glastonbury ♔ they came snapping at your heels

[behindcloseddoors]

See You Soon- Coldplay

WHO || Faye, Lila, Gold? [closed]
WHAT || Faye finally has a clue to Gold's location, and goes to confront him about his absence
WHERE || Glastonbury, England
WHEN || After this
HOW || Actionspam

[ Gold's been gone now for long enough to leave most people assuming that he isn't going to come back. Driven off by confirmation that he was, in fact, the Dark One from the Enchanted Forest by Gaston and Emma, the only indication that he's even alive came in a dream delivered to Belle, where he admitted that he was looking to understand more about this Dark One, perhaps seeking a way to refute the claims of the others. Plenty of people are worried, however, about what direction his search might take him. Others, however, are just plain pissed that he would abandon them without a word - and it's that anger that drove Faye to ally with GLADOS to discover that he was in Glastonbury, and with Lila's help enlist Zero to pinpoint his exact last known whereabouts, at a shitty motel. Together, the girls take a car and head out, hoping to find him once and for all.

There's only one car in the lot when they pull in, the VACANCY sign flashing forlornly above the office door. No lights are visible in any of the rooms, but a COKE machine provides some illumination, along with the lone pair of streetlamps that dully lighten the parking lot. ]

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[bittersweeter]

[ with another cursory glance that reveals nothing else, lila leads them back to the car, pocketing the room key in case they need to come back. ]

Does it say what it is? [ she starts up the car to drive them to the next location (drive 17), visibly irritated by the runaround. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the phone just shows it as an address, no particular business or anything. it seems to be vaguely out in the middle of nowhere, however. ]

[reallywicked]

Of course not. [She shows her the map] It's basically nowhere.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila looks horrified. gross. nature. ] Maybe he's fucking around with the Unabomber. [ forever bitter in regards to constantine's lack of cell phone. WHAT KIND OF PERSON.

but off she drives, zoom! ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ off they drive, into the countryside, and the address takes them to what appears to be a very creepy farmhouse set in front of the woods. one car is parked in the driveway. rustling leaves blow across the lawn, providing a splash of color to what otherwise seems like a dreary black and white photograph of a place.

make wisdom checks when they get out plz ]

[reallywicked]

[Well Faye got a nat 20. Wisdoming the shit out of this right now I guess.]

[bittersweeter]

[ wis 19, lila steps out of the car like i'm having some serious trauma flashbacks to black and white land and i don't like it. whispers unabomber. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ there's something

off

about this place.

it's in the very air, as if it hangs with a sense of real dread. faye would even go as far as to say it's evil magic. ]

[reallywicked]

Stay behind me, alright? [ if this is going to get weird, Faye isn't letting Lila get hit with anything first. But she'll start to approach the other car to see if there's a way to confirm that Gold brough it here, spot 17]

[bittersweeter]

[ in that case, lila will draw her excalibur. sorry if she accidentally shoots gold. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the only things visible in the car are some maps, laying on top of some printouts.

the doors are locked. ]

[reallywicked]

[But can Mage Hand be used to lift something small in the car to hit the power locks? Maybe??]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ suuure idk what but something. tada. ]

[reallywicked]

[Gonna take a closer look at those maps and print outs then k thx]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the maps seem to be of various locations around england, most of which seem to be in the middle of nowhere. one is of this farm and has a circle scrawled on it in the woods with the word "WELL" written next to it.

the printouts seem to be basic internet research, all on a theme, talking about 'corruption' and 'taint'. ]

[bittersweeter]

What is it? [ 'cause lila isn't looking at the papers, looking around instead in case the fucking benders come out to say hi. (spot 16, listen 20 total) ]

[reallywicked]

Pretty sure he's looking for a well. And this place is officially the creepiest in existence. Crazy dark magic.

[Between her bad feeling and the research she's not excited.]

[bittersweeter]

A well. [ she rolls her eyes so hard, before reaching out to cast mage armor on faye (+4 to ac for 6 hours) and then on herself, the magic shimmering around them both for a moment as she murmurs in russian before it fades. ] Well, let's go fucking find it.

[reallywicked]

[Aww thanks for the AC boost girl. Time to... try to read a map, I guess. This is not Faye's strong suit, so... (navigate 14)]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ looking glass - amber asylum

out through the woods they go, following a narrow track that winds through them. the eeriness of the place only intensifies as they get deeper within among the skeletal looking trees. they actually have to make will saves (DC 20) or be shaken as they continue on. anything less than a 10 would stop them dead in their tracks.

a wisdom check of 17+ would be enough to catch that even though they can hear the faint rustling of leaves around them everywhere, they feel no wind whatsoever. ]

[reallywicked]

[Faye has nerves of steel!! (will 21) But dear god this is creepy. She bombed her wis check, though, so she's just hella focused on trying to find this well right now. Ain't got no time for this creepy rustling nonsense.]

[bittersweeter]

[ after facing the gloom golem, lila seems to have become completely immune to being creeped out by literally anything. (will save nat 20, 36 total) can't out nightmare the nightmare queen.

she glances around as they walk, noting the lack of wind. (wis 22) that's weird, like odd nightmare physics weird. maybe it's a spell??? (spellcraft 38) ]

If we get killed for Gold, I swear to every single god I will personally murder you.

[ don't... try to logic that. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ it doesn't strike her as any spell she's ever heard of. but there's something about it that screams that it's magical in nature.

they finally come across a small clearing ahead, where there is, indeed, a creepy overgrown well that seems to have branches snaking into it off from all the trees around it... all of which have entirely blackened trunks, whose bark seems to be twisted into nightmarish visages of screaming faces, when glanced at.

a figure stands with his back to them... the familiar suited outline of gold, his cane in one hand, his other gripping the edge of the well as he looks it over. ]

[reallywicked]

[Faye doesn't say anything in response to Lila's threat. She doesn't want any of them to die, okay. But least of all Lila. She didn't have to come on this crazy trip with her.

As they find the clearing and she spots what looks like Gold, Faye is her usual impulsive self. Taking a few steps forward ahead of Lila, she just... calls out to him.]

Gold!

[Yes, this is the best plan]

[bittersweeter]

Faye! [ she reaches out to stop faye, but she's already gone and shouted gold's name so her hand drops to her side instead. okay, that's a plan. ]