A low fence covered in vines abuts the street.  A gate opens onto a flagstone path that wends past frozen flower beds, fountains, and sculpted shrubs to the front doors.  A bell hangs next to the gate, reading "Please ring bell" in several languages.  With an 11 disguise check, Nyna didn't really bother to dress all fancy, opting instead for her paladin armor, sorry guys.   She can be the sexy bodyguard.  

Comments

[killingtodeath]

God, I don't want to find out. [Stiles is gonna go hang with Alanna and door #2 tbh]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the paint is... a little wet. ]

[allmydreams]

[Felicity just wrinkles her nose, and if this is the main working area where he paints, she's willing to bet that whatever he has to make his paintings dangerous is in this room, so she's going to look for it (search 16).]

[druidisms]

Still wet. [ but like gus doesn't know how long paint takes to dry so ???? he's going to look around with felicity. (search 6) he's "helping". ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ /makes you wait 4 days to tell you that this search yields nothing. womp womp. ]

[allmydreams]

[Alas alack. but that leads them back to the conundrum of the painting again.]

Part of me says burn it - I don't think you can save someone from something like that. But the other part of me is going "maybe" ...

[It's the maybe that got Nyna killed yesterday. Sure, they managed to save Archerus, but they lost a knight. She studies it for a moment, before glancing to Gus.]

Your hand didn't dip in at all, or anything like that?

[druidisms]

Just the paint. [ and then gus makes the executive decision to torch the painting. :) (produce flame, 10 dmg) the flames leap from his palm to lick at the canvas. hope no one was trapped in there. oops, too bad, so sad. ] Ugly ass shit.

[behindcloseddoors]

[ as the painting burns to nothingness... abruptly a body comes tumbling out of it onto the floor. the dark haired man is chewed and stung half to a pulp - and definitely not anywhere in the vicinity of alive.

meanwhile stiles opens the door to... another guest room that looks like the ones downstairs. ]

[killingtodeath]

[Search 17, anything interesting in there???]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ nope :( ]

[trebond]

[ With a heal check of 20 total, Alanna inspects the body for ... anything??? ? ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ DEATH BY HELL WASP not by gus burninating the painting at least ]

[trebond]

He was dead before we touched the painting.

[ She shakes her head and, looking up, notices Stiles has moved on and goes after him. ]

[killingtodeath]

[Closing the door just as Alanna heads back his way.]

Nothing in this one.

[allmydreams]

Then let's leave him here and head back down the other hallway until we find Creeperangelo. We need to make sure this ends here.

[And she will start to head that way - hopefully everyone is with her?]

[trebond]

[ definitely with her! ]

[killingtodeath]

[Yep stiles is also going]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ felicity opens a door here that leads to a bedroom. a plush area rug covers part of the floor on the west side of the room. a long chest of drawers topped by a gilded mirror rests against the eastern side of the northern wall. a heavy dark oak desk occupies the eastern wall, and a wide armoire is centered against the southern wall. two paintings on the west wall depict horrible creatures - the first shows a huge monster with the thickly muscled, slime-covered lower body of a giant humanoid and the upper body of some sort of horrific squid with humanoid arms that split into five long, barbed tentacles. the portrait to the east is of a small, emaciated child holding a ragged, bloodstained doll. she wears a mischievous smile and has dark gaping holes where her eyes should be. a curious weapon rack on the western section of the north wall holds nearly a dozen pencil-thin rods of wood, stone, bone, and other less-identifiable materials. dark purple drapes partially cover narrow stained glass windows in the west and north walls. ]

[allmydreams]

[WHY IS IT ALWAYS CREEPY CHILDREN is pretty much her first thought, and she keeps her guns trained on those paintings in case they decide to come to life the second they enter the room. She then glances back over her shoulder at the weapon's rack.]

Anyone recognize any of those?

[Because she sure doesn't (knowledge 4).]

[trebond]

[ 13 if it's knowledge arcana? ? ? 15 if religion, 11 if history. otherwise lmfao 10 ... ]

[killingtodeath]

[Knowledge arcane lore 18 or general int 14.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ nope! it doesn't appear to be ... anything remotely real, just the product of a highly disturbed mind. ]

[trebond]

Not in the slightest. And I can't say I'm sorry about that.

[killingtodeath]

[Stiles will go check out those weapons, grabbing one of the rods to try to see just what it is.]

Should we torch them? Or are we going to try to peek inside for this guy we're still looking for?

[allmydreams]

[Felicity pauses before shaking her head.]

I'm pretty sure the guy we were looking for is the one that came out of the painting a couple rooms back. Let's torch these and keep moving until we find the painter.