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

[herebemonsters]

[ the other two skeletons get up as well, and one of them goes to move past lila through the doorway, red eyes glaring at emma. this means lila gets a chance for an attack of opportunity as it passes her... ]

[bittersweeter]

[ so kicking did all of nothing. gritting her teeth against the pain, she shifts her weight and raises her gun, firing as skeletor passes her. (atk 23, dmg 12) ]

[unhand]

[Hook slashes his sword across the thing's ribcage (atk 19, dmg 5) as it moves into his space. Then he steps into the room. Between Emma, Gold, and Belle, he's pretty sure that one skeleton's done for. Lila, trapped with the other two, is in a bit more trouble.]

Get out of here.

[He moves forward and slams his rapier into the third skeleton's skull (atk 23, dmg 7).]

[undealt]

[Once the skeleton is out into the open, Gold puts his hand up.] Everyone get down.

[ONE FUCKING RAY OF FIRE coming up (nat 20 atk, dmg 19)]

[untethered]

[ the blast of fire incinerates the skeleton on the spot, his bones turning to a pile of ash on the ground within seconds.

guess they aren't immune to fire.

belle finally realizes what's going on when a flaming skeleton wanders in and leaves the spear alone, turning around and moving past gold beside emma as she draws a sword as well. but hook and lila are blocking access to those other skeleton bitches and she sure doesn't have precise shot and isn't going to risk firing her gun into there.

skeleton numero uno turns to swipe at hook with both of its clawed hands (atk 10, annnnd crit fail). as he moves to make the second attack, he trips on a bone and faceplants right in front of lila. ]

[uncurse]

[ okay well the gun didn't do much but emma feels more secure trying that again than she does trying magic so LET'S GO. she steadies it on skele-one (same one she hit in round 1 i think?), and fires off a shot (atk 27, dmg 10). ]

[bittersweeter]

[ and then the faceplanting skeleton gets its skull shattered. right in front of her. this is what dreams are made of right here. but lila is going to eschew violence for once and just scramble back out of the tiny room and into the, well, other room. her arm hurts too much for her to be useful on things that don't have skin. rude. ]

[herebemonsters]

[ skelethree claws at hook angrily but both of its claws whiff. maybe he's distracted by his buddy getting disintegrated out there. ]

[unhand]

[Hook leans back a bit to avoid the claws, then brings his rapier forward to stab through the... sternum (atk 14, dmg 3) before smashing his hook through where the ear would be on a human (atk 23, dmg 7).]

[undealt]

[and rather than waste another spell on something that already got the crap kicked out of it, Gold takes a swing at it with his cane. (atk 13, dmg 3)]

[untethered]

[ belle lowers the sword as the final skeleton drops readily against the crack of gold's cane. her eyes sweep those who were in the room with the things with evident concern. ] Is everyone alright?

[bittersweeter]

Depends on your definition of alright. [ her poor ruined glove, whimper. she tugs it off and lets it drop, wincing and making a small noise of pain like a kitten crying. ]

[uncurse]

New rule. Let's not explore secret doors.

[ emma moves to pick up her sword and sheathe it, because if lila's sassing, she's all right. she'll holster her gun while she's at it too. ]

[undealt]

[well, at least they know who to go to when skeletons need killing- THIS GUY. Gold adjusts his bag and MOVES THE HELL ON.]

As for the ones that aren't secret... [which door should we choose now, guys...]

[uncurse]

[ she holds a hand out to offer to help lila up while she sizes up the doors. ]

Well, that leaves two choices. Flip a coin, or split up?

[undealt]

We will not be splitting up. [He's the tank, thanks to my reclaiming of the word. He makes the rules.] I think this little incident has just proven that you're not going to make it through without me. And I'm not going to be wasting time finding whomever is stupid enough to get lost.

[So who has a fucking coin.]

[unhand]

Not like those things were much of a threat. [Did they even hit anyone besides Lila...] They'd have been dead soon enough even without your spells.

[Hook isn't even trying to help just fuck you Gold.]

[untethered]

[ belle takes an almost unconscious step beside gold, looking a bit incredulous. ] Do we really think splitting up is wise, when we've no idea what to expect? That might be exactly what they're waiting for, before laying an ambush.

[bittersweeter]

[ she pulls herself up with emma's help and rolls her eyes at the men, muttering in annoyance: ] Wasn't someone supposed to look into "any nasty surprises to greet us"? [ looking at you, gold.

but she moves toward belle because she is on team not spilt up, using the pain in her arm as a focus. ] Why don't we open both and see if either has stairs leading deeper into the ruins. Barring that, whichever one is more infested with death should suffice. [ and then quieter, though she's not under the impression she won't be heard, ] Belle, do you have a mini potion, for small stuff?

[untethered]

Unfortunately the 'small stuff' kind of potion is just about all I could get us... but I did bring quite a few of them. [ she reaches into her backpack and pulls out a vial, that clinks against many others. the liquid inside is a bright phosphorescent blue. drinking it cures 1d8+5 hit points. ]

[bittersweeter]

[ well, lila does love her brightly colored drinks. she takes it gratefully and after stowing her gun, drinks it like a shot. (+ 10 hp, yay! ) ] Thanks.

[undealt]

[WOW RUDE, LILA. It's not like anyone who has gone down here has ever made it back up. The important thing is he tried.

So off Lila's suggestion:]

I believe that's reasonable. [He turns to Hook and gestures to the door on the far end.] Captain, since you're so confident, would you like the honors?

[He doesn't wait for a reply before he walks back over to the door he was investigating before and pulls it open. (spot 19)]

[unhand]

[Well, the last door he opened shot a needle into his neck, so he's not exactly eager to go next, but he doesn't particularly want the rest of his team (besides Gold) to get hurt, and he is pretty bloody confident he doesn't need Gold to get anything done, so he heads over. First, though, he examines the door pretty thoroughly for any traps (spot 20). He's learning!]

[untethered]

[ not a trap in sight! it's just a door, hook. a harmless, harmless door.

meanwhile gold can make out a hall beyond his opened door. the light from his glow stick stretches eerily across the floor for about five feet, but beyond that is darkness.

nothing jumps out and eats his face.]

[unhand]

[Hook shoves the door open, turning back to the girls as he does.]

Someone give me one of those electric torches, if you don't mind.

[Without it, he sure can't see much (spot 9).]