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Posted: **Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:40 pm**

The group of Oliver, Smalls, Tom, Amadeus and Dowson-Frost is heading back to the power room, to reactivate the generator. As soon as they re-enter the docks area, though, the lights come back to life on their own. "So it's not broken, I guess. Just unst-", mutters Dowson-Frost, but he stops suddenly as you all notice Stogie on the other side of the docks, some thirty meter away from your position. He has just emerged from behind the bulk of the damaged submarine, and he's running and screaming, the gun held up as he seems about to shoot in the air.

Posted: **Sun Oct 22, 2017 4:53 pm**

Oliver grips his pistol and looks around for any danger. "What happened?" he asks Stogie.

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:38 am**

Amadeus took a shaky breath and looked around uncomfortably. As though the damp atmosphere could be dispelled by pure will alone. He stared at Stogie blankly for a moment, and then turning back to Oliver with some paradoxical combination of calm and panic mixed together seamlessly within like a cup of hot coffee and chocolate syrup on a hot summer day. With some degree of control within his voice, Amadeus said,"I don't know. But, iz probably someting vvvvery bad. Anyvun up for ze explosives?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2017 5:11 am**

"I've got one of the Panzerfausts," says Oliver, "but let's find out what the threat is before we start firing them about with mad abandon."

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:42 am**

Amadeus considered the situation, and then proceeded to snort in derision for a bit. "Aye, and I know exactly how to exactly how fix dis."

He turned towards the general direction they ran from and bellowed from the top of his lungs with a gusto. "EVERYVUN WHO IZ OUR ALLIEZ, GET DOWN! VE ARE ABOUT TO THROW ZE EXPLOSIVES!! KOME OUT VHERE VE CAN SEE YOU; IF JOU ARE OUR ENEMY; COME OUT VHERE VE CAN SEE JOU. VE NEED A TARGET TO AIM!" He looked around and heard his voice reverberating in the silence, before saying with a much more profound calmness in his voice, "Zat should about do it. Oliver,
steady jour handz. Ve might have a few guests."

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:44 pm**

Smalls Kemp

In another moment Smalls would find Amadeus' request to their enemies pretty funny, but right now he is too worried with what he is seeing. "Stogie, where's Nick??" He shouts while getting the machine-gun ready. Aiming at Stogie's general direction he says to the others: "Something's wrong. Why is he screaming like that?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:27 am**

Oliver rolls his eyes after Amadeus's outburst. Civilians... he thinks.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:22 am**

Stogie, with blood running down the back of his pants and leaving a trail of bloody shoe prints behind him, points the 45 backwards behind his head and fires a shot blind into the darkness behind him. His face is white, smeared with blood and etched with pain.

"There's a friggin' Nazi monster behind me somewhere!! It's killed Nick and it's carrying his head, and a whole bunch of other heads!! I dunno!" This is said in a harsh yell.

Stogie legs it to the others then spins to face back the way he came. He drops to one knee, gasping for breath and leaking messy blood everywhere. At this point, the ghastly slash across his back, with the odd pinky-white rib possibly visible, will become evident...

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:57 am**

Tom Major

"Jesus, not again!" thinks Tom.

He readies his panzerfaust, kneeling so as to steady his aim. "Out of the way everyone, in case I need to use this thing!"

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:29 am**

Amadeus shouted at Tom, "Just throw that Goddamned Panzerfaust. Fer God's sake, you heard ze man. Whatever's behind 'im, it iz with ze Nazis, and ve are fighting Nazies, are ve not? So just throw ze thing and step ze hell back, alongside everyone elze."

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:20 pm**

Smalls Kemp

Smalls' body is all stiff, ready to shoot. "Hold your fire until we have visual on the target! Stogie, are you sure it followed you??"

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:00 pm**

Amadeus sighed in resignation. "Cap'n. Kuick question, by the time ve get ze visuals; how many people of us bill be dead? I think ve need to oben fire and then run avay like ze little girls. I survived ze great var like dis. Jou should try."

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:31 am**

"You're hurt bad, let me help," says Oliver to Stogie, handing him his Panzerfaust while he works on his wound.

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:03 am**

With a restrained grunt of pain, Stogie takes the panzerfaust, holstering his 45 to do so.

"I didn't stick around to see if it was following me or I'd be kindling by now. It certainly came outa the vent and into that room I was in. Watch out with any of the vents, it can get through them."

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:16 am**

Everything is still silent around you. Only your frenetic words break the stillness of the atmosphere inside the base. But no one, or no thing, comes into view. After a few minutes, it seems you are safe - for now.

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:00 am**

"Vell, I don't can't ti jinx it, but I think ve are safe for now. Vat do ve next?" Amadeus said cheerfully. As he scanned the surroundings and cocked up his shotgun.

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:03 pm**

Smalls Kemp

Smalls also puts his gun down. "I think you're right. We still have a few doors back there, but let's be careful. Keep an eye on these vents."

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:13 pm**

Oliver isn't quite sure what to make of the ichor, but he washes it off and then finishes cleaning and bandaging the wound. "We'll proceed with caution, then," he says. "From here on out, we all stick together."

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:32 pm**

OOC: Just to be clear, anyone can take the Occult roll, not just Mr. Handy.

Posted: **Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:42 am**

OOC: I don't want to risk Fumbling for a 5% Occult roll...

Posted: **Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:03 am**

Spoiler:

Tom washes the slime off, none the wiser.

Posted: **Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:01 pm**

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:39 am**

Amadeus rested a palm on his face and muttered, “I thought ve vere already togethor...

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:51 am**

"We are," says Oliver, "and that way we'll stay from now on."

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:03 am**

“Excellent. Ve vill continue to run avay like ze little girls together, ja?

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:10 am**

Tom Major

"Did you chaps find anything else over on that side? Apart from the Nazi monster?" says Tom, relaxing his hold on the Panzerfaust.
"We need to try and find out what's been going on here."

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:02 pm**

Amadeus looked around, unsure of what to do. "I believe that vas our original mission, but vat do ve do now. Ve obviously aren't alone here, and ve are being hunted, vere ve not? Vhere do ve go next and baht do ve do when he get there? This blastered place is dangerous, and I suggest ve organise ourselves and attempt to find an archive of some sort, if possible. That'll certainly help."

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:07 pm**

"Well, even with a Nazi monster crawling inside the air vent", Dowson-Frost says, a little skeptical, "we still have our mission, and that's to gather intelligence. We should get moving, captain".

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:36 am**

"Vat he said. Let's get going." Amadeus said, as he surveyed the surroundings.

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:16 am**

"Right," says Oliver, grabbing a Panzerfaust to replace the one he gave to Stogie. "Tom, I believe there was a door you found that we need to check out."

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 8:15 pm**

Tom Major

"Smalls is your man on that score. I'll let him lead the way. There's another vent in the room though, so everyone best be their guard. There could be more than one of the blighters on the loose."

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:56 pm**

"Ze alternative, of course, is to set up a Panzerfaust underneath and rig it to explode ze minute one of zose monsters kick off ze air vent." Amadeus said, with a small shrug.

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:58 am**

"That could be awkward if we happen to be near it at the time," points out Oliver.

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:30 am**

Amadeus snorted. "True. But it's not exactly a small room, and as long as ve rig the air vents, then ve are safe from ze goddamned monsters."

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2017 8:20 am**

Stogie shakes his head. "We ain't going to have time to play around with booby traps. I say we move fast, get what we need and get the hell outta here. Something crazy is on the loose and it looks like it mighta scared the Jerries off. And there were a lot more of them than there are of us. We don't have the element of surprise, it does. Move quick, get done, get out."

Stogie is busy trying to clean the blood off his face. "Thanks for the patch up work, Doc."

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2017 8:32 am**

Amadeus nodded. "You may be right, but vat ve need right now iz a relay point for our reconnaissance missions. Thiz iz not going end vell if ve do not haff a safe area to mobilise and regroup. It may have ze of surprise, but vat are ve, if not relatively trained soldiers and mildly competent civilians? Things rarely go according to plan, that's why ve have BACKUP plans! Ones involving explosives. Those vee monstrositäts vill never know vat hit them!"

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:51 pm**

"Any time, Stogie," says Oliver. "You're right, we don't have time. Find what we need and get out, that's what we should do. Setting a rally point is a good idea too. How about right by the blast door in the docks? That's probably the way out. We should open it a crack while the juice is on to confirm that, and so that we'll be able to get out of here in the event that the power goes out again."

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:04 pm**

"Vell let's do just that then, ve need to get moving as quickly as possible without breaking order. Shall ve go now, cap'n?" Amadeus said, even though he's only been here for a few moments, but it felt like days had passed.

Posted: **Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:17 am**

Stogie nods. "Sounds good to me. Someone show me the way and I'll take point." He hefts the panzerfaust a little gingerly with his bandaged back.

Posted: **Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:43 pm**

You walk to the closed blast door in the docks area, operating the controls to open it. The door opens with a loud metallic noise, as you look behind your back nervously. Past the door, there's another long corridor, with another blast door on the right, and two simple wooden doors on the left. About twenty meters from you, the corridor turns right.

Now that you're here, and with the lights on, you can also see two more blast doors on the far side of the dock past the submarine. Dowson-Frost whistles and says: "That's lot of space for a simple submarine base. I don't think we are wasting our time here".

Posted: **Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:38 am**

"I think ve should go and found ze power room first unt then use ze control switch to manipulate ze locks to make sure vhatever iz hunting us don't get here." Amadeus suggested.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:24 am**

"Can that even be done from there?" asks Oliver. "I'd thought the doors had to be opened and closed manually."

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:21 am**

Amadeus shrugged. "Eh, I'm no architect, but I'm pretty sure zat overcloclomg ze capacitors in ze power room and combin zat vith stray viring equals explosions. Ze debris vill cork too. Vhat says you?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:41 am**

Stogie shoves open the first wooden door on the left, clutching his panzerfaust.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:53 am**

Amadeus shrugged, before making his way behind Stogie. He readied his gun and prepared to fire in case there’s any unexpected incidents.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:37 pm**

Smalls Kemp

"Carefull now, boys." He says with his machine gun on ready, rapidly looking for any vents inside the room.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:10 pm**

Tom Major

Tom follows, keeping an eye out for anything behind them.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:33 pm**

The room you've just entered in is almost completely empty, with only a few empty lockers as furniture, lined along one wall. There's an air vent, on the ceiling, in one corner, but at the moment there doesn't seem to be anything strange, or threatening, coming out of it. There is evidence of a large fire having been set in the centre of the room.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:31 am**

"We don't want the power out completely," Oliver says to Amadeus, "and we need to be able to open and close the blast doors at will." He peers into the room, pistol in hand. "Perhaps the monster, like Frankenstein's monster, doesn't like fire. I don't think there's anything else in there. Let's check the next one."

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:49 am**

Amadeus looked at Oliver, "Sure. I'm only saying zat ve tamper vith a few of ze virings unt try to block of ze monsters. Personally, I don't feel safe in zis blasted place."

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:17 am**

"They can crawl through the vents," says Oliver. "The blast doors are about as effective a defense against them as the Maginot Line was for France.'

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:48 am**

"Scheiße! Vell, let's try unt get some air vents blocked or something. Ve vill not be safe unless ve prepare." Amadeus said, his mood fluctuating slightly.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:26 am**

Stogie is not too interested in exploring burnt offering mysteries at this time. He exits the first room and quickly shoves open the next wooden door...

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:37 am**

Another empty, abandoned room. This one looked to be a room for the medical staff of the base, with a couple of desks, an examination bed and a few empty cabinets. Anything of value or interest seem to have been taken away.

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:52 am**

"I have to say, zhese Nazis sure do clean up real good." Amadeus said, chuckling a bit at his own jokes.

Posted: **Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:43 am**

"Wish they hadn't forgotten to take their bloody monsters with them," comments Oliver. "Right, nothing here. Let's keep moving. We should see what's round the corner before we open the blast door."

Posted: **Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:44 am**

"Aye. Would be fantastic if zhese Nazis remembered to take zheir shit with them." Amadeus muttered, agreeing that caution would be key.

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2017 2:26 am**

Stogie hefts the panzerfaust and moves quickly up to the right hand bend, peering cautiously around it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:31 pm**

The corridor on the right is, as expected, empty. There are six more wooden doors to be seen, three on each side. At the end of the corridor, there's another steel door, operated with a wheel. There's a small circular porthole on this door, although from this far it doesn't really allow you to peek inside.

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:06 am**

Stogie decides to go with the fast and furious approach, relying on his comrades to get him out of trouble if need be. He charges down the corridor, opening each door, left then right, left then right. With each room, he has a quick look in then moves on.

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:43 am**

Oliver looks around the corner to see Stogie rushing down the hall and throwing open doors. There's nothing he can do at this point but cover him.

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:33 am**

Amadeus hoped that no monsters is going to leap out.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:13 am**

Tom Major

Tom follows Stogie down the corridor, peering in each room, in case Stogie misses anything.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:05 pm**

It's again one empty room after another. These seemed to be room for officers, providing some more comfort for their inhabitants than the common barracks Stogie and the others discovered earlier. There's also a room with a couple of tables and a little kitchen, probably an officers' mess.

With all the doors along the corridor open, only the steel one at the end remains closed. You then begin to hear a tapping sound coming from the ceiling above you, in the middle of the corridor. "What the hell...?", murmurs Dowson-Frost, raising his weapon. But there's only this tapping, answering back. It slowly moves along the corridor, towards where Stogie is.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:12 am**

""Zhis may be a good time to duck, Stogie." Amadeus quipped, shoving Stogie lightly, hoping he get the hint.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:37 am**

"Stay clear of the vents!" calls Oliver, looking up to see where they are.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:43 am**

Stogie starts running back to where the others are!

"Ah, crap..."

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:40 pm**

Smalls Kemp

Smalls points his machine gun to the ceiling while looking for vents in corridor and adjacent rooms. "Close all the doors! Stogie, retreat!""

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:57 pm**

As soon as you start making noise and screaming, the tapping turns into a loud slamming, and then outright banging. There are metal plates on the ceiling, and they start to shake and shudder. In a matter of seconds, the rivets holding them together start giving away, as the ceiling itself deforms and seems about to cave in.

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:38 pm**

Amadeus readies his gun and prepared for battle...by running as far back as logically possible in this situation.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:54 pm**

Tom Major

Tom hastens back to the others, machine gun ready, thinking the panzerfaust might not be such a good idea in an enclosed space.

"Get ready everyone! We've got incoming!"

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 8:53 am**

Stogie makes a mad dash back towards the others and out from underneath whatever is above him.

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:14 am**

Oliver backpedals, gripping his pistol in both hands and taking aim at where the ceiling plates are beginning to give.

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:12 pm**

Amadeus took aim.

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:18 pm**

Stogie runs towards the others, while everyone get their weapons ready. The banging goes on for a few more seconds, then it stops. Suddenly. Only the thumping of your heartbeats remains in your ears. The ceiling remains deformed, but nothing is clashing against it anymore. Silence falls again.

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:13 pm**

Amadeus fumbles, placing the gun back into the holster. Nervously, he peered up.

Posted: **Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:15 am**

"Keep it quiet from now on," hisses Oliver.

Posted: **Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:35 am**

"Sure." Amadeus said, his voice barely higher than a whisper.

Posted: **Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:02 am**

Stogie shrugs. Frowning, he starts creeping back down the corridor towards the porthole, watching the ceiling with great interest...

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 2:53 pm**

Stogie gets to the door and looks through the porthole. On the other side, there appears to be a mess hall for the troops. It looks empty. There are two more doors you can see, simple wooden doors, one on the wall right opposite to this entrance, and the other one on your left. Unfortunately, there is also an air vent, on the far corner from your position, near one of the two doors.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2017 6:53 am**

Stogie quickly points to a door already opened, that his team-mates can see. He then points in the direction of each of the two 'new' doors. Then he swaps to his rifle, points it at the vent, then with his off-hand mimes to be quiet then that he will be watching the vent.

Hopefully, the team will be able to put most of the pieces together from there...

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:36 am**

Amadeus walks through the opened door and edged away from the vent in silence.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 5:21 am**

Oliver nods, motioning for Tom to take point.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 9:36 am**

Tom Major

Tom advances forward, keeping a wary eye on the vent. He moves towards the door furthest away from it, taking up position and signalling to the others to move in. Then he tries the handle to open the door.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 4:45 am**

Once Tom is in position, Oliver advances silently to join him.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 7:07 pm**

As soon as you're in position, you open the door and get ready to storm the room. It turns out there's no need for violence, as you enter an empty larder. This is the only good news though, as the room is filled with food that had weeks if not months to rot. The stench is simply unbearable, and it quickly fills the other room too.

OOC: Everybody roll against your CONx5.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:35 am**

The stench was too much for Amadeus.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:27 am**

The stench is just a little too much for Oliver, and he feels nauseous.

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:32 am**

Stogie grimaces but chomps harder on his cigar and glares at the vent.

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:04 pm**

Tom Major

Spoiler:

Tom has smelt worse. He makes his way to the other door, keen to find hard evidence of what has happened in the base.

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:56 pm**

Oliver and Amadeus fall on their knees, emptying their bowels as the terrible smell overpowers them. Meanwhile, Tom heads to the other door, while Dowson-Frost crosses the room to reach him and give him cover. The two nod to each other, then Tom pushes the door open with a quick kick. On the other side there appears to be just a simple kitchen, fully equipped but abandoned in disarray.

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:34 pm**

Amadeus just lost whatever remaining shred of dignity left within him.

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:46 am**

Oliver retches, trying to recover.

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2017 6:02 pm**

Leander Kemp
"God, that smells bad..." Smalls complains.

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:00 pm**

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2017 1:08 pm**

"I don't suppose there's any toilet paper in here?" Amadeus said, gingerly, flicking a few of it out, as he waddled uncomfortably.

Posted: **Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:25 pm**

Suddenly there are more sounds coming from the air vent. You hear booming sounds, one after the other, of something heavy making his way towards the exit without worrying about making noise. And a more subtle, disgusting sound, like something slimy oozing in great quantity between two moving surfaces. It's getting closer, and closer.

OOC: Amadeus and Oliver can't yet act in any way, and will need help to move. Without help, they can at best crawl a few meters.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 2:09 am**

Stogie throws open the door to the mess hall."In here!" He hisses, gesturing for the others to go first. He sights the garand back on the vent.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 2:24 am**

"I need some help." Amadeus said.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:21 pm**

Smalls Kemp

Smalls rushes to help Amadeus, passing an arm under the man's armpits. "C'mon, old man. You can get sick later. Somebody help Oliver, quick!"

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:10 pm**

"Thanks, soldier." Amadeus said grimly.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 4:25 pm**

Tom grabs Oliver, aiding him towards the mess hall..

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:23 am**

If there's time, Stogie will dive into the mess hall behind the others and slam the door.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:34 pm**

OOC: Ok, I think maybe I wasn't totally clear in describing the area. You currently ARE in the mess hall. You were coming from the corridor and opened the steel door with the porthole, that led into the mess hall, where the air vent is. Stogie stayed near the door, keeping an eye on the air vent, while the rest moved to open the remaining doors. Amadeus has most likely stayed behind, next to Stogie and in the corridor. Oliver moved to the door to the larder, and that's where he felt ill. Tom and Dowson-Frost moved to open the last door, to the kitchen.

So if you want to take repair behind the steel door, you have to head back to the corridor where you originally come from, and then close the door behind you. Sorry again if I wasn't clear. We can trace back a few posts to when you started hearing the noises, although a simple edit would be enough to make sense of them. I have added a small map to make things clearer. All doors are currently open.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:50 pm**

OOC: Amadeus has stayed behind. And I don't think he is capable of moving too well at this moment anyways.

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:21 am**

OOC: Oops! My bad. In that case, Stogie would be herding the team back out of the mess!

OOC: And by "herding", I mean politely encouraging.

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:14 pm**

OOC: I think Tom will be herding Oliver. There's a time & place for everything.

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:28 pm**

Amadeus attempted to stand on his own two feet.

OOC: Can I do a POW or STR roll here? Feels like it would be appropriate.

Posted: **Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:25 pm**

Smalls and Tom help Amadeus and Oliver respectively, and somehow the whole team manages to scramble back into the corridor. As soon as they're clear, Stogie closes the door and seals it. The rest collapse on the floor, panting and breathing heavily.

OOC: Does anyone look into the room from the porthole?

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:08 am**

Anadeus looked into the room from the porthole, hoping to see something worthwhile.

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2017 1:25 pm**

Amadeus looks through the porthole and soon wishes he hadn't. The air vent bursts open and a creature comes out of it. It all seems unreal, but it's happening in front of your eyes. The 'thing' is a mass of flesh and bones and cartilage, all massed together, fused together, like a mad experiment gone wrong. And it's moving, flexing half-formed muscles and leaving behind a trail of liquid that is half blood and half ichor. It has a dozen legs protruding out of its body, and other appendages, many of them ending in a long fang or some other lethal edge. There are also arms, and even organs protruding out - hearts, lungs, all moving and beating and pulsing. And heads, at least a couple of dozen heads, one of which is that of Nick, now looking at the world with dead and empty eyes.

Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:57 am**

Amadeus felt a primal sense of fear. The kind that made his already loose bladder weaken even further. The sights were terrifying, but he managed to retain some modicum of composure.

"Run." He squeezed out. Unsure of who he was addressing.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2017 4:46 am**

Oliver does not give in to panic. "What is it, man?" he whispers. "What do you see?"

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2017 5:28 am**

"Monster." Amadeus wheezed. "Nein, abscheulicher Horror! Ze ting iz moving, horrific protruding mass, and izzah coming fer uz! And heads, mein Gott, at least a couple of dozen heads, one of which iz Nick's, Er ist jetzt verflucht."

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 4:08 am**

Stogie hefts his Garand. "Maybe it's time ta open the door and pour it on. We're meant to cleaning this place out, aren't we?"

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 4:33 am**

"As long as we don't make noise," whispers Oliver, "the enemy won't be able to find us. If we run, that will attract its attention. Let us withdraw quietly instead, and explore the rest of the facility while it is somewhere we've already searched."

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:36 am**

Stogie shrugs. He whispers, "All right. Where next then, what haven't we checked? Those Jerry subs I guess?"

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:58 pm**

Smalls Kemp

"You heard the Captain. Everybody out. And don't make any noises." He says, whispering. Then he looks at Stogie "We have the subs, and I think we left a couple of doors at the other side of the docks."

Posted: **Sat Dec 30, 2017 2:37 am**

"I think we should check out the U-Boats first," says Oliver quietly. "The captains will have kept logs, and those could have valuable intelligence. If we do have to have a showdown with whatever killed Nick, the dock area is where I'd rather do it. Plenty of open space, and there's a supply of Panzerfausts there."

Posted: **Sat Dec 30, 2017 6:24 am**

Stogie grins around his cigar. "Sounds good to me. We'll have to leave some of us on guard outside the subs, far as I can see they only have one way in and out. And we may not want to get trapped in a giant cigar tube with that thing at the door."

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:02 pm**

Silently, you walk back through the corridor and past the blast door into the docks area. The submarine lies half-broken in the water, where you left it. You could access it through the collapsed derrick, or by swimming to the hole in the front cargo door.

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:28 am**

"Let's use the derrick to board the U-Boat," says Oliver. "I've had enough of swimming in icy water, thank you very much."

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2018 4:30 am**

Smalls Kemp

"Stogie is right. Some of us have to stay guarding. I say three of us get in and three stay here with Panzerfausts. If that thing appears we blow it to pieces, with Nick's face and all." He say, trying unsuccessfully to hide his nervousness.

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:16 am**

"Right," says Oliver. "I volunteer to go aboard. Who else is with me?"

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2018 2:58 pm**

Stogie nods. "Never been in subs before, I'll come for a look."

"Now you've seen it and know I'm not nuts, any clue what that thing is? Other than mean."

Posted: **Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:38 am**

Oliver shrugs. "That's what we need to find out," he says. "Maybe there's something in their records about it. My best guess is it's some secret Nazi weapon that ran amok."

Posted: **Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:24 pm**

OOC: Make a Climb roll to access the submarine by climbing the collapsed derrick. Since it's not very steep, with plenty of places to put your hands and feet, you can double your Climb rating for this roll (up to 99%).

Posted: **Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:36 pm**

Oliver is able to climb the derrick and reach the U-Boat without difficulty.

Posted: **Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:38 am**

Not especially gracefully but at least without another dunking in the frigid drink, Stogie manages the climb.

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:29 am**

Amadeus climbed up with minor difficulty. Perhaps panting and wheezing slightly, but overall, he did a bang-up job.

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:49 pm**

Smalls Kemp

Smalls nods gravely at Tom and Dowson-Frost. "Ok boys, it's up to us out here. If that thing shows up you have permission to fire at will." He says, looking around for any sign of the monster presence.

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:31 am**

“I don’t suppose I could make myself useful around here?” Amadeus asked tentatively.

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:59 pm**

Stogie, Amadeus and Oliver set foot on the huge submarine, feeling small like ants on the back of a big dog. Their footsteps on the steel echo in the large empty space of the cavern, causing all kinds of dangerous thought to float in the back of their minds. What if there is another monster lurking around? Maybe waiting for its preys inside the mortally wounded submarine, or silently stalking the waters around it. What if a dozen eyes are watching every movement from one air vent on the ceiling?

The conning tower is about twenty meters away from the derrick. As the hole is not easily reachable from here, especially without using a rope, that seems to be the easiest way of access to the inside. Careful not to slip, and fall into the icy waters, you walk towards it. A quick inspection shows that the hatch offers no resistance and could be quickly opened.

Meanwhile, Tom, Smalls and Dowson-Frost keep watch. Everything seems calm for now.

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:29 am**

"Stogie, you take point," says Oliver. "Amadeus, you follow, and I'll bring up the rear."

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:11 am**

Stogie grins around his cigar. "Can do, let's open up this can of sardines."

He slings his rifle and opens the hatch, careful to stay out of sight for any Jerry submarines inside who might be keen to take potshots. Stogie pulls out his .45 and flashlight and takes a quick peek down into the sub...

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:41 pm**

The flashlight reveals a ladder going down about 6 meters into the conning tower of the submarine. As the submarine is partially lying on one side, it would not really be a vertical descent, and you think walking on the inside is going to be an awkward business. Plus, at least part of the interior is flooded, as water entered through the hole in the front cargo door. You wait a few seconds for any reaction from the inside, but you see no movement. No man in sight - and more importantly, no monsters.

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:41 am**

Stogie peers down. "Can't see anything, can't hear anything."

He shoves the TL 122-A "crookneck" flashlight down the front of his uniform, with the light still on and shining out at chest level. One hand clutching his .45, Stogie clambers down.

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2018 5:32 pm**

Oliver waits for Amadeus to descend before following, sidearm in hand.

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:48 pm**

Tom Major

Tom shoulders his Panzerfaust and eyes his surroundings suspiciously, not forgetting the water..

Posted: **Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:34 pm**

Amadeus attempted to follow along silently. Holding his weapon with equal fear and trepidation. He wasn’t trained as a soldier, but he did have some bravery left within...maybe. Even he wasn’t sure at this point.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:38 am**

The submarine's interior is humid and cold, entirely a different climate than the cavern outside. The air feels oily, sticky. The sensation is unpleasant, and especially for Stogie and Oliver, with their clothes still wet from swimming in the sea, particularly uncomfortable.
The corridor extends in both directions for several meters, with half a dozen doors and other passages that you can see. The place looks like a maze, but at least there is no sign of imminent danger in sight.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:52 am**

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:09 am**

Oliver has a good idea of where to find what they need.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:11 am**

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:22 pm**

Oliver tries to remember the layout of the submarine they used to get here, and he opes that it might be similar, at least in principle, for all existing submarines - or at least for this one. It turns out they are not so different. After a few minutes of exploration, the group reaches the command room of the submarine. The room is a mess - apparently, when the Germans abandoned the submarine, they did all they could to render it inoperable. All navigation and control instruments have been damaged or even removed, and even without considering the huge hole in the hull, this submarine would never be able to sail in its current state.

Then you notice a very strange device, like no other you've seen before. It is spherical in shape, about fifty centimeters of diameter, with lots of gauges and dials with no apparent purpose. The device is clearly a later addition to the command room, and was riveted to the inner bulkhead. It is unlabeled, although you notice that it has been placed near other navigation instruments, suggesting a similar use. While the device is scratched and dented here and there, it seems it was robust enough to survive the attentions of the retreating nazis.

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 4:53 am**

Amadeus was no expert on machinery, but he had some experience with navigational devices in his past. However, he was still quite certain that this object wasn’t meant to be used for underwater navigation...regardless of its intended purpose, it would certainly prove to be an object of interest. “Folks, methinks zis iz a navigation device, not zure vhat zis vould ve used fer, but I think ve could get it out and take it.”

A spark of greedy light lit up within his eyes.

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:20 am**

"Yes, we must salvage it," says Oliver. "The chaps with the high foreheads will want to have a look at this."

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:59 am**

"Indeed. I'll try my best to do what I can, no guarantees, but I reckon it'd take about a day." Amadeus said, crouching down to try and find a way to detach the thing, "I don't suppose zat there'z any screwdrivers or mechanical tool fer me to use lyin' around?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:20 am**

"A day?" says Oliver. "Do we have that kind of time, with that thing out there? Stogie, what do you think? Any faster way to get this out of here? There must be tools on board somewhere, perhaps the engine room."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:54 am**

Stogie contemplates the device, his face screwed up. "I'm much better with car engines... I'll see what's in the engine room in the way of tools."

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:46 pm**

Stogie heads towards the back of the submarine and, after a few minutes, manages to find the engine room. Here there's little damage done by the fleeing Nazis, and Stogie quickly finds a few work tools they can use to safely remove the strange device.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:28 pm**

Amadeus went on to start attempting to remove the device from the room.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 4:29 am**

"Once we've got the device," says Oliver, "we should look for the log - and the codebooks, if they were foolish enough to leave them. The best place to look would be the captain's cabin."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:25 pm**

Tom, Smalls and Dowson-Frost

Outside the submarine, several minutes pass without anything happening. You have no idea how long it will take to explore a submarine this big, but after almost an hour of waiting, you are starting to worry. Knowing that some kind of monster is moving around the base is certainly not helping your nerves. So, when you hear a metallic sound, like something falling from a great height and hitting the floor, you almost jump and open fire with your weapon. It's hard to tell exactly from where the sound came, but it seems a corner of the dock behind the submarine, currently outside your field of view.

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:13 am**

Due to his intense concentration on retrieving the device, Amadeus did not hear the noise.

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:14 am**

OOC: Those inside the submarine cannot hear the noise. The ones outside will surely hear it, no roll needed.

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:10 pm**

OOC: ...okay.

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:16 am**

Work tools collected, Stogie retraces his steps to the control room and sets to removing the device.

Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:10 pm**

Smalls Kemp

As the metallic sound echoes around the dock, Smalls feels like his heart skipped a beat. He points the Panzerfaust at the unseen corner of the dock, whispering to his colleagues "Gentleman... get ready."

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:40 pm**

Inside the submarine, Amadeus gets to work with the tools provided by Stogie, but it definitely looks like it will be a long work. At least for the moment, though, there's no need for multiple people working on it - in fact, it's a work better done by a single person.

Outside the submarine, Smalls, Tom and Dowson-Frost get their weapons ready. After the sudden noise, silence has fallen again. The lights are flickering again, though. On, then off, then on again. Hopefully the generator won't die off. It would certainly be troublesome if it did.

Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:29 am**

"If you don't need anything else," Oliver says to Amadeus, "Stogie and I will see what else we can find while you're busy removing the device. We'll start with the captain's cabin. The skipper had to have kept a log."

Posted: **Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:52 am**

"Sounds like fun to me. A nice souvenir from the skipper's cabin would look great in my front room back in Chicago. Point me in the right direction, Cap." Stogie has his 1911, flashlight and cigar ready.

Posted: **Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:39 pm**

Amadeus shudders at the noise, but continued his work. Gesturing to the others that he can do this along.

With gusto, he started work, determined to hold it together until they return back to a safer area...wherever that is at this point. He wanted nothing more than to take a good hot showers and to sit down reading whilst drinking tea. He sighed slightly as wondered what kind of Faustian bargain had he made to deserve all this. A monster hunting him down, grouped with soldiers with more experience and courage than him, and committing actions that are normally out of character for him.

No rest for the damned. he thought grimly, as the rhythmic thumping noise tapped away at the edge of his awareness.

Posted: **Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:10 am**

Oliver also has his pistol in hand. He leads the way to where he expects the captain's cabin - such as it is on a vessel this small - to be.

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:11 pm**

Oliver and Stogie walk through the dark corridors of the submarine, lighting their way with the flashlights as they go. After a few minutes, they enter what appears to be the captain's cabin. It appears that this cabin was not messed with as the Nazis fled the base, and there are still maps, and logs, and books around. Apart from that, it is a common cabin, tidy and well-kept, definitely more comfortable than your average sailor's bunk bed in a common room.

Meanwhile, Amadeus keeps working on the strange device. He is making progress, but more time will be required to remove it safely.

Spoiler:

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:39 pm**

"Don't suppose you know any German?" asks Oliver, gathering up the books, logs, and maps. He takes special care to collect anything that might be a code book, as well as the Enigma code machine if it's still present. "If not, I'm sure Amadeus does." He examines the maps, from which he should still be able to determine something even without knowing German.

Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:42 am**

Amadeus looks up from his attempt to detach the annoying machinery, and observed the captain's logs, books, and maps.

Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:58 pm**

Overlord87 wrote:Inside the submarine, Amadeus gets to work with the tools provided by Stogie, but it definitely looks like it will be a long work. At least for the moment, though, there's no need for multiple people working on it - in fact, it's a work better done by a single person.

Outside the submarine, Smalls, Tom and Dowson-Frost get their weapons ready. After the sudden noise, silence has fallen again. The lights are flickering again, though. On, then off, then on again. Hopefully the generator won't die off. It would certainly be troublesome if it did.

Successful Listen Roll (only those outside the submarine),You can hear a vaguely disturbing sound, of something moving. Not metallic, definitely. Something organic. It's rhythmic, and slightly nauseating.

Smalls Kemp

As the sudden sound echoes around the dock and fades away, Smalls loosens the grip on his gun. "Looks like we're OK for now." He looks up, checking the lamps as the light starts to flick again. He's uncertain, but he thinks he's hearing something. He closes his eyes, trying to identify the odd, disturbing sound. "Are you guys hearing this? It's like a rhythmic sound... something moving... Do you hear it?" He asks his companions.

OOC: Again, so sorry my posts are a little scattered, fellas.

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2018 2:02 am**

Stogie laughs. "Sorry Doc, I'm not even that good with my own language, let alone someone else's."

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:52 pm**

Outside the submarine, Dowson-Frost nervously holds his gun, looking between the submarine and the docks: "It might be that thing... and I'd gladly fall back... except they're still in there. Not much we can do, right?"
He moves to cover behind a broken crate and readies his weapon. It's then you hear another loud sound, again, like something falling and hitting the ground. Except this time it doesn't sound like something metallic. It sounds like... a body. A dead body, most likely - judging by the sound, it must have fallen for at least ten meters.

Amadeus can read the logs and the books, but it's surely going to take some time - and he has to decide whether to keep working on the machine, or read them. Meanwhile, Oliver discovers something interesting on the maps: there appear to be a Nazi base in Antarctica. It's identified as Richter Base and, as far as you know, no one inside the Allied forces knows of it.

Posted: **Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:53 am**

Oliver shows the map to the others. "I don't need to be able to read German to know that this is some kind of base in Antarctica," he says. "I've never heard of it before, and as far as I know, the Allied military don't know about it either. The High Command will be very interested to see this. Let's concentrate on getting the wotsit out of here. Amadeus can always read the logs and books later, when we're somewhere safe."

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:15 am**

Amadeus nodded. He knew this is the most reasonable solution to the dilemma they're facing. He returned to work on detaching the device.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 6:45 am**

Stogie seizes a moment of quiet to clean his equipment, one item at a time, starting with his rifle. He doesn't like to imagine salt corroding otherwise immaculately clean kit.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:49 am**

Tom, Smalls and Dowson-Frost take position outside the submarine, and just in time. First they hear the sound: something moving... sliding... skittering... all these at once are summoned in your mind as you hear it getting closer. Then it appears - as if coming out of a nightmare, even worse than your friends's description. And bigger, somehow. Stogie and Amadeus described it as slightly bigger than a human being, but this thing you're seeing is larger than a full grown bear. It is made of pieces of human beings, heads and arms and legs, and even organs protruding in a senseless chaos. It leaves behind a trail of blood and slime, which somehow seems to facilitate its movement, as it slide over the surface faster than a thing so big and distorted should normally be able to. Several long bones protrude off its body, some just standing there, some acting as legs and ticking as they hit the pavement. Half a dozen heads turn towards you, fixing their gaze on all three of you at once, and several mouths start screaming all at once.
Tom instinctively fires his panzerfaust, but haste does not go along well with precision. The projectile flies high and explode against a wall, the booming explosion echoing in the large, empty space. Luckily, it seems to distract the thing for a second, allowing Dowson-Frost to take him and release a short burst of fire on the thing. The bullets hit the monstruosity and pierce its flesh, as more blood and slime splatter on the floor. The thing screams, as its attention focus back on you. It seems ready to charge.

Inside the submarine, you hear the explosion and the gunfire coming from outside.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:51 pm**

"Yeah, it's probably nothing. They must've tripped on something." Amadeus said, dismissing the noise outside as he continued to remove the machine from its fix.

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:14 am**

Stogie hastily reassembles his kit and rushes back to the conning tower to help his comrades.

"Dammit, jinxed it by trying to clean my kit."

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:34 am**

"Keep working, we'll check it out!" says Oliver to Amadeus as he rushes after Stogie.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:33 pm**

Smalls Kemp
As terrible as he thought the creature was, nothing prepared Capt. Kemp for what he was seeing. He takes a second to understand what he is looking at before preparing to blow the thing with the panzerfaust. He wanted that thing gone forever, but his lack of ability with the weapon and his shaking hands made him miss the horrifying creature. "DAMN IT!"

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:35 pm**

Amadeus whistled a little ditty while he worked.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:19 am**

While Amadeus keeps working, entirely oblivious to the crisis unfolding around him, Stogie and Oliver run wildly through the passageways inside the submarine, trying to reach the docks as quickly as possible. Another explosion resonates from outside, as they increase their pace even more, breathing heavily, heartbeat racing up.

Outside, the creature rushes towards Tom, smashing a couple of crates in its way, before jumping and trying to bite off the man's face. Luckily for him, Tom dodges the attack, but as the creature lands behind him, it extends a long bone whip, ending in an edge, and slashes through one of his legs. Tom screams as he limps away, firing a volley of bullets at the monster from his machinegun, but missing the target. Meanwhile, the monster starts trembling and shaking, as several other bone whips protrude from its body, extending in all directions. One of them crosses the air towards Smalls, slicing one of his shoulders with a superficial cut.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:42 am**

Stogie clutches his Garand in his right hand and he races back to his comrades.

Posted: **Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:39 pm**

OOC: Ok, moving things forward now. Let's wrap this up quickly, then we'll check who is still in and get new players to move to chapter two.

Stogie and Oliver emerge on top of the submarine and are frozen on the spot for a second. On the docks, there is only madness. A large monster - the one Stogie saw earlier, but now much bigger - is at the center of it all, screaming from a dozen mouths as several long tentacles fall down crashing on wood and steel. Around it, Smalls, Tom and Dowson-Frost are scattered around, trying to run for cover behind some of the abandoned wooden crates on the docks, even though the creature is easily destroying them with its deadly appendages. As you watch, the monster dashes forward, slamming into Tom and pinning him to the ground.

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 1:03 am**

Smalls Kemp

"AAARRGHHH!" He screams as the horrific appendage cuts his skin. Regretting the failed attempt with the panzerfaust, Smalls takes his M1919 and pulls the trigger. "DIE, YOU FUCKIN'...".

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 2:22 am**

"What the-" starts Oliver. It is the last coherent thing he says for some time.

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:09 am**

Fluidly, Stogie raises the Garand to his shoulder with both hands, sights and fires in one well drilled motion.

OOC: Crap!

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:23 pm**

A volley of bullets crash into the creature, coming from two directions, as Dowson-Frost also opens fire from the other side. Blood and slime sputter around, but the creature barely seems to notice, as it extends its jaws and swallows Tom's head whole. The man's screams rise in intensity just before the creature's mouth closes on him, then end abruptly. And just when you think the image before your eyes couldn't possibly get any worse, the thing starts chewing, with a disgusting sound that you're sure will haunt you to your tombs.

While eating its victim, the creature remains still, even its deadly appendages fall on the floor and slide around harmlessly.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:17 am**

"Panzerfausts!" orders Oliver, readying his own as he advances on the beast. "Now, while it's feeding!" While there's still some of him left... he thinks. Now that Tom is dead, there is nobody close enough to be in danger from the blast. He fires his rocket, but being untrained in such weapons, his aim is inaccurate.

Posted: **Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:42 am**

Stogie legs it towards the beast, despite his every instinct. At the nine yard mark, as per training, he lobs a grenade, with a loud, "Fire in the hole!"

Posted: **Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:10 pm**

As you get ready to unleash heavy fire on the creature, it suddenly starts growing. Its flesh tears as it expands, new muscles bursting into life, new organs taking place in completely wrong positions. Its back explodes as two new long bones, leg bones at a first sight, protrude outside as some kind of nightmarish backbone. And finally, you can see the flesh on its right flank shaping up... like a face... like Tom's face! It just emerges there, and it's his face, you are sure of that, watching at you with dead eyes, its mouth open in a silent scream of horror and pain.

Spoiler:

Perhaps horrified by the sudden development, your aim is almost comically off, as the grenade flies too far away, and the panzerfausy misses its target, destroying one more section of the dock walls. Meanwhile, Smalls screams as he tries to get more distance between the creature and himself, still shooting like a crazed man. The bullets find their target, but the creature is now ready to bust into action, rushing towards Oliver and Stogie, with its bone whips cutting the air. Oliver dodges the attack, but Stogie is caught near his left shoulder, a violent hit that almost cuts the arm away from the brave soldier.

Posted: **Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:13 am**

Oliver's mind has been so blasted already that he is not further affected. He scrambles over to the pile of Panzerfausts to grab another one, certain that nothing less than that will destroy this behemoth.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:32 pm**

Smalls Kemp
"Oh God, Tom... Die, you monster!!!" Smalls screams while firing at the horrific being. Shocked by both the creature constant mutation and the worthlessness of his M1919 rounds against the beast, he runs towards another Panzerfaust, grabs it and shoots as fast as he can, but haste and lack of experience with heavy weaponry make him fail once more.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:51 pm**

Stogie screams as he holds his now useless arm to his chest, falling back and as far away as possible from the creature. While he limps away, his face distorted by pain, he grabs another grenade, bites out the pin, and lets it fall towards the monster. The grenade rolls on the ground, ever so slowly, and it stops right next to a couple of large bone-legs. Then it explodes, the sound deafening and the light blinding to all of you standing so close nearby, but for the very first time you can hear the thing screaming - with no small amount of satisfaction. Once you can see the creature again, it has half fallen on one side, its legs completely blown off. But it's just a matter of seconds - suddenly two more bones explode out of his body, pushing it back up.

It screams again, this time in anger, a terrifying but horribly human scream. It looks around, searching for the closest living thing to vent its frustration on. Dozens of eyes focus on Smalls, and the monster jumps at its prey, biting and slashing in a mad frenzy. Blood sprays around from at least a couple of deep wounds. Smalls loses control of its Panzerfaust, that flies towards the ceiling, where it explodes harmlessly. Meanwhile, Dowson-Frost shots another volley of bullets at the creature, but seeing how little damage they're actually doing, throws away his weapon and runs towards one of the Panzerfaust.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:24 pm**

Smalls Kemp

Smalls sees the creature jumping over him, and instantly feels the impossible bone structure tearing his flesh. The sight of his own blood spraying makes him nauseous, and for a moment he feels like that's the end for him.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:49 pm**

Reasoning that Smalls is probably beyond saving anyway, and that this is the only way to kill the creature, Oliver fires another Panzerfaust, but this one goes wide as well.

Posted: **Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:54 am**

OOC: Sorry, been very busy unfortunately. I'll check the rules as soon as I can.

In the meanwhile, remember that with Pulp Cthulhu rules you can spend points from your Luck to improve your rolls. This applies to the Constitution roll and to any roll to hit. You can find more details in the topic "General and Additional Rules".

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Posted: **Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:10 pm**

Smalls falls down on the ground and starts convulsing due to the shock of his severe injuries. Before the creature can ingest him, too, Oliver finally gets his aim straight with the Panzerfaust. The missile hits the creature on the back, exploding violently and sending pieces of meat and bone flying around. The monster is thrown away a few meters by the explosion, landing violently on the ground. Then it gets back up unsteadily, roaring with anger and something unsettlingly human - hate.

But the creature's roar is suddenly cut short by another explosion, as a second Panzerfaust impacts on the floor near its bone legs, disintegrating a couple of them and sending a cloud of debris hitting its body from below. The impact sends it flying farther away, and crashing against one of the walls, splattering it with blood and pieces of organs. You can hear Dowson-Frost cheering at the sight of his own shot, and for a second you think that is going yo be enough. Surely nothing could sustain two explosions of that kind... surely.

But you realize quickly you've been optimists. Once again, the thing gets up, a mess of bone and muscles and tissues, yet surely walking towards you... and then sprinting up to a charge. Weak and unsteady, it seems to know that the group of soldiers is at the end of their rope, too. It's just a matter of who'll be able to finish the job first. "Fuck this shit... can this thing even die?", Stogie mutters as he readies another grenade. "Fall back. I'll throw this one when he's in range, and then jump into the water... just give me some cover".

Posted: **Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:39 am**

"Do it!" says Oliver, seizing another Panzerfaust as he falls back, for he knows his peashooter will do little good and probably wouldn't even distract the thing.

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2018 12:47 pm**

The creature starts running again, sprouting a couple more legs of bone out of the bloodied flesh of his body. It accelerates again, howling wildly, aiming for Stogie. You can see the soldier staring defiantly at the monster as he removes the pin and waits for a second... then two... as the creature gets closer and closer, and finally throws it, screaming: "Now!", before jumping in the water. The creature slows down for a second, following the movement of its target with a dozen eyes from half a dozen different heads, and right in that instant, Smalls and Dowson-Frost open fire with their guns, unleashing a storm of bullets on the monster to prevent it from running after Stogie... or charging towards a new target.

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2018 6:17 pm**

In desperation, Oliver fires his Panzerfaust at the seemingly unstoppable monster.

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