William Pierce, Alouette, Jake Lawrence


Some mood Music

Evening, April 11th, 1879. The Lodge of the Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon. Good Friday.

William climbs th ladder down into the room below. there's a sudden fluttering from below him as his eyes adjust to the gloom...and a hard pinch as Deputy Chicken petulantly pecks at his foot before fluttering away in a huff.

William finds he's in what appears to be a crudely-made cellar. The furnishings are sparse. There's a slab with some worryingly deep score marks on it that smell of dried blood. There's a tray of pristine medical tools--forceps, scissors, tweezers, scalpels, rolls of suture thread, and some sort of bone saw. There are mason jars filled with some sort of sickly green fluid on a shelf above the slab, and to William's disgust he realizes a few of the jars have things floating in them, preserved things...an eye here, a hand there, a whole frog in a third. There are some opened crates--he can still see the packaging labels on the top.

The whole room reeks of rot and death.

He spies the clank angel over by a roll-top desk, picking up one of the books from an alcove.

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Above, Danny looks at Jake. "D'ye think we should follow 'em?"

"It's either that, or we sit and wait for the horrible noises that will without a doubt be coming soon." Jake says as he starts down the ladder.

Alouette, meanwhile, upon finding that the book already has writing in it and so cannot be used as a surface on which to reproduce marks, is very very carefully removing pages and "eating" them, starting with the frontspiece.

[[17:34, Today: Alouette rolled 0,6 using d6-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+1)7. book nom nom.]]

William kicks the bird, sending it spluttering against the wall.
"I hate bloody poultry." he growls.

"Clank: You find something or are just hungry for books?"


21:50, Today: William Pierce rolled 8,4 using d6+3,d6+3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,1. Super-Notice. But one wound.
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The machine is looking in his direction, but doesn't respond. It's gone very still. There's a muffled *thunk* somewhere under the clank's beautiful brass exterior as the mangled text slides from its fingers to thud on the floor in a puff of loose pages.

"..."

A screaming horse is a terrible sound. This scream has the same terrifying saw-edged inhuman pain, but it's tempered by a vast, white-hot inhuman rage. The "angel" moves like an expletive spat from the mouth of God, faster than any artificial thing should be capable of, and throws itself at the vampire with all the violent, murderous grace of a plunging hawk.


*SCREEEEEEEE-!*


[[So the good news was that the Magic 8-ball decided Augustus upgraded the Hawk's restraints whilst fixing the rest of the clank! The bad news is that they failed anyway.
21:15, Today: Alouette rolled 3,2 using d8-1,d6-1. safety function test.
21:26, Today: Alouette rolled 7,3 using d4,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (4+3)7,3. fightin'. That's a grapple, though the last time someone made it suddenly go mental (there was a kitten involved) the Stray ruled it had the Drop, so hang about.]]
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((OOC: Eek! Harming small animals near Alouette. Bad move, pardner. You just pissed off Momma Hawk.

Alouette does, in fact, have The Drop, so William needs to roll 11 on his Fighting check to beat Alouette's grapple. Also, make a Fear check, -4 for the local Fear Level, + your grit. Alouette has just changed from bumbling crazy clank to brass-clad terminator.

Once you've resolved this, everyone draw cards for initiative.))

0:13, Today: William Pierce rolled 6,0 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 7,1. fighting
0:14, Today: William Pierce rolled 7,1 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (8+1)9,3. fear check.

10:15, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: 8S using the Deadlands system. initiative.

Jake reaches the bottom of the ladder just intime to see Auloutte attack, "What the hell?!"

OOC: Oh why not!

11:09, Today: Jake Lawrence drew the single card: 3H using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative.

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[[init. Jake? (if you want to consider getting between the deranged native angel of vengeance and the white man wantonly harming innocents, that is) Mine's JC.]]

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William feels a brass hand slam into his neck, yet something no less his self feels a glancing blow from something more textured, more alive, and far, far bigger. As he falls there's the impression of a plunging, lethal beak, then something effortlessly wrenched away from him and shaken like a hawk whipping a snake against itself.

[[or alternatively like that bit in Jurassic Park where the T-rex snatches a raptor and shakes it. She's a big birdie!]]

Then the clank's foot lands on his ribcage, holding him down. William can see the brass foot resting on him, human-sized and unchanged save for a few smears of cellar dust. What he feels is the pressure of huge talons, as though he were loosely held in one great foot. There is something huge in the darkness here, something vast and older than man's first shaping of flint, femminine in the way of a lioness, she-eagle or powerful sow bear; all compact muscle and curves that end in razor points. And angry.


[[Alouette rolled 6,1 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 6,1. soul nom nom. Tempted to make that a raise but I'm not that mean, even if she is/he deserved it. William was grapple-Shaken, so she's touching already...normal Spirit roll for William to determine effect, yes?
init. 10S]]

((OOC: Yes. William, make a Spirit roll or suffer a level of Fatigue from Alouette's spiritual assault.))

20:29, Today: William Pierce rolled 9,3 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of (8+2)10,4. Spirit, another white chip.
20:29, Today: William Pierce rolled 2,2 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Spirit, white chip.
20:28, Today: William Pierce rolled 3,2 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Spirit to resist... something.

For a second, William gasps for air, then remembers he doesn't have to.

"It's gone crazy... I think it's going to blow!"


20:51, Today: William Pierce rolled 5,6 using d10-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 6,(6+1)7. Strength to get free.
Hmmm... is this opposed or a set number?

20:52, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: 8C using the Deadlands system.

Danny Boy okes hie head over the hole at the shouting. "What is it? What's going on?"

((OOC: William resists the hawk's Soul Drain this round.

It's a Grapple, so it's an Opposed roll vs. Alouette's Agility or Strength, whichever the player cares to use.

Danny is a bit slow this round, and can't do much with Jake in the way anyhow. His card is 7C))