OnlytheStrong
Explorer
Diego's mouth drops open. First time he had ever seen anything like that. Woman, tell me who you are and why you are here."
[VtR][Mature] Born into Darkness: Arc 1
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Graf
Explorer
[sblock=OOC]Sorry, Diego's finishing move completely distracted me.
This game is so swingy. It's cool b/c you're all vampires and basically anything can happen and you'll be fine, but it'd be pretty gritty for other groups.
Anyway, Beth saw Archer down in the shaft, then saw him slip down and heard the conversation so far. She can either come down and stay up, or whatever you like.
Climbing with the idol is awkward but not a serious thing.[/sblock]
[sblock=Deigo's condition]Diego is fine. Technically part of his torso isn't quite as attached as he'd like, but he's functional, and since he's a vampire he'll stay that way.
But he's only got 6 vitae, so if he heals he'll be at 5.
5 Vitae = hungry
hungry, as I'm sure everyone remembers, means "sight of blood causes Wassail (hunger frenzy) check"
Lotsa blood around.
Just mentioning it.
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The woman grudgingly releases the blood soaked package to Cole. It's wrapped in thick paper. Maybe the size of an encyclopedia.
This game is so swingy. It's cool b/c you're all vampires and basically anything can happen and you'll be fine, but it'd be pretty gritty for other groups.
Anyway, Beth saw Archer down in the shaft, then saw him slip down and heard the conversation so far. She can either come down and stay up, or whatever you like.
Climbing with the idol is awkward but not a serious thing.[/sblock]
[sblock=Deigo's condition]Diego is fine. Technically part of his torso isn't quite as attached as he'd like, but he's functional, and since he's a vampire he'll stay that way.
But he's only got 6 vitae, so if he heals he'll be at 5.
5 Vitae = hungry
hungry, as I'm sure everyone remembers, means "sight of blood causes Wassail (hunger frenzy) check"
Lotsa blood around.
Just mentioning it.
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The woman grudgingly releases the blood soaked package to Cole. It's wrapped in thick paper. Maybe the size of an encyclopedia.
She cautiously raises her eyes. Her lips purse, in obvious pain she says "No... engrish..."Diego said:
OnlytheStrong
Explorer
Diego nods, and motions for her to stay where she is. "I know broken spanish, anyone know a fluent language?" He looks down at his torn body, "Bastard got me good. I need ......... food, and soon I think."
ooc: I don't know off the top of my head what is required (if anything) to speak another language. I would assume Diego would know at least some Spanish (hence the name)
ooc: I don't know off the top of my head what is required (if anything) to speak another language. I would assume Diego would know at least some Spanish (hence the name)
industrygothica
Adventurer
Beth climbs down the shaft to see what's going on. She'll take the idol with her.
Bloodweaver1
First Post
Cole Braddock
OOC: There is no 'Speak languages' Skill on the Vt:R character sheet...... is there?
Carefully, Cole unwrapes the book sized object and sets it on the nearest counter. With a delicate hand he inspects what is inside. "Mr. Archer, would you mind searching Mr. Diego's newest master piece. It might contain some useful information."
OOC: Does Cole know what language she is speaking.
OOC: There is no 'Speak languages' Skill on the Vt:R character sheet...... is there?
Carefully, Cole unwrapes the book sized object and sets it on the nearest counter. With a delicate hand he inspects what is inside. "Mr. Archer, would you mind searching Mr. Diego's newest master piece. It might contain some useful information."
OOC: Does Cole know what language she is speaking.
OnlytheStrong
Explorer
Diego shakes his head, language barriers sucked. "Diego." he said pointing to himself. He tilts his head slightly to the side, furrowing his eyebrows as he points to the woman. Seemingly asking her what her name is. "Perhaps....... we should take her to Nice. I would like to take the package to the Nosferatu, since they seem to have the ability to scrounge up information from anywhere."
Graf
Explorer
Beth slips back into the room through trap door, bearing a big roughly covered rock.
From the shouts during the fight Cole didn't really pick up any words he's heard. From his travels on the continent he's encountered a smattering of different languages but nothing really comes to mind.
Inside the package is a book, it looks old. There is a looping gold script on the leather cover.
The woman's eyes flair when she sees the idol but otherwise she stays where she is.
From the shouts during the fight Cole didn't really pick up any words he's heard. From his travels on the continent he's encountered a smattering of different languages but nothing really comes to mind.
Inside the package is a book, it looks old. There is a looping gold script on the leather cover.
The woman's eyes flair when she sees the idol but otherwise she stays where she is.
Festy_Dog
First Post
Archer looked awkward when the subject of languages was brought up. Mandarin would have been useful at this point if he'd bothered keeping his skills sharp, it was a fairly common language throughout Southeast Asia. That said though, he doubted the odds of these particular folks being too familiar with it.
"I'd recommend Mandarin, if anyone knows it," rusty gears grinded within Archer's head, refusing to budge an inch.
It would take a bit of time and effort to dig up what was lost inside his head to negligence, something he'd have to do eventually.
Something Archer felt confident about.
"With pleasure, Cole," and he moves over to carefully review the book's contents.
"I'd recommend Mandarin, if anyone knows it," rusty gears grinded within Archer's head, refusing to budge an inch.
It would take a bit of time and effort to dig up what was lost inside his head to negligence, something he'd have to do eventually.
Bloodweaver1 said:
Something Archer felt confident about.
"With pleasure, Cole," and he moves over to carefully review the book's contents.
Bloodweaver1
First Post
Cole Braddock
"What have you there Ms. Beth?" Asks Cole as watches the young girl jump down from the second floor.
"What have you there Ms. Beth?" Asks Cole as watches the young girl jump down from the second floor.
industrygothica
Adventurer
Bloodweaver1 said:
Beth tosses the statue up in air carelessly and catches it again as she looks at the strange woman. "Some sort of idol or something. Geez, what happened to that guy?"
Bloodweaver1
First Post
Cole Braddock
"Mr. Diego decided to give him a new necktie." Says Cole as he moves towards the idole. "Mind if I take a look?" He asks as he motions the item in order to get a better look at it. "Also Ms. Beth, can you communicate with Mr. Diego's new desciple? She would no doubt be able to shead some light to our current situation."
"Mr. Diego decided to give him a new necktie." Says Cole as he moves towards the idole. "Mind if I take a look?" He asks as he motions the item in order to get a better look at it. "Also Ms. Beth, can you communicate with Mr. Diego's new desciple? She would no doubt be able to shead some light to our current situation."
Graf
Explorer
Archer picks up the book and looks at it. [sblock=Archer - Academics]Giving it a once over he comes to some initial conclusions: It looks old (more than 100 years), the writing is arabic, the construction is sturdy, it's been well maintained.
Despite the large size and thickness the number of pages is not large, perhaps 50. Inside there are both symbolic style drawings and neat arabic writing the placement of which is "funny".
Studying the book is an extended roll. You have 1 success. You have to accumulate successes to find out more (generally you'll get new information at '5'). Each roll is an hour. If you miss a roll you get "stuck" and need to get help.
There is a finite amount of stuff you can figure out without actually being able to read the book.[/sblock]
Despite the large size and thickness the number of pages is not large, perhaps 50. Inside there are both symbolic style drawings and neat arabic writing the placement of which is "funny".
Studying the book is an extended roll. You have 1 success. You have to accumulate successes to find out more (generally you'll get new information at '5'). Each roll is an hour. If you miss a roll you get "stuck" and need to get help.
There is a finite amount of stuff you can figure out without actually being able to read the book.[/sblock]
Festy_Dog
First Post
"This text is old, probably over a century. Sturdy, well-kept. It's in Arabic, and not many pages, but they're thick. Drawings too, look like they hold meaning. There's something not quite right about how the Arabic is set out. Determining anything more will take time and facilities we don't have," what Archer was going to say was that he required a library, but he didn't want to say anything sensitive around the groveling woman, whether or not she couldn't speak English.
"Beth, when you have a moment I'd like you to take a quick look through this book and see if any of it matches what you saw in Frank's room, if it's not too much trouble" while Beth went through the book Archer looked for something clean to wrap the book in, "This place seems to have more than a few nooks and crannies, but we need to look the whole place over before we can be confident that we have everything that could be of use to us. Is there anything anyone needs from here in particular?"
"Beth, when you have a moment I'd like you to take a quick look through this book and see if any of it matches what you saw in Frank's room, if it's not too much trouble" while Beth went through the book Archer looked for something clean to wrap the book in, "This place seems to have more than a few nooks and crannies, but we need to look the whole place over before we can be confident that we have everything that could be of use to us. Is there anything anyone needs from here in particular?"
industrygothica
Adventurer
Beth looks at the book as requested.
Graf
Explorer
Beth picks up the book, spends about 5 minutes paging through it, none of the diagrams match the one on the wall. She finds she can't draw any other conclusions.
It's an entire book filled with arabic, lots of pictures, chooping up the image into different fragments and trying to compare it to other fragments in the book is possible, but time consuming and difficult. She doesn't speak arabic after all.
The situation is a bit overwhelming. It's hard to avoid the trickles of blood oozing down from the ceiling and more than a few pages wind up smeared with blood as she works.
As if to punctuate the extremities of the situation the woman lets out a groan and topples over. It looks like at least one of her wounds has opened up again.
It's an entire book filled with arabic, lots of pictures, chooping up the image into different fragments and trying to compare it to other fragments in the book is possible, but time consuming and difficult. She doesn't speak arabic after all.
The situation is a bit overwhelming. It's hard to avoid the trickles of blood oozing down from the ceiling and more than a few pages wind up smeared with blood as she works.
As if to punctuate the extremities of the situation the woman lets out a groan and topples over. It looks like at least one of her wounds has opened up again.
OnlytheStrong
Explorer
Diego shakes his head, "If ya'll wanna go look around, be quick about it. I don't want her dying on us. At least not til we figure out what the hell is going on." Diego kneels next to the woman, attempting to stop the lifeblood from leaving the woman.
Graf
Explorer
The woman is breathing, her eyes are closed, the blood flow is not copious.
Diego's got some rudimentary understanding of first aid but the wounds on the woman's body, ragged with long black edges, look serious. He makes a haphazard attempt to bind her wounds with strips from the other primitives cloak, but he's not sure that it's very effective.
Diego's got some rudimentary understanding of first aid but the wounds on the woman's body, ragged with long black edges, look serious. He makes a haphazard attempt to bind her wounds with strips from the other primitives cloak, but he's not sure that it's very effective.
OnlytheStrong
Explorer
Diego looks around, his frustration evident on his face. "Hurry the F@#$ up will ya? I don't want this b@#$@ dying on us here!"
Bloodweaver1
First Post
Cole Braddock
Grabing the idole Cole begins to head out of the shop and towards the car. "Perhaps it would be best for us to depart. Ms. Beth be a dear and help Mr. Diego with his disciple, Mr. Archer hide the body, cover up our tracks and be sure to take that book. I will get the car." Says Cole.
Grabing the idole Cole begins to head out of the shop and towards the car. "Perhaps it would be best for us to depart. Ms. Beth be a dear and help Mr. Diego with his disciple, Mr. Archer hide the body, cover up our tracks and be sure to take that book. I will get the car." Says Cole.
