kansas ♔ you have too much fun breaking all the rules

[cigam]

WHO || Gus, Zatanna, Adam, Dawn, Dimitri [closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a multiple homicide that seems linked to ritualistic magic use, in backwater Kansas
WHERE || Black Bottom Ridge, Kansas
WHEN || April 8th [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam or prose

Know what's even worse than Kansas? Kansas after a long winter that just won't die. Everything is creepy and flat and the grass is struggle-bussing its way back to life, and the trees are still skeletal, which just lends an eerie semblance to everything as they drive by. Drive by with a U-Haul attached to the back of her their rented vehicle, because they're bringing a fucking bear along. Luckily Gus was able to coax her into this arrangement, but man, I would not to be the one to draw the short straw opening the doors to that trailer when they arrive.

It only took a single stop at a crappy diner for Zatanna to get someone to spill the whereabouts of the survivor of the night they're looking into: she's being kept at a hospital in the nearest actual city. Zee drops off Adam, Dimitri, and Gus near the crime scene, and takes Dawn with her to go see what they can learn from the girl (after telling Gus to behave).

 

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[ex_psionic439]

[Oh, I guess Adam can make Listen and Spot checks too (nat 20, 22 total and 19 respectively). But let's be real this is just here to serve as a bump. He sees that quarterstaff, Friar Tuck.]

Wait, were we supposed to bring a weapon? [Nevermind that his fucking brain is a weapon. He would feel better with a gun right now just saying.]

[watcherjunior]

[ RING RING. RING RING. RING. RING. Sorry to interrupt any important junk, but Dawn is calling with info hot from the depths of her memory. ]

[druidisms]

[ YAY! ]

Spill it, kid. [ he did not bother to check who it is. everyone is now a kid. :) ]

[watcherjunior]

[ There's a momentary urge to refute being called 'kid' but as she's probably legit the youngest in the group, she can't argue.

also, more important things. ]

Erica, our survivor, saw panther-like creatures with tentacles. So, we're likely dealing with a displacer beast. Hopefully just a and not some.

[druidisms]

[ he listens patiently while she explains. he knows what she is talking about, unfortunately. (knowledge: arcane lore 24)

hahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahah hahahahahahaha ha. ]

You're fucking kidding. Like that little fucker Sven keeps in the woods as his own personal pokémon? [ longest suffering sigh. she probably doesn't even know sven. gus gives no fucks. ] For fuck's sake, Sven. [ /blames everything on sven. this is the last time he shares his woodland drug supply with that bitch. (naw, not really. he needs his dumb hippie friends.)

he turns to the other two men, silently sizing them up. they're all going to die. wynn hates him. he clearly did something very wrong and this is punishment and wynn hates him. le sigh. ]

There's more than one.

[watcherjunior]

Personal pokémon? Okay, I've seen a drawing of one of these and, why on earth would you?

[ She doesn't know Sven. But she has an urge to smack him. ]

No, see, you're supposed to tell me it's just one, and it's tiny, and we're totally going to kick its furry ass.

[druidisms]

Sven is a special soul. [ his voice is the verbal equivalent to a kanyeshrug. ] There's probably half a dozen, including their much larger leader.

[ and because adam and dimitri can't hear dawn's side of the convo he adds: ] Displacer beasts. [ :D yay!

no. ] Anything else the girl said?

[watcherjunior]

Half a dozen, ugh.

[ Not good news. Nope. ]

She just kept asking about someone named Jim? When we got in, she was out of it, telling him to run. And kept asking if he's okay.

[ She's just going to assume poor Jim is Cat Chow. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[And not even Adam's kickass intelligence score could keep him from bombing that knowledge check. He's drawing a blank because he studies up on psionics, not magic and monsters and shit. He doesn't even wait for Gus to get off the phone--]

Displacer beast? What the fuck is that?

[druidisms]

It's a puma with tentacles that have catching hooks on them, like squids. Their displacement illusion, hence the name, makes them hard to fight since they're not actually where they seem to be. Their superpower is basically being six inches to the left. [ more like feet, but wtfever. ] It's a tentacle cat.

[ but back to dawn. ] One of the beasts might be Jim since these fucking incompetent tools cocked up the entire spell.

[watcherjunior]

Oh, totally fantastic. And by that I mean dammit.

[druidisms]

I assume you and Sparky are on the way?

[watcherjunior]

That would be a correct assumption. Also, does Zee know you call her Sparky?

[druidisms]

Yeah, she does. Sparky's short for Sparkles. Call us when you get here, one of us will come get you.

[watcherjunior]

Will do, sir. See you guys in a few.

[ex_psionic439]

Oh, that's all? [There were six of those things?? And flirt on your own time, bitch.

Adam will sure as shit be pouring all of his concentration into maintaining that detect hostile intent power. No pack of illusory magical tentacle rape cats were going to get the drop on him them if he could help it.]

[druidisms]

[ hahahahaha crying over the idea of gus flirting with zee. ]

They're on their way. [ obv. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ they emerge from the other side of the woods onto the edges of a farmer's field. it stretches off miles in either direction, and the sun is setting over the distant treeline. the farmhouse and barns are across the long span of field, and for now, adam sense no hostile intent within thirty feet. ]

[likeagod]

Then we should probably wait until they arrive.

[Rather than charge in just the three of them against six enemies. They'll be stronger as a group.]

[ex_psionic439]

We should probably go and get the address at least. [So the ladies can just roll up to this farm house.] Since we're already here.

[Because he heard Gus saying they'd send someone back to get the girls when they arrived, but that seemed ... really fucking stupid to him when there are six rape cats on the loose. Plus standing at the edge of a field/the woods seemed pointless as hell just to backtrack when the ladies showed up.]

[druidisms]

Okay. [ and THUS THEY TREK ACROSS THE KANSAS FIELD OF FIELDINESS AND MEADOWS AND IDEFK FIELD OF DREAMS SHIT. there's probably an impromptu baseball game with the ghost of shoeless joe jackson and kevin costner at his prime. when he can read the number on the house he texts zee and idk, lets mellie play fetch with adam while they wait.

SERIOUS TAGS FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE ON A SERIOUS MISSION. ]

[cigam]

[ wow just wow

FINE, ZEE AND DAWN ARRIVE FINALLY YAYY and she is just gonna stand there when she gets out of the car and look at y'all for a moment, arms folded. ] I'm glad to see you're all finding time to enjoy yourselves on this mission.

[druidisms]

I was educating them on displacer beasts. [ /takes all the blame nbd. ]

[cigam]

[ she looks across the field to the farm house ] I take it this is where you tracked them to?

[watcherjunior]

[ Much coordinated. So graceful. Dawn gets out of the car as well to join them. Middle of nowhere gives her the heebie-jeebies. ] Not only them but our possible unfortunate human turned beastie?