[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[Fenris]

Teddy thinks, "if this is what we came for, maybe I can grab it and we can get the hell outa here."

If Teddy can prevent the lid from closing all the way, he'll do so. He'll then grab the items in the following order -- shiny black rock, dagger, written materials -- stuffing them in his pack. He'll then move to stand near Brigitta.

As long as fire and lightning don't come shooting out of the altar and melt Teddy's face, I'm okay.

Face-melting, don't forget about the face melting!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Teddy reached in and grabbed the black crystal, pulling it out just before Haskins let the lid fall with a dull thump, blowing a cloud of dust into their faces.

Teddy gazed down at his prize, mesmerized. The crystal seemed warm to the touch, and if he didn't know better, it seemed the glow in the center was growing.

He was snapped to attention by a loud, splintering crack, as the gigantic reptilian head of one of the cyclopean statues crumbled to the floor.

 

[ragboy]

Oh, criminey crap...

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

Everything was happening too fast...

Brigitta mentally attempts to order time to slow down, to no avail. Teddy's meaty paw swipes the strange crystal from the cavity just before Haskins completely releases the lid. Terror rises in her throat as her eyes lock on Teddy's face and note the slack look.

Her voice, rising to a scream of its own volition, rings in her ears, "Teddy...no-o-o-o!"

Haskins easily yanks her back as she struggles to reach her...friend...

Her head swims as reason and terror battle for supremacy. In her world of corpses and cadavers, Teddy was the only constant...the only sentient being she truly considered a friend and now he was going to die...die because of her hubris.

She screams wordlessly and hurled herself against Haskin's iron grip.

"TEDDY...!"

~ OO

 

[Hjorimir]

Shaken to his core, Bill shakes his head with a start. "We should go! And I mean now!" He waves the group away from the horrid alter in hopes they will snap to their senses and flee this den of evil.

 

[BryonD]

"We should go! And I mean now!"

"I think its about three minutes past that, my friend. Or maybe two hours. But the time to go came and went. "

Joshua tries to remain calm and moves to check the head that fell off the staute.

OOC: Has the shaking stopped?

Edit: fixed some really silly typos

 

[nakia]

Teddy was a smart guy. People didn't give him enough credit for that. They took one look and said "drunken Irish bruiser." They were right about that, he guessed, but no one ever gave him credit for being smart.

He just made some bad choices sometimes, like that time in Brooklyn with the Chinese guy and the tugboat. How was he supposed to know the guy wasn't really dead?

He wondered if this one of those "bad choices" times as he stood there with this pulsating hunk of black rock in his hand and the world fell apart around him. The glow was beautiful, so peaceful. . . was it getting bigger. . .it seems so. . .so. . .

Luckily, Teddy lacked much imagination. He didn't know poetry. He didn't care about the secrets of the universe. Basicly, he had a big black glowy rock. Brigitta seemed to want it. He had it. He would give it to her. Now maybe they could all go home. As the head fell off the serpent-man, he snapped to attention:

"Let's get da hell outta here!"

He'll put the rock in his pack, grab Brigitta's hand, and high tail it for the exit.

No face melting! Score!

 

[ragboy]

"We should go! And I mean now!" .

At Bill's yell, Rawley runs for the exit. Diving onto his belly, he starts to wriggle through. (The irony not lost on him.)

"Like a snake, the intrepid newspaperman slithered through the confines of the living rock, it shattering around him," he says. "That's not too bad, Brindle. I'll get a dime novel out o' this yet."

That's assuming that the hole is still passable... If so, he'll get to the other side and wait by the opening, yelling for others to follow and helping as he can.

 

[BryonD]

Noticing the sheer scale of the tumbling stone, Joshua avoids getting to close to further collapse.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I am just waiting for Fenris/Haskins before I update.