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.

Comments

[undealt]

[WELL, BITCH. Gold hisses in pain and casts another magic missile, two of them hitting the goblin that threw the javelin for 6 dmg and the other finishing off the other goblin for 5 dmg)]

[untethered]

[ she seems about to congratulate him on the murder or some such but she's distracted by hook firing at something else way behind them, and turns to look that way. they're about 75 feet away from the doorway to the bugbear room, so she starts running that way, and it'll take her whole turn to reach them.

erky, in the meantime, charges past hook and smashes his morningstar at the bugbear (atk 25, dmg 5), yelling "To arms!" ]

[unhand]

[Hook moves forward after Erky, only rolling his eyes a little at the call when obviously they're going to arms if the shooting and fighting wasn't clue enough. He swings his hook upward at the bugbear (atk 20, dmg 3 if it hits), grinning viciously.]

[undealt]

Belle! [DON'T RUN INTO DANGER. HE JUST SAVED YOU FROM DANGER. Also bleeding. Yeah, he's just going to limp over. That's it. That's his round.]

[untethered]

[ well she stays out of danger, but plays a trick on the bugbear from a distance (int check 25), distracting him for yet another round. i'm the worst roleplayer ever but these are hard to come up with. i'm sure it's amazing. erky, however, misses the bugbear with his swing (atk 7) :( ]

[bittersweeter]

[ oh look, complete chaos. and lila is slowest ever on the uptake, but ukw? girl makes up for it, moving forward to get a clear shot through the doorway. she raises her gun and fires two quick shots (double tap atk 23 & 20 total; dmg 10 & 9) to make up for being a space case. ]

[uncurse]

[ this is what happens when you crit fail.

emma shows up 15 minutes late with starbucks in the bugbear room in a hurry and finds it ... already down. thanks lila. ]

I'm gonna go ahead and make a vote against splitting our searching again. [ because goblins and bugbears and init oh my. ]

[undealt]

It was a simple enough matter. [Gold flicks some dirt off his suit that is... probably covered in dirt, really, but whatever. He's a priss.] At any rate, we really must be getting close. [He calls into the bugbear room.] Is there another door in there?

[sternshield]

Ay, two! [ erky checks over the bugbear gardener, but finds nothing on him beyond gardening implements. ] Another to the north, and one to the east.

[bittersweeter]

[ while erky is checking the bear, lila pokes it gently with her boot. such a classy broad over here. ] Do you really mean north and east or just straight and to the left?

[ what, she's curious! ]

[sternshield]

Right, girl. To the right.

And I mean what I said. The moss seems to favor one side of the cavern even here, away from the sun. Magic about.

[bittersweeter]

[ she holds her hands up in front of her and make an "L" with each hand before shrugging with a sheepish smile, WHAT ARE DIRECTIONS. this is why gps was invented. ] Right. [ she glances between both doors. ] I vote north.

[untethered]

[ belle moves to gold's side to make sure he's ok after all that being stabbed by a javelin, while erky throws open the door to the north... revealing an arboretum identical to the one where rumbelle found the goblins to the south, except that there's another door directly to their left, and another bugbear gardener, clearing scorched plants with a scythe. guess what? initiative again, bitches. no i almost feel bad this time ]

[bittersweeter]

[ ANOTHER GARDENING BEAR WHY HOW DOES THE CREEPY RUINS HAVE A GARDENING BEAR BEACON???? lila moves around her brand new gnome bff and bang. (atk 22; dmg 16) ] Next time, let's go east.

[undealt]

They wouldn't be here if we weren't headed in the right direction. [Gold walks in and tries to take a swing at it with his cane and... misses. Go team!

Thankfully his 21 reflex save keeps him from falling on his ass when he goes too wide on that swing.]

[sternshield]

[ erky moves to flank the thing on the other side, quipping: ] Do you mean left or right, by your east? [ as he swings his morningstar and... even with the +2 flanking bonus still can't hit the thing, which is staggering back on its last legs. the bugbear brings its scythe down, burying it into erky's shoulder (atk 21, dmg 10). the gnome lets out a groan of pain at the terrible blow, as the bugbear yanks the scythe back out with a roar. ]

[uncurse]

How many of these things are there?! [ emma is not worried about the directional drama going on. no, she's just fucking confused as to why these things are like coming in waves. apparently so confused that, as she enters the room after the others and fires off a shot, she ... crit fails. ]

[unhand]

[Hook draws his sword and moves in, trying to swing at the thing, but probably coming short unless he's a lot lamer than the last one (atk 12).]

Depends how many gardens they've got, I suppose.

[untethered]

[ belle watches, aghast, as Emma accidentally shoots their own teammate, but manages to keep it together, running forward as she shouts "Gold!" Because fucker still has never told her a first name. And she swings her sword wildly, easily batted aside by a massive paw. (Atk 6) ]

[bittersweeter]

[ w o w always surprised it's not lila shooting her own team. judging all y'all. ANYWAY, lila ain't got time for this shit and she fires again. (atk nat 20, 26 total; dmg... 28) ]

[undealt]

[Yeah, Gold isn't doing shit right now, because HE JUST GOT SHOT. But the bear may be... dead by now.

Is the bear dead. Please let the bear be dead.]

[sternshield]

[ holy fuckballs, that bear be dead. lila's shot goes right through its face and brain matter explodes out the back of its skull. erky whirls around to stare at her with a raised eyebrow ] Quite an impressive shot there. [ and muttered aside to hook: ] Remind me not to make her angry.

[bittersweeter]

[ she preens, pleased with herself and gives erky a bright smile. yes, it was impressive, wasn't it? she is hella proud. ] Thanks.

[ and because she doesn't really give a shit about gold so she won't be rushing over to his side, sorry not sorry, she takes the clip out of her gun to see how many bullets she has left. ]

[uncurse]

[ oh goddammit. emma steps up to gold's side, looking apologetic. ]

You gonna be okay?

[ she holsters her gun so she at least seems less ... dangerous ... ]

[undealt]

I'm fine. [Except for the whole being shot part. And to prove this, he gets to his feet. He can't even insult Emma's marksmanship, because HE SWUNG AT A BEAR AND MISSED, so you get a reprieve from his smartass mouth.]

That's three of them thus far. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more. Our druid seems to keep his gardens well-staffed.