[D20 CoC] Mountains of Madness - Chap 4: Departure; Recruiting Alternate Players

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Father Rucker

Father Rucker strides to where help is most needed.

 

[OnlytheStrong]

The two men carefully lifted the man, but the movement caused him to groan loudly and then fall silent. They gently placed him on the litter and picked it up, but looked nervously at Dr. Watkins.


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Job (the tortured one).

Wade shook his head at the two men, but he couldn't really blame them. They probably had no medical experiance at all, and as long as they were helping...... then who could complain?

 

[Job]

Father Rucker strides to where help is most needed.

Quickly looking around the main deck, the priest notices a few situations that might require his assistance. There are three stevedores struggling to tie down a load of large wooden beams. A drum of oil is lying on its side near the railing and is spilling liquid into the river. And a red-underwear-clad crewmember is sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands.

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Job (the tortured one).

 

[Job]

Wade shook his head at the two men, but he couldn't really blame them. They probably had no medical experiance at all, and as long as they were helping...... then who could complain?

The two Norwegians looked at each other, shrugged, and slowly carried the stretcher up the stairs towards the ship's mess and the medical facility.

When Wade turned to look back at the other two burned men, he saw that someone had covered them with a tarp. Completely.

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Job (the tortured one).

 

[OnlytheStrong]

"Get the dead off this boat as soon as humanly possible. I don't want disease starting to spread." Without the slightest hint of sorrow in his voice, he continued on looking for more injured.

 

[Job]

A loud series of cracks and poppings erupted from the dock and reverberated across the harbor, then a large section of the pier shed roof collapsed in a shower of sparks.

As the Gabrielle idles out in the harbor about 50 yards from pier, awaiting the tugboats, the three boxcars on the pier edge rumble down the explosion- and heat-buckled tracks and into the river. Starkweather shouts and grimly watches the 3-foot wave of water expanding from the dock.

At about the same time, James Starkweather pulls a set of field glasses from a nearby crewmember and examines lights of another ship departing down-river, towed by tugboats. George and Father Rucker both hear him furiously mutter "The Tallahassee! The bitch has beaten me!"

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Job (the tortured one).

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Father Rucker

Quickly looking around the main deck, the priest notices a few situations that might require his assistance. There are three stevedores struggling to tie down a load of large wooden beams. A drum of oil is lying on its side near the railing and is spilling liquid into the river. And a red-underwear-clad crewmember is sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands.

Not wanting to add more menace, Father Rucker decides to be helpful where he is most needed. And comfort is one of his specialties.
Walking to the stairs where the man sits, Father Rucker lays his hand on the man's shoulder.
Are you all right son?

 

[Drowned Hero]

Øyvind Raknes Sled Driver

"The Tallahassee! The bitch has beaten me!"

'Who sir has beaten you?' 'Is that a ships name?' George strains his eyes in the darkness to see the ship or the thing Starkweather is looking at.

 

[Job]

"Get the dead off this boat as soon as humanly possible. I don't want disease starting to spread." Without the slightest hint of sorrow in his voice, he continued on looking for more injured.

The ship had pulled away from the dock, so removing the dead would have to wait.

In looking around the ship, Dr. Watkins found a number of stevedores and crewmen with serious burns, deep cuts, and broken bones. Wade provided what assistance he could on deck, but sent many to the medical room knowing that Dr. Greene would capably handle the rush.

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Job (the tortured one).

 

[Job]

Walking to the stairs where the man sits, Father Rucker lays his hand on the man's shoulder.
Are you all right son?

As Father Rucker approached the crew member, he noticed the man's burned hair and blackened face and hands. The man's hands were trembling and his shoulders shook. The priest could hear him repeating words in a foreign language with a cadence that sounded like prayer:

"...orar para nós sinners, agora e à hora dos nossos morte..."

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Job (the tortured one).