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

[Andrew D. Gable]

Kongming

Realizing that some of the others can sense the same foreboding as he, Kongming mutters, "Did anyone else just get a glimpse of something?" Once Bulusu reappears, speaking excitedly, he looks quite agitated and sticks his head out the window. "This is the region I saw, I think."

 

[Radiant]

Lia

Severly anoyed that this one time it appears she is the last to sense anything is wrong Lia stands up in the jeep, taking only the slightest glance at their guide.

"I heard enough, the babbling of spineless humans won't get us any closer to our answers."

She leaps right from the driving car and even while in the air her body is enshrouded in some strange fog that clearly has no buisness being in this dessert. Her body vanishes in it and then it reaches the ground it solifies into the form of a huge greany and silver haired wolf. Without pausing it runs towards the place there the tracks of the camel ended to follow the path that let him vanish.

 

[Velmont]

"A glimpse?" reply Paul to Kongming. "It is more than a glimpse, it is a force that try to take control. I have difficulty sensing it, but Libra is struggling for now 20 minutes, she seems more sensible to it."

Paul get out of the truck.

"There is only one way to know what he is talking about. I'll be quick. Let be one with the desert."

After some quick incantation, Paul first turn into rock (Force Field) before crumbling into a sand cloud (Incorporeal) to finally dissapear (Invisibility). Paul walk to where Bulusu have dissapeared.

 

[Drakknyte32]

The Red Knight looks startled as a wolf runs by but quickly recovers.

"Hey, I was charging in recklessly first. Wait your turn."

The suit of rusty armor follows the werewolf.

 

[Karl Green]

The 'silver wolf' dashes forward and disappears about right where Bulusu did only a second before [not really spoilers anymore but from Lia's (and very quickly the Knight's perspective]

The wolf, sometimes called Lia, races the short distance and suddenly finds herself on a huge flat plain of sand. There is no wind, the air seems 'stale' somehow… but the most difficult thing is that the moon and the stars have gone black! Looking back, the wolf can see the humans standing around their metal legs gesturing in her direction, but they are silent… [Lia may make a 'scent' roll - wisdom bonus +super-senses]

The Red Knight rushes up and within a few steps finds himself not far from the wolf, standing on a flat field of sand. There is no wind here, and looking around he notes where the sand dunes seem push right up to some invisible barrier. Then he notices that while there seems to be an eerily light, that he can no longer see the moon or any stars in the nights sky. The rest of the group is still back at the landrover, and seem to be talking, but the Knight cannot hear them, even though they are no more then 25 or 30 feet away.

Xavier can still see the pair, the silver wolf seems to have hesitated a second and the Red Knight has just charge in not far from it… a cold gust of wind kicks up a bit of sand and dust but he notes that it does not seem to affect anything past the strange line onto the flat plain ahead.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"What is this?" A quizzical expression on his face, Kongming walks forward, stopping just short of the "disappearance line", kneeling down and examining the earth for anything out of the ordinary.

Spot natural 20+7 = 27. Woohoo!

 

[Radiant]

Lia

The hairs on her back standing up Lia strains her eyes and nose to make some sense ouf of this.
Her eyes adjusted to the darkness try to make out anything at all that could be a landmark or a buidlung in this flat plain of sand.

`scent' roll total of 18

 

[Keia]

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

Michael stayed at the wheel of the landrover, ready to leave withthe others if there was any trouble. While he waited, he asked Dr. Clay, "Have our guide calm down, and see if you can get anything else out of him."

Michael kept the high beams focused on where everyone disappeared . . . and waited.

 

[Karl Green]

The hairs on her back standing up Lia strains her eyes and nose to make some sense ouf of this.
Her eyes adjusted to the darkness try to make out anything at all that could be a landmark or a buidlung in this flat plain of sand.

`scent' roll total of 18

The wolf first notices that the air is ‘dead’ here, stale and without taste. She has never encountered a place so devoid of smells before… but she soon can smell the sore of two-legs and of their ‘machines’ in the area. She also finds a trail that leads deeper into this strange area, left by the a number of two-legs, their scent is bad and wrong somehow…

Kongming can see that the line is “shifting” as it were. That right next to the ‘line’ where the other disappeared he can almost see them now, and see that the sand there is flat past here, and then he see the dunes, then it switches back and he can make out the Red Knight and Lia in wolf-form.

Dr. Clay and Bulusu talk some more and he is able to calm the tribesman. He then looks over and ask “What should we do now?”

 

[Radiant]

Lia

The wolf first notices that the air is ‘dead’ here, stale and without taste. She has never encountered a place so devoid of smells before… but she soon can smell the sore of two-legs and of their ‘machines’ in the area. She also finds a trail that leads deeper into this strange area, left by the a number of two-legs, their scent is bad and wrong somehow…

Kongming can see that the line is “shifting” as it were. That right next to the ‘line’ where the other disappeared he can almost see them now, and see that the sand there is flat past here, and then he see the dunes, then it switches back and he can make out the Red Knight and Lia in wolf-form.

Dr. Clay and Bulusu talk some more and he is able to calm the tribesman. He then looks over and ask “What should we do now?”

She barely supresses the urge to howl into the dark sky just to fill this place with sound. No sense in alarming her prey. With a glance back at the Red Knight that says "coming?" more clearly than most languages could she turnes to follow the trail she found. If she notices any of the other following she will slow her pace to let them keep up, otherwise she will speed up to a run.