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1 - Awakening.

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GM
GM, 22 posts
Sun 24 May 2020
at 20:48
  • msg #45

1 - Awakening

While Cavalier and Kaine struggle to strike back at the quick little creatures Skitterlung strikes two with both of his missiles - first knocking it off balance and then caving in it's skull. Gren equally makes his mark; just reaching the creature on Cavalier and tearing it free with his claws in a shower of hot blood.

The thing writhes on the floor briefly in obvious pain before rolling onto all fours and racing into the undergrowth with a shriek of pain leaving a trail of gore across the low foliage. As the sound of the fleeing creature gradually fades away you look around but it doesn't look like there are any other creatures lurking nearby; you at least have the time to catch your breath...
Kaine
player, 13 posts
Mon 25 May 2020
at 09:24
  • msg #46

1 - Awakening

Kaine cursed as the last of the creatures managed to get away leaving a bloodied trail in its wake. "Great, that is all we bloody need. It will spread the stink of its blood all across the jungle, drawing who knows what else to its trail, and to us. We should put as much distance between this area as fast as possible," he said quickly, glancing at the others.

Before taking his own advice he moved towards one of the corpses of the creatures', crouching down and studying the body thoughtfully trying to determine the manner of the beast, whether it was natural or something from some place...else. The years spent with his master had exposed Kain to the uncomfortable truth that their world and their reality were but one of many, and no matter how awful theirs could be, there were other place far, far nastier...and the things living there could be transported here in a number of ways.

Standing up from the carcass and ready to get moving he glanced at those companions who he had seen get raked by the creatures. "Seth, Cavalier, you were both hurt. Are you alright? Will you have any trouble walking?"

Kaine hoped the creatures' claws did not inject any kind of venom, otherwise Seth could be in trouble.
Intellect Roll (to study the corpse): 06


Gren
player, 14 posts
Tue 26 May 2020
at 19:31
  • msg #47

1 - Awakening

Gren dropped with the creature landing in a crouch his flawed hands at the ready. But the creature ran off into the busy wounded and in pain.

Looking round he saw the other creatures had been felt with so he bent and pulled up some large leaves and began wiping his claws and hands clean of the creatures blood
GM
GM, 23 posts
Tue 26 May 2020
at 20:02
  • msg #48

1 - Awakening

It's a grizzly but uncomplicated task to look over the corpses of the creatures. Between the three you have you can get a clear idea of what they were like but it provides more questions than answers.

Upon initial inspection the creatures appear to be a combination of some sort of ape and a boar or large pig. Closer consideration shows that is exactly what they are - the head appears to have been grafted on to the body of each one and you can see the ugly scars and stitch marks where the joins, slightly different on each one, are. There is nothing to suggest from any of the bodies that the creatures may be venomous.

None of you have heard of anything like this before in any of your travels.
Kaine
player, 14 posts
Tue 26 May 2020
at 21:45
  • msg #49

1 - Awakening

Kaine's lips pursed as he studied the corpses, the scars and stich-marks clearly marking them as unnatural creatures. "Likely black sorcery was involved in creating these abominations, but what they are doing out in the wilds is beyond me. Typically such creatures are created for a specific purpose, they are not simply tossed out into the wilds to mingle with natural animals," he thought out loud.

Shrugging he glanced towards the others, eager to get moving again. "I say we continue on the path we were forging; if we come across a clearing we can use it to camp for the night."
Cavalier
player, 18 posts
Tue 26 May 2020
at 22:34
  • msg #50

1 - Awakening

Cavalier looks itself over as Kaine adresses the fact that it was damaged. It wasn't a lot, but it was noticable, it seemed.

"I remain functional and my movement will not be impeded. I can remain with you without problem." it says, looking at Kaine. "But thank you for your concern." It brushes itself off slightly, taking a slightly closer look at the injury. It was... Sufficiently small. He would attend to it later, if need be.

It looks at the others, eager to continue.
Skitterlung
player, 18 posts
Tue 26 May 2020
at 23:29
  • msg #51

1 - Awakening

Skitterlung rushed over to the carcass to retrieve the good slingstones he tossed and to search for bugs to raise on the bodies of the creatures. He especially hoped he could find a cockroach, but he would settle for another kind of bug to raise.
Gren
player, 15 posts
Wed 27 May 2020
at 08:46
  • msg #52

1 - Awakening

"as you say they might have been bred for a purpose perhaps that purpose was exactly this to deter people from the area. Perhaps we have been trespassing on someone's land?" Gren offered as a possibility

"Our shaman raise and train large venomous centipedes to protect our fungus farms these could be someone's protection from interlopers" 
GM
GM, 24 posts
Fri 29 May 2020
at 21:01
  • msg #53

1 - Awakening

After taking a moment to catch your breath you continue your trek through the jungle taking a path which runs, roughly South East in your reckoning, away from the beach.

The thick undergrowth continues to make for hard going and it's difficult to tell exactly how far you've gone before the ground starts to slope upwards and the trees begin to thin out. You find yourselves at the bottom of a steep hill which rears up from the jungle, the sides of it largely untouched by the dense vegetation round you. It's the closest you've come to a landmark in the time, what must be hours, since you started out from the beach.

The hill itself is only part of the interest. Rising from the top of the hill is what is unmistakably a tall wall built of large blocks of grey stone. From this distance it looks to be at least three stories high and must be at least sixty feet wide - certainly no small dwelling place.
Kaine
player, 15 posts
Sat 30 May 2020
at 10:51
  • msg #54

1 - Awakening

Kaine felt a surge of hope and elation upon seeing the wall; he had already resigned himself to spending days wandering about in the forest, and possibly dying there. But the wall was a sign of civilization, and possibly their salvation.

"Finally! Lets see if there is a gate or doorway, maybe someone is still living here," he said to the others, though the note of excitement in his voice was tinged somewhat with a hint of caution. After all, they had no way of knowing who or what dwelt inside, it could very well be whoever was responsible for the creation of the creatures they had fought earlier in the day.

Kaine cautiously started making a sweep around the wall, looking for an entryway inside.
ooc: Is there anything visible beyond the wall, such as a tower rising above them or something like that? Anyhow, Kaine will sweep around the hill trying to find an entrance.
Gren
player, 16 posts
Sat 30 May 2020
at 11:51
  • msg #55

1 - Awakening

Gren dropped back a bit as they stopped to study the wall and spent some time just surveying the jungle edge they had come from.

After a while the short little molekin shook his head and turned back to the others

"I would say to go slowly and with care. We have encounter man made creatures already, there is nothing to say they didn't come from here, wherever here is."
GM
GM, 25 posts
Mon 1 Jun 2020
at 19:28
  • msg #56

1 - Awakening

Staying well concealed in the undergrowth you make a sweep around the base of the hill. Your hopes at finding civilisation are somewhat dashed as you make your way to the side whereupon your immediately realise that the building is a ruin.

From staying within the cover of the jungle you can see that the side you came across first is the only side still standing in it's entirety. Two of the other sides are broken and crumbling in places and the fourth side of the building seems to be missing entirely. Very little, if any, of the roof seems to be in place. Whatever it was, however, must have been sizeable. From what you've seen so far you think it must have been a fort or a castle or something similar - it's large and functional looking.

In the time it takes you to surveil it from all sides you see no signs of life coming from within barring the occasional bird which wheels and glides across the top of the hill before returning to what you would guess is a roost on one of the walls.
Kaine
player, 16 posts
Mon 1 Jun 2020
at 19:54
  • msg #57

1 - Awakening

"Well, I do believe we have found our shelter for the night!" Kaine exclaimed after surveying the ruins and returning to the others. "We won't find anything to eat or drink in there true, but we'll have shelter over our heads and safety for the night."

He wasn't fully sure about the safety part but it would beat spending the night in the jungle when various predators of the night came out to prowl.

Craning his neck he gazed at the horizon and said, "There is still light enough to find and prepare a good place we can get some rest until the next day, so I suggest we get moving."
Cavalier
player, 19 posts
Tue 2 Jun 2020
at 09:49
  • msg #58

1 - Awakening

Cavalier inspected the fort they had found, the ruins of it. He felt himself somewhat in that; an old creation, now void of purpose.

"Would it not better for you to rest and find resources to nurish yourselves? I can go on, but you require food, do you not?" it asks, as it continues looking around the ruin, partly lost in contemplation. The giant machine looked rather forlorn as it remained there, staring with its expressionless face.
Skitterlung
player, 19 posts
Tue 2 Jun 2020
at 16:23
  • msg #59

1 - Awakening

"Yes, yes, the talls should hunt out a nice, fat, juicy beastie for us." The thin lips on his reptilian face split in an unsettling smile stretching across his face to glimmering red eyes, showing rows of sharp, jagged, crooked, brown teeth. "A raw beastie is good supper."
Gren
player, 17 posts
Tue 2 Jun 2020
at 18:29
  • msg #60

1 - Awakening

Gren crouched and ran his hand through the earth all the while looking around him

"I feel we are being watched or at least have been. I have tried to locate it but they stay just outside my vision which isn't the best as it is. I would suggest we camp here at least it is defendable. We do not want to be caught out in the dark in this jungle." He said in a low voice

"If need be I can reinforce the ruins with earth to give us more of a defendable area"
GM
GM, 27 posts
Thu 4 Jun 2020
at 20:22
  • msg #61

1 - Awakening

After a short discussion you ascend the hill towards the ruin. As you get closer you realise that it probably wasn't a fort - it doesn't seem to have been built with defence in mind. It's only when you are standing inside the ruin itself you realise what it was; a church or a monastery of some sort. High windows mark the walls which, where they remain, arch at the top and the bases of mighty columns show what used to hold up the ceiling which now remains only in small areas at the edge of the walls.

You can see that floor used to be flagstones but many are gone or covered in dirt. The jungle has started to claim back it's territory with vines and creepers which grow through and around what stonework remains. Rubble, presumably what used to be the ceiling and parts of the walls, is strewn across the ground and mixed in with the plant life. Suddenly you stop with a shudder - in one corner of the ruins is a human skeleton, clearly long dead and picked clean of flesh, sprawled awkwardly. As you look around you can pick out other bones, some human and some animal, spread across the floor with creepers and shoots pushing through ribcages or wrapped around skulls.

In addition to the large building you now stand in there appear to be, to one side, two smaller out buildings; both mostly complete and one even with most of a wooden door still on rusty hinges. To the other side of the main building is what looks like something that might once have been a garden or field though it is now hopelessly overgrown and barely recognisable as such.

There is no sign that anyone has dwelled in this place for years though plenty of tracks and spoor to suggest that it gets frequent animal visitors.
Skitterlung
player, 21 posts
Sat 6 Jun 2020
at 19:58
  • msg #62

1 - Awakening

Skitterlung will try to set up nonlethal bug traps around before trying to cobble together a place to rest, making sure to keep an eye out for signs of any bugs around.
Kaine
player, 18 posts
Sun 7 Jun 2020
at 11:08
  • msg #63

1 - Awakening

Upon reaching the ruins and seeing the remains, Kaine gazed about the area warily. He wasn't worried about immediate danger given the apparent age of the skeleton, but still this was not a good sign; the place could be cursed.

"Animal tracks indicate animals visit this place regularly, we should get a fire going before nightfall to keep them at bay," he suggested to the others.

Noticing the smaller buildings out to the side, Kaine walked over to them cautiously, trying to investigate if there was anything useful there.
Perception Challenge Roll (to spot anything else in the main building): 06

Note: Kaine will walk over to investigate both the outhouses/buildings to see what they contain. GM can feel free to make any needed Perception Checks


Cavalier
player, 20 posts
Sun 7 Jun 2020
at 21:39
  • msg #64

1 - Awakening

"What is this place?"

Cavalier walks around, looking and examining the building. It looked like a fort indeed, and still not. It was not very religious, as clockwork went, but as worldly experiences went, it was still young and unexperienced. The mechanical hand brushes over the stones of the building, carefully investigating the doors, and of course, crouching down to examine the remains, the skeleton. Perhaps there was obvious hints to its demise.
GM
GM, 28 posts
Tue 9 Jun 2020
at 20:50
  • msg #65

1 - Awakening

The age and overgrown condition of the skeleton makes it very difficult to place a cause of death. The bones are damaged in places which could suggest violence but equally that could be the handiwork of any number of beasts.

The side buildings are equally deserted save for a family of small vermin which beat a hasty retreat as you inspect the smaller of the two. That building seems to be set up as what would once have been a cookhouse and dining area but other than the mouldering remains of some tables and benches there seems to be little of use.

The second building was clearly once a dormitory of some kind and rows of beds, in varying states of decay and collapse, line the walls. Rotten pieces of what would once have been trunks or chests can also be seen around the building though, again, there seems to be little of value. This building contains more human remains; five or six skeletons (better preserved here) lie in or scattered around the beds. There is no mistaking here that they have been victims of violence and it looks considerably likely that they were killed in their beds.

By the time you finish your exploration the sun is starting to set. Your vantage point on the hill gives you an excellent view of the surrounding area which consists of jungle as far as the eye can see in every direction save for North, where you can see the coastline from which you have just come winding around in both directions. However, as you watch you get clear evidence that you are not alone. From an area to the North West, probably not more than a few miles away, you can see several columns of smoke rising as if from a number of small fires. Then from off to the South you can see more smoke - this in the form of one, thick column - rising into the sky.
Gren
player, 18 posts
Wed 10 Jun 2020
at 20:15
  • msg #66

1 - Awakening

"I do not think we should light a fire tonight " replied the molekin.

"I will dig a pit shallow and wide while there is light we can gather ferns to line it this will provide warmth for those that sleep. Perhaps we should each keep watch. To keep the animals away and to watch for whoever lit those fires in case they decide to visit us in the dark"

He was still concerned about the feeling he had of being watched so he wasn't willing to allow their position to be sign posted for all to see
Skitterlung
player, 22 posts
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 08:19
  • msg #67

1 - Awakening

"Goblins are good at sleeping without a fire. It's the talls who get cold." He looked, somehow accusingly, at the tall folks of their group, before continuing to set up the last of his roach traps. After this, he would follow Gren's lead and help him dig--although he was not on the molekin's level, his reptilian claws helped him scrape dirt away more effectively than a tall.
Kaine
player, 19 posts
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 20:05
  • msg #68

1 - Awakening

Kaine viewed the skeletons in the bed with pursed lips, clearly disturbed at the sight. Still, the killings appeared to have happened long ago, and there was nothing to be done.

Returning to the others he listened to what they said and replied, "I am not sure about not lighting a fire, it will keep animals at bay. Still, I will concur with the rest of you, and we should certainly keep watch."

He patted the travel-bag hanging snugly by his hip on instinct, recalling the torches he kept there. They had dried off since the shipwreck and would help if they were attacked by predators during the night.

Staring up at the skyline as day started to give way to night, Kaine eyed the columns of smoke in the distance, wondering what they entailed. The multiple number of fires to the North West appeared to indicate civilization of some sort, perhaps it should be the direction they ought to travel in the morning.
Cavalier
player, 21 posts
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 21:38
  • msg #69

1 - Awakening

"I shall stand guardian. I do not require sleep, and it will give me time to contemplate things." the clockwork simply informs them, as it runs its hand over the stone walls of the ruin, tenderly, almost reverently. Its own form of worship, in a way. "Besides, if we are to travel further tomorrow, you will all need as much rest as possible."
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