[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[Fenris]

"Lead on Mr. Hambrick, I will light the way"

 

[BryonD]

I'll start down the right path, trying to stay on the dragging trail

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

They had not progressed far down the corridor before they were greeted by another grisly sight.

Scattered across the corridor were about a dozen large chunks of putrid flesh, with bits of bone, clothing, and gear mixed in.

Joshua suppressed a gag and counted boots. Four boots... two men.

There was nothing left of the men or their gear worth picking through.

Who or what had done this to them, he did not care to speculate.

Several of the fleshier parts had clearly been chewed by small animals, as well as beetles and maggots. Joshua was no medical expert but he guessed they'd been dead just about exactly as long as the other men.

The trail of the 'dragged thing' bypassed the carnage and continued down the corridor.

Cartography by Ed Bourelle.

 

[ragboy]

T. Rawley moves forward when the preacher stops, forces back his own bile, and looks anywhere but at the carnage. After a few moments of composing himself, he lights a cigarette and looks back the way they'd come.

"They's something down here, Brindle," he murmurs, hand shaking. "It's gonna get all of us, same as them."

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

[OOC: I will be incommunicado for about the next 24 hours. Brigitta will examine the remains, looking primarily of "unusual" signs of demise and urge the party to continue forward after depositing the remains in the pit - "I would hate to slip and fall in this mess if we have to run back through here". She will continue to move with the lantern in one hand and the unholstered Webley in the other. Wulf, feel free to roll for me if necessary - she will use the "Aim" action if possible to improve firearm use. See everyone late tomorrow night!]

~ OO

 

[Fenris]

[OOC: I will be incommunicado for about the next 24 hours. Brigitta will examine the remains, looking primarily of "unusual" signs of demise and urge the party to continue forward after depositing the remains in the pit - "I would hate to slip and fall in this mess if we have to run back through here". She will continue to move with the lantern in one hand and the unholstered Webley in the other. Wulf, feel free to roll for me if necessary - she will use the "Aim" action if possible to improve firearm use. See everyone late tomorrow night!]

~ OO

OOC: Uh, how are we getting a pile of putrid, rotting, and presumably liquifying, flesh back to the pit? Brooms, hose it down? Maybe be can just kick the larger chunks and boots to the side.

 

[nakia]

T. Rawley moves forward when the preacher stops, forces back his own bile, and looks anywhere but at the carnage. After a few moments of composing himself, he lights a cigarette and looks back the way they'd come.

"They's something down here, Brindle," he murmurs, hand shaking. "It's gonna get all of us, same as them."

OOC: Your horse came in the tunnels?

Teddy looked at the mess in the passage, exhaled sharply, and glanced at the party. Sure, it was a foul situation, but he'd seen it before. There was that time in Brooklyn with Brigitta, a Chinaman, and a tugboat. No dry cleaner could get those stains out, that's for sure. Maybe he should tell that story. It could lighten the mood.

He glanced at Rawley, who was talking to his horse.

God knows the mood could use a little lightening.

"Let's just push on."

 

[BryonD]

"Let's just push on."

"Yup, nothing to learn here. We knew there was death."
Joshua will move past the bodies and keep moving. Any sign that ther dragging was before or after the people died? Does it turn around them? Go under? Or was it just moving alongside the location?

 

[ragboy]

OOC: Your horse came in the tunnels?

OOC: Nope. He just talks to his horse...

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Just in case it's not clear, nobody with a torch has yet moved on, and I'm assuming nobody is walking off into the darkness.