Crunch...

Crunch...

Crunch...

That was the sound Tiffany made, chewing on a Payday candy bar as the kids made their way up a hill, following the cobblestone road. Ralph was careful not to stray off the road and he made sure that Bobby didn't either, holding Bobby's hand and guiding him uphill.

Penelope looked tired and worn. She had taken to picking at the skin on her right arm. Perhaps out of nervousness, or perhaps from something that had irritated her skin.

Reaching the top of the hill, the horizon opened up....Everywhere

As far as the eye could see, the valley below was covered with large, bright, brilliantly colored eggs in every direction sitting upon long, green grass. They were much, much bigger than the normal sized eggs that you got from a carton in the kitchen refrigerator. These eggs were the size of baby strollers.  Big enough to fit maybe one in a wheelbarrow, the eggs were angled in all different directions and of all different colors: yellow, pink, red, green, purple and even a few orange and blue ones.

The cobblestone path cut through the vast field of eggs and far off into the horizon.

"Holy, Moley!" Tiffany shouted. "Eggs!" and she pointed down off into the valley with her index finger.

"Just a lot of super-duper colored eggs. Sufferin Succotash!"

Shawn's eyes widened as he squinted off into the distance. Was there any way to the mountain that didn't go through the eggs? "Dragon eggs..."

Delilah paused. Shawn could well be right. She shifted her weight and the case onto her hip.

"No way! That dragon was ugly! And these eggs are pretty." Even if they weren't dragon's eggs, Delilah didn't want to tangle with the chicken who could lay eggs this size.

Still, they were pretty.

"There's no way to get around!" Bobby exclaimed, his voice carrying down into the valley of giant-sized eggs.

It was true. Eggs everywhere. As far as the eye could see, stretching out into the horizon and  probably beyond.

"Wh..wh..wh..wh..what do we do?" Ralph asked, turning to Shawn for direction.

"Maybe they have chocolate in them!" Tiffany announced, licking her lips and pausing from taking another bite of the Payday bar to ponder the thought.

"Well, I guess we should leave that up to our fearless leader. Since this was her idea." Shawn couldn't help but sound a little sarcastic as he looked at Delilah. Or a lot sarcastic.

Delilah harrumphed and turned on her heel. She set Mr. Clayton's case on the ground to climb atop of one of the eggs.

"We just have to get a get a good look around is all."

Delilah set the case down and shimmied up the egg, which was a good two feet off the ground. Her legs dangles against the smooth, yellow exterior shell. It was hard and clearly in no danger of breaking.

There was a brief gust of spring wind and...

OOC: Delilah and Shawn Roll Composure + Occult with the following results

0 Successes: ___ and ___

1 Succcess: ___

2 Successes: Your character does not ____

OOC: 20:42, Today: Shawn Cramer rolled 3 successes using 3d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 10(+10,1),6,9. Composure + Occult.

Delilah Gray rolled 1 success using 2d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s.  Composure + Occult.

There was an odd wind in the air. Shawn felt it rustle his hair as it blew through the grass. But that was it. He did not feel anything out of the ordinary.

---

Delilah looked around. Ralph suddenly covered his ears as the breeze blew among the giant eggs in the briar patch.

"NOOO!" Tiffany suddenly shouted, covering her hears and screaming out the single word as if she was trying to stop herself from hearing something she didn't like to hear.

"NO! NO! NO!"

Shawn didn't wait for Delilah or the others to react, or ask any questions about what was happening. He simply grabbed Bobby and Ralph by the hands and dragged them away from the eggs, looking around sharply to try and find anything out of the ordinary happening.

Delilah stopped in her tracks.

"What?? Who said that?" She turned on Tiffany, who was having a panic attack. "You heard it too?"

"Yeah! It's...It's...thoughts!" Tiffany yelled.

"What?" Bobby asked, not seeming to notice as Shawn grabbed his hand and Delilah and Tiffany shouted.

"Ss...s...something is strange h..h..h..here. I..i..i..think I h..h..here some..something. It's...l..l..like some kind of wh..wh..whisper. Like a bunch of wh..wh..whispers Shawn. They're ev..ev..ev..ev..ev..ev..ev..eveywhere." Ralph said, shaking his head.

Shawn couldn't hear anything, but he very much didn't want to. "Don't listen to them. Let's just get out of here!" He kept pulling them away from the eggs.

"Where are we gonna go?" Bobby fretted. "There are eggs everywhere. As far as....well as far as everywhere! Or as far as I can see. The only way to go is back where we came." Bobby commented.

Then he looked confused.

"Where did we come from again? I mean, where did we just come from?"

"Stupid eggs!" Penelope said, kicking at the egg that Delilah was sitting on, and then immediately regretting the decision, clutching her foot with both hands and sitting down, then rocking back and forth to wait the pain out.

The egg did not break.

Shawn hesitated for moment, looking back and forth for a route through the briar patch. He could run back the way they came, but they didn't have enough time to go all the way back to the fork. Was there a way through towards the mountain?

"Hey!"

Delilah crouched, ready to jump when Penelope kicked her egg. "Watch it!" What if it broke? Looking down, it seemed like Penny hurt herself.

"What did you do that for?" Delilah rapped her knuckles against the egg. Knocked on it to gauge how hard it was. Then she hopped down to check Penelope's ankle.

Can I make a medicine roll? I figure she'd at least know a sprain or a break if she saw one, even if she can't help.

OOC: Delilah May roll Dexterity + Medicine

"I think I'm alright." Penelope said, clutching her foot and gritting her teeth in pain.

"Help me up." She said, extending her hand.

Shawn could see a clear path through the eggs. Road that led towards the mountain ran through the Egg Briar patch. It was long and straight and stretched out into the horizon through rows and rows of lopsided eggs.
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The Egg looked solid. It felt as solid as a hard, marble orb. A few seconds after Delilah knocked on, there were a sound.

knock..

knock...

knock..knock..KNOCK KNOCK!

The knocking this time came from within the egg. It started slow and then built up to a panicked frenzy of knocking as if whatever was inside wanted to get out. But there were no cracks, no fissures. No sound that the solid exterior of the egg was breaking. The egg itself wasn't even moving or shaking, such was the weight and solidness of the large, rock-like oval.

"Did..did..did..did..you hear that?" Ralph said, covering his ears and clearly still referring to the sounds that everyone had talked about earlier.

"I sure did!" Bobby replied. "Something is inside of the egg." He said excitedly, not seeming to notice that Ralph was talking about something he heard in the wind.

"It's probably chocolate!" Tiffany said, taking her hands off of her ears in excitement.

Then her excitement faded.

"no..."

"NO.."

"no..no..no..NO!" She yelled, covering her ears again and crouching onto the ground as if to ward off whatever sounds were in the air.

"We sh..sh..sh..sh..should get out of here. G..G..G..G..get moving." Ralph insisted.

"But I want to see what's in the egg." Bobby said, taking a step forward towards the knocking sound.

Shawn gripped Bobby's hand and started pulling him down the load, along with Ralph as well."Hey Bobby, do you know anything about GI Joe?" He wasn't really asking him anything, just trying to distract him long enough for him to forget where he was trying to go. He felt bad about taking advantage of him like this, but it was for Bobby's own good.

The knock on the shell surprised Delilah. She didn't want to be right beside it when it hatched. But first, she had to move Penelope out of the way. Stupid Penny.

"Hang on."

Delilah absently swatted Penelope's hand away. She crouched and took a look (and a few pokes) at her ankle. She'd seen a lot of injuries from failed vaults and tumbles. Had a few herself.

"Yeah, that's bad. If you were a horse, you'd probably be shot." With a sigh, she stood up and helped Penelope to her feet. She jerked the girl up, heedless of her pain, but stayed on the proper side to help her walk.

"Hey, Tiff! Get over here!" Maybe giving her something to do, like limp around with Penny would stop her from crying.

"Wherever we go next, it's gotta be somewhere easy to walk because we've got two babies and a gimp."
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"Ha! Gimp!" Penelope said. "Gimpy, gimpy, gimpy, gimp!" Penelope said, and then when she tried to put weight on it the foot.

"Ow!"

Tiffany walked down and helped Penelope up.

Soon, all of the kids were walking down that straight path.

The sun was shining along the bright colored eggs everywhere. Huge, bright yellow, pink, red, blue, green orange and purple. The stuck out like big Easter eggs along the tall grass beads of newly dried rain drops falling along their glistening sides, even though it had stopped raining.


And just as soon, every kid could now hear exactly what it was, or what it might be. Or what they might be.

Collective voices of whispers traveled along the wind. They spoke in a discordant harmony both with and against each other:

"Don't do it"

"Run"

"Stay. Stay With Us"

"Watch Out."

"It's Coming"

Delilah was on the brink of tears. Not sappy, baby tears like Tiffany's. These were the anguished tears of defeat that threatened to spill over her stubborn, hard-nosed face. Not only was she wrong about the egg patch being a good idea, but everyone knew it. She'd have to admit that she was wrong and wasted time that could have been spent getting to the mountain.

But she could ignore it for one minute longer and boss Tiffany around a bit.

"Get on that side! And get her arm and your arm over-- no, the other way!" She could shout, but it didn't make the ghostly voices any quieter.

With Penelope on her feet, they could all limp towards the mountain.

Shawn could tell that Delilah was upset - or at least he assumed she'd be. This place was awful! But he bit his tongue and didn't say anything, because the last thing he wanted was a fight right now. He just held on tight to Ralph and Bobby and kept pulling them along, looking around for any sign of danger. The voices were annoying, but they hadn't done anything yet, right? The ankle was obviously Penny's fault.

The kids were now deep within the Egg Briar patch when the strange vibrations and loud thundering sounds began to shake the earth beneath them.

Boom....

Boom....

Boom....

It suddenly felt like an earthquake as the ground shook in strange, two-second intervals, force Ralph to topple sideways, before leaning on one of the eggs to catch his balance.

"An earthquake!" Bobby yelled.

"No it isn't!" Penelope objected, already leaning against a yellow egg for balance. "An earthquake makes the whole ground shake all at once, dummy!" She yelled at Bobby, though it seemed that her anger was based more on fear than genuine dislike for Bobby in that moment.

It was true. If it was an earthquake it would be one that Shawn had never quite felt before. Earthquakes made the whole ground shake violently. This felt more like someone dropping or hammering the earth every few seconds. Delilah knew this as well, even though, she never experienced it in her 'real' memories that seemed ever more out of place, outside of LA.

...the hammering noise got louder still as if it was getting closer, the earth shaking more violently.

"Ehh!" Ralph squealed, dropping to one knee as the shaking put him off balance.

Shawn looked all around, as if the source of the shaking would suddenly reveal itself. Then, seeing that Ralph had fallen over, went over to help him up. "We gotta keep moving!"

"Quit yelling!" Delilah yelled at the group. "We gotta be quiet!"

She tugged on Penelope, hoping to out-shout her so they could start being quiet. In case they needed to hide.

The noise seemed to be coming closer and the ground shook like and earthquake.

Boom....

Boom....

Boom....

The earth underneath everyone's feet was moving and the noise was like extended thunder, only worse because the vibrations seemed to be coming from everywhere. Then, like a switch that had been flicked, everyone started to move to grab a hold of something. Bobby clutched his arm around a large pink egg. Ralph clutched onto Shawn. Penelope leaned her back against a green egg. Pebbles on the ground were hopping around like they had a mind of their own.

Boom....

Boom....

Boom....

Two, pink, fuzzy ears the size of long corn stalks could be seen emerging from the horizon. It was some kind of Rabbit. With each hop, the ground shook. It wasn't just any Rabbit. This Rabbit was at least sixteen feet tall and as it got closer, terrifying details of its body and shape came into view. It's ears curved off to each side in comical arcs, fuzzy, pink fur covering all of its body. It seemed to not have a nose or a snout. The nostrils were located at the top of it's head instead of in between its beady, red eyes. The eyes themselves were surrounded by skeletal cheekbones that made the skin tight, threatening almost to poke out. It's mouth was elongated and two, large buck teeth protruded outward, giving it a somewhat stupid, predatory look.

The pink monstrosity was chewing the at the air, cutting against its red tongue with its sharp incisors at front. Then suddenly, reacting to the sound of the kids, it stood on its hind legs. Then it thumped a warning on the ground with its long hind foot

Boom....

Boom....

Boom....

Then it started to charge, or rather, hop furiously towards the kids.

Shawn ran over and grabbed Bobby, taking the hand of Ralph as he did. He tried to pull them off the path, into the egg patch. He hissed "Quiet and don't move..." as he did.

"Wh...what is that thing?" Bobby asked in a whisper, ducking down low.

Shawn quietly shook his head, having no idea... There were eggs, this was a rabbit, so maybe it was the Easter Bunny? But there was no way that thing had ever been in his house to hide eggs.

"Crugh!"

"Crough!"

The huge rabbit thumped its way towards the party of kids knocking over large eggs as it moved forward. It's large foot stomped on a yellow egg, shards flying across the grass, spraying other nearby eggs and raining down.

Shawn ducked behind his own egg as the shards rained down, forcibly moving Bobby and Ralph's heads down too if they didn't think of it themselves. He tried to keep quiet and judge if the rabbit was heading towards them. Certainly, running wasn't going to be an option; it'd be trying to outpace a massive creature while the earth shook underneath them and they were sprayed by egg shrapnel. Shawn was certain their only hope for salvation was that the rabbit's senses were limited, or that against all odds, somehow it was friendly.

OOC: Shawn Rolls Dexterity + Stealth with the following results

0 Successes: Caught! The Rabbit sees Shawn

1 Success: hidden, the Rabbit does not see Shawn, but it does catch a glance at either Bobby or Ralph

2+ Successes: Ralph, Bobby and Shawn are all hidden

The large Bunny started to bear down on the kids. It made several large hops in Delilah's direction. At that point, as it was getting closer, Delilah and Shawn noticed a large, trailing extremity that dragged along the ground. It started from just underneath the Rabbit's fluffy, white tail and extended outward like a thin tube covered in centipede-like legs. They looked like fingers adorning some kind of grotesque sack. The fleshly centipede blanket extended at least ten feet out from behind the pink Bunny, fingers on each side writhing as the Rabbit jumped up and down hopping towards the kids.

"RUUUUUUUN!!!!!" Tiffany screamed, getting up and stumbling before making a run for it, dodging in and out and in between the eggs.

OOC: 20:39, Today: Shawn Cramer rolled 3 successes using 5d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 4,10(+3),9,1,9. Dexterity + Stealth.

The Rabbit looked up at the sky, inhaled deeply, and exhaled with a roar, it's red tongue flapping almost comically. The sky replied back with a long rumble and a cracking sound. Then it moved forward with speed, zeroing in on Tiffany.


OOC: 09:41, Today: Storyteller rolled 1 success using 6d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((7,7,10(+2),5,5,2)).

It's large side smacked against Tiffany, sending her sprawling through the air.

'Thwack!'

Her body fell into a nearby green egg, bouncing off like a rag doll and onto the long, green grass.

The Rabbit leaned over over, a confused, maniacal look on its face. It's back was completely turned to Delilah, Shawn and the rest of the kids. Penelope, taking advantage of the distraction, started to move quickly, running in the opposite direction.

Shawn watched, transfixed, as the creature went after Tiffany. He whispered to Ralph and Bobby, "We've got to get out of here." He looked for escape routes, especially the kind that'd keep them out of sight.

Shawn eyed a path that was more or less lined on each side with colored eggs, round and poking out at odd angles amid the grass. On his knees, it seemed less like a briar patch  and more like a maze.

"HEEEEEELP! HEEELLP! ME!!!" Tiffany screamed. Shawn couldn't see here anymore, but he could hear her screaming, her voice coming through muddled by what sounded like a the gurgling of hot blood in her throat.

Shawn grabbed Ralph's hand, and then put Ralph's other hand in Bobby's. Then slowly, he started to crawl away down the briar path, trying to blot out the sounds he was hearing.

They were moving along, and then Bobby paused.

He gave Shawn a look that was more of a genuine question than anything else. When Shawn turned his head to look at Bobby, Bobby's face seemed to ask

'Are we going to help her?'

Bobby looked at Shawn with raised eyebrows, as if expecting Shawn to nod his head and turn back towards the screaming, or shake his head 'no' to indicate the plan was to escape without being seen.

Shawn paused, and then guiltily shook his head 'no'. Even if they went back to save her, he had no way of doing anything about it, not without just swapping one of them out for Tiffany.

Shawn Joins Thread:

Shawn: Dead...They're All Dead..

Delilah stays in thread assuming that She cannot find Shawn amid the maze of eggs
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It wasn't a dragon, but it was something terrible. Shawn was right all along.

Delilah stood stock still. Frozen with fear at the sound of Tiffany's shrieks. It was just like before. When the spiders got Josh. And when the clown got Roger. And when the dragon took Bradford away.

Tears rolled down her cheeks. She balled up her fists, wiped her eyes and silently counted down from ten.

Going for an attack!

The Pink Monstrosity, as much as Delilah's brain was able to conceptualize a giant rabbit, wasn't currently focused on Delilah, as much as it was on the sprawled out body of Tiffany.

Tiffany hadn't gotten up since her back was slammed against that egg. She managed to lift her head up, screaming. Her face was a mess. It her left eye was closed, the right side of her face was sagging, looking like it had suffered a tremendous blow, probably the result of falling flat on her face. It was puffy and smudged with wet mud from the underneath the grass. Her forehead on the left side was covered in blood that was pouring down in rivulets down that side of her face.

The Rabbit simply...

OOC: 14:59, Today: The Pink Monstrosity rolled 6 successes using 12d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((4,5,2,5,4,9,9,2,10(+9),2,10(+10,1),3)).

...scooped up Tiffany with one large paw, grabbing at her and dangled her by one leg above its head, as if ready to drop her down into its mouth or take a bite out of her the way some kid might eat a piece of candy.

OOC: Pink Monstrosity

Attacks:

Weapon	Damage	Dice Pool
Grapple	N/A	12

Success = PC immediately gains condition 'immobile'

Weapon	Damage	Dice Pool
Bite	4	10

Defense: 2
Speed: 5
Health: 16
Willpower: 7


Best Dice Pools

Ability	Dice Pool	Notes
Jumping	9	For hunting kids down
Find hidden kids	3	For finding kids that are hiding

All Other Dice Pools: 7






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OOC: Delilah Rolls Strength + Brawl + (-1 Size difference/Stamina) + 2 (Pink Monstrosity Back Turned and in Grapple)

She started out slow, sneaking. But that was never how she mounted anything. Delilah broke into a sprint. The blood coursing in head louder than Tiffany's screams.

05:13, Today: Delilah Gray rolled 1 success using 5d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((1,1,10(+2),1,7)).

There was a surge of adrenaline as Delilah lunged herself onto the back of the Pink Monstrosity. The Giant Rabbit didn't drop Tiffany because of the impact of Delilah's jump, but rather out of new interest in Delilah on his back. Tiffany fell from the sky, somehow knocking against the case that held Mr. Clayton.

The two tumbled along the wet grass, stopping at a large, yellow egg where Tiffany came to a halt. The black case rammed into her forehead, smacking the back of her head into the egg, blood running down one side of her face in a trickle.



The roar of the beast struck Delilah's ears like a wall of pain.

It fumbled with its hands at its back, trying to turn the tables on her and grab her.

22:54, Today: The Pink Monstrosity failed (no successes) using 10d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((6,7,5,5,3,5,7,1,7,5)).

Delilah felt its meaty paws grabbing it at her, but the beast was too clumsy to close its paws around her.

OOC: Strength + Brawl, minus the opponent’s Defense (2), if Delilah chooses to attack the Pink Monstrosity

Today: Delilah Gray rolled 1 success using 1d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD, Chance Die system with a target of 10, rerolling 10s ((10(+8))).

Delilah grimmaced, biting her lip at the evil rabbit's roar. Blood trickled from her mouth and stained her teeth. She screamed back. A high, feral cry.

She wrenched the floppy ears back and kicked her heels in like the champion rider of satan's rodeo.

The beast roared and started to hop, its hind legs knocking over eggs as it trampled through the Briar patch, yellow, green and purple ovals bowling over in every direction. Delilah had to fight to hold on.

OOC: Delilah Rolls Strength

20:57, Today: Delilah Gray failed (no successes) using 2d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((2,1)).

Delilah began to panic as the monster twisted and bucked. Then it hopped. She scrambled to tighten her grip, but the beast was shaking her off.

Delilah slid off the Monster's back, thick matted fur brushing against the back of her thighs as the feeling of weightlessness rose in her stomach. Then, just as quickly, the ground came up and met her with shocking suddenness.

Her mouth snapped shut as as her knees pressed against the earth. When she looked up, the Monster had turned around and was towering over her.

Falling was always the worst feeling. Delilah lost and knew immediately what was coming next. Terrible jaws with massive blunt teeth loomed overhead.

"I hate you!"

Fists clenched, she charged at the beast. Just like Josh and John did. Felt like a lifetime ago. If only she'd fought with them back then instead of running away.

OOC: Delilah Rolls Strength + Brawl, minus the opponent’s Defense (2), if Delilah chooses to attack the Pink Monstrosity

10:54, Today: Delilah Gray failed (no successes) using 1d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD, Chance Die system with a target of 10, rerolling 10s ((3)).

Delilah surged ahead, blind with rage. Rage for the clown, for the hogman, for every thing and every one who brought the circumstances together to ruin what should have been a perfect life.

Delilah's fists sunk into the Pink Monstrosity's stomach with a thud.

One...

Two...

Three punches.

The beast leaned its head back as Delilah looked up.


19:33, Today: Storyteller, on behalf of The Pink Monstrosity, rolled 1 success using 4d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((8,2,4,7)).

It lunged its head down with the force of some animal-like hammer, driving its front teeth into the top of Delilah's head.



OOC: Delilah takes 1 +4 = 5 lethal damage. 5 is greater than Delilah's Stamina. Delilah rolls Resolve. If the roll is successful than she is can take any action. If unsuccessful then she is 'Stunned' and cannot take any action for one turn

07:26, Today: Delilah Gray rolled 1 success using 2d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((8,2)).

But she did just get bitten through the head. She can die. I will not be angry.

20:57, Today: The Pink Monstrosity rolled 6 successes using 10d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((8,9,10(+8),10(+6),6,2,9,5,1,2)).

The Giant rabbit drove its teeth down again, this time into Delilah's skull. Delilah emitted a choked, gurgling cry, her arms growing slack, the whites of her eyes rolling back into her head as she fell onto her knees.

Then it pulled back, tilting its head back up to the sky, and then coming down with all the speed of a hammer on an anvil. Delilah's head split apart, a gout of blood spraying across the eggs and spattering across Tiffany's arms.

As Delilah's body fell to the side, Tiffany reached out and grabbed the case that held Mr. Clayton. She slank behind a yellow egg, her terrified body shaking as she hid in fear from the large rabbit that has just killed Delilah.