pembrokeshire ♔ the day has come where i have died

[immuno]

WHO || Lydia Martin, Alaric Saltzman, Helen Magnus, Rose Hathaway, Sydney Bristow
WHAT || A couple of knights take a short trip west to investigate reports of Shadowkind deaths.
WHERE || Police Station, Pembrokeshire, Wales
WHEN || May 20th
HOW || Actionspam

The briefing was simple and direct: a string of disappearing Shadowkind centered around a small farming town in Wales. The Karthur Institute wasn't called in until the local authorities got reports of incessant, blood-curdling screams coming from a barn just past the edge of town. They found a girl curled in the corner there, screaming her lungs out, shaking, and looking like she'd been running around the forest alone for days.

They also found the five bodies of their missing townspeople in the barn.

They tell the knights (and thus, Wynn tells them) that the girl is in police custody, but they don't tell them that she's pinned in a cell. They've fed her and given her a coat by now, but the deputy is quick to alert Helen, Rose, Sydney, and Alaric as they arrive of the bad news.

"She hasn't shut up since we put her in there." He glances back over his shoulder, toward the lock-up. "Not screamin', just wanting to know who they were." He looks back at the knights, grim. "Don't think she's got any idea how she got out there. I don't have it in me to tell her I don't either; wherever she's rom, it inn't Pembrokeshire."

Comments

[immuno]

[ The bullets ping through the back hitch of the Suburban, but it keeps rolling, pulling a sharp right around the corner and disappearing from view. It appears on Helen and Ric's side of the street, rattling past them at about 70 mph in a 40 zone.

Rose manages to catch the license plate number before it disappears from view. 998-XJS. I'm pretending European license plate numbers follow the same conventions as American ones. Fight me. Lydia doesn't even bother trying to run to the end of the alley's mouth, knowing her foot speed can't match a car. She throws her hands up. ]

Seriously?

[ She hesitates after the question, looking briefly perplexed, but no sooner has her hand gone to her head than she slumps, unconscious, to the ground. Errybody in the alley needs to make a will save. ]

[littledhampir]

[Well that... sucks tho go Ric for not getting hit by the car.]

Don't worry I got the - Lydia?! [ (Also, Will Save 22) ]

[immuno]

[ Looking back at Lydia affords Rose the opportunity to spot what caused her to pass out—a rune inscribed on the ground where the Suburban had previously been idling. If you're wondering why it's suddenly a Suburban instead of a van, it's because stats exist for one but not the other. Same shit.

Anyway. Rose gets a split second to see the symbol before its effects pervade, and sleep overtakes her as well. Comin' 4 u, Syd. ]

[superswank]

[ will save 13 as syd reaches for her phone, hoping to text ric or helen but then probably passses the fuck out ahahaha ]

[immuno]

[ yep there goes syd crashing to the ground with a half-finished text message.

let's see how ric and helen are faring as the suburban pulls around the corner with gunfire in its wake. ]

[daredtobelieve]

[Helen's shot fires wide (we don't want to talk about how I rolled a 2), because she's more focused on the fact that she... doesn't see any of the girls coming out of the alley yet.]

Ric! The car. [Bring it around, hubby? She's gonna go find the kids. Jogging towards the alley...]

[ex_ric243]

[Yeah, Alaric didn't have a gun and he sure as fuck isn't tackling a suburban. So after Helen ... fires at the store twenty feet away from where the actual moving vehicle is, Ric jumps in the car to get it started.

But then he's like fml when he sees it's a stick shift?? Since he can't drive it because drive check was only 7. So he's going to take a hot minute to get over there with like sudden stops or whatever idek how to drive stick.

BUT HE MAKES IT THERE EVENTUALLY. Where the fuck is everyone?? /dumbass]

[immuno]

[ HOW STRANGE THE GIRLS ARE LONG GONE and there is no sign of them in the alley by the time he gets there, and also the suburban is getting away. ]

[daredtobelieve]

[What the fucking fuck? Where did they go?!

As Ric brings the car around, Helen jumps in the front seat.]

They've got them. [Follow that suburban!]

[ex_ric243]

[Helen why didn't you make him ride bitch so you could drive this thing? But I guess adrenaline really ... helps you drive stick because when he realizes what's at stake he gets his shit together real quick and peels out like it's some fucking fast and the furious up in this bitch (drive 21). Time for the car chase scene.]

[immuno]

[ This is really awkward because they manage to catch up pretty quickly, just a few blocks down, when Eddie in the Suburban straight up fucking crashes it through a storefront because he crit failed his drive check. Luckily he made his reflex save, so he only takes 6 damage. The car, on the other hand, takes 13. The front end is smashed in and the windshield shatters, but it looks like it can still drive. ]

[daredtobelieve]

Oh my god- Block them in! [Just in case they are crazy and try to reverse. It takes all that Helen has to not jump from a moving car to run to the scene.]

[ex_ric243]

[Blocking them in like a baws, and actually grabbing his weapon before he gets out of the car this time. He doesn't trust that this guy won't come out guns-a-blazin'.]

[immuno]

[ Eddie uses his turn to stumble from the car with a gun in his hand. ]

[daredtobelieve]

[Once parked, Helen jumps out and trains her gun on Eddie.]

Drop it or I'll leave you with a bloody stump. [Is that the English bloody or the literal bloody? WE JUST DON'T KNOW. Also intimidate 28. She means business.]

[ex_ric243]

[Yeah, Ric's got his weapon aimed at this dazed bitch too. But Helen has the intimidation on lock so he's just going to be ready in case Eddie decides to Be Dumb.]

[immuno]

[ yeah his will save of 13 isn't doing him any favors. he drops the gun and sinks to his knees. ]

D-Don't shoot!

[daredtobelieve]

Where are the girls? [She does not sound any less pissed off, in case you were wondering.]

[ex_ric243]

[And while Helen keeps Dumbass kneeling on the pavement like a mama bear about to unload on someone for threatening her cubs, Ric moves over and kicks Eddie's gun off to the side where he can't grab it, then turns to look into the suburban for any sign of Syd and the girls.]

[immuno]

[ He might be peeing himself. There's like a 15% chance he's peeing himself. Which is hilarious, because this guy is built like a brick. ]

What girls?! Lady, I just work at the shop.

[ No one else is sitting in the passenger area of the car, but there is a tarp in the back over something. Also? Their little car accident has started to draw attention of locals, who are approaching and whispering on the outskirts of it. ]

[daredtobelieve]

They came into the shop and they're gone now. So you will tell me everything I want to know or so help me I will paint the pavement with what little brain matter you've got.

[She legit just crit failed a sense motive. She assumes he's the mastermind I guess.]

[ex_ric243]

[Meanwhile Ric opens up the suburban to check under that tarp because he is not going to take this guy's word for it ok. And his sense motive is 20 total but he is either unaware or unconcerned with the bystanders at the moment. He just doesn't want to find three girls dead in here. D:]

[immuno]

[ Just the opposite for Helen, in fact. The very real terror in Eddie's expression has Helen fairly convinced that she's just made an innocent shopkeeper piss himself.

He drops his head, looking like he's afraid she's going to kill him. It's Ric who realizes, as he rips the tarp back and finds nothing but landscaping tools, that there's more to this. ]

I didn't do anything with them!

[ Ric probably picks up that he specifies, as if Eddie is saying he's not the one who grabbed them. ]

[ex_ric243]

[If this guy thinks he's being cute then he might want to reconsider his approach because Ric is not amused. He doesn't bother closing the vehicle's door again, and instead marches right over to where Eddie's kneeling in a puddle of his own piss.]

You have five seconds to tell us who did and where they took them, or my associate here is going to shoot you in the balls. [Because his intimidation modifier is shit (he still rolled an 18 tho), but Helen got this guy to piss himself. Ric glances over at Helen like get ready, gurl, before looking back toward Eddie.]

Five, four...

[immuno]

[ Wow he was already pissing himself over Helen ok now he's going to start crying (will 15). ]

I don't know. I don't know where he took them. I swear. I swear to you: he didn't tell me, he —

[ The loud sound of a warning shot interrupts him. This is what y'all get for threatening this dude in the middle of the street and not acknowledging civilians. A uniformed officer approaches them, gun raised in her hands. ]

Drop your weapons and put your hands on the ground! Now!

[ Pls roll knowledge local. ]