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Lilith actually offered a small smile to the man, one that actually showed genuine emotion. Picking the glass up she took a swig of it and hummed at the warmth it provided her as it slid down her throat. "Now that, is how a whiskey is supposed to taste." The young woman said with gentle sigh. "No, my good sir. That is all yours to keep, I'll pay for whatever else I owe at the end. It's a pleasure to meet you, Marvin." She said with a quiet chuckle as she swirled the whiskey around in the glass.

"Tell me, Marvin. Does anything exciting happen around here? Also, how long have you been here?" The woman asked as she clasped the glass between her two hands and studied Marvin with her slate gray eyes.
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The landscape is hilly and devastated, everything in it scorched black as ashes snow down from the sky. The smell of smoke seems to strengthen as he gets higher. His vision blurs as his pupils rapidly contract, and he can hear the north statue calling to him... This time with a voice. It was just as loud and booming as the notes implied, though it lacked any emotion or intonation.

"CAERBOG DOES NOT FUCK WITH MAN-APES. BRING CAERBOG A SACRIFICE OR YOU SHALL SUFFER IN CAERBOG'S ABANDONMENT."

From the south another statue seemed to call to him.

"Don' listenna that ol' fool." Said an androgynous, slurred voice to the south, "Hessa big, primitive shit'ead. *hic* Hessa one who got this ol' place burnt. I can fixxit, ifye bringer sacrifice terme."

"The others... Don't know anything... About responsibility..." a gruff voice said simply, coming from the west "Give me the sacrifice..."

The last statue to talk was the eastern one, "You're all a bunch of egotists with your heads in the clouds! I'm the only one who would know what to do with a sacrifice if I had one!"

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Luckily for the schemer, the balcony was a fair 20 feet above the ground. It would be tough to decide whether the brick path or the grass would make it a better decision.

"I could tell you right now, but I don't think you'd believe me. The best part about me not working here is that I don't have the keys to any rooms, or the clearance to enter any employee areas. I can only go where this uniform can take me, and that's here, the outside yard, and anywhere between those places and the supply shed." He said, with growing confidence in his statements, "There's literally no way I could have tampered with anything in there. Just... Drink some champagne, try to do something frustratng on the internet... Maybe try to put down your cigs for a while? When things get... Bothersome-And you'll know what I mean when it happens,- Come to the courtyard. I'll help you out."

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The bottom floor didn't seem much less strange, though from here she could feel slight vibrations in the ground intermittently, with booming noises in the background. A man downstairs in torn, World-War-era military fatigues was fortifying the door with furniture. Bits and pieces of what looked to be medieval plate armor were strapped on where he could get them, his knees, left elbow, right shin, and upper right arm were well protected from whatever harm may come to him. A simple pan protected his head.

His weapon of choice may or may not be a pipe wrench, judging by the fact that he carries a rather large one to and from a toolbox whenever he needs more nails to pound things in place with said hunk of steel. His rifle seems to be the straightforward hunting fare, though this was on his back instead. The source of the smoke was a small fire, upon which a burly, rodent-like creature was roasting, half the size of a man. It may have been a kangaroo, but its claws were too long, and it had the eyes of a paranoid-schizophrenic horse and the snout of an amphibious anteater.

An unusually clean post-it-note was on the bottom step,

If you want, talk to them, but don't sneak up on them. If you're feeling sociable, let them find you. What remains of the Caerbogian Army is jumpy, but they usually mean well. They've been surviving here longer than I have.

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"Is this some anti-smoking garbage?" Nicholas asks with a frown.

"But fine. Just to fulfill my curiosity, I guess. I'll see you down at the courtyard." Nicholas adds, walking back inside, and grabbing the bottle of champagne. He'll begin to drink as he walks to the courtyard.
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"Why the fuck do you wanna a sacrifice for?Do you know or have seen Gonzo?What the hell are you things?" Jonathan asked the statues wanting answers form them.He tried to clam himself down but the anxiety and the cocaine was doing him no favors since it was causing his breath to become heavy.
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Marvin seemed to smile through his beard.

"I signed up fer a job here place soon's I knew they were rebuildin' it... Benna my share of places like this. Kind of a hobby a'mine." He said, "Only been'ere a few hours te get situated before this place opened, though. I ain't kitchen staff, after all.

OOC: Whoops, pushed the wrong blue button last night. Again.
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The note in her hands, Elise stopped to think.

What the hell was she in?! This certainly wasn't the hotel any more, but where was she now?

Her only options, if the note was to be believed, were to continue skulking around and risk dying...or being brave and talking to one of them.

So she decided to suck it up.

Advancing cautiously to the bottom of the staircase, she stopped a distance away from the man and then called out to him.

"H-hey! Could you help me, please?"
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Lilith actually chuckled at Marvin's words. "So how did you hear about this place? Sounds like you're a bit of a traveler. From my understanding, nobody knew this place was opening until it opened. I couldn't even find any information on it when I got the request." Lilith said as she held up the room key and inspected it carefully.
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The champagne, which didn't taste particularly hallucinogenic, seemed to cause his room to look slimier as he drank it. Upon exitting, he found that the hallways were quite awful to smell, and there seemed to be black ooze on the floors, ceilings, and corners... When he reached the courtyard, it seemed rather like most of the plants had been transformed into glistening black tentacles, the tree was a large, bloodshot eye on a stalk that stared endlessly, alternating between the two people in the courtyard intently.

The man hoisted the burlap bag, apparently full of something quite heavy, as he trudged through the slimy black grass to meet the Russian.

"You're seein' this, right?"

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The statue in the north, presumably of Caerbog, was a large, scorched, and misshapen creature wearing a hawaiian shirt and nothing else, holding up a beef splitter victoriously. The loud voice emanated from it again.

"CAERBOG IS ALL THINGS IN EVERYTHING. CAERBOG IS THE TRUE GOD IN THIS COURTYARD. THE BLACK CREATOR. THE OMNI-BUILDER. THE ONE IN ALL. PRAISE CAERBOG WITH RIGHTEOUS SACRIFICE AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE MANY HOUSEHOLDS AND EXALTATIONS IN VALHALLA."

"Yer fukken' wrong," says the statue across from him, it appears to be a large, bronze snapping tortoise, "Saliamos is the only real god! An' I'm 'is highest priest! I ken bringye eternal bliss an' 'appiness fer the small price of one life! Y'can also save this entire subworld from burnin' in Caerbog's eternal hellfire!

"Praise Somnos..." Says the western statue, which was simply a pedastal and nothing else, "For doing the good lord's work shall bring peace unending... And supreme enlightenment..."

"Frauds, all of you! Making empty promises and keeping lies! Bring me the sacrifice!" said the statue to the east. It seemed to be a muscular greek god with nothing different about it from the real world than its taste in French berets...

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The man jumped, holding his wrench at the ready. He seemed far less terrified when he saw who was behind him, but remained wary nonetheless, "What!? Who are you!?"

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"You gotta know where to look, I guess." Marvin said, shrugging, "Heard some rumors about it on the road, contacted a few people on the internet. Then I had a job fer the summer."

The car looked rather unimpressive in what little lighting the bar had. Though the card held sturdy and was likely never bent or folded in its existence, its many wrinkles shone in the light. Held at the right angle, it looked like elephant leather.
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"Yeah. Haven't had a trip this bad since college." Nicholas says, staring at the farked up courtyard.

"Is this what you're 'helping' with?"
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"Im not killing anyone...im not a murderer..Im just a writer..So why don't you fuck off to whatever inter dimension ya fuckers live in" Jonathan yelled out to the statues finally finding his courage.He then turned around walking away form the statues and to the small pond looking into it for a moment before siting down on the bench taking a deep breath to clam his head.
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"I - I'm Elise Williams, um, and I think I'm lost. I mean you no harm."

She held her hands up, palms forward.
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"Good to know." The man said, brushing his dreads away from his eyes as he drops the bag, making a squelching noise, "I can help you out here, when the going gets rough. Obviously there aren't too many things around here that're especially... Y'know... Safe to be around. My main product's in the bag, but I do sell other survival equipment... Just don't let security catch you with it back up on the surface."

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Caerbog calls loudly from the perimeter, and the drunken voice and the voice from the east berates one another usual.

"IF A FOLLOWER CANNOT KILL, CAERBOG WILL EMBRACE THE SACRIFICE FOR HIM."

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"Cor..." The man says, still holding his wrench defensively, though his face portrayed no real ill will. He called up to the balcony, "Richard! There's a refugee! I found a refugee!"

He turned back to Elise, smiling, "Welcome to Fort Wensley, Miss! It's been a long time since we've seen any civilians!"
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"Fuck off.." Jonathan shook his head limping away form the statues and trying to see if their was others around."Hello anyone here?" He yelled out to anyone that could hear his voice wanting to see a human face.
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Nicholas raises an eyebrow.
"There are... This place is screqed to all hell, and you're selling things?" He asks.
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His voice echoed off the vast expanse of charred wasteland ahead of him. It seemed there were buildings in the far distance, somewhere beyond the massive flaming forest that stretched out to the darkened horizon...

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"Pretty much," He said, shrugging, "Seeing as I've been surviving here pretty well, I thought I'd come help people out. To avoid, y'know, 'dissappearances'. But I can't just give things out for free, otherwise I'd have no supplies, and then I'd probably get eaten instead."
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"Damn it what the hell is this?" He said to himself now limping around the wasteland."Hello anyone here?" He once more yelled out hoping to find another person to speak to him.
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"Capitalism did win, after all." Nicholas says with a shrug.

"What's in the duffel?"
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It is quite a walk away, pretty far indeed, but he can see the vague sillhouette of a person downhill trying to dump water on the blaze on the horizon.

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"They're, uh... 'Get out of trouble free cards'..." The man says, brushing one of his dreadlocks aside and clearly struggling to explain himself, "All you need is a good piece of dirt and something to dig with... They might look, uhh, shocking, but they're not real. Not, like, really real. I mean, they function, but they're not natural."
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"If there are shrunken heads in there, I'm probably gonna feel obligated to kill you." Nicholas replies, calmly, tensing his body.
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"Oh, haha, no. They're not heads." He picks up the bag, opening it up to show a large amount of wet, faceless, fetus-shaped things, each twitching slightly, "These are vessels. Completely synthetic. Well, not really, they're actually made out of some of the creatures out here, but they were still never fertilized or born, or anything that'd cause moral qualms for me at least. Plant them in the ground and give it time, and if everything goes to shit... You'll be re-born there, sort of. It only works in hellscapes like this, unfortunately."
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