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Pentigan Fwomph from The Underverse Since: Apr, 2010
Fwomph
#251: Jan 12th 2021 at 9:44:41 PM

Heather At Home

Cool beans, remember to keep us updated if you find anything about the cult in that book or whatever.
Anyone got anything else they want checked out while I'm spinning my heels like this?

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#252: Jan 13th 2021 at 3:35:00 PM

Jayden

...woah.

Were the knights on the cover always this...prominent? And did the room always taste of dust? He knew he didn't clean quite as often as he should, but this was much dustier than even he let his room get. Jayden started absently grasping for something by his side—a sword, yes, that was the word...

And then he was falling into the abyss.


"...huh?"

Had he fallen asleep? Jayden slowly sat up, blinking in confusion. How did I fall asleep...? A dull ache pressed against the inside of his skull, and he groaned as he rubbed his temples. Maybe he should've gotten more sleep...

A sudden glint caught his eye, and he looked at it more intently. A sword? Why was a sword by his bed? When did he have a sword? And why was there a suit of armor next to it—

Wait.

Jayden blinked, eyes widening in realization. This was not his room.

He stopped. No, not stopped. Froze. His pulse, the only part of him that could move, pounded in his ears. He sat there, on a strange bed in a strange room, too stunned to even think.

Finally, he took a deep breath.

Then—

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Jayden practically tore out of the bed, nearly faceplanting into the floor. As he scrambled to his feet, he let out another scream, looking as though he'd seen a ghost and feeling as though his heart was about to give out.

"MOM! HELP! SOMEONE HELP!"

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#253: Jan 13th 2021 at 4:49:16 PM

Jayden's Vision Quest

It would not take long before a woman dressed in an old English nun's habit ran inside after getting the door open, her face wizened and somewhat crone-like, hair covered by her hood. She was probably the age of Jayden's grandmother or something, and strangely her presence would prove immediately calming.

Jayden might notice by now he had an English accent. He...never had one of those before.

She tried to help Jayden calm down, but spoke a name that both was his and so evidently wasn't. "Sir Rhodric! Sir Rhodric! Please, calm yourself. You'll awaken everyone else in the monastery screaming like that. Is it another vision? Of the Crelnach Horde fiends come toward Ceolbrook again?"

Ceolbrook. Ceolbrook was this place's name, this walled town's name.

But Jayden had never heard this name before.

LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#254: Jan 14th 2021 at 7:56:03 PM

Jayden

In seconds, an elderly woman came rushing through through the door. Her presence proved strangely calming, and Jayden stopped screaming—though he was still trembling, wide-eyed with fear.

"S-Sir Rhodric? Crelnach Horde, C-Ceolbrook?" Jayden stared at the woman, slowly backing away. "I-I don't...what does any of that..."

His eyes nearly bugged out, and he clutched at his throat.

"And why am I British?! What is happening?"

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#255: Jan 14th 2021 at 8:03:59 PM

Ceolbrook - Vision Quest

"Oh dear, you must be disoriented after your vision, Sir Rhodric..." The old woman started to tend to him, wiping his forehead and checking for temperature simply by pressing her head against his, "No aberrant fever...that's good. Sir Rhodric, you're a Knight of Wessex, sent here to Ceolbrook to defend against the incursion by the Crelnach Horde warband of Vikings. And...British? I know not what that may be, but you have evidently had a very eventful vision!"

The text he had read would start to surface in Jayden's mind...but at the same time, he would find himself able to access the skills of the knight he was...seeing through the eyes of?

He could remember ways of maneuvering that sword over there, moving on his feet and using a shield alongside it. Skills Jayden had never possessed were now at his fingertips.

LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#256: Jan 15th 2021 at 11:41:37 AM

Jayden

Okay. Okay. Calm down. Jayden forced himself to breathe, practically shaking as he did so. What, exactly, just happened?

Well...I was reading...then I was falling in a watery abyss...then I woke up here...so maybe...

"I got it!" he suddenly said, snapping his fingers. "This is all a weird lucid dream! And if I know anything about lucid dreams, the best way to wake up is to..."

Hoping to God that this would work, Jayden pinched his arm as hard as he could.

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#257: Jan 15th 2021 at 7:33:58 PM

Ceolbrook Vision Quest

Even as the woman kept trying to assuage him, Jayden pinched himself. A brief moment of slight pain in his arm. Waiting there to see if he awoke from this, what he told himself was a dream.

Feeling the nun just sit there.

Feeling the bedsheet.

Feeling the floor under his feet as he sat there.

It didn't go away. Whatever this was, it wasn't a lucid dream. It was to some degree significantly real.


Corpheus' Poor Folks Church

Inside the church before long a few people clothed in some rather dirty, stained looking rags arrived and started working on Damien. Sitting him on a bed, and expertly inspecting his body. They started to look him over, and one of them commented, "His injuries were not as severe as they could've been...he's blessed to remain in such robust health."

Corpheus let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, for coming here on such short notice." Corpheus stated, looking at Duane and Mina.

Duane meanwhile started to get some texts and started to return them;

[Vikings? So they've been secret since then? Look up the Crelnachs. There has to be some record. We're over at Corpheus' Poor Folks Church. We have a lot we need to tell you all.]

LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#258: Jan 16th 2021 at 11:00:00 AM

Jayden

...it wasn't a dream.

He was really here.

He'd been thrown into some other world and was trapped, probably never getting to see his family or sort-of friends again and having to live the life of someone else and oh god what if he screwed up and altered history and plunged the world into nightmarish dystopia was anyone missing him right now—

Tears pricked at the corners of his eyes. He sat down on the bed and curled up into a small ball.

"I wanna go home."

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
JumpingFruit An Ordinary Oddball from R'lyeh Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
An Ordinary Oddball
#259: Jan 16th 2021 at 12:18:43 PM

Mina Parker

"W-Well, it's n-nothing, D-Damien was in trouble after a-all," Mina stammered, turning a little red due to the relief of not being caught telling half-truths. It could've been easily confused as embarrassment from being praised, however slightly. That was one of Mina's charm points. "And he really n-needed help..."

"Sh-Should we go n-now?" she followed up somewhat awkwardly, looking between Corpheus and Duane. "S-Staying here, Duane and I w-would only get in your w-way, so it'd be b-better if we left and l-let Damien have the m-medical attention he needs..."

Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 17th 2021 at 11:17:08 AM

I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#260: Jan 16th 2021 at 1:20:23 PM

Ceolbrook - Vision Quest

It seemed everything stopped not long after Jayden curled up like that.

As he shook he would hear a noise coming from somewhere nearby. If he looked up he would be able to see a magpie sitting on the other end of the bed, tilting its head at him as if it was confused. The bird seemed somehow more colorful than the rest of the world that Jayden was in.


The Poor Folk's Church

Corpheus cupped his chin and then looked around, "Yes, go ahead. Be careful out there and don't go anywhere alone. You're likely intruding into things the rich would rather you not involve yourselves in."

Duane looked down at his phone for a moment. He was going to need to check with the others about how things had gone.

It seemed that everyone had discovered quite a lot of interesting things indeed. If this conspiracy went as far back as the Vikings...how much further than that?

JumpingFruit An Ordinary Oddball from R'lyeh Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
An Ordinary Oddball
#261: Jan 16th 2021 at 5:33:11 PM

Mina Parker

"O-Okay, Father Corpheus. W-We'll leave Damien in y-your hands. T-Take care, then..." Mina said as she nodded and began to head back to the main road where she and Duane had left their bikes locked to a lamp-post. That little slip-up with Father Corpheus left her suspicious, but she didn't want to pursue this lead until her feelings proved themselves right. "Hmm..."

"I'll look something up," she muttered to Duane as soon as they were away from the poor folks' church, and began to pull up articles on her phone, looking for any information about the vikings that the article had mentioned. If this was a big piece of history—and it most definitely was—then surely there would be a wealth of information about it. Mina hoped so.

Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 17th 2021 at 11:17:20 AM

I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
Pentigan Fwomph from The Underverse Since: Apr, 2010
Fwomph
#262: Jan 17th 2021 at 2:11:01 AM

Heather At Home

On it.
How's the reading going Jay?

Heather let off a small laugh at some thoughts reverberating around her head as she got herself comfortable to do some research on vikings and Crelnach and maybe unrelated items if they caught her attention. This whole situation felt exceptionally unreal; throwing her lot in with a bunch of tabletop nerds to find that some robes-and-rituals cult was hiding out in her hometown. If she wasn't so adamantly certain of her own sanity, she'd think she was going mental. But regardless, there were innocent lives at risk here if they couldn't find a way to bring things to a halt so Heather was going to cram like final exams were around the corner.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#263: Jan 17th 2021 at 5:55:00 PM

Jayden

A sound broke him out of his stupor.

Lifting his head up, Jayden saw...a bird. A magpie. Much more colorful than the rest of the world.

"H-hi," he said, scooting over to the bird. "You don't...you don't belong here either, do you?" He attempted a laugh, but it died in his throat. "How'd you end up here?"

I must be losing it, I'm talking to a bird.

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#264: Jan 17th 2021 at 6:02:51 PM

Ceolbrook Vision Quest

The bird promptly spoke back to him in a surprisingly deep though feminine voice, resonating and with a slight reverb to it, "I am architect of your traverse to and from this vision. Your experience and capabilities will follow you, to and fro. I have intervened due to your distress level growing to an unproductive level. You may call me Isabella."

It tilted its head a little and walked through the air before landing in front of Jayden, "If the experience of the vision is too severe, simply touch my head and you will return to being as you were."


Research

Those looking into the Crelnach Horde would see that they were helmed by two co-leaders, Korir and Wenillro - and that the semi-mythical first King of Norway King Harald supposedly banished them for being too cruel even for the Vikings. They were listed as "having strange religious customs", and grotesque rites for their ships. Supposedly they would flay a man alive and then pin him up by their longship's black sails and he would guide them to their destinations.

They had a history of attempting to kill the daughter of King Alfred the Great - the young princess Aethelflaed, in remarkably vile ways.

Supposedly they were involved in the Siege of Paris as well...and despite the time frame, supposedly Korir and Wenillro were also present when the Danelaw came into effect, and were "castigated" for their actions during it - including attempting to kill Christian Convert King Aethelstan.

Conspicuously, the last mention of Korir and Wenillro came during the end of Viking Rule in England, and from there, they just seemed to go quiet.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Jan 17th 2021 at 6:08:28 AM

JumpingFruit An Ordinary Oddball from R'lyeh Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
An Ordinary Oddball
#265: Jan 17th 2021 at 7:41:20 PM

Mina Parker

Mina sent the information to the other club members, and then noted something to Duane, saying "If th-they only went m-missing...it might m-mean they're not d-dead, either...so these t-two—or their l-legacy—may be i-involved in what we're dealing with here," with a somewhat troubled expression on her face.

"We sh-should keep an eye o-out for anyone that looks like th-the illustrations of them...not that th-they're really clear, but just in c-case..." she concluded, also sending the relevant picture to the others.

Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 17th 2021 at 11:17:44 AM

I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#266: Jan 17th 2021 at 11:33:50 PM

Duane nodded, thinking about the info and the monster from out in the woods. How much further back did this go? The Crelnachs were pretty overt about their practices, and whatever they were up to, somehow it ended up suppressed in the modern day. Something was going on here.

Let alone the whole "Korir and Wenillro might not even be dead yet" business.

...Whatever these Dark Gods had going on, did they have the ability to let people cheat death somehow? Well, one of them was apparently a God of Time, so it'd make sense if that one could somehow stop someone's time.

Looking on his phone at the illustrations, Duane saw what they looked like and showed it;

Korir was the smaller of the two going by the depiction. He had a more prominent right hand gauntlet of some kind, and the fingers seemed like blades. He carried an axe in his offhand, and wore body covering armor, with stylized thin, curling backward horns on his helmet and thin metal pieces over the eyes giving the effect of a visor. He wore a combination of metal plate armor and pelts that still looked smeared with blood.

Wenillro had to be exaggerated. He was gigantic in comparison to Korir and even the other Norse men in their warband. If Duane had to guess, Wenillro had to be 7.5 to 8 feet tall - most likely a challenge to ferry around in their ship. He wielded a singular large two sided battle axe - one blade moon-like the other wicked and serrated. Wenillro's armor likewise seemed to be a mix between black metal plate and pelts, Wenillro's helmet decorated with small chains carrying macabre decorations.

Jeez, I'd pity anyone that had to deal with these two...


Heather

Heather would surprisingly get a new text message from the Coolidge High Quarterback's number...and then another!

[Hey, Heather right? Just checking in for the night. You guys with the investigation club are all okay, right?] [Just had to make sure.]

Pentigan Fwomph from The Underverse Since: Apr, 2010
Fwomph
#267: Jan 17th 2021 at 11:39:34 PM

Textspace with Football Protagonist

Man. You are not going to believe the afternoon the inves-club had.
One of us found a secret basement thing and went off the radar for a bit but returned with stories of a weird place and a scrying pool.
The police went into the woods but ended up getting slaughtered to a man and someone else (likely the cult!) has taken over the local 911 dispatch.
Someone else found a book link that may have been hypnotic but only to them because they haven't responded in a bit
and also we're currently researching some old viking stuff that was hinted at when us non-hypnotic folks checked out the link.
How's your evening been? :)

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
JumpingFruit An Ordinary Oddball from R'lyeh Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
An Ordinary Oddball
#268: Jan 17th 2021 at 11:41:04 PM

Mina Parker

"So m-menacing..." Mina muttered, looking over the illustrations one last time. "But if th-they show up, w-we're sure to recognize th-them. At least th-they're distinctive..."

"And th-there's some sort of scrying p-pool under my house, too," she added more forcefully, clenching her hands at her sides. "I f-found out something v-very useful today. If w-we need more info in the f-future...I'm w-willing to go back down th-there...as many t-times as it t-takes!"

Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 17th 2021 at 11:46:07 AM

I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#269: Jan 18th 2021 at 12:00:04 AM

Textspace with Matthew

The texting service went quiet.

Then frantic displays of Matthew is typing...

HOLY SHIT.

What did you guys get involved in? How did you guys even

Don't go down there don't EVER go down there! Do you even know what kind of danger you put yourselves in???

And the police got—-what? I gotta call Damien ASAP. Thanks for telling me about the police. Don't call them again. Don't let them know anything about what you're doing. I have some suspicions, but I don't know how secure the cellphone services are.

Don't go in the woods. The guy out there is dangerous. I'm who he's after. I'll be going out there tonight to check things out. Do NOT get involved.

VIKINGS??? You guys really are in the thick of it.

My evening's gonna be real fucking complicated.

As soon as possible, I need to start working with you. If you're gonna be involved, you have to be able to defend yourself. And I'll help you with that.


Duane and Mina

"Yeah, at least these two really set themselves apart..." Duane looked at the illustrations. What if Tom had been seized and dragged off by those two? There were stories - actually accurate stories - of what the Vikings did to their captives. And none of it was pretty.

"You...you don't think Tom is in the custody of those two...do you?"

Edited by NickTheSwing on Jan 18th 2021 at 12:02:31 PM

Pentigan Fwomph from The Underverse Since: Apr, 2010
Fwomph
#270: Jan 18th 2021 at 12:11:29 AM

Textspace

Oh man power-up time? Hopefully you've got something better than the cops did.
Anyways, on my end I just kinda hung out at home doing some research so I'm okay.
Actually heck, lemme add you to the text group.

Heather swaps over to the other conversation. looping the quarterback in.

Hey guys, new eldritch investigator joining our Ru-Pow squad.
Says he's got the hookup on some defense techniques so say hello :)

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#271: Jan 18th 2021 at 10:00:00 AM

Jayden

"Architect, huh..." Jayden stared at the magpie, tilting his head a little. "Um...nice to meet you, Isabella. I'm Jayden."

The moment she said that he could go home, his eyes widened and he scrambled over to her. "Yes! Yes, I'm doing that! Thank you!" His hand went straight to her head.

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#272: Jan 18th 2021 at 10:34:40 AM

Jayden - Journey Back

"Very well. Should you wish to resume your ancestral vision, I will remain in and around your room." As soon as she said that, the Magpie's head seemed to transmogrify into a massive sprawling galaxy that pulled Jayden into its orbit, out of what he had been dealing with.

Falling through what seemed to be a sprawling spatial location full of stars and spinning planets.

And just as quickly as it came he was suddenly pulled through that celestial space and into the depths again of that abyss he fell through on his way to his vision. Except in reverse - now he was observing as he was pulled through the abyss, upward, further and further. Every single moment bringing him closer and closer to the surface.

He would be able to see the sun in the distance, and beyond it some impossible ancient thing looking down on him from there. Indifferent at worst and perhaps benignly interested at best.

Then Jayden would feel himself dropping back into his chair...

...And he would actually feel like he dropped from being slightly elevated into his chair. He was back home. The room looked no worse for wear despite his celestial journey...

And seated there at his desk was that very same magpie Isabella, tilting her head as if nothing that unusual had even happened. "Welcome home, Jayden. When you are ready to resume your journey without emotional upheaval, I will be here for you. Until your task is completed and your ancestor's agreement completed, I will remain here."


QB joined the chat

Hey everyone. My name's Matthew Streiss.

So Heather tells me you guys really got in the deep dive. I think I can help you be ready to defend yourselves.

Because trust me, if this is all any indication, I think you may need it. I've dealt with The Everliving before, and he never shows up like this alone.

JumpingFruit An Ordinary Oddball from R'lyeh Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
An Ordinary Oddball
#273: Jan 18th 2021 at 2:28:02 PM

Mina Parker

Mina bit her lip as the new guy came in, and decided that if Heather trusted him, then she could too. She quickly started typing back to him.

Hi, my name is Mina Parker.

There was a strange place with a scrying pool under my house. I found a secret passage in the wine cellar and followed it all the way down and I saw the Everliving in the pool, killing the police in the forest. My father said the wine cellar was bricked up. He lied to me. He and Father Nyczus are in the cult.

Duane came to my house to check on me and I told him what happened, then Damien came stumbling up my street and we tried to call 911 but the dispatcher said we were pranking them and hung up.

Then we tried to bike to the hospital but Father Corpheus stopped us and I told him a very roundabout story about how Damien got hurt, not mentioning the scrying pool or anything. He took Damien to his church to get him medical care since the hospital would have told the police anyways and I didn't see how I could refuse w/out seeming suspicious.

Right now the club has been gathering intel with no way of fighting back. Sending the evidence we've collected so far...

Mina would send Matthew both the recordings of the drone flight and her expedition down in the cellar, along with the photos of the suspicious red-headed boy and the strange not-lights near the White estate.

Does you recognize anything here?

Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 18th 2021 at 3:10:29 AM

I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
LilyTheLitten Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️ from The Investigation Institute Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Inspector Irratino my beloved ❤️
#274: Jan 18th 2021 at 2:56:00 PM

Jayden

Home.

Home.

Jayden collapsed in his chair, breathing out a sigh of relief. He gave Isabella a quick nod, mostly to acknowledge her presence. Maybe later, when he wasn't so tired and shaken, he'd ask her some more questions about what the hell had just happened. Maybe.

His phone had exploded with texts since he'd been gone. Jayden absently checked what he had missed—more layers to the conspiracy, and also someone new had joined the group. When Mina sent the picture of the redheaded boy, he sent off some quick responses.

oh hey I know him
that's Reiji
also sorry I was gone
freaky stuff went down
I'm gonna go hug my mom
brb

With that said, he stuffed his phone into his pocket and headed downstairs.

"Look inside yourself and to the stars; there, you will find your answers."
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#275: Jan 18th 2021 at 3:14:00 PM

Texting Back and Forth

...

As far as I know, your dad n Nyxus aren't close tho. Something's sus.

By now, the Gateway you went thru is prob gone. They know you were there.

I dunno who the fake police are, but can confirm it isn't Dark God worshipers. Nyczus has been in panic mode gettin things ready.

Good to hear. Damien's a good man. Luckless. But good man.

I do recognize those things. Those are totems of the Dark Gods. I've dealt with their worshipers a few times. Very secretive.

Matthew then paused as he got the messages from Jayden.

Hold the phone.

You met Reiji out here? Whats he doin?

I know him. He goes by Reiji of the Million Spells. Works for one of the Dark Gods. Fought me n friends like twice. Very smart guy. Kind of awkward.

You go do that man. You sound like you had long day. Mad jealous bro about the parents thing. Mine and I haven't been much in touch.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Jan 18th 2021 at 3:16:11 AM


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