The Delta

[Tehol Nookington]

Tehol gets up super close and personal and whispers into Kjell’s ear, “There are two inside, the next room. It looks like a room they are performing rituals in.”

[Silvia Raizer]

Silvia joined Ceutinde and Juliette(?) Her first task was to sort out her blocked arquebus. Her second was to wipe her weapons with a cloth from her pocket that was only a little dirty.

[Geoffrey Ravenhurst]

"It vexes me, Juliette." Herneiros stood up. "It vexes me very much."

He shouted aloud, "Who has seen Tehol or Zavier?"

[Ceutinde]

Ceutinde raised an eyebrow as Justine - no, not Justine - replied. She pulled herself to her feet. "Lovely to see you, Juliette. You're right. They might need help." She pointed to the northwest, or whichever direction was in the top-left of the poorly drawn maps from chat. "They headed off that way at the start. Didn't see where they ended up, though."

[Kjell Ó Raghallaigh]

Aug 10, 2020 21:58:39 GMT Tehol Nookington said:

Tehol gets up super close and personal and whispers into Kjell’s ear, “There are two inside, the next room. It looks like a room they are performing rituals in.”

“Sounds like a trap,” Kjell whispered back, likewise leaning in. “Are we springing it?”

[Geoffrey Ravenhurst]

"Thank you, Ceutinde." Herneiros heads off in that direction in search of his comrades.

(Survival 40)

[Justine-Juliette de Vair]

Juliette rolled her eyes. “Very perceptive. I like that in a man. Or a woman,” she added, looking at Ceutinde. She had none of the bashfulness or playfulness of Justine, only hunger as she licked her lips. She sucked her bloody finger again.

“I guess I’ll follow him. Coming, Nigel? Miss Songbird? I reckon I have a tune you might like.” She headed off, nearly skipping, behind Herneiros and began to sing in a high, clear voice.

“Two young sisters are walking alone
by the pale muddy waters
two young sisters are walking alone
by the pale muddy waters of Bastion

When one of them pushed the younger in
into the cold rain waters
pushed her sister and watched her drown
in the cold muddy froth on the river...”

[Ceutinde]

Ceutinde followed, listening. After the second verse, she asked Juliette, "I've never heard that one. Your own creation?"

[Silvia Raizer]

Silvia laughed at the song and accompanied Juliette. She still didn't understand what was going on but it seemed best to play along.

[Justine-Juliette de Vair]

“She floated up and she floated down
to pale she was as the water
floated down till she washed down shore
on the pale muddy banks of Bastion...”

Juliette sang another short verse until she paused to speak with Ceutinde. “Itis my very own. Do you like it? In the asylum we had so much time to write little songs like this.” She laughed as she skipped along. “Justine never liked it for some reason.”

As they drew nearer the corpses of the wizards, Juliette’s attention was captured. “Ooooh, what’s this?” She made her way over, humming her little tune instead of singing aloud, and crouched down to investigate.

Observation 30
Occult 70

[Tehol Nookington]

Aug 10, 2020 22:05:35 GMT Kjell Ó Raghallaigh said:

Aug 10, 2020 21:58:39 GMT Tehol Nookington said:

Tehol gets up super close and personal and whispers into Kjell’s ear, “There are two inside, the next room. It looks like a room they are performing rituals in.”

“Sounds like a trap,” Kjell whispered back, likewise leaning in. “Are we springing it?”

“Two against four, if these sarcophagi are actually empty. No known reinforcements.” Tehol whispers back. “I’m sure we could try talking to them first. Before we attack them.” He says with a small inaudible chuckle.

[The Forgotten God]

Aug 10, 2020 22:06:43 GMT Geoffrey Ravenhurst said:

"Thank you, Ceutinde." Herneiros heads off in that direction in search of his comrades.

(Survival 40)

Herneiros sees tracks in all directions but it doesn’t take him long to find the shattered hourglass and the dead wizard. The corpses haven’t been disturbed so something had prompted the others to move off quickly. He had been to the south and the monster East so logic dictates they had gone some variation of north.

[The Forgotten God]

Aug 10, 2020 23:00:17 GMT Tehol Nookington said:

Aug 10, 2020 22:05:35 GMT Kjell Ó Raghallaigh said:

“Sounds like a trap,” Kjell whispered back, likewise leaning in. “Are we springing it?”

“Two against four, if these sarcophagi are actually empty. No known reinforcements.” Tehol whispers back. “I’m sure we could try talking to them first. Before we attack them.” He says with a small inaudible chuckle.

“I’ve been alive a long time,” Zavier said in his usual near monotone, “they’re never empty.”

[Geoffrey Ravenhurst]

Aug 10, 2020 23:01:41 GMT The Forgotten God said:

Aug 10, 2020 22:06:43 GMT Geoffrey Ravenhurst said:

"Thank you, Ceutinde." Herneiros heads off in that direction in search of his comrades.

(Survival 40)

Herneiros sees tracks in all directions but it doesn’t take him long to find the shattered hourglass and the dead wizard. The corpses haven’t been disturbed so something had prompted the others to move off quickly. He had been to the south and the monster East so logic dictates they had gone some variation of north.

"Hmmm... good job."

Herneiros continues forward in hopes of finding them.

(Superspeed to help catch up with them, if necessary.)

[Tehol Nookington]

Tehol who looks at the seemingly 17 year old just kind of thinks to himself that in another lifetime after playing Skyrim, he will disagree with this statement because sometimes, they are in fact empty with the skeletons preferring to emerge from the ground.

But this is not that lifetime so he concedes the point. "So we crack open these Sarcophagi and demolish the undead first? Or move them to hold the two in place while someone goes and gets backup."