7. Leaving Blackwater

Apr 16, 2024 4:42 pm
The car makes its journey down the dirt road, passing the enormous corn that seems to ebb and flow with some unknown breeze. The air is hot and humid and still in the car. Mickey drives through the town of Blackwater creek and all is eerily silent, no signs of life from any of the buildings.

As Mickey continues on to the road that leads to the bridge his face creases in worry as an obstruction blocks the path. Jesus…
OOC:
POW rolls everyone!
Apr 16, 2024 4:43 pm
Mickey looks with concern. Mom?

Rolls

Mickey Valentine: POW (40) - (d100)

(80) = 80

Apr 16, 2024 5:59 pm
Jimmy's eyes go wide.
OOC:
If beneficial here, I'll spend the 2 luck.
Last edited April 16, 2024 5:59 pm

Rolls

Jimmy McBride (CoC7e): POW (75) - (d100)

(77) = 77

Apr 16, 2024 6:39 pm
"We must get past." Lenny says with conviction.
Last edited April 16, 2024 6:41 pm

Rolls

Lenny Valentine: POW (40) - (d100)

(66) = 66

Apr 17, 2024 12:20 am
OOC:
You needed a hard success, Jimmy so don't worry about the luck. This next part will get a little weird, because you both hear and see different things. With your rolls keep in mind this is real to your characters.
Mickey let's the car come to a rolling stop, his mouth open and blinking slowly as he puts it in park and gets out of the vehicle. Mickey exits the car and begins mumbling. Mom... Mickey flinches as if struck by something No! I'm sorry, alright! again he flinches and begins sobbing Please, Mom. I knew you were hurting, I just... couldn't. I couldn't be there with you... Mickey falls to his knees, his forehead laying low. He begins to scream in pain.
Jimmy sees a woman stand up from a mound on the road, she turns to look at him with cold eyes. Jimmy sees his mother, her clothes ragged, cuts lining her body. She bears a black eye. Jimmy, you piece of shit. I knew you would leave me. Leave me to DIE! You were always just a cheap imitation of your brother! You never cared about me, you always just did whatever the hell you wanted... and we all had to pay the price. You left me... when your father would beat me. You walked away when I was WOUNDED. And look now... you'd do it again!
Lenny sees a shapeless white mass in the road. It is around five foot in diameter. As Mickey gets out and walks up to it, it rolls end over end lancing out with a pseudopod and begins to envelope the man.

Rolls

Secret Roll

Apr 17, 2024 2:28 am
"No..." Jimmy says quietly, getting out of the car. She berates him and he chokes back tears. "I didn't want to, I didn't mean to leave you to him, but I was scared! and...and, you beat me! You never kept your hand back, even when you'd console me afterwards. Whenever Declan did something wrong, I was the one that took the beating! I...I didn't abandon you - you abandoned me, long before I left you to pa!" His rage unfurls inside him like a white hot blossom of pain and love and resentment. "How DARE you lecture me!?" He pulls his revolver and points it at her.
Last edited April 17, 2024 2:28 am

Rolls

Reality - SAN (66) - (d100)

(65) = 65

Apr 17, 2024 11:04 am
"You don't need to..." Lenny trails off as Mickey gets infolded into the whiteness forcing the car door open and rushing towards Mickey, maybe Manny was right maybe they'll never escape but it won't stop him from trying to get his brother out alive.
Apr 17, 2024 10:58 pm
Jimmy's words seem to strike his mother. Her nostrils flare as she postures to give him a scathing report and then a pain enters Jimmy's brain and he blinks a few times. He doesn't see his mother, but sees the white mass draped over the form of Mickey.

Lenny gets out of the car and runs to his brother's aid.
OOC:
OK, we'll move into init. Since Jimmy has a readied gun, he's up first.
Jimmy: 60+50
Creature: 60
Lenny: 45
Apr 18, 2024 5:49 am
Jimmy fires at the white mass, whatever it is. "Get your foulness away from him, whatever you are!" he shouts at it.

Rolls

Jimmy McBride (CoC7e): .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (d100, 1d10)

d100 : (18) = 18

1d10 : (8) = 8

Apr 18, 2024 9:51 am
The mass rolls away from Jimmy’s gun. In its wake it leaves the burned form of Mickey, his face half dissolved exposing muscle and a half eaten eye. The man is quite dead. As the mass moves and shifts, its surface seems to vibrate and shift make an eerie rattling noise.

The creature lances out with a pseudopod at Lenny. Its pod goes wide and it screeches in fury.
OOC:
Lenny is up!

Rolls

Dodge(30) - (d100)

(4) = 4

Grab(60) - (d100)

(71) = 71

Apr 18, 2024 12:13 pm
Lenny isn't sure whether firing a gun did anything or not but it's better than any idea that he's come up with so as he slowly retreats he lifts his gun and fires into the... White Mist? Creature?

Rolls

Lenny Valentine: .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (d100)

(43) = 43

Lenny Valentine: .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Dmg - (d10)

(3) = 3

Lenny Valentine: .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (2d100H1)

(247) = 47

Lenny Valentine: .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Dmg - (d10)

(2) = 2

Apr 19, 2024 12:35 am
The shots puncture the creature, and its odd vibrations emanate a shriek. It continues to calculate on the road.
OOC:
Jimmy’s up
Apr 19, 2024 3:18 am
"Shit! That things quick! Good shot, Lenny!" Jimmy lines up his revolver and squeezes off another bullet.

Rolls

Jimmy McBride (CoC7e): .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (d100, 1d10)

d100 : (33) = 33

1d10 : (5) = 5

Apr 19, 2024 9:42 am
Again the mass attempts to wriggle out of the way, its erratic movements looking alien.

The bullet lands and the shape punctures and seems to deflate, goo and various organic materials spill out onto the road. Lenny and Jimmy can see bone and bits of flesh spread out in a widening pool from the monster.
OOC:
Out of Initiative! Let me know if we are heading out and if so, I’ll start a recap thread :)

Rolls

Dodge(30) - (d100)

(44) = 44

Apr 19, 2024 9:59 am
"Lenny..." Jimmy says as the strange foe becomes no more. "Your brother...for what its worth, I'm sorry."

Jimmy's thumb stays on the hammer of his revolver. Grief can drive people to terrible things, and he never really trusted Lenny in the first place. His mind drifts to the cache of money hidden just outside of town and wonders if Lenny's mind turns to the same thing...and whether the other man would prefer not to split it. He rolls his tongue in his mouth in thought and watching Lenny very, very closely. Hell, maybe Jimmy wouldn't mind keeping all that cash for himself - he could disappear with that kind of dough, for a good long while at least. Away from the insanity, and away from his brother.
Apr 19, 2024 11:45 am
"You're... You're part of this." Lenny says disgusted, his mind reeling, he can't go back to Lulu not now, but he can't let Jimmy go to her either, he's Infected with whatever it is.
OOC:
This Next part is up to C1NDER, it is you're character I'm targeting after all but I think it's what makes sense.
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Apr 19, 2024 7:45 pm
OOC:
How interesting!
OOC:
@Edmund_Balworth based on my last post, and Lenny's post here, how do we play this?
Apr 19, 2024 8:58 pm
OOC:
@KoldikSteelskin, I’ve removed the private tag from Cinder’s previous post so you can see. I think Jimmy gets a first shot.

Love it, gentlemen. A very mafioso ending.
Apr 19, 2024 10:28 pm
Jimmy sees the look in Lenny's eyes. He cocks his head slightly and offers a tight-lipped smile, then in one swift motion cocks the revolver ready in his hand, raises it, and fans the hammer.

Rolls

Jimmy McBride (CoC7e): .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (d100, 1d10)

d100 : (3) = 3

1d10 : (8) = 8

Jimmy McBride (CoC7e): .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (d100, d100, 1d10)

d100 : (16) = 16

d100 : (13) = 13

1d10 : (9) = 9

Jimmy McBride (CoC7e): .38 Revolver - Firearms (Handgun)(50) - Roll - (d100, d100, 1d10)

d100 : (74) = 74

d100 : (78) = 78

1d10 : (8) = 8

Apr 20, 2024 1:15 am
Lenny falls as soon as the first bullet touches his skin, he's dead and he knows it, he knew it already he realizes as his hand clutches the gun, he knew it from the moment he was attacked by that husk, but Mickey hadn't let him admit it so, he'd thought he could get revenge on Declan McBride by killing his brother, but he realized as he held the gun dying in front of Jimmy that even if his shot took out Jimmy it wouldn't truly accomplish what he'd wanted, this way he would see Mickey...

He almost went out in that peace, but it seemed the devil thought that was too good for him and so as he passed his last thought was one of pure anguish as he realized Mickey hadn't been to church since Easter, he only came to Easter services when he arrived in the holy land he would still be without his brother.
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