Department of Chaos

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Mar 26, 2025 1:23 pm
"I'll check the men's room. Shouldn't be anyone in there but it seems close by and quick to check. We should split up into two groups and each take a side, working our way to the back of the store, then meet in the middle to make our way back to the front through the center. Sound like a plan?"
Mar 26, 2025 2:54 pm
"Sir, please move further back from the store. You are in danger here. We'll do our best to find your wife. What does she look like? Where did you last see her?" Craig says. He hadn't expected it, but this part of the job wasn't that different to arriving on scene to a burning building.
Mar 26, 2025 3:42 pm
Abby freezes the moment she hears the word ‘kids.’

"Kids—maybe scrap the bathrooms—toy department?"

Like Jasper, there’s a quiver of urgency in her voice. Suddenly, this debut isn’t about acquiring fame. An evil creature touched a child.

Her finger rests on the trigger of her slime thrower. She hesitates just long enough for her teammates to see she’s about to bolt.

—before she does!

https://i.imgur.com/UyJi8Ra.jpeg

—Abby bolts toward the clothing section, attempting to take cover among clothing racks so she can peer between dresses and look-before-leaping into the toy department.
OOC:
GM, if my Padded Jumpsuit adds to my roll, please adjust the total accordingly.

Rolls

Body (swift and relatively silent) - (2d6+2)

(15) + 2 = 8

Mar 26, 2025 6:07 pm
Jasper follows Abby at about the same pace. He's not too concerned with being stealthy. He figures demons probably have preternatural ability to sense danger, anyway.
Mar 26, 2025 9:22 pm
AJ nods, takes from her backpack her Ghost sniffer and switches it on.
A red light starts beeping. The machine has a radar screen that appears completely empty for now. Hopefully, if they approach a monster, a dot will appear on it pointing on the direction it is. The closer they are, the closer to the center of the screen the dot will be.
She follows quietly Abby and Jasper with his machine ready on her hands.
"Better not to divide ourselves... we dont know what we are dealing with..."
Mar 27, 2025 7:28 am
"...Well ok, then," Niles says in surprise after several member of the team dash off without confirming or explaining plans. This will not be as easy as he thought, and not because of the supernatural. Then Niles shrugs and follows at a leisurely but purposeful pace after his fellow supernatural exterminators.
Mar 27, 2025 7:25 pm
"I'll take the attention," Jasper boldly announces as he advances straight along between Home Goods and Clothing in the open aisle. He holds his proton beam blaster ready to … spray? blast? Should we have done target practice with these things?!!

Lost Husband

KCC

Mar 28, 2025 7:29 am
Lost Husband
"What’s her name?" the man asks, almost bewildered. It was as if he’d never been asked the question before. "J… Jennifer. She’s got a sort of…" and he goes to put his hand to his shoulder to signify the length of her hair.

Then Curtis is trying to move him back and his phone rings all at once. You see a voice note come through from his wife. He clicks it hurriedly, as you manage to shunt him closer and closer to the door. The sound of honking and a car tire screeching comes through the audio first.

"Baby… I’m so sorry! I just had to get out of there. I’m just pulling into that Outback you like!" and then the audio shuts off.

The man scrunches up his face. His wife had left him behind in the rush to escape. Now, he stood outside of the Bullseye, with his arms full of unbought groceries. He starts to crane his neck by you again, as if he was searching for someone who would ring up his items amidst the chaos. You hear him mutter: "Outback?"
OOC:
More to come!

Alex

KCC

Mar 28, 2025 7:41 am
Niles only manages to get his hand to the door of the men’s toilet when the others all take off at speed. Just as he’s about to step away and follow, when he hears a voice from inside the bathroom. Opening the door more fully, Niles here a voice putting some real funk into a little tune he had probably just made up on the spot…

Alex
"Tweep, Squeep, Dee, I don’t have to pee. Swoop, Twoop, Doo, you know I gotta poo!"

The verse repeats and repeats, coming from the bathroom stall furthest from the open door that Niles currently stands at!
OOC:
More to come! Toy section incoming!

Rolls

Secret Roll

KCC

Mar 28, 2025 9:15 am
The rest of you race for the flank of the toy section! As you approach, within cover or without, you begin to hear a strange din coming from the several aisles that make up the area of the store dreaded most by parents!

The closer you creep, the louder the sounds get. The sounds of battle, and orders being shouted over the chaos. Each of you witnessed a separate melee playing out, with each grouping of toys defending and attacking along their aisle!

• A battalion of plastic Stormtroopers muster their forces, even as the Hulk pulls the rest of the toy Avengers free from their plastic packaging. The miniature superheroes huddle up, preparing for how they would deal with the Emperor’s Finest.

• A squad of green army soldier commandos fashion hooks and go about dragging down a rampaging rhino stuffed teddy that was causing havoc in their lines. Their brothers in arms loose their weapons on a line of elephant teddies that were marching down the aisle towards them.

• Barbies rip the tops from their horse-drawn carriages, and attach plastic swords to the wheels! They let out a war cry, as they drive their chariots towards the LEGO Harry Potter and the rest of Dumbledore’s Army.

• Plastic Pokemon masters do battle with a menagerie of miniature zoo animals which have come to life and now seek their freedom.

You don’t see any of the children that Jasper warned you about. Perhaps they were in another part of the store. However, above the swirling chaos of child-sized warfare, you watch as ectoplasm begins to coalesce: feeding off of the wild scenes below.

Something was about to burst through from the other side!
Mar 28, 2025 1:02 pm
Niles is taken aback as he didn't really expect to find anyone here.

"Um, hello? Is someone in there? Uh, there's an emergency outside so you should stay in here until the all clear is given."
Mar 28, 2025 2:16 pm
Curtis briefly checks the man to make sure he doesn't have a head injury and is just overwhelmed by everything.

"Don't worry, sir. Just because she loves the Bloomin' Onion more than you doesn't mean there is no room in her heart for you."

Noticing the groceries, Curtis adds knowingly, "And if you need to show up with those groceries, I'm sure no one would hold it against you if you just left. But do NOT go back into the Bullseye!"

Curtis leaves the man and jogs into the store. He presses the talk button on his walkie-talkie and says "Where are you guys? Did you find the demons?"

He stopped to listen for any noise and waits for a reply before moving into the store.
Last edited March 28, 2025 10:16 pm
Mar 28, 2025 6:43 pm
Abby pushes aside the clothing that could otherwise keep her hidden. (From people. Not tiny dolls and action figures.)

She says to AJ, "I don’t know about you, but I’m a Barbie girl. Nothing against Potter, but Legos are a like a sixth o’ Barbie’s height and vulnerable to decapitation."

She then looks up at the ectoplasm on the ceiling. "So who’s up there?" she wonders aloud as she snaps a picture with her camera.
OOC:
I don’t have an ESP bonus, and I don’t know if my camera adds a point. Making a flat roll anyway…

Rolls

ESP - use Camera - (2d6)

(56) = 11

Mar 28, 2025 9:00 pm
AJ looks startled to the toys battle and mutters "This is completely unexpected!"
Then hearing Abby "Oh ... ha! I belong to the Dumbledone Army my friend! These is quite a fantastic show indeed... I would love to sit and see, but that Ectoplasm wont let us..."

AJ takes her Desestabilicer attachment from her proton pack and points to the ectoplasm with it.
"Are we ready?"
OOC:
I understand body and smarts but what does ESP stands for? Sorry if it was said before... couldnt find it
Mar 28, 2025 9:19 pm
OOC:
E.S.P. = Extrasensory Perception or "weird"… what Dr. Venkman was researching in the o.g. Ghostbusters movie
Jasper tilts his proton blaster at the ectovisitor. "" he says, because he can't think of anything cool. "Um. So do we blast it or wait or what?"
Mar 28, 2025 10:09 pm
OOC:
@Redcroc My character starts with walkie-talkies that I mentioned bringing in my opening post lol
Mar 28, 2025 10:14 pm
nezzeraj says:
OOC:
@Redcroc My character starts with walkie-talkies that I mentioned bringing in my opening post lol
Whoops! Sorry, I fixed my post.
Last edited March 28, 2025 10:18 pm
Mar 28, 2025 10:56 pm
Curtis says:
Curtis leaves the man and jogs into the store. He presses the talk button on his walkie-talkie and says "Where are you guys? Did you find the demons?"
Abby is hoping the paranormal actually show up on her Polaroid. Why’s it take so long for the image to fade in?
OOC:
That’s what my roll was for, in case that’s unclear.
"Toy. Department," she says as if talking softly won’t offend the hellspawn on the other side. "There’s an echo-swirly on the ceil—"

Abby accidentally cuts herself off because she let go of the button before she finished her sentence.

"—ing."

KCC

Mar 29, 2025 2:43 am
OOC:
Working on it!

Rolls

Ecto! - (1d6)

(5) = 5

KCC

Mar 30, 2025 6:59 am
Abby takes a moment to fiddle with the settings on the camera. She tries to get the thing to focus on the swirling shape coalescing on the ceiling, but the piece of machinery is having trouble honing in on the ghost.

Half a second is all she has: The camera focuses and the woman snaps a shot. The camera bloops, and saves the photo to her camera roll.
https://i.imgur.com/roE2UZL.jpeg
Perhaps sensing that someone had captured its essence on camera, a shriek rings out in the toy section. Your hands go to your ears in unison, as the thing angrily pulls itself through the tear the toy battle had made in reality.

You all see it then: A long, thin proboscis pokes through first, covered in thick, blue slime. One slimy arm pushes through, and grabs ahold of the ceiling. The ghost uses that leverage to pull the rest of its body through.

Abby knows what this ugly sucker is: Your run-of-the-mill Ectoplasmic Apparition. A slimy little sucker, but nothing you shouldn’t be able to handle!
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