Airwalkrr's Shatterscape IC (Cooperative Design-As-You-Go PBP)

[Deuce Traveler]

Kleb watches in shock as the strange girl rushes out to follow the other, then he stumbles slightly as he rises and steps towards the door. "I cannot let those two face death undefended. Please allow me to pass," he says to the innkeeper. As the piercing scream is heard he grips his axe-handle and rushes out into the night, squeezing the innkeeper's shoulder as he does so and saying, "Thank you for your kindness. May Luthes always be with you."

With that he pulls out his axe and follows where the scream came from, looking for one of the women who left the inn.

 

[hafrogman]

When the piercing scream echoes into the room, Kylest springs to his feet, reacting purely on instinct. He is stalking towards the door with his sword drawn before he has a chance to realize what he is doing. He mutters to himself as he peers into the darkness, brushing aside the innkeeper, and preventing him from closing the door for a moment.

"What is it exactly that haunts these streets?"

Then, a sudden shiver passes over him, as a flash of memory or dream assaults him, and he stares out into the night again. Suddenly afraid, not of what might happen to himself, but of what he might see. Still, steeling himself, he turns to Olindar.

"Fear can be wisdom, but it can weaken you if you let it. Goodbye."

Then he steps into the darkness to see what the night holds for him.

 

[Kenku17]

Micheal watches the people leaving, but does not follow. He thinks to himself this is not the time or place to he heroic...the order comes first and foremost, and recklessly risking your skin when you haven't even met your charge is foolish he thinks as he waits for a response from his question from the bartender, if he will get one.

 

[airwalkrr]

The innkeeper seems too startled to recall Michael's question, having watched well over half his clientele leave to go to almost certain death. After a few moments, he finally regains his composure and with a whimper bolts the door once again. Before he locks it in place, he glances over towards Michael, his hopeless expression seeming to ask if Michael is as crazy as the others.

*****​

The streets are quite dark. For a moment, the light from the inn's bar room illuminates the street as Kleb and Kylest dart out to follow Arden, but then it is engulfed once again by shadow. Arden makes her way slowly and quietly to the edge of the alleyway from which the scream issued and peers inside. The alleyway is wide and mostly clear, except for what appears to be a slumped-over figure lying lifeless on the ground halfway down the alleyway. A body perhaps? It is difficult to tell what with the lighting being so poor.

 

[Kenku17]

(OOC:dig the icons! Will watch from the BG and let you guys go at it for the time being)

Micheal looks over confused and just asks, somewhat hoping to change the mood. "so which way is it to the private room?"

 

[airwalkrr]

"Oh, um, second door down the hall."

When you walk down the hall and try the door you realize it is locked, looking down the hallway at the innkeeper, he looks back at you, rather surprised, before digging into his pocket and saying, "Oh, yes, how silly of me. The key. Here you are."

After letting you in and handing you the key to the room, he walks back to the bar room, muttering worriedly to himself. The room is small and plain, but well-kept and tidy. There is a bed in one corner, a small chest of drawers with a wash basin and several folded towels atop it, a fire pit, and in another corner a covered chamber pot.

 

[hafrogman]

Kylest looks at the empty street around them, unaffected by the darkness. Having found himself outside, he's not quite sure what he expected, but it's hardly as frightening as everyone seems to have made it out to be. Still, his sword remains in his hand as he starts forward.

"Well, here's three of us. Where'd the first woman go? And what exactly IS supposed to be out here?"

 

[arcanaman]

Lestrivius Bemoans his bad luck and bangs the door of the inn he becomes impaitent and calls the nessecary incantion to light his staff(the scream) he becomes slighty annoyed at being rattled and says silently to himself "these barbarins due not respect the hours of the dead with silence" he takes a scroll from his case and incants a spell (mage armor)he bemoans the loss of a scroll (to himself)and when a dense ring of force falls around him he prepares to summon Funedor he know looks for a discreet alleyway in which to summon his master does he find one?

 

[airwalkrr]

As Kylest steps into the alleyway, his superior vision catches sight of what is unmistakably a body lying on the ground a couple dozen paces in. The body is doubled over and no longer moving, if it ever was.

[sblock=hafrogman/Kylest]Your vision in the dark does not allow you to discern color, but the texture of the cloak covering the body looks quite similar to that of the woman you just saw leaving the inn. A closer look might help you verify your suspicions.[/sblock]

[sblock=arcanaman/Lestrivius]Unfortunately, at this point, Lestrivius is locked out of the inn, and if he knocks, no one answers. However, you did hear the scream in the alley down the street a ways and can barely make out a group of people from the inn who are now investigating it. It is too dark at this hour, even for you with low-light vision, to read the incantations necessary to summon Funedor.[/sblock]

 

[hafrogman]

Kylest mutters a curse under his breath and brushes past Arden to walk into the alley.

"I think it's dead."