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

[littledhampir]

[Rose mutters something that sounds an awful lot like Humans as she shakes her head, gripping her stake a little tighter.]

Chili for dinner and torturing people to wash it down... [Her gaze follows Lydia's and Rose goes silent, trying to hear any movement above. (Listen 27.)]

[superswank]

[ syd heads towards the stairs, i'm gonna be lazy and just keep her move silently from before until tifa tells me to reroll. she slowly starts creeping up that way, gun up. ]

[immuno]

[ the best part of this moment is that

this is the moment you need to reroll it.

upstairs, rose can hear the creaking of floorboards—but it doesn't sound like walking. it's sort of shifting around in the same space upstairs? hmmm.

lydia moves after sydney, at least attempting to be quiet this time. we're just not sure what she thinks she's going to be able to do to help but here she is.

and by "help" i mean her move silently check was 8. dem high heels. ]

[littledhampir]

[Rose motions above again, trying to suggest that y e p. There's something up there and her move silently of 19 might have been okay but ya know. Lydia's heels so it probably doesn't matter.]

[superswank]

[ she got a 21 this time, and she turns around to put out a hand as if to say STOP MOVING to lydia. 8| gurrrl. ]

[immuno]

Oh no. I am not staying downstairs in the creepy murder house alone.

[ You can't MAKE HER. But she stops at least and is speaking in a stage whisper. ]

[littledhampir]

[Rose just offers up a pointed look at Lydia's shoes. She's bringing up the rear folks so she's going to follow Sydney's lead on this one.]

[superswank]

[ once lydia stops, syd moves to dart around the corner, weapon up. any bitches home??? ]

[immuno]

[ She is greeted by

a shotgun going off in her face.

That was probably Lydia's fault.

Luckily, the cover afforded to Syd by the wall that she's darting around saves her from the blast. The wall right beside her head gets a nasty chunk taken out of it, though.

At the top of the stairs is an elderly woman that looks like Dorothy from the Golden Girls holds the shotgun. ]

Get the hell outta my house!

[ about that init. ]

[littledhampir]

[Re-roll init or same as before?!]

How about you try putting that shotgun down and we'll talk about it [Diplomacy 20 total as she motions to Lydia to stay back.]

[superswank]

[ syd will hold her action, ready to shoot if anyone comes around the corner again, waiting to see what the response will be. ]

[immuno]

[ hoLY SHIT. lydia wastes her full action on searching for something better than gardening shears to attack with. she comes up empty, and lets out a yelp as grandma fucking duke up here fires off another shotgun shell into the wall that rose is ducking behind.

apparently, she does not care about your diplomacy, rose. ]

[superswank]

[ well... fine, then. taking her action now. she shoots out from around the corner, keeping her cover (atk 15, atk 18, 8 dmg and 9 dmg respectively) ]

[immuno]

[ Son of a bitch. Atk 18 hits (barely).

You just shot a grandma. :(

Lydia looks pretty unsettled by that fact, but she's hanging out of this because shears are not adequate ranged weapons. This time her search check was a nat 20 so she dips back into the kitchen to grab a knife. With 100% plans to throw it. We'll see how that goes ~next time.~

Meanwhile, Grandma Duke is mad. ]

Earl told me you were all animals. [ She says it like this just confirms it. ] Goin' around people's houses shooting at 'em. What's wrong with you?

[ And she will

shoot back.

Twice.

By taking a -2 on her attack roll, she can ignore Syd's cover. Her attacks of 25 goes straight through the wall to hit her, but the other gets stopped up (atk 20). The 13 damage Syd takes from that first shotgun blast probably keeps her from feeling too grateful about the second one burying itself in the wall too far to Grandma's left.

And now it's back to poor Rose and her crit fail btw. ]

[littledhampir]

You kidnapped us you crazy old bitch! [Yes Rose, antagonize the lady with the gun.

Speaking of guns... Rose doesn't have hers cause she's smart like that so she's going to dart out from around the corner and attempt to grapple Grandma Duke, provoking an Attack of Opportunity.]

[immuno]

[ Grandma Duke fires a shot off as Rose approaches, but she's old and flustered so it goes pretty wild (atk 14). Grappling her only takes beating a 12 str check. ]

[littledhampir]

[And with a Strength Check of 23 Rose might be going a little overboard but she's sick of old people shooting at them.]

Calm your ass down Grandma and start talking. Who are you working with and why are you doing this?

[superswank]

[ syd follows rose and wrenches the weapon out of granny's hands, silently glaring as back-up, while also... looking around for more trouble. 8| ]

[immuno]

[ Disarmed and grappled, Granny is having a bad time. ]

The hell makes you think we're working for anybody?! We're doin this town a service getting rid of your kind.

[ Lydia stops at the bottom of the stairs, rolling her eyes and dropping the shears to her sides. ]

... It's really just you. All of those people. You let him kill them.

[ Granny looks very offended!! ]

Let him? He didn't have the stomach for it when this all started.

[littledhampir]

Our kind?! You know I'm getting sick of all the racist crap from people like you.

[No but really. First in canon now tenfold here.]

He doesn't have a stomach for much of anything anymore... [Things Rose probably shouldn't have said.]

There's no way you and Grandpa have been doing this by yourselves. Who else is involved? [(Intimidate 29.)]

[superswank]

[ sydney will glare over her shoulder to assist her intimidation (intimidate 20, so she should get the +2 to her aid another) ]

Your family. How many.

[immuno]

We know there are others. We saw the kitchen.

[ The lady struggles a moment longer, but eventually gives up and glowers at them. She might be intimidated into cooperating, but she's also a hateful bitch. So. There's that. ]

We got kids like anybody.

[ She makes no mention of whether they're involved, addressing Sydney instead of Rose. ]

gfdi I didnt realize I was up ;;

[littledhampir]

[Blink. Blink.]

Your kids still live at home?!

[Now would in fact NOT be a good time to judge the inbred welsh murderers living arrangements Rose.]

<333

[disguised]

Where are they now?

[immuno]

[ At that moment, the front door bursts open and Eddie and Amy both arrive through it. Eddie looks in pretty bad shape all around, and immediately spills to the floor of the living room. Amy notices that no one's hanging out in the living room or the kitchen, though, and pulls her gun, thump thump thumping towards the stairs. ]

Mom? Dad?