[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[nakia]

Joshua will move to inspect the steps and raised area for signs of recent passage. Roll sent

"Hang back a second Teddy. Let's see if anyone actually tolerates this stench"

"Bah. Dis whole place stinks in more ways dan one."

Teddy will cursorily "search" (take 10) the altar, poking at snake heads and the like with his baseball bat.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Haskins and Brigitta studied the shallow pool. It was filled with brackish water, but they could still see the bottom-- no more than 4 or 5 feet deep. A wading pool, at best.

While Teddy searched the altar, Joshua dropped to one knee and scrutinized the staircase. He plucked something off the floor and sniffed it lightly.

"What did you find?" asked Brigitta, now standing next to Teddy at the altar.

"I can tell ya dat from here," Teddy said. "Spent shotgun shell."

Joshua nodded, holding the shell closer to his nose and giving it another good sniff. The smell of gunpowder had faded, but was still noticeable, even over the stench of the passage below.

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

Brigitta's heart skips a beat and her mind starts racing.

'Shotgun shell? Had someone beaten them here...after all the careful planning? They had said there might be other interested parties,' she mused, 'but I certainly didn't expect them to arrive ahead of us!'

She studies her companions briefly, eyes darting quickly from one to another. 'Had someone sold out? Was a plant leading them into a trap?'

Teddy and Haskins she trusted implicitly and the others seemed decent enough...she would have to be extraordinarily careful...

~ OO

 

[BryonD]

Joshua will glance around the walls

"Unless ya'll see a nice mark on the wall, we can assume that shot found a target. But either way, someone's been here and we ain't turnin back. So I'd advise we push on. Teddy? Sergeant?"

 

[Fenris]

Haskins and Brigitta studied the shallow pool. It was filled with brackish water, but they could still see the bottom-- no more than 4 or 5 feet deep. A wading pool, at best.

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Haskins quips, "Seems we have their baptismal pool, I'll be old John for you Mr. Hambrick if you're up for a dunking!" he says with a chuckle as he heads over to the stairs with the torch to take a lighted view down.

 

[nakia]

Joshua will glance around the walls

"Unless ya'll see a nice mark on the wall, we can assume that shot found a target. But either way, someone's been here and we ain't turnin back. So I'd advise we push on. Teddy? Sergeant?"

"Maybe dey wuz shootin down the stairs. Maybe dey wus trying ta get away from whatever smells down there. But Josh is right. No point in wonderin too much."

Teddy's eyes run across the group as he says this, lingering on Brigitta. She had always done right by him before, but this was different. In all the times he'd hauled dead bodies out of basements and broken knees in back alleys for her, he had never seen her this worked up. He was suspicious and worried about her all at the same time.

"Inta da stink, then."

Teddy goes down the stairs, shotgun ready.

 

[BryonD]

Haskins quips, "Seems we have their baptismal pool, I'll be old John for you Mr. Hambrick if you're up for a dunking!" he says with a chuckle as he heads over to the stairs with the torch to take a lighted view down.

"S'alright Sarge. I already been wet. I spect my next baptism 'll be in blood. But not on this day." He tilts his head toward the hall with an "after you" look, and then starts behind Teddy, keeping 10 to 15 feet back.

 

[ragboy]

T. Rawley gives the pool a once over and follows Joshua down the stairs.

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

Brigitta sighs audibly, grips her gun, raises the lantern and follows the herd downward.

~ OO

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Teddy descended the first set of stairs and paused at the top of a second set.

Just at the edge of the torchlight he could make out the edges of a pit.

Something moved within, and the smell of death was stronger here.

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