IC-Ep 3-Convergence(Everyone)

[Shelfunit]

Charles, not being the most physically capable of people, looks for a way to get around to the back of the house, without having to go through the wreckage.

Charles Spot Hidden: 25,[dice]0[/dice]

...and if even that didn't work, he goes to knock on the neighbouring house doors to see if he could go through them to try to get there via the gardens/back yards/whatever.

[jp1885]

"Let's get this over and done with..."

Despite all his instincts telling him not to, Eugene grits his teeth and enters the ruined building.

Dice rolls,DEX 50 [dice]0[/dice]Spot Hidden 65% [dice]1[/dice]

[Pastiche]

Benjamin looks around from the relative safety of the outside of the building to see if he can spot anything out of the ordinary.

Spoiler:

Spot hidden 50%: [dice]0[/dice]

[yockenthwaite]

"He might be trapped in there ..." says Elizabeth. "I'm going to try to look too." She heads into the wreckage, carefully.

OOC Dice rolls,DEX x 5 (45%): [dice]0[/dice], Spot Hidden (48%): [dice]1[/dice]

[Turstrigo]

Eddie decides to survey the area from a safe distance.

Eddie Spot Hidden: 75,[dice]0[/dice]

[aine]

"I'm not sure that's a very good idea." Phyllis says as Eugene and Elizabeth head into the building, "Oh, do be careful!" She watches their retreating backs. "Come on Maggie, let's do what we do best and knock on the other doors in the street. You could perhaps start at the other end of the row." She suggests to the others still dithering outside.

And with that she marches up to the door to the left of the ruin and raps sharply on the knocker. "Of course, they may still be out in their shelter out the back. That might be worth checking out too."

[Mr. Handy]

Charles went to the end of the block, which wasn't far, and made his way into the alleyway behind the row of houses. That too looked deserted, with a few small gardens and Anderson shelters. The shelter behind the bombed house had been hit by shrapnel from the blast, but it had done its job and survived intact.

Phyllis and Maggie began knocking on doors, but there was no answer. It being midmorning on a Monday, adults would probably be at work and children in school. Unless they skipped school, but if they did, it surely wasn't to hang around at home all day.

Eugene and Elizabeth ventured into the ruined house, climbing over the rubble. Eugene's foot plunged through a fallen slab of wood, and he twisted his ankle, which prevented him from seeing what Elizabeth had noticed. A hand was sticking out of a pile of debris, and she recognized the signet ring on it as belonging to Lord Rufus Colville. Even Eddie, who hadn't entered the house, was able to see it from where he stood.

OOC,Damage to [b]Eugene[/b]: [dice]0[/dice]

[jp1885]

"Argh, my foot!"

Eugene lets out a startled cry as he stumbles through the wreckage. After a taking an embarrassed moment to collect himself, he extricates his leg from the rubble, wincing as he puts weight on it.

"Um, sorry about that. I think I'll hold up though - I've been through worse recentl-" He stops, noticing that Elizabeth is staring at something. "Hey, what's that you've found? Oh, is it...?"

[Turstrigo]

Eddie peered inside the building, when he spotted the hand. "Oh bloody 'ell... There's no bloody way... Miss! Is he still alive? We'll need to get him out!" He hoped Lord Corville had managed by some improbable chance to cling to life.

[yockenthwaite]

“It’s his ring, we need to check if he’s alive,” says Elizabeth. She reaches out to check the hand to see if it feels warm, or if she can detect any sign of a pulse.

[aine]

"There's little chance of finding an ambulance round here." Says Phyllis as she bustles up having heard the cry. "He'd do best in the car and straight to hospital. If he's still alive. Goodness, what an unlucky shot."

[jp1885]

Eugene agrees wholeheartedly and does what he can to help the others dig out the poor man.

[Shelfunit]

Charles heads back to the others to relay the information about the shelter. "Well, things are pretty beaten up back there, but the shelter is still intact.." he stops in shock at seeing the commotion around the buried man, and tries to assist in any way he can, most likely by digging in his backpack for his first aid kit, hoping its limited contents could help in some way.

[Mr. Handy]

Elizabeth could feel that Lord Rufus's hand was cold. Any hope that he was still alive was a vain one. With her help, however, Eugene was able to dig out the body, which was horribly mangled and cut. Elizabeth and Eddie recognized the injuries. They had seen similar ones on the body of Nell Murrow. Lord Rufus had not been killed in a bomb blast, but by the same creature that had killed her - or, a frightening thought, a second one much like it.

Charles retrieved his first aid kit. While he could tell from the others' expressions that it was too late for Lord Rufus, it would still be useful for Eugene's injury once he climbed out of the wreckage. Going in there was liable to result in two people requiring first aid.

OOC,[b]Elizabeth[/b], [b]Eddie[/b], and [b]Eugene[/b], please roll Sanity for getting a good look at the corpse. Sanity loss is 1/1D4+1. Since [b]Elizabeth[/b] and [b]Eddie[/b] have already lost 1 Sanity from seeing a body in a similar state, they can lose at most 4 Sanity. Any loss of 5 counts as 4 instead, and thus they cannot go temporarily insane. [b]Eugene[/b], however, can. If he loses 5 Sanity, he must roll Idea. Success means that he goes temporarily insane, but failure means that he may act freely.

[Pastiche]

Seeing the commotion ongoing in the distance, Benjamin quickly puts two and two together. He feels something rising from within his stomach, but he quickly turns around and takes a few deep breaths to steady himself...

[jp1885]

SAN 24,[dice]0[/dice]

SAN loss,[dice]1[/dice]

"Oh no... Oh nononono...

Eugene backs away from the mangled corpse, his already delicate mind strained by the grisly sight.

[Turstrigo]

SAN: 43%,[dice]0[/dice]

"These bastards will pay for this." Eddie barely manages to maintain his focus at the all too familiar sight. "We've gotta get the police."

[yockenthwaite]

OOC,Sanity roll (60%) [dice]0[/dice] and potential SAN loss if fail [dice]1[/dice]

[yockenthwaite]

Elizabeth recoils in horror. “I’m sorry, he’s dead, we’re too late.” She shivers in shock. “The injuries are the same as I saw on Nell Murrow. He was killed by one of those creatures. Oh god ...”

[aine]

"Oh we are too late!" Phyllis wrings her hands. She can't see poor Lord Rufus what with the other people and the ruins in the way but she hears the word 'police'. "Shall we go and find a policeman? Maggie and maybe Mr Klein, we could go together?" She's rather loathe to set out by herself as the Steadmans might be around.