B.P.R.D. Issue #1 "City of Night"

[Radiant]

Lia

Stretching their legs, the group looks around the area but finds nothing but sand…

Dr, Clay and Bulusu talk slowly to each other for a bit and then Dr. Clay turns back to Paul “He does not remember much about where he went, and if I am getting it correct, he was lost for three days afterwards and has no memory of what happened. The land to the north west of here is the ‘curse place’ that they speech of. I believe he is very frightened of this place but is ready to move towards it none the less.”

"Then let us move, the night won't last forever."

Lia gets back into the car. Even though she knows how futile it is she strains to see something in the distance out of sheer instinct.
So there did you dig yourself in meine Freunde.

 

[Velmont]

"Then let us move, the night won't last forever."

"Calm down, I am not that sure it is a good idea to go in that cursed land at night. It would be more easier to surprise us. You must know something. There is some legend in these parts that talk about the Ghûls. Those Ghûls are flesh eater Djinn... and they are not friendly, as you may know. Big boy here may have nothing to fear,", pointing at the red armor, "but we have to be cautious. I have found a ritual in those books that is suppose to ward a place from those Ghûls. Now, is those Ghûls really exist, and is that rituals correct, that's two things only time will tell us.

I suggest we find a place to rest and goes to the curse land at the first hours of the day, leaving just a bit before the sun show up. If we are fast enough, we would arrive at our destination one or two hour after the sun appear. We would see anything coming from far, and the sun would not be high enough yet to kill us with his heat."

 

[Keia]

Sgt. Michael Camden "Ace" HP's 3

"I would suggest we saddle back up and check this out now," Michael offered quietly to everyone. "We're well rested, we haven't been traveling that long, and if we really don't know how far away we have to go yet . . . do we?"

 

[Drakknyte32]

Red Knight and Chrisopher

"I'm going to have to agree with Lia and Ace. We don't know how long it will take to get to this base and the longer we take in the desert the more chance that whatever they're doing will succeed. If the zombies are any sign they are getting close. What do you think Red Knight?"

The Red Knight, who had just returned from dropping the bag of corpses off on the other side of the dune, makes a creaky shrug of his shoulders.

"Morning or night doesn't matter to me. Unlike you humans I don't have to worry about sleep. But the decision lies with you, you're the one with the gauntlet."

 

[Radiant]

Lia

" You must know something."

"I must?"

She stares back at him with her eyes softly reflecting the gleam of the flashlights. Her voice is kept low just in case someone might be listening in any way.

"If you intend to intrude unnoticed into someones territory then the night is the time to do it. Also it sounded like whatever Ragna Rok is doing is nearly finished so why should we give them so much time? We rested the whole day."

" I suggest we find a place to rest and goes to the curse land at the first hours of the day, leaving just a bit before the sun show up. If we are fast enough, we would arrive at our destination one or two hour after the sun appears. We would see anything coming from far, and the sun would not be high enough yet to kill us with his heat."

She snorts and turns away from him again, looking back towards the so called cursed land.

"I don't fear any curses. I carry my share allready. And I can see perfectly well in the darkness. If you are too affraid I can go alone."

"I would suggest we saddle back up and check this out now," Michael offered quietly to everyone. "We're well rested, we haven't been traveling that long, and if we really don't know how far away we have to go yet . . . do we?"

Conituing to look into the direction of the possible Ragna Rok hideout Lia leave the discussion to the others. In the end she doesn't care of someone will stay back or not.

 

[Keia]

Sgt. Michael Camden "Ace" HP's: 3

"Sounds like it's decided," Michael said as he looked to the others and moved to the Rover. He buckled in and waited for the others to mount up. The sooner then got into this, the sooner they had a chance to stop whatever the Ragna Rok had planned.

 

[Velmont]

"I just don't want to go head down into something we don't know, but your points are good enough. Time may be running out. But I wanted to be sure that everyone understand in what we are going, and what I have found may be nothing compare to what we may find... it can be always worst than what you may think.

Anyway, Leo seems to be on the same opinion. The faster we get there, the faster we kick butts. That's his words."

 

[Karl Green]

'Saddling' back up, the party again heads into the night and deeper into the desert. After 30 minutes or so, Kongming thinks that he is at the spot that he saw in his vision. He can 'sense' something out there in the desert. Paul starts sweating a bit as Libra starts sensing psychic or mystical energy out there in the desert of great power and is struggling to take control. The 'path' towards this power is easy to follow and sense now…

Continues for another 20 minutes, a bit of a wind picks up and the night seems to get colder. Bulusu is still leading the way, riding his camel out on the edge of the highlight high-beams range…when he suddenly disappears! The camels behind him snort in fear and pull back. A second later Bulusu appears almost out of nowhere racing back towards the party. He is speaking rapidly in his native tongue and pointing back the way he just came from.

Looking forward there does not seem to be anything out of the ordinary… Except when Xavier takes a look at it he sees spoiler

Spoiler

You have been traveling through rolling dunes of sand all night, and yet straight in front of you the land becomes flat. No dunes, just sand. It is a very sharp edge where the sand dune bump right up to the edge of this 'flatness'. You can 'sense' a darkness or evil in front of you… a great old evil that seems to be waking up as if from a long dream

 

[Drakknyte32]

"What just happened to our guide? Red Knight get up there, there might be something dangerous nearby."

"Yeah yeah, just leave all the dangerous stuff to me. Who cares if I die, I'm just a suit of armor."

With heavy sarcasm in his voice the Red Knight gets out of the landrover and sprints toward the guide, making an awful ratchet as he moves.

 

[Karl Green]

Bulusu is next to the landrover right now, and when the Red Knight steps out, he points back the way that he came (and disappeared for a moment) speaking rapidly in his native language.

[NOTE he 'reappeared' about 20 feet in from of where the landrover is now parked. The headlights point out into the desert, although a few notice that where Bulusu's camel went the tracks seem to 'end' and then reappear again about 20 feet in front of the jeep]

Dr. Clay tries to calm him, and after a moment or two he says "All I can get out of him is 'curse place' or 'evil lands' in the direction that he just vanished into. I don't understand what just happened"