IC: Ch. 10 Back into the Breach...uh I mean House

[Silver Priest]

Snapping out of his daydream, Michael follows Scott and Richard.

[BenTheRat]

As you break out the window, you can shine your light in to the room and it is the basement the others told you they were in. Richard can confirm this is where they fought the knife.

[DrVendetta]

Richard says to Scott "Lets try that on one of the windows in the front and see what we get"

[Priest]

Scott stands and follows Richard to one of the front windows and kneeling repeats the procedure. Strips of sticking plaster followed by sharp crack on the glass with the pistol butt...

[Silver Priest]

Michael attempts to cover Scott, making it more difficult for any passerby to notice what no doubt looks like a potential break in.

[DetectiveSocks]

Who comes to a housewarming party on time?

Rolling up to the curb, Jordie climbs out of the Chevy pickup fashionably late. Her pistol stirred nervously under her arm, as Jordie walks to the back of the truck, looking over to the dark and sinister house with a kill-streak that would put a mass-murderer to shame. Jordie notices the rest of the gang all poking and prodding around the house - as if dissecting it to the heart of the problem. Clambering to the back of the truck, Jordie unfastens the straps binding the searchlight equipments. Hoping the light would shine through whatever lived inside. Burning away the creature and it's dark past. Jordie had a hard time humouring herself any of this would work. If anything, if the light couldn't burn it away, it would only make the shadows leap higher.

[BenTheRat]

Jordie,these will be hard for you to get out by yourself, you will probably need help. Or you can make a strength check. You notice Sonny hasn't made it either.

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As you break the glass it doesn't go in like it did in the other one. So using a small tool, you can pull the broken shards back towards you and you reveal the hard packed earth behind the window.

[Priest]

Scott leans forward and prods the earth, "What the heck is that about, wonder how thick it is?"

[DrVendetta]

Richard pulls out his shovel and starts digging in through the window to see if he can judge the depth of the dirt.

[Papa Gateau]

Sonny walks up to Jordie - Hey, sorry I'm late he says a little sheepishly kinda got carried away last night, didn't get back til late and overslept a bit. he nods over to the house and the others, have we started the party yet?

He carefully places his trumpet in the cab and helps unload the kit off the Chevvy.

[BenTheRat]

The windows are not large, maybe 6" tall and a bit less than 2' wide. You can get your shovel in a bit and dig out some of the dirt.

You go back about 6-8" and its still dirt. You are seeing an unusually large number of worms and bugs though.

[Priest]

Scott steps back a few feet watching as Richard struggles to make any difference to the earth packed behind the window.
"Jeez is there a room behind there, buried somehow?" he turns around and wathches as Jordie and Sonny unpack some mean looking lights from her car, "What the hell, is she expecting some kind of Broadway performance?" he laughs at his attempt at humour, then feels foolish and shuts up abruptly.

[DrPeterson]

Harrison flicks away his cigarette and lights a new one.


"Worms...I hate worms, they are so unworldy..."

[DrVendetta]

Richard chuckels a little at Scotts joke about Jordie and says "I have no idea what goes through that women's head, she just kind of drops in and out as she please's and bats her eyelash's and thinks that is suppose to make us think that she is value added to the team. I am still waiting to see a break through helpfull moment. The guy who put this team together chose us for a reason, so I am sure she is here for a good reason"

[Occigon]

Charles looks thoughtfully at the freshly dug earth. "Do those worms and bugs look coincidental to you? Aren't there... a bit more than there should be? Should we keep digging, or...?"

[Silver Priest]

"I say keep digging. Someone went to a lot of effort to pack all that dirt in there. Michael frowns at all the bugs.

"There do seem to be a lot of them. Be ready. I think maybe someone was buried in all this dirt. Explains the number of bugs." Michael had seen a few decaying corpses, and they had always attracted a number of "admirers".

[DrVendetta]

Richard nods his head in agreement and continues to dig as much of the dirt out as he can.

[DetectiveSocks]

The music in the air felt like a negative vibe all around her, the silent gestures that tacitly acknowledge Jordie's presence, all judging and calculating her every decision. Arrested to the thought, that everybody had the impression of Jordie being useless, and nothing more than dead-weight. Rendered two-dimensional, her self-confidence not looking as good as she looks.

Jordie looks up without her eyes meeting Sonny's, "Thank you dear," as she unfastens all the ropes to reveal two portable searchlights. Jordie attempts to lift the searchlight with Sonny

She looked over towards the rest of the gang and notices the new facelift they've given to the house. The disturbed earth drew Jordie's attention, as she see's Richard and the others digging it up. It wasn't what's inside the hole Jordie cared about, rather, only what she saw was his bones straining under the weight of all the lives he wasn't living, watching the shovel heave the earth away. Though Jordie wasn't any better than anybody else, scratching around for a few dollars just like everybody else.

[BenTheRat]

You find the digging gets harder since the window is not very tall. You have dug back about 15" now. You are just having to shove the shovel into the dirt and then scrape it out.

[Priest]

Scott nods agreement with Michael, "Once over in France some of the men were enlarging our bunker when a section collapsed. In the earth fall we found the remains of some previous inhabitant of the trench, probably been there for a while. The sheer amount of worms and bugs in attendance was phenomenal" He shivers at the memory and steps a few feet further back.