Paridon Book II: A Taste For Power (IC)
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InVinoVeritas
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Cliff and Calahan offer to take the samples back to HQ and let Gis know what has happened.
Eugene and Skyler depart for the sewer.
The entrance to the sewer takes Eugene and Skyler off the D’Marosso property, to the far side of the mansion’s outer wall.
The sewer entrance is below the main wall.
They descend the ladder, move back the grate, and enter the fetid world under the city.
Rhiannon, Darian, Ru, and Fr. Berman head into the kitchen to speak with the cook.
Inside, Cassilda is busy, walking around the counters, preparing soup for the next course. While she hums a little ditty, she pulls up a large red sausage-like block. A red cake in a sausage casing.
Cassilda unwraps the cake from the sausage casing.
* * *
Eugene and Skyler carefully pick their way down the tunnel, lighting the way. The swirling filth at their feet smells of death and alchemy and the effluvia of a hundred nobles—no cleaner than the hoi polloi. They come across a chain ladder leading up a skinny passage, and nearby, the end of the pipe that must be the late Lord Gustav D’Marosso.
The sewer extends into the darkness.
* * *
Almost in fascination the police pause to watch Cassilda slice a piece of the cake into a bowl, warm it over an open flame to melt it, and place spices on top.
The soup has been plated for serving.
Camilla clears her throat, and Cassilda lets out a short startled shriek as she notices the gathered. “Oh! I didn’t see you there! Are you ready for the next course, then?”
The duo underground looks around. Here and there, individual worms can be seen, blindly inching their way among the grime and feces coating the floor. Occasionally, one lifts its head and writhes—whether to look for prey or to lament its existence, it is hard to say.
A wet shuffle is heard, from further down the narrowing tunnel.
A shadow can be seen, heading deeper into the sewer.
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Eugene and Skyler depart for the sewer.
The entrance to the sewer takes Eugene and Skyler off the D’Marosso property, to the far side of the mansion’s outer wall.
The sewer entrance is below the main wall.
They descend the ladder, move back the grate, and enter the fetid world under the city.
* * *
Rhiannon, Darian, Ru, and Fr. Berman head into the kitchen to speak with the cook.
Inside, Cassilda is busy, walking around the counters, preparing soup for the next course. While she hums a little ditty, she pulls up a large red sausage-like block. A red cake in a sausage casing.
Cassilda unwraps the cake from the sausage casing.
* * *
Eugene and Skyler carefully pick their way down the tunnel, lighting the way. The swirling filth at their feet smells of death and alchemy and the effluvia of a hundred nobles—no cleaner than the hoi polloi. They come across a chain ladder leading up a skinny passage, and nearby, the end of the pipe that must be the late Lord Gustav D’Marosso.
The sewer extends into the darkness.
* * *
Almost in fascination the police pause to watch Cassilda slice a piece of the cake into a bowl, warm it over an open flame to melt it, and place spices on top.
The soup has been plated for serving.
Camilla clears her throat, and Cassilda lets out a short startled shriek as she notices the gathered. “Oh! I didn’t see you there! Are you ready for the next course, then?”
* * *
The duo underground looks around. Here and there, individual worms can be seen, blindly inching their way among the grime and feces coating the floor. Occasionally, one lifts its head and writhes—whether to look for prey or to lament its existence, it is hard to say.
A wet shuffle is heard, from further down the narrowing tunnel.
A shadow can be seen, heading deeper into the sewer.
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industrygothica
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"No, I don't think we'll be eating anymore. Thank you." Darian looks to the others and asks without words, Doesn't she know?
Ru Brike, barbaric human monk
Ru opens his mouth to speak, closes it, sighs, then starts again.
"Miss, I'm afraid there's been an incident. The Lord D’Marosso has been killed. And I'm afraid, further, that the source for his death may have been secreted through the kitchen. We'll need to take a look around, and perhaps ask you a few questions?"
Ru opens his mouth to speak, closes it, sighs, then starts again.
"Miss, I'm afraid there's been an incident. The Lord D’Marosso has been killed. And I'm afraid, further, that the source for his death may have been secreted through the kitchen. We'll need to take a look around, and perhaps ask you a few questions?"
Rhiannon didn't say anything, still a bit disturbed by the gore over earlier, the preparations in the kitchen nearly causing her to lose her fruit once more. Instead of attempting to speak, the Half-Elf looked about, drawing a javelin from her pack if she felt the need to poke something... she'd rather not have strange worms burrow into her flesh, after all.
[OOC: Searching the room for anything out of place, of course.]
[OOC: Searching the room for anything out of place, of course.]
InVinoVeritas
Adventurer
"What? Dead? Where? How? Are you sure?" Cassilda exclaims. The slice of cake slips from her hand and slops to the floor, quivering and splashing terribly. She looks at everyone, and when she sees Camilla, she responds, "No... Really... Oh Ezra..."
She slumps against the nearby counter, steadying herself.
Rhiannon stumbles upon a small bin, filled with live but listless crickets.
Skyler leads the way with Eugene close behind. They follow their quarry down a very narrow tunnel. Their target, in the flickering light, appears to carry a large sack, huge and stuffed, but still squeezing readily into the confines of the tunnel.
The figure appears not to notice the police as he stoops over an exposed pipe, descending into an area even deeper than here. He takes his sack and sticks the end over the pipe.
The sack then appears to take a life of its own, adhering to the pipe like a pair of sucking lips and pulsating.
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She slumps against the nearby counter, steadying herself.
Rhiannon stumbles upon a small bin, filled with live but listless crickets.
* * *
Skyler leads the way with Eugene close behind. They follow their quarry down a very narrow tunnel. Their target, in the flickering light, appears to carry a large sack, huge and stuffed, but still squeezing readily into the confines of the tunnel.
The figure appears not to notice the police as he stoops over an exposed pipe, descending into an area even deeper than here. He takes his sack and sticks the end over the pipe.
The sack then appears to take a life of its own, adhering to the pipe like a pair of sucking lips and pulsating.
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