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I woke up to screams emanating from the direction of Robert's room so grabbed my gun and ran into the corridor. The door was smashed and as I peeked in, I saw a nine foot long serpent thing, with bat wings, horrible protrusions all over its body, hovering over the bed with Robert in its claws. In fear of hitting Robert, I didn't shoot but Dr. Vargas, who had also emerged from his room armed with a knife, jumped in and grappled it. Thomas als turned up, fired a shot and hurt the thing. I grabbed Robert and wrenched him free, a bullet whizzed inches over my head, and Robert crawled out of the room. The creature grabbed at me but missed, I shot it at point blank range but the bullet pinged off without any effect. Thomas then managed to shoot off one of the beast's eyestalks making it screech ghastly with pain and anger. Dr. Vargas then set fire to the curtains, ripped them off and attempted to throw them over the thing but misses and the curtains land on the bed, setting the sheets alight. The beast clamped its jaws on Thomas' leg and I shot it ineffectually through the wing. The scuffle carried on for a while until the serpent wrapped itself around Thomas and scrambled out of the window. Both I and Nicholas grabbed at him but he slipped through our fingers. Robert shot it and the thing started thrashing, already halfway out of the window. Robert slammed the window shut on it
but it bounced off so the monster could slither outside. It immediately took to the air and flew off in a rather errati fashion, clearly wounded and most likely weighted down by Thomas' weight.
In despair, We fired our guns serveral times, Robert and I hit and it let go off Thomas who plummeted to the ground.
Whilst the others ran outside to look for Thomas, I put out the fire before it could spread to the rest of the house. I also had a quick look around the house and found that the front door had been smashed to pieces and the professor's room searched with the safe cracked open and, naturally, emptied.
As thankfully, Thomas was still alive, some set off for hospital, while Nicholas and I stayed behind to repair the
front door and look after the house.
John the butler was missing. His cottage was empty, the bed unmade but someone did have breakfast before they left. Outside the cottage, Nicholas found an odd circle of ash with five points around it. At the points he found some sort of semi-precious stones. Later, he suggested it was some sort of summoning circle that had been used to call that serpent creature.
We then called the police and a constable turned up soon, we explained the story of the break-in, and the cracked safe. Nicholas' room was also searched and the book from Bonaparte's office stolen. We had made up a story of a huge dog attacking Robert and Thomas which was confirmed by our companions at the hospital.
Soon after the professor's son turned up, clearly annoyed at the news of the cracked safe (less so of our companions' injuries). Apparently, the deeds to the house had been in the safe, and as they were now missing, it would be impossible for him to sell it at this time. He argued with police, claiming he'd always suspected the butler of being a criminal and made sure he was treated as a suspect. He also argued with Dr. Vargas who inquired about the continuation of his employment status (as both his charges were now dead).
The son also claimed the professor had been in financial troubles for quite some time so the son wanted to sell the house to recoup the money he had had to keep lending him. He eventually left for the bank and the police went on as well.
The others returned from the hospital and we learned that Thomas would make a full recovery in relatively short time. This was a great relief.
We discussed what to do next, we agreed that only the dig site would bring us further at this time so it was decided to visit it first thing in the morning. Dr. Vargas also suggested we hire "independent contractors to act as physical leverage" and wanted to look into that.
OOC: A question: I quite often find myself switching back and forth between past and present tense which is highly annoying. Especially when describing fights or action sequences, I tend to use the present tense and in descriptions of facts the past tense.
To those of you who write this sort of thing or fiction in general frequently, does this happen to you as well or is this just something that happens to my untrained brain? Thanks.
I woke up to screams emanating from the direction of Robert's room so grabbed my gun and ran into the corridor. The door was smashed and as I peeked in, I saw a nine foot long serpent thing, with bat wings, horrible protrusions all over its body, hovering over the bed with Robert in its claws. In fear of hitting Robert, I didn't shoot but Dr. Vargas, who had also emerged from his room armed with a knife, jumped in and grappled it. Thomas als turned up, fired a shot and hurt the thing. I grabbed Robert and wrenched him free, a bullet whizzed inches over my head, and Robert crawled out of the room. The creature grabbed at me but missed, I shot it at point blank range but the bullet pinged off without any effect. Thomas then managed to shoot off one of the beast's eyestalks making it screech ghastly with pain and anger. Dr. Vargas then set fire to the curtains, ripped them off and attempted to throw them over the thing but misses and the curtains land on the bed, setting the sheets alight. The beast clamped its jaws on Thomas' leg and I shot it ineffectually through the wing. The scuffle carried on for a while until the serpent wrapped itself around Thomas and scrambled out of the window. Both I and Nicholas grabbed at him but he slipped through our fingers. Robert shot it and the thing started thrashing, already halfway out of the window. Robert slammed the window shut on it
but it bounced off so the monster could slither outside. It immediately took to the air and flew off in a rather errati fashion, clearly wounded and most likely weighted down by Thomas' weight.
In despair, We fired our guns serveral times, Robert and I hit and it let go off Thomas who plummeted to the ground.
Whilst the others ran outside to look for Thomas, I put out the fire before it could spread to the rest of the house. I also had a quick look around the house and found that the front door had been smashed to pieces and the professor's room searched with the safe cracked open and, naturally, emptied.
As thankfully, Thomas was still alive, some set off for hospital, while Nicholas and I stayed behind to repair the
front door and look after the house.
John the butler was missing. His cottage was empty, the bed unmade but someone did have breakfast before they left. Outside the cottage, Nicholas found an odd circle of ash with five points around it. At the points he found some sort of semi-precious stones. Later, he suggested it was some sort of summoning circle that had been used to call that serpent creature.
We then called the police and a constable turned up soon, we explained the story of the break-in, and the cracked safe. Nicholas' room was also searched and the book from Bonaparte's office stolen. We had made up a story of a huge dog attacking Robert and Thomas which was confirmed by our companions at the hospital.
Soon after the professor's son turned up, clearly annoyed at the news of the cracked safe (less so of our companions' injuries). Apparently, the deeds to the house had been in the safe, and as they were now missing, it would be impossible for him to sell it at this time. He argued with police, claiming he'd always suspected the butler of being a criminal and made sure he was treated as a suspect. He also argued with Dr. Vargas who inquired about the continuation of his employment status (as both his charges were now dead).
The son also claimed the professor had been in financial troubles for quite some time so the son wanted to sell the house to recoup the money he had had to keep lending him. He eventually left for the bank and the police went on as well.
The others returned from the hospital and we learned that Thomas would make a full recovery in relatively short time. This was a great relief.
We discussed what to do next, we agreed that only the dig site would bring us further at this time so it was decided to visit it first thing in the morning. Dr. Vargas also suggested we hire "independent contractors to act as physical leverage" and wanted to look into that.
OOC: A question: I quite often find myself switching back and forth between past and present tense which is highly annoying. Especially when describing fights or action sequences, I tend to use the present tense and in descriptions of facts the past tense.
To those of you who write this sort of thing or fiction in general frequently, does this happen to you as well or is this just something that happens to my untrained brain? Thanks.
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Date: 17/5/10 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 17/5/10 03:25 pm (UTC)Anything I missed in the writeup?
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Date: 17/5/10 03:33 pm (UTC)At the points around the "summoning star" were crumbling pieces of semi-previous stones.
Otherwise, great stuff; thanks again for doing this :)
Thanks!
Date: 17/5/10 03:37 pm (UTC)Had forgotten about the semiprecious stones (not in my notes), d'oh.
Re: Thanks!
Date: 17/5/10 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: Thanks!
Date: 17/5/10 04:55 pm (UTC)Hehe, oh dear.