IC - 8 - The Daughter - Everyone

[Philulhu]

OOC,Drive Auto (a frankly woeful 26%...) - [dice]0[/dice] Edit: Oh shit...

[Mephistophilis]

A shape looms out of the darkness, two bright eyes. Kris yanks the steering wheel to swerve and slams on the brakes. But he feels the impact, the front of the car strikes the bulky shadow with a sickening thud, the bodywork making a corresponding crunch and one of the headlights goes out.

Kris and his passengers strain against their seatbelts, their heads flick forwards, a small bang and the front airbags rapidly inflate.

OOC,Everyone roll CON

A light rain starts to fall as the car sits silently. The engine stalled. A single headlamp beam highlighting the rain, no movement visible.

Then through the soft patter of the raindrops a noise starts, a low pitched whining

[Philulhu]

OOC,CON (70%) - [dice]0[/dice]

Kris coughed as he pushed the deflating airbag away. ”Shit - that came out of nowhere!” he said. “Are you both ok?”

[Mr. Handy]

"I'm fine, thanks," says Jocelyn, digging herself out from behind her airbag. "Maybe I should drive. What was it, a deer? I didn't see."

OOC,CON x 5 roll (65% stat) from the crash: [dice]0[/dice]

[Silver Priest]

Con 60,[dice]0[/dice]

"Just a bit bumped up," Simon admits, picking the book up off the floor. "Though please try and be more careful."

"What's that noise?"

[Philulhu]

”It wasn’t through lack of care!” snapped Kris, irked that his execrable driving skills were being called into question!

He pulled a torch out of the glove box and pushed open the car door to see what he had hit.

[Mephistophilis]

In the light of his torch Kris can just about make a large shape sitting in the middle of the road, a low whining sound emanates from nearby.

There is a squealing of tyres as the ARV crests the hill behind the unmarked car, coming to a stop in a cloud of smoke. It sits in the dark, blue lights flashing.

Kris's phone rings, it's Burke, 'You alright? What's going on?'

Before answering Kris approaches closer, he can see it is some kind of animal, maybe a cow. It seems to be injured with what may well be blood trickling from its mouth. It looks him in the face and emits an anguished wail before its head slumps to the ground unmoving.

Up close, Kris can see the rest of its body is oddly misshapen, great welts and boils ooze and weep across the surface of its hide.

Kris,Roll sanity, 0/1 loss

[Philulhu]

SAN,SAN (69%) - [dice]0[/dice]

[Mephistophilis]

There is a foul smell emanating from the creature, something between rotten meat and a sweeter, more acrid odour. Kris gags.

[Philulhu]

Kris swallowed hard as his torch beam played across the animal in front of him. His head spun and for a moment he thought he was going to throw up.

He looked away and heard Burke asking for an update. He glanced back at the creature, and shuddered. “I think it’s a cow,” he said weakly. “Bring the car up for a better look.”

[Mephistophilis]

The ARV drives slowly past the unmarked car, blue lights still flashing, and parks on the other side of the road, headlamps providing additional illumination of the animal. With the extra light Kris can see it is clearly a cow, a bit thinner than he would expect and covered in boils and sores. Probably some kind of infection. As far as Kris can see it looks dead.

Burke climbs out the ARV, looks at the animal, and laughs, 'You killed it you spanner, Bates is gonna go spare when she hears what you've done to the car'.

He puts in a call on the radio back to the control room to get someone to come and clear off the road. 'We'll wait here for the patrol car, you go to this Lindsay Peale's house and we'll meet you there'.

[Philulhu]

”Dickhead!” muttered Kris as he stomped back to his car. He examined the headlight and the wing carefully with a scowl on his face. Burke was unfortunately right, DS Bates wasn’t going to be impressed!

He got back behind the wheel and slammed the door shut. Without saying a word, he started the engine and drove away, more carefully and slowly this time...

[Mephistophilis]

OOC,Unless anyone else has anything they want to do/say we're moving to this thread: [url]https://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/viewtopic.php?f=469&t=7146[/url]