20:59, Today: Marshal drew the single card: 2D using a deck of 54 cards.  Initiative.

21:00, Today: Manuel Segovia drew the single card: 2D using a deck of 54 cards.

From within the writhing column of vines, Kate can see a figure begin to take shape, a long, spindly arm, ending in a wide, taloned hand, emerging from the mass.

OOC: Kate has the opportunity to act first. Be sure to draw another Initiative card at the close of your action.
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Kate did what any gunfighter's first instinct was to do.  With a spin of the Winchester's lever, she shot it.

Quickdraw - Rifle in hand.

Don't know if this is particularly smart, but it's what Kate would do.  She sees an arm, she shoots an arm.  That's a -2 Called Shot.

18:35, Today: Kansas Kate rolled 2,1 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3.  Called Shot.

As might be predicted, the shot went wide.  Cursing a blue streak, she fell back, trying to put another wall between her and... that.

6" ought to get me into room 2.

18:36, Today: Kansas Kate drew the single card: 2S using a deck of 54 cards.

This dice roller.  It loves players.

The figure tears free from the pillar of vines, its body formed from the black, thorn covered weeds, its impossibly long arms ending in clawed hands, one of which clutches a curving, rusted sickle. The rags of a flannel shirt cling to its torso and its head, a bulbous pumpkin, bears a crude face with a grinning, feral expression.

It is a scarecrow, somehow brought to unholy life.

Dashing forward, it pursues the outlaw, surging onto the porch and through the front door, the only sound it makes the rustling of its limbs and its heavy footfalls on the creaking floor.

22:50, Today: Marshal drew the single card: 6H using a deck of 54 cards.  Initiative - Scarecrow.

Segovia curses through gritted teeth as he struggles with his bonds, trying to free his hands without success.

22:51, Today: Manuel Segovia rolled 3 using 1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 5.  Lockpicking.

22:54, Today: Manuel Segovia drew the single card: QH using a deck of 54 cards.  Initiative.

Sweat beading on his brow, the gunman continues working to pull of his hands free, but makes little progress.

22:56, Today: Manuel Segovia rolled 2 using 1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4.  Lockpicking.

22:59, Today: Manuel Segovia drew the single card: AS using a deck of 54 cards.  Initiative.

Moving with suprising quickness, the scarecrow pursues Kate into the ruined kitchen, slashing at her with its sickle as it draws near. The blade slices through the air, but misses the outlaw completely.

23:03, Today: Marshal rolled 1,3 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3.  Scarecrow - Fighting.

23:03, Today: Marshal drew the single card: 4D using a deck of 54 cards.  Initiative - Scarecrow.

OOC: Your turn, Kate.

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Inside the storage room. River is startled to hear the crack of a rifle nearby, along with the sound of heavily footfalls.
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01:57, Today: Tamsin River rolled 1,5 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5.  Knowledge: Occult.

Tamsin doesn’t jump at the crack but her head turns. She stands up and goes to where they had last left Kate and their captive, reluctantly pulling out her gun.

Cursing a hundred miles more, Kate was at least able to react quickly.  The rifle was at best a clumsy, fragile club close up.  She thought about putting a bullet in it... but it was straw.  The Toothpick it was then.

She came up quick and expertly sunk the point into where a lung would have been on a man, only to curse herself for stupidity.

Quick Draw - Kate's Arkansas Toothpick

05:47, Today: Kansas Kate rolled 1,11 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+5)11.  Fighting.

Wow.  Okay.  It should have a Parry of 7 so 11 is a raise.

But only 9 damage.  I doubt that even tickles it.  05:48, Today: Kansas Kate rolled 2,3,4 using d6,d4+1,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2,4.  Strength, Knife, Raise.

05:49, Today: Kansas Kate drew the single card: 7D using a deck of 54 cards.

Kate’s slash with her toothpick leaves the scarecrow shaken.

21:46, Today: Marshal rolled 6,5 using 1d8+2,1d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3.  Spirit.

But it is able to quickly regain its bearings.

Gun in hand, Tamsin ventures into the living room. Glancing through the kitchen door, she can see Kansas Kate locked in a fight with a tall, pumpkin headed figure whose body is entirely composed of the thorny weeds. It wields a sickle in one, long fingered hand. Tamsin immediately realizes that the creature is a much larger version of the dead monster she found in the storage room.

OOC: Tamsin, go ahead and give me an initiative draw for the next round.

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Having diligently searched every corner of the ruined bedroom, Reverend Allgood concludes that the small figure he saw through the window is nowhere within it. The minister presumes that whoever it was left the room shortly after he noticed them.

The sound of a rifle shot, followed by the din of a struggle from the front of the house draw Allgood out of his thoughts.

OOC: Reverend, if you’re planning on venturing over to the common room, go ahead and give me an initiative draw too.

Segovia, spitting out a series of curses in Spanish, continues to struggle vainly with his bonds.

22:00, Today: Manuel Segovia rolled 2 using 1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4.  Lockpicking.

22:02, Today: Manuel Segovia drew the single card: 6D using a deck of 54 cards - Initiative.

OOC: Kate, it’s your turn.

For future reference: The scarecrow has a Parry of 7 and a Toughness of 6.

Kate made a valiant attempt at hand to hand combat, but this wasn't really her forte.

22:21, Today: Kansas Kate rolled 3,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4.  Fighting Jack Skellington.

NOPE

22:22, Today: Kansas Kate drew the single card: KC using a deck of 54 cards.

Well, that might explain where the scarecrow went.

21:34, Today: Tamsin River drew the single card: 5S using a deck of 54 cards.