[d20 Modern] RESIDENT EVIL: Damnation [PG -17]

1st Floor – Front Entrance
Clairemont Mansion


No... This... this can't be.... Those... things... here...

Maria is standing with one leg out of the car, one still inside the vehicle, and she's keeping this position for a few seconds. She freezes up, staring out the car, into the darkness, where these morbid creatures are running around.

"It's...." Maria tries to say, but her words won't leave her mouth. "A...An...Anders" she finally brings out rather softly, prodding the sarge next to her.

For a second, Maria feels comforted by the presence of Anders, knowing he's still there. Michael and Isaac are still working on the trunk, when finally Isaac calls out that he found the gun, Maria shakes her head and gets back to the "real world" or wherever they are now.

She grasps Anders' arm, pulling him to her side of the car, poiting to the red dots. "Trap" she yells. "It's a f*cking trap!"

Her hands embrace the wooden tableleg again, as Maria is readying herself, both physically as well as mentally.

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Clairemont Mansion

Michael leans into the trunk of the car, so he can grab the med kit and talk to the front seat, where he knows Carlson to be.

"Sergeant Sir, we've found a shotgun and a first aid kit. I could take hours stripping this thing clean of anything useful, but in these conditions, I think we'd best take what we have and go back to the mano--"

Michael is interrupted by Maria's scream.

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"Trap" she yells. "It's a f*cking trap!"

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Ah, this went too easy to be true. They wouldn't have simply left all this for the taking. Time to move!

Michael quickly grabs the med kit in his free hand, and spins around fast, facing the darkness. He tries to shield the flame with the med kit, hoping it won't go out again. The table leg is still tucked under his shoulder, but Michael realizes that it won't be of any use there. He bends his knees a bit, assuming a combat stance, hoping that he'll be able to deliver a kick if the need arises.

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1st Floor – Entrance Hall

"Did you just see that?" The asian woman runs up to Patel, drawing Yuri's attention fro mthe outside again,"I... I think there's another one of those... things upstairs. And I think it got to someone!" She points a shaking finger at something dark and glistening in the fading light, lying in a crimson pool.

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Yuri peers at the thing on the floor, but doesn't move from the doorway.

Oh what now?

He looks after Amisha as she moves across the room towards the jug of whatever Moreno had brought out of the side room. Then looks back to the asian woman.

Then suddenly, the howling begins from outside, and Yuri spins back towards tha darkness beyond the front doors.

What the Hell? Dogs? Wolves?

Someone yells something out, only indistinctly reashing his ears over the night wind. Moreno?

He starts forwards a few steps, then hesitates, looks around frantically for a second for something to grab, then cups his hands to his mouth and yells into the night.

"RUN! GET BACK HERE! GET BACK INSDIE!"

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1st Floor – Front Entrance Steps

Everyone

Howling

So close now that it shivers down your spine but still you can barely see out int the darkness. Your sight is useless so far from the light but you can hear the panting, hear the salivating and smell the fetid breath in the air.

Anders, Maria, Mike

The smell makes you sweat. Makes you remember something about cold forests, dark shadows and screams. Makes you remember the smell of blood and the feel of your own mortality in a way that defies description...but just as that memory comes...it leaves only to be replaced by the present danger.

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"Trap" she yells. "It's a f*cking trap!"

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"Then you run girl, run!" Isaac yells as he picks up the pace back to the mansion.

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Clairemont Mansion

Maria jumps out of the car, holding the door ready so Anders can get out as well. With her hands firmly gripped around the tableleg, her palms getting sweatty again, she stands ready to run for the mansion as soon as Anders is out of the car.

"Come on Anders, we haven't got all day...."

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Clairemont Mansion

When she first hears the howling, Jac starts, her nerves still frayed at the edges. But this threat was coming from outside, and she couldn't see anything and she had no weapon. In other words, for the first time in a long time, Jacqueline Nguyen was feeling hopeless and helpless.

And she hated it.

I've got to do something, anything! she thought to herself, and even she could hear the desperation in her thoughts. She was scared and not functioning at her best and she knew it.

But the others were out there, and while she normally had really no use for soldiers, they were handy in a pinch around this place. She moved to one of the massive doors and grasped its handle, and then peered out into the darkness. The medic had the right idea, so she followed suit, hollering until her face was blue.

"COME BACK TO THE HOUSE! GET BACK INSIDE HERE!"

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Clairemont Mansion

She grasps Anders' arm, pulling him to her side of the car, pointing to the red dots. "Trap" she yells. "It's a f*cking trap!"

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What the . . . ?!? Anders thought as he initially resisted Maria's pull on his arm. If it's a trap, you get low to hide from the sniper fire . . . but I'm guessing there are no snipers now.

Anders let himself get pulled out of the car putting the matches back into his pocket as he rose. He looked in the direction Maria indicated and saw for the first time what the screams were about. The hairs raised on the back of his neck as he stared at the red points of light. Being a dog lover all of his life, Anders almost couldn't accept what he was looking at. Almost . . .

Wish I had a drugged roast, like that time in Columbia against the attack dogs. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion I'm the roast Ander thought grimly.

"Come on Anders, we haven't got all day...."

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"Alright, double time back to the house. I've got your back," Anders said, knowing that Maria and even Michael were much faster than he.

With a yell he called toward the house, "Someone get that corpse to give to the dog." Then he followed the others to the house.

It's a dog eat dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milkbone shorts! Anders thought.

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Clairemont Mansion

Hearing the sargeant and already close to the closet where the corpse lay nearby, Patel tucks her club into the back of her fatigues and grabs the body by the belt. Awww gross man...

She starts dragging it across the marble floor, leaving a thick trail of gore and muck in its wake, all the while trying her best not to look at it and not to hurl.

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Clairemont Mansion

Yuri grabs the other side of the double doors and gets ready to slam it shut after everyone has run through. He looks over to Amisha dragging the corpse.

This is gonna take crackerjack timing...