IC: Ch 2. Welcome to Rockport

[BenTheRat]

As you plunge your hands into the water you don't see any blood in the water. You pull them out and your arms are wet with water, but no sign of the blood is on your hands, arms or clothes. As you look around confused you can see there is no blood on any of you.

ooc all,everyone make a sanity 0/1 check.

[jbibblesworth]

Spoiler:

SAN - 49% - 1d100 - [86] = (86) Failed

Scott gasps at he stares at his dripping hands in numb disbelief. A clammy wave of surreal terror snakes it's way down his spine and takes the strength from his hunched legs, causing the troubled medic to fall backwards onto the the shore, where he sits momentarily dumbfounded.

Still sitting, he slowly turns to the others.

"Please tell me you see this too..." he whimpers.

[Priest]

Warren Kaine:

San,50% 1d100 → [47] = (47) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4610832/

I look at Scott and then everyone else. Like me they have no traces of blood on them.
"Maybe this is something to do with Loosa?" Too many weird things have happened today to be phased by this one.

I look around the pool for anything different.

Spot Hidden,65% 1d100 → [3] = (3) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4610834/ Just when I needed it :cry:

"This must have been where the kids were at. If Phil was around here he may have left some sign"

[BenTheRat]

Warren,you see a dead crow not far from where you are at, it is the only thing that looks out of place. You don't see any signs that anyone else has been here for some time.

[Priest]

Warren Kaine:

I wander over to a dead bird some yards away.

Ben,I take a look anyway.

[BenTheRat]

Warren,ok. you are close to a dead bird but not looking at it. From the distance when you saw it, it didn't look mutilated or blood showing or anything else.

[Silver Priest]

Norman stares at his arms, which had been bloody from attempting to save the child. Now though, there was no gore present.

He stands dumbfounded, uncertain whether he should feel relieved or terrified. He opts to go with the latter.

San,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4610952/]Sanity (54%) (1d100=57)[/url]

[Mr. Handy]

Eddie gapes in shock, then starts to laugh, something he thought he'd never do again. "Don't you see?" he says. "The whole thing was an illusion! There never were any children at all! That's why the cop couldn't see the bodies or notice that we were all covered in blood!"

[DrVendetta]

Richard, quietly anxious to wash the boys blood from his hands as he knows that he was responsible for the shots that killed them, dips his hands into the water and swishes them around but is amazed to see no blood. He pulls his hands out of the water and stars at them for a moment.

Ben Sanity roll,current snaity = 4 [dice]0[/dice]so this is a success. Do I believe that killing the boy's was an illusion based on my issues with the blood? And by the way you never answered my PM on the flask?

[BenTheRat]

Dr. V,You just know you saw all the blood disappear, what you believe is up to you. You saw something not natural, you passed so you suffered no sanity loss. As for the flask, I thought I said, yes you can have that.

[DetectiveSocks]

The cold soft water had calmed Alyssa's hands, and as she rubbed off the shame and guilt, Alyssa shared the same shock as everyone else. Like as if the blood was only substance that muddy her conscience. Alyssa reasons with herself, "They were as real as we would like them to be. That a wound from their clubs would be just as painful and convincing as we had shot them." By this very logic, Alyssa was afraid to admit this herself.

Sanity 64%,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4611438/]Success 25%[/url]

[Papa Gateau]

Aunt Loosa takes the blood and hair samples from her bag - not sure what she will find.

Aunt Loosa thinking:   This is most strange, there was definitely an illusion but this appears to be more complex - an illusion on an illusion. Hmm - I need some time to think on this.

San check,Sanity[74]: [dice]0[/dice]

[BenTheRat]

Aunt Loosa,you open the containers and they are empty. You had never considered the original boys walking up were the real illusion. You had jumped on the obvious of the Cyclops. Usually Illusions are a local spell only affecting people in the area, which explains why the cop wasn't affected, he wasn't there when the spell was cast.

[Priest]

Warren Kaine:

I ignore the dead bird.

Warren thinking:   Shit this is stating to have me jumping at shadows

"So the boys, the cyclops', and the blood were just tricks of the mind - illusions"
I pull another cigarette from my pack and watch as the old lady searches within her bag,
"So Loosa, I guess you know about these things. If Phil had caused the illusion how close would he need to have been? Like is their a range on these things like a gun or something?"

[BenTheRat]

ooc,everyone can try an occult roll.

[Priest]

Warren Kaine:

Occult 11%,1d100 → [74] = (74) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4612154/ No

[Silver Priest]

Occult,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4612224/]Occult (15%) (1d100=83)[/url]

[DrVendetta]

Richard answers while still staring at his hands "I am curious if we would find any bodies if we went back to where we put them"

Occult roll,19% chance roll = [dice]0[/dice]so a failure on this roll

[Mr. Handy]

"I doubt it," says Eddie, "but I wouldn't waste time checking. I think Phil wanted to mess with us and delay us, and he's succeeded at that. I've no idea how he did it, though."

OOC,The Occult skill is missing from my character sheet, but the base skill level is 5%.

[Papa Gateau]

Occult roll,Occult[90]: [dice]0[/dice] That's a critical I think