[d20 Cthulhu] What Rough Beast... (Part I)

[Karl Green]

Sam will watch the others and then when Julia leaves will pause a moment and then follow her to the garage. He will not ask her any questions, he will just help with lifting and sorting. He will remain quit... hoping that Julia will talk. If not he will NOT force the issue. Sam is very worried about Julia and feels rather protective towards her.

 

[Anabstercorian]

"You all right, Ray?" Alex looks at Ray sympathetically.

OOC: Sam, there's no better way to freak someone way the hell out than to follow them around silently. You sure you want to do that?

 

[Isida KepTukari]

"You all right, Ray?" Alex looks at Ray sympathetically.

*Ray keeps his voice low.*

"Kind of... Alex, I may have found something here, but I don't want to jump to conclusions or upset Julia."

*Ray turns and grabs another pile to start sorting. Under cover of sorting, he'll hand Alex the letter he found.*

"I'm not exactly sure what it's implying... but either way I'm not coming up with any overly wholesome scenarios. What do you think?"

 

[Anabstercorian]

Oct12

Dear Alan,

Can we blame it on the wine, Alan? The beer? The tequila?
What happened that night I can never forget. What we did
together - what *you* did - was wrong, Alan. No other word can
describe it but *wrong*. I have had horrible nightmares ever since then.
I don't feel normal, I feel dirty.

The rest of the Club knows something happened - they're
just not sure what, and it's better off for them if they don't know.
Hell, I don't even know.

Alister isn't speaking to me. He's supposed to be my boyfriend
and he's not even talking to me. I can't concentrate on my school
work, and if you expect me to pick apart Rommel's theorem for
the test, you're dead wrong.

Tracy[/i]

Alex blinks. "Whoa... Freaky," he whispers. "This doesn't look like an affair... Something way weirder. Occult or illegal maybe." He gives it back, going on with his sorting, keeping an eye out for anything else from Tracy.

 

[The Crimster]

Sam leaves the study and goes to join Julia. Sam, you find her in the garage, behind one of Alan's refurbished classic cars. She grabs some folded boxes and turns, seeing you.

"Oh! Sam. How nice of you to come help me," She smiles. "But these are pretty light." Julia stops collecting the boxes for a moment, and gently grabs Sam's hand.

"I never could hide anything from you. You have those... eyes. I think it's why you will make such a good police officer. We -- I -- am very proud of you." She pauses for a moment. "There were some break-ins. Several, over the years. Usually it's a broken window, or a lock that's been forced. We never reported them. I'll never report them." She looks up at Sam, very serious. "They would never hurt me... They would never hurt Alan, or me. You have to trust me on that." She grips Sam's hand tighter. "They don't take anything of value... I wish they would..." Julia stares off for a moment, deep in thought.

 

[Isida KepTukari]

Alex blinks. "Whoa... Freaky," he whispers. "This doesn't look like an affair... Something way weirder. Occult or illegal maybe." He gives it back, going on with his sorting, keeping an eye out for anything else from Tracy.

"Keep your eyes peeled for any more of this stuff..."

*Ray murmurs this back to Alex, then continues to sort for a while. Then he realizes it too damn quiet in here, and raises his voice to pose a question to the whole room.*

"Hey, does anyone know what that funky tree-branch symbol on the door stands for? I've never seen it before. Professor Faulken, anything you recognize?"

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

While no one is looking at Randy he will pull a picture out of his jacket. The picture has been worn from extended use over the years, and the edges are becoming frayed from too much handling. It is a picture of Susan when he found her that morning, he studies the picture and then compares the symbols on her to the one the professor had drawn on his desk.

Randy replaces his picture just as Dr. Silver speaks “Hey, does anyone know what that funky tree-branch symbol on the door stands for? I've never seen it before. Professor Faulken, anything you recognize?"

Randy gives a little jump, looks over to him and shakes his head “No, as far as I can tell I have never seen a symbol like that before. Anyone else? Dr. Silver so you believe it to be important?”

Randy will turn his back to the others to open the drawer so they cannot see his hands. As he reaches out to open the drawer as hard as he tries he cannot stop the slight tremor in his hand. God, please let there be something here I can use, I have waited so long Randy thinks. If professor Alan knew something about what happened to Susan and never told me then by God he is lucky he is dead, because I would kill him myself

Randy will gently pull open the drawer and look inside it, his heart pounding like a sledgehammer in his chest, afraid that the others can hear his heart beat.

 

[Isida KepTukari]

Re: Randy Morrison

Randy replaces his picture just as Dr. Silver speaks “Hey, does anyone know what that funky tree-branch symbol on the door stands for? I've never seen it before. Professor Faulken, anything you recognize?"

Randy gives a little jump, looks over to him and shakes his head “No, as far as I can tell I have never seen a symbol like that before. Anyone else? Dr. Silver so you believe it to be important?”

*Ray shrugs*

"I've just never seen it before, I was curious. Anything interesting in that drawer Randy? It's mostly old letters over here."

[Untrained Knowledge (whatever) check for the symbol?]

 

[Spoof]

Randy shakes his head and with out turning around. "No, nothing yet, I'll let you know if I find anything. So far all I have seen is papers scatterd about, but none of them have looked very interesting. You?"

 

[The Crimster]

The symbol does not look familiar to anyone - except for Alex. Alex, you could have sworn you once painted something very similar to this during your brief flirtation with cubism, quite a while ago. Now that you think about it - that was the first picture that Alan bought from you.

Randy looks up at the others. "No, nothing yet, I'll let--" He is suddenly cut off as he opens the large drawer. It certainly slides open easily enough. But when Randy see what it contains however, his mouth opens in a mixture of shock and disgust. The drawer is filled completely to the rim - with a swarming, undulating mass of what at first appears to look like bees. They are small, with striped bodies and bulbous heads. But instead of yellow and brown - they are striped with black and a rather bilious green. Randy utters a gasp of shock, and immediately tries to close the drawer - but to his horror, it is in some way wedged open. The bees... erupt. No other word can describe it. Almost like a geyser they shoot out of the drawer and hit the ceiling, where they immediately begin to spread out. All of you watch this happen, and are literally stunned (ooc: surprised) by what you see. A low muted and rhythmic thrumming sound seems to also come from the creatures. It definitely reminds you of bees, but pitched so high it almost hurts your ears.

Randy, you look in awe at where the bees come from. There is no way such a drawer of that size could contain so many of these... things. Then you truly see what is in the drawer - blackness. It appears to contain the utter blackness of space, punctuated by a few lonely stars in the distance. Looking into the drawer is like looking into a night sky. You can slightly see ground near what must be the 'bottom' part - but the ground is made of some type of reddish sand. You see mountains in the distance, looking like blunted crags on some unknown world. You can even feel a hot, bitter wind coming from the drawer, that smells slightly of burning rubber. You realize that while you are looking down into the drawer, the view is as if you were looking across a sandy plain - you feel your stomach lurch, and your mind seems to go numb for a second with what you see. Then you begin to feel the stinging, and you realize that the other-worldly bees are crawling on you.