scotland ♔ yet how the wind revives us here

[untethered]

♬ Presentiment - Manami Kiyota

WHO || Belle, Gold, Emma, Hook, Lila [closed]
WHAT || Several Knights take a secret journey to try to help Amara...
WHERE || Oakhurst, Scotland
WHEN || January 15th, 2014 [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam

It's probably a very good thing that Gold sweet-talked them a car in the nearby tiny Scottish village of Oakhurst, because it is freezing cold out and snow blankets almost everything around. Walking the seven miles up the Old Road to the ruins would be a bitch and a half.

Instead, they comfortably drove past rocky downs, near stands of old-growth oak covered in snow, and past two farms that looked abandoned. No other travelers were visible on the lonely road, which finally curves, passing east of a narrow ravine. Belle signals for them to pull over here, where, at the road's closest approach to the cleft, several broken pillars jut from the earth where the ravine widens and opens into something akin to more of a deep, but narrow, cavern. Two of the pillars stand straight, but most of them lean against the sloped earth. Others are broken and several have apparently fallen into the darkness-shrouded depths. A few similar pillars are visible on the opposite side of the ravine.

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[untethered]

[ the other trees lumber towards him, outstretching their wooden claws, (atk 14, 15, 9, and 6) but none of them can touch hook. erky rolls awake instantly, reaching over for his morningstar and getting to his feet. "Eh? What now?"

belle also wakes instantly from the shout, and pulls out her sword, uncertain of what's intruding, and prepared with something other than bullets, in case it's a skeleton. she also gets to her feet. ]

What is it?

[uncurse]

[ well emma wakes up and grabs her gun and runs to where she can view the trees approaching in the hallway, but in her groggy hurry, when she fires off a shot, it just chips off a piece of stone in the ceiling (atk 12). that's also her way of announcing that she has hook's back apparently. ]

[unhand]

[Hook slashes ineffectually at the closest tree (atk 7) before stepping back five feet and leveling his gun at the same tree (atk 16, dmg 8).]

[untethered]

[ he shoots, he scores! tree has all of 1 hit point left, and steps closer to him, but continues to fail it up (atk 8, 18) ]

[untethered]

[ well since hook has backed out of the doorway, trees are gonna come in and one will rake at emma, while the other attacks hook. aw yis natural weapons not provoking attacks of opp. B) tree4 whiffs once and then strikes emma (atk 17, 1 dmg! fort save dc 16 or another point of damage for a whopping two). the other tree can't even touch hook, he's just too dashing or something.

erky comes CHARGING past emma and slams his morningstar into the tree's sort of face type thing with a mighty clang (nat 20!!) and the twig blight is knocked to the ground, down for the count. aw yis.

belle moves to try to stab one of the trees on hook, but it moves aside and her blade strikes air ]

[uncurse]

[ with a fort save of 17, emma takes no poison damage! her body was like fuck this we have enough of this shit right now we don't want your gift with purchase. but she's apparently caught off guard by being attacked by a fucking tree, because when she takes a 5-foot step back and fires off her weapon again, it goes wide (atk 13). ]

[unhand]

[Hook slashes his hook at that asshole tree that hurt Emma and apparently the rage at having his one true love stabbed makes his attack pretty effective (atk 21, dmg.... 2). Unless that's the tree Erky downed. Then I guess he's just taking out his anger on a different tree. Then he steps back five feet and shoots at the same tree, but the bullet goes too high (atk 9).]

[untethered]

[ tree blight 2 keeps on keeping on at hook, but he slips past both its claws like a greasy eel. ]

[untethered]

[ tree blight 3 says FUCK THIS SHIT and critically rakes hook across the face for being racist and unable to tell trees apart. for... 1 dmg, and make the fort save. erky's morningstar whizzes past the tree, and belle makes another ineffectual stab, go team. ]

[bittersweeter]

[ IT'S ALIIIIIIVE. although still useless because lila wakes up with a startled shriek, tears damp on her cheeks. she scrambles to her feet and grabs her gun, but the blowback is still affecting her and all she can do it move into the mess of violence she doesn't... understand yet. what the hell is going on? attacking trees. oh. super. ]

[uncurse]

[ apparently all emma needed to get her shit together was for lila to wake up, because this time when she shoots at tree blight 3, she hits (atk 26, dmg 5). ]

[unhand]

[Hook made his fort save! He slashes at the tree that got his BEAUTIFUL FACE with his hook but apparently he's a little too greasy an eel to make the shot (atk 12). He steps back five feet, away from the tree, and shoots at it again, bullet thunking solidly into the wood (atk 23, dmg 7).]

[untethered]

[ tree blight 3 goes down! erky smashes into the remaining tree and knocks some of its branches off. it falls to the ground, defeated.

/init ]

[uncurse]

[ emma lowers her gun, looking around and breathing hard because wow that was startling and also WHY DID SHE WAKE UP FOR THAT SHIT. she shifts her gaze to hook bc YEAH EVERYONE PROBABLY THOUGHT SHE WAS PARANOID NOT WANTING TO SLEEP IN THE DUNGEON BUT LOOK IT SAVED THEIR ASSES. ]

Think that's the last of it?

[bittersweeter]

[ wow why did she even get up? this thought in mind, she sinks to the floor where she stands and tries not to cry/throw up (fort save 15), but she's shaking so hard her gun slips out of her hand (ref save crit fail) and clatters to the floor. ]

[unhand]

[Yeah in hindsight Hook probably could have handled this shit on his own, though tbf, it would have woken them all anyway. Fights are not quiet.]

Seems to be over for now. Should probably try and get more rest.

[He sees Lila sinking to the floor and frowns, walking over to her and crouching down. Gold's safe from being kicked. For now.]

Bad dreams? [He murmurs.]

[uncurse]

[ with a wisdom check of 14, emma catches on. her brow furrows and she draws closer to lila and hook. ] What's going on? [ something has context here that she doesn't understand especially since that tree didn't hit lila. ]

[bittersweeter]

I'm fine. [ bluff 25, which means she rolled a three. but she's the queen of deflection, so she looks at emma, not bothering to wipe the tears off her cheeks because that would mean admitting they were there in the first place. ] You should take the other potions. And go back to sleep. [ she holds out the potion she'd tucked into her pocket before sleeping in case emma tries to protest and her head twists to glance at gold. ] Is he alright?

[unhand]

[Hook gives her a sympathetic look, then gets up and walks over to Gold.] Dunno. [To check, Hook kicks him (atk 13, dmg 2). Sleep through that, bitch.]

[undealt]

[Gold, as he was apparently in the DEEPEST OF COMAS, snaps out of it with a cry of pain and FUCKING DRAWS HIS GUN, BECAUSE HE HAS ONE AND NOW YOU GET TO SEE IT. It was in his coat pocket the whole time.]

Give me one good reason not to pull the trigger, Captain, because I can't seem to think of one.

[Sorcerers are cranky when they wake up.]

[unhand]

[Idk maybe your NEGATIVE DEX SCORE? Seriously, Gold, you couldn't hit the broad side of the Jolly Roger, let alone her captain.

Hook gives him an unimpressed look.]

Your turn on watch.

[Maybe next time you'll ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN THE BATTLE.]

[bittersweeter]

Can we not, right now? Seriously? Everyone go back to sleep. I will take this watch. [ since she sure as hell won't be sleeping again for a few days yay! ]

[uncurse]

[ emma's crit fail sense motive means she assumes EVERYTHING IS OKAY HERE and goes back to sleep yep. without a second look at lila. ]

[undealt]

[You don't have to tell Gold twice. He glares at Hook and then shoves his gun somewhere and tries to go back to sleep. Maybe he'll have less shitty dreams this time.]

[unhand]

[Hook considers kicking Gold again but tbh he was only bringing up the watch thing because Gold was a dick who slept through the battle. Instead he goes back over to Lila.]

You should try to sleep more. Sorry we woke you.