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

[Radiant]

Lia

The Silver wolf spends some time wondering around, smelling the two-leg’s lair. She picks up the scent of something else but can’t quit make out what it is… it is strange and like nothing she has ever smelled before. She also smells a number of two-leg’s machines and the liquid that runs them. There is a greasy and sot smell of these machines, that is also no more then a week old that leads into off into the desert… the smell is mixed in with that of rotting two-leg flesh. It is old, corrupted and poisoned in a way that seems vaguely familiar…

the Silver wolf may make a Scent roll to try and identify the smell, she may also make another Listen test about the sounds coming from deeper in the desert

Machines, humans seem so obsessesed with their machines. That and magic. She never understood why these hairless apes had decided to give up thier physical fitness for all that theoretical knowledge.
And the Nazis more so than even the others. They had been obsessed with both. For people who claimed to be superior to everyone else they did not show a lot of faith in themself. And in the end they lost...
Lia ponders those thoughts for a while, having nothing better to do while she waits.

The wolf urges her to move on, resting is not an option then her prey might get away. And it doesn't like her wasting time over philosofical questions either. They are a waste of time and had she not believed the ideas of the Nazis she would not even be in this trouble but still hunting free in the forests. Still she manages to wait for the hour she planned, the long time of imprisonment has taught her patience if nothing else.

Then the time is up she leaves the camp to follow the tracks and noise into the dessert. She will wait at the edge of the camp for a short moment to give anyone who wants the cance of following and then leaves. She doesn't care if they stay behind or investigate,Ragna Rok is out there and she will have her revenge. This time both parts of her are in complete agreement, it has been too long since she hunted humans.

"scent roll: natural 20+6=26
"hearing roll: 14+6=20
doh, forgot to add my feats the last few times...

 

[Drakknyte32]

The Red Knight waits while everyone else searches around. If he is bored he is doing a very good job of not showing it, after standing around doing nothing for hundreds of years it kind of comes naturally.

When the Wolf decides to leave the camp the Red Knight notices and starts to follow her.

Christopher works with the others, lending a helping hand when they ask for it. He doesn't even notice that his charge is leaving.

 

[Karl Green]

In the hour or so that Andy is reading, Paul also browses through a number of the books and looks over the different items here. In the books that he can read (in Ancient Greek) he finds a lot of talk about binding and commanding Djinn. These spirits are almost always bond by their given word, which they follow to the letter. They can’t abide the ‘Seal of Solomon’ (and there are a number of designs found in the books, Paul could create one with a Ritual test DC 15, taking about 10 minutes). There is an also ancient reference to a place called the City of Brass, a cursed land where the Queen deified the gods themselves and tried to create something here on Earth that was not meant to be. For this the city was lost and hidden from the world, hidden behind an illusion so powerful that no one would be able to break it. The Queen in these legends is said to not be dead, but to be trapped behind some barrier that must never be broken or it could spell the doom of the world. There is more but this is what he gets in an hours time…

The Silver wolf’s sense of smell tells her that the ‘unidentified’ creature is something very similar to a vampire that she once ran into while working for the German SS. It is not completely the same, but it is close. The other, the smell of rotten or dead two-leg flesh smells almost like a Zombie that she also ran into from one of the Ragna Rok special projects….something about keeping the flesh and brain alive even after it would normally die…

Also out in the desert the sounds seem to be a rhythmic drumming, like an oil-pump/drilling operation or industrial machine… there also seems to be something else… almost a chanting… the tempo of both is increasing…

After an hour the silver wolf is ready to go, and the Red Knight starts following her. The darkness becomes deeper out here, just at the edge of the camp, and the Red Knight can see a line of stones or something out deeper in the desert…

 

[Radiant]

Lia

Throwing her head back Lia howls over the camp. If anyone isn't smart enough to hear that she's starting her hunt she doesn't care for his help anyway. And she is sure they are allready in the middle of their little ritual.
This time she runs as fast as she can. Degenerate humans are bad enough but the wolf wants to tear the undead she smelled to shreds.
And she couldn't agree more...
As she runs over the sand she realizes that this is her first free sprint in half a century and her eyes glow with excitement over the feeling.
A long run, dangerous prey and no one she can trust.
Life is good again.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Kongming

Kongming looks up at the howl. He pushes himself up off the ground where he's been looking idly through some of the books and walks towards the edge of the camp. He breaks into a jog at the edge of the camp and catches up with the Lia-wolf and the suit of armor.

"I wish to come along, as well," he says as he runs up behind them. "There's something out here. Let us see where the children of Viy hide." Then, when he fully catches up, "I can no longer sense the outside accurately. I have a bad feeling..."

 

[Velmont]

Paul get out of the tent with the book on the brass city in his hand and see the armor and Lia leaving the camp.

"Hey, can't you wait a inute. Do you think we have read all that for our simple fun!"

Yes!

Please, it isn't the time!

"Come back here a minute."

They will get us all kill.

Are you fearing something.

Yes, those Djinn, if they talk about them in that book, that means they must be near that city, and we must be into that illusion that hide the city. That's pretty bad. The seal must not be broken, ot the Djinn will become a second. And i am not talking about what Libra is figthing against now.

Chicken!

Leo!

 

[Radiant]

Kongming looks up at the howl. He pushes himself up off the ground where he's been looking idly through some of the books and walks towards the edge of the camp. He breaks into a jog at the edge of the camp and catches up with the Lia-wolf and the suit of armor.

"I wish to come along, as well," he says as he runs up behind them. "There's something out here. Let us see where the children of Viy hide." Then, when he fully catches up, "I can no longer sense the outside accurately. I have a bad feeling..."

it's highly unlikely that a human can catch up with Lia in her wolf form during a sprint. With a headstart it should be about impossible. She won't slow down a bit, she has waited long enough.

 

[Keia]

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

Michael was waiting somewhat patiently near the landrover. He was used to waiting . . . itwas even in his job description . . . all of these missions involved a bit of 'hurry up and wait'. To keep himself ready, Michael scanned the horizon every couple of seconds while cleaning one of his guns.

He had seen Lia on the edge of the camp, but really didn't want to bother her while she was in wolf form . . . then she tore off into the desert. Before she got out of range, Michael briefly thought about just shooting her and being done with it - she was probably throwing away her life anyway, why not make it quite and painless.

Instead, he gathered up his cleaning supplies and hopped back in the rover. He knew that the camels probably couldn't keep up - but the rover could - though it wasn't as good going fast in this terrain.

Michael started the rover, and called "Anyone interested in following a wolf into the unknown, unprepared and unwilling?"

 

[Velmont]

Michael started the rover, and called "Anyone interested in following a wolf into the unknown, unprepared and unwilling?"

"Unkonwn, not that much, those books are instructive. Unprepared, that is a REALLY bad idea. They talk about enough things that could turn for the worst, and when I say the worst, I mean enough to make a nuclear war a silly thing. Unwilling, I am. I would have needed another 10 minutes to prepare a seal of Salomon, so we could at least don't need to bother of the Djinns. Damn Lia, is she stupid?"

Chicken!

 

[Karl Green]

The Silver wolf is off, racing into the desert. She cuts across a number of rocks that have been laid out in lines in front of her but she ignores them.

The Red Knight tries to keep up but there is no way he can. He slows to allow Kongmind to come up with him as they advance further into the gathering gloom and darkness. Kongming then also notices that there are rows upon rows of rocks laid out that they are passing over. Looking around, it remains him of some kind of patter, but it to massive to see from the group…

Michael fires up the landrover and races into camp to collect the rest of the group. Bulusu jumps onto one of his camels and makes to follow. Dr. Clay is sweating but attempting to look brave. Very quickly the team gathers up and is off into the desert. They see the Red Knight and Kongming a bit ahead but can catch up to them within a couple of minutes. That is when the all notice that they are driving over rocks that have been set out in all kinds of crazy lines in every direction that you look… it is as if somewhat was creating some pattern in the desert, but it must have taken years to arrange them…

The landrover catches up with the Red Knight and Kongming and quickly loads them all aboard, ready to head deeper into the gloom. A golden line seems to be growing very quickly as the drive forward

Meanwhile, the Silver wolf moves up to a golden line that quickly grows into a huge 100 foot tall wall, that looks to be make out of brass or gold. There is a huge golden gate straight ahead and she can see something moving back and forth in front of it. There is voice that she can hear, that sounds like it is coming from a loudspeaker or something, but she can’t understand the word. She then sees a strange two-leg machine of some kind, walking back and forth in front of the gate. The loudspeaker is coming from it… the metal monstrosity is at least 10 feet talk, walking on two-legs like manlings, but it is no human. It is about 150 feet away from the silver wolf…

[NOTE the best way to describe the machine is that it looks like some kind of mini-Mech or Robot, ten feet tall, about 5 feet broad, it has two legs and two arms, and looks to have been made out of part from savaged cars and half-track trucks. Think the Matrix 3 (the things that guards the human enclave), or the Aliens movie (the freight lifter)]

[NOTE 2 the landrover is about 5 rounds behind the silver wolf right now. The metal monstrosity does not seem to notice the wolf BUT if Lia wishes to move any closer, Make a Move Silent and Hide check please]