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

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"Safe room? She locked you out?"

*Ray shakes his head at his own inane questions*

"Look, there are three guys downstairs in the study. They're armed, they've already killed Sam! I think Randy took care of one of them, and Alex had another in hand. We need to get out of here now! I've already called the cops."

*Ray speaks rapidly and a bit disjointedly. He's shaken and a bit pale from Sam's death; his hands and cuffs are covered in blood.*

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

“Alex! Are you all right? You in the room, don’t move or I’ll shoot!”

Randy will watch Ted and if he moves I will shoot him. Also if Randy can make out Bobby he will shoot him first. With all the weird stuff that has happened hopefully dropping Bobby will make the “blackness” go away.

 

[The Crimster]

Kristof's eyes open wide at Dr. Silver's news.

"Sam...? Dead..??" He shakes his head in disbelief. "Julia is fine, I locked her in that room of hers. No one can get in, from the looks of it." Kristof looks downstairs. "Maybe Alex and Randy need help. Come on."

Kristof and Dr. Silver make their way down to the study, walking past the bloodied body of Sam. Kristof averts his eyes, but pales.

Back in the study, Randy stands with his gun pointed at the thin man - called 'Ted' by his accomplices. Ted sits cross legged, hands on his head and interlocked. Through a face streaked with blood, he glares at Randy with pure malice. Randy, Bobby is completely gone. The only thing that remains is a smoldering mark in the corner. You're not sure what to make of it.

Alex lies face down on the wooden floor, moaning. Dr. Silver rushes over to his prostrate form and begins to check him over.

"He's all right. I don't see any visible wounds or trauma. Kristof, help me with him."

Kristof and Dr. Silver put Alex's arm behind each of their heads, and bring him into the front room. Dr. Silver takes out a small glass beaker of some kind and snaps it in front of Alex's nose. Alex immediately comes around, although he seems to be a bit groggy.

Once more back in the study, Randy continues his vigil over Ted. Ted smiles, and a bit of blood drips into his mouth.

"Not a religious man, are you?" says Ted, in a strained voice.

 

[Anabstercorian]

"Oh, god.... My head..." Alex rubs his eyes. "That can't have been real. There's no way it could have been real. It was like some sort of awful nightmare." He opens his eyes, finally. They're staring in to space, filled with shock. "But it felt so real... I could feel myself change..." He groans. "God, I hate math."

He glances over at Ted. "Sorry about kicking your ass like that." He looks down at his hands for a moment. "Did... did anyone else see that? The thing in the study?"

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

Hey it said this post had timed out... How was I supposed to know it took???

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

Randy tosses his keys to Kristof. “Here take these and go get my handcuffs out of the glove box in my car. Doctor, is Alex all right? He hit his head pretty hard in there.” Randy chuckles softly “But he certainly did a hell of a job. Tell me Alex do you perchance happen to watch wrestling?”

After Kristof returns with the handcuffs Randy will bind the accomplice and then go over to the corner where Bobby was. He studies the burnt mark and anything else that might be of interest.

“I am going to have to ask everyone else to stay out of this room, as it is a crime scene. Sam, when you called for assistance you did ask for the police right, if not then we need to call them.” Randy will check to see if the dead man has a wallet and if he does he will take it, and find something to jot down ant pertinent information i.e. address, drivers license number…

After this Randy will exit the room and close the door.

“Julia do you have any blankets we can use to cover Sam up with. It does not seem right to leave him there like that.” Randy will squat down next to Sam still on the balls of his feet and say “Sam, thank you for saving me. I am sorry that things had to go this way, but you will be remembered as a hero.”


Randy then looks over to Alex “Yea I saw it. Everything on the room was changing shapes. The clock on the wall was going from a circle to a square to a polyhedron, or something. I saw you begin to change also, but I was not sure if it was real, or just a change in the lighting, or if I was just seeing things.”

 

[Anabstercorian]

Alex rubs his head. "My nephew, Stephen, practices martial arts... He's shown me some tricks. Just luck I applied them right."

"Yeah... The changes were real. I could feel myself change. It was.... There's no proper word for it. It wasn't right at all."

He looks over at Sam morosely.

 

[The Crimster]

Kristoff nods at Randy and runs off to get the handcuffs.

Alex gets shakily to his feet and glances over at Ted. "Sorry about kicking your ass like that."

Ted, his hands still on top of his head, looks over at Alex with a bloody grin.

"Kicking... my ass? That's fine, meat. You'll be burning in a lake of fire very shortly, and I'll be laughing my ass off, standing next to God." Ted turns from Alex, and sags. He almost seems resigned to his capture, and sits quietly, waiting for the police to arrive.

Kristof returns moments later, drenched to the skin. He glumly hands Randy the keys and the handcuffs.

"I also took out the blanket you had in your trunk and put it over... Sam." Kristof takes off his glasses and begins to rub the lenses, trying to dry them. "I hope you don't mind."

Randy handcuffs Ted, who offers no resistance.

Dr. Silver enters the study. "I just talked to Julia through the speaker she has set up in there. She's fine, and I told her to stay put and call the police." Ray looks at Alex. "Did you know Alan and Julia had a panic room...??" He shakes his head.

Randy moves over to the dead man, and begins to search him. Randy, you find a 9mm stuck in a boot holster. A set of keys. A wallet, with credit cards, business cards, and a license - all with the name 'Tyler King'. You also find pieces of notebook paper, crumpled up and shoved in his jacket pocket. Glancing at them, they appear to be notes - but all done in Alan Pickman's handwriting. You look around, and see something you didn't notice in the middle of the gunfight. A plain picture on Alan's wall is pivoted open, revealing what appears to be a small safe of some kind. The safe door is open, but you cannot see its contents (the room is far too dim).

Randy looks over at Kristof, Alex, and Dr. Silver.

“I am going to have to ask everyone else to stay out of this room, as it is a crime scene."

The police will probably be here rather quickly - this is Bel Air, after all.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Alex looks at Ted, but doesn't deign to reply. He sighs and goes looking for some band-aids and antiseptic for anyone's wounds.

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

Randy look to the others in the room, and then nods towards Ted. “It would seem that mabey Ted here might know something, that might be important. So if any of you would like to question him then that is fine, but I seem to have a pressing engagement in the other room. This way there can be no cause for ‘Police Brutality’.”

Randy looks over at Ted, “Hopefully your day will go from bad to worse in a few minutes. Damn, this gun is getting so heavy, I’m going to have to set it down for a second, now I hope none of you take this (wink, wink)

Randy casually walks into the other room, keeping close to the door, so he can listen, but out of site. Also close enough just incase the others get a little to enthusiastic.