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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keia" data-source="post: 1504094" data-attributes="member: 98">On the Street, Cobblestone TownP7X – 91226.24 minutes since arrival, June 3, 2003Jeremiah was all but ignored in his attempt to get the group to safety.  It was either that or he wasn’t heard over the increasingly loud noise of the swarm.Durant looked to the heavy animal fur curtain covering the archway and had an idea.  With his knife and adrenaline assisting the task, Durant managed to pull one of the two heavy curtains from the archway.  The fur was much heavy than Durant anticipated and he struggled with it until Stewart got beneath it as well and helped carry fur.Stewart yelled over to Durant (who was right next to him under the furs) but was barely heard by Durant against the overwhelming buzz of the insects.  “Reed’s at the bottom of the stairs, sir!!”Nodding, Durant and Stewart made their way down the stairs.  Surprisingly, the pair felt almost no impacts off of the furs, and none of the insects attempted to get beneath the furs or between the bottom of the furs and the ground.As the two moved onto the stairs, a large stream of insect flowed into the room through the partially opened archway.  It almost seemed as a several foot thick rope or snake the way it coil into the air of the reception area of the building.  Peering out, Durant and Stewart made out the form of Reed . . . prone on the ground curled up and fending off the insects.  Her mouth was open in a scream, though they heard nothing.  Blood was . . . everywhere.Standing at the doorway, Jeremiah tries to remain focused as thoughts raced though his head.  As such, he was literally bowled over by the rush of insects that poured through the now open archway.  Any further thoughts were cast aside as the insects slammed into him, taking his breath from him, and knocking him prone*.  At that moment, Jeremiah understood . . . this swarm was truly a force of nature – unable to be controlled or contained, merely avoided.Donovan staunched his wound and tied it off with a strip of his shirt, looking up in time to see Jeremiah get knocked down . . . and the coil of the swarm that had entered the room through the opening left by Durant and Stewart. *** - Jeremiah took seven point of damage from a slam and was knocked prone (no bites or claws).** - Donovan still has a partial action that he can use in this round, I’ll incorporate it into the beginning of the next.OOC: Donovan, Durant, Grayson, Reed, Stewart</blockquote>

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