Spidophile
Deep Forest
Earl looked back at Jeff, seeing the young man looking at him as if Earl was in charge of this important decision. It was a lot of pressure. Earl remained silent for a few moments, trying to think of every consequence of every choice he could make right now.
"Look, the werewolf's definitely not coming with us. Not after what she almost did to the French girl. If you want to stay with her Recon, you can. But we could really use your weapons, money, and any extra supplies. Since you're staying here with lots of food and stuff, we'll need them a helluva more than you will." Earl said to the two.
"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance" - Domingo Montoya Help save the rainforest for free simply by going to Ecosia.org.
El Camino
"Man what is wrong with you?" Orion asked Counter. He grabbed the radio and pushed the button. "It doesn't matter if she's one-half blowjob-and-pudding-pop machine if the other half is a crazy-ass werewolf that just fuckin' shanked someone. And the only reason your friend ain't dead is cause y'all just have the luck of traveling with a demon and an angel who somehow managed to use their powers to pull a Jesus up in this bitch. And fuck man, you really wanna risk taking her along just cause you think she's tough? We already got half the Harry Potter and GI Joe cast on this roadtrip, I think that's one hell of an advantage already. Having the werewolf just ain't safe."
Orchard
"Or yeah... just do that...." Max said, taking a step back from Clark and Coline.
He pulled Thor along a bit to have the dog follow him, and then went off towards where Earl and Jeff had gone off to. He had lost enough time trying to see if Coline and the angel were alright, now it was time to make sure the loudmouth and Earl weren't going to get eaten.
edited 5th Aug '14 11:23:00 AM by nman
Sandwich Summoner
Orchard
Israfel raised an eyebrow at the couple, now exchanging fluids not caring about what happened to the rest of mortals. He never got what was so important of those kind of weird displays. So she just shrugged. She eyed the same wolves as her demonic counterpart was doing.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures, and you're among men anyway. Humans would strip these beasts down to their raw materials. And we could use some components, I'm running low as of late." Israfel pointed out as she grabbed her dagger and proceed to do the same. She then stood still, looking at the dead wolf, her face sinking in her bangs.
"Though I'll have to object about the undead. But if you're itching to use magic, could you...ehm... I can't say I'm saying this... fix my wing, maybe? The reaper and people have exhausted my essence." said Israfel in a choked whisper, obviously embarrassed by what she had to say.
Forest
Matt kept on with his tracking, taking note that maybe the werewolf wasn't alone. But the humans weren't his targets.
The Blinder
"You're going with them Recon." Molly told him, he couldn't be that stupid, she looked at the others. "Make sure he comes with you."
Good to be back
THE SLORG!
Jeff shook his head to Molly, and lowered his revolver to his side. (Only that much, because he has no holster for it.) "I'm not gonna force him to come along, but..." Jeff trailed off slightly, shifting gaze to Recon. "I will say that if a werewolf tells you to go away, you should probably heed their words" he suggested to the mercenary, then turned and walked back off towards the Orchard.
It was a bit ways away that he spotted Matt moving through the forest, causing him to blink a couple times as he did not recognize the man. "Hey, who are you?" Jeff asked, approaching Matt and getting both hands on his gun again. This would be heard by Molly, but not Earl or Recon unless they had decided to follow Jeff. Matt could just see Molly and whoever was still near her with his scope; Molly however, would not see Matt.
The two immortals got to work, shearing the fur off the wolves, taking out their eyes, ears, tongues, fangs, tails, claws and stomachs. (And made sure to empty the stomachs.) Goldilocks quickly commandeered one of the sacks they'd initially brought along to store fruit in to hold all these. "You sure? I could make a really fascinating abomination out of both of them" Goldilocks said to Israfel, perhaps saying it just to try and annoy the dominion. She sighed slightly, and muttered to herself, "buuut, they would have my command over them overruled by Mephisto the next time he's nearby, so probably for the best." She then walked over to Israfel, and started drawing out a circle in the dirt next to the angel with the end of her tail. "Since our angel friend doesn't have the advantage of chaos and is already tuckered out for the day, it falls to me to heal her wounds" the succubus muttered aloud, certainly with some taunting of the angel intended, but there was something else to her tone; a hint of disgust, that seemed to be aimed at herself.
It was around this time that Arthur walked into the clearing, rifle down and holding his radio up near his face. "Don't know who you're arguing with buddy, 'cause it ain't me" Arthur said into it, in response to Orion's statement over the radio. Lowering the radio, he finally noticed the two dire wolf corpses, though it took him a startled moment to realize that's what they were. "... You uh... You doing anything else with these?" the half runner asked with anticipation, slowly approaching the smaller corpse. (Gray's)
"No, I suppose not" Goldilocks answered him rather neutrally as she continued working on the circle.
"Alright, dibs!" Arthur stated, crouching down to his knees and lowering his surgical mask. He then grabbed and tore out a piece of flesh from the cut that had been made to get at the stomach, and started to eat it heartily, raw.
Coline and Clark finally let go of each other, and seeing what was going on nearby, Coline muttered some protest in disgust and covered her mouth, then started to leave the immediate area. Clark looked over and frowned slightly, but managed to keep himself collected. He took a couple steps after Coline, but stopped and looked around again, slight confusion in his expression. "Wasn't there something I was doing before..." Clark muttered to himself, before settling his gaze on something near the edge of the clearing, on the ground. One of the group's hand radios, just sitting there, abandoned. "JACOB!" the former cop exclaimed, getting his rifle out and looking around, seeing no sign of the former caravan guard, "he must have taken off when we went after Molly! Damn rat, was probably a merfolk or some shit." Hearing that, Goldilocks paused and cast Israfel a worried glance.
"Don't know who you're arguing with buddy, 'cause it ain't me" Arthur's voice said over the radio, as with a slight frown, Counter once again yanked his radio away from Orion; this time he set it down in the bed of the vehicle, well out of Orion's reach from the driver's seat.
"Would you stop doing that?" Counter said in an annoyed tone, not appreciating the merchant being so forceful with his stuff. He said nothing in response to Orion's actual statement though, and from the slight worry in his annoyed expression, he'd probably realized that the merchant had a point.
edited 7th Aug '14 7:11:01 AM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
Eat my dust!
Recon looked at Molly one last time, then sighed.
"I'm not gonna force myself on ya, Molly. If you want me gone, I'm gone. But I ain't sticking around. The only reason I greased so many palms to stay here is to figure out exactly what was going on with you and me. If you ain't interested..."
He put his helmet back on and then turned on the radio, making his next words broadcast to everyone.
"If you guys don't mind giving me a lift to our next town, I can meet up with my Dad and I'm out of your hair forever. After that, well..."
He drew his gun and began walking back to the van.
"Maybe we'll see each other again at the end of the world."
edited 7th Aug '14 8:14:12 AM by gameknight102xx
"SAID CLOUD TO THE CARTOON PONIES AND UNICORNS WITH PICTURES OF FLOWERS ON THEIR ASSES. A DURR HURR HURR." ~Game Spazzer
Spidophile
Orchard
Earl left with Jeff, letting Anarchy and Recon decide for themselves what would become of them. When he reached the orchard, he noticed Clark's outburst at Jacob's disappearance. Earl cursed his own mind. With Anarchy attacking, he'd completely forgot about the suspicious caravan guard.
"GOD DAMN IT!?!?!?! WHY?" Earl swore as he kicked a tree trunk, his mind racing to figure out what to do about Jacob.
"Wait a minute! The werewolf bitch attacked right as we were interrogating Jacob. That's a little too convenient if you ask me." Earl told Clark.
"He might be a monster that can control that girl's transformations to give him a distraction to slip away. Maybe an incubus - bastard always was too horny for your own good..." Earl guessed but trailed off when his radio burst to life.
Alright - I don't know what's going on but you guys need to head back to the vehicles if you're done with apple picking. We want to know what's going on too!
Vehicles
Red hated the feeling of uncertainty, espescially since he couldn't see what was happening. He sighed and picked up his radio and spoke into it.
"Alright - I don't know what's going on but you guys need to head back to the vehicles if you're done with apple picking. We want to know what's going on too"
"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance" - Domingo Montoya Help save the rainforest for free simply by going to Ecosia.org.
Sandwich Summoner
Deep Forest
Matt's face frowned. Thank to this fool his golden opportunity to slay the werewolf had been flustered. If he didn't say something, he would risk a shootout, if he did, he would alert the werewolf, quite possibly, if it wasn't alerted. "A wolf hunter." He just said, as he deftly stepped back into the forest, trying to lose sight of Jeff and approach the werewolf from another side.
She is untransformed, I might have one last chance before I lose all advantadge, he thought.
Orchard
Israfel bit her lip, but it wasn't because of Goldilocks' childish taunts. Those were expected. But Jacob. How come I was this idiotic to not realize that fool would try to escape? She thought to herself.
"Great, Raphael will use my feathers for a cushion when he finds out." Israfel muttered to herself, within Goldilock's ear reach. She hefted one heavy bag one armed and begun to walk towards the vehicle as soon as she was healed. "What is done is done. Let us go back to the vehicles, lest we're ambushed by more Striders. I bet that lone strider was Jacob's contact or something."
edited 8th Aug '14 1:12:47 AM by AtomicNut
The Blinder
"Maybe." Molly said quietly.
Good to be back
Vehicles
"Well, they ain't been shooting for a long time, so guess what went down is as over as it's gonna git," Orion said.
He leaned back in his seat. "So what's the deal man? How is it that just about every sort of magic-throwing folk wound up in this one caravan? That shit all happening right now seems pretty odd, given the circumstances."
Forest
"Well at least those wolves are good for something still," Max said, looking at Arthur munching on the dire wolves. "Wait, Jacob was - damn it, must have slipped away when Coline was getting patched up. Guess I got one thing I can try, though no promises."
He pulled Thor over to where Jacob had been getting manhandled by Clark earlier, and had the dog sniff. "Can you find him boy? Come on, find him," he said to the dalmatian.
Spidophile
Earl picked up Jacob's radio and tried to hand it to Max.
"Maybe this will help. Jacob had it on him a lot so it probably has his scent."
"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance" - Domingo Montoya Help save the rainforest for free simply by going to Ecosia.org.
Forest
"Thanks," Max said, taking the radio.
He bent down and put the radio up to Thor's nose. "Come on boy, find it, find it and you get a tummy rub."
THE SLORG!
Goldilocks got the ritual circle finished in short order, and instructed Israfel to crouch within it, careful not to step on any part of the circle's pattern itself. Once there, the demonette activated it. With a glow of red light from the circle, Israfel's wing started to regrow like a time lapse video. The sensation, as per usual with healing spells, felt like thousands upon thousands or tiny needles stabbing the wound being healed, which in this case was running along the whole length of Israfel's wing.
Once that was finished, Goldilocks stood and lowered her eyebrows in slight confusion and worry at Israfel's statement that they should leave. "Hold on, are you sure we shouldn't go after him?" Goldilocks said, referring to Jacob.
"Are you sure that we should? It could be a trap" Clark pointed out. "Also, aren't you girls forgetting what we came here to do in the first place?" he asked the two immortals, motioning at the other empty sacks.
Goldilocks looked at the sacks, then at the trees around them, and sighed. "Right..." Goldilocks muttered, grabbing one of the empty sacks and getting to work filling it with various fruit. To speed up the process, she would simply walk up to a tree then start flapping her wings up at it furiously, whacking the tree's branches repeatedly until all the fruit simply dropped to the ground. There she'd scoop them up and place them into the sack.
Meanwhile, Thor did manage to pick up a scent from the radio, and started to follow it into the forest... But not very fast. Thor was a dalmatian, so he wasn't exactly a bloodhound; (Or even in the top 10 best dog breeds for scent tracking.) worse was that he was too young, having been born during the apocalypse, to have ever received proper training for this sort of task. He was on Jacob's trail all right, but unless Jacob happened to be moving at a casual walking pace, they'd never catch him at this rate.
"Don't know if I can say for sure" Counter responded to Orion with a shrug. "Could just be coincidence. I'd think that it's probably just the natural attraction of an event of this magnitude; it's not exactly every day that a deceiver shows up. Heck, it's only happened once before" he pointed out to the merchant.
You are reading this.
Forest
"Alright Earl, we got the direction now," Max said, rubbing Thor's stomach. "You were in the army, you get any good at tracking?" he asked. "Wait... this was his radio, so he doesn't have one... so it's safe to use."
He pressed the button on the device. "Hey, we're trying to track down Jacob, already caught his scent and trail, any of you happen to know a spell that can magically solve this problem?"
Vehicles
"Yeah, you could be right," Orion replied to Counter. "But don't that seem a little too convenient to be coincidence? Before today, I ain't never seen nothing much besides a few half-vampires. And the only one I seen with any regularity was that one you guys had who liked eating his M&Ms. But so far today I've seen an invasion from hell, we got outta town with a friendly demon and angel, the angel's pet turned into a different angel, our half-werewolf done went crazy fighting one of those Ka-thulins and killed your French chick, but the angel brought her back. Except now I'm agreeing with a half-runner that we ought to leave her behind. And you know what's the craziest shit about that all? Like, just boggles the mind. We only got one brother! The fuck is up with that?"
He shook his head.
"You know. I think they were Skittles."
Spidophile
Vehicles
"Anyone around?!?!" Red asked frustrated into the radio, looking back at Garnett and Sophia.
"Just what is going on..."
Orchard
"We did basic land nav at boot camp but it's been awhile man." Earl said to Max, looking into the forest to see if he could see any boot prints or torn branches to indicate where Jacob went off to.
"But I have a better idea. Uh...angel girl...um...could you use your telepathy to talk to Jacob and tell him we mean him no harm if he comes back. And maybe succubus girl could fly in his general direction and get a bird's eye view of where he might be." Earl radioed, before continuing to follow the Dalmatian's scent.
"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance" - Domingo Montoya Help save the rainforest for free simply by going to Ecosia.org.
Sandwich Summoner
Orchard
Israfel bit her lip as she let the wing heal. Doing a couple of wing flaps, she tested its consistence.Chaos is pretty convenient, huh. She added in a bitter tone mentally. She then looked at both people. And then at something that was there.
"Why are you using a dog when there's an untainted wolf there?" Israfel pointed out to both people."Although I have no idea on who's its owner...but maybe you can speak to it, Goldie. You can also try speaking to Jacob."
Israfel cracked her knuckles. "Leave me the brute force job. It's been five years since I did this.". She added, extending her wings, exceeding the wingspan of Goldilocks. She then took flight in a deft manner, climbing in height and speed, like a falcon, only to do a turn in midair at a sufficently high altitude.
And then before anyone could ask, a loud sound of a kick was heard, with the characteristic snapping sound of a raptor dive, rattling the entire tree. She then hovered in midair, sending gusts of wind among the trees to maximize the drop rate of fruits.
edited 10th Aug '14 6:54:32 AM by AtomicNut
Guess Who?
Vehicles
"Finding Jacob again is simple. Just use Lisa as bait and he'll come sprinting to you. Maybe a little bit faster with adrenaline if she's naked." Shay told the others over the radio. From what he knew of the man, Jacob was a rather simple human being, easily driven by the thing in his boxers. Unless he was some sort of spy ... which wouldn't really surprise Shay at all.
edited 10th Aug '14 7:04:07 AM by Tricksen
If you're reading this you have 5 seconds to...
THE SLORG!
Israfel's plan didn't go as perfectly smoothly in execution as she had probably imagined it in her head. Goldilocks' spell healed the damage to her wing, but had done nothing for the exhaustion the angel had already taken during the course of the day. After taking a little longer to get up to a good height than she should have, Israfel came down, landing a kick right into the top of one of the largest trees around.
But between the aforementioned exhaustion, being five years out of practice, and the laws of momentum, Israfel didn't end up hovering above the tree; she ended up tangled among the branches and leaves. On the plus side, the tree still relented all of its fruit onto the ground from the angel crashing into it, along with some fruits from the adjacent trees.
"Ah, jeeze!" Goldlocks exclaimed, backing off and holding up an arm to protect from the sudden downfall of fruit nearby. A moment later she lowered it to see Israfel tangled in the tree. "Superior angels..." she muttered between snickers, stepping away and sighing before grabbing her radio to respond to the people talking on it.
"If Jacob is a merfolk, I don't know if meaning no harm will be an option; and I wouldn't be surprised if him lusting after me was just an act" Goldilocks started to them, noting that first fact with apprehension in her tone; something about the whole thing with cthulians still disturbed her greatly. "Like our angel friend, I'm actually not in the greatest shape right now; it's been a long day. But I'll take a look while she's busy with the food" the demonette continued as she stepped to a spot where she could take off without hitting any trees, glancing over at Israfel for a moment again before starting to flap her wings and lift upwards.
After getting above the trees, Goldilocks slowly started off in the direction Thor seemed to be indicating, Eastward. Goldilocks kept flying relatively slowly, trying to keep an eye out for anything below... Then around only three hundred feet away from the group or so, Goldilocks slowed with a couple flaps, banked right, and dived right down into the forest at something only just out of sight due to the trees. About ten seconds passed, then she was heard on the radio again. "I have him" Goldilocks reported, her voice a near growl of anger; from the amount of control and not screaming she still had, it was assumable this wasn't the hardwired reaction against cthulians. This was something making her genuinely, personally angry. "Bring a crucifix, now" she told them, sounding in no mood to explain herself or argue.
"..." Counter said, his mouth hanging open for a moment as he raised a hand slightly, then closing as he put his hand to his chin in thought. As Goldilocks' words continued to come through the radio, Counter finally just shrugged, hands out as he had absolutely no explanation for Orion's point. With the demonette's final words through the radio, he did glance over at it, one eyebrow raising.
You are reading this.
Spidophile
"Shit! Do you have one?" Earl asked Max, not wanting to run immediately into a scuffle with a magical creature without being prepared.
"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance" - Domingo Montoya Help save the rainforest for free simply by going to Ecosia.org.
Forest
"Shit, uh... uh..." Max said, rummaging through his pockets. Then he remembered and felt around his neck, grabbing the crucifix he had bought back in town. He held it out for a moment.
"Yeah. Right here. Let's go." He said to Earl as he started jogging off towards Lisa. "On our way," he radioed over.
Spidophile
Forest
Earl grimaced and followed Max. If Lisa was requesting a crucifix, this probably meant Jacob was a monster of some kind. This made Earl significantly less confident about confronting him. Still, they had three (four if you counted Thor) against one so he should be okay. Please God, let me be okay.
"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance" - Domingo Montoya Help save the rainforest for free simply by going to Ecosia.org.
THE SLORG!
A little after the others left, Jeff walked back into the Orchard, looked around seeing nobody apparently around, then glanced up at the tree where Israfel was. "... What?" Jeff said simply, not knowing why she was up there like that.
They actually had five, as Clark and Coline, who had still been relatively nearby, joined up with Max and Earl on their way over to Goldilocks' location. Sure enough, when they got there they'd see Goldilocks and Jacob, the latter being held at rapier-point by the former, as well as partially constricted by her tail.
Goldilocks was bristling with anger; literally, her tail had been morphed so that a collection of tiny thorns, needles, and hooks were dotted all along the length of it. Her tail was wrapped once around Jacob's shoulder, then again around his upper arm; this was helping keep him in place, making plenty of blood droplets run down his arm and drip to the ground, and was keeping his sleeve rolled up to expose said arm. And there on his upper arm, was a little tattoo of a pentagram drawn around the front profile of a ram's head, with the slightest of red glows to it; not a real magic ritual circle, as it was much too small for that, but it did have a little magic in it. Everyone in the group had a good chance of knowing what it was: a marking symbol for a demon worshiping cultist.
As they arrived, Clark and Coline quickly pointed their guns at him after spotting it, which put even more distress into Jacob's already pained expression. "Wait, guys! I swear, it's not what it looks li-hi-aah!!" Jacob tried to say, cut off into a startled yelp of pain as Goldilocks tightened her tail.
"Either he's an incubus illusioning it, or it's the real deal. Test. Him." Goldilocks said sternly. With both of Jacob's weapons on the ground, being restricted, and being held up at the point of two guns and a sword, Jacob was in no position to resist. Whoever tested him would find him to definitely not be a demon.
edited 11th Aug '14 10:15:33 PM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
The Blinder
Pyro looked at the others, he was sitting on the hood of a car. "So," he growled. "We're not taking the crazy werewolf bitch?" He asked curiously, "And whatever happened to the striders?"
Good to be back
Forest
Max went up to Jacob and poked him with the crucifix. When nothing happened, he poked him again in a different location, just to be sure. To be really sure he poked at a third place.
"Nope, guess he's not a demon," he said, taking a step back and looking at Lisa. "So you got experience with magic, any idea what that thing on his arm means? If it's just some edgy tattoo, or meant to shoot out a fireball, or some sort of tracking device a demon's using to follow us or something?"
He spoke into his radio for the convenience of everyone else, as well. "Anyone got experience with evil-looking magic circles? I think Jacob's some sort of cultist, be handy if you could double-check."
Then he crouched down to rub Thor's belly as a reward for being a good boy.
Somewhere in the Driver's Seat of an El Camino Conquista
"Motherfucker!" Orion said, hearing what Max said over the radio. "We got more black magic than black motherfuckers up in this bitch!"
Recon shook his head, not really acknowledging that Arthur was talking.
"If you're gonna stay in this place, I'm sticking with you," he said. "I know I ain't exactly a dire-wolf, but I've been part of a pack before."
edited 5th Aug '14 8:44:12 AM by gameknight102xx
"SAID CLOUD TO THE CARTOON PONIES AND UNICORNS WITH PICTURES OF FLOWERS ON THEIR ASSES. A DURR HURR HURR." ~Game Spazzer