The Forsaken One
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[OOC: I'll resolve somewhere tomorrow, most likely within the next 12 hours about the night... and maybe some more... if you make it through the night! MUHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
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[CoC] Nocturnum -- Part I - Chapter 1 Snowflake Valey [Completed]
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The Forsaken One
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The night passes without any fuss and everyone not taking a turns watch gets a good nights sleep, one without any nightmares one of peace and tranquility.
Morning comes and a new day dawns bright and cloudless, with temperatures never rising above -30 Degrees F. Snow still covers the town, blinding white in the brilliant winter sun.
[Word of the massacre at the sherif's office has flashed through town; frightened townsfolk raided stores for firearms and supplies and alot locked themselves in their homes.]
The staff at the Clearwater Hotel tries to maintain operations as usual, but tensions are running high. Mamie Hesley is jumping at shadows and refusing to be alone. Julia, the hotel maid who discovered the second body, is having a nervous breakdown. Even the ever-polite staff, exhausted and frazzeled from too many sleepless nights, are snapping and growling at guests. Everyone in town, even the other guests refuse to look you five in the eye....
Sometime early during the morning, when you five just walk out of the Valley View and finished your breakfast, you are approached by the mysterious man Ross and Ray saw following them around the day before when they were in town for shopping and a little research. He introduces himself as John Stonehill, the old man’s face betrays a nervous desperation that he somehow keeps out of his voice.
I must speak with you, he says softly. For the Beast has marked you, and the Darkness grows stronger every night.
The old man’s paranoia is at once unnerving to the five of you and contagious, ow so contagious: He refuses to explain himself further until you take him somewhere private.
Doc takes a somewhat bedazzled look at the rest of you.
Euhm, guys? Should we take him up to our rooms or not? And no Ray please save me the wisenosed remark on that comment of mine... But, well? Or don't we trust this... you suspected Indians and now some guy comes up to us, I'm curious myself what he has to say, allthough I don't think it'll get us further from harm if I'm honest, but I'm still in tregued a bit... how sick it may sound. This is mystery and it's gnawing at my mind to solve it.
He then looks sincerely at all of you wondering what you think and what you'll say.
They always say just listening won't hurt? *Allthough we all know how large a pile of bullsh*t that is, he thinks*
Morning comes and a new day dawns bright and cloudless, with temperatures never rising above -30 Degrees F. Snow still covers the town, blinding white in the brilliant winter sun.
[Word of the massacre at the sherif's office has flashed through town; frightened townsfolk raided stores for firearms and supplies and alot locked themselves in their homes.]
The staff at the Clearwater Hotel tries to maintain operations as usual, but tensions are running high. Mamie Hesley is jumping at shadows and refusing to be alone. Julia, the hotel maid who discovered the second body, is having a nervous breakdown. Even the ever-polite staff, exhausted and frazzeled from too many sleepless nights, are snapping and growling at guests. Everyone in town, even the other guests refuse to look you five in the eye....
Sometime early during the morning, when you five just walk out of the Valley View and finished your breakfast, you are approached by the mysterious man Ross and Ray saw following them around the day before when they were in town for shopping and a little research. He introduces himself as John Stonehill, the old man’s face betrays a nervous desperation that he somehow keeps out of his voice.
I must speak with you, he says softly. For the Beast has marked you, and the Darkness grows stronger every night.
The old man’s paranoia is at once unnerving to the five of you and contagious, ow so contagious: He refuses to explain himself further until you take him somewhere private.
Doc takes a somewhat bedazzled look at the rest of you.
Euhm, guys? Should we take him up to our rooms or not? And no Ray please save me the wisenosed remark on that comment of mine... But, well? Or don't we trust this... you suspected Indians and now some guy comes up to us, I'm curious myself what he has to say, allthough I don't think it'll get us further from harm if I'm honest, but I'm still in tregued a bit... how sick it may sound. This is mystery and it's gnawing at my mind to solve it.
He then looks sincerely at all of you wondering what you think and what you'll say.
They always say just listening won't hurt? *Allthough we all know how large a pile of bullsh*t that is, he thinks*
Argent Silvermage
First Post
Please come with us Mr. Stonehill. I think we need to talk as well. Ray leads him to their suites.
The Forsaken One
Explorer
You escort him to room 211 while the Indian constantly looks over his shoulder and narrows his eyes suspiciously at anyone who comes near you on the way up to the conference room.
Hurry, he insists. There isn’t much time! and his eyes are everywhere.
Once you arrive at the room and he is convinced that no one can overhear the conversation, the Indian continues.
I am John Stonehill and this, he says, gesturing toward the snow and the sky, this is the time of the Beast. When the snow is deep and the moon is full, the Beast returns to this valley to quench its thirst for blood. But the Beast…the Beast is not the problem.
Stonehill goes on to explain about the Darkness in the valley, and tells you investigators that his people have warred against it for many generations. But now the Darkness is growing stronger each day. Soon his people’s medicine will not be enough to keep it at bay. Furthermore, he says, the werewolf is only a servant of the Darkness. It is an ill omen that the Beast grows bolder, but it means that the Darkness is also growing stronger.
Before the werewolf first arrived more than a hundred years ago, Stonehill says, the Native Americans prayed and were granted by the Sky Father a circle of metal that weakened the Darkness. Later, our warriors used the disc in battle and badly wounded the werewolf, but it ran away before we could kill it. The next night, we sent our best warrior to find and kill the beast. He never returned, and the disc was lost with him.
Through our medicine, we have found where the sky-metal lies. But we are old now, too weak to carry spears, too weak to war against the Beast. We are old and now one of our circle’s number is dead—run down in the road like a dog.
Stonehill gives you a sharp meaningful look after that last remark.
It is your duty now to retrieve the sky-metal disc from the bottom of the Delaney’s copper mine where it has waited all these years. You have but one day to complete this task. Any longer than that and the Darkness will be too powerful for my circle’s ritual. One way or the other the circle is performing the ritual tomorrow. But without the sky-metal to protect us, I fear that we will all be killed before we can complete it.
Hurry, he insists. There isn’t much time! and his eyes are everywhere.
Once you arrive at the room and he is convinced that no one can overhear the conversation, the Indian continues.
I am John Stonehill and this, he says, gesturing toward the snow and the sky, this is the time of the Beast. When the snow is deep and the moon is full, the Beast returns to this valley to quench its thirst for blood. But the Beast…the Beast is not the problem.
Stonehill goes on to explain about the Darkness in the valley, and tells you investigators that his people have warred against it for many generations. But now the Darkness is growing stronger each day. Soon his people’s medicine will not be enough to keep it at bay. Furthermore, he says, the werewolf is only a servant of the Darkness. It is an ill omen that the Beast grows bolder, but it means that the Darkness is also growing stronger.
Before the werewolf first arrived more than a hundred years ago, Stonehill says, the Native Americans prayed and were granted by the Sky Father a circle of metal that weakened the Darkness. Later, our warriors used the disc in battle and badly wounded the werewolf, but it ran away before we could kill it. The next night, we sent our best warrior to find and kill the beast. He never returned, and the disc was lost with him.
Through our medicine, we have found where the sky-metal lies. But we are old now, too weak to carry spears, too weak to war against the Beast. We are old and now one of our circle’s number is dead—run down in the road like a dog.
Stonehill gives you a sharp meaningful look after that last remark.
It is your duty now to retrieve the sky-metal disc from the bottom of the Delaney’s copper mine where it has waited all these years. You have but one day to complete this task. Any longer than that and the Darkness will be too powerful for my circle’s ritual. One way or the other the circle is performing the ritual tomorrow. But without the sky-metal to protect us, I fear that we will all be killed before we can complete it.
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Festy_Dog
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"Well, the critter seems to like roaming about above ground, so I doubt we'll run into it in the mine," James says, he pauses for a minute then grins evilly, "Hey you don't like this Delaney fella do you? All this mining business and such right? I've got the means to damage that mine of his real good, you just give the word and once we're done down there I'll bring the roof down. This is a free public service, care of Delta Force, how's it sound?"
Argent Silvermage
First Post
Ray listens to Mr. Stonehills tale and says "Of course we'll help. I am sorry for the loss of your tribe's man. It was us who accidentily ran him down but when we went to help him he ran off into the storm and we couldn't find him. We did everything we could to help including alerting the police to the accident. They just acted like it was nothing." Ray gets up. "can you guys fill me in on the rest. I want to check in on the maid who found the latest corpse".
The Forsaken One
Explorer
You are bold, but foolish and rash. The loup-garou actually rests within that cave where the sky-metal lies. It was our champion who tracked him to the deepest resesses of its own lair but there darkness overcame him and the beast slew him in its own lair. Underground is where it hides and its senses there are as keen as in broad daylight, it prefers the dark so it can use it to its advantage. The beast is searching for you every hour of darkness it is granted so I would go as soon as possible to find the mine and search for the sky-metal disc, hurry before it is too late. But it's master feels time press and it getting bolder and more hastily so we cannot see what he will try. If you have no further questions I'll take my leave now and rally the circle for tomorrows ritual.
[Ray u find the girl in the arms of a Hotel employee who seems to have been taking care of her.]
[Ray u find the girl in the arms of a Hotel employee who seems to have been taking care of her.]
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Argent Silvermage
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If Ray is not needed there then he will return to the group. He's right you know. We gotta get going. I wonder if the mines are big enough to drive the hummer in?
[OOC: TFO. Could you post what Kris is going to do in the Avonshar game? The combat cannot start until the surprise round is out of the way.]
[OOC: TFO. Could you post what Kris is going to do in the Avonshar game? The combat cannot start until the surprise round is out of the way.]
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