1.2 - In Search of Sanity - The Dead Don't Dream

"Yellow. The dreams. The thing in yellow..." he said with a rising agitation.

አስማትን ፈልግ።

He looked around the room with his arcane sight.

ማጅ እጅ

If everything remained dull and mundane, he lifted the veils with his mage hand, the eldritch eye which floated by his forehead vigilant.

Axon's spell effectively shifts the cloth out of the way of the faces. The one on antlers appears to be a half-elven female, while the one on the ground is a human male.

Otherwise everything is silent and nothing seems out of place.

Keeping his guard up and staying alert, having seen the corpses upon their entrance to the room, Grim moves carefully over to the door along the east wall and tries to open it.

The meticulous violence of these most recent murders added to the insanity of the already insane situation in the sanitarium. He carefully looked over the bodies and within their ghastly outfits.

Razhel instantly looks toward the gaudy birdcage as the sounds begin. "What the hell is that?" She asks absently.

"This one's robes and pendant glow of magic," he said as he focused and tried to deduce their properties. "What do you think, Glasses?"

Elias walks up beside Grim as he opens the door. Shall we proceed or wait for the others?

"We must stick together. Hold a moment, please."

There was a strain in his voice which belied his momentary fear of being separated, being stalked alone through the winding corridors by hungry night.

Hearing the dragon-eyed woman's words, Grim turns from the open door and focuses in on what she's doing and looking at. "The birdcage? Somebody smash that thing and stop that damn noise before it gets any louder." He calls out and shoots a crossbow bolt at the thing.

Iosef's ears perk up at the same time Razhel mentions a disturbance - a faint chirping in the air, almost like a whisper. He scans the room for the source of the sound, but as he's piecing it together Grim takes action, firing at the bird cage near the eastern wall of the room. Iosef feels a pull in his gut to follow the other man's lead and raises his crossbow, takes aim, and fires!

A faint chirping is heard on the air as the sound grows loud enough now for Elias and Axon to hear it. As Razhel calls out and both Grim and Iosef suddenly let loose crossbow bolts towards the birdcage, the sound grows louder and louder. Grim's bolt deflects off the bars of the cage, but somehow Iosef's projectile slides between the bars and implants into one of the taxidermic birds inside.

The sound raises to a shrill, mechanical-sounding klaxon.

Grim feels a tug on his body as if some invisible force is trying to lift his body from the ground, but he remains firmly planted to the floor.