The silence of the night was periodically punctuated less frequently by gunfire, and other strange, unidentifiable sounds as they crept through the forest. The air was both cold and damp, and a light fog roiled across the island, such that even though the three of them moved in a close formation with each other, they seemed to one another but shapes that moved through the wood - darkness come alive in the night.
As they moved forward, they could see shapes resolving. There was a large stele, a column that appeared to have markings up and down its length. Shackled the the column on four sides were slumped figures, held upright seemingly by the shackles. Slumped figures rested across the field, but they were dwarfed by a large other figure that lay slumped across the field.
Their steps were quiet, until Leo who had otherwise been careful knowing his own lack of ability in the wilderness, stepped on a twig or thin branch that cracked loudly, the surprise of the sound causing him to set another foot wrong and do the same again in short succession.
Before Leo knew it, the barrel of a shotgun was being held up against his chest by a stern looking man dressed in dark clothing. His accent was crisp, and polished, with the sound of an upper class upbringing and education.
"Now, who in the bloody hell are you?"
The voice of Chief Inspector Barrington forestalled any potential answer.
"It's alright, Reggie. He's a friendly. Doctor, please excuse Constable Hawkins. We lost a man tonight, and things have been strange here. Everyone's on edge." The man identified as Constable Hawkins instantly lowered his weapon, and gave a slight nod of apology before backing up a step. Hawkins gave Barrington a questioning look, but didn't voice any and instead turned his direction back towards the scene out in front of them.
"There was a thing. Some kind of animal that I've never even-..." Barrington was cut off by a piercing, otherworldly shriek as a winged creature with a body the size of an elephant, with large scaled wings tipped with claws, a lengthy tail, and a head with a toothy maw alighted in the clearing, looking into the forest with knowing eyes. A horror from out of nightmares, the creature defied description and looked different from any that any of them had seen in books or read of otherwise or even heard of spoken in the strangest of tales.
OOC:
Everyone make a SAN check for me.
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