andres ♔ in the dark of day teach us love again

[silvermaid]

♬ new revolution - gin wigmore

WHO || Anastacia O'Keefe, Bambi Dalton, Frankie Matera, Helen Magnus, Alaric Saltzman, Alice Lincoln, Edain, Thoster Chatwyn, Hook, Adi Laskaris, Max Rast, Brantley River
WHAT || A team of Knights is tasked with providing transport off the Island for local Shadowkind
WHERE || Andres Isle
WHEN || September 19th, 2014
HOW || Actionspam

[ The two groups responsible for evacuation of Shadowkind travel to the island via stealth boat, which puts their arrival a little behind everyone else's.  They run aground not far from both the woods, and the harbor.   Edain grins out at the sleepy island, dressed in full armor, hand on the hilt of his sword.  Anastacia frowns as she watches the woods, however, clearly more on edge about what they have to do. ]

From here, everything looks so peaceful...

Comments

[fixyourproblem]

[Brantley manages to resist the effect. There's no way he would fall asleep when someone or something in this case is cutting open his friends (fort 16).

Deciding that it is better to end the battle quickly than staying on defensive and prolonging the battle, Brantley joins in the attack team and delivers a punch to the panther (Atk 23, dmg 2). So helpful....]

[ex_ric243]

[Alaric is also unaffected by the gas (fortitude 22), and joins Helen by firing on the ape that isn't seizing up after being tazed (attack 21 & 15, damage 6 & 5 how the fuck do you people do so much damage with guns jfc).]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ the last thing alice remembers is being stabbed and pain and then she... is waking up on the dock with a yelp like what is even happening, did she just ride through the jellyfish forest, did she just die? she looks around but it's a little chaotic and all she really notices is max slumped nearby so she scoots over to him and maybe it's an a name thing, but her first thought to wake him up is to slap him roughly. ]

Wake up, come on!

[theshameofcain]

[Bambi doesn't get very far, because as soon as Alice is struck, she stops, suddenly taken back to another time and place where things played out very similarly to this. It doesn't matter that the spell kicked in and that she can hear Alice speaking just fine. All she knows is someone nearly died and here she is running away again.]

Constance! [She shouts the name involuntarily, barely aware that she said it, and then yanks her gun out. She can't do much more than that, but she's coming back.

She has to do the right thing this time.]

[herebemonsters]

[ max is roused by alice's slap, raising one hand to the red welt on his cheek as he shakes off the slumber, while the dark ape decides helen seems the biggest threat here, since she FUCKING SHOT A BIG HOLE IN IT. so it launches itself at her with a mighty flap of dark wings and comes in swinging with a 27 attack... for minimal damage of 9 :| ]

[daredtobelieve]

[Helen breathes a sigh of relief as she sees the others get back up, assuming that Ana has something to do with it and trusting that she doesn't need to pull herself from combat to see to anyone's injuries. That brief distraction is all it takes to give one of the creatures the chance to attack her. She lets out a shout, taking a step back and realigning her aim.]

Is that the best you've got?

[The taunting isn't necessary but she would prefer their attention stay on her, rather than the younger squires. And with a very precise shot, she attacks with a nat 20 and does 16 damage.]

[oftheband]

[ helen's shot nearly takes out the ape, leaving a bullet wound right in his chest, but he's still up.

the panther is just barely holding on, but it directs a full attack towards hook and edain: biting at the pirate with a nat 20, teeth ripping through the flesh of his arm with double penetration damage (30 dmg...), and then attemptint to claw edain (atk 14; atk 10), and striking at him with its snakes (atk 10).

edain, attempting to avoid the serpents, draws back his arm too quickly with his sword... and drops it, with a crit fail. a+ ] Nine hells.

[unhand]

[Hook screams as his fucking ARM gets ripped off, though luckily, he's not dying thanks to his fort save of 24. He's not dying but his ARM IS BEING EATEN BY A PANTHER AND it's not like losing limbs is new to him but he was not looking to repeat the experience.

He still has his sword hand, though. That one good hand that's stayed with him all this time. His pained scream turns into a shout of rage as he slices desperately at the panther (atk 20, dmg 2).....]

[mining]

[ Jesus christ. Mildly grossed out by the fact that Hook just lost an arm, but he's going to attempt to help a bro out and get the panther's attention off him (maybe also his arm). He attacks with his rapier, atk 18 and dmg 4 if it hits. ]

[herebemonsters]

[ lmfao that time adi killed the panther .5 seconds after it tore hook's arm off whoops ]

[thetokenaussie]

[Frankie actually has to do a double take cause for a second there she - nope. yep. She just saw the panther with an ARM in it's mouth and for a moment there it looks like she's torn between shooting again and just continuing to WTF at the Panther. Snacking on an arm. Are you shitting her right now?!

But Will Save (19) says she's can refocus and she forces herself to take aim at the Ape she and Helen had been shooting at and fires another shot; Atk 26, Dmg 9.]

[heavensend]

[ frankie's shot knocks the dark ape over with a howl, as it falls unconscious, and so anastacia moves behind hook, and casts cure critical wounds on him for 34hp ] Goddess...

[fixyourproblem]

[Brantley almost jumps toward Hook and tries to help him, stopping the bleeding or something, he doesn't like the guy, but he is still an important team-mate. But in less than a moment and after a whoosh, Hook's arm got fixed, magically. Brantley sighs, showing relieve and annoyance at the same time. Since the pirate seems better, he changes his focus toward the still-on-a-murder-spree ape and tries to reason with it, since sword-wielding apes are supposed to be smart, right?

So, he puts on a menacing look and shouts in a patronizing manner.]

Your comrades are dead! Surrender now, or we will deliver the same fate to you!

[Not his best attempt, but good enough for an ape? (Intimidate 19)]

[ex_ric243]

[Wow, Brantley. If you thought Alaric was judging your life before this then you ain't seen nothing yet, bro. Hook just got his friggin' arm ripped off and Ric is still going to take the time to direct his attention toward Brantley just so he can be like r u srs rn?

Sorry to interrupt but he is going to be trying to blow that monkey's brains out now (attack 20, damage 7 + 5 piercing = 13 ... if you can even roll for piercing damage with guns).]

[bluffcheck]

[Thoster stares on in horror as his former squire has his arm ripped off, but as the beast that did it is quickly brought down, he does what he does best...

breaking into song, duh.

Thoster launches into that sweet song he wrote about Mark taking the throne. He's gonna make it a thing. But as he sings, everyone feels a boost of courage. +1 to attack, damage, and saving throws against fear.

Now everyone else go kill the ape thing. He'll just hang out back here. #bardlyf]

[necessaryevil]

[ the ape is successfully demoralized at least, so... he gets some negatives??? but isn't going to stop attacking, sorry bro. in fact, he turns to attack max, but manages to whiff both times. max backs up against alice, throwing an arm out in front of her as he fires once on the creature (dmg 10). ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ she will totally use him as a human shield while she loads the next cartridge in her taser. ]

[theshameofcain]

[HERE'S BAMBI, come to use those gun tricks Lila taught her. She levels the gun and pulls the trigger on the ape. (atk 20 total, dmg 5] HEY MONKEY-BOY. THE MARK WAHLBERG REMAKE WAS SO MUCH COOLER.

[I feel like this tag is just a love letter to Emma. There you go.]

[daredtobelieve]

[Turning her attention on the final beast, Helen trains her weapon on it and fires.

and crit fails.

i knew that string of luck would come back to haunt me.]

[oftheband]

[ in the most bizarre crit fail ever, helen somehow manages to SHOOT THE GUN OUT OF MAX'S HANDS. he withdraws his hand quickly, shaking it and wincing as the gun clatters to the dock, and edain moves to attack the remaining ape, sticking his sword into its back (atk 18, dmg 13). it lets out a howl, arching backwards, but is still wriggling on the blade, barely alive. ]

[unhand]

[It's almost weirder to feel completely fine while he's staring down at his arm on the ground. He knows he should be screaming in pain, but it doesn't hurt. Like his wrist no longer hurts him after so many years of his hand being gone. His wrist that's now lying on the ground with the rest of his arm.

He drops his sword and draws his gun, leveling it at the ape (atk..... crit..... fail.....)]

[mining]

[ Adi manages to get over looking completely offended at how ridiculous everyone's being and stab at the ape, which hopefully isn't too difficult since it's currently skewered on a blade ?? (atk 17, dmg 3). ]

[thetokenaussie]

[Reasoning with King Kongs evil spawn. That's a new one even for her but Frankie - whose face might have mirrored Ric's for a second there - at least recovers fast enough to turn her gun on - Ape #2 Atk 24, 13 Penetration Dmg if it hits.]

[silvermaid]

[ and frankie takes the ape right between the eyes, and it slumps over, completely dead. anastacia scans the forest line to make sure nothing else is coming, before turning to tell hook: ] We should get you back on the boat.

[ /init ]

[theshameofcain]

[Bambi manages to suck in a shocked breath as the last ape goes down before she runs to Alice and THROWS HER ARMS AROUND HER... in an unfathomable and un-Bambi-like gesture of affection.

Obviously, gurl's got some issues.] Thank you...