...
(wrinkles her nose, as she approaches the trap door)
...Agh.
(to both Ruby and Leo) Hang on, let me try something first...
(kneels down, and places a hand on the ground right next to the trap door)
(clearing her mind, she attempts to call upon the powers of Observation Haki to try and detect any traps and/or enemies right by the trapdoor)
(...unfortunately, as she is a novice at this sort of thing, whatever presences she can glean are hazy, and only appear in her mind's eye for a moment)
He looks and stares at Kyo for half a second. Before continuing on, putting a plated finger on his helmet's faceplate.
"It smells of blood. Blood long decayed, blood freshly shed. Blood and musk mixing together to form red mud that drips and pitters and patters on the wall. It smells of corpses and carcasses mixed in with something fouler than I have words for. It smells of the sea, salt and sea weed and mosses. Of the dead and the foul husks of beasts."
"And then, it wafts over. The door opens, and a foul smell worse than even the bloodiest of battlefields and latrines wafts out over to us. Our dogs, stalwarts hounds they are fled away, leaving the men and a witch-hunter that tagged along us alone."
"First, came the youngest. A hag hunched over, with insects and hives nesting where her eyesockets are. Her nose are pointed and long and crooked, red with welts and rashes. Her clothes tattered, a ghastly gown of dirt and flesh. Out of her belly and the slit of her apron, are a pair of malnourished legs and decayed feets. Her hat, long red and pointed made the air sinister. Around her neck, is a cut off noose. Shame that those that nearly finished her off didn't do the job right. She cackled along, as she stepped out, ushering in the second."
"Then came the hulking giant of a crone. Her face concealed by a wicker basket, dripping with drool and mucus. Her hood covers her head, the basket her face. Her arms are fat and bloated, fingers fused and the size of a thick tree trunk. She wields a cleaver and around her waists, are tied several thatchen dolls stuck with needles and foul hexes. Around her waist, a knapsack dripping with brown fluids and an iron smell. She laughed in a booming voice, and then came the third."
"The eldest is short and hunched, her face covered with thick red cloth with holes. We saw eyes poking out of them, eyes more than even the maddest of spiders. Her arms are scarred and long, unlike that of weremen- bare, clawed, and thick, with resin and chitin covering bits of it. Around her belly, is a sack of clothes. Poking out and hanging out, are arms. Small thin arms of their victims... and meals."
всегда верен-nods to Miyu-
-to Ruby- You're okay. Stay calm...
-Miyu's brief view through the observation Haki reveals that the basement is definitely larger than the hut on top of it, there's about five or so of Moreau's beasts sitting around below the trapdoor, whilst Moreau and Castor are sitting by a desk, discussing something, with Assassin outside, beside some sort of... you get a hazy image of it being something human-shaped, made out of a metal, chained to the wall-
edited 2nd May '16 4:34:57 PM by RegularDefender
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postHis voices goes lower, deeper and more gravely. "Tis' was a gravely sight. They pointed us and laughed, shrill shrieks and screeches shouting at us. "More to feast?" "Hunter of beasts?" "Such a treat!" , they hollered."
"But it was the witch-hunter who came through first. Before they uttered another word, we all saw a streak of white. He let loose a bolt made of silver, purified and blessed with holy water from a small crossbow he concealed. Within seconds, silver bolts sticks out of the hag's hands, shrieking in pain. With a cry to our gods and beings whom we revere, we charged."
всегда веренI am talking to some one outside the hull, who is going to have to use the airlocks, but yes, I accepted
As for the person in my bridge, those are the display monitors that allow the crew to see outside, without windows that would be a structural weakness, I could also play entertainment things on them for you though
-Nod nods-
Alrighty.
... It's never easy the first time, Ruby. But- there are beasts down there, and you don't have to kill a single person if you don't want to.
Stay calm. You can make it, okay?
-nods to Miyu, and starts to put his hand on the way to the trapdoor- It'll be fine.
Lets see whether we can't get the drop on them.
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Clearing
-All is quiet for the moment-
-They make good time, getting to the door on the forest side-
-Leo opens the door slightly- They must be in the basement, lets move in.
-he holds the door open-
The Hut
-upon entering, it seems like there's a lot of cages around, a lot which seem to have burn marks on them, while there's a desk with numerous books and tools of alchemy, but it seems like this is an ordinary place apart from a feint smell of BBQ-
-a trapdoor is in the corner-
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