london ♔ the monster i have hidden in my mouth | it has to scream

[untethered]

♬ She Wolf - Shakira

WHO || Cora Hale, Belle, Kate Bishop, Faith Lehane, Gus Harrison [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a monster tearing up a tenement building on the night of the full moon...
WHERE || Knights HQ, the briefing room
WHEN || July 12th, evening [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. 

While most missions are assigned with a few days or weeks of leeway for preparation, naturally some situations call for a much more immediate response.  Such is the case on the night of this month's full moon, when Wynn is forced to call on Knights who are already out and about in London for whatever reasons, delivering their instructions via video message on Drakenet.    It seems that some kind of creature has been spotted in a low-income neighborhood of London, destroyed some property, and appears to have retreated into a tenement building where screams have been heard.  Wynn suspects it to be some kind of Shadow creature, and considering that it's a full moon, well--  

He advises caution, but also reminds the Knights that it is their duty to investigate the matter and decide how best to proceed - not to charge in hunting something without understanding what it is or what is motivating it.  

So together they gather, from whatever brought them into London tonight, in front of the rundown brick building, which is... for the moment... rather quiet.  

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[behindcloseddoors]

[ meanwhile, cora-wolf has found herself in the cellar, amid a bunch of pipes and shit, trying to chill her werewolf tits or whatever.

DO A LISTEN CHECK. ]

[impetere]

[Cora managed to maintain enough of her humanity to decide to take her anger out on some pipes? Or maybe she chased a cat down there. Who knows, she's just riding high on the rush of the moon, glad that the wave and jitters that have been sitting under her skin for so long has finally released and she's just letting it go for as long as she needs to.

She's currently snarling at the room, trying to look for something, some warm body to tear into or something to fight already when she catches the sound of something moving (listen 27) and whips her head towards the sound, eyes scanning for what's coming her way.

Maybe it's something to hunt. If it is, it's their mistake.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ her listen check means that despite their expert sneaking, she can hear two sets of footsteps coming down the steps from above, moving slowly, as if trying not to be noticed. ]

[impetere]

[Yep. Definitely something to hunt. She can hear the footsteps and the wolf in her welcomes the fight. She moves towards them slowly, creeping forward on quiet feet (move silently 23) and trying to find a nice shadow to hide herself in until her prey appeared (hide 11).]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ she hears one male voice, english-accented say in hushed tones: ] You're sure it went down here?

[ the other man shushes him and around the corner come two men in what looks like green paramilitary gear, black tactical vests, and red berets with a patch on them. both of them carry large rifles. neither seems to see her. ]

[impetere]

[She lies in wait for now, biding her time. Despite the fact that she's all predator right now, she's still a very smart girl underneath all that wolf, and she's willing to wait for when she has the upper hand and the element of surprise (will save 21).

But aside from the rifles this looks very promising.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ they move slowly through the basement, training the guns left and right slowly, finally moving closer to her hiding place. one of them freezes, bringing the gun around to bear in her direction. ] Who's there? I see you, you can come on out!

[impetere]

[Oh. Well. That settles that.

The animal in her snarls sensing the challenge in the gun. She bears down and charging forward, claws out (attack 7). She's still all rage so she's not putting much thought into the attack, just wanting something to tear into, hard.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ both of them shout as they step backwards away from her, firing blindly (atk 13 and 19; 9 dmg) and managing to strike her. ] Get back! She's wild!

[impetere]

[That bullet only makes her mad. She turns towards the closest one to her and giving a growl that's more anger than actual pain and charges again, this time managing to catch him with her claws (attack 16, damage 7).]