CH3-02 Heading North

[BenTheRat]

Clay gets out to stretch and checks the tires and the spare to make sure they are all looking okay. He gets some fruit as well and bites into one of them enjoying the juice as it rolls down his dry throat. "Yea, lets make sure we make the ferry."

[royya]

Jacob sits on a nearby bench, enjoying the wind, the fresh air and waits for the two Albanians to prepare the car.

[Papa Gateau]

Albert smiles and continues shooting as Liz poses for him. When he's finished he gives a wink and thumb up.

Right then, we ready to move on? he loos around at the others I know you don't want to stop en route Alex but maybe a 5 minute leg-stretcher when we're halfway there wouldn't hurt. he heads towards the car.

[Mr. Handy]

Liz has fun playing the model, twirling around and trying out various poses, including one where she slides her jacket down her arms and rests her chin on her bare shoulder, When Albert is done, she skips back to the vehicle. "I'm ready to roll," she says, sliding back into her seat.

[ghill]

Back in the cars the first first port of call is Shkodër, the largest city in the north, the pleasant looking town is overlooked by an impressive medieval castle which Alex says was built by the Venetians. The town is criss-crossed by wide communist-era boulevards and the driving is much easier (on your backsides at least, the traffic here is just as nightmarish as Tirana) In the midday sun most of the population seems to be keeping t the shade or sat outside cafés. Its quite easy to imagine you are somewhere in Italy – until you hear a muezzin's call from one of the city's many mosques, or see another building which looks like it was transplanted from 1950s Moscow.

OOC:   Can I have two Spot hidden's please from everyone

[Papa Gateau]

Albert takes in the scene, taking pictures from the car window.

Rolls,Spot Hidden[60] [dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice]

[royya]

Jacob is distracted by the muezzin's call and tries to count the number of mosques' towers.

Spot: 2d100 150 - 2 Fails (72,78)

[BenTheRat]

Clay tried not to let the drive send him dozing, so he took in the peaceful city while trying to imagine them all as having guns and wanting to kill them.

Spot Hidden,target = 45, [dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice]

[Mr. Handy]

Liz is distracted at first, but she notices something as she peers out the window at their surroundings.

[ghill]

As Alex and Lek drive slowly and carefully through the town of Shkodër. first Albert then Clay and Liz all notice suspicious graffiti at the side of the road, it bears a worrying resemblance to the graffiti written on the walls in the apartment. Once you become aware of it you see the same or similar passages written over and over again along the route, some instances it appears once but more frequently over and over again filling otherwise blank spaces.

OOC:   POW rolls from the three of you please.

[Mr. Handy]

"Oh boy," says Liz when she sees the familiar writing. It may be the last intelligible thing she says for some time.

[ghill]

In the back seat of Alex's car Liz starts to get a general strange feeling she finds hard to describe, a rising feeling in her stomach as though she was on a fairground ride A strong sense of déjà vu and an intense smell of wet dog. As she swivels in her seat to tell the others she first feels a sense of pins and needles in her legs, then stiffness then uncontrollable twitching as she pitches sideways into the gap between the seats. At the other end of the tunnel she can hear Greg shouting "Christ she's having some kind of fit"

OOC:   Liz is out of it for the next 15 minutes. SAN loss D3+2

Liz,When Liz comes around she finds her grasp of the English language is not as good as it was -5% for every point of SAN she's lost, however her grasp of German is better by +5% for every point of SAN lost

[Mr. Handy]

Liz is reduced to a gibbering wreck.

[BenTheRat]

Pow check,[dice]0[/dice]

Clay pretty much ignores the graffiti. "looks like a bunch of jibberish to me."

[royya]

Is everything all right?
Jacob turns from counting the towers to his companions.

[carnage_lee]

OOC:   2 Spot Hidden Rolls for Andy (if they're still required?) Andy - Spot Hidden = 35% [dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice]

[ghill]

Like the others Andrew notes the suspicious graffiti at the side of the road, Andy is thinks the graffiti is very similar to the graffiti written on the walls in the apartment as well as the stuff Westerlund and Liz wrote on the blackboard. Once he become aware of it, he sees the same or similar passages written over and over again along the route, no two instances seem to have been written with the same tool (ie some chalk, some spray painted, some brish painted etc).

OOC:   I'll need a SAN check from Andy and I'm still waiting on one from Albert.

Greg gets Alex to pull the 4WD over to the side of the road then he and Jacob get Liz out of her seat and puts her into the recovery position. Those in the Land Rover (Albert, Andy Greg -assuming nothing horrible happens to him) can see this clearly she recovers enough to talk after about 15 minutes.

[carnage_lee]

OOC:   Andy SAN check... 65 [dice]0[/dice]

[Papa Gateau]

Marbles,San[80] [dice]0[/dice]

[ghill]

Albert,[b]Albert[/b] finds his gaze being drawn to the graffiti again and again it feels like someone is screaming a message at him. A message which is trying to batter open doors in his mind in order to expand his conciousness. Through force of will alone Albert is able to tear his gaze away from the writing and shrug off the sense that if only he started to repeat the message he'd be able to understand it.

Andy,gazing at the graffiti for a few moments [b]Andy[/b] gets the same sense of pressure building up behind his eyes the sense there is something there to be understood if only he tried. Once again he is able to shrug it off.